Theme: NASC’ART, the Art of Speed and Racing
Entries submitted through artcall.org March 15, 2025 – May 15, 2025
The juried exhibit will host a minimum of 36 original pieces of art live at Richmond Raceway in August 2025 for Race Week in the Old Dominion Building. The art that is shown live will also be shown online and will be purchased online through CAC. There will be art that is juried into the exhibit but not shown live and will be shown online only.
Call for Entry Details:
Entries must meet the interpretation of the Theme: NASC’ART, the Art of Speed and Racing
Juried Notification: Sunday, June 1, 2025
Exhibition Opening: TBA
Exhibition End Date: TBA
Unsold pieces should be picked up -- TBA
NASC’ART: The Art of Speed and Racing
From the sleek lines of race cars to the adrenaline-fueled energy of the track, all submissions must connect to the essence of speed, competition, and racing culture. Artists are encouraged to explore this theme in unique and unexpected ways across various media.
We encourage artists to delve into the essence of speed, motion, and competition. This theme celebrates the fusion of art and the exhilarating world of racing, offering opportunities to explore concepts like:
Who Can Enter? Open to all artists working in 2D, 3D, photography, digital art, mixed media, and sculpture. Original Art Only
Call For Entry Dates: March 15, 2025 – May 15, 2025, through artcall.org
Submission Cost: You may enter up to 3 pieces at $20 each “Original Art Only”
Commission: 40% to CAC with 60% going to the artist
10% of the commission will benefit Richmond Raceway Cares, which is the community arm of Richmond Raceway. Through partnerships with hundreds of organizations in Central Virginia, RR hosts special events and has strategic alliances that allow us to give a great deal of financial support to well-deserving groups in the Richmond area.
All Media Juried Exhibit: Media can include almost anything …. photography, pencil, paint or ink, sculpting materials, fabric, glass, wood, and even sound or living people in some cases.
Restrictions: Any use of the NASCAR logo/mark or Richmond Raceway logo/mark needs to be an artistic interpretation of said mark and not the official logo/mark. “Original Art Only”
Who decides whether my entry is included?
Arts professionals are selected from the Richmond vibrant arts community, usually consisting of a gallerist or museum professional, and a working studio artist. The juror will also select the first, second and third place winners.
JUROR: Noah Scalin
Noah Scalin is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is about organizing the noise of American culture into new signals – ones that illuminate the things we should be prioritizing when we’re so easily distracted by the spectacle of our society.
Noah is inspired by the visual cacophony of consumer culture. Images that bombard our senses and objects that clog our landscape become a means for amplifying stories that have been underrepresented, downplayed or ignored.
Noah's interest in magic and optical illusion are incorporated into works that transform the overwhelming chaos of contemporary inputs into explorations of how we identify our place in the world, through the lens of social and environmental justice.
Noah aims to inspire viewers to recognize the possibility of creation and transformation that exists all around us, even when the institutional structures of our society seem overwhelming and fixed in place.
Noah Scalin is the creator of the Webby Award winning project Skull-A-Day and the collaborative science fiction universe & performance art project League of Space Pirates. He was the Grand Prize winner of Artfields 2022 and his collaboration with Old Navy was one of the most viewed commercials of 2020. Noah’s art has been exhibited internationally, including installations in Times Square, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Mütter Museum and multiple solo exhibitions in Krause Gallery in NYC. His work has been commissioned by the Martin Agency, Capital One, and Goodwill; and has been featured in dozens of publications including Fast Company, Hi-Fructose, Juxtapoz, USA Today, The Telegraph, and the New York Times. Noah is the author of six books, a sought after public speaker on creativity and has inaugurated the artist-in-residence role at both Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Business and Old Dominion University’s Strome College of Business. He is also the founder of Another Limited Rebellion an art & innovation consulting firm which he co-runs with his sister. Read More Click Here!
