CALL FOR ART: “Her Wild Becoming”

About the Exhibition

The San Diego Art Directory, in collaboration with Hera Hub Carlsbad, invites artists to submit work for Her Wild Becoming, an exhibition exploring transformation, identity, instinct, and the forces within us that refuse to remain still.

What happens when the part of us that has been contained begins to move?

In Her Wild Becoming, “Her” is not one woman or one fixed identity.

Her is an energy.

An instinctive, creative, restless force that exists beneath the roles, expectations, identities, and versions of ourselves we learn to carry.

And “wild” does not mean wilderness.

It means uncontained.

It is the energy that emerges when intuition becomes louder than expectation. When an old identity no longer fits. When something ends and something unnamed begins. When we allow ourselves to change without knowing exactly what we are changing into.

Becoming can happen through aging, desire, motherhood, illness, healing, migration, grief, love, loss, freedom, reinvention, creativity, or simply the realization that the person we have been is no longer the whole story.

Sometimes becoming means expansion.

Sometimes it means shedding.

Sometimes it means breaking apart.

Sometimes it means returning to something that was there all along.

This exhibition asks artists to consider:

What does becoming feel like?

Artists are invited to interpret the theme expansively through portraiture, figurative work, landscape, symbolism, organic forms, movement, texture, fragmentation, memory, the body, or other visual languages.

We invite artwork that explores the experience, tension, movement, and energy of transformation.

Works may be bold or quiet, beautiful or uncomfortable, intimate or expansive, resolved or uncertain.

This exhibition is about the complicated space between who we have been and who we are becoming.

Artists of all backgrounds and identities are welcome.

Eligible Art:

• Only wall-hanging artwork is accepted.
• All mediums are welcome.
• The size is not to exceed 48″ on the longer side (or in diameter for circle or irregular shape artworks).
• Since the artwork will be installed on a drywall in a co-working space, the weight of the artwork is a consideration for safety. Unusually heavy artworks will be juried out.
• All work must be wired and ready to hang or exhibit (no sawtooth hangers; unwired work will be juried out)

Entry Fees

• $22 for up to two pieces
• $35 for up to four pieces

Entry fees cover organizing and curating costs and do not guarantee inclusion in the exhibition.

Important Details:

• Submission Deadline: October 26, 2026
• Announcements of selected work: November 2, 2026
• Exhibition Dates: November 2026 – June 2027
• Art drop off: November 10-12, 2026 | 9 AM – 5 PM
• Installation Day: November 13 (to be confirmed)
• Viewing Hours: Monday – Friday | 9 AM – 5 PM
• Location: Hera Hub Carlsbad, 5938 Priestly Dr. Ste 103, Carlsbad, CA 92008
• Opening receptions: To Be Announced

Pro-Artist Sales Model:

Artists retain 90% of artwork sales.

The remaining 10% supports the programs of San Diego Art Directory.

Submission Deadline: October 26, 2026

This exhibition is not about retreating from reality, but about honoring the spaces that help us remain human within it.

How to Enter

1. Register and pay your entry fee through Eventbrite.
2. Check your confirmation email! Inside, you will find the link to the Artist Intake Form.

• This is where you must upload your artwork images and provide artist details.
• If you don’t see the email within 10 minutes, check your spam/junk folder. The subject line will include: “Event Registration Confirmation.”

📩 Still don’t see it?

Please contact g.semenova@sandiegoartdirectory.com for assistance. All artist communications are handled through the San Diego Art Directory. For this call, Hera Hub Carlsbad is unable to provide submission support.

Please note: All submissions will be reviewed by the curatorial team. Entry fees do not guarantee acceptance into the exhibition.