External Opportunities

Deadline Driven Opportunities

 

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.

 

Open Call: Intersections Lab

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.

 

NARS Foundation: International Residency Exhibition Program Curatorial Fellowship

Deadline: September 21

The NARS International Artist Residency Program supports early- to mid-career artists working across all disciplines through three- and six-month residencies, fostering opportunities for sustained artistic dialogue and international cultural exchange. The NARS Curatorial Fellowship invites early-career curators to spend six months working closely with two artist-in-residence cohorts on an exhibition of their work and on programming for the public.

 

Low Season Artist Projects

Deadline: September 21

The Low Season Artist Residency is one part dedicated time for creative research and one part community engagement. We have partnered with the Block Island School and the Island Free Library to provide workshops for students or the general public led by our residents. We are interested in artists willing to develop unique experiences for the community to engage in art-making. Our artists also share their work through a community lecture or open studio-style event.

 

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.

 

Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund

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?

 

New Bedford Art Museum Call for Artists: Analog; An Antidote to AI Art

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? We welcome original work in all visual art media and genres, including painting, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, textiles, fiber, photography, installation, mixed media, assemblage, drawing, book arts, jewelry, sound art, olfactive art, biophilic practices, and other forms that demonstrate personal vision and meaningful engagement with materials and process.

 

WCFH Call for Scores: Woodwind Quintet

Deadline: September 25

The mission of the Women Composers Festival of Hartford (WCFH) is to promote the music of contemporary and historical women composers through the lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion. WCFH empowers all women and gender-expansive artists from underrepresented groups, including LGBTQ+ individuals, people of color, Indigenous peoples, and people with different abilities. The Festival is open to presentations from composers, performers, and speakers who are willing to support and promote gender and other intersecting identities in their work.

 

Open Call: Under the Common Sea 海的下面还有海

Deadline: September 25

Accent Sisters invites submissions for Under the Common Sea 海的下面还有海 (working title), a group exhibition exploring the diverse lives, experiences, and cultural practices of Chinese diasporic communities in the United States. The title Under the Common Sea 海的下面还有海 draws from Fred Moten and Stefano Harney’s concept of the undercommons: forms of collective life, knowledge, and relation that take shape beneath or beyond the structures of institutional recognition. Here, the exhibition looks beyond familiar narratives of professional success and economic achievement and turns its attention to the many ways Chinese diasporic populations build lives, relationships, and communities through art, culture, care, education, service, organizing, and other forms of labor.

 

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.

 

Foundwork Artist Prize

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.

 

Harkat Lab 16mm Film Festival 

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.

 

Convening Grants

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.

 

Drawing Rooms Solo Project Space #9

Deadline: September 28

Anything goes for our Drawing Rooms Solo Project Space 8 exhibition! We are looking for an exciting and compelling cohesive body of work or installation on any theme or concept and of any size or media for our Solo Project Space. Artists chosen to be in any of our 2026 shows will have preferred status for our end-of-the-year holiday blow-out exhibition, The Big Small Show.

 

Project 14C Special Projects Residency

Deadline: September 28 

Project 14C, a series of artist residencies, is part of ARTS 14C’s multidisciplinary arts incubator and creative community. The Special Project is a fast-paced, purpose-driven residency within the larger 14C program. While our 12-month and 3-month fellowship residencies focus on long-term career development and mentorship, the Special Project is all about bringing an ambitious creative idea to life – from start to finish. Residents receive generous studio space and up to 11 weeks to immerse themselves fully in their work. Each Special Project has its own timeline. Studios are offered free of charge, with only modest fees for cleaning and utilities. With three sessions each year, cohort sizes shift depending on available space; in 2025, groups ranged from 7 to 25 artists.

 

Drawing Rooms: In and Out of Balance

Deadline: September 28

We invite you to submit work for consideration in our Drawing Rooms exhibit, ”In and Out of Balance”. “In and Out of Balance” asks us to consider how visual weight, tension, and spatial harmony are managed within a work of art. Many well-known artists deal with these ideas in their works including Richard Serra’s “Strike: To Roberta and Rudy”,  Malevich’s “Self Portrait in Two Dimensions”, Andy Goldsworthy’s “Balance” and various others. Acceptable media includes painting, drawing, printmaking, collage, photography, sculpture or any other fine art. Artists chosen will also be considered for our other programs, such as The Art Project JC lobbies, and online Artsy.net exhibits throughout the year.

