Call for Artists/Art
Ark Uncorked! An Indoor/Outdoor Market for Creatives
May 10, 2025
11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Dougherty Station Community Arts Center
Get ready to see Art Uncorked!, an indoor/outdoor market at the Dougherty Station Community Arts Center in San Ramon. We’re inviting local artists to join us for a day of creativity, community, and fun under the sun. Whether you're a painter, sculptor, photographer, or crafter of any kind, we want YOU to showcase your talent and provide the opportunity for you to sell your work at this exciting event! Guests will sip wine, enjoy live acoustic music, and mingle with fellow art lovers as you share your unique creations for sale with the community. It's going to be a day full of inspiration, good vibes, and plenty of art to explore. Don't miss out on the chance to be part of this unforgettable celebration of creativity—apply now and let’s make Art Uncorked a masterpiece! Spaces are limited—secure your spot today.
Artists who are accepted into the Juried Art Show: Locals Only will receive a $10 discount.
Steps to Apply
2. Submit an application via google doc, HERE
3. Submit entry fees after acceptance.
Application deadline: April 13, 2025
SPRING 2025 JURIED ART SHOW: LOCALS ONLY
Theme: Perspectives
This year’s juried exhibition invites San Ramon artists to explore the theme of Perspective—whether through literal viewpoints, personal interpretations, or conceptual explorations of perception itself. How does perspective influence our understanding of a subject, an idea, or an experience? From bold visual angles and depth to cultural viewpoints and personal reflections, this theme encourages artists to bring their unique lens to their work. We welcome a wide range of artistic styles and mediums that interpret perspective in unexpected, thought-provoking, and engaging ways. Show us how you see the world—because every perspective matters.
Steps to Apply
2. Submit an application via google doc, HERE
3. Submit entry fees via sanramonrecguide.com, HERE
Application deadline extended: April 1, 2025 Closed
2025 Juror: Aqsa Shakil
Aqsa Shakil attended the prestigious National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan, receiving a full scholarship. In 2002 she moved to the U.S. and continued undergraduate studies in Arts and Performance at the University of Texas at Dallas, receiving the Jonelle and Bryce Jordan Scholarship for the Arts, graduating Summa Cum Laude in 2005. She attended Meadows School of Art at SMU on full scholarship. She was the first graduate student at the Juvenal Reis Residency in New York City where she helped initiate a now fully funded SMU month-long residency. She has received numerous awards, including the Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Award at the Dallas Museum of Art in 2006. Following her ‘break out’ solo show at Oliver Kamm Gallery NYC, and write-up by art critic Jerry Saltz, she has been actively showing in Dallas, Los Angeles, San Diego, Vermont, New Mexico, London, and has had two recent solo shows in Pakistan. Her new work is from her residency in France last year at Chateau Orquevaux. Her work is heavily influenced by travel. Having been rooted, un-rooted and re-rooted from Tanzania, to Lahore, to Dallas, and now San Francisco, she has acquired an obsession for tracing every slipping moment. These moments, along with old photos of people and places meticulously painted in, are submerged in memory pockets invested into vast atmospheric spaces with random splatters of precipitation. In her new work the characters have become more abstract, and taken the shape of circles gilded with gold-leaf. Their placement tells a story of interaction and relationships.
ANNUAL CALL FOR ART GALLERY EXHIBIT APPLICATIONS - Applications for 2025 are closed