The Town of Halton Hills invites local artists to submit their work for various exhibitions and proposals for public art projects throughout the year. This page provides details on each calls submission guidelines, eligibility criteria, and deadlines, encouraging artists to participate and showcase their talents in the community.
Call Type: Artists of Halton Hills
Square Foot Show and Sale
Exhibition Dates: June 30 until August 17, 2025
Exhibition Location: Upper Level of the Sisnett Lobby
Deadline for Submissions: June 19, 2025
The Helson Gallery in cooperation with Palette and Pencil Plus Guild of Credit Valley Artisans invites artists residing, working, or that belong to a local arts organization in the Town of Halton Hills to submit 1-8 examples of creative work in 2-dimension for the Square Foot Show and Sale.
Eligibility:
This call is open to artists residing or working in Halton Hills or belonging to local artist organizations. Artwork must be on canvas or wood panel measuring 12 x 12 inches or framed under glass measuring 13"x13" to be accepted. Work is required to be ready for hanging – including wiring. Open to any medium, including acrylic, oil, photography, watercolour, etc.
The artist has the freedom to decide how to treat the edges of the canvas. They can choose to paint the edges in a solid color or extend the painting over the edges. The choice of frame colour is also up to the artist.
Submission Guidelines:
Please email Helson Gallery Curator, Kara Bruce kbruce@haltonhills.ca a maximum of eight examples of your work in jpg form, please include details: artist name, title of artwork, and medium no later than June 19.
Art Sales:
Please Note: In line with standard Square Foot Exhibitions, all the artworks will be offered for sale at the same price of $200 ($226 including HST). Amount paid to artist after commission and HST taken is $160. Please state in your submission if you are HST registered.
The Town of Halton Hills will facilitate all sales of art made through the exhibition and arrange payment for the Artist(s) in an agency capacity. Artist(s) must include HST in the list price of artworks. Once a piece of art is sold a 20% commission is charged based on the artist revenue. Artists with registered HST numbers will be charged HST on the 20% commission.