 

CFP: SEQUITUR vol. 13 issue 1 “Ephemera”

Deadline: September 28

The editors of SEQUITUR, the graduate student journal published by the Department of History of Art & Architecture at Boston University, invite current and recent MA, MFA, and PhD students to submit content on the theme of “Ephemera” for our Fall 2026 issue. This issue invites submissions that consider material ephemera and its temporal connotations. “Ephemera” refers to the short-lived: fragments, traces, and remnants of material culture, survived in physical form or in memory alone. We encourage submissions that deal not only with physical objects, but with artworks, ideas, and texts that memorialize or reference things past.

 

Hayama Artist Residency

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.

 

Voyage in Time Film Fest

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.

 

New Wave Curatorial Residency

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.

 

hluk : zvuk call for scores

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.

 

RFQ | O’Hare Airport Public Art Opportunities: Concourse D

Deadline: September 30

The City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) in partnership with the Chicago Department of Aviation (CDA) invites professional artists (both individual artists and artist teams) to submit qualifications for consideration for integrated public art opportunities in seven (7) locations at Chicago O’Hare International Airport’s New Concourse D, currently under construction.

 

PUSH FOLD | Union PDX Dance Festival

Deadline: September 30

push/FOLD’s Union PDX – Festival of Contemporary Dance returns for our seventh iteration this April 2027! 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.

 

Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association: Athenaeum Solo or Group Show

Deadline: September 30

The Athenaeum Gallery in Alexandria, Virginia exhibits visual arts created solely by artists living or working in the region (DC, Maryland and Virginia) 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.

 

The Keller Prize

Deadline: September 30

The Keller Prize is an annual international art competition founded in 2022 that celebrates artists across all mediums. From painting and sculpture to photography and mixed media, we welcome creative expression in all its forms. Every submission is featured in our online gallery, providing artists with a platform to showcase their work to a global audience.

 

Data Theatre Grants – ATHE

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.

 

In Cahoots Residency

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.

 

Fellowship | Lighthouse Works

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.

 

Core Residency – Millay Arts

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.

 

Camargo Fellowship

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.

 

Art Omi: Music

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.

 

Art Omi: Dance

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.

 

International Women’s Day Dance Festival Live Showcase Submission

Deadline: October 2

This annual festival celebrates the artistry, leadership, and voices of women and gender-expansive artists through an inspiring weekend of dance, film, classes, and community. We invite choreographers from all over the world to submit original work that demonstrates artistic excellence, authentic storytelling, and a unique creative voice. While the festival primarily showcases contemporary dance and contemporary-based movement, we welcome submissions from other dance genres that demonstrate exceptional artistry, innovation, and a high level of craft.

 

Center for the Arts Evergreen – Artist in Residence

Deadline: October 2

Center for the Arts Evergreen (CAE), located in Evergreen, Colorado is seeking applicants for its Artist in Residency Program (AIR). The Artist-in-Residence program offers the opportunity for emerging and established artists to foster creativity and community engagement while developing both new works and works-in-progress. Eligible artistic disciplines and media include drawing, painting, sculpture, dance, photography, film, video, new media, installation, fiction & nonfiction writing, music, spoken word/poetry, and interdisciplinary.

 

Mashup International Women’s Day Dance Festival

Deadline: October 2

MashUp’s core values are empowerment, creativity, community, diversity, and innovation. We welcome all to join our mix as we strive to exemplify a powerful and inspirational female image through dance and the arts. Dedicated to the movement of female bodies and feminist ideas, prioritizing innovation, collaboration, and inclusion, MashUp uplifts female-identifying artists and builds community through contemporary dance.

 

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.

 

Woodward Contemporary: Modern Relics Call for Visual Artists

Deadline: October 4

Forget ancient ruins. Forget dusty museums. We have receipts, broken chargers, plastic bags, VHS tapes, sneakers, screenshots, and the mysterious Tupperware lid with no matching container. Modern Relics invites artists to explore the everyday artifacts of contemporary life—subjects we use, love, hoard, worship, discard, or somehow refuse to throw away.  Think: of the things that will be discarded, outdated or irrelevant in the future.

 

Printed Matter Publisher Work Grant

Deadline: October 4

Now in its third year, the Publisher Work Grant program offers funding to independent presses with a history of artists’ book publishing, acknowledging awardees’ accomplishments in past work and providing the capacity-building funds to enable future book projects and publisher sustainability. In 2026, three unrestricted grants of $10,000 USD will be awarded to three independent artists’ book publishers. Printed Matter will also extend a featured exhibitor presence at a forthcoming Printed Matter NY or LA Art Book Fair to selected presses.

