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.

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