Think Small 2025
CALL FOR ENTRY
An All-Media Juried Exhibit at Lawrence Street Gallery
Lawrence Street Gallery's Annual Think Small Show is back again. This all-media and size-limited show is a staple of our gallery and a longstanding December tradition. How can an artist express themselves in the biggest way possible in the smallest space available? Every year, we find out! Pieces for this call must measure a MAXIMUM of 12 inches in any dimension. The juror this year will be Sheri Lee Robinson.
S. LEE ROBINSON (Sheri Lee Robinson) is an Abstract/Surrealist painter living and working in Detroit, Michigan. After graduating from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1989 with a BFA in painting, she embarked on a long, prolific career that has landed her compelling work into the hands of art collectors worldwide.
Sheri Lee Robinson stands in front of her work "Centaurs"
She is currently an art instructor at the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center in Birmingham, Michigan where her courses in Automatic Art Making, Abstract Expressionist Collage, Abstract Landscape Painting and other specialized subjects are routinely sold out.
Sheri Lee Robinson "Woman Playing Ukulele" 9x12 Oil Pastel on Paper 2020
Her teaching has expanded to include one-on-one abstract painting lessons and highly focused group workshop classes in the metro Detroit area.
Sheri Lee Robinson "Blue Eagle" 24x18 Mixed Media Collage on Paper 2025
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Key Dates:
- Friday, October 31st, 2025, 11:30PM : Entries Close
- Sunday November 9th (approx.): Notification of invited or declined (via email and posting on the website)
- Drop off of accepted work at Lawrence Street Gallery during gallery hours : Nov 22 and Nov 26, 28, 29, (extended due to Thanksgiving holiday- Gallery is closed on Nov. 27th)
- December 3-26, 2025: Exhibition dates
- Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, 2:00 - 4:30 : Opening Reception. Awards at 3pm. Free Parking in Ferndale on Sundays.
- Sunday, December 21, 2-4:00; Mid-month Reception. Awarding of People's Choice at 3pm. Free Parking in Ferndale on Sundays.
- December 27th : Pick up unsold work 12-5pm.
The monetary awards will be determined in person by the juror after the show has been hung and announced at the Opening Reception
- Best in Show $150
- 2nd Place $100
- Honorable Mentions $25
The Gallery will also award a People's Choice Award ($75), based on the highest number of visitor votes received between the Opening Reception and the Mid-Month Reception- and will announce this winner at the Mid-Month Reception.
Accepted Entries Below!
Kate Apple Transformations Acrylic and mixdd media 12 x 12 200
Barbara Baker King of the Coop Watercolor mounted on Cradle Board 9 x 12 185
Faded Companions Watercolor 9 x 12 225
Juanita Baldwin Snowy Ground Acrylic 8 x 6 200
CJ Benninger Untitled #45 Spray Paint and Acrylic on Wood Panel 10 x 10 250
Untitled #47 Spray Paint on Wood Panel 10 x 10 250
Sam Berger Heavenly Bodies Polychrome on Aluminum (Photography) 4 x 6 200
Jacquelyn Block Antonio Ceramic 8 x 8 475
Linda Boyle Spring Greens Acrylic on wood panel 10 x 10 175
Sour Acrylic on wood panel 8 x 8 150
Sally Ann Brown Southwest Landscape acrylic 10 x 10 150
Loralei R. Byatt Hidden Numbers 18 Found Paper Collage 12 x 12 150
Hidden Numbers 19 Paper Collage 12 x 12 150
Winnie CHRZANOWSKI I Don't Have A Clue Encaustic 8 x 8 175
Barbara Clay Once in a Blue Moon acrylic 12 x 12 125
Savanah Conrad Turquoise Vase Porcelain 5 x 5 120
Teal Teapot Porcelain 5.5 x 6.5 140
Kimberly Copeland Mind Map Acrylic and Tempera on Canvas 12 x 12 200
Marie Davids Sunrise on the Steppe Embroidery and needle felting 12 x 12 50
Catherine Davids Chanteuse at Cafe Toulouse Ink on Fabric Paper 12 x 12 125
Patricia Davis One Year Ago Today . . . Screenprint on canvas paper, acrylic 11 x 8.5 25
en proie à Screenprint on canvas paper, photocopy, acrylic 8.5 x 11 25
Len DiLaura Diversity blooms in these un-united states Woven textile 10 x 10 200
Paula Doe Not a Dum-Dum Dum-Dums candy wrappers, wood box, acrylic, thread, interfacing, foam core 8.5 x 7.75 295
Chizuko Donovan Mini Vista Acrylic 8 x 8 250
Stash Away Acrylic 9 x 12 300
Marianne Droste My Hometown Mixed media collage 10 x 8 125
Sara Duhaime Harding Park gelatin silver print 10 x 10 175
Palmer Park gelatin silver print 10 x 10 175
