Deadline Driven Opportunities
Drawing Rooms Solo Project Space #5
Deadline: February 18
Anything goes for our Drawing Rooms Solo Project Space 4 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. Multiple solo artists will be chosen by the curator. One artist for Project Space and up to four artists for additional solo gallery areas.
Deadline: February 22
We are looking for artists driven to expand the horizons of printmaking with an interdisciplinary and experimental approach, a curious mind, awareness of contemporary art and a collaborative attitude. We wish to support your research by granting you access to the necessary materials, machinery and expertise to create a distinctive and exciting new body of work.
See / Touch / Build – The Dairy Barn Arts Center
Deadline: February 22
See / Touch / Build invites artists to submit works that transform observation into participation. We seek work that shifts meaning when someone engages with it; work that responds to touch, motion, sound, or interaction. Designed for kids, adults, and everyone in between, this exhibition transforms the gallery into a playground for the senses, where visitors are encouraged to create, explore, and rediscover the joy of making.
Artist Residency – Rabbit Island
Deadline: February 22
Founded in 2010, the Rabbit Island Residency is a platform to investigate, expand, and challenge creative practices in an exposed environment. By living and working on Rabbit Island, residents engage directly with the landscape and respond to notions of conservation, ecology, sustainability, and art.
The Scott Leroux Fund for Media Arts Exploration & Access A/V Residency
Deadline: February 22
This media arts residency focuses on exploring and researching analog-focused A/V systems as a realm of experimental potential. Instead of emphasizing the creation of new works, the program invites artists to engage with the distinctive characteristics of analog A/V systems, embracing tactile processes, material qualities, and inherent unpredictability.
Deadline: February 23
The Graves Mill Farm Residency is a fully funded retreat for writers and visual artists at all stages of their careers. It seeks to inspire participants through the power of the natural world, and to foster creativity through both solitude and community.
Convocation III – Call for Contributions
Deadline: February 23
Convocation — from com ‘with, together’ and vocare ‘to call’. We call for a live “coming together” of artistic researchers whose practices engage with the materiality and mediality of language: from the wordless corporeality of body language to the virtuality of digital text, from the voicing of spoken utterance to the textility of words on a page.
Deadline: February 23
Session provides artists a 1200sf workspace in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn and 6-10 weeks to develop a new inquiry-based project meant to push the boundaries of their practice. Our hope is that these engagements provide an opportunity for mutually beneficial exchanges that not only refine the artists’ thinking, but that challenge dominant social narratives and activate new forms of artmaking.
USArtists International – Mid Atlantic Arts
Deadline: February 25
USArtists International® supports in-person performances by artists from any state or territory in the U.S. at engagements at international festivals, global presenting arts markets, and other eligible engagements outside of the United States. The program funds individuals and ensembles across all performing arts practices and disciplines.
Graham Foundation Grant Programs
Deadline: February 25
For individuals, Graham Foundation grant priorities are to provide opportunities to create, develop, and communicate challenging ideas about architecture and the designed environment. The foundation supports efforts to take positions, develop new forms of expression, engage debate around architecture and related fields, and reach new and broader audiences. The hope is that projects will contribute to an applicant’s creative, intellectual, and professional growth at a crucial or potentially transformative career stage and amplify emerging and underrecognized perspectives in architecture and design by giving priority to first-time applicants.
Deadline: February 26
In Practice 2027 will generate a yearlong series of solo presentations. We invite artists who have not yet had an institutional solo exhibition in New York City to submit proposals for solo exhibitions in designated gallery spaces at SculptureCenter. Artists are also invited to propose off-site projects, publishing initiatives, performances, and nontraditional formats, which will be considered based on feasibility.
Florida State University Legacy Hall Art in State Buildings
Deadline: February 27
The Herbert Wertheim Center for Business Excellence is conceived as a place where connection, collaboration, and community are woven directly into the architecture. Guided by the natural beauty of North Florida, the building’s design emphasizes a seamless relationship between indoors and outdoors, using daylight, views, and warm, nature-inspired materials to create an environment that feels both expansive and grounded. The central atrium acts as the building’s spine, drawing people together and encouraging movement, interaction, and a shared sense of purpose.
