LOVE FROM GENESEO: THE POSTCARD SHOW

You are invited to submit artwork for the third annual Love from Geneseo postcard show.

ON DISPLAY IN FEBRUARY 2026

Love From Geneseo is a celebration of local artists, snail mail, love (of any kind), and Geneseo.

Please review this page in its entirety before you get creating art for this show! We have some guidelines for artwork that will help you determine what to create. Please send any questions you may have to thewalterscc@gmail.com.

• Artwork can be brand-spanking new or can be pulled from your archives.

• Artwork can be related to love in any form (romantic or not romantic), or can be related to Geneseo, or can be whatever it is that your beautiful creative heart desires. But make sure to think of your submitted pieces through the lens of “Will someone pick this piece of art up to send it to someone else?” If the answer is “probably not”, maybe choose a different piece to submit.

• If you need help preparing your artwork for printing, contact Joanna (jldwalters@gmail.com). I gotchu.

• Submit up to 5 artworks.

• There is no cost to submit artwork.

• We are only accepting 143 designs total. That means it’s possible that if you submit 5 artworks, we will not print all 5, depending on how many submissions we receive. We will notify you which pieces we’ll be printing from your submissions.
From the submitted artwork, we will select 143 designs to print. We will prepare the files and place an order for 10 postcards of each design.

• All postcards will have the same back, pictured below.

• All postcards will credit the artist on the front, pictured below.

• The postcard designs will be displayed on the visiting artist wall for the month of February.
• For the month of February, we’ll set up writing stations full of fun writing utensils at our workshop tables and invite people to sit and write/decorate, and then send their postcards right from The Gallery (or take them home to send).

• The goal is to celebrate more than just Valentine love - we’ll give people prompts for who to write postcards to. A friend you haven’t seen in 10 years, your college roommate, your mom, someone who gave you really good advice, yourself, your friend who’s still looking for love…etc.
• Each artist will have the option to collect $2 from each of their postcard sales, or donate proceeds from their sold postcards to a fund that will be dedicated to developing more community arts engagement activities at The Gallery throughout the year.
Proceeds from last year’s exhibit helped us launch a summer workshop series for kids and our Tiny Gallery Concert series.

Here’s what the postcard front and back will look like:

Your art here, with a white border

Your name and handle/link at the bottom

Submission guidelines

We’ve observed a few buying tendencies of our postcard-picking patrons over the past couple of years. Here are some do’s and don’t’s when creating/selecting artwork to delight our snail mail senders:

Please do submit:

Your own original, human-made artwork
Work featuring Geneseo, in obvious or subtle ways
Art with a short message someone might say to a friend or loved one
A design that could brighten someone’s day if it showed up in their mailbox
Something heartfelt or hilarious, tender or quirky — a little love note from one human to another
A brand-new piece made for this show, or an old favorite that already fits the theme
Portrait or landscape, either is fine!

Please do NOT submit:

AI-generated images
A photo of your dog or cat or fish
A photo of you and your friends
Someone else’s work
Something you found online
Overly Valentine’s Day-esque artwork - counter-intuitively, these are not as likely to be purchased/sent!
Canva templates

Check out the best-selling postcards from previous years

Obviously, don’t rip any of these off, but do use as reference when you’re thinking about what kind of art people are likely to want to send to their loved ones from Geneseo.