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        • Black,white,gray
        • Duets Too-Project Space 7
        • Flower Power-Project Space6
        • On the Grid-Solo Project Space 4
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        • The Big Small Show 2025
        • Home/Project Space 3
        • Formless/Photo Project Space
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        • Right Now It's All Yellow
        • Material Wonder/Hatikvah Collective
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        • The Big Small Show 2024
        • ONE PEACEABLE KINGDOM
        • Color, Shape, Line
      • 2023 >
        • The Big Small Show 2023
        • The Unbearable Lightness-Love of the Body
        • NJ & Me Imperfect Together
        • Tall Tales and Other Truths
      • 2022 >
        • Ani Rosskam and Bill Leech: A Wonderful World
        • Public Art Projects
      • 2021 >
        • Dvora p.2
        • Dvora p.1
      • 2020 >
        • David & Beatrice: Hands and Other Symbols. The Work of David W. Cummings and Beatrice M. Mady
        • Take Home a Work of Art Fundraiser 2020
        • Art Fair 14C
        • Dvora
      • 2019 >
        • The Big Show: All Animals Welcome
        • Cosmic Love
        • Just Beneath the Surface
        • Let Me Tell You A Story
        • Somewhere We Landed
        • Art Fair 14C 2019
      • 2018 >
        • Now Ya See it Now Ya Don’t / Open and Shut / Sneak Peek/ Not Ready for Prime Time / This is Not the Grand Opening: Drawing Rooms Presents Artists of the Topps Building
        • Somewhere Over The Interconnected Rainbow and Prospero's Grand St. Masque
        • Drawing Rooms Art Project: JC to AC
      • 2017 >
        • The Big Small Show 2017
        • Honoring Margaret & Sup-A-Genius
        • NJCU MFA Dress Rehearsal
        • The Can-Man Show
        • The Innocence of Trees
        • Bold and Beautiful
      • 2016 >
        • THE BIG SMALL Show 2016
        • State of the Union
        • Pin It Up
        • ReUse, ReDuce, RePurpose: The Art of ReFuse
        • New Drawing, New Jersey
        • The Nature of Things
        • Project Rooms Show 2016
      • 2015 >
        • THE BIG SMALL SHOW 2015
        • The Divine and Sublime
        • Mostly Drawing
        • Color Rules
        • Little Hand
        • Paper Constructions
        • Project Rooms Show 2015
      • 2014 >
        • THE BIG SMALL SHOW 2014
        • Duets
        • Drawing of the Wall
        • There to Here
        • Automatic Systematic
        • Pictures of Everything
        • Just Looking
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        • THE BIG SMALL PAINTING SHOW 2013
        • Raw Drawing
        • Multiplicities
        • Night and Day
      • 2012 >
        • Subjective Objective
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        • Pin It Up at Mana Contemporary
        • VAP at Warburg Realty
        • Victory Arts Projects at Mack-Cali Atrium
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        • Victory Arts Projects at The Beacon
        • 545 Washington
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    • The Art Project
    • Rewriting Herstory
    • Prayers for the Pandemic Project
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      • JC Library Project
      • Installment One
    • Rainbow Thursdays Artists >
      • The Can-Man Show Artworks
    • Victory Hall Press
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    • Sustaining Donor
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INfo: Drawing Rooms Solo Project space #8

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Drawing Rooms Solo Project Space #8
Exhibition Dates 9/10/26 - 10/11/26
Deadline: 8/11/26
application closed


Exhibition Dates 9/10/26 - 10/11/26
*Opening Reception Saturday, 9/12/26, 6-8p
*Meet The Artists Sundays, 9/20/26 9/27/26, 3-5p,
*Closing Reception Sunday 10/11/26 4-6p  ​

SPACE see site-plan below
or see images at https://www.drawingrooms.org/call-solo-project-space-7.html  
ACCEPTABLE WORKS 
  • 2-dimensional works that are unframed, framed, or mounted on cradled panel as well as 3-dimensional works will be considered. Please make sure any unframed paper works are durable enough to be exhibited with clips. We will not accept ripped, torn, wrinkled, or otherwise damaged or overly fragile paper.
  • Media:  painting or drawing on paper, canvas, or other media; collage or textiles, photography, prints, sculpture. Works must be original. No AI or reproductions of original works.
  • All works must be For Sale.

