External Opportunities

Deadline Driven Opportunities

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Blu-Sky Artist Award

Deadline: November 15

The Blu-Sky Artist Award (BSAA) is an online international semi-annual prize put forward by Ten Moir Gallery. Through this award, the gallery aims to recognize and encourage upcoming talented artists from across the world and provide them with a platform to showcase their work. We embrace visual art in its broadest and most inclusive sense, and are thereby able to award recognition to creators producing art of any type and working with any media. The application fee is $25 until November 15th.

 

Art-in-Education Book Grant

Deadline: November 15

The Art-in-Education Artist’s Book Grant is a residency awarded to two artists to create a new artist’s book and teach young people in WSW’s studios. This grant includes a stipend of $350/week for up to ten weeks, up to $1000 for materials, up to $250 for travel, free onsite housing, and 24/7 studio access during non-AIE sessions.

 

Sondheim Prize

Deadline: November 15

The Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts (BOPA) is proud to announce the 20th edition of the Janet & Walter Sondheim Art Prize. The prize will award $30,000 to a visual artist or visual artist collaborators living and working in the Baltimore region. Approximately five finalists will be selected for the final review for the prizes; their work will be exhibited in the Walters Art Museum April to July 2025. All Sondheim Art Prize Finalists will be awarded a Finalist Award of $2,500 each.

 

Lenscratch Art + Science Competition: Photography Competition

Deadline: November 15

Submit work to the third 2024 Lenscratch Art + Science Competition. We are looking for new work made within the last five years that shows an intersection of Art + Science. The topics can be broad ranging—from climate change, environmental challenges, AI, to name just a few. Please submit thought-provoking photographs that investigate the ever-changing state of our complex world. First place prize is $500.

 

B–CSC Residency Program

Deadline: November 15

The B–CSC invites applications for its Supported Residency program from emerging and established solo artists working in the following disciplines: Sound Art, Music Composition, Moving Image, Photography, Creative Writing, Media Art, Curation, Land, and Environmental Art. The B–CSC’s residency program encourages dialogue, exchange and experimentation. It provides artists with an opportunity to consider and respond to Victoria’s alpine environment and its attendant complexities including the tension between conservation and exploitation. It is expected that artists will engage with the community creatively on at least one occasion. This could be an artist talk, workshop or some other means. Artists are selected by the quality of their proposal and how it fits with the values and capabilities of the B–CSC.

 

Full Bleed: Call for Submissions

Deadline: November 15

In this year marking the hundredth anniversary of the Manifesto of Surrealism, we look forward to featuring in our next issue a selection of new manifestos for our own time and poetry in the ars poetica vein. A separate section of Full Bleed 8 will explore the topic of censorship.

 

Socrates Uprooted Fellowship

Deadline: November 15

Socrates encourages artists to create proposals for new works in disciplines including sculpture, performance, social practice, ecology as well as across multiple and new disciplines. Fellowship recipients receive a Production Grant up to $8,000 to support their project, a $2,000 honorarium, and seven-days-a-week access to the Park’s resources and facilities, including the outdoor artist studio, as well as the technical and administrative support needed to design and realize an artwork within the Park. Fellows are responsible for the production and transportation of their own artworks, but will collaborate closely with Socrates’ curatorial, operations, and public programs staff.This year’s Fellowship will respond to the theme “Up/rooted,” which explores the complexities of uprooting species for long-term sustainability and resilience.

 

Joyce Elaine Grant (JEG) Juried Art Exhibition

Deadline: November 15

The biennial Joyce Elaine Grant (JEG) Photography Exhibition provides a national venue for the exhibition of artistic expression as seen through the eye of the camera. The exhibition is on view to the public at the Texas Woman’s University East | West Galleries every other spring. This exhibition is open to photographers, lens-based or lensless, video and photo-related artists from the United States. Artists may submit one to five images for $35.00 in the Basic Application and/or one to ten images may be entered for $60.00 in the Expanded Application.

 

NYU Abu Dhabi: Artist-in-Residence in the Center for Genomics and Systems Biology

Deadline: November 16

The Center for Genomics and Systems Biology (CGSB) at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) is announcing the third round of the Artist-in-Residence Program and is welcoming applications from artists to fill a one-year position starting September 1, 2025. The Artist-in-Residence program will bring together scientists and artists to collaborate, communicate, interact, and learn, promoting the creative thinking that drives innovation. The chosen artist is expected to collaborate with scientists on one or several of the CGSB-related research programs.

 

Locust Grove Transverse Gallery Solo-Show Call for Art

Deadline: November 16

Solo shows are available for 2-D artwork. Please note the galleries are frequented by visitors of all ages, including school groups. Artists’ discretion is requested for works that are appropriate for a wide range of age groups, no nudes. There is a $40 entry fee.

 

National Liberty Museum Call to Artists

Deadline: November 17

The NLM is looking for artwork in a range of media including, but not limited to: written word, installation, 2D, 3D, digital media, or performance. Accommodations can be made for multimedia works depending on scale and requirements. All work must be completed before the application deadline to be considered. Participating artists and artwork will be selected through this open call-to-artist and a jury selection committee of community partners.

 

Call for Work: Dwellings!

Deadline: November 17

For our juried exhibition DWELLINGS, Artlink invites artists to submit works of any media that involve homes, shelters, forts, nests, burrows, or any other forms of inhabited space used by humans or non-humans. Where a creature lays its head can be a place of refuge, sustenance, and identity. They are cauldrons of growth, filled with love, hurt, anger, learning, and memory. Often, homes are constructed and, in turn, end up constructing the lives of those who dwell within them, for better or worse. Artlink is excited to offer an exhibition exploring the variety of human and non-human places that serve as home, in all its numerous manifestations. There is a $12 fee per entry.

