Deadline Driven Opportunities
Echoes of Our Ancestors: Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month Call for Art
Deadline: September 7
Echoes Of Our Ancestors: Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month Group Exhibition showcases the rich and vibrant culture of Hispanic and Latin American communities through a diverse array of artwork. Featuring both local and regional artists, the exhibition highlights various mediums, including painting, sculpture, and mixed media artworks. This exhibition not only celebrates artistic expression but also fosters a deeper understanding of the historical and cultural contributions of Hispanic and Latin American individuals to society. Visitors are invited to engage with the art and participate in discussions that honor the heritage, traditions, and narratives that shape this dynamic community.
Artist-in-Residence – Erie Canal
Deadline: September 7
In partnership with the New York State Canal Corporation (Canal Corp.), the Erie Canal Museum is seeking two (2) Erie Canal Artists-in-Residence for a period of one (1) year. The Erie Canal Museum is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We strongly encourage members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply. The Residencies will focus on a year-long creative inquiry into the Erie Canal, reflecting on its past, contemplating its current condition, and considering its future. These Residencies are for Artists who wish to engage with the Canal and adjacent Canalway Trails, Canal Corp. and Museum staff, Canal facilities, New York’s Canal communities, and Canal visitors. The 2026 Residencies will be dedicated to projects that reflect upon the Canal’s physical, environmental, and social condition and history; materiality; and context. The Artist’s project must directly address the Canal
Deadline: September 7
Even before creating a formalized program, residencies have been a cornerstone of our mission. Before adopting the name Pioneer Works, our founding team proposed the “Museum of the Working Artist.” While the name didn’t stick, the ethos did. We are deeply committed to providing emerging artists and musicians a space to work, tools to create, and a platform to exchange ideas. Each year, we select artists-in-residence through an open call. Aided by a jury of experts and alumni residents, Pioneer Works welcomes artists who work outside existing models and “norms” of their field, and who will benefit from our unique facilities and culture. As such, Pioneer Works shifts and evolves to reflect the interests and work of each new cohort of residents, from public education offerings to Second Sundays: a monthly forum of artistic experimentation through activations, open studios, and performance. All residents who complete the program join our ever-growing alumni network of collaborators who continue to teach, partner, and lead public programming at Pioneer Works.
Call for Submissions – Northville Art House
Deadline: September 8
Small Works will features works of art on a diminutive scale, 16 inches or less, created in a variety of media by artists from around the country. The artwork, juried by the Northville Art House Exhibition Committee, typically ranges from 2D collage, drawings, paintings, photography, and traditional prints to 3D ceramics, assemblage, mixed media, stoneware, and metalwork. We invite the public to visit the gallery during the holiday season to find original art to love and to give as gifts.
Deadline: September 8
DEAR DAVE, is a tri-annual print publication of photography and writing, published since 2007. It celebrates a community of visual thinking, with affection and humor, and publishes idiosyncratic and original work that is deserving of further recognition. DEAR DAVE, is interested in the most unpredictable work of all genres and sensibilities. Three applicants will be chosen to have their portfolio featured in Dear Dave, in a forthcoming issue. The 40 entrants who receive the highest ranking by the jury will have a portfolio in the fellowship archive on the Dear Dave, website.
Deadline: September 8
Adélard is a non-profit organization dedicated to contemporary art and located in Frelighsburg, Quebec. It offers residencies, exhibitions, events, and cultural activities that connect artists with the community through meetings and exchanges. During the summer season, Adélard offers artists the opportunity to participate in the Immersion residency program. Adélard offers six-week residency immersions for professional visual artists. This residency program is based on two main pillars: providing time and space to develop a project, and building connections with the local community. The artist, depending on the needs of their project, will have the opportunity to collaborate with artists, artisans or local partners to exchange on particular know-how, to explore or to invest in the territory.
Fellowship – Lewis Center for the Arts
Deadline: September 9
Princeton Arts Fellowships, funded in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, David E. Kelley Society of Fellows in the Arts, and the Maurice R. Greenberg Scholarship Fund, will be awarded to artists whose achievements have been recognized as demonstrating extraordinary promise in any area of artistic practice and teaching. Applicants should be early career visual artists, filmmakers, poets, novelists, playwrights, designers, directors and performance artists—this list is not meant to be exhaustive—who would find it beneficial to spend two years teaching and working in an artistically vibrant university community.
