Deadline Driven Opportunities
Deadline: April 5
Maryland Art Place (MAP) is excited to announce Out of Order (OOO), MAP’s Annual Spring Benefit Exhibition & Silent Auction, on Friday, April 11, 2025, at 6 o’clock in the evening. This year marks the 28th year of OOO. The auction will be both a virtual and physical exhibition and will be held in the MAP building located at 218 West Saratoga Street, just within the Bromo Arts District. OOO is a highly celebrated exhibition-event, and a ‘one-night-only’ opportunity for patrons and collectors to acquire contemporary art at unbelievably low silent auction prices. Any artist is welcome to hang one original work of art on a first-come, first-served basis. Installation will take place Saturday, April 5, 2025, from 7am-midnight. We will have donuts and coffee for the early birds. No need to sign up in advance, just come by MAP’s first- floor gallery space @ 218 West Saratoga Street in the Bromo Arts District! You must be able to install your own work on April 5th to participate in the exhibition.
Arroscia Residency Italy Fall 2025
Deadline: April 5
The Arroscia Residency an artist run, 501(c)(3), non-profit corporation open to all emerging and mid-career artists whose focus is on one or more of the following disciplines: painting, sculpture, drawing, collage, fiber art, photography, installations, and/or mixed media work. There is a $25.00 entry fee.
Deadline: April 5
ALL MEDIUMS and modes of expression are welcome (from abstraction to illustrative, surreal, and beyond). For this show wall mounted works must not be taller than 55″ no wider than 48″. There is a $25.00 entry fee for two artworks entered. Selected artists will be featured in a group exhibition at the Verum Ultimum Art Gallery in Portland, Oregon. There will be an opening reception.
Deadline: April 6
Applications are open for Fluid Earth, the title of GroundWork Gallery’s fifth annual artist residency and exhibition programme for 2025. It builds on our track-record of environmental art residencies which have taken a strongly inter-disciplinary approach. We welcome broad and imaginative approaches to the subject. The Fluid Earth GroundWork Residency runs overall from 4 August – 12 September. During this time, each selected artist is required to join in with a research week from 4-9 August, followed by a choice of venue for the production phase for 10 days.
Print Center NY Call for early career curator proposals
Deadline: April 6
Print Center New York invites emerging and early-career curators to submit letters of interest for exhibition opportunities beginning in 2028. Through this curatorial open call—the first in our organization’s history—we aim to identify promising voices and areas of research that are pushing our field forward, and to accelerate professional opportunities for curators who are building the print exhibition and scholarship of tomorrow.
IN-SONORA Call for experimental programming proposals
Deadline: April 7
In 20 years of IN-SONORA’s trajectory, we are still eager to give support and visibility to experimental artistic proposals related to interactive and sound art. All of the proposals should already be completed or the artist should have all of the means for their presentation. Any unfinished pieces that are selected must be finished by the end of 2025.The formats (disciplines) available for this open call are: Event, Sound Piece, Video, Workshop, or Panel.
Deadline: April 7
Hybrida AIR is an visual artist residency program in Älvsbacka, in the west of Sweden, ongoing annually since 2021. This year we offer five international visual artists a chance to work alongside each other during one month, after which the outcomes are presented in an exhibition. The exhibition is also part of our festival program. The residency provides a fee and a budget for travel and materials, as well as providing the food and housing during the residency.
Call for Submissions: Femme-Inspired Group Exhibition at under the pale blue
Deadline: April 8
under the pale blue, a contemporary art gallery based in Ridgewood, is now accepting submissions for our upcoming femme-inspired group exhibition. This show will celebrate the voices, perspectives, and talents of female and non-binary identifying artists across all artistic practices. This call is open to all artistic mediums. There is a $20 application fee.
Deadline: April 10
FMR – Festival for Art in Digital Contexts and Public Spaces is a biennial festival showcasing artistic processes and positions that reflect the ephemeral nature of our digitally connected present. The continuous digitalization of everyday life creates an intense overlap and layering of familiar physical and intricately interwoven digital spaces. FMR focuses on the shifts, distortions, and rifts that arise in this process and presents contemporary artistic perspectives in this context. The upcoming 4th edition of the festival will focus on four themes: Digital Afterlife and Immortality, Future Archaeology and Digital Artifacts; Digital Deceleration, Isolation, and the New Idyll; AI Societies, Power Structures, and Resistance.
