Fleeting — Exalting the Ephemeral
Exhibition Dates: July 25 – Sept 14, 2025
Gallery Hours: Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 11 – 4 pm
Deadline for Submissions: July 11th
Opening Gala: July 26, 2-4 pm
Curatorial Team: Phyllis Schwartz and Edward Peck
Juror: Daniel Laskarin
Workshop: TBA, and an artist talk is being planned for this event.
We invite artists to submit work that explores the nature of the fleeting, the transitory, and the ephemeral—qualities that define experiences, moments, and states that are inherently temporary and ever-changing. We encourage works that contemplate impermanence, where nothing remains fixed, where subtle shifts and delicate transformations can go unnoticed.
Fleeting can be understood in those instances that pass quickly —like a breath, a shadow, or a gesture —often found in the gaps, where things are moving, evolving, or dissolving, caught between what was and what is yet to come. Works that engage with the elusive qualities of these states prompt us to reflect on how they influence our perception, memory, and sense of presence. They explore how the passage of time alters meaning, how subtle changes affect our understanding, and how art can capture or evoke the intangible and fleeting moments.
The submitted works should engage with ephemerality and fragility, concentrating on elements that exist only briefly. We invite submissions that will contribute to an exhibition showcasing a variety of artistic perspectives on the significance of transient experiences. Fleeting: Exalting the Ephemeral highlights the challenges of acknowledging emergence and cessation in a visual dialogue.
In his poem, The Blue, Canadian Poet Laureate George Bowering offers a perspective on the fleeting nature of life as it merges with the landscape.
The Bow River
was blue today,
the sky,
the Rockies somewhere
that is, the mud
has sunk,
the ice
disappeared sometime.
I would do that,
disappear sometime
like a blue river
on the prairie.