Deadline Driven Opportunities
Deadline: May 30
WMG invites women and non-binary artists to submit works that feature encaustic materials or techniques, either wholly or in part. Encaustic, derived from the Greek enkaustikos, meaning “to burn in” is a versatile medium traditionally made up of beeswax, damar resin, and pigment. Artists must incorporate hot wax methods, which involve heating and fusing layers with tools such as torches or heat.
Deadline: May 31
The project, which will be held for the fourth time, will feature concerts featuring world premieres, multimedia special projects, lectures, and master classes from international and Russian composers, contemporary music experts. Synesthesia Lab’s mission is to enable composers from around the world to write new music while simultaneously participating in unique multi-genre collaborations.
Emami Art Experimental Film Festival
Deadline: May 31
The fifth edition of the Emami Art Experimental Film Festival (EAEFF) invites submissions from both Indian and international artists and filmmakers working in experimental film, video, and artists’ moving image. EAEFF is a platform dedicated to curating and developing critical discourse around alternative and experimental practices.
Convergence Hall – Utah Public Art
Deadline: June 2
It is the intention of the Art Selection Committee to commission site-specific work for Convergence Hall through a nationwide search for artists. The Committee is interested in artwork that embodies the idea of “convergence,” visualizing overlapping concepts of innovation and collaboration. Convergence Hall honors Utah’s proud legacy of invention, while pushing forward into an expansive future where challenges become opportunities.
Maryland Federation of Art: The Power of Color
Deadline: June 3
Color is a fundamental element of artistic expression that transcends language and culture. The psychology of color empowers artists to convey emotion, energy, and meaning. Artists use this invaluable tool to create an atmosphere, direct the viewer’s eye, and make a lasting impact. The Power of Color is an open call for artists who aren’t afraid to let color do the heavy lifting. Show us work where color isn’t just present, it’s the point.
Deadline: June 3
Voyage in Time Film Festival is a traveling international film festival, taking place each year in a different location around the world, dedicated to cinematic works that explore time, memory, and transformation. The aim of the festival is to create a space of encounter — to connect people, filmmakers, and audiences, and to inspire one another through cinema.
Howard County Arts: Artists-in-Education Grants
Deadline: June 4
The Artist-in-Education (AiE) Grant program was developed to complement school curriculum by providing opportunities for hands-on experiences in the arts that might not otherwise take place and to foster excellence, diversity, and vitality in arts offerings for Howard County students and residents. The program also aims to broaden opportunities for Howard County students, artists and arts organizations and increase the availability of arts activities in Howard County.
Deadline: June 5
We are looking for choreographers who will be offered the opportunity to create a new project. The project will be realized with the dancers of SPECIFIC training centre for contemporary dancers, directed by Loris Petrillo. This year, the dancers come from India, Egypt, Germany, Croatia, Sweden, Brazil, Italy, Serbia, North Macedonia, Morocco, Mexico and Spain.
Gallery Request for Proposals | Glen Echo Park
Deadline: June 5
The Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture requests exhibition proposals from artists, organizations, and curators for the Popcorn Gallery, Stone Tower Gallery, and Park View Gallery at Glen Echo Park for the calendar year 2027. Glen Echo Park Partnership Galleries’ mission is to showcase the work of a diverse array of visual artists whose practices span a range of cultures, techniques, and viewpoints, including resident artists at Glen Echo Park and artists from the greater Washington, DC area. The Partnership Galleries exhibit compelling work by artists who represent the diversity of our region, and who work in a wide range of artistic mediums.
Deadline: June 6
Field of Play is excited to announce our open call for Summer 2026. Artists and collectives working in all mediums are invited to submit as individual applicants to be considered for a two-person exhibition at our new, bigger location in Gowanus, Brooklyn. A panel of FoP members will select two separate submissions and determine a theme for the exhibition. The show will be on view from August 22nd, 2026 through September 13th, 2026.
