Blah Blah Gallery announces a call for artworks for their 2025 Juried Exhibition, open to emerging and mid-career women and non-binary artists working in any medium. This group exhibition will be curated by Blah Blah Director Megan Galardi, and will take place in January 2025.
Previous open call applicants have exhibited in both the annual juried show as well as further group shows, two person exhibitions, and fairs with the gallery. We encourage artists to re-apply if not selected for previous exhibitions.
Jury Panelists:
Anaïs Cooper-Hackman, Curator
Qualeasha Wood, Artist
Each artist must fill out the digital application HERE and pay the application fee ($25).
Artists may submit up to 5 artworks, and include up to 2 images per work.
November 1 - Submissions due
December 1 - Artists notified of selection via email
December 20 - Deadline for work to be received at Blah Blah
January 3 - Show opens
All work must be delivered or shipped to Blah Blah Gallery in Philadelphia. The artist is responsible for shipping costs.
If you have any questions regarding the application or selection process please contact Megan at megan@blahblahgallery.com.
Anaïs Cooper-Hackman is a curator based in Philadelphia, PA. She is the former Associate Director of the now defunct HOT•BED Gallery, an art gallery, event venue, and artist studios in Philadelphia. Among many things, during her time at HOT•BED she helped launch a concept called MICRO•GALLERY, a no-limits playground for guest curators and artists to produce and exhibit unconventional work. Currently, she is the Programming & Partnerships Director at Ray, a multi-family real estate company where she manages an in-house gallery concept called Studio 105.
Qualeasha Wood is an interdisciplinary artist whose work contemplates realities around black female embodiment that do and might exist. Inspired by a familial relationship to textiles, queer craft, Microsoft Paint and internet avatars Wood's tufted and tapestry pieces mesh traditional craft and contemporary technological materials. Together, Qualeasha navigates both an Internet environment saturated in Black Femme figures and culture, and a political and economic environment holding that embodiment at the margins.
She is currently included in Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY;Threaded Visions: Contemporary Weavings from the Collection, Art Institute of Chicago, IL; and Threaded, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA. Her recent exhibitions include Manic Pixie Magical Negro, Kendra Jayne Patrick, New York, NY (2023); The New Bend, Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA (2022-3); It’s Time For Me To Go, MoMA PS1, New York, NY (2022); Alter Egos | Projected Selves, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (2022); and Dancing in Dark Times, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK (2021). Her collections include Art Institute of Chicago, IL; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; The Rennie Collection, Vancouver, Canada; The Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; The Dean Collection, New York, NY; and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX.
