Submit Art
We invite emerging and professional artists to participate in our annual call for art. For artists already on our mailing list, the call for artists to participate gets distributed in early September by postal mail and email. To join our artists' mailing list, send us your contact information via the "Contact Us" form.
The 2025 poster series, to be released in April, will feature poems and illustrations about 14 legendary Syracuse businesses, including Pastabilities, Hercules Candy, and Books End Bookstore.
The new series will also include a special "reverse process" poster. For that, we commissioned artist Katie Mulligan to create an illustration featuring Found Things Plant Shop. Poets then submitted poems to complement the illustration.
To see the roster of selected poets and artists and learn more about the selection process, visit this special webpage.
And for the stories of the featured businesses, visit this evolving webpage: Iconic Central New York Businesses.
For more information, download our list of frequently asked questions for poets and artists.
Beyond posters, your work stands a chance of being shared with the public in other ways--via note cards and postcards, booklets, and large-format flat screens.
Thank you.
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Comments from Our Artists
I really felt honored to be a part of the Syracuse Poster Project because it has a really long lineage of really great paintings to come out of the illustration department. I'm really excited to have been a part of it and done this painting alongside the poet.
I had hoped so much that my poster would be chosen to be downtown, and I’m thrilled that it will be! I’ve wanted to be a part of the Poster Project since I first heard of it.
Thank you so much for this opportunity! I'm honored and loved this project - it was wonderful bringing my writer's work to life. I look forward to working with you on the rest of the process!
I am super honored and happy; thank you for this wonderful project. This is the first time I've won first place, for anything!
It was such a pleasure and an honor working on the Poster Project! I've dreamed about participating since high school. Thank you so much for the opportunity!
Thanks for giving me this opportunity. I feel like I am learning things I never thought of about words vs images and how to scan at Staples, and meeting really nice Artists and Poets!