Future Art Ecosystems R&D Fellowship: Art x Convergence | Serpentine
Deadline: June 7
The inaugural Future Art Ecosystems (FAE) R&D Fellowship: Art x Convergence is a six-month, low-residency programme supporting individual practitioners and broader ecosystem development in art and advanced technologies. Launching in September 2026, the FAE Fellowship will convene four practitioners working across art and advanced technologies. Applications are now open for artists, curators, technologists and organisers, supporting early-stage creative research grounded in process, dialogue and shared learning.
Deadline: June 7
What does red mean to you, in this present time and place? Is there any color so provocative, so intense? Emotional and heated, spurring the continuum of love and hate, red has numerous associations between cultures and social circles.In a time and place when red is contentious, artists take ownership of the color and offer their own perspective, using red symbolically. Seeking Artwork in any media. Artworks do not need to be monochromatic but should use red as a thematic/symbolic color, dominant hue, or focus.
Deadline: June 7
SET is inviting filmmakers and artists from around the world to submit short films for the 2026 programme. We welcome work across all genres and forms, including animation, documentary, drama, experimental cinema, essay film and artists’ moving image.
Programmes are curated thematically, with each screening shaped through dialogue between selected works.
Deadline: June 10
SPIEXFF is now calling for entries for first edition. The festival focuses on new works that develop their own visual language and explore unconventional perspectives and forms. SPIEXFF has been conceived as an open platform for innovative, surprising, and original approaches to experimental cinema.
Artist-in-Residence: University of Wisconsin
Deadline: June 10
The University of Wisconsin-Parkside offers an Artist-in-Residence (AIR) position in Printmaking for the 2026/2027 Academic year (Sep 2, 2026 – May 13, 2027). Residency includes campus housing for non-local applicants, full access to the academic/professional printmaking studio in UWP’s Rita Tallent Picken Regional Center for the Arts and Humanities, and a $3000 per semester stipend ($6000 for the entire academic year.) The studio features up-to-date ventilation and equipment for artists creating prints through a variety of methods including lithography, linocuts, woodcuts, letterpress, monoprint, screen printing, and intaglio.
Artificial Imagination – Open Call
Deadline: June 14
Artists, filmmakers and digital creators are invited to submit moving image works reflecting on how AI is transforming the production of images, ideas and narratives.Artificial Imagination brings together artistic perspectives on the growing presence of artificial intelligence in creative processes. Algorithms, generative tools and machine learning are reshaping visual culture and the way images are produced. Artists are responding through experimentation, critical reflection and new forms of storytelling. The project gathers these visions into a collective video installation exploring the imaginaries and tensions emerging from the encounter between human creativity and artificial intelligence.
Deadline: June 14
The Chico Art Center invites photographers to submit work for Narrative, a curated group exhibition that explores the art of visual storytelling. We seek work that, through a single image or cohesive series, communicates a clear or evocative narrative. This could be a personal journey, cultural or historical commentary, political statement, fictional tale brought to life through imagery. We welcome all photographic styles and approaches.
Jerusalem International Choreography Competition | מחול שלם
Deadline: June 15
MASH seeks original works that challenge the boundaries of choreography as a movement-based performing discipline.The Jerusalem International Choreography Competition is held during Jerusalem Dance Week, attended by large audiences as well as international dance professionals, competition and festival organizers.
Short Cuts International Film Festival
Deadline: June 15
SHORT CUTS is an international short film festival produced by SHED Projects that centers
experimental, artist-made films with a runtime of five (5) minutes or less. The Festival prioritizes formally adventurous, non-commercial work and creates space for artists at all stages of their practice. The primary public screening will take place at the Cleveland Cinematheque at the Cleveland
Deadline: June 15
The idea to organize Tramway Film Festival was born out of a personal need to fill the void of showcasing arthouse cinema, especially experimental, essay and hybrid film, which have so far been neglected in Poland. The Festival has been devised to promote conscious, original and innovative art cinema, especially the works of authors of short film across the world; it shall be a space that will bring short cinema back to where it belongs and discover new auteurs.