 

AVA Gallery and Art Center: Call for Art “Scaffolding”

Deadline: November 18

The term “scaffold” or “scaffolding” implies lifting up or providing support to enable further knowledge or ensure future success and advancement. Additionally, the term suggests sculpture and compositional structure. In January-February AVA will be refinishing our main named gallery floors, paving the way for future fabulous exhibitions; leaving us just one gallery available for exhibition in January and February, the Linda Roesch Visual Arts Gallery. For this unique exhibition, we plan to use the Linda Roesch Visual Arts Gallery, as well as all three levels at AVA, we’ll be installing unique works of art on each level, creating an environment to roam through. AVA is housed in a beautiful textile mill built in the 1800s, the original site for manufacturing Carter overalls and clothing; fiber art and textile work are of particular interest to our concept for this unique exhibition. We will install 2D work and uncomplicated installation work. For anything more complicated, we will ask you to install your work; we will assist you. There is a $25 application fee.

 

Call for Art & Creative Writing: “Trauma & the Body”

Deadline: November 18

Tendrils (a new art and literature journal focused on trauma) is seeking submissions of visual art and short-form literature for its premiere issue. The first edition of Tendrils will explore the profound theme of trauma and the body—how it’s held, manifested, and transmitted in physical form. We invite creators to interpret this theme in their unique way, whether conceptually in abstraction, or more realistically.We aim to create a space where art and literature can intersect, offering a platform for voices that explore the nuanced and often difficult conversation around trauma. Each selected artist and writer will be paid a predetermined flat fee. There is no fee for submission.

 

Eros & Thanatos: Call for Work

Deadline: November 20

​Buckham Gallery invites you to enter Eros & Thanatos, a national competition established to explore the Greek words for Love and Death. Eros, Greek god of love and sex, and Thanatos, the personification of death, have been used throughout western culture to symbolize the driving forces of life, love, sexuality and creativity as well as acknowledging our own mortality. All styles, media, and interpretations are welcome and encouraged. There is a $25 submission fee.

 

Permanente.ciclo festival

Deadline: November 20

Permanente.ciclo is a festival of experimental arts that takes place periodically in unconventional exhibition spaces in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The festival promotes the work of artists from the local and international scene who explore new languages and alternative approaches to traditional artistic disciplines. With its focus on music, sound art, poetry, audiovisual arts and performance, Permanente seeks to build bridges between multidisciplinary artists and new audiences. Submission fees are $6-7 depending on category.

 

Established Gallery 12/12 Group Show

Deadline: November 20

For this year’s group exhibition we are excited to announce Twelve/Twelve, a curated group exhibition that is open nationally to artists of all mediums. Twelve/Twelve will featuring artwork with maximum dimensions of 12 inches (12”) in any direction (including framing). We are looking for exciting and original work on a small scale! There is a $24 entry fee.

 

Digital Directions 2025

Deadline: November 20

Any original 2D or 3D image based work created and/or produced through digital software and following exhibition guidelines will be considered. This includes, but is not limited to digitally produced photography, digital painting, illustration, graphic design, digital video, and non-film projection. Works selected by the Juror will be exhibited in Maryland Federation of Art’s (MFA) fifth annual Digital Directions Exhibition in Circle Gallery from January 30 – Feb 22, 2025. Work must be for sale. Entry fee is $30.

 

Urban Pulse: Juried On-Site Group Exhibition

Deadline: November 21

The Bridge Arts Foundation cordially invites artists from around the globe to participate in our OPEN CALL EXHIBITION PROGRAM for Winter 2025. This season’s exhibition, titled “URBAN PULSE,” will take place at our partnered gallery, The Scholart Selection, located in Los Angeles, California, USA, from January 25th to February 22nd, 2025. “Urban Pulse” is the rhythmic heartbeat of the city, a dynamic interplay between human life and the urban landscape. It captures the constant motion, the vibrant energy, and the quiet moments of solitude within the chaotic ebb and flow of modern city life. The exhibition explores the tension between personal identity and the overwhelming force of urbanization, where individuals are simultaneously shaped by and lost within the vast expanse of concrete and steel. There is a $30 entry fee.

 

Call for compositions: “Breaking Ground”

Deadline: November 22

The concert will reflect the museum’s temporary exhibition of the same name. “Breaking Ground” celebrates iconic fossils used in the first scientific description of a dinosaur in Oxfordshire 200 years ago. This is an exciting opportunity for emerging composers to create a work with unusual thematic elements around palaeontology, discovery and innovation. One winner will be selected to receive £1000 and a premiere performance by The City of Oxford Choir at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History on Friday 28th March 2025.

 

SciArts New Play Festival

Deadline: November 22

The School of Theatre is proud to announce the return of the SciArts New Play Festival, taking place April 13-15, 2025. We are inviting playwrights to submit an original work that explores the intersections of science and art. Playwrights selected will be brought Baton Rouge for a public reading, offering an opportunity to refine their work in collaboration with theatre professionals. Playwrights selected will receive $500.

 

SciArts New Play Festival

Deadline: November 22

The School of Theatre is proud to announce the return of the SciArts New Play Festival, taking place April 13-15, 2025. We are inviting playwrights to submit an original work that explores the intersections of science and art. Playwrights selected will be brought Baton Rouge for a public reading, offering an opportunity to refine their work in collaboration with theatre professionals. Additionally, playwrights selected will receive $500.

 

VCU Health: Call for Original Artwork

Deadline: November 24

VCU is looking to purchase two pieces of art at $1000 each by different artists. The artworks should focus on healthcare and care work. Prints will be given to nurses, team members and their families.

 

CARPA 9 con­fer­ence in 2025: Call for Pre­sen­ta­tions

Deadline: November 24

The theme for the ninth international conference on artistic research is Ecological Design and Performance Pedagogies: Sustainable Practices and Interdisciplinary Acts in a Climate Changed World. The colloquium is structured in three interrelated strands running in parallel: 1) Ecological Design Practices, 2) Ecological Performance Making and 3) Ecological Storytelling. Presentations can take the format of indoor presentations such as papers, workshops, lecture-performances, multimodal presentations, and co-designed experiments. We also encourage other formats (e.g. roundtables, lecture-demonstrations, workshares, scores, prototypes, durational work) for this type of research practice sharing.

