Call for Art

In celebration of the Livingston Fringe Festival, IN THE WINGS invites artists to explore the world behind the curtain.

From rehearsals and costume changes to stagehands, set builders, lighting cues, script notes, dressing rooms, and quiet moments before the lights come up, this exhibition celebrates the unseen architecture of performance. We are seeking artwork inspired by the people, spaces, rituals, and transformations that live just outside the spotlight.

Painters, photographers, printmakers, sculptors, mixed-media artists, and installation artists are invited to submit work that captures theater as process—its labor, vulnerability, anticipation, collaboration, and becoming.

What stories unfold in the wings? Who makes the magic possible? What happens before an audience ever takes their seat?

IN THE WINGS will open August 28th with an opening reception during the Livingston Art Walk.

How to Participate: Interested artists should contact Lisa at WheatgrassBooks@gmail.com for details and participation guidelines.

Foodies: From Harvest to Feast
A Wild Celebration of Land, Food, and Community

Exhibition Opening September 25

Food tells stories. It connects us to place, memory, family, tradition, and season.

Artists are invited to explore the beauty and character of food in all its forms—from raw ingredients and garden harvests to finished dishes and treasured recipes. All mediums are welcome: sketches, watercolor studies, paintings, prints, mixed media works, and visual journals featuring fruits, vegetables, breads, preserves, kitchen tools, table settings, handwritten recipe cards, canning jars, heirloom dishes, and the well-loved objects that popular our cupboards and tables.

This exhibition is a celebration of land, food, and community. Take tot he fields and woods, spend time beside a river, on the grounds of a farm, or in your own garden. Spend a day in the kitchen. Share a meal shaped by what our landscape has to offer. Celebrate the people who grow, gather, prepare, preserve, and share food. Explore the stories embedded in ingredients, recipes, and traditions passed from one generation to the next.

Whether your inspiration comes from a farmers market, a grandmother’s pantry, a summer garden, or a favorite meal shared with friends, Foodies celebrates the artistry found in everyday nourishment and the connections forged around the table.

Join us for the September 25 Art Walk opening reception during Art Week Park County, featuring a tasting table of locally produced jams, breads, cheese, butter, pickles, ferments, and other seaonal specialties.

How to Participate: Interested artists should contact Lisa at WheatgrassBooks@gmail.com for details and participation guidelines.

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.