VISIONS

Visions is the juried honors showcase of the years best original student work in the Fitchburg State University's Communications Media Department. 
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2026 Visions Juried Exhibition

Exhibition Opening: Wednesday, April 22, 2026.

Call for Entry

Submissions are now open for Visions 2026. Please see complete submission guidelines below. Also note that there are different guidelines for students currently on internship.

Submission Deadline

March 6 by 4 p.m. (All submissions must have been created after April 1, 2025)

Eligibility

Any students enrolled in a Communications Media class, students on internship, and recent Alums who have created work in a Communications Media class after April 1, 2024 are eligible to submit work. All work must have been created after April 1, 2025. Online entry forms, and submission of physical /digital entries, must be completed solely by the creator(s) of the work being entered for judging.

Submission Due Date

All entries must be submitted by Friday, March 6 by 4 p.m.

  • NON-Film Video: Photo Lab Office (Conlon 350)
  • Film Video entries: Equipment Central (EQ) (Conlon 306)

Notification Date

Work selected for exhibition in VISIONS will be announced on March 23, 2026 on the Communications Media website and posted outside the Photo Lab (Conlon 350) and Equipment Central (Conlon 306).

Theater Showcase will be posted after auditions.

How to Submit

All entry forms with complete submission instructions are available on the Communications Media website. You MUST fill out the online form before submitting your physical and/or digital entries.

Direct links to submission forms

Technical Theater - is not part of the Visions Juried process but may be represented in the Gallery Exhibition. Please see Jo Nazro if you have any questions. 

Interns ONLY submissions guidelines

If you are not on campus this semester because of your internship, you can still submit your work to Visions.

Intern Submission Guidelines:

Interns - Film Video:  Contact Paul Concemi BEFORE submitting your work! pconcemi@fitchburgstate.edu 978.665.4684

Intern Submission Guidelines

Interns -  NON-Film/Video:

  1. Complete the appropriate Visions 2026 Entry Form on the Communications Media website
  2. Digital submission:
    1. Complete the appropriate Visions Entry Forms on the Communications Media website
    2. Do NOT print (or email us) your entry forms.
    3. Please Email your submissions
    4. .jpeg OR .pdf
    5. 2500px on the longest side
    6. Email to cmcininch@fitchburgstate.edu
  3. Physical Entry by Mail
    • Mail your entry to:
    • Visions 2026
    • c/o Coe McIninch Fitchburg State University
    • Communications Media Department 160 Pearl Street
    • Fitchburg, MA 01420

ALL ENTRIES MUST BE RECEIVED BY FRIDAY, MARCH 6 AT 4 P.M. Entries received after this date will be ineligible for judging.

