Deadline Driven Opportunities
Deadline: May 23
Selected residents will receive funding to support travel, accommodation, and a stipend to cover living expenses. Artists will be provided with a workspace and access to Artica Svalbard’s resources, helping them to develop and refine their projects while engaging with the unique environment of Svalbard.
CAC Innovators In Bloom: Emerging Artists Exhibition
Deadline: May 23
All mediums of artwork will be considered for this exhibition. There are also no restrictions on size as long as the work can fit in the gallery, and nontraditional mediums are welcomed. Artworks must be made by emerging artists that have found their artistic passion within the last 5 years in the Maryland or D.C. area and created within the last 5 years. Innovators In Bloom: Emerging Artists Exhibition will be on display in Chesapeake Arts Center’s Hal Gomer Gallery and Hallway from June 10 – July 31, 2025.
CAC Love In Every Shade: Pride Month Exhibition
Deadline: May 23
All mediums of artwork will be considered for this exhibition. There are also no restrictions on size as long as the work can fit in the gallery, and nontraditional mediums are welcomed. Artworks must be made by LGBTQIA+ artists in the Maryland or D.C. area and created within the last 2 years. Artists may submit up to 5 artworks for review.
Call for Work: “Uncommon Threads”
Deadline: May 23
This exhibition seeks bold, innovative contemporary fiber work and wearable art that explores unexpected relationships between fiber and other creative disciplines for an upcoming exhibition, Uncommon Threads: Contemporary Fiber & Wearable Art. This international exhibition celebrates fiber as a medium that pushes boundaries and challenges expectations in contemporary art and design. All artists that utilize both traditional and non-traditional fiber materials and techniques are invited to apply. Collaborative works are welcome. All formats will be considered, including: 2D and 3D works intended for wall display or are free-standing or suspended; sculptural and vessel forms; books and basketry and Art to Wear, including clothing, accessories, and jewelry. There are two categories for submitted work, Contemporary Fiber and Art to Wear, with a total of up to $5,000 in cash prizes available. Non-refundable entry fees are: $35 for up to three works.
Open Call for Research “Instability/AI”
Deadline: May 23
Hugarflug 2025 will be a platform for research that engages with instability across various systems—from technological advancements such as AI and interactive systems to issues related to politics, society, and the environment. We will explore how instability functions as a tool for generating new possibilities while also fueling unrest and transformation within society and academia. The Iceland University of the Arts invites proposals of all kinds, including presentations of ongoing or completed research by our faculty, students, and collaborators.
Fuori Formato International Dance Festival
Deadline: May 24
FuoriFormato – International Festival of contemporary dance and video dance is an international festival dedicated to Contemporary Dance shows, performances, and screen dance films, hosted in Genoa Italy. There is no submission fee.
Upstream Gallery Call for Paper Work/Made in America
Deadline: May 25
Upstream Gallery is inviting artists to submit works on or made from paper that engage with the state of our nation and world today. Eligible Work: Artists are invited to submit 2-D or 3-D work that is primarily paper based and made by hand, not digitally. Successful entries will demonstrate clear thematic relationships among two or more pieces. $45.00 for a minimum of 3 pieces; $4.00 additional for each entry thereafter up to a maximum of 8 pieces ($65).
Deadline: May 25
The competition celebrates, and is in memory of, the young Conductor Andrea Ceraso, who passed away unexpectedly in May 2020. The competition theme is the composition of a piece involving at least one of the following instruments (from the solo instrument to the entire ensemble), including all the possible combinations (duo, trio, quartet, etc.).
Paris Festival for Different and Experimental Cinema
Deadline: May 26
Call out for films and videos submissions for the upcoming 27th edition of Paris Festival for Different and Experimental Cinemas. CJC is a cooperative for distribution with the aim to promote visual and cinematic experimental practices. Submissions are free regardless of duration.
Gallery 263 Studio Artist In Residence
Deadline: May 26
Each summer, Gallery 263 offers our 700-square-foot space to artists of all media and experience levels. We strive to give the local Boston and Cambridge community a stake in the process, not just the product, of art making. From mural painting to textile arts, mold making to photography, and installation to community projects—our artist residencies have drawn passionate artists of all media. The artist-in-residence will enjoy a comfortable environment in which to incubate ideas, fuel discussion, and produce new work. The residency is a non-live-in opportunity that comes with a $250 stipend.
