SAY IT AGAIN! Prints of Resistance
Deadline to apply:
Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Exhibition Dates – October 3 – 25, 2025
Opening Reception – First Friday October 3rd 6-9pm
Juror: E “Oscar” Maynard of Tender-Heart Press
History can repeat itself, but when it does, so too does the resistance and our messages often bear repeating. With printmaking’s reproducibility and paper’s portability and ease of distribution, prints are the original mass communicator of ideas. Artists have long taken advantage of this process to gain attention and shout our messages through repeated imagery, text, and design.
In collaboration with Knox Small Press Fest, the exhibition Say It Again! Prints of Resistance shares with us how printmaking today continues to prevail as a powerful role in resistance. This is a creative call to action to record, respond, reflect, express, or simply process recent changes in our world affecting both the people and our planet.
We invite artists who utilize printmaking as a means to distribute ideas, to process, or to instill hope to submit to this exhibition. Whether you find your recent outlet in the form of fine art printmaking, protest signs, wheatpaste posters, flyers, zines and books, documentary photography, or even designed and printed on the clothes you wear–any print process that embodies the democratic spirit of printmaking and centers around visual information made to be shared to the masses are welcome to apply.
Eligibility/Requirements
- Works must fit the theme of the exhibition and must contain at least one hand-pulled printmaking process.
- Exception: we will accept other artworks such as hand-made protest signs, documentary photography, zines, etc that fit the theme but may not have a hand-pulled print process or other work that you feel is very relevant to the exhibition’s concept.
- No AI or purely digital artwork accepted. Artwork drawn digitally, but outputted into physical forms ARE accepted.
- Framing is not required. All are encouraged to consider what best fits the work for installation. Art must be ready-to-hang, otherwise, unframed prints will be carefully hung using magnets or art-safe, archival tape/putty.
About the Juror:
Tender-Heart Press was founded by E. “Oscar” Maynard in 2017 in Oakland, CA. Oscar makes letterpress posters rooted in heart wisdom, collective healing, and liberatory spellwork. Since 2017 they have created their work in various print shops across the country including Berkeley, Santa Fe, Silver City, Detroit, Houston & Atlanta. In 2020, they bought a Vandercook SP-20, which began its life as a proof press for a Newspaper in Wisconsin. Tender-Heart Press accepts commercial and custom jobs, in addition to crafting and selling their own prints. Oscar loves the smell of the ink, the rhythm of the press, and the slow process of laying type by hand.
Submissions
- Submit up 1-3 works
- 2MB max, JPEG or PNG file format, 1200 pixels on the longest side
Entry Fee – $10
Deadline to Submit Work – September 2, 2025
Acceptance Notification – September 7th
Shipping/Delivery of Artwork
- The artist is responsible for the cost of delivery and return shipment of artwork using UPS, FedEx or USPS. A return shipping label and return postage must be included with the artwork. If packaging is deemed not safe enough to return work, a packaging replacement charge may be assessed.
- Artwork may also be hand-delivered to and picked up from Relay Ridge on the appropriate dates during the scheduled times.
Artwork Sales – Relay Ridge Gallery does not take any sales commission on sold works. Exhibiting artists will provide RRG with contact information for any sales inquiries and are responsible for arrangements of sales for those interested in purchasing works. Local sales/pickups may be arranged with RRG. Works must remain on view during the entire exhibition.
Acceptance of Shipped Work – September 18-27, 2025
Hand Delivery of Work – Sunday, September 28th from 1-4pm
Local Pick Up – Sunday, October 26th from 1-4pm
Return Shipment of Work – Monday October 27th
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