 

Bogliasco Fellowships

Deadline: November 25

Bogliasco Fellowships are awarded to gifted artists and scholars without regard to nationality, age, race, gender, or religion, working on projects of any subject area in the following disciplines: Architecture, Dance, Film/Video, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Public Humanities, Theater or Visual Arts, among others. In the Arts, the Study Center welcomes individuals doing both creative and scholarly work. There is a two-tiered application fee payable by credit card at the end of the application process: $30 up to one week before each deadline, $45 from that date until the final deadline (Dec 2).

 

BBA Art & Photography Prize

Deadline: November 25

Berlin Blue Art will be taking over the Kühlhaus in Berlin to present 20 artists and 20 photographers from our 2025 Artist Prize and Photography Prize open calls across 3 floors. Enter now to be part of the major exhibition and to be in the running for cash prizes, a solo exhibition + more. Artists of all mediums may submit up to 6 artworks – this entitles you to be eligible for the long and shortlist and show your art at the exclusive exhibition in Berlin. There is a 35 euros application fee through November 25th, the fee will rise after that.

 

Call for Contributors: “Truth, Reality, and Artistic Invention”

Deadline: November 25

How does the tension between truth, reality and artistic invention manifest itself in present-day artistic practices in film, performing arts, literature, visual arts and music? In our current ‘post-truth’ condition, manipulated facts and invented truths compete with the arts in the formation of imagined realities artists once held exclusive ownership to, generating a perplexing new paradigm. AR@K 25 is informed by recent cultural and political developments and for the upcoming symposium we encourage participants to reflect upon how reality, truth and art collide, interact and feed off each other in their work. In addition to traditional paper presentations, we encourage a variation of formats, such as performances, workshops, posters, screenings, and installations (technical equipment and stage facilities, such as black boxes, are available).

 

Site Specific Commission for Roosevelt Science Center, Eastern New Mexico University

Deadline: November 26

The Art in Public Places Program of New Mexico Arts and the Local Selection Committee (LSC) of Eastern New Mexico University, Portales seek to commission and artist/artist team to create and install artwork in the newly renovated Roosevelt Science Center on the campus. These artworks should require low maintenance and will need to withstand a permanent installation indoors in one or more of the three identified areas within the building. The LSC is primarily interested in two-dimensional artworks of all media suitable for installation on wall surface including, but not limited to, weaving/fiber, installations, painting, photography, drawing, printmaking, new media, and more. Style can range from representational to abstract in nature, but artwork themes should reflect the nature of the building’s science-centered focus. $132,500 is available to commission an artist/artist team to create public artwork for 1 to 3 designated areas within the Roosevelt Science Center, after finalist presentation fees.

 

Cyprus Contemporary Dance Festival

Deadline: November 29

The Cyprus Contemporary Dance Festival is co-organised by the Department of Contemporary Culture of the Deputy Ministry of Culture and the Rialto Theatre. The Festival aims to attract audiences from all backgrounds and offer them the opportunity to attend a number of innovative works of internationally renowned choreographers and dance companies, thus significantly contributing to the promotion of contemporary dance in Cyprus. The Department of Contemporary Culture will fully fund the performance’s expenses included in the budget submitted with the application form. The maximum amount of funding is €30.000 (including travel expenses, taxes and rights).

 

Moovy Film Festival

Deadline: November 30

Moovy is a dance film festival taking place in at the Filmforum at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, TanzFaktur and Deutsches Tanzarchiv. Dance films are a hybrid of movement and film where choreography develops a relationship between the dancer and camera. Accepted Categories are: Dance Film, Choreography created for film; Choreography and Performance for VR and AR. Please send a technical rider for this category.

 

Hamilton International Contemporary Music Festival

Deadline: November 30

Submit your compositions to our ensemble for performance at the Hamilton International Contemporary Music Festival. We are looking for works for the following instruments: Flute and or Alto flute, Clarinet and, or Bass Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Cello, Percussion1, Percussion 2, Accordion. Compositions should be for a minimum of quintet of your choice to full ensemble. Duration requirements are 7 to 10 min. There is a $30 CAD submission fee.

 

Crow’s Nest: Call for Sculpture/Solo Window Show

Deadline: November 30

The Crow’s Nest is an art incubator in downtown Baltimore that supports climate art. We are looking for sculpture proposals to fill our bay window throughout December 2024 and January 2025. We are looking for 3D or installation work that can bring our mission to life: focusing on themes of environmental justice and/or the climate crisis. We are looking for artists in the DMV area, at most two hours transit from Baltimore. Artists should be prepared to deliver and install the work (Crow’s Nest will provide tools and assistance). The Crow’s Nest will create promotional materials as well as support programming around the opening and closing of this show. There is no submission fee.

 

WVU Feminist Activist Collections: Artist in Residence

Deadline: November 30

The Art in the Libraries Program at WVU Libraries, will expand the connections between the West Virginia & Regional History Center’s (WVRHC) West Virginia Feminist Activist Collection (FAC) and the public. This collaborative pilot residency program aims to expand the use of and build upon the archival collection by offering awards to support projects that use the collection in new and creative ways. Artists may work in 2D or 3D medium such as painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, collage, digital art, book arts, ceramics, fabric, or fiber arts, etc. Mixed media and interdisciplinary artists as well as curators are welcome to apply!

 

The International Choreographic Festival of Blois

Deadline: November 30

The International Choreographic Festival of Blois (Blois Danse) will take place in Blois, France, at the prestigious historical 630-seat theatre: la Halle aux Grains. The festival is looking for 6 dance companies to present their work. Both emerging and established companies/choreographers can apply. Companies must apply with a minimum of 2 pieces.

 

CARE seeking art recognizing enslavement

Deadline: November 30

Yale’s Committee for Art Recognizing Enslavement (CARE) is seeking artists with experience in public art, socially engaged art, or participatory art to create artistic interventions, permanent and ephemeral, and related programming in New Haven to address Yale’s historical roles and associations with slavery and the slave trade as well as the legacy of that history. CARE will award multiple project grants ranging from $100,000-$500,000 in the next 3-5 years.

