Arts Society of Kingston (ASK) — Call for Art
Theme: H2O
The Arts Society of Kingston (ASK) invites member artists to submit work for H2O, a group exhibition exploring water as an elemental force at the center of life, culture, and community.
ASK is located in Kingston’s Rondout waterfront district, an area shaped by the river and its long history of trade, movement, and exchange. This setting offers a quiet backdrop for reflecting on water’s role in shaping place, labor, connection, and daily life—past and present.
Water is life-giving and finite—a source of sustenance, reflection, memory, and renewal. It moves through our bodies, landscapes, and histories. It can be gentle or overwhelming, abundant or scarce, freely flowing or carefully contained. Shaped by both natural forces and human hands, water is collected, bottled, diverted, protected, polluted, shared, and revered.
This exhibition invites artists to consider water as material and metaphor, natural force and poetic symbol, intimate presence and expansive system. We welcome work that reflects on water as a precious resource and a shared inheritance—one that connects us to place, to one another, and to the future.