Degenerate Art Project II – Call for Art
The purpose of this exhibition is to answer an overwhelming request by artists and patrons of Jasper’s inaugural Degenerate Art Project (July 2025) for an additional exhibition which will involve an open call for visual artists and an extended calendar for exhibition. This iteration of the project will also include prizes for visual art and representation by additional arts disciplines.
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Entry Guidelines
Artists must live in one of the following counties to be considered: Calhoun, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lexington, Orangeburg, Richland, Saluda, Sumter, Lee, Clarendon, Newberry, and Aiken.
Artists may submit up to three pieces.
2D Art must be framed, wired, and/or mounted for presentation and delivered to Gemini Arts during a designated time period on January 17 and 18, 2026.
All art must be for sale and artists must agree to allow the Jasper Project a 25% commission on sold art which will go toward project costs, with any potential extra going toward the publication costs for Jasper Magazine.
All submissions should be of NEW work. Nothing previously exhibited or repurposed for this exhibition is allowed.
Artists who participated in the Jasper Degenerate Art Project in 2025 are invited to submit new work, but art previously exhibited at the Jasper Degenerate Art Project in 2025 should not be submitted for the second exhibition.
No AI-generated imagery or significant alterations of others' work is allowed.
Deadline for submission – November 16, 2025
The purpose of this exhibition is to answer an overwhelming request by artists and patrons of Jasper’s inaugural Degenerate Art Project (July 2025) for an additional exhibition which will involve an open call for visual artists and an extended calendar for exhibition. This iteration of the project will also include prizes for visual art and representation by additional arts disciplines.
The title, Degenerate Art Project, is a contemporary SC-localized reflection of the Nazi Party’s 1937 Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art) exhibition in Munich at which more than 650 pieces of Modernist art were haphazardly displayed alongside graffiti and mocking text labels with the goal of denigrating and ridiculing the art and artists. The exhibition included the work of 112 artists including Picasso, Mondrian, Chagall, Kandinsky, Klee, Dix, and many other groundbreaking artists. The website of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum offers an excellent overview of this period of world history.
The purpose of the Jasper Degenerate Art Project is threefold:
To provide a platform for expression and/or protest via art for Midlands area artists
To bring our local arts community together both physically and in spirit during this challenging time in order to support and encourage one another
To preserve for posterity, via the Jasper Project website, Columbia, SC’s artistic interpretation and response to our country’s current socio-political situation.