 

Call for Papers: “Music as a Complex Adaptive System”

Deadline: November 30

The Advances in Complex Systems (ACS) journal is pleased to announce that the latest issue, “Music as a Complex Adaptive System”, is now open to submissions. With this topical issue, we invite scholars from across disciplines to think, together, about music through the framework of complex adaptive systems. We welcome papers that engage with music within this broad framework of complexity, whether music is analyzed in terms of musical practices (activities, interactions, etc.) or products (compositions, recordings, etc.). Contributions are welcome from any discipline, including but not limited to musicology, complexity science, computer science, psychology, neuroscience, or sociology.

 

Center for Creative Photography Residencies

Deadline: November 30

The Centre for Creative Photography offers two residencies (each 6 weeks) for photographers residency includes: free use analog and digital dark rooms; free accommodation at the guest room in the city; and a grant of 300 € for living and material costs.

 

Carroll Harris Simms National Black Art Competition

Deadline: November 30

The competition awards $1000.00 to one artist in each of the following categories: painting, sculpture, mixed media, drawing, printmaking and photography. One work is chosen from the category winners as the Best in Show artist. This artist also wins the opportunity to have a solo exhibition in the two years following the competition. The Best in Show artist agrees to donate a piece of their work from the show to the museum’s permanent collection. There is a $10 entry fee.

 

OPEN CALL Seeing What Isn’t There

Deadline: December 1

During the month of February, All Street Gallery will be hosting an exhibition at our East Village location (77 East Third Street) entitled seeing what isn’t there. We are conducting an open call for art of all mediums that speak to themes of ambiguity, illusion, shadows, ghostly figures, and haunting images. We especially encourage artists with a distinct interest in capturing transitional phases – such as day to night, life to death, or visible to invisible – to apply. Artists may submit up to five (5) works of any medium. Applicants may also propose events for community programming.

 

UNCA Exhibit call for Contemporary Drawing

Deadline: December 1

University of North Carolina Asheville is seeking contemporary drawing. Accepted work will be on display in the university gallery and be printed in the catalogue. $2000 in cash prizes will be distributed.

 

Open Call for Emerging Artists: Summer Group Exhibition

Deadline: December 1

Using Smack Mellon’s location on the waterfront as an anchor, Smack Mellon seeks submissions from artists exploring themes of in-betweenness, belonging, and global movement. This call is only open to emerging artists. We define an emerging artist as one who is at the beginning of their public artistic career and would greatly benefit from the opportunities we provide. Smack Mellon can offer a small stipend for participation in this exhibition, which will be determined by the Curator once all artists are selected.

 

OPEN CALL for performances for the 12th Akropoditi DanceFest 2025 

Deadline: December 1

In our call for this year’s event, we focus on the active presence of the mature body in the performing arts and reach out to artists who either include older performers in their work on stage or propose projects related to this theme (mature age, the relationship between age and presence in general, and specifically the performing arts, etc).

 

Chulitna Lodge Residency

Deadline: December 1

Chulitna Lodge is 180 miles from the nearest road, with fly-in access only. -A historical landmark on the shores of Lake Clark National Park. We provide fully funded 6-week fellowships covering all expenses including travel. We also host 1-3 week residencies at highly subsidized rates. Our Mission is to share a love for responsible exploration of our world’s most remote locations, to pass forward the value of maintaining such places wild. To reap the benefits, creative and otherwise, of life in a world apart. Cutlinta lodge is seeking the following disciplines: Visual Artists, Performing Artists, New Media Artists, and researchers. This residency has a $30 application fee.

 

The Aftermath Project 2025 Grants

Deadline: December 1

The Aftermath Project is open to working photographers world-wide who are interested in creating work that helps illuminate aftermath issues, and encourages greater public understanding and discussion of these issues. For your proposal, you don’t have to address both 1492 and 1619 in your project, but you do need to have a thoughtful proposal (and strong work) that shows your understanding of how these aftermaths still resonate today. As always, we will name one winner of our $25,000 grant. Thanks to the generous support of the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation for all five years of our American Aftermaths grant cycle, our four finalists each year will also receive a $5,000 grant. We’ve mentioned this before, but we’d love to see more explorations of Asian and Hispanic experiences. We’d also love to get proposals from white photographers who want to examine what it means to be white in the aftermaths of enslavement and colonialism.

 

Film Photo Award – Fall 2024

Deadline: December 1

The Film Photo Award offers two award cycles per year, each providing three distinct grants of professional photographic film and complementary film processing by Griffin Editions to photographers who demonstrate a serious commitment to the field and are motivated to continue the development of still, film-based photography in the 21st century. Awards consist of traditional film & photography material.

 

Call for Public Art: Liberty Plaza Mural, Ann Arbor, MI

Deadline: December 1

The City of Ann Arbor Parks and Recreation and the Ann Arbor Downtown Development Authority (DDA) are collaborating to fund a mural installation in Liberty Plaza to enhance the downtown experience for all people. They seek to commission an artist or artist team to design and paint the concrete walls in Liberty Plaza in downtown Ann Arbor, MI. The three-tiered sunken plaza creates a unique urban canvas for artists to design a mural. This project’s design should be colorful, fun, and non-representational in subject. The budget for this commission is $35,000, which will be allocated to the final artist/team selected.

 

Winter 2025: Secrets and Mysteries

Deadline: December 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. There is no submission fee.

 

2025 Artist Residencies at Alchemy Art Center

Deadline: December 1

Alchemy Art Center hosts a seasonal artist residency program on San Juan Island, WA for artists working in the mediums of ceramics, printmaking, fiber art, or darkroom photography. Artists-in-Residence are encouraged to work in all of Alchemy’s focus areas (regardless of their area of expertise), and experiment with mediums they may not have tried before. All AIR opportunities include a work exchange of 12-15 hours per week, a substantial component of which is community engagement. This can mean teaching adult level classes, leading free workshops in the park, mentoring small groups of young people, or simply interacting with Alchemy’s many studio members and visitors. Ideal candidates are people who enjoy people, and who are energized and inspired by collaborative interactions.

 

Call for Artwork by Parents and Caregivers

Deadline: December 1

Visionary Art Collective is partnering with Warnes Contemporary Gallery in New York City to present our annual in-person juried group exhibition, Those Who Tend, curated by Kaylan Buteyn. Artist parents who are juggling their art practice, careers, domestic tasks, caregiving, and carving out time for self-care are invited to submit their work. We accept all 2D & 3D mediums, including painting, drawing, photography, digital, prints, fiber art, collage, mixed media, sculpture, ceramics, and installation art.

