Viva Fall River

Creative Catalysts Exhibition: Call for Art
2026-06-09 10:00 - 2026-07-31 10:00 (America/New_York) | Groundwork New Bedford, 1213 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA, 02740
Through visual art, literary arts, music, and multi-media the exhibition will use a lens of literature to to “see” new perspectives.

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Creative Catalysts displays the amazing interplay of unique pairings and perspectives from artists working in a broad assortment of artistic mediums. Our theme this year – the lens of literature – asks artist pairs to choose a work of literature and shape work resulting from its inherent questions and search for answers.
The exhibition will take place at GroundWork Gallery Saturday, October 3rd – Sunday, November 29.
Creative Catalysts presents how viewpoints and creative work transform when connected to a wide pool of inspiration. How does your work change through collaboration? Is that change obvious to others? How will you reflect on the experience when it is over?
Each artist contributes their own work to the exhibit, displayed visually in a shared space with the partner’s work. Prior to creating the individual works, the partner pair chooses a piece of literature – of any genre – to reference as source, inspiration, or framework. Then chat and meet with your partner over the course of the summer and early fall to brainstorm and share creative process ideas. Inspire each other through conversation and ideas from your book, story, poem, or play!
Register for the show either solo – and we’ll help find you a partner – or as a team (though each individual artist should still register, indicating they are part of a team). Both June 9th and July 14th Artists Share!, which meets the 2nd Tuesday of each month, will have special brainstorming, creative exercises, and project discussion to help you find partners if you need one and/or talk out where your new work might go.
You can review last year’s Creative Catalysts digital exhibition at Midoricreativity.com!
Register by reserving a ticket and completing the form that you will receive via email upon registration. Both steps must be completed in order to be considered for the exhibition. The deadline to register is July 31.
This program is supported in part by a grant from the New Bedford Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
