
From the producers of Out of Sight, Museum of Museums and Bumbershoot Arts + Music Festival and in partnership with the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe comes Cannonball Arts – a new contemporary art center in the heart of downtown Seattle. Occupying 66,000 sq. feet. Cannonball Arts exhibits and celebrates artists working across disciplines, mediums and genres.
Open Call!
In preparation of our 2025 opening, we are excited to announce our first 20 calls for West Coast artists and curators.
We do open calls differently. As an idea-based art center, we are looking for bold and unconventional ideas, and celebrate mediums and genres often passed by. Renderings and budgets are valuable, but we are more interested in your ability to communicate your ideas and the quality of your vision. We want to show the works that other institutions won’t and elevate under-represented talents across the wide spectrum of creative self-expression.
Be wildly creative, ideate your project clearly, show proof of your ability to execute and share with us your boldest dreams. Winners will be selected to move forward within 30 days of the posted deadline.
You are invited to submit to as many open calls as you’d like. Please review the following prompts and use the form linked here to submit each individual application.
Individual Project Proposals Due Dates:
GROUP 2: Applications 4-10: Feb 15
GROUP 3: Applications 11-17: March 15
GROUP 4: Applications 18-20: Open
These dates apply to our debut collection at Cannonball.
Questions? Please reach out to proposals@cannonballarts.com
There is no version of a great city with a declining artist population. Cannonball Arts exists to elevate, fortify, exhibit and celebrate the artists that call the Pacific Northwest home. It stands as a testament to the vitality of our creative community and a call to action to support our regional artists through participation, patronage, philanthropy and mentorship. Integral to the mission and operations of Cannonball Arts is our Workforce Development Program, training and mentoring the next generation of arts and music producers, curators and entrepreneurs. Third Stone, our non-profit partner, will use the art center as classroom, with paid internships to train, mentor and employ the next generation of arts producers in the region’s creative economy.