Windgate Artist in Residence at Purchase College
Deadline: February 27
Each semester, the School of Art+Design at Purchase College invites one Windgate Artist In Residence (WAIR) in applied design. This program is intended to advance the careers of practicing artists, to prepare students as professional artists, and to strengthen awareness of the significance of applied design–environmental design, craft, craft in the expanded form, social practices, and/or architecture. The WAIR program is made possible in part through the generosity of the Windgate Charitable Foundation.
Redmond Municipal Airport Public Art
Deadline: February 27
In July 2025, City broke ground on a Terminal expansion project that will provide approximately 80,000 square feet of new Terminal area. The project is anticipated to be completed in November 2027. This RFP seeks proposals concerning the design, fabrication, creation, construction, and installation of six site-specific public artworks, which will be integrated into the expanded Terminal area and other existing spaces on the secure side of the TSA checkpoint. City intends to commission visually engaging, durable, and meaningful works that enhance the airport environment and embody the unique spirit of central Oregon.
Deadline: February 28
Hallwalls accepts submissions for art in any media by artists from anywhere in the world. We have a preference toward new work, with an emphasis on installation, sculpture, and new media—none of which precludes submissions of paintings, drawings, or photography, et al (all of which find their way into our program).
Bogotá Experimental Film Festival / CineAutopsia
Deadline: February 28
We call upon works and artists from Colombia and around the world who are nonconformist and dissident toward the predominant modes of production and creation; we privilege the author’s gaze in unique creative processes of plastic exploration, making use of diverse technologies/resources/media, and developing individual, collective, or interdisciplinary dynamics of creation.
Hälsingland International Scholarship and Residency
Deadline: February 28
The World Heritage Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland International Scholarship and Residency (World Heritage Scholarship) is aimed at professional artists, cultural practitioners and researchers who want to develop an artistic or research idea that connects the Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland to one or more other World Heritage Sites on the UNESCO list.
John Michael Kohler Arts Center – Arts/Industry
Deadline: February 28
For more than fifty years, Arts/Industry has been connecting artists with the resources, technology, and materials of Kohler Co., and providing a place to explore new ideas, processes, and perspectives. Artists from all disciplines are encouraged to apply. International artists are welcome and encouraged to apply as well. Each year, up to twelve artists are selected for residencies in the Pottery or Foundry areas of the factory through a competitive jury process. No experience with clay or cast metal is required, just an interest in pursuing a new body of work and being open to new ideas.
The Bader + Simon Empowerment Grant
Deadline: February 28
Founded by the Bader + Simon Board of Directors in 2023, the Empowerment Grant brings much-needed attention to emerging, underrepresented voices and themes. Art will be used to elicit dialogue, inquiry, and understanding to broaden the impact of our work. Community programming will enhance the theme of the exhibit. Bader + Simon brings recognition to the achievements of underrepresented artists by empowering communities to collaborate around art, education, and social justice issues.
9th ARTSinTANK Dance Festival in Korea (ADFK)
Deadline: February 28
The ARTSinTANK Dance Festival in Korea (ADFK) is a premier international dance festival held across Seoul and Seongnam, bringing together artists from 11 countries in 2025. Recognized by the Arts Council Korea as a flagship ARKO SUM Festival, ADFK is not just a festival—it is a platform for artistic innovation, global networking, and meaningful cultural connection.
Deadline: February 28
SNAP welcomes submissions from artists, collectives, curators and collaborations practicing in all printmaking & print-related media (including but not limited to: photography, installation, video, drawing, collage, printed matter). SNAP Gallery is programmed through an annual call for submissions as well as through curated exhibitions.
Artist-Led Practice: Bridging Art and Life
Deadline: February 28
Submissions are invited to this Special Issue on artist-led practice that foregrounds Deweyan aesthetics and their heritage as they are found in the ‘practice turn’ across academia that privileges process, embodiment and experience.
Call for Projects – La Nature Festival
Deadline: February 28
La Nature is conceived over the long term. Its artistic direction does not aim to illustrate an idea, but to give form to a sensitive state. A state shaped by attentive listening to the site, to the living world, and to uses and movements, refined across editions. The festival prioritises continuity, depth and coherence over conceptual renewal.
MicroActs • Artist Film Screenings
Deadline: February 28
…short stories…small rebellions…mini manifestos…personal fables…snippets of memory… MicroActs is a program of short films, 6 minutes or less, exploring concentrated storytelling through moving image. From bold political expression to delicate personal memories to abstract experimental collages; MicroActs aims to create a thought-provoking, informative and diverse evening of film.
