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CALL FOR ARTISTS
Holding It Together
Upstream Gallery Juried Photography Show 2026
Entry Fee: $45.00 for a minimum of 3 pieces; $4.00 additional for each entry thereafter up to a maximum of 8 pieces ($65). All pieces must be for sale. The gallery will retain a commission of 30% on all sales.
Deadline for Entries: Monday December 15th, 2025 at Midnight
Holding It Together: We invite photographers to submit work for an exhibition exploring the many ways we endure, adapt, and mend. We ask artists to show us work that speaks to emotional resilience or physical repair; to personal rituals for survival or to the fragile beauty of things patched, pieced, and reconfigured. From literal depictions of mending, stitching, to metaphorical expressions of holding on—this exhibition seeks to showcase the quiet power in persistence. Whether yourwork captures everyday moments of strength, the tension of something at its breaking point, or the visible marks of things made whole again, we want to see how you interpret what it means to hold it together. All photographic approaches arewelcome—documentary, conceptual, experimental, abstract, and everything in between. The exhibition will open on Thursday, January 22nd, 2026 at our gallery in Hastings-on-Hudson NY.
Guest Juror: Shilpi Chandra
Shilpi Chandra is a curator and art historian focusing on contemporary American Art and the Asian diaspora. She is currently an Assistant Curator at the Hudson River Museum where she curated Alvin Hollingsworth: All That Jazz (2024), co-curated Everything Has a Story: Reflections on the Collection (2025) and is adapting Hudson River Museum’s presentation of Modern Women/Modern Visions: Photographs from the Bank of America Collection (2026).
Shilpi has also curated exhibitions independently at Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop and Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Pelham Art Center, Flushing Town Hall, and Queens Botanical Gardens where she worked with emerging artists and artist collectives. She was also awarded a 2024 Center for Craft Archive Fellowship where her archival research focused on Krishna Reddy’s printmaking practice in New York and resulted in an exhibition and published article.
Eligible Work: Artists from around the U.S. are invited to submit photographs in any technique. All work must be photographically based.
Specifications: All work must be suitably framed. Maximum framed size may not exceed 40 x 60 inches. Accepted pieces must be wired for hanging. The gallery reserves the right to reject poorly presented pieces.IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for Entries: Monday December 15th, 2025 at Midnight
All entries must be made via SUBMITTABLE
Artist notification within the week following the application deadline.
Friday, Jan 16th , 2026: All shipped work must be received no later than 5:00pm.
Monday, Jan 19th 2026: Delivery of artwork to gallery by local artists, 10:00am 2:00pm.
Thursday, Jan 22nd, 2026: Opening day of exhibition, 12:30pm-5:30pm.
Sunday,Jan 25, 2026: Opening reception, 2:00pm-5:00pm.
Sunday, Feb. 8th, 2026: Last day of exhibition, 12:30pm-5:30pm.
Monday, Feb. 9th, 2026: Local artists pick up work from gallery, 10:00am-3:00pm.
Upstream Gallery
8 Main St. Hastings on Hudson NY 10706
914-674-8548