OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

2026 Headwaters Arts Juried Fall Festival Art Show & Sale

September 16 – October 4, 2026

Headwaters Arts Gallery/Alton Mill Arts Centre, Alton, Ontario

Headwaters Arts invites emerging, mid-career and established artists in Ontario to apply to the 30th Annual Juried Fall Festival Art Show and Sale. The selected art works will be on display in the Headwaters Arts Gallery/Alton Mill Arts Centre from September 16 – October 4, 2026.

Over $2000 in prizes will be awarded!

Meet our Jurors: Julia Veenstra and Liza Zhurkovsakaya

DEADLINE:  Aug 10, 2026 at midnight

Please read the guidelines carefully prior to submitting. Some new parameters have been added this year. e.g. maximum sizes and minimum prices as well as a few others.

Submission Guidelines and Application Link

Note: Acceptances will be posted on this website no later than  August 21

We acknowledge that the land on which we gather, and on which the Region of Peel operates, is part of the Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit. For thousands of years, Indigenous peoples inhabited and cared for this land. In particular we acknowledge the territory of the Ani-shinabek, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Ojibway/Chippewa peoples; the land that is home to the Metis; and most recently, the territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation who are direct descendants of the Mississaugas of the Credit.

We are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land, and by doing so, give our respect to its first inhabitants.