HANGING PREPARATION

Please use simple frames in white, black, or wood tones, no floating acrylic frames. All works must be ready-to-hang. Works can be hung from picture wire (not fishing line), D-rings, saw-tooth hangers, or the top of the frame or cradled panel. Please self-assess if your frame is strong enough for this. Cleats or any hanging systems that require the use of screws in the wall are not acceptable. 

Works that present hanging problems may not be included in the exhibit. 
SALE OF ARTWORK
All works in the exhibit must be for sale 
with 60% to artists and 40% to Drawing Rooms. 
Submissions Due 8/11/26

ARTIST NOTIFICATION 8/16/26
Please remember to check your spam and promotions folder. If you haven't received a notification by 8/17/26, please check the status of your submission in CAFE. Accepted works will be listed as "invited."
Accepted work may be delivered by yourself or someone you assign. Our entrance is on Newark Avenue. Drivers: turn into Mana/Topps building driveway. Free parking lot.
DROP OFF
Fri 8/28/26, 5-7p, Sat, 8/29/26, 2-5p, Sun 8/30/26 3-5p

MAIL-IN
Must ARRIVE by Monday, 8/31/26
SHIPPING REQUIREMENTS
Shipping to be arranged with director. Send to the Drawing Rooms location listed below. 

PICKUP
Sun, 10/11/26 6-7p, Mon, 10/12/26 4-7p
MAIL BACK
Starts Mon, 10/12/26

A layout of the Project Space can be found at the Site Plan area of the application.
Artists will also be considered for inclusion in our other programs, such as The Art Project JC lobbies, and online Artsy.net exhibits throughout the year.

Drawing Rooms will feature selected works from this exhibition for sale on Artsy.net
See: https://www.artsy.net/partner/drawing-rooms 

Drawing Rooms is a nonprofit art space and gallery in the Topps Building on the Mana Complex in the Journal Square neighborhood in Jersey City. We show two and three-dimensional works by emerging and mid-career artists in NJ and the NY metropolitan area, as well as nationally and internationally. Our innovative and exciting exhibitions, public programs and publications enrich the lives of our community through an appreciation of and involvement with contemporary art.

Drawing Rooms art gallery at the Mana Contemporary complex in Jersey City is a project of Victory Hall Inc., a 501c3 non-profit organization producing exhibitions, programs, and public art projects in the NJ/NY area with a national and international reach since 2001. www.drawingrooms.org

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EXHIBITION LOCATION 
Drawing Rooms
926 Newark Ave. T101
Jersey City NJ, 07306
Closest PATH stop is Journal Sq
Free parking lot. Entrance is on Newark Avenue. 
Drivers: turn into Mana/Topps building driveway.

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This program Is made possible by a grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a division of the Department of State, and administered by the Hudson County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs/Tourism Development, Craig Guy, Hudson County Executive & the Hudson County Board of County Commissioners

Location

DRAWING ROOMS
​Topps Building
​926 Newark Ave #T101

Jersey City, NJ 07306
Gallery Hours-
Th/Fri 4-7p, Sat/Sun 2-6p
Park in Topps/Mana lot free.
Enter on Newark Ave.

THE ART PROJECT
• 172 2nd St, JC
• Art House 148 1st St, JC
• The Oakman 160 1st St, JC
• Hamilton House:
   255 Brunswick St, JC

Ph: (201) 208-8032
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E: [email protected]
​W: www.drawingrooms.org

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Accessibility
Victory Hall Inc/Drawing Rooms is committed to providing programming that is accessible to all. We are working to ensure full accessibility at all our venues. Please contact James Pustorino with any questions at (201) 208-8032. 

​View our Accessibility page.

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