October 2026 @ Hyphen Space | Fair Park, Dallas

Submit to DAAART’s 3rd Annual Visual Arts Showcase

Click here to apply by 7/31/26, 11:59 PM CST

SUBMISSION PERIOD: 6/1/26-7/31/26

Recontextualize / Romanticize, DAAART’s 3rd annual visual arts showcase, is accepting submissions to our open call! We invite artists throughout the Asian diaspora in Texas to apply! Chosen artists will showcase their work at Hyphen Space at their brand new location!

👼WHO: Asian artists based in Texas

🎨WHAT: 2D & 3D artwork that can be hung or displayed on our walls. At this time we cannot accept 3D work intended to be displayed on floor pedestals. (3D work that can hang from the wall or be displayed on small wall shelves are acceptable.)

💖 This year’s Theme is Recontextualize / Romanticize. We want to take an active role in shaping our communities’ narrative and the image of “Asian American”. To recontextualize is to fundamentally change how an idea, object, or text is understood. We need to recontextualize because the Asian American identity is not a monolith and has been defined by folks who don't think like us, live like us, or see like us. To romanticize is to examine any subject matter at its most idealistic form. To reclaim our narratives, we ask our community to define, reinterpret, and recontextualize romance. Who gets to choose between romanticizer and romanticized? What does romance, and more broadly love, mean within our community?

Find out more about the theme on our application here 🔗 https://forms.gle/jgCWPp5yEbHE7WM8A

Selection Committee and Curatorial Team:

Leili Arai Tavallaei, @at_leili | Leili is a Dallas based multidisciplinary artist, independent curator, and the Director of Fine Arts Programing on the Board of @daaartclub. 

Katherine Lam, @kathilam | Katherine is an Adjunct Professor for Drawing and Painting at UNT, and is an installation artist based in the Tin District.

Adrianna Touch, @adricephiro | Adrianna is a Dallas based contemporary artist, arts educator, and a co-founder of Easyside (@easysidefw)

Transparency & Cost Breakdown: 

Artists will receive 75% of the sale of their work, and Hyphen Space will be donating their 25% curatorial and gallery commission to the Dallas Asian American Art Collective. Sale of artwork is optional!