Fellowship – Lewis Center for the Arts
Deadline: September 9
The Hodder Fellowship will be given to artists and writers of exceptional promise to pursue independent projects at Princeton University during the academic year. Potential Hodder Fellows are composers, choreographers, performance artists, visual artists, writers, translators, or other kinds of artists or humanists who have “much more than ordinary intellectual and literary gifts”; they are selected more “for promise than for performance.” Given the strength of the applicant pool, most successful Fellows have published a first book or have similar achievements in their own fields; the Hodder is designed to provide Fellows with the “studious leisure” to undertake significant new work.
Lintas Benua (Crossing Continents)
Deadline: September 10
Lintas Benua (Crossing Continents) creates an arts and cultural research learning community of globally diverse experiences across Nordic, Southeast Asian, and other geographical regions. The program includes weekly online meetings, October 18-November 8, 2025; an in-person residency in Langkawi, Malaysia, November 15-30, 2025; and a closing online symposium, December 13, 2025. A post-program reflection meeting will also be held in January 2026. Participants’ written and visual reports will be published by ISOGLOSS.
Call for Submissions – IMET STEM Show
Deadline: September 10
The Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology (IMET) and Gallery Reimagined are thrilled to invite artists from all backgrounds and experience levels working in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, or Mathematics) to submit their work for our upcoming art exhibition. The exhibition focuses on the connections between art and science, and contributions of art integration into STEM disciplines.Your participation will not only enrich the event but also supports Gallery Reimagined, an inspiring Baltimore nonprofit dedicated to fostering artistic expression and community engagement, as well as IMET a leading University System of Maryland research institute and community resource. Join us in this exciting opportunity to showcase your talent, connect with fellow artists and highlight the connections between art and science! The STEM to Studio Exhibition will be displayed at Gallery Reimagined in Baltimore, MD
Deadline: September 10
MacDowell’s mission is to nurture the arts by offering talented individuals an inspiring residential environment in which to produce enduring works of the creative imagination. MacDowell believes that the arts, artists, and creative processes are of primary importance. MacDowell was founded in 1907 around a belief in the inherent value of providing artists with uninterrupted time and supportive spaces in which to work. We believe in the worth and dignity of all people. We aspire to understand and value the complex lives of the artists, staff, trustees, and all others who continue to support our mission.
Grant – Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund
Deadline: September 10
Since 2016, the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund has given voice to those who have been denied filmmaking opportunities. The fund has emboldened diverse filmmakers to write, design, produce, and distribute a wide array of visual content, from narrative film to immersive media. The fund is a force for equality and diversity in the film industry, a voice for facts, and an equal playing field for the underrepresented.
Call for Submissions – CraftForms
Deadline: September 10
Wayne Art Center is seeking submissions for the 30th International Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Fine Craft, in the following mediums: basketry, ceramics, fiber, furniture, glass, jewelry, leather, metal, mixed media, paper, wearable art, and wood. Works created utilizing CAD/CAM technologies and 3D printing tools are also eligible. Selected works will be on display in the Davenport Gallery of Wayne Art Center in Wayne, Pennsylvania from December 7, 2025 through January 24, 2026. This year’s juror, Bruce W. Pepich, will present $10,000 in prize awards funded by Wayne Art Center.
PhMuseum 2025 Women Photographers Grant
Deadline: September 11 (earlybird, Oct 2 regular)
The PhMuseum Women Photographers Grant, now in its 9th edition, aims to empower the work and careers of female and non-binary professionals of all ages and from all countries working in diverse areas of photography. Its mission is to support the growth of new generations and promote stories narrated from a female perspective while responding to the need to work for gender equality in the industry.