Deadline: February 28
The InShadow Festival promotes an encounter between video/cinema and dance/performance, proposing a reflection on cine-choreographic thinking, exploring new trends and innovative processes in the relationship and dialogue between cultures. It proposes an assimilation of experiences, methods and knowledge, increasing dual relations such as thought/action and creativity/innovation.
Deadline: February 28
Aavistus Festival is looking for VJ performances, audiovisual live performances, media art installations, single-channel video works, children’s programme, projection mapping works, and talks and presentations to be presented at various venues in Helsinki, Finland.
Open Call for Artists in Residence: Union House Arts
Deadline: February 28
UHA is accepting applications for our 2027 Artist-in-Residence program! This residency will provide studio space, living quarters, and additional support for professional artists to have the opportunity to experiment with their practice, develop their focus, and test new ideas in the unique historic district of Port Union.
“Visions of Green” Exhibit at MVA Gallery – Modern Visual Arts
Deadline: February 28
As an artist, how do you utilize Green? Does the color permeate your entire image or is it used in small sections? Does it appear in your artwork in objects or in nature or in portrait studies or in abstract design? Is Green purely decorative, or is it a narrative or structural device? How does color reveal you technical skill and emotional impact? No restrictions on subject matter or style exist for this exhibition. All approaches are acceptable — traditional or experimental, representational or abstract, unified or fragmented, lucid or mysterious. You have total artistic freedom, just explore the color Green!
Deadline: February 28
The Low Season Artist Residency is one part dedicated time for creative research and one part community engagement. We have partnered with the Block Island School and the Island Free Library to provide workshops for students or the general public led by our residents. We are interested in artists willing to develop unique experiences for the community to engage in art making. Our artists also share their work through a community lecture or open studio-style event.
MicroActs • Artist Film Screenings
Deadline: February 28
We celebrate artist filmmakers from around the globe & across genres, and aim to create an international spirit and champion empathetic creativity. We will showcase a selection of exciting & inspiring Artist Film from all over the world at a screening in late March in East London, and at a second screening in Woodbridge, Suffolk in early April. This will be our first dual screening of our programming, and we’re excited to be expanding! These screenings are free to attend and open to all.
The Millsaps College Art Department: The Hall Gallery in Jackson, MS
Deadline: March 1
The Millsaps College Art Department seeks proposals for solo and group exhibitions for the Hall Gallery to be displayed during the 2026-28 academic years. Any individual, collective, or group of artists located regionally or nationally (ages 18+) may apply. All media and themes will be considered for exhibition. We’re interested in all types of work that address contemporary issues.
Wrangell Mountains Artist Residency
Deadline: March 1
The Wrangell Mountains Center (WMC) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is connecting people with wildlands through art, science, and education in Alaska. The Wrangell Mountains Residency Program aims to support visual artists of all genres, performers, and writers. The residency will provide unrestricted work time and space to focused individuals.
SonAlt Call for Scores – SonAlt Arts
Deadline: March 1
SonAlt Arts Organization seeks scores for string quartet and string quartet with fixed media for the 2026 SonAlt Call for Scores. The winning works will be performed on July 25 2026 by the Ecuadorian string quartet Las Cuerdas de la Muerte in Quito, Ecuador at the SonAlt Music Festival.
Printelligence and Slow Media: How Print Feels, Thinks, and Responds
Deadline: March 1
This panel responds to the PRINTELLIGENCE call by bringing together artists, designers, researchers, and makers working in book arts and expanded print media to examine print as an intelligent, responsive system. Rather than treating print as a static or purely representational medium, the panel foregrounds how material processes, sequential structures, and embodied engagement allow print to think, feel, and respond to the world around us.
Protest – The Art of Activism – Not ShockBoxx
Deadline: March 1
Protest: The Art of Activism is a group exhibition centered on the urgent need—not just the desire—to resist systems, policies, and power structures that cause harm. This show exists in direct response to what is happening in America and other places around the world, as people take to the streets to defend bodily autonomy, human rights, immigrant lives, queer and trans existence, racial justice, and collective freedom.
ACC CREATORS Residency Open Call
Deadline: March 1
The ACC CREATORS Residency aims to establish a sustainable creative production platform through the convergence of art and technology. The program provides opportunities for “creators”—including artists, researchers, designers, architects, and engineers—to engage in research, development, production, and exhibition of their multidisciplinary projects. We hereby invite visionary creators from Korea and abroad to participate in the ACC CREATORS 2026 Residency and join us in this experimental initiative.