 

William Scofield Gallery: Texture Call for Visual Artists

Deadline: October 4

William Scofield Gallery invites submissions of fiber and textile-based works for our exhibition, Texture. This juried exhibition invites contemporary fiber and textile artwork that explores surface, material, and tactile qualities. From subtle variations in stitch, weave, and fabric to richly layered and dimensional constructions, this exhibition highlights the many ways texture shapes visual experience. Highly textured surfaces are not required, but texture should play a meaningful role in the work.

 

Artist Residencies | Morgan Conservatory

Deadline: October 5

The Morgan Conservatory’s Artist-in-Residence (AiR) Program welcomes emerging and established artists from around the world whose work engages papermaking, printmaking, book arts, and related interdisciplinary practices. The program supports focused creative research, experimentation, and production within the unique environment of the Morgan Conservatory.

 

BBA Artist Prize

Deadline: October 5 (early deadline)

Visual excellence, storytelling, conceptual thinking, technical craftsmanship, subject depth, and understanding, these are just a few aspects that our jury of industry professionals will take into consideration. Whether you are a seasoned artist with an existing track-record, a promising talent starting your journey, or simply enthusiastic about art, the BBA Artist Prize 2027 is a great opportunity to show your work.

 

Bad Video Art Festival

Deadline: October 5

The International Bad Video Art Festival (BVAF) is an independent, artist-run initiative. The Festival has been held since 2017. Video artists and B-movie fans Natalia Monakhova and Andrey Slaschilin once decided to explore whether something like bad video art exists. It is well known that B-movies have long since formed a unique cultural niche with their own heroes and fans. In other art sectors, however, the concept of “bad” has not been explored as actively.

 

Festival ECRÃ

Deadline: October 6

FESTIVAL ECRÃ is an Experimental Art and Cinema event that, through experiences that question the notion and production of the moving image, seeks to stimulate audiovisual culture. By showing Films, Games, Installations and Videoarts, ECRÃ encourages new formats for the production and exhibition of these works. This project arose in 2016 from the desire to question the film industry and its “primordial elements” and to give space for filmmakers and artists to experiment freely in audiovisual production and thinking.

 

Living Future Call for Proposals

Deadline: October 7

We welcome proposals from people across and beyond the traditional built environment community, including architects and designers, engineers, developers, contractors and builders, manufacturers and makers, policymakers, advocates, researchers, educators, community leaders, business leaders, and others with relevant experience or perspectives. You do not need to work in a traditional built environment role to contribute. If you have an idea, experience, project, question, or perspective that can help others create a living future, we want to hear from you.

 

Barber Park Recreation Center—RFQ

Deadline: October 7

The Orange County Public Art Review Board is seeking applications from artists for the Orange County Barber Park Recreation Center in southeast Orlando, Florida. Barber Park currently features many spaces dedicated to community engagement with pavilions and playgrounds, dog park, skatepark, and an outdoor open-air hockey rink located on the shores of Lake George. Proposed artwork should create a dynamic environment that encourages interaction and playfulness. Art should incorporate vibrant colors and themes connecting to this lively community space, with the option to incorporate different textures for sensory engagement and kinetic components.

 

Solo Exhibition at Gallery VERY

Deadline: October 9

Gallery VERY invites artists to apply for a five-week solo exhibition at our gallery in Boston’s SoWa arts district. One artist will be selected to work collaboratively with Gallery Director John Guthrie to develop an exhibition approximately six months following selection. All visual media and career stages are welcome. No exhibition proposal is required—we are selecting an artist, not a pre-planned exhibition.

 

Djerassi Resident Artists Program

Deadline: October 9

The Djerassi Resident Artist Program has awarded over 2700+ writers, visual/media artists, composers, choreographers, filmmakers and scientists for the past 43-years the gift of time and space with a one-month residency on our 583-acre ranch in Northern California’s Santa Cruz Mountains. All at no cost to the artists.

 

Lenscratch Art and Science Award

Deadline: October 9

For the Art + Science Competition entitled States of Change, we would like to see photography that examines transition, transformation, and instability within lived experience. Change may be gradual or abrupt, visible or difficult to perceive, ranging from emotional shifts to environmental conditions. We invite artists to consider how photography can reveal states of change—where boundaries are not fixed and conditions are continually shifting.

 

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.

 

Arts in Education Grant

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)

Hamiltonian Artists Open Call

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.

 

 

The Awesome Foundation Grant

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.

 

MAP x Hotel Indigo

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.

 

Clifton Arts Center Exhibits

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.