Image Credit: Cassandra Brooks, This Girl Is On Fire, Acrylic



Giustina Gallery at The LaSells Stewart Center Presents:

FIRE SEASON

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Deadline to Apply: June 12, 2026

*All entries are online

Short Description:

Exhibition Display Dates:June 29 - July 31, 2026

Eligibility: Limited to artists physically residing in the Pacific Northwest, United States

Location: Corvallis, OR

Mediums: All mediums, must be installed as wall-mounted, 3/D wall-mounted art is limited to 6" depth from wall.

No saw tooth hangers items should be wired for install.

Maximum # of submissions per artist/artist collaboration: 5

FIRE SEASON seeks work that sparks conversation around transformation, vulnerability, adaptation, and the elemental forces that shape our world.

Fire is both catastrophe and catalyst. It clears and renews landscapes, gathers communities, signals danger, creates warmth, and reshapes memory.

In the American West, fire season has become an annual reality tied to climate change, drought, smoke, displacement, and resilience. Yet fire also exists beyond disaster: as ritual, technology, energy, protest, illumination, passion, ceremony, and material process

This exhibition welcomes artists whose work engages with fire as subject matter, metaphor, medium, or method.

Possible theme interpretation includes, but are not limited to:

Occupational: Wildland, Municipal, Smokejumpers, Hotshot crew, Helitack Crew
Smoke, climate, environmental restoration and transformation
Cycles of destruction and regeneration
Heat, combustion, ash, light, and atmosphere
Fire as ritual, mythology, spirituality, or symbol
Political unrest, social tension, uprising, and urgency
Domestic fire: hearth, warmth, memory, survival
Fire as an artistic tool or collaborator
Pyrographic, ceramic, welded, forged, burned, smoked, or kiln-fired processes
Transformation through pressure, heat, and change
Emotional intensity: rage, desire, grief, resilience, passion