Bethany Arts Community Artist Residency
Deadline: May 26
Bethany Arts Community (BAC) offers residencies to emerging and established artists for the development of both new works and works-in-progress. BAC welcomes artists working across any discipline and medium, including visual artists, sculptors, writers, playwrights, choreographers, musicians, composers, performance artists, filmmakers, and more to our Fall Multidisciplinary Residency. Any and all artistic mediums are encouraged to apply. The Fall Multidisciplinary Residency runs for two, two-week sessions, September 9 to 23, 2025 and September 26 to October 10, 2025, each with its own cohort. Artists are provided room & board, a private studio conducive to artists’ medium and/or project, 3 basic meals a day*, and a $225 stipend per week upon completion of the residency. The artist is responsible for transportation to and from BAC and any supplies or materials needed for their practice.
SaveArtSpace: Call for art “Cosmic Contentment”
Deadline: May 27
SaveArtSpace is proud to present Cosmic Contentment, a public art exhibition on billboard ad space in Los Angeles, CA, opening July 11, 2025, curated by Robin Eisenberg. This open call is a celebration of everyday moments of comfort and contentment, moments where you feel the most like yourself, and where you can find a sense of peaceful belonging in the vastness of the cosmos. Whether that comes from being in nature, drinking from your favorite mug, lying in bed looking at the moon, or just a feeling that you get. There is a $10 donation per image submission to participate, each donation is tax deductible and goes to producing the public art.
Call for Research Proposals on Art & Language
Deadline: May 29
In this issue, we are looking for contributions that explore the role of language in artistic research. This could be artistic research that experiments with language as a tool for reflection, that goes against it and/or moves around it. That operates with polylingual approaches or questions the position language has had, especially within artistic research.
Deadline: May 29
Annually, Tulsa Artist Fellowship opens applications for artists and arts workers of any medium or discipline with at least five years of experience in the field. Ten selected awardees will each receive a $150,000 stipend over three years, along with a $12,000 annual housing stipend, $1,200 yearly health stipend, $1,200 yearly studio assistant stipend, a $1,500 relocation stipend, fully subsidized studio spaces, and access to shared art-making facilities. In total, the cohort will receive over $2.35 million in support and resources. Tulsa Artist Fellowship recognizes that groundbreaking art practices thrive within an intention-setting framework. Awardees commit to actualizing a project during the three-year program term.
Skidmore Department of Art Work + Space residency
Deadline: May 30
The Skidmore Department of Art is seeking applications for its Work + Space Residency Program for Fall 2025. The Work + Space Residency Program hosts an emerging artist for a 3-week residency (approximately October 31st – November 21st, 2025) to make new work, have a one to two week solo exhibition in the Schick Gallery that commences at the end of the residency, and engage with students through a lecture, studio visits, workshop or other project. Preference will be given to artists with recent MFA (completed within 5 years), or equivalent exhibition record, persons from under-represented groups and / or diverse experiences who can contribute to a culture of diversity. The artist will receive studio space, a stipend of $1000, and be provided with lodging, and on-campus meals, for the duration of the visit.
Deadline: May 30
Flute Street announces its first ever Call for Scores, seeking new works to expand the flute choir repertoire. Duration must be between 4-12 minutes. Only 1 submission per composer will be considered. All composers are welcome to enter, regardless of nationality, gender, or race. Priority will be given to composers who are Canadian citizens or permanent residents who identify as emerging.
The Shape of Light: an Abstract Photography Exhibition
Deadline: May 30
Texas Photographic Society is honored to announce the call for entries for The Shape of Light, a juried exhibition of abstract photography. All photography-based work using any process is encouraged. We encourage artists to submit images that communicate through composition, mood, and visual language, instead of focusing on recognizable subject matter. Great abstract images can include objective subject matter, but we are looking for images where that is not the first thing you might notice. The Non-Member entry fee is $40 for 5 images, plus $5 for each additional image.
25 FPS International Experimental Film and Video Festival
Deadline: May 30
25 FPS International Experimental Film and Video Festival is happy to announce the call for submissions for the 21st edition. Put your best foot (and films) forward and make sure you submit your radical, experimental and challenging works. 25 FPS Festival has been dedicated to showcasing independent and non-commercial films which dare to innovate the cinematic language, narration and medium itself. There is no submission fee.