CMF Contests | Contemporary Music Festival | Indiana State University
Deadline: June 15
The Indiana State University School of Music invites the submission of solo/chamber scores for its 60th Contemporary Music Festival on October 28-30, 2026 featuring Principal Guest Composer James Stephenson. Compositions selected from this Call for Scores will be presented at the Music Now concert on Friday, October 30, 2026.
Resonate: A Call for Scores | UCLA Library
Deadline: June 15
Open to composers of all ages, nationalities, career stages and backgrounds. Submitted works MUST include piano and MAY include up to three other instruments from this list: flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trombone, violin and viola. Solos, duos, trios, quartets and works with open instrumentation will be considered.
The Book As Art: Ghosted | Decatur Arts Alliance
Deadline: June 17
In stories and folktales, ghosts are harbingers, haints, and often horror-inducing specters tied to places and sometimes people. In modern times, being “ghosted” refers to the sudden disappearance from social media or digital connections. Unlike the phantoms of old returning because they refuse to break connection to the physical world, people now retreat from contact, disappearing instantly, or fading away. The Book As Art: Ghosted is the fourteenth edition of an art show celebrating books: objects that, in an increasingly digital world, stubbornly survive.
Deadline: June 19
Art Fluent’s grant cycle is now open to individual artists through an international open call. THE EVOLUTION GRANT will provide unrestricted funding to an individual artist with recognized artistic excellence in fine art media and a demonstrated commitment to their art.
Deadline: June 19
Innovate Grant was created out of the frustration of applying to grants with time-consuming requirements. These lengthy applications took valuable time and energy away from making new work. Countless hours were always sacrificed in either writing artist statements, crafting project proposals and getting letters of recommendation.
Moscow International Composers Competition of Choral Music
Deadline: June 20
The Moscow International Composers Competition is an international open call for choral music composers of all ages and nationalities, organized by the Moscow Department of Culture and founded by Vladimir Minin, People’s Artist of the USSR. Categories // Large Form: A work for large academic choir (65–95 performers) and symphony orchestra. Soloists optional. Duration: 35–45 minutes. Small Form: A work for mixed academic choir a cappella (40–44 performers). Solos and instrumental ensemble of up to 6 performers permitted. Duration: 30–35 minutes.
Deadline: June 20
ARC Gallery is pleased to announce an Open Call for Three Fully-funded Solo Exhibitions in September 2026. This Exhibition Award is made possible by a generous grant from the Athena Foundation in support of making solo show opportunities accessible to a broader audience. Visual artists of all disciplines, ages and geographic locations are encouraged to apply. The artists will be selected by the ARC cooperative based on the quality of their work and commitment to their practice.
Deadline: June 21
The 2027 festival is an opportunity for music makers to create, workshop, document and premiere original work in Austin, TX. Composers, festival alumni and solo musicians/groups/bands (local and out-of-town) are all welcome to apply. The festival is designed to highlight the fundamental importance of making new work and doing so together, foster the interchange of ideas between music creators, expand concepts of what “new music” is and can be and showcase this city we are proud to call home
2 Material Research Fellowships – Jan van Eyck Academie
Deadline: June 24
Future Materials at the Jan van Eyck Academie aims to support environmentally conscious art and design practices by conducting research and disseminating knowledge on sustainable non-toxic materials. The long-term programme promotes sustainable alternatives to fossil-based or toxic materials commonly used in arts and design with the aim of fostering ecologically mindful approaches in these creative fields.
