Creative Arts Workshop in New Haven, CT
invites all members to submit thier work to our latest exhibition
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Applications accepted from Wednesday, April 1st, 2026 - Tuesday, May 28th, 2026 until 8:00pm
Notice of acceptance will be emailed to you by Monday, June 2nd, 2026
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Two floors of gallery space, open to the public 7 days a week, with beautiful natural light that faces a stunning public square, this is a great spot to show off your best work!
The theme of the exhibition will be:
New England Mosaic society invites members to explore peace as something created through patience, repair, care, and collective effort. We welcome traditional and experimental mosaics in glass, ceramic, stone, tile, and found materials, including wall-based and sculptural work. Consider themes such as reconciliation, refuge, community, environmental healing, or the everyday labor of peacemaking. We encourage approaches that foreground process: visible seams, intentional breaks, reclaimed fragments, collaborative contributions, or rhythmic patterning that suggests practice over perfection.
Portraits, landscapes, abstractions, narrative scenes, symbolic works, and purely formal explorations are all welcome.
Possible approaches include (but are not limited to):
A landscape that represents refuge, repair, balance, or a place where conflict has quieted. It can also be a place that brings you personal peace.
A portrait of someone who embodies peace work, care work, or quiet resistance. It can also be someone who brings you personal peace.
An abstract composition that explores harmony, fracture, tension, repair, or reconciliation through color, rhythm, and material.
A symbolic or narrative scene reflecting community, healing, protest, mourning, or hope.
• Entries will be only accepted digitally.
• Up to 3 mosaic works can be submitted
• Application Fee: $25 for the 1st submission, $15 for the 2nd and $10 for the 3rd
•This is a non-juried show, so you are guaranteed at least one of your pieces will be accepted into the exhibition, but you may have more accepted.
•We will only accept 2-D and 3-D work that is under 60 lbs.
•There are 10 pedestals available for 3-D work.
•Size for 2-D work cannot exceed 30” in width, but can be up to 36" long.
•Size for 3-D work is more flexible, but cannot exceed the 60lb weight limit.
•Mosaics that have been shown at previous exhibitions will be accepted if they pertain to the theme, "Piecework for Peace Work"
•We have extended the deadline for submissions to May 28th, 8:00pm EST.
•If you would like to sell your mosaics, the gallery takes 40% of the sale and the artist will get 60%. The gallery is staffed and open 7 days a week, so they will facilitate all sales and arrange for the buyer to pick up or ship your piece at the end of the exhibition. The artist will be paid by check within 2 weeks of the exhibition closing.
•Pick up of your work can be done after the exhibition closes on June 23rd or by calling the art center and arranging.
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•All work chosen for the exhibition must arrive at the gallery prior to June 17th, and can be mailed or dropped off in person.
You will also be able to mail or drop off your work with some of our members in the New Haven area. More to come...
•The address of the gallery is: Creative Arts Workshop, 80 Audubon St, New Haven, CT 06510
•If you have problems with the delivery or pick-up dates, please call the Gallery 203-562-4927
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If you have any questions, please email one of our Exhibition Co-Chairs:
