Art Exhibit Opportunities at the Whidbey Island Center for the Arts

The Whidbey Island Center for the Arts (WICA) is currently seeking works of art for display in the Lasher Gallery, located in the lobby of the WICA campus in Langley. 

“One of WICA's prime goals is to provide a space for as many genres of art as possible,” says Lasher Gallery Manager James Hinkley. “Just as with music, theatre, and poetry, the visual arts absolutely require workable spaces devoted to bringing their unique expressions to the community.”

The gallery serves as a communal arts space, featuring artwork by professional and amateur Whidbey Island artists and celebrating the vast array of creative endeavors found within the local community. The venue is open to the public during WICA’s regular business hours and by appointment with Hinkley.

Art submissions can be in any medium—from painting and drawing to photography and ceramics. Selected artists will be featured for two months in solo shows, with the submission deadline for the 2024 season May 1.

For those interested in learning more about submitting artwork, please contact Hinkley at 360.221.7661 or by email at james.hinkley@wicaonline.org

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts would like to begin by acknowledging that we gather on the ancestral homelands, originally known as Tscha-kole-chy (SHA-KOL-CHI) in Lushootseed (LU-SHOOT-SEED), of the Coastal Salish Peoples, on the lands of the lower Skagit, Tulalip (tuh·lay·luhp), Swinomish (SWIN-ə-mish), Snohomish (snō-hō-mish), Stillaguamish (still-uh-GWAH-mish), and Suquamish (soo-kwah-mish), who have lived in the Salish Sea basin since time immemorial and have hunted, fished, gathered, and taken care of these lands.

We respect their sovereignty, their right to self-determination, and we honor their sacred spiritual connection with the land and water.

Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude to the indigenous people of this territory and for their enduring care and protection of the land in which we currently occupy and share through the Treaty of Point Elliott signed by 82 tribes in Múckl-te-óh (Mukilteo) on January 22, 1855.