Call for Public Art Projects – Pleasant Ridge
Deadline: September 12
The City of Pleasant Ridge is seeking proposals from artists or artist teams to design, create, and install public art on a park-facing exterior wall of a steel public works building. Murals or any other form of exterior wall art will be considered. The total area for the wall art is about 1,500 sq. ft. The Pleasant Ridge DPW building is in Gainsboro Park, the City’s primary park located in a neighborhood setting. The location for the artwork faces the main pathway through the park. The artwork will primarily be viewed by people walking and biking on the pathway. The purpose of the project is to enhance the visual appeal of the DPW building within Gainsboro Park, and to promote civic pride and cultural appreciation. The project is sponsored by the Pleasant Ridge Arts Council. This initiative is part of the City’s ongoing commitment to beautification, cultural expression, and community engagement through public art. The artwork must be appropriate for public display and will become property of the City of Pleasant Ridge upon completion.
Art Link: COMPACT Small Works of Art
Deadline: September 12
For our 2nd annual juried exhibition COMPACT, Artlink invites artists to submit small works of any media that are no larger than 8 inches in any dimension. Artlink is pleased to offer an exhibition exploring and celebrating the focused power of small works of art. Anticipating a wide variety of media, style, and conceptual intent, the resulting showcase of small works will be unified solely by their “small, but mighty” scale, culminating in an exhibition reflecting Van Gogh’s sentiment that, “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”
New England Philharmonic: Call for Scores
Deadline: September 14 ($40 fee, potential waiver available)
The New England Philharmonic is one of few orchestras of its size in the country with a Composer-in-Residence program and an annual Call for Scores competition, both established in 1985. The Call for Scores Competition receives annually over 100 submissions from composers around the world. Winning works are performed as part of an upcoming NEP season. By presenting these new works in the context of pieces by established composers— including classics of the symphonic repertory—the NEP demonstrates that orchestral music is not a finished collection of museum pieces, but a living, evolving tradition. The NEP is committed to fostering the art of composition and presenting new works from the wide and diverse community of orchestral composers.
College Art Association: Millard Meiss Publication Grants
Deadline: September 15
Twice yearly, grants are awarded through the Millard Meiss Publication Fund to support book-length scholarly manuscripts in art history, visual studies, and related subjects which have been accepted by a publisher on their merits but cannot be published to their greatest potential without a subsidy. Thanks to the generous bequest of the late Professor Millard Meiss, CAA has been awarding these grants since 1975. Books eligible for a Meiss grant must currently be under contract with a publisher and be on a subject in the arts or art history.
Wooloo: Casa Uno Artist Residency
Deadline: September 15
The ideal participant is an artist who wants to be able to devote time to a project for 3 weeks in a beautiful nurturing environment in Costa Rica. Participants may be a writer, visual artist, photographer, filmmaker, storyteller, poet, composer, librettist, performer or dancer/choreographer. Sharing ideas about what you are doing and being willing to listen to what others are doing is an important component of the residency. A unique labyrinth has been added to the property. On the last Saturday of the residency, each participant will be asked to share what they have done during the residency (or earlier related work) with members of the local community.
Deadline: September 15
The Slamdance Film Festival accepts films in every genre, on any topic, from every country around the world. We spotlight low-budget Narrative and Documentary Features by first-time directors, Breakout Features from non-first time directors, Unstoppable (shorts & features) highlighting filmmakers/films with/about disability, short films across genres, and episodes. Additionally we accept a vast variety of projects through our Digital, Interactive and Gaming category (DIG). We do not disqualify any films based on premiere status or date of completion. It is an Academy Award, BAFTA and Canadian Screen Award qualifying competition.
Mountain Maryland Film Festival
Located in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains of Western Maryland, “Mountain Maryland,” as it is known, has become a hot spot for the arts, bringing an eclectic mix of visual artists, musicians, performers and filmmakers to our community. The rural community boasts world-class recreation, nature, and routinely wins awards for many of its amenities, attractions and events. Our goal in establishing the Mountain Maryland Film Festival is to increase awareness of filmmaking in our community, introduce Mountain Maryland to talented makers who are looking for great places to explore, and to tell stories through the power of film, ones that provoke thought, express joy, experience loss, and challenge us.
Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program
Deadline: September 15
The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program offers over 400 awards in more than 135 countries for U.S. citizens to teach, conduct research and carry out professional projects around the world. College and university faculty, as well as artists and professionals from a wide range of fields can join over 400,000 Fulbrighters who have come away with enhanced skills, new connections, and greater mutual understanding. Interested faculty and professionals are encouraged to research the different award types and award offerings.