Check out the Burg Blog for a view of Visions 2025

Visions 2025 Blog

Accepted and Past Works

Photography

  • Vanessa Alejandro - Dance photo of girl in black leggings and black sports bra, Girl in purple shirt stretching over her leg on wood floor, White and purple doll holding pink tube in clouds
  • Samantha Campbell - multi-exposure of Kyle Moody
  • Henry Christiansen - Photo 1 Man playing a guitar with a hat and red lighting, Photo 2 Black and white of camera lens, Guitar black with red and green lighting.
  • Amber Dalicandro - Portrait of girl with hand on face, Boy and dog running, Two bananas floating on black background
  • Christian Dedier - Portrait of a young woman.
  • Sean Diggins - graffiti on a historical building in Venice, A collection of olive oil displayed in the basement, Man standing outside a fish market
  • Charles Fitzmaurice - Tourists approach the rapids at Niagara Falls
  • Skye Goba - Man sitting on table three other people at the table behind
  • Desmond Hart - Tatum holds his fist up in victory with his trophy, Nike "Air"
  • Lily Hay - Macro photography of punk bracelets, Woman holding a picture frame, outside is BW inside is color, bathroom, over the shoulder shot, mirror reflection motion blurred, One side of the face is completely in the dark
  • Vincent Hussey-Cerqueira - Girl in goth makeup laying on her back with her head leaning back, Girl jumping up in the air. Surrounded by trees and blue sky
  • Cassandra Israelson and Skye Goba  - A double exposure of Skye Goba staring down into a puddle/ Illustrations By Skye Goba
  • Cassandra Israelson - Photo Book about a track team, Joiner photograph of a woman throwing a Hammer, The Fitchburg Art Museum at sunset/night
  • Kate Jajliardo - Composite of a Dancer in blue
  • Zachary Lamb - Silver car driving down Fitchburg streets, Crooked clock with oozing light going up
  • Milena Mahoney - It is a close up of a green convertible shot on 35mm
  • Jesye Nortey - 3 layered exposures of me pulling my face down, Me sitting a sea of my tears and paper sailboats are sailing along, Me sitting in a pool of grey sheets extending into the black void, A hazy dreamy photo of me reaching out to my shadow
  • Emily Phillips - teal tree hut sugar scrub in one hand pink background, hand holding Coco Colada Tree Hut Body Lotion, Texture shot of 5 red/pink lip gloss smudges on white background, pink sugar scrub texture shot with seeds on a white background
  • Angela Risotti - Exterior image of Fitchburg Art Museum
  • Nicholas Solimine - A young couple in front of a white backdrop, A shirtless man holding a knife has blood on him, photo book: national ball hockey league playing in Fitchburg, MA
  • Erica Spurr - A Fitchburg player checks a Worcester player into the boards
  • Deanna Tarantino - Sun shining through a window and glass door into a living room, Series of 12 images all strung together by a brown string, This is a portrait of Hank wearing a tuxedo, Composite image of me (3 times) on my bed
  • Jennifer Vincent - Portrait of man w/ mustache and beard outside wearing a hat, Portrait of a man outside, slouching. holding a cigarette, Portrait of a man with a goatee sitting on a chair inside a building 
  • Livv Welch - A woman in black dress and fur coat with pink heels, A person with yellow hair and gemstone nipple pasties, Two windows with white lace curtains at sunrise, person with curly hair sitting with rubber bands across their face

Film Video 

  • A Mime, A Magician and a Sandwich - Adam Fournier
  • The Leominster Floods, the Mayor and his City - Adam Fournier
  • Mercy - DK Racine 
  • Everyday Artist - Nico Solimine
  • May the Worst Man Win  - Jonathan Rajotte
  • Five Shifts at EQ - Seth Rigby
  • Frames - Jonathan Kamal
  • Scalae Sensus - Allison Thompson
  • Do You Remember Me? - Tonia Magras
  • Noiseman and the Squids: Goblin Hunting - Nico Nuzzolilli

Game Design (tentative selection)

  • Precursor
  • Secrets Of the Jester
  • Supermarket Showdown!

Graphic Design

  • Savannah Caldbeck - Red Cross Blood Donor Icons, Looking for Alaska
  • Aidan Cattelan - Tribute to Wieslaw Rosocha, "Burnt Relics"
  • Amber Dalicandro - Butterflies, Persona, "Eyes Up, Phones Down" Infographic
  • Erith De Brito Oliveira - "TealV"
  • Ryan Doyle - the little dewdrop
  • Oliver Eason - Visions in Unity, HXNK Photography logo
  • Nia Manderson-Matheson - Persona
  • Angela Risotti - Lo Spirito della Citta, Mosaico Cosmico Due
  • Emily Russo - Persona, Cafe Icons, Symbosis: Visions of Light
  • Rebecca Schlier - Towards the Light - Symbiosis Visions of Light, Package Redesign - Strawberry Daiquiri, Greenland Village Adventure Map
  • Livv Welch - A Plastic Ocean
  • Yer Yang-Su A - "Symbiosis Visions of Light"

Motions Graphics

  • Emily Russo -70s Disco Google Banner

PRSA

  • Cassandra Israelson - Fitchburg State XC/TF Team Marketing Plan