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Call for Entries

Deadline for entries: Jun 24th 2026

Member Entries

email: gene@sasseartmuseum.org or call Gene 909-941-3993 for information

Introduction:
The Sasse Museum of Art is inviting artists worldwide to submit work for Ah, Color!, a catalog celebrating color as a primary artistic language. We are looking for work where color carries the weight, where it is not background or decoration but the central voice of the piece. That moment when color stops you, when a painting pulls you in before you know why, when hue and light do what language never quite can do. Work that earns that moment of recognition.

Please note that Ah, Color! is a catalog publication only and does not include a live exhibition. Sasse Museum catalogs reach collectors, educators, and arts professionals in over 50 countries, a global audience that no single exhibition can match.

Categories:
Painting
Collage & Mixed Media
Photography
Digital Art
Drawing, Pastel & Printmaking
Fiber
3D & Sculpture

Important Dates
Final Deadline: Jun 24th, 2026
Notification of Acceptance: Jul 8th 2026
Catalog Available on Amazon: Aug 10, 2026

About the Catalog
Selected works will be featured in a professionally produced catalog, showcased on the Museum's digital platform at sasseartmuseum.org/museum_catalogs.htm, and available for purchase on Amazon.

Category Winners
Winners will receive prominent placement with a dedicated four-page spread at the front of the catalog, ensuring maximum visibility for their work. Up to 106 artists will be selected.

Past Exhibition Catalogs
View our previous juried exhibitions including SeeMe, Art of the Word, Tree Stories, The Intersection of Art & AI, and The City: artists’ perspectives. Some of the catalogs are available for purchase at sasseartmuseum.org/amazon.htm.

Submission Details
File Format: JPEG
Resolution: Minimum 2800 pixels on longest side at 300 PPI
Quality: JPEG quality setting 12
File Naming: FirstName_LastName-Title.jpg  | Example: Jane_Smith-Color_Reflections.jpg

Entry Fees - All submissions non-refundable
$30 1st entry
$15 Additional entries

Maximum of 12 entries per artist

Museum Members
$15 per entry | Supporter Level Members and above: FREE

Member Submission Process: Info at top of this page

Jurors

Patrick Dennis is an American oil painter based in Cambria on California’s Central Coast, where the landscape feeds his abstract work. He has also lived in Oregon, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, and Washington D.C. A father and grandfather, he has been a musician, restaurateur, teacher, museum specialist, gallerist, lobbyist, and founder of thirteen art festivals. He approaches painting as an intuitive process, continually testing his perceptions and refining his skill. Whether the subject is a stark environment or the press of the urban on the natural, his eye reads the world as composition.

Fred Hartson began his creative path in second grade, when early recognition for his drawing set him on a lifelong course. With a degree from the Art Center College of Design and more than forty years in the field, he has worked as an art director, graphic designer, and educator. His career centered on commercial art, but his heart always leaned toward fine art. He has worked in painting, sculpture, and photography, and recently turned to digital paintings built from his own photographs. His work has been shown in galleries across California and Oregon.

Jonathan Puls is a visual artist whose drawings and paintings grow out of his life and surroundings in Southern California. Working consistently from direct observation, he produces field drawings and paintings that stand on their own and also serve as source material for studio work. His studio compositions move through autobiographical, emotional, and spiritual terrain. Puls is deeply engaged with art history, and his paintings often enter into direct conversation with significant works from America, Europe, and East Asia, carrying those exchanges into the visual language of the present.

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