Deadline Driven Opportunities
Black Sox Sculpture Project (BSSP)
Deadline: December 12
On behalf of Parks & People and South Baltimore Gateway Partnership (SBGP), Maryland Art Place (MAP) is offering an exciting opportunity to Baltimore regional artists (MD, DC, PA, DE, VA) working in large-scale sculpture to create artworks of historical Baltimore Black Sox baseball players.
Public Art Across Maryland New Artworks Grant | MSAC
Deadline: December 12
PAAM New Artworks grants provide support for community outreach, visioning, research, planning, artist selection, art design, specialized services, consultants, materials, fabrication, transportation, and other costs associated with creating and installing a fully completed work of public art.
The Vision is Yours Regional Placemaking Forum
Deadline: December 12
What makes your project thrive? At this year’s conference, we’re shining a spotlight on the strategies that spark momentum, sustain energy, and bring lasting impact to communities. We’re looking for dynamic voices and creative ideas to share what works — and what others can learn from. We’re especially interested in projects that touch on what makes communities thrive — from food access and local foodways, to creative expression, play, safety, greening, gathering spaces, mobility, and more.
Residency – Bibliothek Andreas Züst
Deadline: December 14
The Bibliothek Andreas Züst is especially seeking projects that deal with the library as a whole or one of its sub-areas. The Studio Residency Stipend program is to be considered in the tradition of libraries as places of knowledge in the sense of diversity. In short: the residency should entail research about what constitutes the fabric of our culture and also what goes beyond it.
Deadline: December 14 ($50 Application Fee)
We are accepting short dance films which utilize dance choreography and/or body movement alongside cinematic design to create a distinct and enticing view.
Deadline: December 14
From the Ground Up: Contemporary Landscape is an exhibition that explores how artists investigate the landscape today. Framed as a point of departure rather than a fixed view, the landscape becomes a jumping off point. From abstracted terrains and constructed environments to fleeting moments of light in plein air, artists engage the landscape to examine perception and how it relates to culture, politics, and memory.
Deadline: December 14
Call for dance performances for DanzaTTack20265, International Dance and Dance Film Festival, which will be held in El Sauzal (Tenerife – Canary Islands) in May 2026. Premieres and execution of workshops as a complement to the performance will be positively valued. This call is open to professional companies and individual artists who wish to apply.
Deadline: December 14
Visions Video is using our storefront window which is approximately 8ft wide, 10 feet tall and 3 feet deep and facing downtown as a micro-gallery showing works focused on but not limited to the moving image.
Brown University: Lindemann Performing Arts Center
Deadline: December 15
10 artists will be selected to make pieces with a 120-year-old American elm that was cut down on Brown’s main green. The artists will be selected based on an initial concept proposal of how they would use this material to create a work for a Spring 2026 exhibition, Point of Entry. This show is looking for works that expand the horizon of significance beyond the local and immediate, bringing engagement with a work of art out of the privacy of the individual and into the public.
Deadline: December 15 (earlybird)
The Maryland Film Fest is now accepting submissions for our 27th Annual Festival Celebration, April 8-12, 2026. We are seeking excellent moving image work from Baltimore, from Maryland, and from all over the world, in short, feature-length, VR, AR, videogame and interactive formats.
Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD
Deadline: December 15
The DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program is one of the most renowned residency programs for international artists and cultural practitioners in the fields of visual arts, film, literature, and music & sound. Each year, it awards residencies in Berlin to around twenty outstanding cultural producers. The residency enables the chosen fellows to focus on their creative thinking, actions, and research pursuits without being obliged to produce. Encounters with other artists and cultural producers stimulate transdisciplinary cooperation and initiate reciprocal learning processes. In the visual arts category, candidates are nominated and selected by a specialist jury. Therefore, applications are only accepted in the disciplines of film, literature, and music & sound.
Deadline: December 15
Collide is an annual residency programme for artists with a distinct interest in science and technology, who have a strong motivation to engage in dialogue with scientists and engineers. The selected artist or collective will immerse themselves in the CERN community in Geneva, fostering meaningful exchanges with scientists, engineers, and staff. This will be followed by a stay at the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm to expand their reflections.
Kindred Voices: Afrofuturism in Art
Deadline: December 15
The year is 2026 — and the call to share “Kindred Spirits” has never been greater.
As we move forward, it’s vital that we showcase art that not only captures the brilliance of Black creativity today but also reimagines how the world will see us tomorrow. Through bold colors, dynamic shapes, and visionary style, this work transcends time — resonating deeply on every wall it graces. We’re grateful to the Arts Council of Fayetteville for recognizing this moment and championing Afrofuturism as a bridge between culture, creativity, and the future. 2D and 3D artworks will be accepted.
Poetry Society of America Awards
Deadline: December 15
The PSA’s Annual Awards are among the most prestigious honors available to poets. They offer emerging and established poets recognition at all stages of their careers, including our student poetry award and book awards for publishers.
Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency
Deadline: December 15
JTHAR fosters creativity through opportunities for exploring, experimenting, quiet reflection, engagement and cross-cultural exchange with the vibrant local artist community. We establish spaces where inspiration happens on a daily basis, so artists can do the work of innovating, changing the cultural landscape and generating a fresh look at the way we connect to each other and to the world. (Not open to musicians at this time)
L7 Gallery: Exploring Relationality
Deadline: December 15 ($30 Entry Fee)
Art is fundamentally an exploration of relationships. From the cave paintings of Lascaux to Pollock’s Male and Female, artists have long sought to express the interconnected nature of existence. Rather than viewing reality as separate and individual, art often reveals how we exist in constant relation—to people, places, objects, time, memory, and even art itself. L7 Gallery invites submissions that explore this concept of relationality through painting, drawing, mixed media, and printmaking. We’re looking for work that reflects the dynamic and layered nature of relationship: visually, conceptually and emotionally.