Deadline: September 15
Monson Arts’ residency program supports emerging and established artists and writers by providing them time and space to devote to their creative practices. During each of our 2-week and 4-week programs throughout the year, a cohort of 5 artists and 5 writers are invited to immerse themselves in small town life at the edge of Maine’s North Woods and focus intensely on their work within a creative and inspiring environment. They receive a private studio, private bedroom in shared housing, all meals, and $500 stipend ($250 for 2-week programs). The Abbott Watts Residency for Photography offers access to the photography studio and darkroom of Todd Watts in nearby Blanchard, adjacent to the former home of Berenice Abbott.
Deadline: September 15
The Jentel Artist Residency offers dedicated individuals a supportive environment to further their creative development. Nestled in the foothills of the Bighorn mountains, artists, writers, and composers experience unfettered time to allow for thoughtful reflection and meditation on the creative process.
Deadline: September 15
The Belmond Photographic Residency seeks to upturn this, reclaiming travel photography as a space that can be insightful, thought provoking and inspirational. Celebrating the intensely original, the award identifies artists that have the power to transport you to another world, breathing new life into the way we see and experience travel. The award itself acts as a catalyst, stimulating a new body of work, encouraging artists to experiment and push their practice; in turn shaping a future photographic culture. The international jury is composed of leading photographic experts and contemporary taste makers.
Residency – Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Deadline: September 15
The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) provides time and space for national and international writers, visual artists, and composers of talent and promise to bring forth their finest works, because the arts are vital, diversity is a strength, and creativity is essential. Selected artists come to VCCA’s Mt. San Angelo in Amherst, Virginia or the Moulin à Nef in Auvillar, France for intense periods of creative work, free from the distractions of day-to-day life. During residencies lasting anywhere from a week to two months, VCCA Fellows enjoy private studios, private bedrooms, and meals. Whether sequestered in the rolling foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains or on the banks of the Garonne River in Southwest France, VCCA Fellows can work in concentrated solitude, then re-energize in the company of other artists.
Call for Submissions – Rochester Contemporary Art Center (RoCo)
Deadline: September 15
Rochester Contemporary Art Center (RoCo) invites artists to propose three images for a temporary public art installation at our main facility. Through this call for art we aim to offer a simple submission process for incisive, surprising, and unique imagery that will enliven the East Avenue neighborhood. Of particular interest are projects that connect visitors to the location, community and/or history of the neighborhood, challenge visitors and passersby, and address important social and political issues. RoCo welcomes visual artists of all genres. RoCo also invites visual artists to collaborate with literary artists as we have previously shown in this location.
Call for Submissions – Main Gallery
Deadline: September 15
Eastern Edge’s Main Gallery is our primary exhibition space, featuring contemporary work from provincial, national, and international artists. Our Main Gallery programming seeks to facilitate critical dialogue concerning issues in contemporary art and society, actively encouraging emerging and established artists whose work speaks to feminist, multicultural, queer, and other diverse perspectives. We are dedicated to cultural diversity in our programming, and encourage applications from artists, art collectives, and curators of diverse communities and backgrounds. We accept applications from local, provincial, national, and international artists for the Main Gallery. We strive to support the needs of our successful applicants; please do make us aware of any flexibility or supports you need that are not covered here.
Deadline: September 15
The Luminary Residency Program is a nationally recognized, research-driven initiative supporting emerging and mid-career artists, curators, and critics in developing new work. It offers an intensive two-week residency designed to foster focused inquiry and meaningful engagement with the cultural landscape of St. Louis. The program emphasizes a two-fold approach to research: providing artists dedicated time to pursue new lines of inquiry within their practice, while encouraging deep immersion in St. Louis’s vibrant arts community through exploration, dialogue, and relationship-building. Residents are supported with spacious housing, financial resources, and structured opportunities for public engagement, creating a collaborative environment where creative development and national artistic discourse intersect.
