Deadline Driven Opportunities
MSAC Public Art Project Grants
Deadline: December 19
The Public Art Across Maryland (PAAM) New Artworks Grant offers funding to artists and organizations to support the planning, creation, and installation of new local public art projects. Project Grant awards up to $30,000 to organizations to support the fabrication and installation of new public artwork. The artwork must have been developed through a community process, and be fully designed including identification of the artist(s) creating the work.
Bristol Art Museum Paper Exhibit
Deadline: December 20
This national call invites artists to explore materials and artistic processes that reflect the hard, the composite, and the delicate. Works may incorporate paper as a medium or subject and engage with broader themes of strength, fragility, and transformation. Playful experimentation and innovative approaches will unify the exhibit, welcoming all styles—from non-objective to abstracted realism. $30 for the first entry.
SUNY Oneonta SLAB – Interdisciplinary Artist-in-Residence
Deadline: December 20
SUNY Oneonta School of Liberal Arts – Artist in Residency Program: SUNY Oneonta invites proposal submissions for short term residencies from artists working who engage music, visual art, and theater or dance in an interdisciplinary manner. Support Includes: Resident Stipend ($4,000 for 4-week stay)* Resident housing allowance deducted from stiped (up to $600 per 4 week period)** Budget for project materials—determined based on submitted budget (see below) Staff and student worker support—determined based on submitted project.
Open Call Group Exhibition: AFTER IMAGE 003 at after / time collective gallery
Deadline: December 21
After / time collective gallery, an artist-run gallery and experimental curatorial platform located in Downtown, Portland, Oregon is currently accepting submissions to its annual group exhibition AFTER IMAGE 003 in March 2025. As a curatorial act, the aim of After Image 003 is to challenge how viewers approach mediums, genres of art and modes of production in an age of increased fluidity and multi-hyphenation. The work submitted should demonstrate the way the artist is pushing against the limits of their chosen mediums, genres and forms of art.
Sundance Cultural Impact Residency
Deadline: December 20
Sundance Collab is designed to uplift early career underrepresented storytellers with a focus on creative, social and cultural impact and to galvanize them with opportunities, hope and creative support and inspiration. Six fellows will be selected: two screenwriters/TV writers, two writer/directors, and two documentary filmmakers. These fellows will receive two dedicated meetings with Sundance Advisors to provide feedback on their work, bi-monthly cohort meetings to check in and share work, one meeting with Michelle Satter, Founding Senior Director, Artist Programs at Sundance Institute, and one meeting with the applicable Sundance Artist Program staff.
The G. & A. Mamidakis Foundation Art Prize
Deadline: December 22
The Art Prize supports contemporary artists by offering them the opportunity to create a new, site-specific artwork which will remain on permanent display in Agios Nikolaos, Crete, will become part of the Foundation’s art collection, and will join an important cultural heritage as well. The selected proposal will stand out for its originality, creativity, and site-specificity. The 2025 Art Prize calls for site-specific, large-scale land art installations created to remain on permanent display outdoors, and become part of a specific, configured environment; works which narrate an internal path/route, and which can be reference points within their exhibition space. The 2025 prize is open to visual artists working in one or more of the following fields: land art, environmental art, ecological art, sculpture, sound and sculptural installation, mixed media, and artists working with natural materials, creating works that integrate art and nature with the aim of generating innovative experiences in open spaces.
Call for Scores: BNMI’s 15th Anniversary Celebration Commissioning Prize
Deadline: December 22
Composers interested in the competition should submit a score and recording (as applicable) of the best two minutes of their music. If selected, the composer may express a preference of instrumentation, but BNMI reserves the right to make final selections. New works will be for fixed media, solo, duet or trio including, flute, clarinet, saxophone, violin and cello. Additional instruments may be available at BNMI’s discretion. Composers wishing to submit scores must become members of BNMI; Whisper In Your Ear Membership is free and Shout It Out Membership is $45 a year.
Call for Composition: “Woman, Art, Resilience.”
Deadline: December 23
We invite women composers from around the world to submit their works for “Woman, Art, Resilience,” two concert events scheduled for Spring 2025 in Toronto and Aurora, Ontario, in honor of International Women’s Day. Works should be five to seven minutes in length. There is no entry fee.
Performing Artist in Residency: Max Planck Institute
Deadline: December 29
The INHABIT artist-in-residence program of the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics invites artists from the performing arts and music to collaborate with our team of scientists and researchers. The integration of artistic thinking and knowledge as reflective practices in their own right is an important dimension of the Institute’s mission. During the residency, the Institute will provide space, resources, and facilities for productive experimentation, dialogue, and collaboration. Artists will be given a fee of 8,000 euros and additional funds for accommodation.