Deadline: December 15
R.A.R.O. Barcelona is thrilled to announce our Spring 2026 Residency Open Call, hosted at our inspiring Casa R.A.R.O. studios. This is an exclusive opportunity for artists from all nationalities to advance their creative projects and research in the heart of Barcelona, with the chance to present their work in an Open Studio at the end of their residencies.
Sarratt Gallery at Vanderbilt University
Deadline: December 15 (Entry Fee $30)
Since the opening of Sarratt Student Center in 1974 the Sarratt Gallery at Vanderbilt University has hosted numerous juried and invitational exhibitions from regional and national artists working and exploring with a variety of mediums. We are pleased to invite all craft based artists, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers, artists that work with drawing materials and mixed media, as well as other art medium. We are not able to accept video/film, sound or large scale installations at this time to apply for our open call for exhibitions.
prehistoricsoul LAB Residency Program
Deadline: December 15
These residencies are intended for artists, researchers, and creatives whose work connects with prehistory, Austronesian worlds, embodied knowledge, ecology, or experimental research practices. We welcome practitioners across disciplines: visual artists, movement and performance makers, sound and music explorers, writers, researchers, archaeologists, anthropologists and those working across or beyond traditional categories.
Cauldron International Film and Video Festival
Deadline: December 15
CAULDRON is an international film and video festival based in Salt Lake City that is dedicated to challenging and innovative motion-picture works in any genre or format. Unorthodox film narratives, rogue documentaries, avant-garde cinema, video mashups, abstract video art, genre-bending storytelling… We accept all categories with an eye towards innovation, iconoclasm, personal visions, and any/all unique motion picture experiences.
Long-term Fellowships | Folger Shakespeare Library
Deadline: December 15
The Folger Institute offers long-term fellowships at $70,000 for the 2026-2027 academic year (approximately $7,777 per month, for a standard period of 9 months). These fellowships are designed to support full-time scholarly work on significant research projects that draw on the strengths of the Folger’s collections and programs.
Morgan-Menil Fellowship: The Morgan Library & Museum
Deadline: December 15
The Morgan Drawing Institute and the Menil Drawing Institute, Houston, will award one research fellowship of three to nine months to support independent projects on some aspect of the history, theory, interpretation, or cultural meaning of drawing throughout the history of art. Preference will be given to projects that would benefit from the resources of the Morgan Library & Museum and the Menil Collection.
Creative Baltimore Fund – Mayor’s Individual Artist Award
Deadline: December 15
This grant provides project support to Baltimore-based artists. Funding is intended to support artists’ individual practices or programs that promote public access and encourage the breadth of arts and/or cultural programming in our community.
Deadline: December 15
Applications are open for the 2026 NewBassoon Composition Prize, a (somewhat) annual competition dedicated to creating new repertoire for multiple bassoons. This year’s prize will be the commission of a new work for bassoon quartet.
Request for Qualifications (RFQ): University Avenue Underpass Mural Project
Deadline: December 15
This project seeks to transform a key gateway corridor into a vibrant, welcoming landmark that invites locals and visitors towards vital education and public service institutions along the roadway, including the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette City Hall, the Lafayette Regional Airport, the Lafayette Police Department, Lafayette Elementary School, Truman Early Childhood Education Center, alongside historic neighborhoods, and a multitude of local businesses from Interstate 10 to Highway 90.
Jacksonville University: Alexander Brest Gallery
Deadline: December 17
The Alexander Brest Gallery at Jacksonville University (Jacksonville, FL) is seeking exhibition proposals for the upcoming 2026-2027 season. The 2300 square foot gallery space welcomes proposals for 2D, 3D, installation, and video work. Both solo and group exhibition proposals will be considered.
Deadline: December 17 ($25 fee per artwork)
This International Exhibition will be prominently featured at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in our expansive Hope / McClennen Gallery. All interpretations on the theme of VISUAL VOICE: Freedom to Create will be reviewed by architect, exhibition designer and curator, David Henry Perry. Artwork submission(s) are open to all traditional and unconventional 2d and 3d mediums, as well as, video and digital art. Artists will also have the opportunity to provide the juror with a short statement of concept.
Deadline: December 17
Open AIR is a place-based residency that connects artists from across disciplines with unique sites in Montana. Selected artists will have the opportunity to create at a unique site for a multi-week residency. During their residency, artists can connect with the individuals stewarding that site and develop unique work in relation to the place they are in residence.
Deadline: December 17
The Art in Public Places Program of New Mexico Arts and the Local Selection Committee (LSC) of Central New Mexico Community College (CNM) seek to commission an artist/artist team to create and install an artwork to hang from the ceiling in the entrance of Smith Brasher Hall located on CNM’s Main Campus in Albuquerque. All U.S. based artists with relevant public art experience are encouraged to submit qualifications.
Northwest Arts Center: Int’l Paperworks Call
Deadline: December 19
The Northwest Arts Center is excited to announce the 54th year of the Paperworks juried exhibition at Minot State University. Founded to enhance the study and appreciation of contemporary visual arts in our region, the exhibitions attract excellence in works on paper each year. INT’L Paperworks 2026 continues to welcome entrants from around the world. We are grateful to the many artists who have shared their work and passion for art with our audiences. It is our honor to invite you to contribute to this enduring dialogue of creative exploration and exchange.
