NASHUA, NH – Nashua Community Arts has put out the official Call to Artists for the 2025-26 season at the Sandy Cleary Community Art Gallery at the Nashua Center for the Arts.
As a community art gallery, the exhibitions are open to student, emerging and recognized visual artists who live or work in Nashua, or are members of the Nashua Area Artists Association or the Hollis Arts Society.
The Gallery holds three rotating exhibitions annually, for four months each rotation. All artists who desire to exhibit must submit the application form online at www.nashuacommunityarts.org/gallery.
The Sandy Cleary Community Art Gallery Selection Committee will evaluate all applications and select the artists to exhibit in the rotation from August through November. The committee will forward the applications to the Nashua Area Artists Association to select the artists for the December 2025, through March 2026 rotation. The current April through July rotation is reserved for the student art exhibit managed by the Nashua School District.
There is no application fee, and no commission charged for artwork sold from the exhibitions.
“As a community gallery the selection process is focused on art that is representative of and interesting to members of the community, noted Carol Robey, Gallery Curator, and chair of the Selection Committee
Nashua Community Arts and the Nashua Arts Commission are collaborating to provide management of the Gallery for Spectacle Live, the operator of the Nashua Center for the Arts.
The mission of the nonprofit Nashua Community Arts includes supporting the Nashua Center for the Arts to ensure it is a community cultural facility that enhances quality of life, serves a resource and gathering place for the community and links the arts and cultural activities to the community at large, making them accessible to all. The Nashua Arts Commission includes support of the Nashua Center for the Arts in its Arts and Culture Plan adopted by the Board of Aldermen in 2022.
The Nashua Center for the Arts, managed by Spectacle Live, is located at 201 Main Street in downtown Nashua, NH. For program schedules, tickets and additional information go to www.nashuacenterforthearts.com