Deadline: March 1
Furthermore supports publication of nonfiction books that concern the arts, history, and the natural and built environment. The program was founded by Joan K. Davidson, who believed deeply in the power of books to expand knowledge, provoke thought, and inspire change.
Fellowship Program – Kala Art Institute
Deadline: March 1
Kala’s Fellowship Residency Program is open to international, national, and local artists who are producing innovative work in and across multiple media. Since the late 1980s Kala Art Institute has provided artist fellows with access to equipment, time, space, and financial support to develop their ideas and work. Today, the Fellowship program is geared towards supporting artists in completing specific projects or bodies of work that benefit from Kala’s specialized equipment. Each year, Kala provides fellowships to artists from various disciplines based on conceptual creativity, originality, and artistic excellence.
Deadline: March 1
Promoted through an open-call, this Fellowship is a creative laboratory where artists receive all necessary resources to execute their creative vision and bring their work to life. Incubating new and existing projects, in addition to direct funding through artist fees, Fellows are offered access to physical production spaces and the technical infrastructure needed to realize ambitious projects.
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts Residency
Deadline: March 1
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts awards up to seventy-eight juried residencies per year to composers, writers, visual and interdisciplinary artists from across the country and around the world. Residencies are 2 to 8 weeks in length. Each resident receives a $175 stipend per week, housing, and a private studio.
Call for contributions: International Forum on Artistic Research
Deadline: March 1
This year’s International Forum on Artistic Research explores how artistic research engages with endangered conceptual worlds and minoritised languages. It considers precarious forms of knowledge as epistemic resources and practical potentials; cultural sedimentations shared between generations and across contexts that provide unique ways of making and being in the world.
Poetry Contest – Enoch Pratt Free Library
Deadline: March 1
Maryland poets, this contest is for you! The winning poem, to be announced in mid-April, will be published in Poet Lore and celebrated at a public reading hosted by the Pratt Library and Poet Lore. It may also be displayed at the Central Library or turned into a collectible broadside.
Deadline: March 1 ($35 fee)
Ramona Residency will offer fully funded two-week residences for mothers and their families at our residency house located in Houston, Texas. Please note there is not a separate studio space, therefore artists who are able to work within the home or on the outdoor back deck are encouraged to apply. The aim for Ramona Residency is to not only provide support for the artist mother but also to enrich the Houston community through opportunities to engage with the artist directly and the residency program. Each resident will have the opportunity to meet with local curators and artists.
Composition Contest – Cincinnati Camerata
Deadline: March 1
Our annual composition competition is designed to inspire and showcase talent in choral music composition. We invite you to submit for consideration a score which meets the competition requirements. Your work will be presented to our distinguished panel of judges which includes our Artistic Director as well as a member of the composition faculty at Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM).
The Prairie Ronde Artist Residency
Deadline: March 1
Prairie Ronde is hosted by The Mill at Vicksburg, a redevelopment project of the former Lee Paper Company mill, whose extensive and ongoing plans focus on sustainability. Our goal is to bring artists into the space to engage with The Mill’s historic legacy and its monumental transformation.
Deadline: March 1
Located in the Hudson Valley, nestled against the Berkshires, our sylvan and secluded hilltop offers idyllic meadows and woods and is situated close to various world-renowned cultural institutions. From April through November, Millay Arts invites 6-7 multidisciplinary artists for two-week to month-long stays at Steepletop, the historic estate of poet/activist Edna St. Vincent Millay. This gift of time and space allows our Artists-in-Residence to dive deep into their creative process and projects; works made possible in part by this gift enriches lives and communities globally.
National Stereoscopic Association Research Fellowship
Deadline: March 1
The Prints & Photographs Division’s National Stereoscopic Association Research Fellowship is made possible by a gift from the National Stereoscopic Association (NSA) for fellowship and lecture funding. The purpose of the award is to support research within the Prints & Photographs holdings of stereoscopic photography and the unparalleled photographic history collections at the Library of Congress–including over 15 million photographs, rare publications, manuscript materials, historic newspapers, and extensive subscription database access.