547 Arts Center Residency Application
Deadline: May 30
This residency is particularly suited to metalworks, but we encourage applications from all creative workers, regardless of the applicant’s background, focus, or specialty. This program is open to artists and creatives of all disciplines, including but not limited to: visual arts, performing arts, literary arts, media arts, musical arts, and multidisciplinary arts. Given the legacy of M.T.’s life and work, special consideration and preference will be given to self-taught artists, educators, military veterans, and first responders. Selected Artists will receive living and studio space.
Montgomery Parks Glemont Mural
Deadline: May 30
Maryland & DC Residents are invited to submit their qualifications and letters of interest in creating an outdoor mural on the south façade of the Glenmont Local Park activity building in Glenmont, MD. Three to five finalists will be selected to receive a commission of $1,000 each to prepare design concepts. From among the finalists, one will be selected to refine their design and create the mural. The projected budget to create the mural is $30,000. Work on the mural may begin in September 2025 and must be completed by November 14, 2025.
Deadline: May 31
This is an open call for a group photography and video exhibition in Portugal. Videos should be no longer than two minutes. There is no entry fee nor theme.
Deadline: May 31
The Maryland Film Fest is now accepting submissions for our 26th Annual Festival Celebration, November 5-9, 2025. We are seeking excellent moving image work from Baltimore, from Maryland, and from all over the world, in short, feature-length, and interactive formats. Fees range from $15 for student films to $60 for feature films.
Call For Book Art at Minnesota Center for Book Arts
Deadline: May 31
MCBA’s philosophy and artistic vision challenges its artist community to think beyond the traditional notion of the “book.” Today, books can be bound and unbound, fabricated into sculptures, interpreted as metaphor, experienced as installation or performance, and interacted with virtually. What unites this varied work is a focus on the interdisciplinary expression of narrative. Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA) seeks submissions for the upcoming event, New Editions, a partnership between MCBA’s Shop and Gallery. New Editions is a biannual celebration featuring new artist’s books, photo books, chapbooks, zines, broadsides, and other hand printed work created by local and international artists.
Deadline: May 31
The MVA Gallery (Modern Visual Arts) in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania invites artists, photographers and sculptors of all levels (emerging to established) to submit original artwork to this exhibition, themed around the color red. There is a $35 entry fee.
Deadline: May 31
Laterale Film Festival is an international non-competitive festival of cinematic art organized by the Associazione Culturale Laterale. Its aim is to highlight the most innovative aspects of contemporary audiovisual languages and to bridge the gap between artistic research and public engagement. Particular attention is given to young and independent filmmakers, as well as to self-made, no-budget works that result from individual exploration. The ninth edition of Laterale will take place in Cosenza (Italy), at cinema San Nicola, in August 2025. Submissions are under $15.
Open Call | Fits & Starts Project Site
Deadline: May 31
Fits & Starts Project Site exhibits contemporary art on a front lawn in Kingston, NY. Readily visible to pedestrians and vehicle passengers alike, artworks are on view 24/7, rain or shine, during the duration of their installation. This DIY project invites intimacy and communication between neighbors, community, and artists. The project exhibits work by mid-career women and genderqueer living artists to offer these artists a platform for experimenting and sharing their art, ideas, and creativity. Middles can be tricky. They are full of questions, curiosities, wandering… any manner of things unresolved. By emphasizing this particular phase in an artist’s career, Fits & Starts honors the complicated reality of artists’ lives and creates a space to make them more visible.
State of the ART(ist) – Cultural Diplomacy and the Freedom of Art
Deadline: May 31
In a time of escalating crises, State of the ART(ist) 2025 explores the intersections of art, activism and resistance. The initiative creates a space in which artistic expression acts as both documentation and intervention. The focus is on artists who are exposed to systemic threats, question dominant narratives and open up new avenues for social debate. The State of the ART(ist) initiative is looking for (collective) works, projects and actions at the intersection of art and human rights. (Micro-)performances, pop-up grassroots movements (whether active or inactive), social software, AI projects as well as (e)rights or advocacy projects can be submitted. There are no restrictions regarding formats. Commercial or propagandistic projects are excluded from participation in the competition. The focus is on the message and activity rather than on the tools and materials used to express it.
