Call Description

California Society of Printmakers (CSP) is partnering with the Triton Museum in Santa Clara, CA to highlight the power and possibilities of contemporary printmaking. This call aims to give printmakers the opportunity to showcase and exhibit their most innovative, and evolving work. Successful entrants will produce uniquely thoughtful imagery. Artwork will potentially go beyond the traditional bounds of printmaking, to exhibit structures that potentially, expand beyond the paper’s edge, extend off the wall, interlocks, or expresses in multiples, and tells a great story.

Submissions should show the artist’s unique and personal approach, while pursuing new ideas. Artists are invited to submit work that incorporates any form of hand pulled printmaking, with end results including – but not limited to – large scale print work, innovative/experimental print techniques, modular assemblages, installation, sculptural elements, art book constructions, two-dimensional prints, and more. Submissions may be conceptual, and incorporate environments. Work can be as charged as the times we live in, and as deep as the world we cling to.

Exhibition dates August 30, 2025–January 11, 2026

See Rules and Terms to Apply below, for more detailed information.

Please see this video related to our call.

Application Requirements

Work must originate from a form of hand pulled printmaking.

Eligibility Criteria

This is a National Call for Entry; Open to all artists working in the United States in any printmaking medium. Work must incorporate a form of hand pulled printmaking. 

All members of the California Society of Printmakers regardless of location, including artist / student / legacy / honorary members who are current in their membership dues are eligible to apply. Non members are welcome and encouraged to consider CSP membership with the next membership deadline approaching June 1. https://www.caprintmakers.org/benefits-application/ 

Incomplete applications may not be considered. Please adhere to the following submission instructions.