Application Deadline for entries: Friday March 14, 2025 @ Midnight.
Important Dates
March 14, 2025: All entries due by midnight
April 4, 2025: Acceptance/Rejection emails will be sent
April 30, 2025: Mail delivered artwork due at GoggleWorks
Wed. May 7, 2025: Hand delivered artwork intake
- 10am – 12pm and 3pm – 6pm
Thur. May 8, 2025: Hand delivered artwork intake
- 12pm – 3pm
May 15 – July 20, 2025: Exhibition on-view to public
May 16, 2025: Gallery Reception & Award Ceremony, 6-8pm
July 21 – July 22, 2025: In-Person Artwork Pick-Up
- Times TBD
Week of August 19th, 2025: Artwork shipped back begins
Awards
Exhibition Award – GoggleWorks staff will award a solo exhibition to an artist whose work aligns with the GoggleWorks mission of transforming lives through unique interactions with art for the 2026 exhibition calendar. A $400 stipend will be available to the artist at the time of contract signing.
Awarded by the Juror
Best in Show – $350
First Runner Up – $250
Second Runner Up – $150
Honorable Mention(s) – $50
About the Juror: Nestor Armando Gil
Nestor stacks wood carefully in the spring and summer so that it can cure all autumn and keep the house warm through winter. This does not come naturally to him, a Florida boy born to immigrants from Cuba.
But like all things, stacking wood can be learned – like art.
As an artist, Nestor is materially promiscuous. He works in sculpture, printmaking, drawing, performance and community-based works. Most of the time, no matter the material or discipline, he makes things that will not last, using fragile materials like paper and dead butterflies. The only material to which Nestor is fiercely loyal is ideas. In his own work, this grows from the deeply personal into the political. In the work of others, Nestor lets curiosity drive his looking.
As an art viewer and art thinker, Nestor’s interests are broader still. Painting, sculpture, photography, print, video, drawing, ceramics, textiles – you name it, Nestor is fascinated by the traditional and with nascent practices, the analog and the digital, the monumental and the infinitesimally small. Nothing is off limits. Possibility is everywhere.
College dropout, graduate at 30 (from New College of Florida), high school English and Art History teacher, college art professor (after MFA from Chapel Hill) at Lafayette College: Nestor maintains an artistic and curatorial practice marked with adventure and oddity. He is a devoted fan of music, words, images and forms – and his family, them most of all.
How to Apply
All submissions must be entered via our online submission form. Entrants must create a Submittable username and password, then log in to complete their submission. Applicants are allowed to submit up to three artworks. Images must be in .jpg format – max. 1500×1500 pixels, at 300dpi. Video submissions must be uploaded as MP4. Please label digital submissions file names: LAST NAME_FIRST NAME_TITLE_MEDIUM_DIMENSION. All applicants must submit a 75-200 word artist statement that will be published in the online catalog. Please note that entries will be disqualified for failure to follow the submission guidelines/instructions.