Community Exhibitions

Description: Each year, hundreds of young artists come to the Worcester Art Museum to learn, explore, play, and create beautiful artworks. This fall, WAM is proud to host an exhibition celebrating the talent and creativity of our youth and teen students.

Deadline to submit: August 14, 2026. More details in the submission form.

Description: It’s alive! Art of the Macabre has risen from the grave. This non-juried community exhibition invites artists of all ages and experience levels to show us art that is scary, creepy, funny, and strange.

The exhibition will be displayed in WAM’s Higgins Education Wing and will be free and open to the public.

Deadline to submit: September 25, 2026. More details in the submission form.

What stories have shaped you? Inspired you? Entertained you? This non-juried exhibition invites artists to share a 2D or 3D illustration of a fictional story they love. Show us your interpretation of a character, location, or scene from a book, comic, manga, movie, TV show, and much more. Artists may also choose to illustrate a fictional story that they wrote themselves!

The exhibition will be displayed in The Museum’s Higgins Education Wing exhibition space and will be free and open to the public.

Deadline to submit: December 4, 2026. More details in the submission form.