 

Iowa Lakeside Laboratory AIR

Deadline: December 1

2025 Residencies are for 2 or 4 weeks between mid-May and early August. Open to artists working in any medium. Preference is given to artists whose work engages with ecology, science, and nature in unique and collaborative ways.

 

Locrian Chamber Players: Call for Scores

Deadline: December 1

The Locrian Chamber Players seeks pieces to be considered for future programs. Only pieces written after 2015 will be considered. Works must be for some combination of the following: Flute, violin, viola, cello, piano, harp and mezzo-soprano. All submissions must be anonymous & via hard copy on CD.

 

SUNY Oswego Artist-in-Residence Program 2025/26 Call for Applications in Visual Arts

Deadline: December 1

The Artist-in-Residence Program at SUNY Oswego brings an artist to campus for one academic semester (Fall 2025 or Spring 2026) to produce a body of work, teach in the area of their specialty, and to conduct research. The resident artist is given the opportunity to pursue research and realize a specific project while drawing on the University’s resources, including its facilities, faculty and student body, practice and performance space, studios, libraries and collections. Candidates who are members of underrepresented or minoritized groups are strongly encouraged to apply. The Artist-in-Residence will have access to their own private studio, VR studios & workrooms, an interaction design studio, prototyping rooms for 3D models and robotics, and more – all fully equipped and state of the art. We are looking for an artist who can connect our art students to these technological opportunities in imaginative and innovative ways. Cross-over between new media and studio arts is welcome. We particularly welcome creative artists whose work engages with diverse communities, LGBTQIA representation, recontextualizing histories, social justice, or feminism.

 

Shaufler Residency: Art & Science “Sociotechnical & Cultural Synthesis” 

Deadline: December 1

The Lab´s residency programme offers dedicated and internationally active artists or artist groups from the fields of media art, conceptual art, performance, etc. Artists should be prepared to collaborate around the following theme: “Data↔Worlds. Sociotechnical and cultural syntheses of new realities.” Artists will have the chance to work together with a cooperative community of researchers in the context of the Schaufler Kolleg@TU Dresden and to draw on the resources of the University of Excellence and our cooperation partners for artistic and creative productions. We expect applicants to be explicitly interested in the exchange of artistic and scientific/scholarly research and working in transdisciplinary teams and to be able to communicate effectively and proficiently in German or English.

 

Alchemy Artist Residencies

Deadline: December 1

Alchemy Art Center seeks artists versed in photography, printmaking, or ceramics. All AIR opportunities include a work exchange of 12-15 hours per week, a substantial component of which is community engagement. This can mean teaching adult level classes, leading free workshops in the park, mentoring small groups of young people, or simply interacting with Alchemy’s many studio members and visitors. Ideal candidates are people who enjoy people, and who are energized and inspired by collaborative interactions. Professional opportunities available to AIRs can include a final exhibition in the dome space at Alchemy, an artist talk at the San Juan Islands Museum of Art, and a shared vendor booth at the San Juan Island Farmers Market. Seasonal residencies vary in required commitments from artists, from teaching to creation of a permanent work for the center. Artists who are newer to teaching are also encouraged to gain experience by leading free all-ages workshops in our community.

 

DC Environmental Film Festival

Deadline: December 2

Since 1993, the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital (DCEFF) has been the world’s premier showcase of environmental storytelling. Through our annual Festival, year-round programs, and online resources, we seek to advance public understanding of the environment through the power of film. Our screenings are held at amazing venues across the DC Metro Area, including Smithsonian museums, embassies, universities, and other leading arts, cultural, and scientific institutions. Fee waivers are being offered to student filmmakers (from anywhere), filmmakers living in the DC Metro area, and early-career BIPOC filmmakers.

 

2025 1492/1619 Aftermath Grants

Deadline: December 2

Our 2025 grant application for the 1492/1619 American Aftermaths grant is now open. As for your proposal, you don’t have to address both 1492 and 1619 in your project, but you do need to have a thoughtful proposal (and strong work) that shows your understanding of how these aftermaths still resonate today. As always, we will name one winner of our $25,000 grant. Thanks to the generous support of the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation for all five years of our American Aftermaths grant cycle, our four finalists each year will also receive a $5,000 grant.

 

Request for Qualifications Public Art Project – Braden Athletic Complex 

Deadline: December 2

Artists must reside in Maryland, Delaware, Virginia or the District of Columbia. Artists from Prince George’s County, Maryland, are especially encouraged to apply. The City of Greenbelt is seeking to commission an artist or artist team to create free-standing artwork commemorating the dedication of the Complex to the memory of Roy Braden, the City’s first Town Manager. The artwork should welcome patrons to the facilities and reflect the positive benefits of the sports being played there, such as fitness, social connection, teamwork, personal development, and above all the shared joy of active play. The total budget for this commission is $50,000 USD.

 

White Wave Dumbo Dance Festival

Deadline: December 2

WHITE WAVE is pleased to invite you to submit applications to our 24th Anniversary DUMBO Dance Festival (DDF), to be presented from June 26th -29th, 2025, at the James and Martha Duffy Performance Space at Mark Morris Dance Center. Performances should be no longer than nine minutes. Application fee rises from $80 to $90 after December 2.

 

Creative Baltimore Grant for FY 2025 Mayor’s Individual Grant

Deadline: December 2

The purpose of the Creative Baltimore Fund Individual Artist Project/Practice Support grant program is to promote public access and encourage the breadth of arts and/or cultural programming in our community by supporting Baltimore City-based projects and/or creative processes. Projects are intended to promote the health and vitality of artist’s individual practices and provide accessibility to arts and culture throughout Baltimore’s diverse neighborhoods. Projects should promote active community participation and a process of discovery in art and culture. The Mayor’s Individual Artist Project Support grant will award 10 artists with $3,000 awards.100% of funds will be disbursed upon contract signing & processing.