Call for Papers: Artful Minds: Health and Well-Being
Deadline: December 31
We seek to investigate how cross-disciplinary approaches—merging insights from the arts, music, sciences, medicine, and healthcare—can uncover novel trajectories and transformative practices within the realm of health and well-being. This call for papers aims to highlight innovative methodologies, emerging trends, and impactful applications that emerge from this confluence of disciplines.
Deadline: December 31
Artists, architects, engineers, and all sorts of creative teams are welcome to participate in the 2025 Salisbury Prize public art competition. Thanks to funding provided by the Maryland State Arts Council, this annual competition will award $10,000 with an additional stipend for materials up to $5,000 (reimbursable). The City of Salisbury’s Public Art Committee and the Arts, Business, and Culture Department are seeking proposals for a substantial freestanding artwork. The Committee is especially interested in proposals that address one or more of the following themes: kinetic work, inclusion, disability access and awareness, and/or community engagement.
Subsidized Studio Residency in Brooklyn
Deadline: December 31
The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program awards rent-free non-living studio space to 17 visual artists for year-long residencies in DUMBO, Brooklyn. Artists must submit 5 clear images of their most recent work and a statement describing their need for a studio space.
Electric Spring Experimental Shorts Film Festival
Deadline: December 31
Electric Spring, in association with the Centre for Research in New Music (CeReNeM), is announcing an open call for experimental short films at Electric Spring 2025. We welcome short films with an experimental approach to any aspect of audio visual expression – visual, sound, narrative, genre, performance, theme… all approaches are encouraged for submission. Films selected by the jury will be screened at Electric Spring on the festivals 3.5m x 6.2m screen and utilise the Huddersfield Immersive Sound System (HISS). There is no submission fee.
Rochester Contemporary Art Center Call for Exhibition Proposals
Deadline: December 31
Applications should be sent with USBs and printed materials by mail. Special topic of interest: video, sound art, new media, environmental issues, mental health, Gentrification. In terms of video work, We are primarily interested to receive proposed programs consisting of several, single-channel video artworks curated around a theme or topic. We will consider all forms including but not limited to: experimental, documentary, animation, narrative, non-narrative, virtual reality, etc.
Deadline: December 31
Artists may work out of either Staten Island Makerspace and Futureworks Makerspace at the Brooklyn Army Terminal. Artists have access to fabrication tools at both facilities, will receive free tool training on equipment needed for their project, and be allocated a storage spot for their materials and work in progress. Additionally, artists or artist teams will receive a $750 material stipend. Up to 6 artists or artist teams will be selected to create an outdoor public art piece that will be installed in Makerpark for 1 year. This is an opportunity for artists to learn how to develop artwork suitable for outdoor, public display.
Da_sh editions / Musicando association: 4th International Composition Competition
Deadline: December 31
This new edition is open to works for choir / chamber choir. The aim of the competition is to discover new works and talented composers in order to promote their pieces through the realization of a new printed edition together with a new professional recording of the winning work. The winning composition will receive a 1000 € in cash prize and a première in a public concert in Rome – Italy.
Anna Rabinowitz Poetry & Art Prize
Deadline: December 31
The Anna Rabinowitz Prize is awarded to poets and their collaborators for venturesome, interdisciplinary work that was completed in the previous year and combines poetry with any other art or discipline. Work that qualifies includes but is not limited to books that blend visual art and poetry, original performances of dance and poetry (or dance based on poetry) and of music and poetry (including libretti based on poetry), as well as more eclectic collaborations involving poetry and technology, the sciences or math. The entry fee is $10.
Leonardo Journal Open Call: Special Sections on Diverse Perspectives
Deadline: December 31
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.
Full Fellowship Mudhouse Residency Award
Deadline: January 1
The Full Fellowship Award for 2025 includes accommodations, studio space and two meals each day for the two week duration of the residency at no cost to the artist. The artist is responsible for their own travel to the residency, and daily stipend for any groceries, art supplies or excursions outside of the village. The Mudhouse Residency sponsors two Full Fellowships for the 2025 season. The Full fellowship is determined by a selection committee based on the merit of the applicants work. There is a $10 application fee.
