Gdac Signature Exhibitions

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Artists under 30 years of age

The Greater Denton Arts Council invites Texas-based artists age 30 and under to apply for 30 Under 30, a GDAC Signature exhibition highlighting emerging voices shaping contemporary art across the state.

This exhibition celebrates innovation across all media, from traditional forms to experimental and interdisciplinary practices. In past years, 30 Under 30 has featured works engaging with contemporary issues, identity, and new media—offering a dynamic snapshot of the ideas and perspectives driving the next generation of artists in Texas.

📍 Open to artists currently residing in Texas

📍 All media accepted

📍 No minimum age requirement (student artists encouraged to apply)

This year’s exhibition will take place in our Gough Gallery, an intimate space that invites thoughtful consideration of scale and installation. While all submissions are welcome, artists are encouraged to keep spatial limitations in mind when proposing larger or immersive works.

We look forward to seeing how artists across Texas continue to push boundaries, explore new ideas, and redefine what contemporary art can be.

Submissions open May 2 until June 27 at 11:59 PM CT. Apply here!

Exhibition will be on display August 1 through October 3, 2026.

Currently for artists under the age of 30 and artists over the age of 60.

Generations in Conversation features artwork created by artists 30 years of age and younger alongside artwork created by artists 60 years of age and older.

The exhibition centers around influences and conversations, emphasizing the visual and conceptual nuances that are both shared and differing between generations. It is not meant to be a competition, but rather a point of conversation that draws together two age groups often seen in opposition to one another.

The exhibition will explore changes in technique, media usage, social, environmental, and technological influences, as well as how artists representative of two different periods are inspired in their work.

This year we have chosen to identify 5 overall themes for artists to submit under. The themes are:

- Shape-Shifting Media
- Macro & Microcosms
- Queer Identity & Social Justice
- The Psyche & Subconscious
- Social Roles & Expectations

Generations in Conversation opens July 19th and runs until September 20th, 2025. 

International Contemporary Craft Competition & Exhibition

This exhibition celebrates the fine-art qualities of craft materials such as ceramic, fiber, wood, glass, metal, and mixed-media in addition to conceptual and digital art in a contemporary competition exhibition.

Now in its 39th year, we’ve reimagined and expanded MHS to challenge ourselves and artists to push the boundaries of the materiality of their chosen mediums. Our new awards categories for winning artists are likewise intended to open up the ways in which the selected works are in conversation with one another.

Recognized as one of the premier craft exhibitions in the country, MHS began in 1987 and was originally initiated by local artist Georgia Leach Gough.

For more information about the exhibition please visit the MHS call page.

2D, 3D, New Media, Conceptual, Digital

MHS will be on display in Meadows Gallery February 26th to May 9th, 2026.

A Valentines month special!

This special exhibition is a call for artworks that explore and celebrate Alternative Love. It is for those who challenge traditional notions surrounding the expressions of Love and also for those who reject and critique the traditions of Valentines Day.

It is an exhibition for the heartbroken, edgy, alternative, and those who love ferociously. There are more types of love to celebrate than just with chocolate and roses. Show us what Punk Love means to you!

2D, 3D, New Media, Digital

An Installation Art Exhibition

GDAC presents a brand-new group show inspired by modern and contemporary feminist theory concerning solidarity, community and connection.

Call for installation artworks designed by one or more artists collaborating on themes of feminist art activism such as power, privilege, race, gender, class and other aesthetics of representation.

With a focus on process and discussion, we are looking for documentation of the creation and installation of the artwork. For example, a physical or digital sketchbook or journal may be provided and shown in the gallery alongside the finished work.

An artist talk will be scheduled during the run of the exhibition to include discussion on these topics.

To begin the discussion, we wanted to share a list of contemporary feminist theorists reading excerpts and journal articles provided but not limited to:

“How to Survive the Next Four Years” & “Mission Statement” from The Crunk Feminist Collective 

“A New Declaration of Independence” and “The Tragedy of Women’s Emancipation” by Emma Goldman

The urgency of intersectionality, TED Talk by Kimberlé Crenshaw

Land of indigenous feminist resurgences with Dr Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (audio interview)

“Not Murdered, Not Missing: Rebelling against Colonial Gender Violence” by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

“Feminism Beyond the Waves” by Aalya Ahmad

Reading list provided by TWU WGS Professor – Dr. Agatha Beins

An alternative process photography exhibition

Photography and alternative processes nerds, unite!

"reFramed" invites photographers and image makers to explore the limitless possibilities of alternative processes in photography. This call for art seeks 2D works that push beyond digital conventions, embracing methods such as cyanotype, gelatin silver, salt paper, liquid emulsion, gum bichromate, carbon, daguerreotype, and other experimental or historical approaches to photography.

In highlighting these diverse techniques, "reFramed" celebrates photography’s rich history while showcasing how artists continue to innovate and expand the medium today by layering time, material, and vision into images that challenge and transform how we see.