Ploch Art Gallery: Call for Artists
Our next call will be October 1–31, 2026. More details coming soon.
Our annual Call for Artists includes requests for individual artist, two-person/collaborative group, and curated exhibitions proposals are welcome. All artists must reside in WI, be a native of WI, or be a graduate of a WI college-or university-level post-secondary program. All submitted artwork must be family friendly.
Jurors for the 2027-2028 Season
Nina Ghanbarzadeh
Nina Ghanbarzadeh transplanted from Tehran, Iran in 2001. She holds a BFA with a double major from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and completed a two-year AIR Program with Redline Milwaukee in 2015. She is a 2024 Mary L. Nohl Fellow in the Established Artist Category, Imprint Award winner of 2025 and winner of best in the show in Wisconsin Biennial 2020 and 2026. She has been involved in many exhibitions, workshops, lectures, presentations. The focus in her work has been the intersection of text and image and its potential to create movement and texture and finally abstract forms and shapes.
MEGAN WOODARD JOHNSON
Megan Woodard Johnson mixed media artist living and creating in West Bend, Wisconsin. Johnson received a formal art education in Graphic Design and Fine Art Printmaking from Shepherd University in West Virginia, earning her BFA in 1996. 20 years ago she shifted to mixed media, fine art painting and has never looked back. Johnson grew up moving around the country, before finally relocating to Wisconsin and gradually putting down roots. She leads an ordinary, yet rich life focused on noticing moments and making connections, filtering all of these gathered experiences into the layers that build up her paintings. Johnson has shown steadily in group and solo exhibitions and completed multiple artist residencies. Her work hangs in private and corporate collections across and beyond the United States and has been represented by multiple US galleries. Johnson has juried and curated shows and exhibitions, and built connections with artists around the globe by offering courses, coaching and small group mentorships.