Festival Salinstrada: Call for Dancers & Performance Art
Deadline: January 1
The GIPSY RAW company in collaboration with PROLOCO and the municipality of Margherita Di Savoia is launching the second edition of the SALInSTRADA Festival (International Street Arts Festival). The festival comes to the streets of the magnificent town of Margherita di Savoia! 3 dynamic days where MARGHERITA DI SAVOIA will welcome all types of arts that can be presented in public space, whether theater, dance, circus, music, visual arts, or any other innovative artistic form! Companies from all over the world will stroll and exhibit themselves in the streets of the city!
Deadline: January 1
We are thrilled to be back in person for the 2024 Peabody Dance! Festival. The concert will take place at Joe Byrd Hall on 2/23/25 at 3 pm. To accommodate as many dance artists as possible, completed works should be no more than 7 minutes in length.
Reverie Magazine: Call for Art & Creative Writing
Deadline: January 1
We’re looking for poetry, prose, short fiction/non-fiction, and visual art from all over the world. Send us work that enthralls, beguiles — small wonders where they bud, stories the breadth of Saturn’s rings. Pieces that evoke, invoke, and provoke. Whatever you may dream of, write, and spin us away into a reverie.
The Neon Heater call for Solo shows
Deadline: January 1
The Neon Heater is a contemporary artist-run space in Findlay, OH with monthly exhibitions of conceptual & installation-based works, supporting painting, photography, video and new media. We are currently seeking proposals for solo artist and small group shows exploring contemporary issues such as identity, the climate, geopolitics, speculative futures, magic & spirituality. There is a $15 submission fee that directly supports programming and selected artists’ honorariums.
Composer’s Conference call for works
Deadline: January 1
The Composers Conference invites composers to submit TWO works for our 2025 Guest Composers Melinda Wagner and Felipe Lara to select up to eight Fromm Foundation Composer Fellows for the 2025 Composers Conference. Works may be in any medium; including recordings is strongly recommended. The 2025 Composers Conference will take place at Avaloch Farm Music Institute in Boscawen, New Hampshire, July 20-August 3, 2025. Accepted composers will receive a Fromm Foundation Fellowship, covering tuition and accommodations in full.
Some-Body | Open Call for all media Artists
Deadline: January 2
This exhibition will explore the concept of the body through deconstructing and reconstructing it. The collective piece that we’re intended to build is a Massive Exquisite Corpse that will stand approximately 5 meters tall (16 feet), composed of the body parts submitted by the artists. If you wish to participate in building the Massive Exquisite Corpse please submit up to 3 artworks that represent some body parts of your choice. Any size and media is welcome (drawing, painting, sculpture that can be hung on a wall, photography, video). Ensure that each piece you submit focuses on one specific body part; so you can create multiple artworks as long as each part stands alone (example, you submit 3 hands and each hand is in its own piece).
The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation (RRF) Archives Research Residency
Deadline: January 3
The Archives Research Residency supports continued scholarly and investigative use of Rauschenburg’s archival materials by supporting individuals that demonstrate a compelling need to use the archives and addressing financial barriers that may prohibit onsite access to the Archives. The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation (RRF) will provide one-time project-based support to scholars, academics, artists, and other researchers. RRF is interested in supporting wide and diverse use of the Rauschenberg Archives. The Archives Research Residency will provide partial support for research costs, expanding the range of individuals that are able to visit. Projects can range from traditional to innovative: exhibitions and publications; globalism and internationalism; inspiration for personal art practice; artistic collaboration and multi-disciplinary practices; underrepresented topics and audiences.
McColl Center’s Artist-in-Residence
Deadline: January 3
Artists-in-Residence receive private housing adjacent to McColl Center, a large-scale private studio in our historic building in Uptown Charlotte, curatorial guidance, marketing and PR support, and a generous stipend. While in residency, our artists have the freedom to fully focus on artistic research, exploration, and creation while also engaging with McColl Center’s Igniters community and the local creative sector. While in residence, artists also have access to our shared labs and studios including: a 3D Lab (3D printer and laser cutter); Ceramics + Sculpture Studio; Darkroom; Media Lab with a large-scale printer and the Woodshop.
Request for Proposals: Estherville, Iowa Mural Project
Deadline: January 3
This mural will be an energetic, bright, and welcoming piece of Estherville’s downtown. Conceptual Sketches of the mural are requested as part of the application. $4,000 – 50% to be paid upon starting and 50% within 2 weeks of completion of the mural. This fee includes all materials, artist fee, and any lodging while in Estherville.