Deadline: April 10
KODA offers an artist residency program for two mid-career (30 years or older), female-identifying and/or non-binary artists who create conceptual and socially engaged work. The Fall 2025 residency will span from August 1-October 31, 2025. The program is placed under the theme of Peace-Building. KODA is a Brooklyn-founded nomadic social practice nonprofit arts organization focusing on conceptual mid-career artists ingrained in social justice. KODA offers survey exhibitions as well as tailor-made and community-based artist residencies, through dedicated collaborations with socially engaged partners. This residency offers an Honorarium in the amount of $1,000.
2025 Wrangell Mountains Artist Residency
Deadline: April 11
The Wrangell Mountains Center (WMC) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is connecting people with wildlands through art, science, and education in Alaska. The Wrangell Mountains Residency Program aims to support visual artists of all genres, performers, and writers. The residency will provide unrestricted work time and space to focused individuals. We invite applicants from a diversity of backgrounds with creative and inquisitive minds who will both add to and benefit from the interdisciplinary efforts at our campus in McCarthy, Alaska and the surrounding Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. Please consider how you might engage with the local ecology, community, or history before applying. There is a $25 entry fee.
Fringe Arts Bath Festival 2025
Deadline: April 11
About FaB: Fringe Arts Bath (FaB) is a test bed for new ideas, a platform for early career curators and artists, and those who prefer to operate outside the gallery-based art scene. Follow the link to read short descriptions of the 20+ exhibitions, projects and events we are supporting for the Fringe Arts Bath Festival programme 2025.
Call for Queer/BIPOC Artists: Hot Bits
Deadline: April 13
OPEN CALL FOR QTBIPOC Baltimore-Based Artists! Artists are invited to submit up to 7 images of their 2D artwork for the Hot Bits 2025 Exhibition at The Club Car. This exhibition is in conjunction with the Hot Bits Film Fest’s Baltimore tour stop, taking place May 16- May 17, 2025 at the Parkway Theatre. Emerging artists are encouraged to apply. Hot Bits is a traveling queer porn film festival organized by a majority QTIBIPoC (queer, trans, intersex, Black, Indigenous, People of Color) all volunteer collective who design sex-positive experiences centering QTIBIPoC self determined desire, joy, and pleasure. We operate under a DIT (do-it-together) ethos of care for ourselves, each other, and community.
Call for Art: It’s Not Easy Being Green
Deadline: April 13
Conversations about climate change dominate the global agenda. From corporate greenwashing to debates about single use plastics, carbon footprints and environmentally-sustainable living, Kermit the Frog’s singular line “It’s Not Easy Being Green” takes on a whole new meaning. The selected proposals will be reproduced at scale and displayed for millions to see on public sites traditionally reserved for advertising across the UK and Brazil. This is an opportunity for artistic exposure on a grand scale and to be part of a national conversation.
Velvet Park Visual Artist Residency
Deadline: April 13
They are awarding two terms for this residency. A 6 week residency from (July – August) and a 4 month residency from (September – December). They are open to the following disciplines: Digital Art (Still), Video/ Film/ Animation, 3D Works/ Sculpture, Drawing/ Painting/ Illustration or Interdisciplinary. There is a $25 application fee.
Deadline: April 14
Artists may work in drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, new media, written or spoken word, or interdisciplinary practices. Artists are limited to two residencies at McColl Center. Selected artists receive: • $6,000 living, materials, and travel stipend (United States-based artists only; due to the limitations of visas, international artists may not qualify for a stipend but may be eligible to receive reimbursement of qualified expenses, such as airfare, ground transportation, supplies, and meals.) • Furnished apartment (for artists from outside the greater Charlotte area) • 24-hour access to a private studio with Wi-Fi and common use areas • Participation in a group exhibition on the second floor of McColl Center • Photo and social media documentation • Professional curatorial guidance • Opportunities to engage with McColl Center audiences via public programs.
Deadline: April 14
The Centre for Advanced Study inherit.heritage in transformation, a BMBF-funded Käte Hamburger Kolleg based at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, explores historical, contemporary, and potential future transformations in heritage. inherit’s work is guided by its intellectual agenda (PDF), which sets out the Centre’s context, rationale, and aims. Annually, up to fifteen international fellows engage in research activities at the Centre. Fellowships for 2026-7 will run from 1 October 2026 until 31 July 2027. Applications for fellowships should address the topic of Addressing Heritage Loss. Applications should also relate to one or more of our guiding themes: decentering the west, decentering the human, and transforming value. Successful projects are likely to be based in original empirical or archival study/analysis of source material (which may have already been undertaken) or creative work.
