Deadline Driven Opportunities
Deadline: September 10
The Base Residency is an immersive, two-week residency experience at Base in Seattle. The program encourages movement-based artists to explore new and risk-taking ideas, expand on existing ones, and/or take time to deepen their artistic practice or creative work. Artist fee of $2,000, travel and lodging for three artists (plus one collaborator each) located outside of the greater Seattle area, creative and/or professional development consultation and mentorship.
MacDowell Residency/Fellowship
Deadline: September 10
MacDowell provides time, space, and an inspiring residential environment to artists of exceptional talent. A MacDowell Fellowship, or residency, consists of exclusive use of a studio, accommodations, and three prepared meals a day for up to eight weeks.
The Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship
Deadline: September 10
The Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program offers scientists, writers, scholars, public intellectuals, and artists a rare chance to pursue ambitious projects for a full academic year in a vibrant interdisciplinary setting amid the resources of Harvard University. Fellows receive a stipend of $78,000 plus an additional $5,000 to cover project expenses.
Deadline: September 10
Black Box Gallery is excited to announce a Black and White juried group photo show. There is often a classic, nostalgic and dynamic translation to black and white photography. Black and White has an important tradition of luminous, well-crafted and thoughtfully composed imagery. Contemporary photographers are involved in this dialog of history and tradition, but with their own modern voice, visions and aesthetics of imagery.
Deadline: September 11
ATLFF is one of the largest and longest-running festivals in the country, welcoming an audience of over 28,000 to discover hundreds of new independent, international, animated, documentary, and short films, selected from 8000+ submissions from all over the world. ATLFF screenings often include in-person dialog with filmmakers, providing audiences, artists, and industry professionals with meaningful opportunities to network, interact and engage.
Deadline: September 11
PhotoVogue’s Global Open Call invites photographers and video makers from around the world to create images that resist indifference and reawaken how we see. Across all genres, from fashion to documentary, portraiture, fine art, and beyond.
Open Call: Firehouse Art Center
Deadline: September 11
The Firehouse Art Center is Longmont’s leading contemporary art center featuring national, regional, and local artists. As a cornerstone of the Creative District, we exhibit thought provoking work in all mediums, including installation, film and performance art.
Open Call: Finnish Death Studies Association
Deadline: September 11
The Finnish Death Studies Association is issuing an open call for short films and media art works that address death, the process of dying, or encountering death in some way. Artists are free to interpret how the theme relates to their work
Deadline: September 11
B26 provides a glimpse into the best and brightest living and working artists in the region. Featured artists work in painting, textiles, mixed media, photography, film, video, mixed media, and animation.The B26 Best of Baltimore exhibition is produced through a collaboration between Create Baltimore and Quid Nunc Gallery. Featured artists will be $1,000.00
Backwards/Forwards: A Call for Handmade Prints
Deadline: September 13
Backwards/Forwards invites artists to submit handmade prints that consider time as material, memory, pressure, inheritance, repetition, rupture, and possibility. Time may be experienced as linear, circular, layered, transparent, opaque, fragmented, geological, ancestral, intimate, political, or otherworldly.
Open Call: Bath Open Art Prize
Deadline: September 13
Organized by Fringe Arts Bath, this open call welcomes all Visual Artists, at any stage of their career, from across the globe. Selected works will be exhibited at 44AD artspace in central Bath, UK and an opportunity for a cash reward.
Deadline: September 13
“Dance of the Nipples” is an exhibition responding to Breast Cancer awareness month. This exhibition invites artists and individuals who have been personally affected by breast cancer—including survivors, those currently undergoing treatment, in recovery, in remission or survivors of breast cancer.
Edward F. Albee Foundation Artist Residency
Deadline: September 14
The Center operates nearly year-round and accommodates four creative people at a time. Residents are expected to work seriously and to support a respectful, focused environment for fellow artists. The environment is simple and communal.
Deadline: September 14
Art Omi: Artists invites artists, critics, and curators from around the world – representing a wide diversity of artistic styles and practices – to gather in rural New York to experiment, collaborate, and share ideas.