Furman University: Department of Art Artist Residency
Deadline: December 19
The Department of Art at Furman University invites applications for the Fall 2026 True Inspiration Artist-in-Residence. This is the second True Inspiration Artist-in-Residence opportunity of the 2026 season. The program awards an eight-to-sixteen-week residency on Furman’s campus in Greenville, SC to a practicing artist or designer to continue the development of ongoing studio projects and/or embark upon new creative endeavors.
Deadline: December 19
DC/DOX is a major international film festival in the US capital dedicated to promoting documentary film as a leading art form, championing new voices and innovations in non-fiction storytelling, and using film as a catalyst to engage the most compelling issues of our day.
Clarinet Composition Competition
Deadline: December 19
Solo: The ICA seeks new works featuring the soprano clarinet (Bb or A), 5 to 15 minutes in length. Compositions may be for clarinet and piano, or other solo clarinet genres such as unaccompanied clarinet, or clarinet with electronic media. To be eligible, compositions must have been completed between January 2023 and present, and must not have been performed previously at ClarinetFest®
Chamber: The ICA seeks new clarinet chamber works for 2-5 players, 5-15 minutes in length. Submissions should feature at least one member of the clarinet family (Bb, A, bass, Eb or others) but may include any other instruments. Exception: Submissions with clarinet and piano as the only two voices will not be accepted, and should be submitted to the solo composition competition. To be eligible, compositions must have been completed between January 2023 and present, and must not have been performed previously at ClarinetFest®.
America250 Public Art Grant: Maryland State Arts Council
Deadline: December 19
The America250 Public Art Grant provides financial support to fully developed and ready-to-implement, public art initiatives that celebrate America’s semiquincentennial in Maryland.
Deadline: December 20
We are seeking artistic proposals of 30-minute maximum length by emerging creators: performance, dance, textual theatre, circus… any of the existing scenic languages.
Horizon Ensemble Call for Scores
Deadline: December 21
For this year’s call for scores, we are looking to select an ORCHESTRAL PIECE to program on our Bridges concert which is to take place on May 31st, 2026 at the Church of the Covenant in Boston, Massachusetts. This concert will feature music by Ruth Hertzman-Miller, Julian Gau, and Frank Bridge centered around bridges: the Harvard Bridge, bridges between people, and Frank Bridge. We are excited to have another voice to be a part of it!
Public Art: Raleigh, North Carolina
Deadline: December 21
The City of Raleigh is looking for nine artists to create artwork designs for windscreens and cut metal railings at BRT stations as part of the planned Southern Corridor. Artist designs should be unique and aesthetically pleasing, and speak to the community character, stories, and/or histories associated with each station. Selected artists will collaborate with the project team (artists, architects, and engineers) to design a cohesive aesthetic experience at each bus station.
Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA)
Deadline: December 21 ($10 Fee)
This independently driven research fellowship offers the space and dedicated time to develop a new or ongoing course of research, with support through mentorship and guidance. Beyond the independent research component undertaken by the selected fellows, the program also encourages fellows to explore Miami’s rich cultural offerings and build lasting relationships with the city’s creative networks while in residency in Miami in the Spring.
Praecepta Mini-Fest Call for Scores
Deadline: December 22
This opportunity is open to any composer (excluding BGSU Students), over the age of 18, with any level of education. Works must be written for violin, oboe and 2 percussionists.
European Media Art Festival (EMAF)
Deadline: December 22
The European Media Art Festival Osnabrück (EMAF) has its origin in a workshop for experimental films at the Department of Media Studies at the University of Osnabrück. We welcome current works in the categories Film (experimental short and feature films), Installation (installative, interactive, spatial or sculptural media art works), and Expanded (performances, live events, or workshops). Entering works is free of charge.
Deadline: December 24
This open-call exhibition invites visual artists to submit works of art that consider, enact, or offer a critique of “lessons learned.” Whether prudent or ill-advised, literal or allegorical, popularly known or uniquely personal, handed down by elders or experienced first-hand –what advice do you share through your work?
Deadline: December 25
Our festival is a carefully curated affair functioning as a sonic poem; connecting artists, ideas and audiences, creating genuine spaces of listening, learning and celebration. We are a small non-profit organization that champions music and sound as a spiritual, political and transcendent experience. Our main focus is music, but we’re also interested in sound art, performance art, facilitation, education, film/video and new media work as it pertains to sonic exploration.
Deadline: December 26
Woman Made Gallery seeks entries in all media by women and non-binary artists worldwide for its 27th International Open. Juried by artist and educator, Nirmal Raja, this open theme encourages entries that explore or challenge conceptual and material boundaries.
Deadline: December 28
Many pieces in orchestral repertoire move between the orchestra pit and the concert stage, and this competition is designed to seek out new masterworks. This competition will provide emerging composers with the rare opportunity to hear their music performed by a world-class orchestra and gain career-advancing recognition, financial support, and potential pathways for future commissions.
Deadline: December 29
Every year, Beam Camp solicits proposals for unique and spectacular large-scale projects that serve as the centerpiece for the 29-day session of camp, during which they will be built and brought to life by 100 campers and 20+ staff. Our Project Team works with the winning designers to translate their project designs into the camp context.
Festival Internacional de Danza Contemporánea de la Ciudad de México
Deadline: December 30
The Festival Internacional de Danza Contemporánea de la Ciudad de México ( @fidcdmx ) invites choreographers, contemporary dance companies, and independent or emerging groups to apply for its 2026 edition. The festival will take place 6–16 August 2026, showcasing performances at Mexico City’s leading cultural venues, as well as in alternative and public spaces.
Bobby Anspach Studios Foundation Grants
Deadline: December 30
The Bobby Anspach Studios Foundation is proud to announce its inaugural grant program. This initiative celebrates Bobby’s vision while looking forward — supporting artists whose practices expand empathy, nurture connection, and respond to the ecological and social challenges of our time. We invite proposals from visual artists working across media and approaches whose work embodies this spirit.
San Diego Underground Film Festival
Deadline: December 31
SDUFF // Heavy Light is one of the West Coast’s premier showcases of video, film, and audio based mediums. Selected MovieMaker Magazine Top 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee, SDUFF // Heavy Light has quickly risen the ranks to become one of the nation’s most challenging, nurturing, and down to earth film festivals. Known for taking risks on young talent alongside showcasing legendary film makers, SDUFF // Heavy Light prides itself on being a festival by and for disciples of the moving image.
When Vision Refuses to Explain
Deadline: December 31
We live in an age of linguistic excess. Artists are expected to explain, audiences are trained to interpret, and artworks are often reduced to objects of translation. The autonomy of visual art — once regarded as the purest form of perception — has been gradually framed and weakened by language. When Vision Refuses to Explain seeks to suspend this habit of interpretation. This exhibition invites artists to participate in an experimental field without text — no artist statements, no conceptual descriptions, no thematic directives. Instead, it encourages a direct encounter between the artwork and the viewer, free from linguistic mediation.
Deadline: December 31
We are looking forward to welcoming 1 Baltimore-based artist to join us at The Parlor as a Resident Artist for our upcoming residency term from Jan 2026 – March 2026. Selected artist will have the opportunity to display their work throughout our building on 108 W. North Ave, and will work closely with our Residency Coordinator to host an Opening Event, Workshop, and Artist Talk as a part of our three-month program. This opportunity is open to Baltimore-based painters, photographers, collagists, mixed-media artists, printmakers, and other artists of wall-mountable mediums.
Deadline: December 31
Denver Public Art is seeking to directly purchase multiple existing artworks for the new Lena Archuleta Library in the Westwood neighborhood of Denver. This is a unique opportunity for artists to submit existing artworks for consideration of purchase; all artworks selected will become a part of the City of Denver’s public art collection. The goal of the project is to fill the new library with vibrant artworks that honor the beautiful new space and the community it serves. The panel has provided specific themes and goals they are interested in seeing in the submitted works below; please review this list when submitting your works for consideration.
Deadline: December 31
Islam & Print (I&P) is co-founded by artists Safiyah Cheatam and Dan Flounders in 2022. The mission of I&P is to champion diverse Muslim experiences and strengthen career readiness by building a network of regional emerging visual artists of all mediums through our biannual fellowship in Baltimore, MD. We aim to build an archive of contemporary Muslim artwork.
The Choral Foundation: ICC Composition Competition
Deadline: December 31
The Institute for Choral Creativity (ICC) invites submissions of choral works from composers of any age, race, gender, or nationality; applicants’ only restrictions are that they may not be current members of any William Baker Choral Foundation ensembles and they cannot have previously won first or second prize.
Why We Look: Questioning the World Before Us | Vermont Center for Photography
Deadline: December 31
This year’s exhibition invites photographers to look outward—questioning the social, political, and environmental forces that shape our world. We seek work that confronts how we see, what we overlook, and the truths that demand our attention in a time of cultural and ecological reckoning. We’re looking for images that grapple with the present: portraits about work, identity, and power; scenes at borders and in neighborhoods; landscapes marked by climate, extraction, or recovery; the built systems—water, housing, transit—that shape daily life; moments of protest and civic care; and conceptual work that questions evidence, authorship, or memory.
The Art Gallery at the Rockefeller State Park Preserve
Deadline: December 31
The Art Gallery at Rockefeller State Park Preserve is dedicated to fostering a meaningful visual dialogue between artists and visitors through rotating fine art exhibitions, community-based arts initiatives, and enriching public programming. We are looking for experienced artists who bring a unique voice and compelling vision to their work. Artists need to have a large, cohesive body of work that reflects their artistic development.
Deadline: December 31
‘a Mandolin with’ is a creative project spearheaded by mandolinist Takaki Shibata, aiming to pioneer new possibilities for chamber music featuring the mandolin. While the mandolin boasts a significant history in Europe, its position within the contemporary music landscape is not yet firmly established, leading to a limited creation of new repertoire. However, plucked string instruments, such as the lute, guitar, and Japanese shamisen or biwa, have consistently played vital roles in music throughout history, not only in Western traditions but across the globe.
Lincoln Center: Fort Collins, Colorado
Deadline: December 31 (fee $35)
The Lincoln Center, a city-owned arts center and events facility in Fort Collins, Colorado, is seeking proposals for solo and group exhibitions in all media from artists and curators living in the United States for exhibitions through 2026.
Exhibition Proposals – VCSU Robinson Center for the Arts Gallery, North Dakota
Deadline: December 31
The VCSU Robinson Center for the Arts Gallery is now accepting exhibition proposals for the 2026-27, 2027-28, and 2028-29 academic years. Proposals for solo/group exhibits and independent curatorial projects in all media and styles are welcome.
