Call for Artists: Arts to Hearts Magazine 15 Submissions Are Open

Magazines have a way of bringing different voices, ideas, and creative practices into one shared space. For artists, they can offer a chance to see their work beyond the studio and become part of a larger creative conversation. 

For the past 14 editions, artists from around the world have shared their work with us, trusted us with their stories, and helped shape what Arts to Hearts Magazine has become. We have seen paintings, photographs, sculptures, illustrations, mixed-media works, textiles, and so many practices that are difficult to fit into a single category. And honestly, it is the artists who have made the magazine what it is.

Now, we are opening the doors for Magazine 15.

This next edition continues that journey with a new theme, a new group of artists, and another opportunity to place your work in an international contemporary art publication. Arts to Hearts Magazine has featured more than 1,500 artists across its editions and is distributed internationally through platforms including Amazon and Barnes & Noble, alongside the wider digital community built around Arts to Hearts Project.

So, if you have a body of work that has been sitting with you for a while, this might be the moment to share it.

What Is Arts to Hearts Magazine?

Arts to Hearts Magazine is an international contemporary art publication created to discover and present artists from different backgrounds, practices, and stages of their careers.

Over the years, the magazine has grown into a space where emerging and established artists can exist alongside one another. It is not simply about placing an image on a page. It is about creating an editorial record of the artists working today and giving their practices a place within a larger contemporary art conversation.

The magazine is distributed internationally, with editions available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other global channels. The Arts to Hearts digital ecosystem also extends the life of its publications through social media, editorial features, email, interviews, and other forms of artist promotion.

And this is now the 15th edition.

Fourteen editions have already brought hundreds of artists into the pages of the magazine. Issue 15 is another chapter in that ongoing collection.

The Theme for Magazine 15: Where I Am

For Magazine 15, we are asking artists to think about one deceptively simple question:

Where am I?

It can be a physical place. A home, a city, a landscape, a studio, a country, a room.

But it can also be somewhere much harder to locate.

Where are you emotionally?
Where are you in your creative practice?
Where are you between two versions of yourself?
Where do you belong?
Where have you come from, and where are you going?

Where I Am leaves room for all of these interpretations.

Your work does not need to literally depict a particular location. A sense of place can live in color, memory, material, the body, architecture, family, culture, nature, or even absence. Sometimes we understand where we are through what surrounds us; sometimes we understand it through what we carry with us.

That is what makes this theme interesting. There is no single image of where I am. For one artist, it might be a painting about home. For another, it might be an abstract work about uncertainty. Someone else might explore migration, belonging, identity, solitude, community, or simply the strange feeling of being exactly where you are supposed to be.

We want to see where your work takes you.

ARTS TO HEARTS PROJECT × STUDIOTOGALLERY

Magazine 15 also brings together Arts to Hearts Project, founded by Charuka Arora  and StudioToGallery, founded by Sonia Borell in collaboration, bringing together two complementary areas of the contemporary art world 

Collaborations like this are important because they allow an open call to become more than a submission form. They bring different perspectives into the process of discovering and presenting artists, while creating another connection between artists and the wider contemporary art community.

For artists, this means your work is entering a publication shaped not only by the Arts to Hearts team, but through a broader creative network.

It is another reminder that the art world is rarely built alone. Publications, curators, galleries, artists, collectors, and creative communities constantly overlap, and sometimes, that overlap is where interesting opportunities begin.

Meet Our Co-Curators for Magazine 15

Sonia Borrell is an art collector, curator, advisor, lawyer, writer, philanthropist, and entrepreneur working across the global art world. Founder of the Tryson Collection, she has spent years discovering and supporting artists across Spain, the UK, China, and the US. Her collection has been presented at institutions including the Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art, Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, and Museo Novecento. Through her advisory and curatorial work, Sonia continues to champion emerging artists and build meaningful connections between local creative practices and the international art community.

Charuka Arora is an internationally exhibited artist, creative entrepreneur, and the Founder & Editor-in-Chief of Arts to Hearts Project. Since founding the platform in 2020, she has built a global space dedicated to artists, publishing, education, and creative careers. As an artist and editor, Charuka brings first-hand insight into both the studio and professional art world, having worked closely with artists, curators, and creative professionals across different disciplines and career stages. For Issue 15, she brings this experience to the selection and editorial process, looking closely at the practices and stories behind the work.

