CALL FOR ART: “Space to Exhale”

👉 IMPORTANT: After completing your registration and payment, you will receive a confirmation email with a link to the Artist Intake Form. This is where you must upload images of your artwork and provide your artist details. If you don’t see the email within 10 minutes, check your spam/junk folder.

The San Diego Art Directory, in collaboration with Hera Hub Carlsbad, invites artists to submit work for “Space to Exhale,” an exhibition exploring sanctuary not as escape, but as intentional refuge in response to a world that often feels overwhelming, unstable, or relentlessly demanding.

In moments of collective uncertainty, the act of creating or seeking safety becomes purposeful. This exhibition asks artists to consider: What allows us to exhale—and why is that space necessary now? Where do care, protection, and restoration live when they must be actively cultivated rather than assumed?

Hera Hub Carlsbad is envisioned as more than a workspace—it is a sanctuary for creativity, collaboration, and care. This exhibition invites artists to interpret space to exhale expansively: through physical or imagined spaces, emotional and psychological landscapes, symbols of rest, boundaries, resilience, softness, or quiet strength.

Artists are encouraged to submit work that engages sanctuary with depth and intention—not merely as calm or beauty, but as an act of care, resistance, grounding, or renewal. Works may be subtle or bold, intimate or collective, contemplative or quietly powerful.

Artists of all backgrounds and identities are welcome.

• Only wall-hanging artwork is accepted.
• All mediums are welcome.
• The size is not to exceed 48" on the longer side (or in diameter for circle or irregular shape artworks).
• Since the artwork will be installed on a drywall in a co-working space, the weight of the artwork is a consideration for safety. Unusually heavy artworks will be juried out.
• All work must be wired and ready to hang or exhibit (no sawtooth hangers; unwired work will be juried out)

• $22 for up to two pieces
• $35 for up to four pieces

Entry fees cover organizing and curating costs and do not guarantee inclusion in the exhibition.

• Submission Deadline: March 1, 2026
• Announcements of selected work: March 9, 2026
• Exhibition Dates: March 2026 – September 2026
• Art drop off: March 17 - 18 | 9 AM – 5 PM
• Installation Day: March 19 - 20 (to be confirmed)
• Viewing Hours: Monday – Friday | 9 AM – 5 PM
• Location: Hera Hub Carlsbad, 5938 Priestly Dr Ste 103, Carlsbad, CA 92008
• Opening receptions: To Be Announced

Artists retain 90% of artwork sales.

The remaining 10% supports the programs of San Diego Art Directory.

Submission Deadline: March 1, 2026

This exhibition is not about retreating from reality, but about honoring the spaces that help us remain human within it.

1. Register and pay your entry fee through Eventbrite.
2. Check your confirmation email! Inside, you will find the link to the Artist Intake Form.

• This is where you must upload your artwork images and provide artist details.
• If you don’t see the email within 10 minutes, check your spam/junk folder. The subject line will include: “Event Registration Confirmation.”

📩 Still don’t see it?

Please contact [email protected] for assistance. All artist communications are handled through the San Diego Art Directory. For this call, Hera Hub Carlsbad is unable to provide submission support.

Please note: All submissions will be reviewed by the curatorial team. Entry fees do not guarantee acceptance into the exhibition.

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