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Call For Submissions: Stanza 2025

3/4/2025

 
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Turn over a leaf. Dig inside the couch cushions. Pick something off the bottom of your shoe. There are poems everywhere, for those willing to look.

Push/Pull's annual poetry collection, Stanza, invites wordsmiths to be the imagemakers and artists to be the poets. Using both word and image, artists are invited to submit work that crosses genres—however you choose to interpret it. Found poems, collage, poetry comics, and any other combination of language and visuals are welcome!
Submit Your Work
​Stanza: Lost & Found will be printed in up to 2 colors on Risograph. Contributors will receive a contributor copy and a $50 gift card for Push/Pull's printing services, art supplies, or classes.
Interested in submitting to Stanza but don't have anything ready-made?

Join us for two FREE meetups and work parties, where you'll be able to use our extensive collection of magazines and old books for collage material and inspiration!

​Make poetry collages, found poetry, black-out poetry, or something new and weird from the scraps of pages and images available!
Come Make Stuff!
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Stanza: Lost & Found will open Saturday, April 12th, with an opening reception from 6-9 PM!

Artists and poets are invited to read their work, and all are invited to see and listen! Light refreshments will be provided.

​See you there!
RSVP

2024 Push/Pull Book Club & Art Show

5/21/2024

 
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This year's Book Club pick is A Journey into the Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne (often also translated as Journey to the Center of the Earth), a classic science fiction tale first published in French in 1864.

Push/Pull Press & Vertvolta Press are collaborating on an illustrated edition of Journey to the Interior of the Earth. Book Club participants will be invited to contribute visual pieces inspired by the novel to this edition of the book, which will then be available at Push/Pull.

All readers are welcome to participate in the Book Club though, whether or not your goal is to make art!

We will meet every Monday in June and July at Push/Pull to discuss the relevant chapters for each session. Come to as many meetings as you're able!

Full Schedule


Monday, June 3, 6pm-7:30pm - Book Club Meeting
Monday, June 10, 6pm-7:30pm - Book Club Meeting
Monday, June 17, 6pm-7:30pm - Book Club Meeting
Monday, June 24, 6pm-7:30pm - Book Club Meeting
Monday, July 1, 6pm-7:30pm - Book Club Meeting
Monday, July 8
, 6pm-7:30pm - Book Club Meeting
Monday, July 15
, 6pm-7:30pm - Book Club Meeting
Monday, July 22
, 6pm-7:30pm - Book Club Meeting
Monday, July 29
, 6pm-7:30pm - Book Club Meeting
Thursday, August 5, 5pm to 9pm - Wrap-up Art Work Party
Wednesday, August 7 - Art Due! All art must be delivered by 8pm
Saturday, August 10, 6pm to 9pm - Opening Reception

For more information and details please email [email protected].

Call for Submissions: Stanza 2024

2/1/2024

 
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Stanza is Push/Pull's annual art & poetry collaboration anthology and gallery show. 
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The theme for this year is Nonbinary. We are only accepting submissions from poets and artists that identify as nonbinary, agender, genderqueer, gender non-conforming, or other gender identities outside of male or female. 
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Accepted poems will be paired with an artist to visually interpret the poem.

Interested? Please apply by February 15th!
Poetry Submission
Artist Consideration

Vendors Wanted: Bal-Art Market Spooky Edition

8/7/2023

 
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The seasons are about to shift again and our Bal-Art team is gearing up for our fall market! Come celebrate this transitional time with all your best spooky creations!

This market will be ONE DAY ONLY, so don't wait to apply! 
Applications are open through September 1st, but vendors are accepted on a rolling basis, so the sooner we hear from you, the sooner we can respond!
Apply to be a Vendor

Vendors Wanted: Midsummer Market

6/6/2023

 
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Summer is nearly upon us, and there's so much happening!

Rather than compete with all the Solstice events, we're lining up with Ballard Seafood Fest for a Midsummer Market! Join us at our very haunted venue in the heart of Old Ballard for two days of art slinging and general revelry!
More Info & Application

Call For Art: The Mind of Plants

5/3/2023

 
Artists are invited to submit work inspired by their favorite chapter(s) from The Mind of Plants -- our Book Club pick this year --  for a group show in July.
Submit Work
We'll have a group work and peer review/critique/feedback session on June 13th!
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  • Deadline to submit: July 10th
  • Work must be received by: July 18th
  • Show opens: July 20th
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Push/Pull Book Club: The Mind of Plants

3/2/2023

 
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Book Club is back! This year, we're reading The Mind of Plants: Narratives of Vegetal Intelligence, an anthology with lots of cool contributors! The book is quite the hefty volume, with each chapter devoted to a specific type of plant.

To keep it simple and ease back into book club activities, we'll just be discussing a handful of chapters. In-person meetings will be at Push/Pull every other Tuesday, 7:15pm - 8:30pm, starting April 11th, with the following chapter itenerary:
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  • April 11th - Apple, Cannabis, Black Austrian Pine
  • April 25th - Coffee, Horse Chestnut, White Pine
  • May 9th - Linden, Passionflower, Tea
  • May 23rd - Rose, Silver Fir, Sunflower

You can also discuss any of these (or other chapters!) online at any time on our Discord server!

Book Club Group Show


​Artists are invited to submit work inspired by their favorite chapter(s) for a group show in July. We'll have a group work and peer review/critique/feedback session on June 13th!
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  • Deadline to submit: July 10th
  • Work must be received by: July 18th
  • Show opens: July 20th
Submit Work
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Announcing our Spring Equinox Market!

2/16/2023

 
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We've nearly made it through the winter, and there's less than a month until we change those clocks again for those sweet, sweet 7pm sunsets!

As such, we're excited to announce our next market! This time we'll be just down the block in Old Ballard, at Salmon Bay Eagles. It's gonna be two days of rad artists and artisans slingin' their goods, so come out and support them!

Vendor Applications

Are you a rad artist or artisan?? Then we look forward to your vendor application! The deadline is March 13th, but we'll be reviewing them as we receive them, so the sooner you apply, the sooner you'll have an answer!
Apply now!
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Call for Entries: Stanza 2023

1/3/2023

 
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After a year off, Stanza makes its triumphant return with an optimistic theme: Solarpunk! (Wtf is that?)

Send us your poems of joy and hope in spite of doom and disaster. Selected poems will be paired with artists for a visual interpretation, and poems and art will be published together in a book. See the application below!

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Push/Pull Artist Residency Program

1/2/2023

 
We're excited to introduce an Artist Residency Program with the goal of supporting and helping emerging artists establish a strong career foundation by creating, exhibiting, and publishing a cohesive body of work.  

Over the course of three months, a selected artist will be provided: 
  • Exclusive use of our studio space 2 days a week, starting March 1st 
  • $500 stipend for materials and supplies
  • Mentorship, guidance, and advice from the professional artists at Push/Pull 

At the end of the residency period, the artist will have a solo exhibition at Push/Pull and the opportunity to publish a book collecting their new work. 
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