Call for Papers – FOCUS SECTION
Deadline: September 15
In a time of disorientation and raw emotion, the question of flourishing becomes even more urgent—and profoundly collective. We invite scholars, artists, scientists, philosophers, and cultural practitioners to contribute to a special Focus Section in Leonardo, dedicated to exploring flourishing as a dynamic, relational process rooted in ecology, anthropology, and shared inquiry. In this section we ask how flourishing can be embedded into the very form and process of our work and lives (represented, felt, shared, and enacted). This call emerges from years of Flourishing Salons(link is external) and the first Flourishing Summit (which took place in May 2025), a gathering of diverse voices committed to reimagining well-being as participatory, systemic, and evolving–a dynamic, not a state. We seek contributions that explore how flourishing can be embedded into the very form and process of our work and lives (represented, felt, shared, and enacted).
Call for Submissions – A Scrutiny Mutiny
Deadline: September 15
A Scrutiny Mutiny is a juried, global collective exhibition staging a visual revolt against systems of control, surveillance, and internalized judgment. Hosted by The Hook Experiment — a physical and symbolic space for artists, musicians, and creators to come together — this show invites artists from around the world to examine how we are seen, measured, and shaped by institutions, society, and ourselves.
Fellowship – The Dedalus Foundation
Deadline: September 15
The Dedalus Foundation’s Senior Fellowship program is intended to encourage and support critical and historical studies related to painting, sculpture and allied arts from the twentieth century. Under this program, fellowships are awarded to writers and scholars who have demonstrated their abilities through previous accomplishments and who are not currently matriculated for academic degrees. Applicants must be citizens of the United States. A jury of distinguished scholars determines the winner of the fellowship. Fellowship stipends vary according to the needs of the specific project, with a maximum of $30,000.
2026 SoloDuo Dance Festival New York | Seoul Application
Deadline: September 15
To celebrate the distinct art of the solo and duet, while creating additional opportunities to display the latest work of both emerging and mid-career choreographers, WHITE WAVE’s 2026 SoloDuo Dance Festival will be held at Dixon Place, a setting nestled in the heart of the Downtown scene. The SoloDuo Dance Festival’s foremost priority is to inspire performing artists of all stripes and callings to stretch the limits of their creativity and take it to new heights, and to provide vivid experiences for audiences, with the goal of finding and nurturing promising young talent. Early Bird Fee is $75, it goes to $85 after Sep 15.
Guggenheim Fellowships: Supporting Artists, Scholars, & Scientists
Deadline: September 16
The Guggenheim Fellowship is an annual competition celebrating exceptional achievements in the arts, sciences, and humanities. Roughly 190 Fellowships are awarded each year. The Guggenheim Fellowship supports individuals who have achieved notable success in their careers across the creative arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. It is designed for mid-career professionals whose work is well-established. Potential Fellows have already made significant contributions to their field and are eager for time and resources that will allow them to further their meaningful work.
Charlotte Street – 2026 Open Call–Exhibitions
Deadline: September 16
Charlotte Street centers Kansas City’s most forward-thinking visual artists, writers, and performers—acting as the primary incubator, provocateur, and connector for the region’s contemporary arts community, and its leading advocate on the national stage. Since 1997, Charlotte Street has distributed over $2.5 million in awards and grants to artists and their innovative projects, and connected individual artists to each other and to the greater Kansas City community. Charlotte Street’s Open Call is seeking projects that are ambitious, timely, push boundaries, and utilize Charlotte Street’s unique space, staff expertise, and resources. Artists, curators and cultural producers wishing to partner with Charlotte Street are invited to produce programming, including but not limited to: Visual art exhibitions, Installations, Original live performances (dance, theater, music, performance art, spoken word, etc.), Video screenings, Literary readings/events, Public workshops, and Collaborative projects.
Deadline: September 19
Fee of $25. Sacatar is pleased to announce its 2026 Open Call for Fellowships, offering fully funded artist residencies on the island of Itaparica, Bahia, Brazil. Each residency includes accommodation, meals, studio space, logistical support, and connections to the local cultural scene. Residencies are offered for specific dates, listed in the application. We welcome applications from individual artists of all nationalities and disciplines. At Sacatar, we define creativity broadly and invite proposals from individuals working across all creative fields. We are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and we do not discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, disability, or HIV status.
