Call for Entry: The Sylvia L. Rosen Craft Art Biennial 2025, formerly Art in Craft Media, has been renamed in honor and memory of Sylvia L. Rosen. 

The Burchfield Penney Art Center announces a call for entries for The Sylvia L. Rosen Craft Art Biennial 2025. Presented by the Sylvia L. Rosen Endowment for Fine Art in Craft Media, the 18th juried biennial exhibition celebrates the work of Western New York artists working in glass, fiber, wood, clay, metal, and other craft forms. The exhibition will be on view November 10, 2025 – March 29, 2026, at the Burchfield Penney Art Center at SUNY Buffalo State.

• Submissions will be accepted beginning Friday, March 17, 2025. Artworks in glass, fiber, wood, clay, metal, and other works rooted in craft skill, form, or tradition, which have been completed in the past two years will be considered. The deadline for entries is 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, July 13th, 2025.

• Artists may submit up to 3 submissions, but each work must be submitted individually and represented by two to four images for each. There is no entry fee.

Late or incomplete entries will not be considered. All entries must be submitted through ArtCall™ at sylviarosenbiennial.artcall.org 

Sylvia L. Rosen was a respected potter and educator who taught ceramics at SUNY Buffalo State, the University at Buffalo, and Amherst Senior High School. In 1987, she and her husband, Nathan Rosen, created the Sylvia L. Rosen Endowment for Fine Art in Craft Media at the Burchfield Penney Art Center. The endowment has made possible the juried biennial craft art exhibitions with purchase awards. The first exhibition took place in 1988, and since then, these events have been a major force in the advancement and recognition of craft art in Western New York.

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