Call for Entries: MCASB Satellite at Riviera Beach House

Presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB)

Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB) is please to announces the second year of the re-imagination of the storied Call For Entries exhibition program established by the Contemporary Arts Forum, the precursor to the museum. This call will program the MCASB Satellite at Riviera Beach House with two exhibitions over the course of one year. 

MCASB Satellite at Riviera Beach House, now a partnership between MCASB and the Riviera Beach House, is a two story gallery exhibition space that is free and open to the public daily from 9:00 am to 9:00 pm. Occupying the lower and upper lobbies of the hotel located in the heart of Santa Barbara’s Funk Zone Arts District, the venue presents a dynamic exhibition program that for the first time will be open exclusively to all artists between the great Los Angeles area and the San Francisco Bay area. 

Eligibility: 

• Any artist over the age of 18 living and working in California between and including the greater Los Angeles area through the San Francisco Bay area. 

Due date for the online submission:

• All submissions must be submitted via Artcall.org. 
• Submissions will not be accepted by email or in person. 
• Deadline for submission is Monday June 30th at 11:59pm

Notification date of successful application submission:

• The successful submissions will be notified by email the week of July 14.

Application Fee:

• $100 application fee per artist ($50 reduced application fee for artists living and working in Santa Barbara County only.)

Parameters:

• Artworks may be in any media, but must be wall mounted and secured. There is no accommodation for freestanding sculpture. 
• Please submit 10 images of specific works you would like to exhibit - final exhibition checklist will be determined after a successful application. 
• Please take into consideration that the venue is an operating hotel. Works should be framed, protected, and not be especially fragile or protrude excessively.

We will award two exhibitions (either solo or two person) in this first cycle:

• Exhibition #1: October 2025 - April 2026
• Exhibition #2: April 2026 - June 2026

Each successful exhibition proposal will include:

• 6/7 month duration 
• MCASB Curatorial support
• MCASB & Riviera Beach House Marketing support
• Opening Celebration at MCASB Satellite at Riviera Beach House
• Artist Talk at MCASB Satellite at Riviera Beach House
• Artist Award - $1,000 
• Production Honorarium - $1,000 (e.g. framing, printing, etc.)

2025/26 Jury:

Ana Briz is Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions at the AD&A Museum in UC Santa Barbara. Her research is situated in the field of performance, art, and visual culture in the United States, and focuses on queer, feminist, and anti-racist work by Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) in California. She holds a Ph.D. in American Studies and Ethnicity and an M.A. in Curatorial Practices and the Public Sphere from the University of Southern California and a B.A. in Art History from Florida International University.

Juan Silverio (they/she) is a writer, curator and cultural worker. They are invested in championing and building community with artists, curators, creatives, and cultural workers from LGBTQ+, Black, Indigenous, and communities of color across Tovangaar (Los Angeles) and beyond. Juan currently resides in Los Angeles and is a curatorial assistant at the Hammer Museum. 

Deliasofia Zacarias (she/her) is a writer, curator, and arts administrator whose scholarship focuses on the intersection of art, politics, immersive storytelling, and emerging media and technologies. Currently the CEO & Director’s Office Executive Assistant and Curatorial Fellow at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), she is also a Board Member of the Arts Administrators of Color Network. Deliasofia has held prior roles at LACMA as the Snap Research Fellow for the project LACMA × Snapchat: Monumental Perspectives, and as a LACMA Emerging Art Professional (LEAP) Fellow. While at LACMA, she co-curated the exhibition Painting in the River of Angels: Judy Baca and The Great Wall (2023–2024) and worked on the retrospective exhibition Ed Ruscha/Now Then (2023–2024), co-organized with LACMA and the Museum of Modern Art. Deliasofia holds an MA in Art History from Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, and a BA in Business Administration and Studio Art from Trinity University, San Antonio, TX. 

Lauren Guilford is a curator, art historian, and writer in Santa Barbara. Guilford has a master's in curatorial practices from USC, where she wrote a thesis on the history of alternative art spaces and a bachelor's in art history from UC Santa Barbara. Guilford's writing has been published in Frieze, Artillery, and Speciwomen.

About MCASB:

Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB) seeks to enrich lives and inspire critical thinking through meaningful engagement with the art and ideas of our time. MCASB provides Santa Barbara and the Central Coast with exhibitions and programming that encourage discovery, cultivate new perspectives, and challenge the way we see and experience the world, ourselves, and each other. https://www.mcasantabarbara.org/

MCASB Satellite at Riviera Beach House is located at 121 State Street, Santa Barbara, California.

We are please to announce 2024/25 winners artists now on view: In Motion: Marie McKenzie & Marlene Struss

For additional information please contact hello@mcasantabarbara.org with the subject line: “Call For Entries 2025”

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