Chosen Families

Chosen Families

July 9 – August 7, 2026

Juried by Yorgos Efthymiadis,  Founder of the Curated Fridge Gallery

Submission Deadline *DEADLINE EXTENDED | Monday, June 8 at 11:59pm EST

Opening Reception | Thursday, July 9 from 6-8pm

About Chosen Families | Chosen Families is open to all New England artists 18+ and welcomes work that explores the many ways we define and build family within and beyond traditional structures. Artists are invited to approach the idea of chosen family from personal, cultural, or conceptual perspectives. Submissions may reflect relationships rooted in care, affinity, and shared experience, whether formed through friendship, community, identity, or circumstance. These works may consider themes of belonging, support, resilience, and the spaces where connection is created and sustained.

All visual media will be considered, including 2D, 3D, and video. Artwork will be presented at Kathryn Schultz Gallery (25 Lowell Street).

About the Juror

YORGOS EFTHYMIADIS 

Yorgos Efthymiadis is a visual artist and an independent curator from Greece who resides in Somerville, MA. He is a 2025 Foster Prize Winner (Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston) and a recipient of Collective Futures Fund 2025 Grant (The Warhol Foundation). Efthymiadis is a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow (2025, 2017), a St. Botolph Club Foundation Fellow (2017), and was represented by Gallery Kayafas until its closure in 2024.

Efthymiadis finds it very fulfilling to help fellow photographers and give back to the photographic community. He has served as a board member of Somerville Arts Council and Chair of the Visual Arts Fellowship Grants from 2017 to 2025, and has been a reviewer for the Lenscratch Student Prize since 2023.

In 2015 he created a gallery in his own kitchen, titled The Curated Fridge. The idea behind this project is to celebrate fine art photography and connect photographers with established and influential curators, gallerists, publishers and artists from around the world through free, quarterly curated calls. During its 11 years of exhibitions, The Curated Fridge has featured more than 1500 artists in 45 shows juried by 50 guest curators.

First Name Last Name City State Instagram Website Title Media Dementions Price
Alina Balseiro Medford MA alinabalseiroart alina.photo 201 days archival inkjet print 24″ x 35″ $950
Todd Danforth Watertown MA @toddjosephdanforth toddjdanforth.com Mary Oishi at 70 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, January 2026 Archival Inket Print 15″ x 20″ $1,500
Mav Fernandez Lawrence MA @mavvro mavvro.com Chosen Family 2 Photography 20″ x 20″ $250
Yildiz Grodowski Somerville MA @yildizgrodowski yildizgrodowski.com Mama’s Garden Was Blue Acrylic/Mixed Media 30″ x 24″ $2,500
Nasiri Guzman Boston MA @nasirisartpage   Abrazos De Maderas Oil on Canvas 24″ x 48″ $1,200
Elizabeth Hopkins Boston MA @eahopkinsphotography eahopkinsphotography.com After Cribbage Archival pigment print 24″ x 16″ $600
Jessie James Medford MA
@jessiejames.photo
   Mama Bird Archival Inkjet Print 24″ x 27″ $1,200
Corey Jones Boston MA @coreyjonze coreyjonze.com Keep on Moving Upwards My Brother / Keep on Moving Forward My Brother Acrylic on canvas, diptych 48″ x 48″ $3,600
Melba Juez-Perrone Massachusetts, United MA @melba.jp melbajuezperrone.com Seeking Home oil on canvas 30″ x 40″ $4,000
Hadis Karami Chelsea MA
@hadistourikarami
   You’re Home! Mixed media 6.5′ x 5′ $8,500
Jacob Keven Somerville MA @kevandcob kevandcob.com Pride No. 51 Secondhand textiles (natural and synthetic), polyester thread, mounted on a wooden frame 48″ x 12″ $700
Benjamin Kleinman-Eddy Jamaica Plain MA @b.e_n_n_y bennyke.myportfolio.com Protect Our Flock Filet crochet 15″ x 36″ $500
Isa Lagan Natick MA @isalaganart isalagan.com/home.html Driftwood, 2026 ceramic, spray paint, air plants 20.5″ x 13″ x 38″ $650
Timothy Hyunsoo Lee Somerville MA @timmyhlee timmyhlee.com gajok sajin (cometboy as a sitter for a family portrait) Treated Korean silk, gold leaf, acrylic, inkjet print on paper, iridescent watercolor, and image transfer on paper; cut and collaged onto canvas 48″ x 48″ $15,000
Robin MacDonald-Foley Stoughton MA @stoneskystudio robinjmf.com The Shroud With Amber Offering Marble, Wonderstone (vessel), Amber Nuggets 8.5″ x 5″ x 8.5″ $1,800
DaNice D Marahall Braintree MA @danice_d_marshall danicedmarshall.com My Three Sons in the City textured acrylic 36″ x 30″ $6,200
Iaritza Menjivar Saugus MA @iaritzamenjivar iaritza.com Roots In My Garden Photography 15″ x 10″ $250
Mark O’Grady Lynn MA     Aways With Us Gouache, Watercolor, Graphite on Paper 30″ x 22″ $1,300
Anagha Prasan-Hanna Waltham MA   anaghaprasan.com Forged in tapestry Gouache on paper 21″ x 30″ $1,600
Chloe Ronco Norwood MA @Chloes.archives chloeroncophotography.com Tribute Digital Inkjet Print 24″ x 16″ $650
Andrea Saltzman Cambridge MA @andreasaltzman andreasaltzman.com Belonging Oil on canvas 36″ x 48″ $3,000
Robert Siegelman Boston MA @robertsiegelman robertsiegelman.com Bill and Anjo Digital Photographic Print 13″ x 19″ $1,300
Robert Siegelman Boston MA @robertsiegelman robertsiegelman.com “Josh and Josh” Digital Photographic Print   $1,300
Karl Stephan Somerville MA @karlstephanstudio karlstephanstudio.com I Am That I Am Oil on Mounted Paper 9″ x 12″ $235
Lorraine Sullivan Arlington MA   ms.sullivan2comcast.net Family Book Design 12″ x 8″ $3,500
Betsy Weisberg Newburyport MA @betsyweisbergceramics betsyweisberg.com 1 Stratified porcelain 10″ x 6″ x 5″ $400
Andrija Zekovic Medford MA @newimage04 andrijazekovic.com Untitled Oil on canvas 48″ x 60″ $1,000