Villa Barr Art Park Artist In Residency
Deadline: September 14
The Villa Barr Art Park Artist Residency in Novi, MI, offers a unique retreat for artists to create and explore. With opportunities for local and visiting artists seeking inspiration and focus, the program fosters creative growth in peaceful environment rich with artistic history.
The Good Stuff | Studio Hermosa Call for Art
Deadline: September 15
In recognition of Suicide Prevention and Awareness Month, The Good Stuff is an invitation to notice what makes life worth staying for. Not the grand milestones or picture-perfect moments. We’re looking for the smaller, deeply personal things that bring comfort, connection, pleasure, or a reason to keep going. Your piece does not need to address suicide or mental health directly. This exhibition is about the other side of that conversation: the people, places, rituals, sensations, memories, and tiny sparks that remind us there is still good stuff here.
Deadline: September 15
For 100 years, Guggenheim Fellows have made world-changing contributions to more than 50 fields of study, reshaping our culture and society. The Guggenheim Fellowship is a mid-career award supporting the work of individuals who have made notable contributions to more than fifty fields across the arts, humanities, natural sciences, social sciences, and interdisciplinary areas.
Deadline: September 15
The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program offers more than 380 awards in more than 120 countries for U.S. citizens to teach, conduct research, and carry out professional projects around the world. College and university faculty, research and development professionals, as well as artists and professional practitioners from a wide range of fields can join nearly 450,000 Fulbrighters who have come away with enhanced skills, new connections, and greater mutual understanding. For the full list of our award offerings, visit the U.S. Scholars Awards Search. Location, activity type, and eligibility vary across awards. Some awards may be restricted to certain career profiles or disciplines. Awards range from a few months to a full year. Each award outlines the duration and potential start dates, and some offer a Flex option for multiple visits to the host country. All of this information and more is available in the award description.
Deadline: September 15
American University and Hamiltonian Artists invite applications for the newly established Hamiltonian Teaching Artist Residency with American University for the Spring 2027. This residency is for practicing visual artists who are committed to artist mentorship and studio-driven pedagogy. It offers fully funded housing, studio space, and a paid graduate-level teaching appointment in the MFA Studio Art Program at American University.
Renversons Emerging Choreographer Commission
Deadline: September 15
As a company dedicated to intentional collaboration, conceptual contemporary ballet, and artist-centered process, this commission offers an opportunity for an emerging choreographer to create and premiere a new work on Renversons’ company dancers as part of our 2027 Spring Season in New York City.
Deadline: September 15
Jentel awards residencies to artists, writers, and composers who are focused and serious about their practices. Residencies are intended to be professional development opportunities for visual artists in any medium; writers in fiction, creative nonfiction, or poetry; and composers across musical genres. Each resident receives a $300 stipend distributed in weekly installments.
Monson Arts Photography Residency
Deadline: September 15
The Abbott Watts Residency for Photography at Monson Arts was established to support imagination, innovation and creative risk-taking for artists advancing the photographic medium.Each awarded Abbott Watts resident will receive a private bedroom in shared housing in Monson, all meals, and access to the photography studio, and a small stipend.
Monson Arts Winter Residencies
Deadline: September 15
Monson Arts’ residency program supports emerging and established artists and writers by providing them time and space to devote to their creative practices. During each of our 2-week and 4-week programs throughout the year, a cohort of 5 visual artists and 5 writers are invited to immerse themselves in small town life. They receive a private studio, private bedroom in shared housing, all meals, and stipend.
The Dedalus Foundation’s Senior Fellowship
Deadline: September 15
The Dedalus Foundation’s Senior Fellowship program is intended to encourage and support critical and historical studies related to painting, sculpture and allied arts from the twentieth century. Fellowship stipends vary according to the needs of the specific project, with a maximum of $30,000.
Deadline: September 15
The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) provides time and space for national and international writers, visual artists, and composers of talent and promise to bring forth their finest works, because the arts are vital, diversity is a strength, and creativity is essential. Selected artists come for intense periods of creative work, free from the distractions of day-to-day life. During residencies lasting anywhere from a week to two months, VCCA Fellows enjoy private studios, private bedrooms, and meals.
The Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants
Deadline: September 15
The Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants program provides one-time grants of up to $5,000 for recent unexpected medical, dental, and mental health emergencies to artists in financial need* who are creating work in the visual arts, digital/electronic arts, video/film, and choreography.
Deadline: September 15
Grants for music organizations thats align with the mission of Les Paul. The Les Paul Foundation inspires innovative and creative thinking by sharing the legacy of Les Paul through support of music education, recording, innovation and medical research related to finding a cure for tinnitus through the Hearing Health Foundation.
Deadline: September 15
The Guggenheim Fellowship is a mid-career award supporting the work of individuals who have made notable contributions to more than fifty fields across the arts, humanities, natural sciences, social sciences, and interdisciplinary areas.
Deadline: September 15
Voyage in Time Film Festival is a traveling international film festival, taking place each year in a different location around the world, dedicated to cinematic works that explore time, memory, and transformation.The festival invites filmmakers from around the world to present films that move beyond conventional storytelling — works that observe, drift, reflect, and unfold through image, rhythm, and presence.
Deadline: September 15
At GALLERY jENSEITS, we are dedicated to showcasing the works of both the renowned and the unknown, the alluring and the absurd, a lively fusion of fine art, culture, and uniqueness. We work closely with artists to create a space where the public can engage with and appreciate the space between art and creation.
Deadline: September 16
The SPIE International Day of Light Photo Contest is held annually to raise awareness about the International Day of Light and to demonstrate the impact that light has on cultural, economic, and societal aspects of our world. Amateur and professional photographers alike are encouraged to submit photos for a chance to win cash prizes.
Deadline: September 17
Innovate Grant supports artists and photographers through quarterly $1,800.00 grants. A simple grant to apply for so you can dedicate more time to creating work.
Call for Artists: Functional Art at Sandy Spring Museum
Deadline: September 18
Sandy Spring Museum is creating a growing collection of permanent functional artworks that will shape the visitor experience across our campus for years to come.We are seeking artists who are excited to create highly visible functional artworks that invite interaction while celebrating the people and traditions of Montgomery County.
Deadline: September 18
Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York and Transmitter Gallery are excited to announce TNT Residency, a 6-month, fully funded 430-square-foot studio adjacent to both galleries at 1329 Willoughby Avenue, culminating in a solo exhibition or open studio event within the studio space.
Please Do Not Feed The Humans | A Space Gallery Group Exhibition
Deadline: September 19
Please Do Not Feed the Humans invites artists to place animals at the visual center of their work, using their bodies, behaviors, characteristics, and symbolism to reflect on or respond to issues within human society. Borrowing the language of a zoo warning sign, the exhibition title reverses the familiar relationship of looking: as humans shift from being the observers of animals to becoming the subjects of the animals’ gaze, we are prompted to reconsider our own position within this relationship and to question anthropocentric ways of seeing, categorizing, controlling, and understanding the world.
Outdoor Night Market x Art After Hours | MOCA Arlington
Deadline: September 20 $50 booth fee
The Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington is currently accepting artists and makers for a Night Market. This is the perfect market if you want to sell your work this fall and holiday season! This is a curated market, and this application does not guarantee you a spot. Artisans and makers from all creative disciplines are invited to apply!
Marshall Craft Artist Residency
Deadline: September 20
Marshall Craft Associates, an architecture firm located in the historic Clipper Mill complex in Baltimore’s Woodberry neighborhood, is seeking a local artist(s) to exhibit their work in our office. The selected artist(s) will have the opportunity to use our office lobby space to host a public or private exhibition at no cost during their display period offering a chance to showcase their work in a professional venue while engaging directly with the local community.
Deadline: September 20
The Intersections Lab brings together Fashion, Movement, and Sound artists to explore this year’s 12.ance Festival theme: the Expanded Body through collective creation.For its inaugural edition, we invite artists to investigate garments and materials as active creative forces—to generate new physical vocabularies, relationships, and ways of experiencing the body, shaping movement, perception, and the performance.
Public Art | The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission
Deadline: September 21
The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (M-NCPPC), Department of Parks and Recreation, Prince George’s County invites professional visual artists and design teams to submit qualifications for two major exterior public art opportunities at the new Good Luck Community Center. The public artworks are envisioned as highly visible to westbound vehicular traffic on Good Luck Road and active pedestrians entering the site, these works will establish a profound sense of place, welcoming multi-generational families to a space dedicated to recreation, equity, and sustainability.
