From the producers of Out of Sight, Museum of Museums and Bumbershoot Arts + Music Festival and in partnership with the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe comes Cannonball Arts – a new contemporary art center in the heart of downtown Seattle. Opening in 2025, Cannonball Arts will exhibit and celebrate artists working across disciplines, mediums and genres.

We have 20+ open calls currently live on our website with a brief and informal application. We do open calls differently. As an idea-based art center, we are looking for bold and unconventional ideas, and celebrate mediums and genres often passed by. Renderings and budgets are valuable, but we are more interested in your ability to communicate your ideas and the quality of your vision. We want to show the works that other institutions won’t and elevate under-represented talents across the wide spectrum of creative self-expression. Be wildly creative, ideate your project clearly, show proof of your ability to execute and share with us your boldest dreams.

Cannonball Arts seeks floating sculptures. These works will be displayed in the pond in Virginia Park – our indoor nature trail and sculpture garden. Sculptures must be no larger than 10” x 10” x 10” and float freely in 5” of water. Accepted works will receive artist stipends ranging from $200 – $400. Sculptures will be for sale with a 70% artist commission.