Wish You Were Here invites artists to explore the postcard as both format and concept. Rooted in the familiar 5 × 7 size, this unframed exhibit challenges artists to consider how scale, limitation, and intention shape meaning. The postcard is traditionally a vehicle for communication—brief, personal, portable, and sent across distance—and this exhibition asks artists to engage with those ideas while reimagining what a postcard can be.

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Artists are encouraged to think beyond the postcard as an image alone and consider it as a message, a memory, a fragment, or an invitation. What does it mean to compress a place, an emotion, or a story into a small, deliberate space? How does working within 5 × 7 influence material choices, narrative, and viewer interaction? Submissions may be literal or abstract, intimate or bold, nostalgic or experimental.

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All media are welcome, including painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, collage, mixed media, fiber, sculpture, and conceptual works, provided the final piece adheres to the 5 × 7 dimensions. Works may be two- or three-dimensional, wall-mounted or freestanding, as long as they clearly reference or inhabit the postcard format. We require that all works be unframed for this exhibit!

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Wish You Were Here celebrates the power of small-scale works—art that functions as correspondence, capturing a moment, a place, or a feeling, and offering it to the viewer as something meant to be shared.

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Accepted Media
All visual and interdisciplinary media are welcome, including but not limited to:

• Painting, drawing, printmaking

• Photography, digital art

• Textile, mixed media

• Wood, sculpture ​

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Submission Requirements

• Up to 3 submissions

• Artwork title(s), medium, size (unframed), year

• Short artist statement (max 250 words)

• Bio (max 150 words)

• Contact information​

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Selection Process
Works will be selected based on conceptual strength, relevance to the theme, and artistic quality.