The Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum is calling for submissions from haiga artists for the upcoming exhibit,“ Haiga: The Art of Haiku,” which will open with a reception on Oct. 5 and run through Dec. 31. Submissions open May 1; the entry deadline is Aug. 1.

Entrants will be notified of acceptance within 12 days after the deadline. These artworks will be exhibited in the Montgomery

Gallery, which is open to the public during regular hours. Just across the hall is the Beyond Our Borders Gallery, which includes 18th and 19th century Japanese fine and decorative art, samurai armor, swords / weaponry and more.

According to The Haiku Foundation, haiga is the Japanese term for combining haiku poems and visual images. Haiga incorporates the written haiku into the visual form

itself, which can include any type of visual art such as photographs, paintings, drawings, digital art, textile art, collages and more. Visit www. thehaikufoundation. org / haiga-galleries or www. dailyhaiga. org.

An entry fee of $ 20 is required. Fees are nonrefundable. No more than 10 entries will be accepted. The entry fee must be paid via the Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum’ s website at www. jhmuseum. org /

haiga or via cash or check with mailed submissions. Checks can be made payable to the Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum. JHM accepts only digital images / files of your artwork for consideration. Physical works can be submitted, but only as digital photos during the consideration phase.

For more information about the submission process and to get started, visit www. jhmuseum. org / haiga.

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The Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum is calling for submissions from haiga artists for the upcoming exhibit,“ Haiga: The Art of Haiku.”