Call for Compositions Suzanne and Lee Ettelson Composer’s Award
Deadline: May 31
Ninth Planet is excited to announce the 39th annual Suzanne and Lee Ettelson Composer’s Award. An award of $1,000 will be given for a new chamber work. Works submitted may have been performed previously. The winning work will be performed in the San Francisco Bay Area during Ninth Planet’s 2025-2026 concert season. Entries may be scored for TWO (2) to NINE (9) performers – plus conductor and electronics, if desired. Entry fees are $20 general, $10 for students.
Ohio University Click Fest 2025 Call for Work
Deadline: May 31
Ohio University is pleased to announce a call for submissions from composers, performers, and electronic artists for CLICK FEST 2025. CLICK FEST’s mission is to create a welcoming, fun, inclusive electronic music festival that celebrates the diversity of the genre and showcases the most exciting and innovative music creators in the field. If selected, each piece will require a single registration fee and attendance at the festival.
Conference 2025 Congrès Call for Papers
Deadline: May 31
Proposals are invited from permanent and contractual faculty, independent scholars and artists, and graduate students (examples: PhD, MFA, MDes, etc.) who are engaged in the visual arts (studio practice, art history, visual culture, material culture, museum studies, art conservation, etc.) Proposals must be sent directly to the chair(s) of the session, roundtable, or workshop. A plenitude of topics are available at the site.
Deadline: May 31
This electronic music festival, hosted in Orange County, California is open to composers of all ages, nationalities, and professional backgrounds. Pieces must not exceed 5 minutes.
Oak Spring Garden Foundation Interdisciplinary Residencies
Deadline: May 31
The goal of this program is to provide individuals with the time and space to pursue their own creative projects alongside other Residents who may be examining plants, landscapes, gardens, and the natural world from different perspectives. Artistic disciplines welcome include, but are not limited to dancers, filmmakers and musicians, visual artists creating book art, drawings, fiber art, graphics, illustrations, paintings, photography, prints, or sculpture. Residents selected for a 5-week session receive a $2,000 individual grant, and Residents selected for a 2-week session receive an $800 individual grant. Artists, conservation practitioners, researchers, scholars, scientists, and/or writers are encouraged to apply to our Interdisciplinary Residency Program. Residents are not required to make work that addresses our site specifically, but they should work on projects related to OSGF’s mission. We often find that Residents who use their time for research and inspiration are most satisfied with this Residency experience.
Piazza del Mondo Call for Scores “Open and Close”
Deadline: May 31
“Piazza del Mondo” is very excited to announce the Call of Scores “Aperto e Chiuso / Open and Close” focusing on key-themes and values such as: open, close, inclusion, dialog, difference, passages. We accept pieces written for any instrumental combination of the following: flute in C, flute in G, bass flute in C, piccolo, Bb clarinet, A clarinet, Eb clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano sax, alto sax, tenor sax, baritone sax, solo or in duo.
Artist in Residence at Joshua Tree National Park
Deadline: May 31
The Artist in Residence is a volunteer position at Joshua Tree National Park. The goal of the volunteer position is to translate the meanings and significance of Joshua Tree National Park into various artistic expression within their chosen art medium in order to build stewardship among the visiting public and share the park’s resources with audiences in their own communities. Most of the residency will be devoted to their own art practice; however, the park requires the artist to present one visitor outreach experience, which will be coordinated with park staff. There is a $35 entry fee.
Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence
Deadline: May 31
The Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence is awarded annually to one outstanding, early-career artist who is developing new works that address plants, gardens, or landscapes in the broad sense. This award is open to visual artists, literary artists, dancers, and musicians. The award includes a $10,000 individual grant and requires a 2 – 5 week stay at Oak Spring. While at OSGF, the Fellow will be able to meet with staff, explore our 700-acre landscape and our efforts in sustainable land management, and visit our rare book library that holds over 19,000 objects, including many examples of botanical art.
Deadline: May 31
The Nice Dance Film celebrates the beauty of the body and movement, and the intersecting writings of dance and cinema. The festival is open to short films using dance and movement in their purpose or as narrative device. Video clips and documentaries are not admissible. There is no application fee.
