Oddball Art Labs presents

Reduce. Reuse. ReCREATE!

Wait?! Oddball is hosting a SECOND open call art show in 2025?! Where do I sign up? (Here, after our Summer show.)

A few of our artists paint on “non-standard” surfaces and rework existing art…and it got us thinking. Let’s host an art show that is all about saving items from the trash and turning them into amazing creations.

This is an open call show challenging the Elgin and Chicagoland creative community to share their visions. We are hoping to inspire the same mix of strangely surprising paintings, drawings, and mixed media 3D work that makes people smile while at our shows.

We will open the submission form in July. Submissions due by October 19, 2025.

Hey, will this show be ‘All Ages’?

We’re glad you asked. The art displayed at the Robin and Mark Seigle gallery in Elgin Artspace Lofts at ArtSpace will definitely need to be tasteful and ‘All Ages’. We are hoping to arrange to have an after party at a 21+ venue. If they are open to hanging artwork, we plan to coordinate hanging artwork there that is not ‘family friendly’ in their venue. Tasteful nudity and/or innuendo is fine for the 21+ venue’s walls.

This is intended to be a lighthearted and fun show for everyone.

No AI Art

All artwork submitted must be Made by Humans!
While many of us rely on Adobe, Affinity, Corel, and other creativity tools to make our art…they are just tools to leverage our creativity. AI “Art” is not welcome in this show. Of course, digital prints of work created by humans have always been welcomed with Oddball Art Labs.

Artwork Pricing

Oddball will retain 20% of all art sales to help pay for the show and misc expenses. Please price your work accordingly.

Elgin Area Drop-off and Pickup

We don’t have a budget for shipping artwork across the country. As such this show is focused on artists local to the Elgin / Chicagoland area. If you won’t be able to handle in-person drop-off & pickup, please talk to us prior to submitting.