Ebb and Flow 2026

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Wild Heart Gallery

Ebb and Flow 2026 Entry Deadline: Sep 20, 2026, 6:00:00 PM Eligibility: International Entry Fee: 18.00 California Masters of Domestic Animal Art 2026, International Call for ArtProspectusSubmit your art and photography featuring animals that live in and around water. Ebb and Flow brings to mind tides, changing waterways, and time. Waves crash, rivers slowly work their way through mountains, and animals are a part of all of it. These ecosystems exist … Submit your art and photography featuring animals that live in and around water. Ebb and Flow brings to mind tides, changing waterways, and time. Waves crash, rivers slowly work their way through mountains, and animals are a part of all of it. These ecosystems exist and flourish because of coral reefs as much as crawdads. Every animal plays a part in sustaining ecosystems. This exhibition honors those animals and their environments. Wild Heart Gallery's focus is on animal and wildlife artists. This art call and resulting virtual exhibition on wildheartgallery.com focuses on animals that live and around water. All animals, wild and domesticated, are welcome. Artwork above by Martli Heyns. About the Theme - All animal species that fit the theme are welcome: All species that live in or around water. - All fish, crustaceans, shellfish, whales, porpoises, sharks, dolphins, turtles, seals, octopuses, amphibians, newts, salamanders, frogs, crocodiles, and their relatives are welcome. - Land animals such as otters, platypi, hippos, moose (seriously, they're semi-aquatic!), marine iguanas, beavers, and similar animals are welcome. - Birds that live on, near, or depend on bodies of water, for instance, ducks, geese, swans, albatross, fishing eagles, sea birds in general, shore birds in general, and so on are welcome. - Feel free to surprise us! For instance, we do also accept insect-themed entries (insects are animals too), and our jurors love to see artistic voice expressed in new and exciting ways! About Entries - 2D and 3D artwork, printmaking, sculpture, pastels, mixed media, ceramics, original digital art (no AI), photography, and more - Any style as long there is an animal in it that fits the theme - All entries must feature an animal and must be the original artwork of the submitting artist - Looking for more information about the gallery before you submit? Head over to wildheartgallery.com to learn about us and see our exhibitions! Artwork can be paintings, drawings, pastels, mixed media, print-making, sculpture in any form, fiber arts, metal art, collage, mixed media, and more. We have a category called, "Other Media," for artwork that is outside a listed medium. Make your viewer feel something. Feel free to submit any style of animal/wildlife art and photography. Wild Heart Gallery really does love showing a range of art styles inside the wildlife- and animal-art genres. The styles of art we show reflect what the artists submit to our art calls. If you work in a particular style that you'd like to see more of in Wild Heart Gallery's online shows, please submit work in that style. Our award-winning entries in the past for our various art calls included Realism, assemblage, photography, Contemporary Art, Modernism, Abstract Art, Surrealism, Impressionism, Fauvism, Pop Art, Expressionism, Contemporary Wildlife Art, traditional bronze sculpture, print making, temporary installation art, and so much more. All entries must feature an animal and must be the original artwork of the submitting artist. No AI. Artwork above by Kelly Singleton. - All animal species that fit the theme are welcome - 2D and 3D artwork, printmaking, sculpture, original digital art (no AI), photography, and more - Any style as long there is an animal in it - All entries must be the original artwork of the submitting artist - This art call is for a virtual art exhibition on wildheartgallery.com and our social media channels - Tutorial for how to use this ArtCall site is at the bottom of this page - Wild Heart Gallery recently moved to Redlands, California, and currently focuses on virtual exhibitions We embrace realism as fully as abstraction. We love loose brush strokes as much as highly detailed photographs. We live for finely crafted ceramics as much as mixed media experiments. We. Love. Art. We are looking for 2D and 3D artwork, sculpture, and photography that falls into a variety of art style and genre categories: Abstraction, Portraiture, Surrealism, Realism, Pop Art, Expressionism, Assemblage, and more! Our mission is to promote wildlife and animal art in both non-traditional and traditional forms. We exist to honor, promote, and uplift it. As always, art may include more than just animals. Feel free to incorporate humans, objects, landscapes, shapes, space, or anything else. The work needs to fit the theme, and the focus needs to be on the animal(s). Be as literal or as creative with the theme as you like. Originality is one of the components we use to score entries.  Best in Show ($350 cash award) Overall Runner Up ($175 cash award) Artivism Award ($75)  Artivism is art-activism, in this case, specifically about animals and/or the environment Overall Honorable Mentions Finalists For more information about our awards, please see the Awards page. Be as accurate as you can with the category.