TILT Institute for Contemporary Image AIR Program
Deadline: June 1
TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image invites artists to submit applications to our annual artist-in-residence program. The AIR Program provides support to talented, self-directed, committed artists of all levels who are advancing contemporary photography by incorporating innovative approaches to making in their practice and whose work is aligned with our core values of diversity, equity, accessibility, inclusion, and justice. Participants receive a stipend, access to high-end digital facilities/equipment, a platform to share their work with the public through an open studio, and time/space to reflect upon how they want to expand their practice. We hope to create a transformative experience for each artist that participates in the program during and beyond their residency.
Bushwick Gallery Studio Residency
Deadline: June 1
In the heat of Brooklyn’s creative season, Bushwick Gallery opens its doors to three visual artists for a month-long summer residency designed not just for making—but for meaning. Studio Summer offers time, space, and visibility to artists committed to experimentation, process, and presence. The residency culminates in a one-night, non-commercial public showcase, offering a rare glimpse into the raw edge of creation—works in motion, ideas mid-flight. Artists are provided access to a shared, open-plan studio space within the gallery, available daily from 8 AM to 8 PM. While the program does not include housing or a financial award, it offers something increasingly rare in New York’s art landscape: uninterrupted time in a professional gallery setting, supported by curatorial mentorship and institutional promotion. There is a $25 application fee.
The Artist Residency Grants Ras Al Khaimah
Deadline: June 1
The Artist Residency Grants invite both local and international artists to create new work and engage with the Ras Al Khaimah community. Inspired by the Emirates, these artists produce captivating works and share their talents through workshops. Artist residency is available for a duration of six months, with funding capped at 61,000 AED. This financial support covers essential residency-related expenses, such as travel costs to and within the UAE (including airfare, car rental, accommodation, living stipend, and visa fees), purchase of art materials, rental of specialized equipment, professional services related to artwork creation, and translation services.
2025 7th Stray Birds Dance Platform
Deadline: June 1
The 7th Stray Birds Dance Platform (SBDP) will take place from December 18 to 21, 2025. Alongside the SELECTION works chosen through our Open Call, the festival will feature diverse programs, workshops, and lectures.
Deadline: June 1
Superpresent is a quarterly magazine of the arts. Superpresent is available free online and a limited run of print copies for each issue. Superpresent publishes poems, short stories, essays, visual art pieces, experimental art, video art, and sound art. The theme for the Spring 2025 issue is Discomfort. There is no fee for submission.
2026 Austin Winter Music Festival
Deadline: June 1
The 2026 festival is an opportunity for music makers to create, workshop, document and premiere original work in Austin, TX. Composers, festival alumni and solo musicians/groups/bands (local and out-of-town) are all welcome to apply.
Manifest Gallery call for Proposals
Deadline: June 1
Manifest Gallery is open to solo exhibits, two person exhibits (while this is acceptable, it is strongly recommended that artists wishing to propose a two-person exhibit submit individual solo proposals, and request consideration of the two-person show as a curatorial option.)* Our system and application form are set up primarily for solo proposals. Manifest is also open to Group shows (while our strong preference is for solo exhibits, we have considered and accepted group proposals in the past). In this case the solo proposal form may be used, and one artist must be the primary contact for the group. We still limit the sample works to 12 total. Each proposal must be accompanied by a $50 non-refundable application fee.
The Flute New Music Consortium
Deadline: June 1
The Flute New Music Consortium is a member-driven organization with the shared mission of promoting new music for the flute by commissioning new works, amplifying recent works, and encouraging repeat performances of FNMC-sponsored works. We are dedicated to developing new ties between flutists and composers. Semi-finalists are selected by blind-round judges who are nationally recognized performers and composers; winners are heard and selected by FNMC member vote.
Open Call: Summer Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, 2025
Deadline: June 1
The curtilage of our homes has always been a space where we negotiate with Nature. We plant, prune, uproot, foster, weed, govern and curate this space. Nature, in turn, does everything possible to reclaim, reroot and rewild it, reminding us that for now we may manipulate nature but we are also governed by Nature. This exhibition will brings together a group of artists under the arch of this negotiated space and examines different methods of living with and parallel from nature. The submission fee is $35.
Deadline: June 1
The Indiana State University School of Music invites the submission of solo/chamber scores for its 59th Contemporary Music Festival on October 22-24, 2025 featuring Principal Guest Composer Damien Geter. Compositions selected from this Call for Scores will be presented at the Music Now concert on Friday, October 24, 2025. Compositions may not exceed 15 minutes in length.
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.