Rochester Contemporary Art Center (RoCo)
Deadline: December 31
Rochester Contemporary Art Center (RoCo) is a venue for the exchange of ideas and a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) that was founded in 1977. As a center for thoughtful contemporary art, RoCo provides unique encounters for audiences and extraordinary opportunities for artists. Rochester Contemporary Art Center welcomes general and video submissions for future exhibition seasons.
Call for Scores: San Gabriel Valley Symphony
Deadline: December 31
The SGV Symphony invites music creators of all backgrounds, ages, identities, and career stages to submit original orchestral works for consideration in our inaugural Call for Scores. This opportunity is open to composers worldwide, with no age limits or educational requirements. The selected work will be featured on an upcoming SGV Symphony summer concert.
Explore Baltimore: It’s a Snap!
Deadline: December 31
This year’s theme is “Baltimore’s History is American History”. We are looking for photos that represent the unique role Baltimore plays in the history of the United States as we know it today. Baltimore’s place in the Civil Rights Movement, our nation’s flag and anthem, the War of 1812, and other pivotal moments in American history all offer rich potentials for artistic exploration! No professional models, please.
RawGround Open Call for Shorts
Deadline: December 31
RAW Moves is pleased to open our annual call for local and international artists to submit proposals for the next edition of RawGround (RG) 2026 based on the theme of “(Un)finished Work: In pursuit of the work of forgetting…”.
Deadline: December 31
PRISMA is an independent project with the purpose of promoting and developing contemporary dance in Panama, a platform where artists of different nationalities can connect. Besides programming multiple presentations throughout its week-long event, including several in public spaces and state schools, the Festival offers a strong educational program with free master classes and workshops, Q&A’s with participating choreographers, a practical workshop on writing about dance, and other related activities.
Center for Contemporary Printmaking: Artist Residency
Summer Deadline: January 1
The Center for Contemporary Printmaking is fortunate to provide a dedicated studio for our biannual Residency Program: the Helen Frankenthaler Printmaking Cottage. The intention of the residency is to offer artists uninterrupted time and privacy 24/7 in a well-equipped studio with onsite living accommodations.CCP strives to advance outcomes from the residency that stimulate original and inventive work that the artist might not otherwise have attempted absent these amenities.
Howard County Arts Council Exhibition Proposals
Deadline: January 1
The Howard County Arts Council (HoCo Arts) manages two galleries at the Howard County Center for the Arts with over 21,000 square feet of exhibit space. The HoCo Arts gallery program was established to enhance the public’s appreciation of the visual arts, provide a venue to exhibit the work of local, regional, and national artists in a professional space, and provide leadership in the arts by presenting a broad spectrum of arts in all media from both emerging and established artists.
Deadline: January 1
The International Erwin Schulhoff Composition Competition is a competition that aims to discover and promote talented composers from all over the world. Named after the renowned Bohemian composer, Erwin Schulhoff, the competition celebrates his legacy and his contribution to the world of classical music. The competition is open to composers of any age and all nationalities, providing a platform for them to showcase their skills and compete with their peers on a global level.
Deadline: January 1
The Mudhouse is an artist residency located in the village of Agios Ioannis on the Island of Crete, Greece. The Mudhouse Residency aims to provide artists inspiration derived from an engagement with the stunning natural beauty of its environment, solitude to foster creative growth, an artistic community to enrich professional practices, and an immersive cultural experience within a profoundly rich historical context.
Rolling Deadlines
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 of all ages at a variety of events, from individual client parties to Girls and Boys Scouts meetings, summer camps, after school programs, and county and city-wide festivals. You will collaborate with our roster of 20-25 teaching artists to provide high quality programming and prompt and courteous customer service, and to co-foster a respectful and inspiring work environment.
WCAC Call for Artist Proposals
Deadline: Rolling
The Washington County Arts Council is currently accepting show proposals for 2026. Proposals may be for the main (significant body of work) or hall gallery (smaller body of work).
Dorchester Center for the Arts Exhibition Proposal
Deadline: Rolling
Dorchester Center for the Arts (DCA) seeks applications from artists for exhibitions at Dorchester Center for the Arts, located at 321 High Street, Cambridge, MD. The selected artists will be invited to exhibit a selection of their current work in a portion of the Gallery Space at DCA. This is an open call to artists residing within 100 miles of Dorchester County. Residents of Dorchester County are encouraged to apply.
Meeting House Gallery Call for Work
Deadline: Rolling
The Meeting House Gallery has been privileged to promote the work of regional artists while beautifying the public areas of The Meeting House—a multi-use facility that is home to an interfaith center, a school and a special event venue. We thank you for your interest in contributing to the Gallery’s mission. There is a $30 application fee.
Groundworks: General Call for Proposals
Deadline: Rolling
The Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) issues a call for submissions to its online peer-reviewed collection of interdisciplinary arts projects, Ground Works. We welcome submissions that integrate research and practice in the fine, performing, and applied arts and design with other disciplines. We seek a wide range of interdisciplinary works that pose a challenge to traditional peer review methods by inviting examination from multiple disciplinary perspectives. Eligible projects have achieved some initial recognition; they may be collaborative or sole-author, but should demonstrably advance multiple fields within and beyond the arts. Submissions may take traditional forms—performances, exhibitions, compositions, publications, or designed and built projects—that also contribute to fields for which such forms are not typical. Equally, contributions that demonstrate experimental, non-traditional, or atypical approaches are welcomed.
