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Call for Art | King Sized Juried Exhibition

Date

August 1, 2025 5:00pm -
September 26, 2025 11:59pm

Location

Lawrence Arts Center Gallery 940 New Hampshire Lawrence, KS 66044

Price

$0-25

Submit Artwork

What does it mean to be king? Lawrence Arts Center invites artists of all media and experience levels to share their interpretations of the crown. Whether it’s a playful take on Elvis, a thoughtful dissection of the responsibility of power, or a complex examination of royally-sized candy bars, the gauntlet is yours!

Works must be no larger than 24” in any direction, including finished and/or framed works. Open to 2D and 3D works. Applicants can enter up to 3 pieces for $25. Artwork chosen to be exhibited is not required to be for sale. Artwork that exceeds the size limit will not be considered.

First Prize | $1000
Second Prize | $500
Third Prize | $250

For decades, Lawrence Arts Center has been the go-to arts facility in Lawrence. Created around a vision of providing a space for everyone to experience the visual arts, performing arts, and beyond, we’re a destination for accessible art exhibitions, performances, and classes for kids and adults alike, featuring mediums ranging from printmaking to ballet. The vision of the Lawrence Arts Center is to support and build a community that embraces the arts as an integral part of everyone’s daily life.

We are excited to be working with the incredible Tom Huck as the King Sized juror!

Tom Huck, also spelled Hück (born 1971), is an American printmaker best known for his large-scale satirical woodcuts. From 1999 to 2020, Hück’s studio, Evil Prints, was located in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. In 2020, he moved Evil Prints to Park Hills, Missouri.

Huck draws his influences mainly from Northern Renaissance masters, such as Albrecht Dürer, whom he cites as a “print hero”. Other influences include José Guadalupe Posada, Honoré Daumier, and William Hogarth. Huck’s work is also known for his delicate and intricate method of carving and use of cross-hatching in the print medium. It has been described as having “a real delicacy of touch” and “an extraordinary landscape of marks”.

Huck is best known for creating large-scale woodcuts acting as both satirical narratives and social criticism. He says in his artist statement: “My work deals with personal observations about the experiences of living in a small town in southeast Missouri. The often Strange and Humorous occurrences, places, and people in these towns offer a never-ending source of inspiration for my prints. I call this work ‘rural satire'”.

Hück’s woodcut prints are included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, National Gallery of Art, The Library of Congress, Lambert International Airport, Saint Louis Art Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, and Laumeier Sculpture Park, among many others.

Application Requirements:

A maximum of 3 original works may be entered for jurying. Submit one JPEG image per piece entered. File size may be no more than 5 MB.
Works must be no larger than 24” in any direction, including finished and/or framed works.
2D artwork must be ready to hang and sturdy enough to withstand normal handling.
3D works must be installation-ready.
Entries must be submitted through the Slideroom portal.
Applicants must be 18 or over.

Images of accepted works may be used at the sole discretion of the Lawrence Arts Center for promotional purposes, including but not limited to the invitation, website usage, or on a subsequent year’s prospectus. The image will include artist attribution whenever possible. The artist retains copyright.

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