The Art Call for the 2026 Small Stones Festival of the Arts is extended to October 22, 2025.

Welcome to the art call site for the 2026 Small Stones Festival of the Arts.  The Festival is a collaboration of the Worcester County Camera Club and the Blackstone Valley Art Association, now in our eighth year.  Our exhibition of fine art painting and fine art photography will be held at the Brigham Hill Community Barn, 37 Wheeler Rd., North Grafton, Massachusetts.

Work chosen for the juried in-person exhibition as well as prize winning entries will be selected by an independent panel of distinguished jurors.  Once they are announced, you can read about them at our main web site, at the link below.

Art work exhibited at the Festival will be selected from submissions and will include 144 fine art paintings (including drawing, sketches, ink and other 2D productions) and fine art photographs (including film based, digital, infrared and alternative processes).  Please note that we continue to have strict restrictions on the size of the work we can exhibit, as you’ll see in the detailed entry instructions below.   Works chosen for the exhibition will be published in our annual hardbound catalog – a tradition we’re continuing this year.  All submissions will appear in our Web Gallery, available on this site during and after the exhibition.