Crooked Tree Arts Center – Traverse City invites Michigan artists to submit work for Between Us, a juried exhibition.
Between Us explores connection, distance, and everything that exists in the in-between. This exhibition invites artists to reflect on how we reach for one another — and ourselves — across emotional, physical, and imagined spaces. Whether through intimacy or absence, care or tension, humor or vulnerability, the show looks at the invisible threads that link us and the quiet gaps that keep us apart.
Artists are encouraged to interpret the theme broadly: abstract, conceptual, representational, installation, sound, video, textile, photography, ceramics — all media that examine relationship, boundary, memory, or presence are welcome.
Eligibility:
- Open to artists 18 years and older
- Must be a Michigan resident
- All mediums welcome and encouraged
Crooked Tree Members ($10 discount) and Guild Members (FREE!) receive a discount. If you have not received an email with the codes please call 231-941-9488 to get your code. We are unable to refund your application fee once you have submitted.
Key Dates:
Submission Deadline: November 18
Exhibition Dates: January 16 - February 21, 2026
Location: Crooked Tree Arts Center, Traverse City
2D and 3D welcome, please email or call if interested in entering other varieties. ALL work must arrive assembled and be stable for safety concerns. Work may be displayed on pedestals as available or on the floor as appropriate. Diptychs and triptychs are allowed but are to be submitted and priced as one piece (should not be mistaken with multiple pieces from a single series). Works are to have been created and completed within the last three (3) years.