Feminism 250: Woman Made America
Deadline: June 27
Woman Made Gallery (WMG) invites women and nonbinary artists to submit work for Feminism 250: Woman Made America. Anchored in America 250—the nationwide commemoration of the United States’ 250th anniversary—this exhibition reflects on the long arc of feminist history within a broader national moment of remembrance, reckoning, and re‑imagining. As one of the nation’s longest continually operating feminist art spaces, WMG enters this milestone with a history shaped by decades of cultural resistance, artist‑led advocacy, community care, and the ongoing fight to claim space for those long pushed to the margins
Open Call to Baltimore Photographers
Deadline: July 26
Concurrent with the 2026 exhibition Flashback: Two Centuries of Baltimore Photography, the Baltimore Museum of Art invites photographers to submit work for the Flashback Open Call, a rotating presentation celebrating diverse photographic perspectives on Baltimore life. This open call seeks to amplify voices and visions that capture the complexity, beauty, and lived experience of Baltimore—particularly from photographers who have not had extensive professional exhibition opportunities. Up to twenty (20) selected photographers will have their work featured in a rotating presentation within with the Flashback exhibition at the BMA’s Main Branch and Lexington Market Branch from October 2026 through February 2027. Please note that selected work will likely be projected or displayed on a screen, not printed.
Rolling Deadlines
Rolling Deadline
Our 2026 Open Call for Programs invites proposals for artist-led workshops, gatherings, and activations. Selected applicants will have the opportunity to use Hamiltonian Artists’ gallery space, receive marketing support, access gallery inventory, and benefit from on-site assistance from Hamiltonian Artists staff.
Emergency Grants Foundation for Contemporary Arts
Created in 1993 to further FCA’s mission to encourage, sponsor, and promote work of a contemporary, experimental nature, Emergency Grants provide urgent funding for visual and performing artists and poets who have sudden, unanticipated opportunities to present their work to the public when there is insufficient time to seek other sources of funding or incur unexpected or unbudgeted expenses for projects close to completion with committed exhibition or performance dates. Emergency Grants is a year-round, multi-disciplinary program that offers immediate, project-based assistance to artists living and working anywhere in the United States, for projects occurring in the U.S. and abroad.
Open Call: Lead a Public Program – BMA Lexington Market
BMA Lexington Market invites self-defined artists in recovery to lead public programming that explores the role of art in healing and personal growth. This open call for proposals seeks artists of all disciplines who wish to share their stories, practices, and creative tools in talks and workshops focused on how creative practice supported their recovery journey and how art can be a resource for resilience, reflection, and connection.
Le Petit Versailles Open Call for Proposals
No deadline
The urban botanical landscape is similar to country conditions in many ways. Soil replenishment, fertilization, weeding, and watering are essential to growth. Le Petit Versailles also grows culture. With recent changes in government we feel it more important than ever to continue our mission to unify art and social engagement. The call is made for projects and activities that have direct impact and relationship to the physical site in rebuilding and maintaining a green space for urban gardening. Be creative. Propose what it means for you to grow and develop vegetation and community. Investigate tools, architecture, and social interaction that support green, open, public space.
Maryland State Arts Council – Creativity Grant for Projects
Deadline: Rolling, end of each month through March 31, 2026
The Creativity Grant for Projects is available to independent artists and arts organizations (includes universities). There are two options to choose from: the Planning & Development grant is intended to support the early stages of research and development for a proposed project; the Implementation grant is intended to support the execution of a specific arts projects/event/program. Note to UMBC faculty: please contact Sara Qureshi if you are interested in applying for this grant.
Maryland State Arts Council – Maryland Touring Grant
Deadline: Rolling, end of each month through March 31, 2026
The Maryland Touring Grant provides funding to eligible Maryland-based nonprofit organizations (includes universities) to support the presentation of artists listed on the Maryland Performing Artists Touring Roster. Note to UMBC faculty: please contact Sara Qureshi if you are interested in applying for this grant.
Maryland Hall – exhibition and residency opportunities
Rolling deadlines
Maryland Hall presents art exhibitions that engage audiences on many levels, from community exhibits to curated group and solo shows in several galleries: the Earl Gallery, the Martino Gallery, the Openshaw Balcony Gallery, and the Micro Gallery. The Openshaw Artist-In-Residence program provides accessible studio space and an opportunity to curate and exhibit their work at the Openshaw Balcony Gallery at the end of their residency.
