Artist opportunities

Interested in Showing your work at the Piano Craft Gallery?

View our listings below of currently open artist opportunities. Please contact the gallery with any questions at:

operations@pianocraftgallery.com

Exhibition programming is made possible from the generous donations of the community as well as the Boston and Massachusetts Cultural Councils as well as the Wagner Foundation.

Our shows run on two to four-week cycles with opening receptions typically held on the first weekend of the show. We also host weekend pop-up exhibitions several times per year.

Exhibitions are selected from a pool of submissions each year and our board of directors ensure that we are representing the diversity of the greater Boston area.

At this time, exhibiting artists are responsible for gallery sitting during their exhibitions on Fridays 6-8PM, Saturdays 12-5PM, and Sundays 12-5PM.

Piano Craft Gallery has just closed its call for exhibitions for 2025. Please check back here for future exhibition opportunities. 

New World Coming: 

An exhibition celebrating recent Ancestor 

Bernice Johnson Reagon of Sweet Honey in the Rock 

  February 14–March 2, 2025, Piano Craft Art Gallery, Boston, MA 

      Curated by Yvette Modestin & Jen Kiok, Interim Co-Directors, Violence Transformed

“There’s a new day comin’... where you gon’ be standing when it comes?”

-Bernice Johnson Reagon (October 4, 1942 – July 16, 2024)

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Violence Transformed invites visual artists to participate in New World Coming, a juried multi-media arts exhibit uplifting the words, sounds and spirit of Bernice Johnson Reagon. The exhibit will focus on the art and activism of socially engaged artists in and beyond Boston. 

We are living in times where art allows us to heal but also enter into critical conversations that allows all facets of our community to be seen. Bernice Johnson Reagon led us with her voice for nearly half a century, speaking and singing out for freedom and justice. The words to her song, “New World Coming,” feel like a premonition for the moment we are in as a people. 

We call out to you as artists, asking in the late Bernice Jonhnson Reagon’s words,

“There’s a new day comin’, everything’s gon’ be turning over,

Everything’s gon’ be turning over, where you gon’ be standing when it comes?”

Violence Transformed’s “New World Coming” seeks 2D and 3D entries in any medium for exhibition and/or digital projection at the Piano Craft Gallery in Boston, MA. Submissions can include videos of proposed performances for showing during the exhibit. Please note: The audience for Violence Transformed exhibits include children, adolescents and adults of diverse backgrounds and communities. We are less interested, therefore, in graphic depictions of violence than in works that encourage reflection, awareness and community-wide engagement with the arts. 

DEADLINE: Submissions to be received no later than November 29, 2024 Extended to January 25, 2025

NOTIFICATION: Selections to be confirmed no later than December 9, 2024  Extended to February 1, 2025

DELIVERY OF ARTWORK: 

Shipped Artwork Arrive by: Friday, February 7, 2025 (ship to Piano Craft Gallery 791 Tremont Street E508 c/o Erik Grau Boston MA, 02118.

Artwork Delivery: Monday, February 10th from 5:30-7:30PM

Artwork Pickup: Sunday, March 2nd at 5:00PM

Shipped Artwork Sent back by (include a return label in the packaging): Tuesday March 3rd

Submission Guidelines: 

1. Up to six (6) images in JPEG (.jpg) format.The file name for each image must be in the following format: Last name_title.jpg (example: Warhol_campbellssoup.jpg). Image size should not exceed 2MB. Physical dimensions are limited to 72” tall for 2D work and 36” wide for 3D work.

 2. A list of images designating for each: Title, Medium, Dimensions and a brief narrative (optional) indicating the work’s relationship to themes of “New World Coming." Artist narratives will be exhibited with selected works. 

3. Artist’s Statement (optional) with bio and contact information. Please keep to one page. 

4. A Violence Transformed Artist Submission & Release Form, Attached and Here

How to Submit: 

Submit by email to:  info@violencetransformed.org 

a. Enter your last name and VT 2024 “New World Coming” artist submission” in subject line b. Attach items #1-4 above 

c. Pay submission fee online by clicking https://tinyurl.com/newworldcoming 

Please note: 

• If accepted, jurors may request artists to provide a high-resolution image (minimum 2000 pixels on the longest side) for use on web page banners. 

