The Bascom's Community Call returns for its second year. This year's exhibition, Voices of Influence: Celebrating the Impact of Women in Art, honors the women whose creative contributions have shaped the cultural life of the Highlands Cashiers Plateau and the broader Southern Appalachian region. All Artists from our extended creative community are invited to submit work for consideration.
Entry Deadline: July 19, 2026
Exhibition Dates: August 8 - November 28
The theme is open to ALL artists. What the exhibition asks is a specific, considered perspective on what women's artmaking has meant, what it has carried forward, and what it continues to shape.
Inspiration Prompts
Consider drawing from:
- Personal history and memory. A woman who taught you, raised you, or worked beside you.
- Local and regional legacy. Women artists, craft practitioners, and community makers from the Highlands-Cashiers Plateau and Southern Appalachian region, recognized or unrecognized, whose work shaped the places and traditions you know.
- The mountain environment and artmaking. How this landscape has shaped women's creative practice and how their work has shaped it in return.
- Intergenerational craft and tradition. The movement of skills across generations: what was taught, what was changed, what was lost, and what was reclaimed.
- A work of art, reinterpreted. A known work, reconsidered from a fresh perspective or through the lens of who was absent from the frame.
- Historical events and cultural milestones. A moment in the history of women in the arts, interpreted through your own perspective.
- Identity, resilience, and place. What it means to make art in this landscape and community.
Submission Guidelines
Submit required information via email to Zach Rogers, Director of Exhibitions, at
Please include:
- Name
- Title, medium, dimensions, and date of artwork
- High-resolution JPG image of work
- A short artist statement (approximately 100 words) about how your submission relates to the theme
Calendar of Events
- Submission entry deadline: July 19, 2026
- Work drop-off deadline: August 1, 2026
- Exhibition dates: August 8–November 28, 2026
- Public reception: September 10, 2026, 5 p.m.
Exhibition Guidelines
- Submitted work will be reviewed by a guest juror (to be announced).
- All mediums will be considered.
- All work must be labeled with the title and artist name at time of delivery.
- All work must be ready for display. Hardware and materials will not be supplied by The Bascom.
- Artists are responsible for delivery and pickup of artwork.
- Accepted work must be picked up within one month of exhibition close or include a prepaid mailing label for return shipping.
- Work left after the deadline will become property of The Bascom unless other arrangements are made.
- No work may leave the gallery before the exhibition closes.
- There are no size restrictions on submitted work. All pieces must fit in the gallery.
Questions?
Contact Zach Rogers, Director of Exhibitions
Sales
Artwork will be sold through The Bascom. If work is not for sale, please mark NFS. Artists receive 60% commission from the retail price.
