Call for Art
Wheatgrass Books invites artists, naturalists, hikers, birders, travelers, and visual journal keepers to submit pages from their summer 2026 sketchbooks for Livingston’s November Holiday Art Walk exhibition celebrating the art of nature journaling.
This exhibition centers around sketchbooks as records of a lived season — filled with field notes, trail sketches, handwritten observations, watercolor studies, pressed moments, rehearsal drawings, wildlife sightings, changing weather, roadside stops, backstage scribbles, and fragments gathered over the course of a Montana summer.
A special emphasis will be placed on nature journaling: the practice of documenting the natural world through drawing, writing, mapping, collecting, and close observation. Wildflowers, rivers, insects, birds, mountain light, seed pods, weather patterns, animal tracks, camping notes, and quiet encounters with place are all welcome subjects.
The exhibition will feature small, unframed original works on paper.
We’re Looking For:
- Nature journal pages
- Field sketches and observational drawings
- Watercolor studies
- Botanical and wildlife sketches
- Travel journals
- Visual diaries
- Plein air studies
- Handwritten notes paired with imagery
- Collections of small works or sketchbook excerpts
- Raw process work and unfinished moments
Submission Guidelines:
- Original works on paper created during Summer 2026
- Unframed only
- Small works preferred
- All mediums welcome
- Work should be ready for simple display using binder clips
- Multiple submissions welcome
This exhibition values intimacy, curiosity, observation, and process over perfection. We want to see what you noticed this summer.
For submissions or questions: Lisa at WheatgrassBooks@gmail.com
Part sketchbook. Part field guide. Part memory archive of summer.