Open Calls
Each year as part of our festival (January 15-February 15), we offer opportunities for artists and galleries to exhibit and discuss their work and printmaking processes. We have begun to expand our programming outside of that window. Open calls can be found below.
THE CONTEMPORARY PRINT (TCP) — Juried exhibition
NOW OPEN–Deadline to submit is Oct. 31 at 11:59pm MT.
JUDGING: This is a blind jury, and works will be judged on traditional printmaking techniques and innovative approaches in contemporary printmaking. While non-traditional or digital output is accepted as a print element, submissions must utilize traditional print media as their primary technique. These include lithography, relief, intaglio, silkscreen, photopolymer plate (i.e. SolarPlates), and monotype. Solely digital and photographic prints are not eligible. For questions regarding eligible media, don’t hesitate to get in touch with info@printaustin.org. NOTE: You may enter the same work into 5×5 and TCP should you enter both contests. However, should you be accepted to both exhibits, you can only accept one. There will be a $500 prize for best in show.
ABOUT OUR JUROR:
Susanna V. Temkin is Senior Curator at El Museo del Barrio, and holds a PhD. degree from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where her research focused on modern art from Cuba. At El Museo she has curated or co-organized the exhibitions Flow States-La Trienal 2024; Something Beautiful: Reframing La Colección (2023-2024); Juan Francisco Elso: Por América (2022); Estamos Bien: La Trienal 20/21; and Culture and the People (2019), among others. Prior to El Museo, she served as Assistant Curator at Americas Society in New York, as well as the research and archive specialist at the Cecilia de Torres, Ltd., where she assisted in co-authoring the digital catalogue raisonné of artist Joaquín Torres-García. Temkin has published essays and reviews in publications and exhibition catalogues such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Alice Neel: People Come First (2001), and authored the timeline of Concrete Cuba (2016), published by David Zwirner.
DISCOUNTS: PrintAustin members will be able to pay $20 to enter vs the regular $35 fee. Find out more about membership. We have a limited number of waived registration fees regardless of membership status for artists in need should you be experiencing hardship. Please email us at info@printaustin.org if you’d like to check availability. All applications need to go through the CaFE application system.
PrintEXPO — our annual juried print fair
This fair is held at Blue Genie, a 9,000 square foot space in Central Austin. We will be accepting registrations from September 1- October 15. The call is open to all local, regional, and international printmakers. We will notify artists by November 1.
Dates: PrintEXPO will be held February 6-February 8, 2026.
Tenative schedule: Friday we will be open to the public from 6-10pm, Saturday, 12pm-6pm, and Sunday, 12pm-5pm. Vendors are expected to be at their booth, or within the facility, during all operating hours.
Prices: Vendors will be able to purchase wall space in a variety of formats/prices vs. the booth style shown to the left. Stay tuned as we work out these details. We know that fairs are expensive when combined with travel, lodging, and BBQ and we will keep our prices as low as possible.
Jurors: Our fair will be juried by PrintAustin’s board of directors.
STEAMROLLER
This call will open soon.
This event will be held during PrintEXPO on Saturday, February 7, 2026, starting at noon and ending when all blocks are printed.
Should there be rain, we will move our operation inside and print by hand using Print Frogs.