What We’re Looking Forward to 

For Magazine 15, we want to see your world through your art.

With WHERE I AM, we’re interested in the places, memories, experiences, cultures, relationships, and moments that shape the way you see and create. Your work might come from the place you call home, somewhere you have left behind, a memory you continue to carry, or a world that exists entirely through your imagination.

It can also speak to where you are in your artistic journey, a new direction you are exploring, something you are returning to, a period of change, or simply a way of making sense of what is happening around you.

We are especially drawn to work that gives us a glimpse into the artist behind it. It could explore belonging, identity, home, displacement, culture, everyday life, memory, movement, or a particular moment in time. The connection does not have to be obvious at first glance. Sometimes it is the story or thought behind a piece that makes us stop and look a little longer.

We welcome a wide range of contemporary practices, including painting, drawing and illustration, photography, sculpture, ceramics, textile and fibre art, printmaking, collage, mixed media, digital art, installation, new media, conceptual art, and other contemporary forms.

Your work can be figurative, abstract, experimental, symbolic, documentary, or process-driven. There is no particular style we are looking for.

And you do not need to make something new for this call. Go back through your studio, your camera roll, your archives, look at the work you have already made. Perhaps there is a piece that says something about where you were when you created it, what you were experiencing, or how you were seeing the world at that moment.

Bring us that piece. Tell us something only your work can tell us. Ultimately, we want art with a point of view, work that comes from somewhere real, whether that somewhere is physical, emotional, cultural, personal, or imagined.

Show us WHERE YOU ARE.

Who Can Submit?

The call is open internationally and welcomes artists working across different mediums and creative practices.

You do not need to have a long exhibition history or an impressive list of credentials to apply. Arts to Hearts Project works with artists across career stages, from emerging artists finding their footing to more established practitioners continuing to develop their work.

What matters most is the work itself and how it connects with the theme.

So don’t talk yourself out of submitting because you are not sure whether you are “ready.” If Where I Am makes you think of a particular body of work, it is worth considering.

What Happens After You Submit?

The submission process is straightforward.

You begin by selecting the number of artworks you would like to submit and entering your basic information. After completing the payment, you can move on to the artwork details and upload your materials. The platform asks for your artwork images and information such as the title, medium, size, year, and a short description, along with your artist profile materials. Before submitting, take a moment to check everything carefully.

Make sure your images are clear and high quality. Double-check artwork titles, dimensions, mediums, and other information. If you are submitting several pieces, think about how they sit together rather than choosing works completely at random.

The submission does not need to tell one perfectly neat story. But it should feel like your story. Once the deadline passes, the applications will be reviewed by the curatorial team and art professionals. Selected artists will be contacted by email after the review process.

The Deadline

You have until: October 5, 2026 to complete your submission.

The application fee is $21.

And one small but important thing: starting your application is not the same as completing it. If you begin the process and do not finish immediately, you can return to your dashboard and complete the application before the final deadline. Once the deadline passes, the form closes and incomplete applications can no longer be submitted.

So don’t leave the final upload for the last few hours.

Before You Press Submit

This is one of those open calls where your first instinct might actually be the best one. Look through your recent work. Look through the pieces you made when you were thinking about home, distance, identity, change, belonging, or simply trying to understand what was happening around you.

Then ask yourself: Which work tells me something about where I am right now?

It doesn’t have to be the newest piece in your studio. It doesn’t have to be the work that looks the most impressive on Instagram. It doesn’t even have to be the work you initially thought would fit this theme.

Sometimes a piece becomes relevant only after we look at it again. And if you are submitting more than one work, give yourself a little time to consider the selection as a whole. A strong group of works can say something different from a single image, and sometimes that conversation between pieces is where the real story appears.

This Is Your Invitation

Fifteen editions is a milestone, but it is also a reminder of how many artists, stories, experiments, beginnings, and creative lives have passed through these pages.

The magazine exists because artists keep saying yes.

Yes to sharing the work that feels personal.
Yes to putting their practice somewhere outside the studio.
Yes to being part of a larger conversation.

Now we are asking again.

Where are you?

Maybe your work already knows the answer.

Submit it to Arts to Hearts Magazine 15 and let us discover it with you.