a room, once entered

Midnight Gallery seeks local visual artists and poets for a group exhibition exploring the spaces people enter, inhabit, and leave as their lives change. The exhibition will run January 5–April 4, 2027, in Bentonville, Arkansas. Works may be offered for sale, with the gallery retaining a 20% commission, but works are not required to be for sale.

Spaces people enter, inhabit, and depart from, reflecting evolving lived experience.

Applicants must be local artists practicing within 100 miles of Bentonville, Arkansas, and must be able to drop off and pick up work at the Bentonville gallery. Required documents must be signed; applicants under 18 need a parent or guardian to sign. Drop-off is December 27–30, 2026. Poetry must be displayed on an 8.5 x 11 sheet; multiple poems may be submitted together on one such document. Submit a 200–500 word artist statement, preferred PDF/PNG/JPEG files, and each work's title, year, medium, dimensions in inches, price or NFS designation, and artist name. Each application is a one-file submission; the $10 fee covers up to six separate submissions, and files should follow the format [lastname_TitleofArtwork]. Submitted images and written answers may be used on the gallery's social media to promote the artist and exhibition. The public-facing gallery has a PG-13 content rating. Ceiling-suspended work is limited to 10 lbs. The gallery retains 20% of exhibition sales, though works need not be offered for sale.