Art Call

Orange County Center for Contemporary Art (OCCCA) announces an open call for our summer exhibition, Art with A Message focusing on how strength, beauty and truth walk hand in hand in hand. They can be packed with powerful visual inspirations and provocations in a wide range of styles covering a vast array of themes.  Art with A Message can awaken the conscience of the world, celebrating diversity, tolerance and art’s ineluctable promise of happiness. Free expression and topicality are traditions at OCCCA, an artist-run alternative space serving the contemporary art scene since 1980.

Submission Deadline: May 30, 2024

Exhibition Dates: July 6 - August 24, 2024

The arc of history bends toward justice. Messaged art just speeds things along. Art with sharp, implied and/or focused messages can afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted. Messaged art helps us to envision a future free from the unconscionable tyranny of blind ignorance, oppression and mindless discrimination. The late Carrie Fisher said, “Take your broken heart and make it into art.” OCCCA invites artists to submit their art for a wide-ranging exhibition of text, symbols, posters, placards, videos, photography, paintings, sculptures, functional objects, installations, and new media projects.