Prismatic Ground Film Festival
Deadline: March 1
Prismatic Ground is a New York festival centered on experimental documentary and avant-garde film, and for the first time accepting performance, music and poetry/live reading submissions. We seek work that pushes the formal boundaries of non-fiction in the spirit and tradition of experimental filmmaking. This “spirit” is somewhat amorphous, undefinable, and open to interpretation, but refers to work that engages with its own materiality, privileges a heightened artistic experience over clear meaning, and/or conveys a liberatory political sensibility in the agitprop tradition.
Edeiken International Arts Foundation Residency – 7artscafe in Yokohama, Japan
Deadline: March 1
The Edeiken International Arts Foundation (EIAF), founded in 2021 by philanthropist Dr. Nicole Edeiken, is dedicated to fostering artistic innovation, cultural exchange, and community transformation. The foundation supports both emerging and established artists, creating opportunities for creative exploration and encouraging collaboration between the USA, Japan, and beyond.
Curatorial Research Fellowship – Broadcast Program
Deadline: March 1
Prospect Art is seeking a Curatorial Research Fellow at any stage of their career to support and shape the Broadcast arm of our programming, which highlights artists through publicly accessible online events with an emphasis on research-based artistic practices.
Deadline: March 2
Artists Make Technology Lab (AMT Lab) invites proposals for bold ideas in the performing arts that engage digital tools, innovative data practices and emerging production methods. The AMT Lab is a core pillar of a new multi-foundation initiative led by Mozilla Foundation and the Doris Duke Foundation in partnership with the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Ford Foundation.
New York Art Residency & Studios (NARS) – US Based Artists
Deadline: March 2
The New York Art Residency & Studios (NARS) Foundation Artist in Residency Program supports emerging and mid-career artists working across all disciplines through three and six-month residencies. The program is open to both International and US-based artists, creating a shared space for artistic dialogue and international cultural exchange for an extended period of time.
SNF Agora Institute Visiting Fellows
Deadline: March 2
The SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University seeks applications for Visiting Fellows for the 2026-2027 academic year. By enabling the Institute to integrate a broader range of people into our work, the SNF Agora Visiting Fellows program supports the institute’s overall mission of strengthening global democracy through powerful civic engagement and informed, inclusive dialogue.
Art in Public Buildings: University of Wyoming Aquatic Center
Deadline: March 2
The piece should engage well with the physical location in the building, the location in Wyoming, can be either two-dimensional or three-dimensional, and can be created in any material with the exclusion of water. Artists should consider the following themes when applying to this call: transparency, movement, light, human power, performance and athleticism, speed, and water/rivers as related to swimming.
New Music on the Bayou Call for Scores
Deadline: March 2 ($25-30 fee)
Our mission at New Music on the Bayou is to produce professional performances of works by contemporary composers in order to give modern music a voice while inspiring local communities with fresh ideas about the performing arts. We accomplish this mission at our summer festival where composers and performers intersect during an intense multi-day, multi-city, multi-venue series of rehearsals, presentations, and concerts. Our goals are to enliven the region with new ideas about music and to inspire composers with the unique landscapes and cultural offerings scattered among the cities of Monroe and Ruston, Louisiana.
Bildraum Studio – Bildrecht Open Call
Deadline: March 2
The Bildraum Studio, located in the Brotfabrik cultural center in Vienna, offers 170 m² of workspace, providing ideal conditions for realizing and presenting large-scale projects and works. The open call is aimed at national and international artists working in the following disciplines: painting, photography, sculpture, installation, performance, graphic arts,
media art & new media art, design, architecture, and art & science.
Deadline: March 2
Our rigorous selection process aims to identify applicants who subscribe to NXTHVN’s mission and values, and push us to think in innovative ways about our own community. NXTHVN welcomes submissions to our Fellowship program during our annual open call and Apprenticeship program on a rolling basis.
Arts and Heritage Foundation St Albert: Call for Submissions
Deadline: March 2
The Art Gallery of St. Albert is looking for artists to feature in our 2027 exhibition year. We welcome artists, artist groups and curators of all artistic and cultural backgrounds working in all styles and mediums to propose an exhibition by sending in a submission by Monday March 2, 2026.
Deadline: March 3
The City of Pompano Beach is looking to commission an artist/artist team for a work for hire project to design and fabricate a sculpture that will be displayed at the beach for a one year. After a year, it will be submerged into the ocean and attached to Lady Luck in Shipwreck Park. It will be the selected artist’s responsibility to work with South Florida Diving Headquarters to sink and attach the sculpture.