Residency: Hortus Arboretum & Botanical Gardens
Deadline: September 21
The hortus residency program is open to established and emerging visual artists who are exploring themes of nature and/or the human connection with nature. Artist Residents are given one week of living space at Hortus Arboretum & Botanical Garden’s Barnette, which is a small cottage located on the perimeter of our gardens. The residency allows artists access to the botanical garden as part of their residency experience.
Deadline: September 22
The Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund is an incubator program for emerging filmmakers in the Baltimore area. Every year, a new cohort of Fellows goes through our cornerstone lab — StoryLab — and receives professional mentorship as they develop their projects. Once accepted into the cohort, fellows are also eligible to apply for funding in one of three categories: production, development, and screenplay.
The Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture
Deadline: September 23
The Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture is a $20,000 prize awarded annually to a photographer whose work demonstrates a compelling new vision in photographic portraiture. The jury will select a Top Ten, from which the winner and three finalists will be chosen. The three finalists receive a $500 stipend each.
Soho Photo Gallery | 2026 International Alternative Processes Competition
Deadline: September 23
Soho Photo Gallery, New York’s longest running cooperative gallery, is excited to announce our 22nd International Alternative Processes Competition. Alternative processes include, but are not limited to: Albumen, Cyanotype, Van Dyke Brown, Platinum/Palladium, Gum Bichromate, Bromoil, Salt Print, Tintype, Ziatype, Daguerreotype, Image Transfers, Liquid Emulsion, Anthotypes, Photogravure, Chemigrams as well as handmade prints created from digital negatives. As long as the image originates using Alternative Processes and is not generated by AI, it can be entered into the Competition.
Analog | Call For Art – New Bedford Art Museum
Deadline: September 24
In an era shaped by artificial intelligence, Analog: An Antidote to AI Art celebrates the enduring power of human imagination, intuition, and authentic artistic expression. This exhibition invites artists whose work reflects the distinctly human experience of making, embracing experimentation, imperfection, memory, materiality, and lived experience. Rather than rejecting technology, Analog asks a timely question: What makes art unmistakably human?
Washington, DC | Northern Bus Garage Art Project
Deadline: September 24
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA)’s Art in Transit Program is interested in commissioning an Artist/Artist-led Team to create a site-specific artwork as part of the Northern Bus Garage Reconstruction Project, located on 14th Street NW between Decatur and Buchanan Streets NW, to serve as a welcoming landmark.
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Garage Art Project
Deadline: September 24
AIT was created to provide artworks and performances at the Authority’s transit facilities to enhance public spaces and provide high-quality arts experiences for transit customers and the public. AIT is committed to working with artists, other arts professionals, architects, engineers, community representatives, and jurisdictional arts councils to develop projects that reflect the spirit and vitality of the arts and communities in the Metro service area.
Open Call : New Bedford Art Museum
Deadline: September 24
Analog: An Antidote to AI Art celebrates the uniquely human qualities of making, including imagination, intuition, touch, experimentation, imperfection, memory, and lived experience. Rather than rejecting technology, Analog asks: What makes art unmistakably human?
Open Call: Design Baltimore: Gateways
Deadline: September 25
Design Baltimore: Gateways is an open competition calling on architects, designers, artists, engineers, students, and community voices to transform three major vehicular arrivals into the city.
Deadline: September 25
The Foundwork Artist Prize is our annual juried award to recognize outstanding emerging and mid-career artists working in any media. Honorees receive unrestricted $10,000 grants, interviews in our Dialogues program, and studio visits with our jurors who include esteemed curators, gallerists, and artists.
Deadline: September 26
The 16mm Film Festival was conceived with a view of re-connecting with the cinematic medium through it’s celluloid history. The festival is organised by Harkat, a film lab, alternative arts space and boutique film production company based in Mumbai.
