Umpqua Valley Arts (UVA) presents a Call to Artists for the 2025 Artworks Northwest Biennial exhibit. This exceptional regional show is the largest of it’s kind in Southern Oregon, and features current and relevant works that exhibit the variety and depth of artwork being created in the Pacific Northwest art scene.
UVA welcomes artists of all mediums to apply to this juried invitational to be selected and chosen by a curator who resides/works in the Pacific Northwest whom UVA invites to lend their eye and voice in the region to the exhibition. Artists living and working in Northern California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Alaska, British Columbia, Western Montana, and Western Wyoming are eligible to apply.
The 2025 curator: Charlene Liu
Born in Taiwan and raised in the American Midwest, Liu is a Professor of Art and Printmaking at the University of Oregon in Eugene. Immediacy of place and landscape form the foundation of her creative practice and emerge through a visual lexicon that combines the concrete and familiar with the abstract and decorative. Applying a broad palette of materials and approach, her work explores visual expressions of multiplicity, movement, and transformation that inhabit our everyday lives, our cultural inheritances, and evolving identities. Her work has been exhibited at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University, USC Pacific Asia Museum, the Schneider Museum of Art, and beyond.
Submitted works will first be selected by our curator, Charlene Liu, to partake in the exhibition. Of the selected works, special awards are presented to works that are also chosen by the curator. Special awards include:
- 1st Place: $500
- 2nd Place: $250
- 3rd Place: $150
- J. Lynn Peterson Award (Honorable Mention): $100
Exhibition Calendar:
- Submission Deadline: March 28th, 2025
IMPORTANT NOTE: Entries close at 11:59PM Mountain Time, or 10:59PM Pacific Time. - Artist Notified: April 29th, 2025
- Art Delivery to UVA: June 2nd, 10am-6pm
- Opening Reception: Friday, June 6th, 4pm-7pm
- Exhibit Ends: August 15th
- Artwork Pick Up: August 18th, 10am-6pm
- Artwork Shipped: No later than September 8th
All entries are digitally submitted with digital jpeg files through Call For Entry.

More Info
https://artist.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=14165
Location
Roseburg, OR
Contact Email
ashley@uvarts.com