Call for Exhibit Proposals at the Peale
Deadline: Rolling
Calling all curators, artists, and art collectives of Baltimore and surrounding areas! The Peale Community Museum of Baltimore, Maryland invites exhibitors to apply for the opportunity to exhibit in our gallery spaces and create ambitious works. We welcome new and traveling exhibitions.
Ovation Studios: Call for Ballet Teachers
Deadline: Rolling
Ovations Studios in Bethesda, MD is hiring for the 2024-2025 season (September-June)! We are searching for passionate individuals with experience teaching all levels/ages of ballet and at least one other genre up to an advanced level. Schedule is Monday-Thursday for evening classes and Saturday 8:30am-1:00pm. Please email your resume, cover letter and performance/choreography reels to Contact@OvationsStudios.com if you think you might be a good fit for our studio!
Plexus Project: VITRINE SERIES Open Call
Deadline: Rolling
Plexus Projects is accepting submissions of artworks for a series of online solo exhibitions. Artworks of any media will be considered including drawing, painting, photography, video, animation, and sculpture, as well as video documentation of ephemeral, performance, kinetic, web-based, extended reality, interactive or multimedia installation projects. Exhibitions will be curated from the submitted materials as well as artworks on the artist’s website. The artist will have final approval on the proposed curatorial selection for the exhibition. Each solo exhibition will be featured on the Plexus Projects website for one month. There is a $20 submission fee.
Contemporary Art Observatorium: Exhibition Season 2024-2025
Deadline: rolling
Contemporary gallery in Lavagna, Italy. Accepts: 2D artwork, wall installed, including video art and small objects with some limitations. This is an open call for solo or group exhibits, no application fee.
Washington County Arts Council 2024 Exhibits – Call for Artists
Deadline: Rolling
The Washington County Arts Council is currently accepting show proposals for 2024. There are options for the Main Gallery (Estimate of 50 works) and the Hall Gallery (Estimate of 30 works– suggested small group or solo show.). There is no submission fee.
Somerset County Artist in Residence Program
Deadline: Rolling
The Artist in Residence Program allows for an artist have a semi-private studio within the larger, shared space of the West Main Street Gallery. This program is offered to any visual artist, writer, or musician member of the Somerset County Arts Council. All, Artist in Residence (AIR) participants must be a current member of Somerset County Arts Council. Residencies will be offered for a period of 6 months and can renewed. There is no cost for the residency itself, however artists are expected to acquire their own materials and consumables. The studio is an open space where the general public is invited to visit and learn more about your process and work.
Deadline: Rolling
Digital America is interested in pushing the boundaries of online publishing. We publish an array of digital art, internet art, design, and critical essays that question, analyze, and/or hack the tools of digital culture. We are looking for Multi-media, film, audio, and new media pieces that engage digital art and/or culture with an eye toward the American experience. We encourage creative responses to these parameters as we understand the complexities of engaging “America” in a global, networked world. Our journal seeks to promote student and post-student work as a creative and critical process. You are free to publish your work in any other venue you choose, despite it being featured on our site.
Arts Letters & Numbers Residency
Deadline: Rolling
Arts Letters & Numbers facilities are a collection of buildings once part of the former textile complex Faith Mills along Burden Lake Road in Averill Park, NY: the House on the Hill, the Twins, the Barn, the Studios and the Shop. With a variety of different sized studio spaces (socially distanced areas in both large and smaller rooms), a wooden barn and the outdoor grounds, we welcome artists to think of these spaces at sites they can work with and within. We’ll help you choose one that best suits your practice. The Shop is equipped with basic woodworking tools and an assortment of power and hand tools. Additional equipment are digital media, musical instruments including a 9’ concert grand piano, a 5’ baby grand and upright piano all available for artists to use. Artists are expected to pursue their own creative endeavors and many times this calls for leading a workshop, giving a lecture, sharing a film, partake in critique, exhibiting/performing work etc. These are optional but has proven to be an integral tool for artists to find inspiration and to allow others to experience the works in progress or previous works. The artist will be encouraged to propose any form of sharing suitable for their work.
Deadline: Rolling
The City of Ocala seeks unique, thought-provoking exhibits that are appropriate for a public City space, where work will be viewed by citizens and guests of all ages. Only complete applications will be reviewed. Viewer engagement, artist intent, originality of ideas, and use of media and technique are all considered when an application is being reviewed for approval. The City of Ocala recommends that artist(s) plan on delivering a minimum of 20 works to be exhibited. The gallery selection for displaying accepted works will be determined by the City based on the works submitted, space available, and needs of each gallery space. The City of Ocala will work with artists on the layout of the exhibit, however the City reserves the right to adjust the layout as appropriate for the space and based on past experience in the gallery space.
Deadline: Rolling
Exhibition Opportunities: Art Gotham is dedicated to promoting exceptional contemporary art and provides opportunities for artists to exhibit their work in our Soho and online galleries. They are primarily interested in 2D work, painting and drawing.
Ground Works: General Call for Submissions
Deadline: Rolling
The Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) issues a call for submissions to its online peer-reviewed collection of interdisciplinary arts projects, Ground Works. We welcome submissions that integrate research and practice in the fine, performing, and applied arts and design with other disciplines. Submissions may take traditional forms—performances, exhibitions, compositions, publications, or designed and built projects—that also contribute to fields for which such forms are not typical. Equally, contributions that demonstrate experimental, non-traditional, or atypical approaches are welcomed. Irrespective of mediums and approaches, successful submissions will reveal the integrative processes behind their work. These projects will be included in an online, open-access showcase of exemplar projects that contribute to understanding of the practices that underlie arts-integrative interdisciplinary work.