Sewing is Revolutionary, Sewing is Community | Bmore Fabric Swap Group Exhibition
Deadline: September 27
Sewing is Revolutionary, Sewing is Community is presented in collaboration with Bmore Fabric Swap and reflects its ethos of reuse, resourcefulness, and collective care. This group exhibition features garments, wearable works, and sculptural or traditional art created from repurposed textiles, each incorporating sewn elements by hand or machine. Through fabric, artists create a visual narrative of sustainability and craftsmanship while honoring the long tradition of making functional and decorative objects by hand.
Delaplaine Arts Center | Focus Exhibition
Deadline: September 27 $35 fee
The National Juried Photography Exhibition is held biennially in November at the Delaplaine as part of FOCUS, our month-long celebration of photography. All photographs, black & white, color, non-silver, computer-manipulated, digital, or pinhole are eligible.
City of San Ramon Annual Galleries Call
Deadline: September 27
Nestled 35 miles east of San Francisco, the City of San Ramon offers a vibrant, welcoming community where artists can share their creative vision. Known for its scenic beauty, suburban charm, and strong sense of community, San Ramon is one of the Bay Area’s most desirable places to live and create.
Bid Postings | Artways of Orinda
Deadline: September 27
The City of Orinda is launching its “Artways of Orinda” project and therefore seeking proposals from qualified artists or artist teams to develop original artwork for two transportation art/community identification projects located within Caltrans right-of-way along Hwy. 24.
Deadline: September 28
Terra Foundation Convening Grants support conversations, symposia, and workshops that stimulate interdisciplinary and intercultural exchange related to the visual arts of the United States and Indigenous arts of North America.
ADC Fine Art Cincinnati | Art Comes Alive Exhibition
Deadline: September 28
The Art Comes Alive (ACA) exhibition and awards gala, now entering its 17th year, has earned its reputation as the “Academy Awards for Artists. Held inside our stunning 13,000 sq. ft. gallery in Cincinnati’s vibrant Over-the-Rhine district, this annual exhibition brings together 250 living artists. Showcasing all mediums and styles – from paintings, mixed media, glass, photography, ceramics and installations. Many artists see ACA as a career-making opportunity.
Deadline: September 30
The mission of Hayama Artist Residency is to introduce visual artists from around the world to Japanese culture and offer them an opportunity to have their first gallery exhibition in Japan. This is a 4-week residency in a small, coastal Japanese town in Kanagawa Prefecture, on central Honshū, Japan.
art + film + vienna – Film Festival
Deadline: September 30
art+film+vienna (a+f+v) is an annual festival dedicated to experimental moving-image practices on and beyond the traditional cinema screen. Founded in 2024, the festival explores the intersections of film, visual art, performance, sound, and digital media, creating a platform for works that challenge conventional formats, categories, and modes of presentation.
Deadline: September 30
Voyage in Time Film Festival is a traveling international film festival, taking place each year in a different location around the world, dedicated to cinematic works that explore time, memory, and transformation. The aim of the festival is to create a space of encounter — to connect people, filmmakers, and audiences, and to inspire one another through cinema.
Eddie C. and C. Sylvia Brown Family Foundation Grant Program
Deadline: September 30
Eddie and Sylvia Brown are active philanthropists in the Baltimore metropolitan area. The Brown Family Foundation was established at the Baltimore Community Foundation in 1994 as a vehicle for the family to support charitable organizations addressing needs in the areas of health, the arts, and K-12 education. The Brown Family Foundation will consider grants that have a direct impact on the African American community in the Baltimore metropolitan area.
“Social Dive” AiR Open Call Program
Deadline: September 30
“Social Dive” is an art project in which artists immerse themselves in various neighborhoods across Tokyo to discover both the unique traditions held by local residents and the new values emerging there. For Tokyo Biennale 2027, we are undertaking the co-creation of spaces for cross-border encounters and dialogue, addressing the theme: “From ‘Me’ to ‘Us’.”
PUSH FOLD | Union PDX – Dance Festival
Deadline: September 30
Applications are now open worldwide for all professional artists and companies making contemporary work in ANY dance style, genre, or tradition! Dedicated to the growth and advancement of dancers and artists, selected festival artists perform at the brand-new Foster Theater, teach advanced and professional level dancers, engage with audiences through post-show Artist-Talks and Q&As, network with fellow artists, presenters, and company directors, and celebrate the art of dance.