Crow’s Nest Baltimore – Call for Art: Solarpunk
Deadline: March 3
Speculative artwork allows us to envision the future, but this genre is dominated by dystopia– notably cyberpunk and steampunk. Though many of these works offer scathing critiques of colonialism and capitalism, the repetition of this imagery makes it easy for audiences to romanticize and aestheticize these critiques instead of engaging with them. In visual arts, dire warnings get lost in the allure of cybernetic partners and elegant Victorian costumes. “Solarpunk” was devised as a genre of speculative fiction to counter these narratives, and will be the theme for our April show.
Deadline: March 3
Process, research, and experimentation are at the core of the residency program, which welcomes artists from a wide range of fields. During the residency, participants are invited to delve deeper into their practice without the pressure of presenting a final work.
Underneath the Floorboards Film Festival
Deadline: March 4
Our showcase is open to artists and filmmakers from all around the world whose work has an experimental, non-linear narrative form. We want to see variety, whether it be experimental film, video art, visual art, digital art, experimental documentary or animation. We focus especially on avant-garde storytelling.
Peter Bullough Foundation Residencies
Deadline: March 4
Located in historic downtown Winchester, Virginia, the PBF provides intimate, focused residencies to artists and writers, including those elevating voices and topics relevant to the LGBTQIA2S+ community. Applications are now being accepted for fall 2026 residencies to work in the private studios and enjoy the garden and former homes of Dr. Peter Bullough.
Deadline: March 5
The Gutman Gallery is seeking to illuminate the evolution of ideas, revealing the decisions, detours, and discoveries that shape artistic practice. These artistic processes reflect not only the artist’s technical skills but also the dynamic interplay of inspiration and reflection that ultimately culminates in a finished piece. We want to see the sketches, drafts, revisions, research materials, notes, and iterations alongside the final result. Therefore, the selected artists will be asked to submit both completed works and materials documenting their creative process. Initial sketches, process journals, video documentation, or other forms of contextual material are welcome.
Foto Forum Santa Fe Photography Award
Deadline: March 5 ($40 fee)
Foto Forum Santa Fe is pleased to announce an open call for our 2026 Foto Forum Santa Fe Photography Award, an annual international competition open to emerging and established artists. The award was conceived to support photographers by giving them an opportunity to have their work viewed by our outside jurors as well as our in-house curator Executive Director Sage Paisner, to give the winner the chance to share their work in the photography-friendly city of Santa Fe, and to put a little money in their pocket to help in the production of the work.
Deadline: March 5
Artspace is Peterborough’s artist-run centre, a non-profit organization committed to the support of contemporary arts practices. We offer presentation spaces to accommodate the broad scope of disciplines that comprise Canada’s vibrant contemporary arts community and favour work that is challenging, innovative, and provocative.
Centro de Artes Open Call – City of San Antonio
Deadline: March 6
Every three years, Centro de Artes hosts an Open Call for local, state, national, and international curators, artists, artist groups and organizations to submit proposals for upcoming exhibitions. Submissions must align with the Centro de Artes mission. The 2026 Open Call is for exhibitions beginning in 2028. The Centro de Artes Committee evaluates all proposals. We invite proposals from: emerging and established Latino artists, curators, arts and cultural organizations, and community groups working in all disciplines.
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art Biennial
Deadline: March 7
Biennial is the Museum’s juried exhibition occurring every two years that highlights the very best in regional artistic talent typically displaying work by more than 50 artists. SAMA’s Biennial is considered to be one of Pennsylvania’s top exhibitions for contemporary local artists, and this installment features works in photography, watercolor, wood, oil, clay, bronze, pastel, pencil, acrylic, and mixed media, among others. The exhibition and events are sponsored by Benzel’s Bretzel Bakery Inc., Barry H Newborn, Chantel Ventura, Jana Sidler, Scott Riner, and Barbara O’Brien.
601Artspace Call for Exhibitions
Deadline: March 7
For the first time, 601Artspace is proposing artworks from our permanent collection as a curatorial prompt. This is an experiment that we hope might offer both curatorial inspiration and an opportunity to usher these works, many of which are well-known, into new conversations. 601Artspace produces exhibitions that advance the space’s mission of furthering the conversation on contemporary art. As we have neither a commercial nor an academic agenda, we endeavor to support projects with an unusual vision that might not otherwise find a home. We are interested in challenging artists to think like curators, and curators to think like artists.