Deadline: Rolling
The Awesome Foundation is an ever-growing worldwide community devoted to forwarding the interest of awesome in the universe. Created in the long hot summer days of 2009 in Boston, the Foundation distributes $1,000 grants, no strings attached, to projects and their creators. There are no limits on project types.
WorthlessStudios Photographer in Residence
Deadline: Rolling
The WorthlessStudios Photographer in Residence program is a unique 1 month long photography residency taking place inside a mobile darkroom Airstream trailer. Since 2019, the Airstream trailer has traveled the nation to serve as a darkroom and community resource for keeping analog photography alive and thriving. Unlike other residencies that require artists to travel to them, this residency brings the facilities to you! This residency expands on WorthlessStudios’ comprehensive approach to helping artists realize their creative visions while ensuring they have resources to advance their skills and careers. This program provides support for artists working in a photography based artistic practice that relies heavily on access to a darkroom facility. This residency also provides a $1,500 Artist Stipend.
Deadline: Rolling
Maryland Art Place (MAP), in partnership with Hotel Indigo is pleased to announce an open ‘Call to Artists’. As an extension of MAP’s annual IMPACT public art partnership projects, MAP is working with Hotel Indigo to offer rotating exhibitions in Hotel Indigo’s library and Poets Modern Cocktails and Eats. This opportunity is available to visual artists living or working in Maryland. Maryland Art Place will curate four exhibitions a year based on submissions entered through a rolling basis. Hotel Indigo, Baltimore Downtown is a boutique hotel located in Baltimore, MD. MAP has been working closely with the hotel since it opened, selecting and installing the hotel’s permanent artwork collection including works by Jared Ragland, Gary Kachadourian and Christos Palios. Hotel Indigo and MAP share the same vision of supporting working artists in the region, and both look forward to their continued partnership and the rotation of quarterly exhibitions. Fee is $10 for non-MAP members.
Deadline: rolling
The Clifton Arts Center is planning visual exhibits for the years 2026-2030. The Clifton Arts Center provides approximately 1800 square feet of modern well-lit and upgraded HVAC gallery exhibit space on the grounds of the Clifton Municipal Complex. There is a $10 application fee.
CCA Call for Exhibition Proposals 2025
Deadline: Rolling
CCA invites exhibition proposals from artists, curators, and cultural organizations for rolling review by the CCA Exhibitions Selection Committee. The Main Gallery hosts 3-4 major exhibitions annually, with a rotation of 4-6 exhibitions in the Project Gallery. Interdisciplinary proposals that include digital media or installation elements are encouraged. There is a $10 entry fee.
Call for Artists: The Mulberry Network
Deadline: Rolling
The Crow’s Nest is seeking artists who would like to use their skills to support climate activists. Mulberry Network artists should be willing to meet with activists, learn about their direct action campaign priorities and objectives, and if commissioned, be willing to produce artwork in a relatively short time to support the protest actions. Art may include posters, banners, installations, animations, illustrations, and projections. Artists are not expected (but are welcome) to participate in the direct actions. Let us know if you’d like to make art for climate activists on a volunteer or commission basis & provide some basic information at the form on our website to be added to our directory.
Arts on a Roll: Call for Teaching Artists
Deadline: Rolling
Arts on a Roll is a mobile, on demand program within the Community Arts team of the Department of Parks and Recreation, Prince George’s County, MD. We are seeking enthusiastic artists and arts educators to lead classes, design workshops, develop curriculum, and assist at events for visual and performing arts programs. Our instructors represent a range of artistic backgrounds and varied levels of expertise, and we invite applicants with no prior teaching experience who can assist at classes and events, to skilled educators who can develop curriculum and lead programs. As an Arts on a Roll Teaching Artist, you will interface with program participants