* Category selection helps the judges quickly identify what they are looking at and assess a work appropriately. - Drawing and Pastels - Mixed Media - Other Media - Painting - Photography - Printmaking - Sculpture *If you aren't sure what the best category is, use Other Media. We receive so few digital art entries, that we decided to remove that category; please use Other Media for any digital works (no AI allowed). It's okay if something is put into the wrong category on accident. It happens. It will not negatively impact your entry. Deadline for Entries: September 20, 2026, 5:59pm Pacific Time Zone / GMT -8:00 Notification of Jury Results: October 2, 2026 Virtual Show Dates: October 2026 - Artwork must be the original art of the submitting artist - Artwork MUST NOT HAVE BEEN INCLUDED in Wild Heart Gallery's shows on wildheartgallery.com previously. If the gallery showed your art piece only on artcall.org, you may submit that art piece again - Artwork entered in this call for art is not required to be for sale When asked to input a price in the submission form, enter "0" if the piece is not for sale. Any inquiries about a piece will be directed to the artist. We do not take any commission for this call for art/exhibition - Please submit a quality image of the work for jurying. Blur, poor cropping, glare, and other elements that distract from the art piece will negatively impact its score - Competitions are open to all artists age 18 or older - Entries must follow each individual competition theme - Each piece must be an original and submitted by the artist who created it. No AI - This call for art is international - Files must be in JPG, GIF, or PNG format - Files may not exceed 5MB - Artwork images must be represented in a professional manner: cropped, no glare, no frames, no watermarks. (Feel free to sign your artwork. In fact, we love it when artists sign their art. It's an excellent marketing tactic.) Reminder: Blur, poor cropping, glare, and other elements that distract from the art piece will negatively impact its score - Not mandatory, but it is preferred that artwork be completed within the last 2 years - Entry fee based on the competition - Entry fees are non-refundable. No exceptions Policy: No nudity (private parts must be covered), no profanity, no animal cruelty, no gore, and no political artwork will be accepted for jury. Topics of animal conservation and environmental protection are not considered political for the purposes of Wild Heart Gallery, and they are suitable topics for the Artivism Award. This is an art competition. Not all entries will be accepted. Only the award recipients will be in the online group exhibition on wildheartgallery.com. - In some instances, we may opt to include a section for "Selected Works" in the online group exhibition. This is at the discretion of our Lead Juror, Sarah Soward. There is no set number of entries that will be included in "Selected Works." - Thanks to constructive feedback from our artists, we now create a separate page on artcall.org for additional works of merit. This may be all of the pieces that made it to the Final Round of judging, or it may be the Top Juried Entries of a certain number, at the discretion of our lead juror Sarah Soward.  There is no set number of entries decided upon beforehand that will be included on the artcall.org page. You may submit up to 2 separate art pieces. Use the "Add Submission" button to add your second art piece. *For sculpture entries only, you may submit up to 2 additional views/images per art piece. *For photographs, please note the make and model of the camera used and whether is film or digital. - Accepted File Types: JPG, PNG, GIF - Maximum File Size: 5 MB - Minumum File Size: 500 KB - Minimum Image Width or Height: 1000 px Art above by Jill Motovidlak. $18 for 1-2 images Artwork for the exhibition will be selected by industry professionals, referred to as jurors. The jurors will vote based on the number of entries, criteria for this event (theme), originality, technique, skill, and quality of work. Jury Selection begins within 7 days after final entry date and ends within 15 days after final entry date. Award recipients are the entered into an online group award exhibition that is published at a date sometime after final entry date. The Juror(s) of the art competition are art industry professionals. There are several criteria for selection for the award exhibition. These include relevance to the theme, originality, quality of work, technique, and technical skill. The goal is to have a cohesive, high quality virtual art exhibition that embraces various genres of animal and wildlife art. To make the experience enjoyable and worthwhile to artists, visitors, and more, we strive to select and display the artwork that best represents animal and wildlife art today. ***Please remember that this is a competition; only the best art will be selected for exhibition. Not all art that was entered will be included.*** The artist retains all copyrights to their artwork without exception. By entering this art competition, you are granting Wild Heart Gallery a non-exclusive perpetual license to reproduce images of your artwork on wildheartgallery.com and artcall.org, and to publish the winners and accepted entries on Facebook and Instagram as well as other media outlets. Wild Heart Gallery also has permission to crop or re-size images to fit the needs of wildheartgallery.com and other media outlets. We do our best to show images without cropping them, but this is not always possible. All award-winning entries will be displayed on wildheartgallery.com. Each awarded image becomes part of the public archival online exhibition catalog for up to one year and possibly longer. If there is a Selected Works section, those works will be displayed on wildheartgallery.com and become part of the public archival online exhibition catalog for up to one year and possibly longer. You will not hold Wild Heart Gallery or any of its affiliates, jurors, or members liable for anything. All entry fees are non-refundable without exception. All dollar amounts listed are in USD. If you have a moment, please - Sign up for our mailing list at wildheartgallery.com  - Follow us on Instagram @wildheartartgallery - Follow us on Facebook - Follow us on TikTok @wildheartgallery Wild Heart Gallery is now using artcall.org for art call submissions and jurying. If you have questions about how this works or get stuck during the submission process, watch this video.

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Inclusion in online group exhibition on wildheartgallery.com

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18 $

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Страны-участники: Без ограничений по стране

Open to all artists 18+; original artwork only, no AI-generated work

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