We want to share some important news about upcoming changes at both Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery and our parent gallery, Fusion Art. Starting January 1, 2027, we will be making a modest adjustment to our competition entry fees.

We have always worked hard to keep entry costs reasonable so that artists at every stage of their career, from students to established professionals, can afford to submit their work and have it seen by our jurors and audience. That commitment has not changed. But like any organization, we're not immune to rising operational costs, and after holding our rates steady for a long time, a small increase has become necessary to keep both galleries running strong and to continue offering the level of service, promotion, and prize support our artists have come to expect.

Even with this adjustment, we want to be clear about one thing: our fees remain among the most affordable in the online art competition space. Many comparable galleries charge a minimum of $20-$25 per image. Our new rates stay well below that standard.

Here is what will change, and when.

The new rates will take effect with each gallery's first competition deadline of the year. For Light Space & Time, that will be our 18th "Abstracts" competition, with a deadline of January 27th. For Fusion Art, that will be our Black & White 2027 competition, with a deadline of January 1st. Any competition with a deadline before those dates will still be entered at current pricing.

Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery: New entries will be $20 for 1 to 2 images, which works out to $10 per image, and $30 for 3 to 5 images, which averages to $6 per image when submitting the full five. Our early entry discount will continue as well. Artists who enter during the first month a competition is open will pay the discounted rate of $18 for 1 to 2 images and $28 for 3 to 5 images. Our student discount will also be adjusted, moving to $18 for 1 to 2 images and $26 for 3 to 5 images. Light Space & Time is still the only online gallery offering both an early entry and student discount, and we're proud to keep both in place.

Reminder: To qualify for the student discount, artists must enter using a valid educational email address ending in .edu, and that address must be the one associated with their Submittable account. We mention this because we've recently seen the discount used by artists who don't appear to be currently enrolled students. We'd much rather keep the discount in place, but continued misuse may leave us no choice but to discontinue it. We appreciate our artists helping us keep this benefit available for the students who genuinely qualify.

Our Solo Art Series entry fee will be $30 for 5 images. Our popular Summer and Winter "5 for $10" competitions, held twice a year, will stay exactly the same. No change there.

Again, these new rates begin with our 18th "Abstracts" competition, which has a deadline of January 27th and our 35th “Solo Art Series,” which has a deadline of January 5th.

Fusion Art: New entries will be $30 for 1 to 2 images, which comes to $15 per image, an increase of only $2.50 per image. Entries of up to 5 images will be $45, averaging $9 per image, up from the previous average of $8 per image when submitting the full five.

Reminder: These new rates begin with our Black & White 2027 competition, which has a deadline of January 1st.

Along with this update, we’re pleased to share some good news too. In 2027, both galleries will be expanding the number of winners who receive cash prizes. More of our talented artists will be recognized with a cash award or complimentary membership to our Fusion Art Members Gallery than ever before. We will be announcing the full new prize structure for each gallery in December, so keep an eye out for that.

For our Fusion Art Members Gallery members, there is one more update on the way. We’re making changes to the Fusion Artist Membership program, and we’ll share full details before the end of the year. Current members will receive a direct email outlining exactly what is changing and what it means for their membership.

We know that any fee increase, even a modest one, is not something artists want to see, and we don’t take that lightly. Please know that every decision we make is guided by our goal of keeping these galleries sustainable, well run, and worth being part of for years to come.

Thank you to every artist who has submitted work, trusted us with their art, and been part of the Fusion Art and Light Space & Time family. We are grateful for your talent and your continued support, and we are looking forward to a bright future together.

The Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is pleased to announce it has launched a new archive website to host our past exhibitions.

As many of you may know, over the last several weeks, the LST website has been experiencing intermittent slow loading and downtime. This “intermittent” has become more frequent after our hosting company migrated our site to a newer, supposedly faster, server. However, as a result of the continued issues with the website, we have changed hosting companies and created an archive site as a complement to the main Light Space & Time gallery website.

As one of the longest running online art gallery websites, the LST site has hundreds of exhibitions and, as such, is a very large, image heavy site. Websites with the sheer amount of content and number of images as we have can sometimes become unstable and experience issues.

