Aurora 2026 Members Juried Exhibition

Aurora 2026 Members Juried Exhibition
December 4, 2026 - January 15, 2027
Opening Reception: December 4, 6pm-9pm
Free and open to the public

Aurora PhotoCenter, Main Gallery
1125 Brookside Avenue, Suite C9, Indianapolis

Deadline to submit: August 31, 2026

The Aurora 2026 Members Juried Exhibition celebrates the creativity of Aurora’s members as a community that engages the medium of photography in all its many forms. All work that incorporates photography — all subjects, styles, and working methods — will be considered for this juried exhibition.

Juror: Barbara Tannenbaum, Curator of Photography, Chair of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Cleveland Museum of Art

WHO IS ELIGIBLE TO SUBMIT WORK

Any Aurora PhotoCenter member whose membership is current as of August 31, 2026, may submit up to 5 images for consideration as part of their Aurora membership benefits.

Artists residing outside of Indiana are eligible for Aurora’s Distance membership. Click here for details.

You must be an Aurora PhotoCenter member to submit work for consideration. Work submitted without a current Aurora membership will be discarded.

Click here to read more about Aurora’s memberships.

Please email us at info@auroraphoto.org if you have any questions about your existing membership or becoming a member.

To Submit Work for Consideration

Deadline to submit work for consideration is August 31, 2026

All artwork must be created by the artist submitting the work and be owned by that artist. Submission of artwork for consideration does not guarantee acceptance of artwork into the exhibition.

To submit work, email up to 5 image files (jpeg or png) up to 3MB each to info@auroraphoto.org, along with the following information for each image:

Image title:
Print size:
If already printed and framed, color and size of frame and matting if any:
Image capture method: Choices are Film 35mm; Film 120; Film 4 x 5; DSLR; Cell Phone; Other
Date of work:

If your work is accepted

All decisions regarding printing/producing the work, preparing for the wall including any matting and framing, installation layout, and pricing will be made by Aurora.

Unless otherwise arranged, Aurora will work with artists to print/produce all accepted entries and prepare them for the wall, using existing frame stock, free of charge to the artist.

Unless otherwise arranged, all work in the Aurora Members Juried Exhibition will be for sale with the price per work not to exceed $300. Exhibiting artists have the option of retaining 70% of the gross sale price from any sale or donating the entire sale to Aurora’s mission. All sales will be handled through Aurora; an accounting and check will be due to the artist for any sales by January 31, 2027.

Any work printed/produced by Aurora and not sold by January 15 will be destroyed. Any work printed/produced by the artist and not sold by January 15 will be returned to the artist.

Timeline

*Deadline to submit work for consideration: August 31, 2026
*Artists will be notified of accepted work by September 31, 2026
*Exhibition opening: December 4, 2026, 6-9pm
*Exhibition dates: December 4, 2026 - January 15, 2027
*Artists will be paid via check by January 31, 2027, for sold work (If payment via check is not possible, contact Aurora at info@auroraphoto.org for alternate payment arrangement.)

Contact Aurora at info@auroraphoto.org with any questions.

ABOUT THE JUROR

Barbara Tannenbaum, Chair of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs and Curator of Photography at the Cleveland Museum of Art, has organized over 100 exhibitions during her three-decade career as a curator. Recent and upcoming exhibitions include Ilse Bing: Queen of the Leica; Signal Noise: Photographs by Aaron Rothman; Beyond Truth: Photography After the Shutter; Black in America: Louis Draper and Leonard Freed; Cheating Death: Portrait Photography’s First Half Century; BIG; Pyramids & Sphinxes; DIY: Photographers and Books, which was the first museum show of print-on-demand photobooks; and American Vesuvius: Frank Gohlke and Emmet Gowin. She co-organized the first large-scale international exhibition chronicling women’s historic achievements in fine art photography and the 1991 Ralph Eugene Meatyard retrospective. Dr. Tannenbaum has authored numerous publications, including books on Ralph Eugene Meatyard (Rizzoli), TR Ericsson, and the Akron Art Museum’s collection, and lectured throughout the U.S. and in Canada and China. She serves on the board of the Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Foundation.