The Spirit of Home

Call for Photographs

Alternative Process Photography Exhibition

July 24^th – September 20, 2025

In these fractured times, finding a place to belong, a home, can be comforting. Home embodies a sense of belonging, comfort, security, and a space to nurture relationships and memories, serving as a sanctuary and a foundation for personal growth and identity.

This call asks artists to consider where they belong and where their spirit feels at home. How does your artwork represent the feeling of home?

Deadline to submit: June 21

Juror: Annie Lopez

Apply at: https://artist.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=15321

All submitted works must be created by the hand of the artist, including- but not limited to: silver gelatin; platinum/palladium; albumen; cyanotype; gum bichromate; wet-plate collodion; photogravure; carbon; vandyke brown; traditional printmaking; and other alternative and historic printing processes. The use of digital negatives in creating these processes is acceptable, as are surface-manipulated digital prints. Straight digital prints and AI-derived works are not eligible.

Annie Lopez/Bio:

An active member of the Phoenix, Arizona art scene since 1982, Annie Lopez has consistently created new bodies of narrative work exploring a variety of subjects. Her art reflects her experiences through the use of family photographs, vintage “found” photos, personal letters and stories. She is most known for her use of cyanotype, an archival photographic printing process. Lopez engages the viewer with photographs, prints, storytelling and dresses made of paper which often make poignant statements with a sense of humor. She has exhibited her work in numerous venues across the nation, including the Smithsonian, the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, Shelburne Museum in Vermont, and the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts. She was selected to represent Arizona in the exhibition, “Paper Routes-Women To Watch 2020” at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. Her work is in the collection of the Phoenix Art Museum; Weatherspoon Art Museum in North Carolina; Arizona State University Museum; The Tucson Museum of Art; The National Hispanic Cultural Center in New Mexico; and the cities of Phoenix, Tempe and Glendale, Arizona. For seventeen years, Lopez was a member of the nationally recognized Chicano arts organization, Movimiento Artistico del Rio Salado (MARS). She has received a number of awards for her work, including a Governor’s Arts Award and Mayor’s Arts Award and in 2021, was honored with a Congressional Commendation.

Annie Lopez / (602) 568-2165 / lopez.annie@cox.net / annielopezartist.com