After extensive consultation with our web development and technical support team, it was decided that moving older content to an archive website would help ensure we could preserve our older exhibitions and continue to provide artists with a place to showcase their talent long into the future.

Prior to Fusion Art purchasing LST from John Math in 2018, the oldest exhibitions were already being purged in an effort to make room for the newer exhibitions. We did not want to continue to do this, and have artists lose elements of their portfolios, so the solution was the creation of an archive website to host these past exhibitions for the long term.

Therefore, all monthly and special exhibitions, solo art exhibitions and artist showcases prior to January 2022 will now be hosted on our new archive website – LightSpaceTimeArchives.art.

In order to access any exhibitions prior to January 2022, just add the word “archives” to the current URL of your exhibition. It will then take you to the archives site and directly to the exhibition you are looking for.

Alternatively, you can visit the main LST website and click the LST Archives button in the menu bar at the top of every page. This will take you to the archives site and you can find your exhibitions in the applicable section.

All other content, including current art competitions and exhibitions (January 2022 and beyond), art marketing articles, artist news and testimonials remain on the main LST site.

We’re thrilled to announce that the Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery (LST) and its parent gallery, Fusion Art, are moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico on January 1, 2022.

After over 8 years based in Jupiter, Florida and then 3 years based in Palm Springs, California, LST is relocating to the Santa Fe area. Considered one of the largest art markets in the United States, Santa Fe is recognized worldwide for its rich culture and diverse art community.

The city is home to over 250 art galleries as well as an assortment of museums and performing arts. Art collectors from all around the world visit the city looking to buy fine art of all media and subject matter including all forms of contemporary, Native American, and western art.

In addition to the galleries and museums, throughout the year Santa Fe hosts a collection of art markets and festivals and boasts the largest proportion of artists, performers and writers of any U.S. city.

As 2022 dawns, LST reconfirms its commitment of helping artists, worldwide, to market and sell their art. Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery conducts monthly themed online art competitions and art exhibitions for new and emerging artists on a worldwide basis. It is the gallery's mission to identify talented artists and help them to successfully market their works to the art world.

You can read the entire announcement on the Fusion Art website.

Thank you to all of our artists for being part of our LST and Fusion Art families. We wish all of you a very happy and prosperous new year!

The Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is pleased to announce that the May issue of Artists Down Under – Australia & New Zealand has featured the gallery and its parent company, Fusion Art, in this month’s edition.

The digital online magazine was the creation of Australian digital artist, Athalie Taylor. It was created out of a desire to feature and promote the Australian and New Zealand artists who met through a common interest in photography and digital art by participating in the digital art/Photoshop courses offered by Sebastian Michaels.  

The article, written by Australian digital artist, Trish Hoskin, is an interview with LST and Fusion Art co-owner Valerie Hoffman. She discusses the history and creation of Fusion Art, the acquisition of the Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery in 2018, and the art competition, exhibition and marketing & promotion opportunities both galleries offer to international artists on a worldwide basis.

The gallery thanks Trish and magazine editor, Pam Henderson, for the beautiful feature. The May issue of the magazine can be found HERE.  The article is located on pages 64-67.

Please also visit the artists DOWN UNDER website to see the many talented member artists. Australian and New Zealand photographers and digital artists interested in joining the group and participating in the workshops offered by Sebastian Michaels can visit the My Photo Artistic Life website HERE.

Click HERE to see the current Light Space & Time competitions. In addition to its standard monthly online art competition (the 10th Annual "SeaScapes"), the gallery is currently running its 15th “Solo Art Series” (May 5th Deadline) and “Created in Isolation”  (May 10th Deadline and special $5 entry fee) competitions.

The gallery is also running a special “10th Anniversary” online art competition in honor of the gallery’s 10th Anniversary in 2020. The deadline for this special competition has been extended to July 1st.

Also, if you haven’t already, please visit Fusion Art to see more art competition, exhibition, marketing and promotion opportunities for international artists. The gallery offers many different opportunities and awards, including cash prizes and opportunities to participate in a “bricks and mortar” Annual Group Show each year in Palm Springs, CA, USA.