Underwater Sculpture Garden Round 4
Deadline: April 15
An artist/artist team will design and fabricate a sculpture that will be displayed at the beach for a one year. After a year, it will be submerged into the ocean and attached to Lady Luck in Shipwreck Park. Artist will need to provide and work with an engineer if necessary. Artist will also need to contact Shipwreck Park and South Florida Diving Headquarters for details on connecting the artwork as part of the final approval process. The City will supply an additional $7,000.00 towards the installation, documentation, and other fees associated with the sinking and attaching of the artwork to Lady Luck.
Science New Wave Film Festival
Deadline: April 15
Each October, the Science New Wave presents 64 visionary films from around the world that push the boundaries of scientific storytelling. Celebrating its 18th edition, this annual festival is held in New York and on the Labocine platform, uniting filmmakers, scientists, and audiences in a vibrant celebration of the convergence of science and cinema. There is a $30 application fee.
Climate Studio 2025 Residency – Call for Applicants
Deadline: April 15
The ideal candidate will have at least two years of demonstrated experience working on issues related to climate science, climate literacy, or climate justice. They will be interested in engaging in interdisciplinary, intergenerational collaboration, and bringing their work to a wider public audience. You will be collaborating with other disciplinary professionals and Climate Studio Youth Fellows from Beam Center, NYC, in one of three cohorts connected to our 2025 themes. Residents will be provided with an honorarium of $4,000. In addition, we can provide needs-based travel support. Housing will not be provided. Space to collaborate and fabrication tools at the Pratt Institute, along with access to the project’s network of mentors and partners, will be available throughout the residency period.
Call for Art: The Artist & The Garden
Deadline: April 15
The artist and the garden, a timeless theme throughout the centuries, has been expressed with many different artistic styles. However, this show is looking for your contemporary interpretation of this concept. Core Art Space Invites all artists of any mediums, 2D & 3D (except video/Installations). Entry fee is $35.00.
Method Gallery Call for Solo Shows
Deadline: April 15
METHOD Gallery is excited to announce an open call is to select artists for 6-8 week long exhibitions during our 2026 and 2027 seasons. METHOD Gallery is committed to providing a platform for diverse voices and fostering a thriving arts community. We’re looking for artists either who work primarily in installation or who are excited to translate their current practice into installation. Strong proposals will clearly communicate how the artist will transform METHOD Gallery, creating for audiences new ideas of what artistic expression and gallery experiences can hold. METHOD seeks to provide a platform for work that embraces process, material, and concept while activating the gallery space.
Graves Mill Farm: Late Spring / Early Summer Residency
Deadline: April 15
The Graves Mill Farm Residency is a fully funded retreat for writers and visual artists at all stages of their careers. It seeks to inspire participants through the power of the natural world, and to foster creativity through both solitude and community. We seek artists who are dedicated to their craft, and are eager to engage with nature. Participants can expect to work privately through the day, while also interacting daily in our communal spaces and at evening meals. Everyone is invited — but not required — to share their work. Participants are encouraged explore the 2,000-acre farm property, and adjoining forests, for inspiration in their work.
Deadline: April 15
The bi-annual journal features the works of women + non-binary creatives. Submissions can range from: poetry, art, short fiction, CNF, photography, comics and more. To submit, please follow this link. Once completed, we will get back to you in a timely manner regarding the acceptance and/or rejection of your submission(s). Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but notify us promptly if accepted elsewhere. Previously published works are not accepted (social media does not count as formal publication). Submissions are only open to U.S residents identifying as women and/or non-binary.
440 Gallery open call for Sacred Space
Deadline: April 16
440 Gallery announces an open Call for Artists for the 2025 Annual Theme Show. The topic for the national juried exhibition is Sacred Space. Artwork selected for exhibition will be on display at our Brooklyn gallery space July 10 – August 2, 2025. Artists at all levels of experience and career stages are invited to submit work in all mediums. The fee is $25 for the first artwork; $10 for each additional work 2, 3, 4, 5; $5 for each additional work up to 10 works total. Entry fees are non-refundable.
Deadline: April 16
This highly competitive program provides a private studio space at no cost with access to Mudflat’s facility, a monthly materials stipend, a monthly housing stipend, and opportunities to teach and sell work. Applicants should have knowledge of a variety of clay techniques and some kiln firing experience, the ability to work independently, and enthusiasm and willingness to be part of an urban community clay center.