Awards for Entries:
First Place: $300 & Two (2) VIP Experience Passes for August 16, 2025, Cook Out 400 NASCAR Cup Race. Includes - Parking pass, Suite access for (2), VIP credentials, access to Cup garages, Infield Fangrounds, Pre-race pit/grid access, Pre-race driver intro ceremony and post-race winners circle celebration, signing of start/finish line and VIP track laps in pace car and deluxe swag bag.
Second Place: $200 & (2) Torque Club Passes for August 16, 2025, Cook Out 400 NASCAR Cup Race. Includes Parking pass, club access for (2), access to garages, Infield Fangrounds, Pre-race drivers intro ceremony and post-race winners circle celebration, signing of start/finish line and deluxe swag bag.
Third Place: $100 & (2) Reserves Seating Grandstands tickets with Infield Fangrounds access passes for August 16, 2025, Cook Out 400 NASCAR Cup Race. Includes access to garages, Infield Fangrounds, Pre-race drivers intro ceremony and post-race winners circle celebration, deluxe swag bag
How will I know if my entry was selected? You will receive an email via artcall.org by June 1st to let you know if your pieces were selected to be shown Live & Online, Online Only or not selected for the exhibit. If you do not receive an email, you may email us at crossroadsartcenter@gmail.com to find out if your work was selected.
Where will art be displayed: The show will host a minimum of 36 original pieces of art live at Richmond Raceway in August 2025 for Race Week in the Old Dominion Building. The art that is shown live will also be shown online and will be purchased online.
Prints of Art - Important: If your art is selected to be in the exhibition, we suggest having prints available of that piece of art, which can be sold online as well as the original. It is not mandatory, but I think it is a good idea to create more sales.
You may have these prints --
-Set up as printed on demand and then shipped to the customer
-Already printed and ready to ship to customer from you directly
-Already printed and at CAC who will handle shipping to customer
We would need to make the customer aware of lead times either way.
ARTCALL.ORG Guidance
Submission Details for artcall.org:
You will need an artist statement - 200-word limit in first person when you first register in ArtCall.
1. You do not have to create a portfolio site to enter the show.
2. The way you fill out the form is how it will be shown on the labels, awards, and publicity.
a. Name: Use Capital Letters for the first letters of your name.
b. Prices - DO NOT TYPE IN A COMMA. This produces the wrong price. ArtCall will add it automatically
c. Measurements - HEIGHT first, then Width then Depth (H x W x D)
d. Verbiage regarding the piece of art - The character limit is 300!! This is used for all publicity and labels online and in-house. Spellcheck it as well as word count it!
e. FYI - You can go back in and add/edit images and edit text until the call ends.
f. Please double-check all information.
2D IMAGE REQUIREMENTS:
3 images of each piece are required, one of the art without frame, one with frame, and a close detail image (zoomed into a small section of interest). If the art is unframed, only 2 photos are required.
NOTE: if the work is framed, we must have the outside measurements of the frame (H x W x D). Please do not guess. If we do not have the measurements for the art and/or the framed art, your piece will not be considered by the jury. Walls and backgrounds SHOULD NOT SHOW in photos. When taking the digital image please make sure the photo is not at an angle or crooked.
3D IMAGE REQUIREMENTS:
For each 3D, installation, or wearable art entry, submit 3 images: one overall front, one overall rear or sideview, and one detail (zoomed into a small section of interest).
• Detail images must show an important aspect of the artwork. Make sure that both the full-view and detail images are oriented correctly. Please keep backgrounds as unobtrusive as possible.
IMPORTANT: After submitting, please go back in and double check your information. Did you enter the required 2 or 3 photos? Is your price correct? Measurements? Is your statement complete? Too long?
NOTE: You can delete and change photos and change text within each submission up until end-of-call. Do not delete an entire submission and then replace it with a new one--ArtCall will charge you for a new submission!
You can leave this video on your call site's homepage (or embed it on any page) for a quick tutorial your users can watch to help them with the submission process.