Drawing Rooms: Solo Project Space
Deadline: September 19
Fee of $35. Anything goes for our Fall Drawing Rooms Open Solo Project Space 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. Drawing Rooms is operated by Victory Hall Inc. a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization producing exhibitions, programs and public art projects in the NJ/NY area since 2001. Victory Hall Inc. connects artists and the community in order to create meaningful cultural experiences for all. We believe in the power of thoughtful and quality art to change, enlighten, develop, transform and help a community grow. We strive to include, give a platform to, and share the stories of marginalized communities as well as relevant issues of our time and important trends and themes in art.
Dorchester Center for the Arts: Vanishing Landscapes
Deadline: September 20
Vanishing Landscapes is a group exhibition of artists working across multiple mediums including painting, photography, sculpture, video, and more, who question the relationship between the environment and self. The selected works are both personal and universal responses to the disappearing natural places that we call home. Traditionally, a landscape is defined as a natural scenery with mountains, forests, rivers, etc. Exhibited works in Vanishing Landscapes define the term ‘landscape’ as both the depiction of a natural scenery, as well as the emotional, psychological and cultural landscape that we share with the natural world.
On::View Residency – Open Call — ARTS Southeast
Deadline: September 21
Fee is $50. Located in the heart of Savannah’s Starland District at ARTS Southeast, the ON::VIEW Artist Residency provides a free, high visibility studio space for an artist to complete a new project, to continue an in-progress endeavor, or to conduct research exploring conceptual, material, performative, and social practices. The studio’s large windows look out onto Bull Street, the district’s main thoroughfare, allowing the artist’s work to be on view to the community at all times. Visitors and passersby on the sidewalk witness the artist’s process as it unfolds in real time, seeing all the steps involved from concept to final execution. Community events like workshops, performances, public art projects and artist talks offer creative ways to interact with the public. The ON::View Residency supports artists from across the globe, working in all media.
Visiting Senior Fellowships | National Gallery of Art
Deadline: September 21
Visiting senior fellowships provide scholars with two-month appointments to conduct full-time research in residence at the Center. Fellows receive an office in the National Gallery’s East Building as well as housing, subject to availability. They have access to the notable resources of the National Gallery, including its library and art collection, as well as those of greater Washington. Fellows participate in lectures, colloquia, and discussions with the Center’s vibrant community of scholars.
2026 Vanguard Composers Competition – Queer Urban Orchestra
Deadline: September 22
Queer Urban Orchestra is pleased to announce its 2026 Vanguard Composers Competition! This program is open to composers of any age who identify as LGBTQ+, from anywhere in the world. The winning work will be performed by Queer Urban Orchestra in June of 2026, and the composer will receive a $1,000 cash award, plus a small travel stipend to attend the performance (if required). Two runners-up will be selected for a reading in January of 2026. All composers who enter the competition are invited to participate in two virtual sessions with QUO’s artistic leadership and guests.
Call for Artists for CROSSWAYS, a public art project with Vital Matters
Deadline: September 22
Thanks to a Public Art Across Maryland Planning Grant from Maryland State Arts Council, Vital Matters has begun to work on the first of four sites that will be part of a citywide, multi-year project called Crossways. The project is conceived as an arts-based way of enhancing Baltimore residents’ connections with their waterways and one another across 4 out of 5 of the city’s Watersheds. We begin in West Baltimore, with the Gwynns Falls neighborhood, nestled between Maiden’s Choice Run and the Gwynns Falls, which runs through Lower Gwynns Falls park to the east. The last phase of planning for this phase includes the hiring of a visual artist, who will work together with our Artist Facilitator Team (Valeska Populoh, Sanahara Ama Chandra, Michele Minnick, Maura Dwyer, and Rejjia Camphor) and the Gwynns Falls Community to conceive, design and build a temporary (1-2 years) installation that will express and support the community’s sense of identity, history, and/or future in relation to their place along the Gwynns Falls watershed.
Call to Artists — Look: An Unexpected Arts Experience
Deadline: September 22
Art builds community . . . help us transform a vacant commercial building into a fun, inventive, and interactive POP-UP art space. Over three weekends, the reinvented space will host art exhibits, performances, and hands-on workshops and classes. We are open to all forms of artwork including installation art, photography, painting, sculpture, 2D digital art, video art, printmaking, and interactive art.