2025 A4 Residency Art Center Re-Act Program Open Call
Deadline: April 17
ReAct is an experimental art project centered on communication, response, and creation. It invites the public and artists to co-create through open-ended instruction collection and secondary creation, making art a shared, fluid, and action-driven experience. The project originates from Passing Game, initiated by A4 Residency in 2021. In the context of pandemic isolation, it explored ways to transcend geographical and linguistic barriers to foster open and interactive exchanges. How to Participate: Submit your creative instructions, and A4 International Residency Art Center will recruit the public and other artists to participate. The instructions must be open-source, meaning that with proper attribution to the original proposal, you must grant permission for others to complete or reinterpret your idea through secondary creation.
Deadline: April 18
What does it mean to make art at a time when govt, media, industry, the platforms we use to connect, and even mainstream art institutions, are dominated by the very rich? Old Walls Gallery invites artists to explore these questions in our upcoming show Art the Rich. There is a $30 entry fee.
Call for Solo Proposals: Legacies of Landscape
Deadline: April 18
The Oresman Gallery, located in the Smith College Department of Art, is an exhibition space dedicated to showing new work by emerging and established artists (who are not currently enrolled in a degree bearing program). The Oresman is currently seeking proposals in any media, for solo show opportunities for our Spring 2026-Spring 2028 exhibition season. The theme is Legacies of Landscape and New Approaches to landscapes: Whether playing with traditional forms, contested legacies, emergent spaces, oceanic narratives, ecologies, urban planning, the anthropocene, technological landscapes…the visual category of Landscapes continue to shift, recall the past, and be seen through new forms and hybrid spaces. We ask artists in this call to consider how their work might speak to the Landscape Reimagined, Landscape Emergent… The Oresman Gallery will provide artists with a remuneration of up to $400 to cover documented exhibition costs, which will be paid as a reimbursement. Exhibitors are responsible for arranging transport, installing and de-installing their work. The gallery is 12’ x 20’ with 10’ walls, and one window wall. Exhibiting artists are also encouraged to give a public artist lecture that can be arranged during their exhibition period for which there is a $400 artist honorarium.
Call for Art– Gimmie More: The Eras of American Consumption
Deadline: April 18
Gimmie More: The Eras of American Consumption invites artists to engage, critique, wrestle with, and face our relationship with consumption through visual media. We welcome submissions from artists working in all disciplines whose work engage with the theme(s) of the exhibition. Each submission should include a statement detailing how the work connects to these themes, enriching the curatorial process and offering deeper engagement for the audience.
Deadline: April 18
Welcome to Women X, not just any film festival, but a vibrant exhibition of independent cinema nestled in the North of England. We’re all about spotlighting the incredible talents of women and gender nonconforming filmmakers, bringing their diverse and groundbreaking stories to the big screen. There is a $33 entry fee.
Deadline: April 18
MAXmachina is a lab where storytellers, artists, scientists, and creative technologists expand live performance, creating work that uses science and technology to explore the promise and peril of our rapidly changing world. Projects include music, dance, experimental and immersive performance. We support work at various phases of development but projects must be past the initial concept or planning phase. Projects must include a live component. Projects must interrogate or integrate technology or science in some way. Projects cannot have been previously performed in New York City.
RFQ: Colorado State University, Veterinary Health & Education Complex
Deadline: April 18
Qualifications are requested from artists interested in creating artworks for the Veterinary Health and Education Complex at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. Multiple artworks will be commissioned and the total funding available is up to $325,000.
F-VaCe Experimental Film Festival
Deadline: April 19
F-VaCe was born thanks to the support and work of former students of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Salamanca, as a way to take advantage of and disseminate the degree works, and to exhibit our artistic research to the public. F-Vace is a platform dedicated to video art and experimental cinema, which studies and projects innovative artistic-conceptual proposals. We focus on addressing the transformations of the audiovisual medium, especially those that move away from commercial cinema. Therefore, we invite creators and authors of all kinds to present their works in the first edition of F-VaCe. We will accept proposals on any subject, as long as they have a conceptual-experimental character.
