West Michigan Area Show Call for Entries

Applications for the 2025 West Michigan Area Show open on March 1, 2025. Local artists from 14 West Michigan counties can now submit their art for a chance to be juried into the 2025 West Michigan Area Show. More than $6,000 will be awarded and entries can range from paintings, prints, and photos to mosaics, ceramics, jewelry, sculpture, and mixed-media works.

The 2025 West Michigan Area Show will be on view from June 13–September 14, 2025.

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Support for the West Michigan Area Show is provided by David Isaacson in memory of his wife, Helen Sheridan.

2025 West Michigan Area Show Juror

The 2025 juror will be Detroit artist and teacher Hubert Massey. Hubert Massey is an award-winning Kresge Fine Arts Fellow. His distinctive fresco murals grace the halls of such visible Michigan destinations as the Flint Institute of the Arts, Detroit Athletic Club, and his alma mater, Grand Valley State University. He studied at the University of London’s Slade Institute of Fine Arts and later learned the centuries-old fresco technique from former assistants of legendary artist Diego Rivera.

CALENDAR

  • Applications Open: March 1–April 20
  • Artist Notification: May 16
  • Artist Drop Off: Friday, May 30–Monday, June 2, 9am–5pm
  • Awards and Opening Reception: Friday, June 13
  • Exhibition Opens: Friday, June 13–Sunday, September 14

ANTICIPATED 2025 AWARDS

  • $1,000 Helen Sheridan Memorial Grand Prize
  • $ 500 Second Place
  • $ 400 Third Place
  • $ 300 Fourth Place
  • $ 200 Fifth Place
  • Portage Community Art Award
  • Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo’s People’s Choice Award
  • The Martin Maddox Prize for Imaginative Realism
  • Ninth Wave Studio Award for Ingenuity in Mixed Media or Intermedia
  • Art League Award
  • Signature Artists, LLC, Award
  • Eclectic Glass Guild of Southwest Michigan
  • Kalamazoo Log Cabin Quilters’ Art Quilt Award
  • Southwest Michigan Printmakers Excellence in Printmaking Award
  • Kalamazoo Book Arts Center Book, Print, and Paper Award
  • West Michigan Potters Guild Award for Ceramics
  • The Ward H. and Cora E. Nay Director’s Purchase Prize