Artists Side Jobs Open Call for Essays
Deadline: rolling
Are you a professional artist who also works other jobs to pay the bills? What jobs do you work? What does your day to day life look like? How do your “side jobs” influence your artwork? Submit a minimum one page written response along with 3-5 images of your artwork and/or side jobs. Entries are open to interpretation and creativity is encouraged!
Maryland Art Place Impact at Indigo Hotel – Call for proposals
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.
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants
Deadline: rolling
Since its inception in 1963, the mission of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts has been to encourage, sponsor, and promote innovative work in the arts created and presented by individuals, groups, and organizations. FCA depends on artists to fund its programs; to date, over 1,000 artists have contributed paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, performances, and videos to help fund grant programs that directly support individual artists working in dance, music/sound, performance art/theater, poetry, and the visual arts. FCA remains the only institution of its kind: created and sustained by artists to benefit artists. Created in 1993 to further FCA’s mission to encourage, sponsor, and promote work of a contemporary, experimental nature, Emergency Grants is the only active, multi-disciplinary program that offers immediate assistance of this kind to artists living and working anywhere in the United States, for projects occurring in the U.S. and abroad.
Etant Donnes Contemporary Art Curatorial Fellowship
Deadline: rolling
Etant donnés offers grants to American curators wishing to conduct research on the French art scene. These grants are intended to expand the opportunities of American curators, to encourage in-depth explorations of French cultural resources, and to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and knowledge among artists, professionals, researchers, and institutions.
Maryland State Arts Council Professional Development Opportunity Grant
Deadline: rolling
The Professional Development Opportunity Grant program encourages and supports relevant professional development opportunities for artists and arts organizations throughout Maryland. The grant assists artists and arts organizations to implement best practices by embracing growth, learning, and discovery for economic sustainability.
Maryland Performing Artist Touring Roster
Deadline: rolling
The Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC) advances the arts in our state by providing leadership that champions creative expression, diverse programming, equitable access, lifelong learning, and the arts as a celebrated contributor to the quality of life for all the people of Maryland and uses the roster to promote artistic collaboration between Maryland touring artists and Maryland presenters with the goal of increasing touring engagements for Maryland professional performing artists.
Deadline: Rolling
NSA Artist and Writer Residency is a fully funded six month residence program. Currently we only accept submissions from women, BIPOC, and BAME in the USA. Benefits include fully funded invitation to a panel/artist chat and exhibition at the annual Ibom International Art and Book Festival; Visa fees for international recipients; Studio space; and Monthly Living allowance throughout residency duration.
Busboys and Poets: Call for art
Deadline: rolling
As a space where art, culture and politics intentionally collide, both visual and performing arts are a constant and daily part of the Busboys and Poets environment and experience. Sharing a meal with family, friends and co-workers is further enhanced by art that is at once beautiful and challenging. Throughout the year, we receive many qualified submissions for artwork to be displayed in our locations in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia. We typically rotate artwork twice annually at each venue, and we seek to exhibit artists whose work is thoughtfully crafted, professionally executed, and those artists whose visions reflect our Tribal Statement. Additionally, we often give preference to large format works and artists who have significantly large bodies of work to exhibit. Busboys and Poets supports the creative economy and celebrates art in its spaces by offering a unique platform for visual artists. Unless otherwise noted, all art is available for purchase, with 100% of the proceeds from the sale of work going directly to the artists.
Hamilton Arts Collective (HAC) and the Hamilton Gallery Call for Exhibitions
Deadline: rolling
Hamilton Gallery is a cooperative gallery, artist operated, with monthly shows featuring the works of members as well as monthly guest artists. The Hamilton Gallery exhibits and supports fine art and fine crafts. The gallery maintains an active membership of a number of local artists, and screens for new members on an ongoing basis. We are looking for both artists with a developed body of work, and emerging artists seeking to foster their artistic practice and to begin their careers. Hamilton Gallery artist members enjoy the right to guide gallery policies and control their own exhibitions. This is an open call to artists residing within 60 miles of Baltimore City. Baltimore residents are encouraged to apply.
Deadline: rolling
Innovate grants support artists and photographers. Our $550.00 grants act as sparks of financial support that ignite your creative development. Our grant cycles are open 4 times a year (Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter) giving you more opportunities to access the support you need. Our process is simple so you spend less time on the application and more time making your important work.
Journal of Artistic Research (JAR)
Deadline: rolling
Journal of Artistic Research (JAR) currently publishes three issues each year. From 2020, publications in JAR as well as in the JAR Network space will be covered by the Creative Commons licence CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Please make sure that you are happy with this before proceeding. We accept and review submissions on a rolling basis. The editorial review process typically takes six months from submission to publication. JAR invites submissions from all fields and disciplines in which artistic research may be relevant, including areas that are not usually conceived of as artistic. We welcome submissions from practitioners with or without academic affiliations. JAR’s format for publishing artistic research, the exposition, invites authors to combine text, image, film, and audio material on expandable web pages, challenging the dominance of writing in traditional academic research. The languages currently accepted are English, German, Portuguese, and Spanish. Submissions in other languages are accepted, if accompanied by an English translation, which will act as master version. Multilingual expositions are also welcome as long as translations are provided. JAR does not charge any fees. Authors retain copyright to their submission.