Deadline: March 7
Interlude is a first of its kind artist residency dedicated to serving artists and their families. We give parent artists the chance to achieve artistic excellence, to connect with the rich history and culture of the Hudson Valley, the local community, and the land. Our selective, fully-funded residency program allows parent artists to make breakthrough work, get feedback, and expand their network. Everyone benefits when these voices are part of the cultural conversation. We are modeling ways to make the arts ecosystem more sustainable and equitable.
Ely Center of Contemporary Art Open Call
Deadline: March 8
ECOCA is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to presenting contemporary art exhibitions and events—challenging, conceptual, and provocative—that are inclusive, diverse and promote dialogue around global and community issues.
Deadline: March 8
The Laura Bassi Scholarship was established in 2018 with the aim of providing editorial assistance to postgraduates and junior academics whose research focuses on neglected topics of study, broadly construed, within their disciplines. The scholarships are open to every discipline and are awarded three times per year: December, April, and August.
Grants for Artists | Maryland State Arts Council
Deadline: March 9
The Grants for Artists program aims to provide artists with holistic support rather than support that focuses solely on a particular product or project-based needs. A primary goal of the program is to strengthen the creative workforce, which is a vital part of Maryland’s economy and culture.
Call for Submissions – Beacon Projects – Nocturne Halifax
Deadline: March 10
Nocturne: Art at Night Festival (Nocturne) is a free, independent, contemporary art festival in Kjipuktuk (Halifax). Annually, Nocturne brings 65,000+ people to the streets of Halifax and Dartmouth to experience art and celebrate the visual arts scene in Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia). Nocturne is currently seeking artists to participate in our 2026 programming through the development of temporary public artworks that will be exhibited during our signature night-time art experience. The theme is Embodied City for this year’s festival.
The Griner Art Gallery – School of Art | Ball State University
Deadline: March 10
The mission of The Ned and Gloria Griner Art Gallery is the promotion and appreciation of the visual arts for studio artists, educators, and designers. The gallery serves as an important educational tool as it provides opportunities for students, faculty, and the broader arts community to showcase works and view the artwork of others. The gallery is the primary location for receptions for School of Art students’ thesis exhibitions. It is also a venue for exceptional juried and visiting exhibitions in various media with regional, national and international participation.
Sitka Center for Art and Ecology Residency
Deadline: March 10
The Sitka Center welcomes art and ecology informed applications from a broad range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary practices. Residencies at Sitka are a gift of time and space. There is no obligation to create work or participate in any programs while here, though Sitka offers optional opportunities such as artist talks, citizen science projects with Coast Watch and connection with our local native arts community through our partnership with the Chachalu Museum and Cultural Center.
Artist In Residency Programs | Lawrence Arts Center
Deadline: March 10
The Visiting and Resident Artists program at the Lawrence Arts Center offers community members a unique opportunity to study visual arts with practitioners of varied backgrounds and diverse skills. Residencies are offered in ceramics, printmaking, and project-based work. These three distinct Artist in Residence programs are designed to provide a creative and supportive environment in which artists may immerse themselves in creating new work and expanding their own understanding of their medium and other media available at the Arts Center. The residencies are a multi-faceted experience, including teaching, community outreach, interaction with other artists, and studio care, and culminate in an exhibition of new work.
Rolling Deadlines
Maryland State Arts Council – Creativity Grant for Projects
Deadline: Rolling, end of each month through March 31, 2026
The Creativity Grant for Projects is available to independent artists and arts organizations (includes universities). There are two options to choose from: the Planning & Development grant is intended to support the early stages of research and development for a proposed project; the Implementation grant is intended to support the execution of a specific arts projects/event/program. Note to UMBC faculty: please contact Sara Qureshi if you are interested in applying for this grant.
Maryland State Arts Council – Maryland Touring Grant
Deadline: Rolling, end of each month through March 31, 2026
The Maryland Touring Grant provides funding to eligible Maryland-based nonprofit organizations (includes universities) to support the presentation of artists listed on the Maryland Performing Artists Touring Roster. Note to UMBC faculty: please contact Sara Qureshi if you are interested in applying for this grant.
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.