Call for Submissions: Oakville Community and Cultural Centre Galleries
About this call
The Town of Oakville welcomes exhibition proposals from professional, local, emerging artists, instructors, students and culture groups in Oakville and the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, in fine art, craft and digital arts, for temporary public exhibitions in its community and cultural centre galleries. There are three streams sharing the same September 1 deadline. Corridor Galleries at Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre, Trafalgar Park Community Centre, Glen Abbey Community Centre and Oakville Trafalgar Community Centre are free to exhibit in, programmed seasonally in winter, spring and summer, and fall runs of three to four months. The Main Gallery at QEPCCC presents professional work by local artists for a fee, with weekly rental rates and a three week minimum, and may also host national and international artists or proposals from curators and collectives. Youth Corridor Galleries at QEPCCC are free and open to artists aged 11 to 19 from Oakville and the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. Selected artists are contacted roughly two months after the deadline.
Who can apply
- Regional applicants
- Medium: Painting / Drawing / Printmaking / Photography / Sculpture / New Media
- Free entry
- Open to artists and culture groups in Oakville and the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area; priority goes to Oakville based artists and community groups. Artwork must be two dimensional or three dimensional, original, handmade or one of a kind, completed and ready for exhibition; works in progress are not reviewed. Media art and performance art are not accepted. Content must be appropriate for all audiences. Applications are submitted online and must include the completed form, a description of the works, three to 10 JPEG images, an image list, and an artist resume or exhibition history of no more than three pages. Corridor and Youth Corridor exhibitions are free; the QEPCCC Main Gallery charges weekly rental rates of $273.94 to $401.78 for a minimum of three weeks for the September 1, 2026 to August 31, 2027 period.