NARS Foundation: Exhibition Proposals
Deadline: September 22
The NARS Foundation Exhibition Program presents compelling and innovative work being produced on a local, national, and international level by emerging and mid-career artists and curators today. The Main Gallery and Project Space are located in an industrial building amongst our residency studios, which allows for a unique opportunity to present and experience contemporary artwork within a work-space environment. The presence of artists’ studios also allows for further dialogue and exchange between artists and curators.
MOCA Arlington: Apply For Residency
Deadline: September 22
The Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington’s mission is to enrich community life by connecting the public with contemporary art and artists through exhibitions, education and public programs, and artist residences. The museum’s Artist in Residence Program supports emerging and mid-career professional contemporary artists by offering a unique platform for exposure and connection, affordable studio space, and time to develop their practices. Through short- and long-term studio residencies, the program fosters lasting relationships among artists, providing a cohort experience, support and opportunities to test new ideas, exhibit work, and engage in dialogue with curators, peers and the public.
Call for Art | King Sized Juried Exhibition
Deadline: September 26
What does it mean to be king? Lawrence Arts Center invites artists of all media and experience levels to share their interpretations of the crown. Whether it’s a playful take on Elvis, a thoughtful dissection of the responsibility of power, or a complex examination of royally-sized candy bars, the gauntlet is yours! For decades, Lawrence Arts Center has been the go-to arts facility in Lawrence. Created around a vision of providing a space for everyone to experience the visual arts, performing arts, and beyond, we’re a destination for accessible art exhibitions, performances, and classes for kids and adults alike, featuring mediums ranging from printmaking to ballet. The vision of the Lawrence Arts Center is to support and build a community that embraces the arts as an integral part of everyone’s daily life.
Deadline: September 26
The Foundwork Artist Prize is our annual juried award started in 2019 to recognize outstanding emerging and mid-career artists working in any media. Honorees receive unrestricted $10,000 grants and studio visits with our jurors who include acclaimed curators, gallerists, and artists. In addition to the honoree, three artists per year are also named to our short list. The Prize is open to artists worldwide with limited exceptions and our selection process takes place each fall.
ArtsFairfax – Public Art – Call for Artists: BRT Community Charm
Deadline: September 30
Fairfax County, in partnership with ArtsFairfax, is looking for talented artists to design artwork for the windscreens at the planned Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) (“The One”) stations along a 7.4-mile stretch of Richmond Highway in southeast Fairfax County. The project – titled Community Charm – will incorporate elements of the surrounding neighborhoods into the station design based on themes developed with each community.
Kaleidoscope 2025 Call for Scores
Deadline: September 30
We envision a world where our commitment to a collaborative artistic process results in profound orchestral performances that inspire people to pursue cooperation and artistry in their own creative, professional and personal lives. Kaleidoscope is a conductorless orchestra dedicated to enriching lives through exhilarating concert experiences, artistic excellence, musician leadership, and connecting with the diverse communities of Los Angeles.
East End Arts Call for Art | Fluid Patterns: Water and Climate Change
Deadline: September 30
We invite artists working in all mediums to submit work for Fluid Patterns, a group exhibition exploring water in the age of climate change. This show examines water as both a vital resource and a force of disruption—through flood, drought, rising seas, and shifting weather. We’re especially interested in how patterns—natural, visual, ephemeral or symbolic—emerge from water’s behavior and our relationship to it. How do we as artists see, feel, or trace these patterns—and what do they reveal? This national open call welcomes work of all media, including but not limited to painting, sculpture, photography, video, and digital art. Artists may enter up to three original works new to the local public for selection.
2025-2026 500 Capp International Artist Residency
Deadline: September 30
500 Capp Street is pleased to announce the yearly open call for an Artist Residency. The 2025-2026 Artist Residency at 500 Capp Street will be an open call to international and U.S. based artists with generous multi-year support from the Sanger Family Foundation. International artists are extremely encouraged to apply. This 2 month residency program at 500 Capp Street in San Francisco, CA will begin in the Spring of 2026 and end in Summer of 2026. Artists will have two months for research, which will culminate in a 2 month exhibition after the research period ends. This year’s program will highlight the conceptual, and urges artists to create work that pushes the boundaries of material and medium. We are especially interested in artists working with sculpture, and artists who support David Ireland’s artistic philosophies.