Shadows Of My Labor: Honoring Black History Month Exhibition
Deadline: January 5
All mediums of artwork will be considered for this exhibit, the only requirement is that the artwork is made by Black or African American Artists in the Maryland or D.C. area. There are also no restrictions on size as long as the work can be properly installed in the gallery, and nontraditional mediums are welcomed. Artwork must have been created within the last 2 years.
Deadline: January 5
CINEVOX is dedicated to sharing innovative new dance films from around the world with Portland’s ever-expanding dance audience. Applications are $25.
Deadline: January 6
We offer residencies to professional creative artists from all nations and backgrounds working in one or more of the following disciplines: choreography, film, literature, musical composition, painting, performance, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and video. Artists apply individually. Peer review is the keystone of our selection process, with different panelists each season. Residencies last from two weeks to two months and include room, board and a studio. The nonrefundable application fee is $35.
Vera List Center for Art and Politics Open Call
Deadline: January 6
The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School is pleased to announce its 2025–2027 Focus Theme, Matter of Intelligence, and Open Call. Projects submitted in the first round will be considered for the VLC Fellowship, as well as a range of other programs, including the center’s seminar series, exhibitions, annual VLC Forum, and digital or print publications. A limited number of applications will advance to the second round and be invited to submit full proposals for fellowship commission projects. The VLC Fellowship stipend for this cycle has been increased to $25,000.
Deadline: January 6
The goal of the project is to commission artwork that enhances the bridge, an indoor transitional space that connects the Boettcher Memorial Center and the Freyer – Newman Center. In particular, the artwork should creatively celebrate the Gardens and its work, as well as invite and encourage visitors to enter the space and cross the bridge into the Freyer – Newman Center. Artists are encouraged to use biophilic design strategies that support overall wellbeing through color, pattern and subject matter. Biophilic design is the practice of connecting people and nature within our built environments and communities. The commission amount for an artist or artist team is $40,000.00 USD.
UCLA Film & Television Archive’s Artist-in-Residence Program
Deadline: January 6
The UCLA Film & Television Archive’s Artist-in-Residence Program will host an emerging artist for two weeks on-site at the Archive’s locations in Santa Clarita at the Packard Humanities Institute and in Westwood on the UCLA campus during the late spring of 2025 to activate the Archive’s collection in their artistic practice. The 2025 artist-in-residence will work exclusively with one or a combination of three specific collections: the Hearst Metrotone News Collection, In the Life LGBTQ+ Collection and KTLA Newsfilm Collection. The program will provide the artist with the time and support necessary to access and work with these unique collections, creating a project that will reach new audiences and make connections with Los Angeles’ cultural community. To support these core activities, the Archive will provide an honorarium of $10,750 for the selected artist-in-residence. The artist-in-residence will be responsible for booking their travel and lodging, and may use their honoraria for these expenses at their discretion. There is no application fee.
CCA Artist Residencies Uzbekistan
Deadline: January 7
CCA Artist Residencies in collaboration with Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation is announcing the open call for the Artist Residencies programme. Applicants should submit a project proposal, outlining a specific research interest and intention for the residency. Artists, Curators and Researchers are welcome to apply. This opportunity offers fully funded 8 weeks residencies at Artist Residencies, Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Accepted applicants will have their accommodations and travel fully funded.
Golden Triangle Business Improvement District Request for Qualifications: Art at the Intersection
Deadline: January 8
The Golden Triangle Business Improvement District (BID) is seeking qualifications from an artist or artist team to design, fabricate, install, and ultimately de-install a two-year temporary public art installation at the prominent intersection of Connecticut Avenue and K Streets, NW, to be installed in 2026. This bustling urban location, known for its high visibility to both pedestrian and vehicular traffic, offers a prime opportunity for impactful and iconic public art. The selected artist should bring fresh energy to this location while contributing to the site’s ongoing reputation as a landmark for public art. Budgets of up to $125,000 will be considered for the project.
BoPA Call for Screenwriters Competition
Deadline: January 8
Short form scripts have a $25 entry fee, feature films have a $50 fee. Short form film scripts should not exceed 30 pages. More than one screenplay may be submitted by the same author(s). However, a separate completed and signed Entry Form and Entry Fee must accompany each submission. The screenplay submissions must be the original work of the applicant and may not be based, in whole or in part, on any other work for which the writer does not own the rights. Cash prizes for winners.
