2025 Exhibition Call: Artistic KALEIDOSCOPE
Burl Gallery
The curatorial essence of our 2025 exhibition schedule is Artistic KALEIDOSCOPE.
The term “kaleidoscope” is derived from the Ancient Greek words:
καλός (kalos), “beautiful, beauty”, εἶδος (eidos), “that which is seen: form, shape”,
σκοπέω (skopeō), “to look to, to examine”, hence “observation of beautiful forms”.
The kaleidoscope is a metaphor for ART in a number of ways, including:
Transformation through Perspective:
Just as a kaleidoscope produces different patterns with each turn, it can symbolize how perspective shapes our understanding of reality. It suggests that there are multiple viewpoints and interpretations of the same situation. Each artists perspective is unique to them.
Ever-Changing Possibilities:
The kaleidoscope’s changing patterns and reflections can represent the many creative possibilities out there; and life’s changes that serve as a catalyst for creative shifts that can lead to new and unexpected outcomes. Therein lies the fluidity of life and art.
Diversity & Complexity:
A kaleidoscope’s intricate designs made from various colors and shapes can symbolize the beauty of diversity in society.
It reflects the idea that different backgrounds, experiences, and ideas come together to create a richer, more vibrant whole.
Creativity and Imagination:
The artistic patterns generated by a kaleidoscope can represent creativity. It suggests that creativity arises from the interplay of different elements and that imagination can transform the ordinary into something extraordinary. This is creativity personified.
The Initiative to Sustain Beauty:
The kaleidoscope’s ability to transform broken glass into beautiful patterns can represent the ability to put things back together.
Art inspires us to build a better world. It causes us to long for “something more” and inspires us to pursue it.
Art is proof that “something more” is out there because that “something more” seems to loom behind every artists creation.
In this way, ART has the potential to be very powerful and transformative.
The mind is a magnificent kaleidoscope of limitless creative potential waiting to be seized.
Please join us on this JOURNEY in 2025.
As a small, women led, nonprofit community gallery, our mission is to provide access to exhibition space. This exhibition series intentionally has NO THEME. We believe this encourages exploration & risk-taking in an artists practice and opens up endless possibilities. We are here to showcase an artist’s best work, what they are most proud of or what they are experimenting with.
In addition to no theme, we operate free of submission fees, content regulations, size or medium/material restrictions.
We are here to promote, inspire and enable the creative process. Show us what you’ve GOT!!!
All artists, doing whatever it is they do, are encouraged to apply. Artists can submit one piece per each exhibition cycle.
The exhibitions are juried by rotating industry professionals and curated in response to the submissions accepted.
The Juror will select work for each exhibition based on commonalities found amongst the overall collection of
work submitted, as well as, taking into consideration both the mastery of medium and presentation quality.
Cycle I | Artistic KALEIDOSCOPE
Exhibit Dates: January 25 – March 22, 2025
- Call for Art Opens: 11/1/24
- Call for Art Closes: 12/20/24
- Notifications Sent: 1/5/25
Cycle II | Artistic KALEIDOSCOPE
Exhibit Dates: March 29 – May 31, 2025
- Call for Art Opens: 1/1/25
- Call for Art Closes: 2/25/25
- Notifications Sent: 3/5/25
Cycle III | Artistic KALEIDOSCOPE
Exhibit Dates: June 7 – August 9, 2025
- Call for Art Opens: 3/1/25
- Call for Art Closes: 4/30/25
- Notifications Sent: 5/10/25
Cycle IV | Artistic KALEIDOSCOPE
Exhibit Dates: September 27 – November 15, 2025
- Call for Art Opens: 7/1/25
- Call for Art Closes: 8/25/25
- Notifications Sent: 9/5/25
Gallery Commission: 50%
BURL GALLERY (formerly Argyle Zebra Gallery) is a women led, non-profit, community gallery located in the heart of Lowertown, Saint Paul, MN.
We provide opportunity to artists, in all stages of their careers, for growth, exploration and creative risk-taking.