IMPORTANT DATES

  • Submission Deadline  *DEADLINE EXTENDED | Monday, June 8 at 11: 59pm EST

  • Artist Notification | Friday, June 12– all accepted artists will be posted on this webpage.

  • Opening Reception | Thursday, July 9 from 6-8pm

  • Exhibit Dates | July 9 – August 7, 2026

  • Artwork Drop-off | Tuesday, June 30 and Wednesday, July 1, from 12 – 4pm at the Kathryn Schultz Gallery  (Artwork cannot be shipped. Late deliveries will not be accepted.)

  • Artwork Pick-up | Tuesday, August 11 and Wednesday, August 12 from 12 – 4pm at the Kathryn Schultz Gallery (Late pick-ups will incur a $15 per-week fee. All fees must be paid before or at pick-up.)

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

  • All mediums accepted: 2D, 3D and video work
  • All artwork must be listed as for sale.
  • Artwork must have been created within the past five (5) years.
  • Work must be original, no reproductions.
  • All work submitted must be available for the exhibition dates.
  • All wall-mounted work must be wired or have D-rings for hanging (or note method of presentation upon entry). We do not accept sawtooth hangers.
  • Diptychs/triptychs are considered as a single work and must be entered as a single JPEG.
  • Artwork must not exceed 72 inches on the longest side.
  • Total weight of wall-mounted work must not exceed 50lbs.
  • Artwork must be gallery ready. Read all of our Art Entry Information.
  • All artworks must be dropped off on the scheduled dates.
3D WORK REQUIREMENTS
  • Total weight of 3D work must not exceed 100lbs.
  • CAA does not accept any ceiling-hanging artworks, due to structural concerns of the space
  • Wall-mounted 3D work should be wired for hanging, artists must supply appropriate installation materials.
  • The CAA has a limited number of pedestals. Pedestals can be reserved with CAA Staff upon acceptance. If artwork requires a pedestal of a specific size, the pedestal must be provided by the artist.
VIDEO REQUIREMENTS
  • For accepted video work, the artist is responsible for providing all necessary display and viewing equipment, including, but not limited to: display monitor, DVD player, USB drive, mounting hardware, remote controls, batteries.

APPLICATION FEES

Each artist can submit up to three artworks. Collaborators or collectives, please apply together.

  • General Submission | $45
  • CAA Artist + Associate Artist + Lifetime Members | $35
  • Student Members + Fee Waivers | Free
APPLY HERE

Have questions? If you have questions after reviewing the above information, please email Associate Director Anna Fubini at afubini@cambridgeart.org, or call us at 617.876.0246

Cambridge Art Association does not issue refunds for exhibition applications. Once submitted, changes cannot be made to any application. All applications must be entered via Submittable.

All decisions/selections are made by the juror. All decisions are final

Image is header courtesy of Yorgos Efthymiadis