Open Calls for Artists

Fashion can define status, culture, and personality. What a person wears—and how they wear it—can reveal who they are, where they come from, and what they value. It is an essential part of human life and a global industry, but it is also an avenue for art: an expression that is woven into everyday experience. Off The Wall - The Art of Fashion, presented by Mosaic Art Collective in partnership with Fishtoes Vintage + Treasures, brings together work that explores the union of art and fashion, whether utilitarian or outlandish, literal or interpretive. Visitors can expect a wide-ranging collection of works that reference, incorporate, or embody fashion itself, spanning diverse media and approaches united by a shared fascination with clothing as cultural expression. The exhibition invites viewers to consider fashion not just as something worn, but as something made, imagined, and reinvented as art.

Tattooing is one of humanity's oldest and most universal art forms, reaching across civilizations and centuries as a means of conveying status, belonging, memory, and meaning. The Human Canvas at Mosaic Art Collective brings together works that explore this rich tradition in all its complexity — from the intimate bond between artist and skin to the permanence of ink as a vessel for personal narrative and cultural identity. The exhibition traces tattoo culture across its many dimensions: hand-tapped ancestral techniques, the aesthetics of rebellion, the reclamation of marked bodies, and the evolving dialogue between folk tradition and fine art. Spanning photography, painting, sculpture, video, installation, and mixed media, the works on view invite visitors to consider tattooing not merely as decoration but as a living archive — simultaneously sacred and subversive, deeply individual and profoundly communal. Whether examining ritual, transformation, heritage, or resistance, The Human Canvas celebrates an enduring practice that turns the body itself into a site of art and meaning.

Karl Schmitz is an artist whose abstract paintings explore the edges between complexity and simplicity, order and disorder, and intrinsic and projected meaning. Karl recently moved to Manchester from Poughkeepsie, NY where he had served as president of the Barrett Art Center. He currently maintains a studio at the Mosaic Art Collective in Manchester, NH.