CALC Members’ Sales Gallery
Shop local and support your local artists! CALC’s Member Sales Gallery is open 12 months a year and features an ever changing variety of photography, fine art, plein air and local scenes, jewelry and ceramics reflecting the talent of our community.
All current members are welcome to show and sell their work through the Gallery at CALC. Please click here for the Membership Guidelines. Exhibit opportunities are available 12 months a year, including the Members’ Show in February and the Art for the Holidays exhibit in November and December. Members can contact Gallery Director, Abria Donato for more information. Please click here for the Member Sales Gallery Inventory Sheet.
The Upper Gallery at CALC (second floor) is available for private exhibits and special events. CALC welcomes ideas for special hangings and shows on an ongoing basis.
Main exhibits in the first floor, G.B. Stuart Gallery, are juried one to two years in advance. CALC accepts and reviews applications bi-annually. If you would like to be notified when it is posted to the site, please contact us.
Call for Entries
CALC’s Annual January Juried Exhibit
Joy Overcoming
Exhibit Dates Jan 10- Feb 1, 2025
Submission Deadline: Friday, October 25, 2024
Seeking work from artists in all mediums. Open to members and non-members.
Tuning into the news or social media can sometimes feel like a never-ending stream of bad news. It’s easy to get down, so seeking happiness becomes so important in keeping us moving forward. Radical joy is a concept embraced by LGBTQIA+ and Black communities as well as climate activists to keep themselves and their communities motivated and inspired by upholding stories of positivity, grace, and happiness in the face of adversity- a practice all of us can benefit from.
In this exhibit we seek to showcase a full spectrum of joy. For artists and others, the very act of creating can bring us happiness. Share with us your joys big or small or share what inspires that joy. What keeps you moving forward when times get hard?
Click here for the entry form and guidelines.
Use the button below to pay the entry fee.
Annual Members’ Exhibit
Call for Art!
CALC’s 20th Annual Members Show
Amethyst: Exploring the Facets of the Color Purple
Exhibit Dates: February 14- March 15, 2025
Drop-off Dates: Tuesday January 28- Saturday February 1
All members are invited to create up to two purple pieces in any medium!
Purple is not a color found commonly in nature, but it can be found in fruits, flowers and precious gemstones. Think grapes, plums, echinacea, or our exhibit title- amethyst. Amethyst is a beautiful purple stone that can range in hue from light lavender to deep royal purple. It is the birth stone for the month of February and is associated with peace, clarity, and spirituality.
Purple’s rarity makes the color mysterious and inspiring which may have led to the color’s close association with spirituality. Purple represents creativity, ambiguity, extravagance, vanity, wealth, pride, independence, dignity, and curiosity. Philosophically, purple is a combination of vibrant red and calm blue, and therefore balances both qualities.
Purple’s first appearance in art is in cave paintings in France dating back to the Neolithic period. Early humans used manganese and hematite powder to draw animals and outline their hands on cave walls. Later, the color became associated with royalty due to the notoriously expensive dye required to make purple garments until a synthetic version was invented in the 1800’s.
Click here for the entry form and guidelines.
CALC is hosting the Souls Shot Project in April-Mary 2025. Email the project coordinators to express interest in participating as an artist, or as a family member of someone who was lost to gun violence.
Exhibit Terms & Policies
Off-Site exhibit opportunities
ALLENBERRY, The Barn Restaurant, 1559 Boiling Springs Road, Boiling Springs, 17007
Ten to fifteen pieces
Generally reserved for teaching, visiting, or artists in residence.
Artists selection process through CALC
6 month rotation.
BOSLER MEMORIAL LIBRARY, 158 W. High Street
The Bosler Library’s recent renovation included an exhibition space where CALC exhibits group shows of its members. Every two months a new theme is presented. Contact CALC for more information on dates and themes.
Guidelines for exhibiting at Bosler Library:
1. Membership of CALC required.
2. Sign-up is on first-come, first-serve basis for 25 show slots. To sign up contact Abria Donato at adonato.calc@gmail.com
3. Only two-dimensional work is accepted. It must be suitably matted and framed (wrapped canvas also acceptable) with an attached wire for hanging. Please no clip hooks.
4. Sales and sales tax will be handled by CALC, which retains 35% commission.
Access PT (formerly Cardin & Miller), 290 E. Pomfret Street, Carlisle, PA 17013
Eight to sixteen pieces depending on size.
Rotation 4 - 6 months.
CARLISLE BOROUGH HALL, 53 W. South Street, Carlisle, PA
Collaborative/community focused artwork
CASTLERIGG WINE SHOP, 110 S. Hanover Street
11 - 14 pieces in the seating area.
Rotation: 4 months
Carlisle Area Chamber of Commerce, 801 S Hanover St, Carlisle, PA 17013
7-10 pieces
4 month rotations
DENIM COFFEE, 1 South Hanover St.
4 medium sized pieces on one wall.
Rotation: 4 Months
Helena’s Chocolate Cafe & Creperie, 36 West High Street, Carlisle PA 17013
6-8 pieces
4 month rotations
King's Gap Mansion, 500 Kings Gap Road, Carlisle PA 17015
20-25 pieces. Three 2-month rotations (May/June, July/August, September/ October) with 3-4 artists exhibiting per rotation. Each artist provides 7 -10 pieces depending on the number of artists participating.
NEW LIFE COMMUNITY CHURCH, 64 E North Street, Carlisle, PA 17013
Collaborative/community focused artwork.