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.
International Composition Competition – Tampa Bay Symphony
Deadline: September 30
The mission of the Tampa Bay Symphony is to promote interest in symphonic music while enhancing and enriching the cultural life and educational experiences of our community. The Tampa Bay Symphony is announcing a call for scores competition for living composers. One score will be selected for performance on our Winter 2026 concert series.* Finalists will be notified by October 21, 2025 and the symphony will read/rehearse the compositions by the finalists at a public event on Sunday, January 11, 2026. There is a cash prize of $1,500 for the winning composer provided the composer attends at least one of the Winter 2026 performances in person. Up to three finalists will be chosen to have their works rehearsed by the orchestra. Each finalist is eligible for up to $650 in travel reimbursement if they are able toattend the reading rehearsal on January 11, 2026.
Deadline: September 30
Casasanvito promotes six months of artist residencies each year (spring & autumn), with the goal of hosting two artists per month. The residency is open to all forms of art and aims to establish a cultural and artistic hub in the Marche region of Italy. During their month-long stay, each artist is expected to donate one work to the association. Twice a year, exhibitions will be organized by the curator to showcase selected works.
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Maryland Hall – exhibition and residency opportunities
Rolling deadlines
Maryland Hall presents art exhibitions that engage audiences on many levels, from community exhibits to curated group and solo shows in several galleries: the Earl Gallery, the Martino Gallery, the Openshaw Balcony Gallery, and the Micro Gallery. The Openshaw Artist-In-Residence program provides accessible studio space and an opportunity to curate and exhibit their work at the Openshaw Balcony Gallery at the end of their residency.
Deadline: Rolling
The Awesome Foundation is an ever-growing worldwide community devoted to forwarding the interest of awesome in the universe. Created in the long hot summer days of 2009 in Boston, the Foundation distributes $1,000 grants, no strings attached, to projects and their creators. There are no limits on project types.
WorthlessStudios Photographer in Residence
Deadline: Rolling
The WorthlessStudios Photographer in Residence program is a unique 1 month long photography residency taking place inside a mobile darkroom Airstream trailer. Since 2019, the Airstream trailer has traveled the nation to serve as a darkroom and community resource for keeping analog photography alive and thriving. Unlike other residencies that require artists to travel to them, this residency brings the facilities to you! This residency expands on WorthlessStudios’ comprehensive approach to helping artists realize their creative visions while ensuring they have resources to advance their skills and careers. This program provides support for artists working in a photography based artistic practice that relies heavily on access to a darkroom facility. This residency also provides a $1,500 Artist Stipend.
Deadline: Rolling
Maryland Art Place (MAP), in partnership with Hotel Indigo is pleased to announce an open ‘Call to Artists’. As an extension of MAP’s annual IMPACT public art partnership projects, MAP is working with Hotel Indigo to offer rotating exhibitions in Hotel Indigo’s library and Poets Modern Cocktails and Eats. This opportunity is available to visual artists living or working in Maryland. Maryland Art Place will curate four exhibitions a year based on submissions entered through a rolling basis. Hotel Indigo, Baltimore Downtown is a boutique hotel located in Baltimore, MD. MAP has been working closely with the hotel since it opened, selecting and installing the hotel’s permanent artwork collection including works by Jared Ragland, Gary Kachadourian and Christos Palios. Hotel Indigo and MAP share the same vision of supporting working artists in the region, and both look forward to their continued partnership and the rotation of quarterly exhibitions. Fee is $10 for non-MAP members.
Deadline: rolling
The Clifton Arts Center is planning visual exhibits for the years 2026-2030. The Clifton Arts Center provides approximately 1800 square feet of modern well-lit and upgraded HVAC gallery exhibit space on the grounds of the Clifton Municipal Complex. There is a $10 application fee.
CCA Call for Exhibition Proposals 2025
Deadline: Rolling
CCA invites exhibition proposals from artists, curators, and cultural organizations for rolling review by the CCA Exhibitions Selection Committee. The Main Gallery hosts 3-4 major exhibitions annually, with a rotation of 4-6 exhibitions in the Project Gallery. Interdisciplinary proposals that include digital media or installation elements are encouraged. There is a $10 entry fee.
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 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.