CALLING ALL
ARTISTS & WRITERS
open calls, questionnaires, research projects & residency opportunities
We look forward to seeing what work you propose for our opportunities, which are open to anyone, and everyone who wishes to enter, the only restriction is your imagination!!!
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OPEN CALL
CLAY EVERY WHICH WAY
Clay is one of humanity's oldest creative companions.
It records fingerprints, holds memory, cracks under pressure, hardens through fire, and can return to the earth. It exists somewhere between permanence and impermanence, control and chance, utility and expression.
For this issue of HAUS-A-REST, we invite artists and writers to explore Clay Every Which Way.
We are interested in clay beyond the pot, beyond tradition, beyond expectation.
Perhaps your work embraces ceramics, sculpture, installation or functional objects. Maybe clay appears only as an idea—a metaphor for transformation, identity, labour, geology, archaeology, ritual, play, memory, or the body itself. Perhaps you use unfired clay, clay slips, earth pigments, digital clay simulation, or explore landscapes where clay is found. You may investigate making as repetition, touch, repair, fragility, resilience, or the relationship between maker and material.
We are equally interested in conceptual responses.
What does it mean to shape something with your hands?
How does clay remember touch?
Can a material carry history, culture or politics?
Where does craft end and contemporary art begin?
How do process, accident and transformation become collaborators in making?
Whether your work celebrates centuries-old ceramic traditions or completely dismantles our expectations of what clay can be, we welcome thoughtful, experimental and interdisciplinary responses.
We welcome
Ceramics
Sculpture
Installation
Photography
Painting
Drawing
Printmaking
Textile works incorporating clay
Mixed media
Land art
Performance documentation
Video (YouTube only)
Digital works
Poetry
Essays
Short fiction
Creative non-fiction
Critical writing
Experimental and hybrid texts
We're particularly interested in work that explores process as much as outcome, and that considers clay as material, metaphor, collaborator, or method.
Submission Guidelines
Please submit:
Up to 3 artworks (JPEG format), or
Up to 1,000 words of writing, or
A combination of visual work and writing.
Please also include:
Artwork titles
Medium
Dimensions (where applicable)
A short statement about the work (maximum 200 words)
A short biography (maximum 150 words)
Your Instagram handle (required)
Website (optional)
For moving image or performance work, please submit YouTube only.
Terms
Open internationally.
Open to artists and writers at every stage of their career.
There is no submission fee.
All work must be original.
Selected artists and writers will be featured in the HAUS-A-REST online zine, online gallery and across our social media platforms.
Artists and writers retain full copyright of their work.
By submitting, you grant HAUS-A-REST permission to publish and promote your work in connection with this issue.
At HAUS-A-REST, we celebrate artists and writers who are curious, experimental and willing to challenge conventions. We are looking for work that doesn't simply use clay as a material, but expands the conversation around making, materiality, touch, transformation and the enduring relationship between people and earth.
We look forward to seeing your interpretation of Clay Every Which Way.
Good luck.
Nichola & Jenna
HAUS-A-REST
A zine built by artists, for artists.
ENTER HERE to enter - https://www.curatorspace.com//opportunities/detail/open-call-for-artists--writers--hausarest-zine-theme-clay-every-which-way-issue/10990
Good Luck! 🍀
from the editors
Nichola and Jenna
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We are always looking for good quality pieces of writing, be a story,
critique, poem, prose, spoken word, music, or other written work.
*** Haus-a-rest upcoming themes***
September 2026 - Issue 75 - Clay every Which Way
October 2026 - Issue 76 - Labour, repetition and the act of printing
November 2026 - Issue 77 - Symmetry
December 2026 - Issue 78 - All about me. Using metaphors to explore identity
Follow our social media for more updates and open calls: @haus_a_rest
Enter your ideas on one of our social media platforms and use the #HAR, and if your idea is selected, you will be our featured artist.
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OPEN CALL - FOR ART RESIDENCY
We are seeking a multimedia artist to be a resident for at least three months on our art zine to write or film guides each month. The guides can be written pieces or short videos, and would offer tips and tricks for using different materials, processes and ideas for making. The residency would be for three months across three issues, with the opportunity to write additional pieces.
This is a great opportunity for an artist to be our resident 'expert' to write short tips, tricks and guides as a residency opportunity.
They could be top ten tips, short guides or videos. The artist would be featured and could show examples of their work to demonstrate the guide.
This role can be expanded as we value initiative and creative thinking, so you can really own this and use this platform to promote your knowledge and ideas.
apply below