Call for Entries: Ceramics On The Wall VII
Juried Art Exhibition and Competition
EXHIBITION DATES: November 17 – December 17, 2025
EXHIBITION VENUE: Goldmark Cultural Center - 14001 Goldmark Dr, Dallas, TX 75240
INSTALL: Artists must bring and install their artwork at the Goldmark Cultural Center on Thursday, November 6, between 11:00 am and 4:00 pm.
DEINSTALL: Artists must come to the Goldmark Cultural Center to take home their artwork on Thursday, December 18, between 11:00 am and 4:00 pm.
RECEPTION and AWARDS CEREMONY: Saturday, November 22, 2025, from 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm at the Goldmark Cultural Center. Juror awards (Best in Show, Award of Merit, and Honorable Mention) will be presented. The artist who is chosen for Best in Show will be awarded a solo exhibition in the Goldmark Cultural Center's John H. Milde Gallery or Norman Brown Gallery.
MEDIA: All work must be primarily ceramics. Mixed media works will be accepted only when clay is the dominant material. Ceramic work must be installed on the wall with a hanging system that securely adheres to the wall. Individual objects must weigh less than 25 lbs. More significant artworks designed to be assembled from multiple parts modularly may be accommodated.
ENTRY IS FREE: No online submission is required; just bring 1 (one) artwork to the Nov. 6 install day at the Goldmark Cultural Center.
Goldmark Gallery Committee members and staff reserve the right to exclude from the exhibition any ceramic works in an unstable condition. Artist must fill out and sign a release form on the installation day. Goldmark Cultural Center does not provide insurance for artists’ work, and Goldmark Cultural Center will retain a 30% commission on all sales. Artist is solely responsible for installing, de-installing, and picking up work at Goldmark Cultural Center.
This exhibition opportunity is only available to artists 18 years of age or older.
About the Juror
Colby Parsons is a Full Professor and Division Head of Visual Arts at Texas Woman’s University in Denton, where he teaches Ceramics and Digital Craft. Parsons has been with TWU Visual Arts for over 26 years. Parsons earned a BPh with a focus in Ceramics at Miami University in Oxford Ohio in 1991, and an MFA in Ceramics from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale Illinois in 1998. Parsons’ work has been shown nationally and internationally at venues including Navy Pier in Chicago, the Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum; the International Ceramic Research Center in Denmark; the Cameron Art Museum in North Carolina; the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Ana, California; the University of Pennsylvania Art Museum; and in Dallas at the Craighead Green Gallery, the Pawn Gallery, and 500X. He was awarded the Zanesville Art Prize in 2015, the largest ceramics prize offered in the Western Hemisphere.
Over the years, Parsons’ work has made use of ceramics, sculpture, projected video, 3D printing, CNC milling, laser cutting, and interactive digital elements. Their current work utilizes algorithmic design software to create a variety of functional and sculptural forms. Though the work employs digital processes including digital fabrication methods, it is rooted in a sense of materiality derived from craft, and usually requires hand working processes for surfacing, finishing, fitting, and in some cases for elements of the form. This work explores the aesthetics of structure, and the stylistic qualities of generative and randomized form creation.
QUESTIONS: Please email all inquiries regarding this call to goldmarkculturalcenter@gmail.com