The Cleveland Museum of Art is accepting submissions from Northeast Ohio artists for “Lake Effect: Artists from Cleveland Now,” a summer exhibition running July 9 through November 22, 2026, at the museum’s Transformer Station satellite gallery. The deadline to submit is April 24, 2026, and artists must be at least 18 years old.

Eligible artists must live or work in Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Medina, Portage or Summit counties. Paintings, sculptures, photographs, videos, textiles and ceramics created within the past five years may be submitted for consideration by a jury of museum curators. Three selected artists will each receive grants of $1,000. Admission to the exhibition will be free.

“Lake Effect” builds on three consecutive locally-focused shows at the Transformer Station in 2025. The first highlighted students, faculty and alumni of the Cleveland Institute of Art; the second featured works by museum staff; and the third, the “FRONT Fellows Show,” presented work from four emerging area artists. The CMA assumed ownership of the Transformer Station — a repurposed 1920s electric power station in the city’s Ohio City neighborhood — in 2023 after the Bidwell Foundation reopened it as an art space in 2013.

Artists interested in submitting work can find full guidelines through the Cleveland Museum of Art’s website at clevelandart.org/exhibitions/lake-effect.

Source: Ideastream Public Media