Submit with Artwork Archive
Art Crawl 2026 | Downtown Lakeland | November 8, 2026
Notta Gallery is selecting 10 artists for this year’s Notta Art Wars.
The challenge:
MAKE A "NOTTA SWAN"
Each selected artist will find their own existing painting — thrift-store art, discarded décor, an old landscape, portrait, floral, or other previously created work and transform it into an original Notta Swan.
WHAT IS A NOTTA SWAN?
It should still have a recognizable connection to Lakeland's swan culture, but it should push beyond a traditional depiction into something strange, funny, beautiful, surreal, dark, absurd, or completely unexpected.
Show us what a swan could or couldn't become, show off your wit and cunning.
The found painting should remain part of the story.
THE COMPETITION
10 artists. 10 found paintings. 10 local sponsors.
Each artist will:
- Find their own painting to transform
- Receive a $100 artist stipend
- Be paired with a local sponsor
- Compete live at Art Crawl
- Be featured in a short exhibition at Notta Gallery
- Have their finished work displayed afterward at their sponsor’s establishment