• Artists will be informed of drop off/pick up dates of original artwork. 

• Please indicate whether the work is available for purchase. Violence Transformed will reserve 20% as a donation. 

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ABOUT VIOLENCE TRANSFORMED 

Violence Transformed Mission:

To create socially conscious, trauma-informed spaces to build community across intersections using visual & performing arts to  address trauma, oppression, peace, unity and the realities of daily life in our communities.

Violence Transformed is an annual series of visual and performing arts events that celebrate the power of art, artists and art-making to confront, challenge and mediate violence. Violence Transformed events include visual arts exhibits and music, dance and theatrical performances hosted by multiple venues in Boston and beyond. Violence Transformed’s events include provider and artist-led workshops for individual families and communities impacted by violence. 

ABOUT THE VENUE Piano Craft Gallery works to eliminate common barriers to accessing the arts such as race, education level, and class by guiding our operation through an anti-racist and inclusive lens. The Piano Craft Gallery, Inc. does this by sharing, promoting, and celebrating the work of racially, culturally, and socio-economically diverse artists of all abilities with the public. This results in diverse networks of individuals accessing the gallery space and experiencing the arts.

As you may have heard, the Piano Craft Gallery recently had a flood.We are ambitious and hopeful that the Gallery will have the required resources to reopen prior to this exhibition. Support the Piano Craft Gallery here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/improving-piano-craft-gallery-for-events-concerts-lectures

Orange Line Connecting Neighborhoods North to South 

Orange Line: Connecting Neighborhoods, North to South invites artists working in fiber and textiles to consider their connection to their neighborhood and the Orange Line (MBTA transit line) which runs from Malden, MA to Jamaica Plain (Forest Hills), MA and services multiple neighborhoods along the way. 

The Orange Line acts as a metaphorical thread which traces its way through the city and suburbs of Boston. This line services a diverse number of neighborhoods. By extending an invitation to the fiber artists whose communities rely on this public service and liminal space, the PCG can be a meeting place, a collective stop or knot in its course. This exhibition recognizes commonality through a shared use of the train line, the actual tone of orange, and the world of fibers. The PCG in collaboration with the artist-led collective, Gather, invites artists who use or are in close proximity to the Orange Line. 

The exhibition is proudly a part of Gather, a regional showcasing of fiber artists from the Greater Boston area: “Gather 2025 is a month-long exploration of fiber and textile art in Greater Boston, highlighting the vibrancy, breadth, challenges and future of this tactile medium.” 

Neighborhoods Included: 

JP,

Roxbury, 

Mission Hill, 

Boston Chinatown 

South End 

Backbay 

Medford/East Somerville 

Malden 

Melrose 

For more information about Gather, please visit their website: 

https://www.gatherfibersymposium.com 

Call Date: (December 28th through February 28th, 11:59PM) 

Artists: 

Artists may submit up to 3 works of fiber based art. 2d, 3d, and digital based work are accepted. Artists must include an artist statement of no more than 100 words which relates to the topic of the exhibit. In the statement, please provide a description of

the works’ relationship to the Orange Line, the color orange or how your work relates to the community. 

Important Dates 

Exhibition Dates: March 28-April 13, 2025 

Drop Off: March 24th(Noon to 2:30PM) and 25th(8:00 AM to 2PM) Pick Up: April 13th (after 5PM) and April 14th (Noon to 2:30PM) , 2025 (after the exhibition closing, artists are welcome to retrieve work that evening after 8:00PM). 

Submission Requirements 

JPG Images must include file name formatted with: 

(Name_Title_Dimensions_Medium_Date). For example 

(Nowlin_Void_16x20_fibers_wood_2024) 

● Please include work dimensions (HxWxD) in inches. Photos must be 300 dpi minimum and measure pixels no larger than 1500 pixels on the longest side and not surpass 5MB in size. 

● Artists may submit up to three pieces of work. Please include details of work in process with a description of the final size and installation requirements. ● Please indicate if you would like to participate in a facilitated artist talk in the gallery on Sunday, April 6th when you submit your application materials. 

Participants: Contact and send work images to jnowlin@pianocraftgallery.com 

Artist Notification: 

Accepted artists will be connected by March 7th (one week review) Opening Reception: Friday, March 28th 6:00PM to 8:00PM.