Submission Deadline:

March 15, 2026, 11:45 pm

Water shapes landscapes, carries stories, and defines the spaces in between. It can be gentle or powerful, sustaining or scarce, visible or invisible—flowing through every ecotone, the transitional zones where one ecosystem meets another. This exhibit explores the marginal spaces where water and transformation meet.

Ecotones are permeable boundaries rich with diversity, tension, and transformation, hosting species, forms, and processes from both systems. Metaphorically, they reflect threshold moments—times of transition, uncertainty, and becoming—where ideas, systems, and environments intersect, overlap, and evolve.

We invite artists working in all media to engage with water as both subject and metaphor. The shimmering edges of environments offer fertile ground for reflection, tension, and interconnectedness. We welcome work that evokes the power, fragility, and movement of water, as well as its capacity to sustain life even in the face of scarcity, human pressures, and change.

Submission Deadline:

March 31, 2026, 11:45 pm

Now in its 46th year, Summerfest features a fabulous selection of gallery-quality fine art and fine crafts chosen by a jury process. This year Summerfest is July 18th from 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM and July 19th from 10:00 AM-5:00 PM. Live music, a children’s craft area, food trucks, and a cocktail garden round out a spectacular entertainment experience in the pristine foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Summerfest is known for bringing in a dedicated art-buying crowd and offering our artist vendors the best services. Center for the Arts Evergreen, a non-profit, hosts this event, with proceeds supporting art programming year-round. Summerfest is our largest fundraising event of the year and we appreciate each of you for participating in past and future Summerfests!