2025 Children’s Arts Festival
Pepperland Downtown Windows
Would you like to collaborate with a business for the 25th Anniversary of the Children’s Arts Festival? We are looking for artists to paint windows with 60s psychedelic flair. More details to come, so please fill out the form if you would like more info!
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2024 Regional Juried Exhibition
The Arts Council of Southeast Missouri’s Regional Juried Exhibition was developed to provide a forum to demonstrate the diversity of the five-state region, and the artists who live here. We encourage artists to submit works that interpret any aspect of the Southeast Missouri region as well as its bordering localities. Work must interpret the people, places, things, and ideas that are representational of the region. Local educator, roller derby extraordinaire, and artist Bri DeWitt is this year’s Juror.
This exhibition takes place December 2024 through January 2025 but please have your online or physical submission to us by October 26th, 2024.
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Grown Up Book Fair
Scout Hall’s SOLD OUT Grown Up Book Fair this past spring was so much fun! It’s back for fall, and better than ever! We need artists to sell prints so guests can visit the “poster” section of the book fair. 100% of the proceeds go to the artist. Yep, you heard us right- no commission!
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Members Exhibition
The Annual Members Exhibition is our way of saying "thank you", by celebrating and showcasing the work of our members. This exhibit also gives the staff and exhibition committee an opportunity to identify talent for future opportunities with our organization.
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I’m So Local…I’m Right Here
This exhibition aims to celebrate local businesses and local artists through collaboration. Our goal is to showcase talent and ingenuity across the SEMO region, while re-igniting participation in a beloved local tradition: First Friday with the Arts. This once-booming program has seen significant decline in participation since Covid. We believe I’m So Local…I’m Right Here will be an exhibition to encourage downtown businesses to reacquaint themselves with our expansive arts community, and to celebrate the symbiotic relationship between art and commerce. Best In Show, Second, and Third Place will receive gifts from local businesses.
Official graphic by Ash Durrance
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Everyone Belongs Under the Sun
at the AC SEMO Gallery
In celebration of the 2024 Eclipse, we are inviting artists to submit work considering how cosmic events impact cultural change, and our place in the universe in personal, regional, national, and international regards. This exhibition will be a part of eclipse events taking place across the City of Cape Girardeau, under the direction of the Arts Council. Its intent is to use the power of this cosmic event to create cultural advancement in rural communities along the path.
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Reflections: An Exhibition on the Black Experience at May Greene
The Arts Council of Southeast Missouri and South Side Farms, in collaboration with Afrocentric Arts LLC, would like to extend an invitation to black artists of all mediums to submit work to the “Reflections” juried art exhibition. Prizes for the exhibition are made possible by a generous grant from The Simons Foundation. Black artists are encouraged to submit their work for free, and honors will be designated by a juror from the community of South Cape Girardeau, Missouri. In celebration of the 2024 Eclipse, the “Reflection” exhibition invites artists from the 5-state region to express the black experience through the eyes of the artist. From the cosmological origins of ancient Africa to the transcendence of black expression in the 21st century, this show asks artists to mine the interior landscape of their black experience in personal, cultural, and universal contexts. This will also mark a return of visual arts experiences to the neighborhood, which boasts a history rich in the African American tradition. The show will take place at a former school, May Greene, which was the educational foundation of many residents of the area, and has since been reclaimed by the South Side Farms non-profit foundation. Prizes will be awarded in $500, $250, and $100 amounts for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place, respectively.