City of Tampa RFQ Osborne Underpass
Deadline: January 10
The mural site is located along Osborne Avenue between Central Avenue and Nebraska Avenue in Tampa, Florida, is located in a neighborhood that is diverse and evolving. The area generally reflects a mix of residential, commercial, and industrial characteristics. Overall, the neighborhood between Florida Avenue and Nebraska Avenue on Osborne Avenue is a vibrant and diverse area with a range of residential and commercial characteristics. The proposed location for the artwork are the gravity walls under the interstate, both approximately measuring 211 feet x 8 feet for a commissioned artwork. The project budget is $140,000; this amount is to cover artwork on both gravity walls including prep work (pressure washing and priming) and all expenses.
Call for Scores: Clarinet and Piano
Deadline: January 10
The International Association for the Study of Words and Music (WMA) invites all composers to submit a duo for clarinet and piano to be performed at a concert during the association’s fourteenth biennial meeting at the University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia, May 29-31, 2025. WMA meetings have regularly featured such a concert since 2007. Compositions may be in one or more movements, with a total duration between 8 and 12 minutes. There is no application fee.
Upper Arlington Galleries Call for Artists
Deadline: January 10
Upper Arlington’s gallery spaces serve to highlight the City’s ongoing commitment to the arts through revolving and diverse exhibits that are educational, engaging, and accessible for all residents and visitors. The City of Upper Arlington offers two galleries for visual artists to share their work with the Upper Arlington community. Nestled within the Municipal Services Center, this space remains dedicated to providing a platform for professional, emerging, and student artists to showcase their creations in a variety of mediums. Free and accessible to all, this gallery encourages engagement with the community through the arts. The galleries are open to 2D, 3D, and installation work.
European Media Art Festival 2025
Deadline: January 10
We are looking forward to receiving works from the areas of Film, Installation and Expanded (live projects such as performances, interactive works, or workshops). From the next edition of the Festival, we will be reorganising the awarding of prizes. Up to now, the three festival prizes have been awarded from among all the films selected for the International Competition. In future, we will divide the available prize money equally among all the short and medium-length films selected for what will be known as the International Selection. These films will be equal winners of the EMAF Award and will receive €400 each.
Open: 2025 Aperture Portfolio Prize
Deadline: January 10
Photographers can submit up to 15 images with title information to submit. The only requirement for entering the Portfolio Prize is to be an Aperture magazine print subscriber. Subscriptions must be current through Aperture 258, Spring 2025.
Artist—Wilderness—Connection Residency
Deadline: January 10
The goal of the Artist—Wilderness—Connection Residency is to connect artists with the public and our wild lands in Northwest Montana. There are four cabins that offer different experiences with the wilderness. To date, 56 artists have participated in the program, which consists of three components: Artist Residency, Forest Experience, and Community Extension. There is no application fee.
Tiger Strikes Asteroid: Call for Solo Show Proposals
Deadline: January 10
Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York (Brooklyn, NY) is excited to announce our 2025 open call for one Solo Exhibition. The solo exhibition will run from July 19 – August 17, 2025. The exhibition will include a $500 reimbursable exhibition budget and professional installation shots. There is a $35 application fee. We will prioritize underrepresented artists, works that uniquely activate the space, and works that are not viable in traditional commercial markets. We encourage artists from all educational backgrounds to apply, and we are excited to see work from artists based across the United States and internationally. The artist chosen for the solo exhibition will work closely with a team of curators at TSA NY to prepare for their show.
Tanzplattform Bern 2025 – International Dance Festival and Competition for Choreographers
Deadline: January 11
Submissions are open for the 10th edition Bern Ballett Call for Applications for Tanzplattform Bern – International Dance Festival and Competition for Choreographers. Performances should be 15 to 30 minutes and for 2 to 6 dancers. The chosen choreographers will obtain a performance fee, travel costs and accommodation.
Deadline: January 11
A Media Quilt Project @ 410 Lofts Gallery is seeking short video clips from Baltimore area residents. This large-scale participatory media project will utilize the concept of a traditional quilt through submissions and the lens of current video technology. Through this open call media artist Mandy Morrison and curator Aleem Allison will select a collection of short videos that explore themes commonly portrayed in traditional quilts, such as comfort, friendship, love, gratitude, history, family, inequality, emotional and physical scarring, and loss. Using video mapping, these individual short videos will be organized into a large projected time-based “Media Quilt” to be projected in Gallery 410, a Bromo Arts District gallery space with large street-facing windows. The installation is set to run from February 4 – April 6, 2025, with an opening on February 4, 6-8:30 PM.