Gormley Gallery Exhibition Proposal
Deadline: rolling
As an integral element of the liberal arts tradition at Notre Dame of Maryland University, the Art Department is a dynamic learning environment. Art moves beyond the classroom at Notre Dame. Gormley Gallery, through the Art Department, provides a space for emerging and established artists that engages students and reaches the community through visual art. The Gormley Gallery accepts proposals for solo or group exhibits on a rolling basis. Artists from Baltimore and the surrounding Mid-Atlantic region are especially encouraged to apply. Two exhibits are scheduled each year for a four- to six-week show. Artists attend the reception and give an informal gallery talk. We are currently accepting proposals for the 2023-24 academic year.
Leonardo Journal Open Call: Special Sections on Diverse Perspectives
Deadline: rolling through 2024
Published by The MIT Press, Leonardo journal has become the leading international peer-reviewed journal on the use of contemporary science and technology in the arts and music and the application and influence of the arts and humanities on science and technology. We’re interested in a broad expansion of ideation and research that activates creativity to push the boundaries of today and unleash the possibilities of tomorrow. This is a moment to curate your vision and expand the field of art and science beyond what we could imagine. We seek proposals from interested Guest Editors to craft and shepherd themed special sections that invite diverse and intersectional perspectives. The ideal Guest Editor can help to grow and decolonize Leonardo’s contributor network by attracting authors from historically underrepresented demographics including Brown, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color; people of marginalized gender; geographically underrepresented practitioners; and additional marginalized groups.
Deadline: rolling
The City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs Percent for Art Program makes art accessible and visible throughout our city, one of the world’s cultural capitals. Public art serves as an expression of the community, as well as a landmark. These public sites provide an important venue for all New Yorkers and visitors to appreciate artwork outside the traditional museum or gallery setting. Percent for Art projects are site-specific and engage a variety of media-painting, mosaic, glass, textiles, sculpture, and works that are integrated into infrastructure, or architecture. The Program commissions artists of all races and backgrounds that reflect the diversity of New York City. These projects demonstrate how art that is integrated into its site enhances civic architecture and a wide range of public spaces.
Reel Change: The Fund for Diversity in Film Scoring
Deadline: rolling
Reel Change: The Fund for Diversity in Film Scoring is a five-year grant and mentorship program for film composers of diverse ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, and abilities that are historically underrepresented in film composition. The fund assists projects currently in production where additional support and/or mentoring would be beneficial to film composers who are at a pivotal point in their career in which the project will help them break through to the next stage of their profession. The aim of this fund is to support costs that will enhance and help deliver the music score for a narrative or documentary film which is already in production in the US. With each of the grants we award, we hope to: strengthen the composer’s ability to highlight their project as a springboard for the next step in their career; improve composers’ working conditions to maximize creativity and inspiration; help improve the production values of the film as a whole. It is envisaged that grants averaging $20,000 will be given to 4 to 6 film composers per year.
Deadline: rolling
Fountain Street has created a public viewing gallery for video and other digital media art. Exhibitions of short, silent, experimental work are displayed year-round, 24/7, on two 50” monitors facing out from gallery windows at sidewalk level. The programming is intended to promote diversity and include a broad array of artists, styles, thematic content, and levels of experience. In addition to open calls for work, there will be numerous opportunities for guest artists and guest curators, as well as partnerships with local educational and community-focused arts organizations interested in exhibiting digital work in this new public venue.
Deadline: rolling
Stochastic Labs awards fully sponsored residencies to exceptional engineers, artists, scientists, and entrepreneurs from around the world. Residencies are of variable length and include a private apartment at the mansion, co-working and/or dedicated work space, shop access (laser cutter, 3D printer etc), a $1k monthly stipend and a budget for materials. Residents become part of Stochastic’s creative community, participating in weekly dinners and invitation events. Residents may apply as individuals or as teams. While applicants may be at any stage in their career, the selection is highly competitive.
The Woven Tale Press Call for Submissions
Deadline: rolling
The cornerstone of The Woven Tale Press is our magazine—a rare breed, at once a literary journal and an art publication. We take pride in the careful balance of the writing and the visual arts in each issue; distinctly different but equally resonant fine art forms that are perhaps best appreciated when one is complementing the other. We are happy to consider submissions to our magazine and for features on our site. For our magazine, we welcome fiction and creative nonfiction prose writing, poetry, and all mediums in the visual arts, including installation works. Galleries, you are welcome to submit the work of artists you represent. For our site, we seek posts by both visual artists and writers, on any aspect of your creative process.
Athenaeum Solo or Group Show: 2022-2023
Deadline: Rolling
The Athenaeum Gallery in Alexandria, Virginia exhibits visual arts created solely by artists living or working in the DMV region and strives to present visitors with a wide variety of excellent art and unique experiences. In addition to the shows curated by the Gallery Director, the Athenaeum Gallery invites artists and curators to submit show proposals. A curator, living or working anywhere, may submit a proposal for a show featuring works by artists living or working in this area. Entry fee is 40$.
Alper Initiative for Washington Art (AIWA)
Deadline: Rolling
We accept and review submissions on a rolling basis from Washington DC artists of all ages & backgrounds, and exploring different mediums. By submitting, your proposal will be added to the AIWA database and available for review by the museum’s Director & Curator, and to guest curators for potential inclusion in future AIWA exhibitions. On average, 1 out of 5 submissions is accepted for an exhibition or collaboration. Your submission will also be considered to be highlighted in the AU Museum blog. If you are selected, you will be notified via email. Solo, group, and curator proposals are all accepted. All submissions must be made online and by Washington, DC-area artists (no further than 60 miles outside of Washington, DC). Submissions made through any other platform, or that are incomplete, will not be accepted.