Kaiden Embers Familiar Watercolor Paints, Stabilo Artist Pens 4 x 4 25
Baba Yaga Watercolor Paints, Stabilo Artist Pens 4 x 4 25
Deborah Friedman Brown sea grape leaf Color pencil on paper 12 x 10 200
Green and brown sea grape leaf Colored pencil on paper 12 x 10 200
Maggie Greene I See You #1 watercolor (Zorn limited palette) on paper 10 x 11.5 500
I See You #2 watercolor (Zorn limited palette) on paper 10 x 11.5 500
Anne Guzman Crescendo Encaustic Monotype 11 x 12 95
Anna Herbert Tardigrade Glazed Ceramic 1.5 x 1 100
Claudia Hershman CONNECTION Mixed Media - Acrylic and collage on canvas 8 x 8 275
Stacy Hunt Before Fiber - Crochet 11 x 7.5 50
Angel R. Kelly Held Oil on Canvas 4 x 4 85
Sarah Koch Bouquet Collage 8 x 8 50
Growth Collage 8 x 10 50
Pat Langner N. Dakota Farm Acrylic on masonite 4 x 6 75
Camille Lecoutre AirMail Dolly Mixed Media on Paper- Letterpress printing 10 x 12 150
Bee Charmer On My Lips Mixed Media on Paper- Letterpress and Linocut printing, 10 x 12 150
Mike Leslie Renaissance Center View from Milliken Park Oil on Canvas 10 x 10 200
Megan Lui All Natural Clover Honey Mixed Media on Canvas 11 x 11 150
Exchange Mixed Media on Canvas 11 x 11 150
Jeri Magid Truth Acrylic/Collage 10 x 10 150
Aquarium Acrylic/Collage 9 x 12 150
Kaki Mammel Something Has Come Between Us Ink, Coffee & Tea on Paper 9 x 12 90
Building Bridges Ink, Coffee & Tea on Paper 9 x 12 90
Betsy Marsh Rowed Home Oil on stretched canvas 10 x 12 200
Terry Matlen Marjorie's First Crush Crashes on Ipperwash Beach Oil on Canvas 9.5 x 9.5 550
Kathleen McNamee Sunrise encaustic on board 8 x 11 200
Virginia LaMont Naegeli Marcus Belgrave Oil 11 x 10 100
Donald Byrd Oil 11 x 10 100
Terri North For Iris Mixed media 10 x 10 225
Spencer Orenstein That's Not a Military Site, that's My Apartment Gouache on board 9 x 12 250
Elaine in the Shadows Oil on wood 7.812 x 7.812 250
Amy Parker Ayani "Protector" Acrylic on canvas 10 x 8 200
Drone View Collage with paper, acrylic and white pencil 8.5 x 8.5 120
Donald Petersen Upward Flow Acrylic on canvass board 9 x 11 200
Mountain Landscape Acrylic paint on paper 11 x 9 200
Eric Pieti I was just Thinking about this last night. Acrylic paint and ink on watercolor paper 11.25x 11.25 300
Architecture of Nature Acrylic paint on wood panel 11.25 x 11.25 300
Kathryn Poremski That Was Then Oil on Linen 12 x 12 165
Reflection Oil on Linen 10 x 10 140
Diane L Radtke Life's a Peach Colored Pencil 6 x 6 150
Johnna Rhone Gone Polaroid Lift archival print 8 x 8 225
Almost Film- Darkroom Print 10 x 12 225
Jennifer Rivera You'll Catch Your Death Mono-print 10 x 10 120
Jarie Saad Ruddy Ruby, My Dear Mixed media collage/painting on wood 6 x 6 125
Roll 'Em Mixed media collage/painting on wood 6 x 6 125
Lawrence Saenz Still Life w/ Fruit Oil 12 x 9.5 225
Abstract Painting Oil 12 x 9.5 200
Mark Schumack Don't Hang Your Dress in the Ketchup digital photo composite 12 x 12 100
Karen Shiener Flower 1 Mixed Media on Wood 6 x 6 50
Flower #2 Mixed Media on Wood 6 x 6 50
Mandisa Smith Root Form I Fiber: Wet Felting 10.5 x 10.5 275
Root Form II Fiber: Wet Felting 10.5 x 10.5 275
Beth Stobbs Emanation Monotype 11.25 x 10.25 175
Basalt Spray Monoprint 11.25 x 10.25 175
Lena Strong Undine Woven Watercolor Cold-Press Paper 12 x 12 200
Peggy Stulberg Spring Forward Acrylic and collage on wood 10 x 10 300
Terri Tahnoose Solidarity Assemblage (Metal, Encaustic & stone) 7.25 x 6 500
Avow Assemblage (metal, wood, ink, stone, paper, coffee & ink) 11 x 6.25 350
Mary Taitt Honeymoon Falls scratchboard with acrylic edges 9 x 12 200
Linda Talbot Green Haze-Lapis, glass, horn, agate, apatite, fresh water pearls Fiber Art 9.25 x9.25 225
Steven Tapper Abstract Expression 2 Photography, Ceramic tile, acrylic and wood 8 x 8 150
Jamie Thomson Seredipity Vase Stoneware / Porcelain 5.5 x 5.5 125
Carved Alpine Vase Porcelain 4.75 x 5.5 85
Ed Tillery Time Out House paint 12 x 12 150
Confusion House paint 12 x 12 150
Vasu Tolia Collision Course Mixed media on canvas 12x12 150
Kathie Troshynski Lake Como, Italy Pastel 12 x 10 125
Melissa Valenti Shadow of it's Former Self Digital Canvas Print 12 x 12 100
Janis Walker Bits and Pieces Mixed medium with collage 6 x 6 100
Who's a good boy? Collage Mixed Medium12 12 x 12 150
Bonnie Weinreich Gateway Mixed Media 12 x 12 150
Aftermath Mixed Media 10 x 10 100
Cynthia Yates Northport Acrylic 6 x 8 175
Justine Zachara New Hampshire Pond Acrylic 6 x 6 175