Deadline: January 11
The Colorado Photographic Arts Center (CPAC) seeks work for an open call for the 2025 Month of Photography Denver Festival (MOP). CPAC will be digitally projecting selected work on to the Daniels & Fisher Tower on 16th Street Mall in downtown Denver as part of Night Lights Denver during the entire month of March 2025. We invite photographers of all skill levels to submit their work. The theme is open ended. This outdoor exhibition is meant to celebrate all types of the photographic medium and a means of expression for the festival.
2025 Anderson Center Residency
Deadline: January 14
Founded in 1995, the Anderson Center has renovated and restored Tower View’s historic buildings to support working artists and the creative process. A renovated barn serves as a performance and event venue, the historic main residence houses artists-in-residence, and fifteen acres support a sculpture garden. The Residency Program provides artists, writers, musicians, and performers of exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishment with dedicated time and space to create, advance, or complete new work. In addition to community engagement activities through the artist residency program, the organization’s additional outreach programs create connections and integrate the arts into community life through local partnerships. There is a $30 application fee.
McGuffey Art Center Mid-Atlantic Show
Deadline: January 15
This theme-free competition is open for the following categories: painting, drawing, photography/printmaking, fiber, sculpture and mixed media. 2D Entries should not exceed 6 feet in any direction. No entry that requires the artist to be present for moving or assembly will be accepted. A non-refundable application fee of $35.00 covers up to three (3) submissions per artist.
Hambidge Center Composers Residency
Deadline: January 15
For its 2025 Summer Residency Session (June – Aug), the Hambidge Center is offering the Lee and Margaret Echols Distinguished Fellowship for Musicians which waives the fee for a two-week residency and provides a $700 stipend for an outstanding first-time Hambidge resident. There is a $30 application fee.
Fluxus Museum for Experimental Video
Deadline: January 15
Fluxus Museum encourages applications across art forms, whether you’re a visual artist, dancer, performance artist, filmmaker, animator, writer, actor, musician or none of the above, we look forward to considering your proposals. We welcome all proposals which are in the experimental spirit of Fluxus, but not in any way bound by any particular understanding of Fluxus; proposals do not need to reference Fluxus directly in any way. 20-40 proposals will be selected from this initial application and those artists will be awarded €600 each to assist them in executing their proposal. We welcome works in progress as proposals for this new work. There are no submission fees.
Marvels of Media Festival for Autistic Media Artists
Deadline: January 15
Museum of the Moving Image’s Marvels of Media Festival is part of the Marvels of Media initiative, which showcases, celebrates, and supports autistic media makers of all ages and skill sets. This festival is an opportunity to recognize the outstanding and creative media work of autistic media-makers through film screenings and in-depth panel discussions.
2026 Sculpture Space Artist Residency Program
Deadline: January 15
SCULPTURE SPACE in Utica, New York offers two-month residencies for sculpture artists from February to November 2024. You’ll have access to a 5,500 sq. ft. shared studio with specialized equipment, along with six semi-private studios. We host Open Studio receptions and welcome visits from artists, curators, and writers. The current stipend for this residency is $750 USD.
Orlando Contemporary Chamber Orchestra (OCCO) 2024-25 Call For Scores
Deadline: January 15
The Orlando Contemporary Chamber Orchestra invites composers of all ages and nationalities to submit their work for programming consideration on OCCO’s Summer 2025 season. No travel or award money is available for this call. Audio recordings of the concerts will be made available to all programmed composers.
Life After Oil International Film Festival
Deadline: January 15
LIFE AFTER OIL International Film Festival is an environmental & human rights film festival. Submissions are free in all categories.
2025 Single Channel Video Festival: Call for Work “Resistance”
Deadline: January 15
Snake House VT is an artist-run collaborative based in Vermont dedicated to supporting underrepresented artists through exhibitions, performances, screenings, and other events and projects. We are looking for work that takes up the project of resistance, in the un/knowable breadth of what that may mean. There is a $15 entry fee.
Rolling Deadlines
MSAC Professional Development Grants
Deadline: Rolling
The Professional Development Opportunity Grant assists artists and arts organizations in implementing best practices by embracing growth, learning, and discovery for economic sustainability. The Professional Development Opportunity Grant will open for FY25 applications starting July 1, 2024, through April 30, 2025. Artists and orgs can be awarded up to $2,000.
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 Broadway call for Solo Shows
Deadline: Rolling
Arts on Broadway invites you to apply for a juried exhibition in our distinct space in Midtown Kansas City, MO. This is a national art exhibition open to emerging, mid-career, or established artists. All media is welcome in our 2500 sq/ft space. Exhibitions are for one month. All work should be original and for sale.
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.