Columbia City Gallery
ANSWER AS QUESTION, Juried Exhibit in Partnership with Seattle Art Museum
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- Budget: Awards: $500 First place submission; $300 Second place submission; and $200 Third place submission.
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Eligibility: We highly encourage artists local to the Greater Seattle Area and within the Pacific Northwest to apply, but this application is open to artists worldwide. Please note, however, that shipping costs will be the artists’ responsibility.
If inquiry is essential to an artistic practice, then material is evidence and artists are investigators. The medium is an apparatus for interrogation, and through the search artists illuminate the unseen and seek answers. Yet oftentimes, the conclusions we draw incite even more questions, equally expanding our sense of known and unknown.
Answer As Question is Columbia City Gallery’s 17th Annual Juried Exhibit. The exhibit invites artists of all mediums to lean into investigation as a form of artistic expression. It is inspired by and in response to Ai, Rebel: The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei, on view at SAM from March 12 – Sept. 7, 2025. Ai, Rebel marks Ai Weiwei’s first US retrospective in over a decade and the largest exhibition of his work ever held in the country. In this partnership with SAM, Columbia City Gallery is honored to have José Carlos Diaz, SAM’s Susan Brotman Deputy Director for Art, jurying and curating this exhibit. Channeling this same kind of investigative spirit, all artists working in 2D and/or 3D media are encouraged to submit artwork completed within the past three years that reflects the theme: Answer As Question. We ask artists to practice rigorous examination, emphasizing work rooted in research, asking questions, and uncovering hidden perspectives through investigation.
Awards: $500 First place submission; $300 Second place submission; and $200 Third place submission.
More Information: columbiacitygallery.com