 

Bernheim Arts in Nature Residency

Deadline: December 2

Artists are encouraged to explore ideas that reinforce Bernheim’s mission of connecting people with nature and to use their residency to take risks, experiment, and explore new avenues in their own work. Up to 4 artists are selected for residencies at Bernheim annually. One residency is always dedicated to an artist currently living in Kentucky or nearby counties in Southern Indiana, and one residency is dedicated to an artist whose work addresses environmental issues and the climate crisis.

 

IA Call for Proposals

Deadline: December 2

Imagining America (IA): Artists and Scholars in Public Life invites IA members to submit proposals to form new Collaboratories starting in 2025. Each IA Collaboratory will receive: $2000 to support activities and convenings. One reserved presentation slot at the 2025 IA National Gathering. Two complimentary registrations to the 2025 IA National Gathering.

 

Open AIR Montana

Deadline: December 3

Open AIR is a place-based residency that connects artists from across disciplines with unique sites in Montana. Selected artists will have the opportunity to create at a unique site for a multi-week residency. During their residency, artists can connect with the individuals stewarding that site and develop unique work in relation to the place they are in residence. There is a $30 application fee.

 

VIS Journal: The Heart of the Experiment & The Art of Failure

Deadline: December 4

In this edition of VIS we would like to pay attention to experimental art practices and artistic research where the experiment is at the heart of the practice and the main pulse of the art work. Where one does not know the specific outcome of the process and what the final artistic product will be. In this issue of VIS we would like to highlight and show how failure can be used as a method and as an integrated part of the process in both artistic production and research. We especially encourage proposals which deals with experimental ways of using the possibilities within Research Catalogue as a digital platform for both presenting and documenting artistic research. Contributors can experiment with different formats, the balance of visual content, interactivity, and the expectations placed on the reader.

 

Gray 30th Street Station: Open Call

Deadline: December 4

The William H. Gray III Memorial Foundation, in partnership with Amtrak and Monument Lab, is conducting an Open Call for Artist Ideas to envision and build a monumental “living memorial” to Congressman Gray’s legacy and values. The process for the commemorative project begun with an open question posed to the thousands of people who spend time in this station each day: What does LEGACY mean to you? Responses are gathered in the form of brief personal definitions or short poems, and they will be collected by Monument Lab. The responses are reviewed, shared with the Gray Foundation and Amtrak, and continue to inform the Open Call for Artist Ideas. Following the Open Call for Artist Ideas, the Foundation will invite up to five artists to prepare final proposals for in-person presentations. Finalists will be compensated with a stipend of $4,000 plus travel expenses for the creation of a full proposal.

 

Call for Work “The Artists Cabinet”

Deadline: December 5

This exhibition aims to shift focus to artists themselves as collectors, examining how their personal collections inform and interact with their creative practice. We seek to challenge traditional exhibition formats by creating an environment that mirrors the organic, personal space of an artist’s studio rather than a conventional white cube gallery setting. Selected works will be displayed alongside items from the artists’ collections in an arrangement that emphasizes personal narrative over traditional museum taxonomy. Rather than separate labels for each item, the exhibition will feature artist-written narratives that explore the relationship between their creative practice and collecting habits. There is no application fee.

 

XoXo Gallery, call for work: “Grit”

Deadline: December 6

XoXo Gallery is seeking artwork for “Grit,” an upcoming exhibition that celebrates contradiction, incongruities and visual tension in relation to material, texture, and scale. Is your work best experienced in person where the restrictive format of a phone screen just doesn’t do it justice? Do you feel submissions of your work are often misrepresented? Then this is the exhibition for you! All media are welcome. There is a $10 application fee.

 

It’s About the Hustle

Deadline: December 6

It’s About the Hustle explores the stories of African Americans and their labors in the United States. Work, in its vast iterations, is central to Black history and culture. From unfree labor based in agriculture that is the foundation of this country, through the second industrial revolution, and into the hustle of the 20th and 21st centuries. The pieces in this exhibition will explore the intersectional history of creativity, ingenuity, and innovation that has supported Black communities’ resilience. Submissions are open to artwork in all genres, 2D and 3D. Artwork creation date must be 2021 or later. There is a $35 entry fee.

 

Teatri Riflessi: Call for Short Performances

Deadline: December 7

Teatri Riflessi is looking for live works no longer than 15 minutes of contemporary dance, theatre, circus or multidisciplinary performance. Selected works will receive a cachet of €500 and partial support for travel expenses, compete in front of numerous Italian and international operators (theatre and festival directors, theatre networks, programming organisms, residency centres, critics and journalists) for several monetary prizes and the possibility of receiving touring and artist residency opportunities.

 

Marshall University’s School of Art & Design National Juried Exhibition

Deadline: December 7

Marshall University’s School of Art & Design is accepting entries for the 14th Annual National Juried Exhibition. There is no limitation on artistic medium. Entry fee: $30 for up to three entries.

 

Material Works Art Award

Deadline: December 8

The Material Works Art Award supports artists through a one-time $2500 grant in exchange for original artwork that will join our growing contemporary art collection. This award recognizes artistic excellence and aims to promote career advancement through increasing visibility and exposure. We are currently accepting applications from artists with contemporary art practices. Visual artists working worldwide in painting, photography, installation, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, mixed-media, experimental, and conceptual art are eligible to apply. There is a $40 entry fee.

 

Dupont Circle Metro Station Public Art Project RFQ

Deadline: December 9

AIT was created to provide artworks and performances at the Authority’s transit facilities to enhance public spaces and provide high-quality arts experiences for transit customers and the public. The Art in Transit project, outlined in this RFQ, is looking to implement a biophilic design that focuses on aspects of the natural world and enhances the customers’ and the community’s experience.

 

Sinclair Community College: Call for Exhibition Proposals

Deadline: December 10

The Sinclair Community College Art Galleries promote the development of professional and student artists and serve as an educational resource for the entire community. The mission of the gallery program is to advocate and encourage the practice and appreciation of the various forms, media, and artistic expressions open to the contemporary artist and viewer. Criteria for acceptance include embodiment of formal artistic concepts, innovative approaches, and professional presentation. The Art Department aims to present to students and the community as many styles and concepts as possible including but not limited to the students’ study of ceramics, collage, drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture.

