STUDENT OPEN CALL
Gallery Athanor x Vulpes Bastille
About The Call
Gallery Athanor and Vulpes Bastille co-host an annual Student Show, Convos Around the Dinner Table. This exhibition showcases the diverse talents of student artists, providing opportunities for professional development and artistic growth. We welcome submissions from students working in diverse media, highlighting our emerging arts community.
Curated through a call to undergraduate students across the region, the next Student Show will open in April 2026. The 2026 open call for student work will launch in January 2026.
THE 2026 OPEN CALL FOR STUDENT WORK LAUNCHES JANUARY 2026.
How To Apply
Artists can submit 1-3 completed artworks for review, along with an artist bio, artist statement, and information about each work.
Artists will be contacted up to 3 weeks AFTER call has closed with exhibition details.
Submissions must be of original, completed work. We will not accept concepts or unfinished pieces. All media is eligible including but not limited to traditional mediums, ceramics, fibers, sculpture, video, animation, photography, et al.
To ensure that we have room for every artist to be shown, please only submit work no larger than 24" in any dimension, and it must be ready for display (wired, mounted, or otherwise).
Vulpes Bastille has limited equipment for video artists. We encourage artists to provide their own projectors, monitors, etc for installation.
We encourage that your artwork be listed for sale. The gallery takes a 25% commission while the artist retains 75%. If you do not want to sell your piece, be sure to include that information in your submission.
About Gallery Athanor
Gallery Athanor is a private domestic art space and curatorial project in Kansas City that opened in fall 2022. It is cozy and intimate at a whopping ~200 square feet. Tanith K's curatorial style is unconventionally balanced, finding unheard conversations and unique foundations between artists, their art, and viewers. Gallery Athanor has three open calls a year to provide artists with an alternative venue to showcase their works and to give potential collectors a clearer vision of what that art can look like in their own home.
IG: @galleryathanor Website: thetanith.com
About Vulpes Bastille
Vulpes Bastille is an artist-run studio and gallery space located in the East Crossroads District of Kansas City, MO. Housed in a 100-year-old renovated dancehall, it provides emerging and local artists with affordable spaces to create and display their work. Exhibitions are selected through an annual open call, with priority given to students and emerging artists. As a result, Vulpes Bastille has become a creative fortress for artists of all backgrounds and career levels, sustaining a diverse community of artists over the past decade.
IG: @vulpes.bastille Website: vulpesbastille.com