Underneath tUnderneath the Floorboards – FilmFreewayhe Floorboards Film Festival
Deadline: September 30
Our showcase is open to artists and filmmakers from all around the world whose work has an experimental, non-linear narrative form. We want to see variety, whether it be experimental film, video art, visual art, digital art, experimental documentary or animation. We focus especially on avant-garde storytelling.
Deadline: September 30
The New Wave Curatorial Residency, developed in collaboration with The Bunker Artspace in West Palm Beach, is a year-long program designed to support an emerging and independent curator through a deeply engaged curatorial experience. Launching in 2027, the residency invites a selected curator to develop and realize a focused exhibition drawn from The Bunker’s collection, presented in the ground-floor gallery and culminating in a public opening in December 2027.
Deadline: September 30
hluk : zvuk invites composers of all nationalities and ages to submit works for
two concert projects to be presented during the second half of the 2026 season. Selected works will be performed by laug.sonoris, a Prague–Trenčín-based contemporary music ensemble dedicated to the performance of new music by emerging and established composers.
Deadline: October 1
The Data Theatre Collaborative is offering five $5,000 pilot grants to support faculty, community-based researchers, artists, and civic practitioners in developing their own data theatre projects. Our goal is to seed new data theatre work across diverse disciplinary and community contexts and to build a network of practitioners exploring how embodied, rehumanized data can inform teaching, learning, and civic life.
Denver Art Museum | James Balog Earth Vision Awards
Deadline: October 1
Photography is a uniquely powerful medium that bears witness to the relationship between humans and the environment. It shapes our environmental attitudes, perceptions and values and challenges people to create healthier, more sustainable relationships with nature. The James Balog Earth Vision Awards (JBEVA) are juried prizes that are intended to support photographers who are responding to today’s complex environmental issues through photography. The awards will be given every two years.
Artist Resources | Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum
Deadline: October 1
The Woodson Art Museum Artist Residency will bring visual artists from across the country to the Wausau area annually. Participating artists will be included in community programming developed with Museum staff. The program supports artists by providing a studio space, living space, honorarium, as well as networking and outreach opportunities.
Deadline: October 1
In Cahoots Residency is designed for people who have prior experience in art and/or writing. We welcome printmakers, book artists, letterpress printers, and writers to apply as individuals. As our name, In Cahoots, suggests, we encourage collaborative teams or groups of up to 5 to apply as well.
Deadline: October 1
Our Fellowship Program supports a diverse range of cultural producers working in the vanguard of their creative fields. Fellowships are six weeks in length, occur year-round and provide fellows with housing, food, studio space, and $1,750 in financial support.
Collar Works | Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency
Deadline: October 1
The Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency (EMAR) program by Collar Works is designed to provide emerging, underrepresented, and established artists an immersive, supportive, productive, and communal atmosphere for art-making and dialogue on a bucolic 77-acre farm in Granville, NY. The summer residency offers 2-week residencies for individual artists and 1-week residencies for families.
Deadline: October 1
Our historic Core Residency, offered to those selected by our blind jury process, is fully-subsidized. The core residency features a creative cohort of 6-7 multidisciplinary artists, selected through our blind jury process, and includes private bedroom and studio (with bedding/linens), shared living spaces, laundry room, B&W darkroom, and access to Millay facilties. As an Artist-in-Residence, it is our hope that your participation as an integral member of a small, supportive and inspirational cohort will forge lifelong friendships as well as professional relationships and future collaborations.
Deadline: October 1
The Camargo Fellowship, the Camargo Foundation’s flagship program, was created in 1971 by Jerome Hill. The Camargo Fellowship offers 10-week residencies for research, experimentation and reflection. These residencies are open to established or mid-career artists, scholars and thinkers from diverse backgrounds.
Deadline: October 1
Art Omi: Music invites ten to twelve musicians and composers from around the globe to come together for two and a half weeks each summer for a uniquely collaborative music making residency. Art Omi: Music encourages its participants to share ideas, perform each other’s works, and write music for one another, while exploring their own musical vision and broadening their artistic and cultural horizons.