 

Stuart and Barbara Padnos Distinguished Artist-In-Residence

Deadline: December 11

The Stuart B. and Barbara Padnos Distinguished Artist-In-Residence Chair position is designed to enhance the experiences of students in the Department of Visual and Media Arts, both majors and non-majors, at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, MI. Candidates for the position must have a record of distinguished professional achievement in a discipline reflected/represented by the Department of Visual & Media Arts. The position will include a teaching assignment equivalent to one course in the fall or winter semester, participation in group and individual critiques, and mentoring for a broad range of students.

 

Innovate Artist Grants

Deadline: December 12

Innovate Grant distributes (2) $1,800.00 grants each quarter, to one Visual Artist and one Photographer. Mediums under “visual art” qualify as follows: Painting, Printmaking, Drawing, Sculpture, Film / Video, Mixed Media, Installation, New Media. There is a $35 application fee.

 

Collide Copenhagen Residency Award

Deadline: December 13

Collide is an annual residency programme for artists with a distinct interest in science and technology, who have a strong motivation to engage in dialogue with scientists and engineers. Collide Copenhagen is seeking established artists interested in the cultural significance of scientific research and technology. The selected artist or collective will spend the first month at CERN in Geneva and the second month at Copenhagen Contemporary in Copenhagen. During the residency, the artist conducts research for their proposal, fostering meaningful exchanges with scientists, engineers, and staff in both locations. The residencies will be followed by a remote phase to define and produce a new artwork with the support of both curatorial teams in Geneva and Copenhagen.

 

Design on the Edge 2: A Juried Exhibition of Graphic Design by Artists and Students

Deadline: December 13

Middle Georgia State University’s School of Arts & Letters and the Department of Media, Culture, and the Arts is accepting entries for a peer-reviewed group exhibition at the Peacock Gallery in Cochran Georgia to run January 27, 2025, to February 24, 2025. Middle Georgia State University’s Design on the Edge, 2, Change invites visual artists and designers to submit original poster designs made on the topic of Change. Change in society, environment, politics, interpersonal relationships, perception, gender, etc.

 

Call for Work: Lust for Rust

Deadline: December 15

It’s our basic human instinct to elevate the underdog, the abandoned, the neglected, and give them renewed importance. Rust is the most visible result of entropy, yet rust also protects, often described as a sacrificial element in architecture. We are seeking innovative artworks, 2D and 3D, that utilize painting, sculpture, cartooning or graphic novels, collage, and mixed media that communicates your lust for rust. Application fee is $35.00.

 

Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency 2025-26

Deadline: December 15

Artists selected for this program are at all stages of their careers and work in all media, including drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, film, video, new media, installation, fiction and non fiction writing, interdisciplinary, social practice and architecture. The residency provides studio space and living accommodations. Each artist will be assigned their own house in which to live and work for the length of the residency. Artists may choose to work in the JTHAR dedicated studio, a large studio space, divided by movable walls, depending on the artist’s needs.

 

Cincinnati Camerata

Deadline: December 15

Cincinnati Camerata invites composers of any age or nationality to submit an original work to our annual choral composition competition. Our newly renamed Cincinnati Camerata’s Kummer Award for Composition honors the late Stan Kummer, whose family has generously offered to sponsor the competition to continue his legacy of support for enriching musical outlets like Camerata. The winner will receive a cash prize of $500. Depending on seasonal programming and time commitments, Camerata may perform the winning composition live in the Cincinnati, Ohio area. The work must be scored for mixed voices with a duration no longer than 5 minutes. The entry fee of $15 must be paid online.

 

Open Call for Exhibition Proposals – Alexander Brest Gallery – 2025-2026 

Deadline: December 15

The Alexander Brest Gallery at Jacksonville University (Jacksonville, FL) is seeking exhibition proposals for the upcoming 2025-2026 season. The 2300 square foot gallery space welcomes proposals for 2D, 3D, installation, and video work. Both solo and group exhibition proposals will be considered.

 

Witt Residency Program 2025-26

Deadline: December 15

On behalf of the University of Michigan’s Stamps School of Art & Design and the Museum of Art (UMMA), we invite you to apply for the 2025-26 Roman Witt Residency, specially themed to explore the upcoming United States Semiquincentennial (2026). We especially encourage social practice and performance artists with an interest in issues of national identity, commemorative practices and memory, and the history and future of the United States, to apply. There is a $15 application fee.

 

Newberry Artist in Residence Fellowships

Deadline: December 15

Offering one month of support for a person working in the visual and performing arts who wishes to advance their artistic practice through the use of the Newberry collection. There is a Stipend of $3,000. Artists and performers including (but not limited to) painters, sculptors, choreographers, dramaturgs, creative writers, composers, and others in artistic fields are welcome to apply.

 

Exploring Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Art and Culture

Deadline: December 15

Art Style Magazine’s aims and scope consider the significance of socio-cultural, political, and historical influence. All values of cultures are shown in their varieties of art. The significance of art and aesthetic experiences are analyzed and related to the process of perception and imagination. Accordingly, Art Style Magazine focuses on the myriad meanings of art and its communication dynamics to address the historical consciousness of modern Western culture in the actual context to promote social inclusion, sustainable development, and decoloniality. You are welcome to contribute an extended essay or scholarly article. You must follow our author guidelines and submit it for evaluation.

 

Folger Institute Fellowships

Deadline: December 15

The Folger Institute offers four long-term fellowships at $70,000 for the 2025-2026 academic year (approximately $7,777 per month, for a standard period of 9 months). These fellowships are designed to support full-time scholarly work on significant research projects that draw on the strengths of the Folger’s collections and programs. In their applications, scholars must describe how they will utilize their onsite and virtual (if applicable) portions of their fellowship. Scholars may propose virtual fellowship time to cover any combination of the following full-time: research with online collections, writing, and editing as it relates to their proposed project. Please note, virtual months may also be used to support research for scholars who have dependent care responsibilities. Scholars must hold a terminal degree in their field in order to be eligible for a long-term fellowship.