Deadline: April 20
Applicants will be judged on the following criteria: artistic value, relevance (understanding of the theme – Being Transformative), originality, pedagogy (ability to get a message across and raise awareness), social and participative approaches (engagement, testimony, efficiency, societal dynamics), eco-design and feasibility. The COAL Prize supports artistic projects in progress. The award is not intended to cover all production costs of the project but should be considered as an aid to its development. The winning artist of the COAL Prize receives an endowment of 12,000 euros and a creative residency at the heart of the Domaine de Belval, owned by the François Sommer Foundation, led by the scientific and educational teams of the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature and the Domaine de Belval.
Handmade Photobook Exhibition 2025
Deadline: April 20
Handmade photography books transcend the digital realm, offering a tangible and deeply personal experience. They are more than mere collections of images; they are crafted narratives. The unique quality of a handmade photobook lies in its tactile nature, where texture, style, and craft converge. Entrants may submit up to three different titles that are handmade photobooks of any size, format, or style. Handmade books are not published by any online, commercial publisher, but are uniquely built by the artist. The entry fee is $35.00.
Request for Qualifications: Public art commission for Rhode Island College Gaige Hall
Deadline: April 21
In 2017, with multiple new construction and renovation projects on the horizon, the college tasked the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts to work with the faculty and staff in creating a public art master plan for the campus. RISCA staff worked closely with the Steering Committee, conducting numerous listening sessions with faculty, staff, and students on campus. Of note, the plan places emphasis on artworks that convey “freshness”, “newness” and “vitality”; improve engagement, connectedness, and community on campus; align with Rhode Island College’s mission; offer opportunities for all to participate by placing art in accessible locations; and meets sustainability goals. Budget: $229,000 all inclusive.
RFQ/RFP Wall-based artworks: Concourses & Suites at Buffalo Bills Highmark Stadium
Deadline: April 21
The Buffalo Bills Public Art Program seeks to commission professional visual artists, or artist teams, to create new site-specific public artwork(s) to be placed in (new) Highmark Stadium. This artwork will be thematic, public-facing, and part of the permanent collection at the Stadium. Through an open Call for Artists Request for Qualifications (RFQ) / Request for Proposals (RFP) process, the Public Art Program will solicit applicants, review portfolios, and select qualified artists or artist teams who can innovatively and thoughtfully design within the context of the new stadium.
Field Projects Solo Exhibition Residency
Deadline: April 21
Field Projects (NYC) is teaming up with In Situ Polyculture Commons, an arts residency and eco-cultural catalyst (Southeastern Vermont) to offer our inaugural 2025 Solo Show & Residency Fellowship. This opportunity includes a 2-4 week art residency in Vermont, plus a 5-week solo exhibition for an individual artist or collaborative group of up to 4 people, as well as a stipend of $1000 to be used as the artist sees fit. Projects should already be underway as a work in progress.
The John O. Calmore Creative Activism Artist Residency
Deadline: April 21
The John O. Calmore Creative Activism Artist Residency at McColl Center is seeking citizen-artists who are dedicated to addressing social justice issues through their creative practice. The residency aims to emphasize the ways in which art and artists can serve as catalysts for social action, problem-solving, and relationship building. This opportunity is open international arts professionals 21+ years of age, showing a strong professional working history of socially and/or politically engaged artmaking. We welcome diverse artistic themes and disciplines rooted in the principles of risk-taking, creative expression, and critical thinking. This residency will culminate in an exhibition based in Toronto, Canada. Artists may work in drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, new media, or interdisciplinary practices. There is a $35 application fee.
Deadline: April 21
The St. Elmo Arts Residency within the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin offers one fellowship each academic year to a recent MFA graduate specializing in painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, sculpture, or multimedia. The residency includes a $30,000 stipend, accommodations at a charming house and studio situated in a small artist community in the St. Elmo district of South Austin, a two-semester part-time teaching position at the University of Texas at Austin in the Art and Art History Department, access to UT academic and art lab resources, and a solo exhibition at the Visual Arts Center in the Spring of 2026.
Rolling Deadlines
Maryland Hall Exhibit Submission
Deadline: Rolling
Do you have an exhibition you’d like to bring to Maryland Hall? For consideration in our Galleries, please fill out the form below and our programming team will get back to you if you are in consideration or if we require further information. Please note gallery shows are planned 6-18 months in advance and submissions are subject to approval. Do you have an exhibition you’d like to bring to Maryland Hall? For consideration in our Galleries, please fill out the form below and our programming team will get back to you if you are in consideration or if we require further information. Please note gallery shows are planned 6-18 months in advance and submissions are subject to approval.
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.
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.