Deadline: October 1
The emphasis of the Art Omi: Dance residency is not a performance product; rather, a gently facilitated process of experimentation and collaboration. This exploration is enhanced by providing resources that dancers and choreographers often lack: space, time, and other artists with whom to work. The result is a model of creative process and community building that envisions impact for the participants beyond the sphere of art making.
Artspace Open Call for Proposals
Deadline: October 2
Artspace’s Exhibition Committee will review proposals for exhibitions of art for the 2027 season in our gallery located at 2833-A Hathaway Rd., Richmond, Virginia 23226. We welcome submissions for exhibitions of art from all genres and media.
Calls for Submission – Taos Center for the Arts
Deadline: October 2
TCA’s Encore Gallery is located in the lobby of our theater building and sees over 500 visitors weekly. Artists exhibiting in The Encore take advantge of this built in audience and also have the opportunity to directly engage with the Taos community through optional additional programming during their show such as artist talks, workshops, or related film screenings.
Abstraction: Call for Entry – Buckham Gallery
Deadline: October 3
Abstraction bends the perception of reality and allows us to see beyond what is tangible. It looks past realistic representation and explores the limitless possibility of line, shape, form, color, value, texture, and space. These works invite our viewers to experience the work through their own subjective means – to explore, discover, think, and feel. In abstraction, what could appear to be “nothing” is still something. Buckham Fine Arts Project welcomes innovative two dimensional and three dimensional works that push boundaries through visualizing not what the eyes see, but what the mind sees.
Rolling Deadlines
Creativity Grants for Projects
Deadline: rolling through March 2027
Creativity Grants for Projects are available to independent artists and arts organizations. There are two options to choose from: the Planning & Development grant is intended to support the early stages of research and development for a proposed project; the Implementation grant is intended to support the execution of a specific arts projects/event/program. Applications are accepted through March 2027 with a monthly review period.
Arts in the Park – Towson Arts Collective
Deadline: rolling
Arts in the Park at the Historic Courthouse is a reimagined outdoor arts experience presented by the Towson Arts Collective. Held on three Thursday evenings this fall from 4:00–7:30 PM, the event transforms the historic courthouse gardens into a vibrant gathering place featuring juried artists, live music by The Music Space, local food and beverages provided by Charles Village Pub, and a welcoming community atmosphere. We invite artists and artisans to apply for this unique opportunity to build relationships with collectors, engage with the community, and sell their original artwork in one of Towson’s most recognizable and picturesque locations. Designed to attract professionals, residents, students, and visitors after work, the event celebrates creativity while supporting local artists and strengthening Towson’s vibrant arts community. With space for only 15–30 juried vendors each evening, artists will enjoy an intimate setting that encourages meaningful conversations, lasting connections, and quality sales.
Deadline: rolling
Arts in Education (AiE) grants are available to support arts learning in Maryland’s schools, libraries, community centers, detention centers, government entities, and nonprofit organizations with programs taught by artists on the Teaching Artist Roster.
Moving Art Exhibition – Supporting Local Artists
Deadline: rolling
Transforming NYC streets into a mobile gallery by showcasing local artists on our moving trucks.
The Galleries at CCBC: Curatorial Application
Deadline: rolling
The Exhibitions Subcommittee meets four times per year, and reviews submissions in the spring. Notifications of acceptance or rejection are sent once per year, in the summer. Exhibits submitted will be considered for the 2nd following calendar year (example: Submission in 2024 will be considered for inclusion in the 2026 roster)
Rolling Deadline
Our 2026 Open Call for Programs invites proposals for artist-led workshops, gatherings, and activations. Selected applicants will have the opportunity to use Hamiltonian Artists’ gallery space, receive marketing support, access gallery inventory, and benefit from on-site assistance from Hamiltonian Artists staff.
Emergency Grants Foundation for Contemporary Arts
Created in 1993 to further FCA’s mission to encourage, sponsor, and promote work of a contemporary, experimental nature, Emergency Grants provide urgent funding for visual and performing artists and poets who have sudden, unanticipated opportunities to present their work to the public when there is insufficient time to seek other sources of funding or incur unexpected or unbudgeted expenses for projects close to completion with committed exhibition or performance dates. Emergency Grants is a year-round, multi-disciplinary program that offers immediate, project-based assistance to artists living and working anywhere in the United States, for projects occurring in the U.S. and abroad.
