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Tradition Transformed
October 25, 2025 – January 10, 2026
Reception: October 25, 2025 | 1 – 3 PM
TRADITION TRANSFORMED
Annual Juried Landscape Exhibition
2024 participating artist Claire Domitric, Everchanging Lands. Watercolour and ink on Stone paper (Mineral paper), 20”x28”, 2022.
Our vast and varied landscape is as unique and diverse as the people who inhabit, traverse, or envision it. This year, in conjunction with the exhibition John Gould: Travels of the Body and Mind running concurrently at OMAH, we invite participants to consider the theme of travel or daydreaming in relation to the Canadian Landscape.
Now in its 24th year, this annual juried exhibition was created in recognition of Franklin Carmichael, a renowned landscape artist and member of the Group of Seven, who was born in Orillia. Inspired by Northern Ontario’s natural beauty, Carmichael often travelled there to capture the landscape in watercolours, his preferred medium. This exhibition invites artists from across Canada to reinterpret the Canadian landscape through their chosen medium—including, but not limited to, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, and media arts.
Additional Information
Entry Fee
There is an application fee of $40 (plus HST) per submission. Artists can submit up to 3 times, $40 (plus HST) each submission, one image for each entry.
Submission Details
Submission Deadline: Friday August 22, 2025 by midnight
Jury Results: The final week of September
Jurors
Carol-Ann Ryan
Visual arts professional and former Public Art Coordinator for the City of Barrie, with past roles at AGO, MOCA Toronto, MacLaren Art Centre, and more.
Erin Vincent
Acclaimed Toronto-based artist with exhibitions across Canada, the U.S., and the U.K., represented by Christie Contemporary and other leading galleries.
Accepted Artwork
Terms and Conditions:
- Accepted artworks must be received by OMAH on or by Monday October 20, 2025 between 10am-4pm. If you cannot deliver your artwork during this window, please ship your artwork to OMAH and ensure that it arrives by Friday October 17, 2025.
Address to: Tanya Cunnington
℅ the Orillia Museum of Art and History
30 Peter Street S, Orillia ON
L3V 5A9
- A printed or clearly written identification label that includes Artist, Title, Date, Medium, Dimensions, and Price must accompany artwork.
- Transportation of artworks to and from OMAH, and costs related to this transportation are the responsibility of the artist(s)
- Artwork that was shipped to the exhibition will be shipped back to the artist upon the completion of the exhibition at the artist’s expense via Canada Post, unless otherwise specified.
- Artwork must arrive display-ready with appropriate hardware. Two-dimensional work must be ready to hang. Photographs should be professionally mounted and/or framed. OMAH reserves the right to refuse work if it arrives in a condition unsuitable for presentation in a museum gallery setting.
- Accepted entries must remain on display until the final day of the exhibition, Saturday, January 10, 2026.
- Artworks must be removed from OMAH on Monday, January 12, 2026, between 10am – 4pm. If you cannot pick up your artwork at this time, please contact Tanya Cunninton, OMAH’s Arts Programming Coordinator prior to the closing date of this exhibition to make other arrangements.
- After Monday, January 12, 2026, artworks are no longer insured by OMAH.
- Recipients of prizes will be announced at the reception, Saturday, October 25, 2025.
- Prizes must be accepted as awarded.
- Any sales of artwork are to be divided: 60% to the artist, 40% to OMAH.
- Jurying will be conducted through electronic submissions. Successful candidates will then be notified by email late-September. At that time, candidates will be invited to submit supplemental information for consideration for The Kevin J. Batchelor Emerging Artist Award. This is subject to change. The Jurors’ Prize recipient will be determined by the Jurors.
- OMAH allows visitors to take photographs in the museum. If artists do not want their work photographed, they must inform the Museum in writing. In most cases, and to the extent that enforcement is reasonable and possible, OMAH will attempt to accommodate the artist’s request.
- OMAH retains the right to use artist’s images for promotional purposes related to the current and future iterations of Tradition Transformed.
Prizes
Jurors' Prize
$1,500
Juror’s Prize is awarded to the artist who best exemplifies the qualities that Franklin Carmichael found ideal, incorporating diversity in their work, using an impressionistic style, and remaining sophisticated in their depictions of the various landscapes in our geography. The recipient of this award should visibly be embracing, challenging or addressing existing approaches to Canadian landscapes.
Kevin J. Batchelor Emerging Artist Award
$1,000
This year marks the 10th year of this award, which has been graciously funded by the Batchelor family upon the passing of arts advocate Kevin J. Batchelor in 2015. Batchelor was a local music teacher and artist.
The Kevin J. Batchelor Emerging Artist Award will be given to an emerging artist* working in either one of the 2-D mediums such as painting, drawing or mixed media (photography excluded) and will be selected by the Batchelor family.
NEW: The Philip Jackman Photography Prize
$500
This year marks the inaugural year of this award. Philip was a photographer, graphic designer and editor for The Globe and Mail. Philip passed away in 2022.
The Philip Jackman Photography Prize will be given annually to an artist working in photography, be it digital or print, and will be selected by the Jackman family.
Norma Duggan Award
$250
This award is presented annually for a landscape which exemplifies a uniqueness of artistic vision and creative approach and is executed with excellence. Norma Duggan was an Ontario based artist who loved painting the Ontario landscape. Eligible artworks include non-digital painting, drawing, printmaking, mixed-media and collage works created by artists who are not enrolled as full-or part-time art students.