 

CatchLight Global Fellowship

Deadline: December 15

At CatchLight, we are harnessing the power of visual storytelling to change the world. CatchLight supports individuals who want to cultivate significant audience engagement through inventive distribution methods that will increase the impact of their work. This fellowship includes a $30,000 award.

 

The International Theatre and Dance Festival “Alter Ego” 

Deadline: December 15

The International Theatre and Dance Festival “Alter Ego” is organized by Theatre-Studio 4xC and is an attempt to create a meeting space for artists, whose creative searches lie in the field of the so-called “alternative theatre and dance.” Alter Ego’s program includes several performances, that stand out with their bold experimental search for avant-garde theatre. We invite you to apply for your performance at this year’s festival.

 

NYC4PA Monochrome Photography Competition

Deadline: December 15

The New York Center for Photographic Art (NYC4PA) invites photographers world-wide to submit images using any photographic process (print, image transfer, emulsion transfer, encaustic, etc.). Winners will receive $4,000 in cash awards, be featured in the NYC4PA Online Gallery and in the Prize Winners catalog. This Call for Entries is open worldwide to both amateur and professional photographers. NYC4PA invites photographers working in all mediums, styles and schools of thought to participate, as long as the final work is monochrome. There is a $35 entry fee.

 

Duo Étrange Call for Scores

Deadline: December 18

Co-founded by cellist Sahara von Hattenberger and soprano Vanessa Croome, the mission of Duo Étrange is to develop engaging chamber music for modern audiences by blending classical traditions with modern aesthetics through voice and cello repertoire. Winning piece(s) will be become a part of our regular performance repertoire, including our annual Canadian tour, as well as at our January 18th 2025 NYC debut at Saint John’s in the Village, which will be professionally recorded.​ Winner(s) are not expected to travel.

 

MSAC Public Art Project Grants

Deadline: December 19

The Public Art Across Maryland (PAAM) New Artworks Grant offers funding to artists and organizations to support the planning, creation, and installation of new local public art projects. Project Grant awards up to $30,000 to organizations to support the fabrication and installation of new public artwork. The artwork must have been developed through a community process, and be fully designed including identification of the artist(s) creating the work.

 

Bristol Art Museum Paper Exhibit

Deadline: December 20

This national call invites artists to explore materials and artistic processes that reflect the hard, the composite, and the delicate. Works may incorporate paper as a medium or subject and engage with broader themes of strength, fragility, and transformation. Playful experimentation and innovative approaches will unify the exhibit, welcoming all styles—from non-objective to abstracted realism. $30 for the first entry.

 

The G. & A. Mamidakis Foundation Art Prize

Deadline: December 22

The Art Prize supports contemporary artists by offering them the opportunity to create a new, site-specific artwork which will remain on permanent display in Agios Nikolaos, Crete, will become part of the Foundation’s art collection, and will join an important cultural heritage as well. The selected proposal will stand out for its originality, creativity, and site-specificity. The 2025 Art Prize calls for site-specific, large-scale land art installations created to remain on permanent display outdoors, and become part of a specific, configured environment; works which narrate an internal path/route, and which can be reference points within their exhibition space. The 2025 prize is open to visual artists working in one or more of the following fields: land art, environmental art, ecological art, sculpture, sound and sculptural installation, mixed media, and artists working with natural materials, creating works that integrate art and nature with the aim of generating innovative experiences in open spaces.

 

Call for Composition: “Woman, Art, Resilience.”

Deadline: December 23

We invite women composers from around the world to submit their works for “Woman, Art, Resilience,” two concert events scheduled for Spring 2025 in Toronto and Aurora, Ontario, in honor of International Women’s Day. Works should be five to seven minutes in length. There is no entry fee.

 

Performing Artist in Residency: Max Planck Institute

Deadline: December 29

The INHABIT artist-in-residence program of the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics invites artists from the performing arts and music to collaborate with our team of scientists and researchers. The integration of artistic thinking and knowledge as reflective practices in their own right is an important dimension of the Institute’s mission. During the residency, the Institute will provide space, resources, and facilities for productive experimentation, dialogue, and collaboration. Artists will be given a fee of 8,000 euros and additional funds for accommodation.

Call for Papers: Artful Minds: Health and Well-Being

Deadline: December 31

We seek to investigate how cross-disciplinary approaches—merging insights from the arts, music, sciences, medicine, and healthcare—can uncover novel trajectories and transformative practices within the realm of health and well-being. This call for papers aims to highlight innovative methodologies, emerging trends, and impactful applications that emerge from this confluence of disciplines.

2025 Salisbury Prize

Deadline: December 31

Artists, architects, engineers, and all sorts of creative teams are welcome to participate in the 2025 Salisbury Prize public art competition. Thanks to funding provided by the Maryland State Arts Council, this annual competition will award $10,000 with an additional stipend for materials up to $5,000 (reimbursable). The City of Salisbury’s Public Art Committee and the Arts, Business, and Culture Department are seeking proposals for a substantial freestanding artwork. The Committee is especially interested in proposals that address one or more of the following themes: kinetic work, inclusion, disability access and awareness, and/or community engagement.

Da_sh editions / Musicando association: 4th International Composition Competition

Deadline: December 31

This new edition is open to works for choir / chamber choir. The aim of the competition is to discover new works and talented composers in order to promote their pieces through the realization of a new printed edition together with a new professional recording of the winning work. The winning composition will receive a 1000 € in cash prize and a première in a public concert in Rome – Italy.

 

Anna Rabinowitz Poetry & Art Prize 

Deadline: December 31

The Anna Rabinowitz Prize is awarded to poets and their collaborators for venturesome, interdisciplinary work that was completed in the previous year and combines poetry with any other art or discipline. Work that qualifies includes but is not limited to books that blend visual art and poetry, original performances of dance and poetry (or dance based on poetry) and of music and poetry (including libretti based on poetry), as well as more eclectic collaborations involving poetry and technology, the sciences or math. The entry fee is $10.

 

Leonardo Journal Open Call: Special Sections on Diverse Perspectives

Deadline: December 31

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.

 

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.

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.

 

NSA Residency

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.

 

Innovate Grants

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.

 

NYC Percent for Art Directory

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.

The Sidewalk Video Gallery

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.

Stochastic Labs

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.