Open Call: Lead a Public Program – BMA Lexington Market
BMA Lexington Market invites self-defined artists in recovery to lead public programming that explores the role of art in healing and personal growth. This open call for proposals seeks artists of all disciplines who wish to share their stories, practices, and creative tools in talks and workshops focused on how creative practice supported their recovery journey and how art can be a resource for resilience, reflection, and connection.
Le Petit Versailles Open Call for Proposals
No deadline
The urban botanical landscape is similar to country conditions in many ways. Soil replenishment, fertilization, weeding, and watering are essential to growth. Le Petit Versailles also grows culture. With recent changes in government we feel it more important than ever to continue our mission to unify art and social engagement. The call is made for projects and activities that have direct impact and relationship to the physical site in rebuilding and maintaining a green space for urban gardening. Be creative. Propose what it means for you to grow and develop vegetation and community. Investigate tools, architecture, and social interaction that support green, open, public space.
Maryland Hall – exhibition and residency opportunities
Rolling deadlines
Maryland Hall presents art exhibitions that engage audiences on many levels, from community exhibits to curated group and solo shows in several galleries: the Earl Gallery, the Martino Gallery, the Openshaw Balcony Gallery, and the Micro Gallery. The Openshaw Artist-In-Residence program provides accessible studio space and an opportunity to curate and exhibit their work at the Openshaw Balcony Gallery at the end of their residency.
Deadline: Rolling
The Awesome Foundation is an ever-growing worldwide community devoted to forwarding the interest of awesome in the universe. Created in the long hot summer days of 2009 in Boston, the Foundation distributes $1,000 grants, no strings attached, to projects and their creators. There are no limits on project types.
WorthlessStudios Photographer in Residence
Deadline: Rolling
The WorthlessStudios Photographer in Residence program is a unique 1 month long photography residency taking place inside a mobile darkroom Airstream trailer. Since 2019, the Airstream trailer has traveled the nation to serve as a darkroom and community resource for keeping analog photography alive and thriving. Unlike other residencies that require artists to travel to them, this residency brings the facilities to you! This residency expands on WorthlessStudios’ comprehensive approach to helping artists realize their creative visions while ensuring they have resources to advance their skills and careers. This program provides support for artists working in a photography based artistic practice that relies heavily on access to a darkroom facility. This residency also provides a $1,500 Artist Stipend.
Deadline: Rolling
Maryland Art Place (MAP), in partnership with Hotel Indigo is pleased to announce an open ‘Call to Artists’. As an extension of MAP’s annual IMPACT public art partnership projects, MAP is working with Hotel Indigo to offer rotating exhibitions in Hotel Indigo’s library and Poets Modern Cocktails and Eats. This opportunity is available to visual artists living or working in Maryland. Maryland Art Place will curate four exhibitions a year based on submissions entered through a rolling basis. Hotel Indigo, Baltimore Downtown is a boutique hotel located in Baltimore, MD. MAP has been working closely with the hotel since it opened, selecting and installing the hotel’s permanent artwork collection including works by Jared Ragland, Gary Kachadourian and Christos Palios. Hotel Indigo and MAP share the same vision of supporting working artists in the region, and both look forward to their continued partnership and the rotation of quarterly exhibitions. Fee is $10 for non-MAP members.
Deadline: rolling
The Clifton Arts Center is planning visual exhibits for the years 2026-2030. The Clifton Arts Center provides approximately 1800 square feet of modern well-lit and upgraded HVAC gallery exhibit space on the grounds of the Clifton Municipal Complex. There is a $10 application fee.
CCA Call for Exhibition Proposals 2025
Deadline: Rolling
CCA invites exhibition proposals from artists, curators, and cultural organizations for rolling review by the CCA Exhibitions Selection Committee. The Main Gallery hosts 3-4 major exhibitions annually, with a rotation of 4-6 exhibitions in the Project Gallery. Interdisciplinary proposals that include digital media or installation elements are encouraged. There is a $10 entry fee.
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