External Opportunities

Deadline Driven Opportunities

Process: A Human Exhibition

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.

 

Artspace Exhibition Proposals

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.

 

Short Circuit Films: Village People

Deadline: March 6

Our themed screenings continue into 2026 with an invite for filmmakers to share their films for our April programme Village People. What is a village? Whether urban or rural, ancient or evolving, villages and villagers are diverse and resilient with their own identities, conflicts and celebrations. What communities do we picture and what voices do we hear when we talk of ‘Village People’. As ever we look forward to seeing your submissions, interpretations of the theme – and visiting your villages.

 

Open: 1646 – ReCNTR Residency

Deadline: March 6

1646 is looking for an (inter)national artist to do a residency in The Hague. The call is open to artists interested in investigating relevant social and political issues through multimodal methods, and by the use of the following artistic strategies: fictioning, complicating and humour. We understand fiction as an essential instrument to help imagine the world differently. Embracing and celebrating complexity, contradiction and paradox as inherent qualities of human existence. Using humour as tool needed to maintain an open attitude when confronted with delicate subjects.

 

Asia North Exhibition

Deadline: March 6

The Asia North 2026 exhibition committee seeks artworks that explore the many facets of hospitality; a core value rooted in respect, ritual, and community for many of us who grew up in APIMEDA (Asian Pacific Islander Middle Eastern Desi American) households. Considering hospitality as a malleable practice, we ask that submitted works address the ways in which hospitality beckons us to prioritize the care of others, create safe spaces for exchange, and reinforce/redefine cultural traditions.

 

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.

 

Interlude Artist Residency

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.

 

Interlude Artist Residency

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.

 

Ox-Bow: Summer Residency

Deadline: March 8

Ox-Bow’s Funded Summer Residency Program offers 9 artists the time, space, and community to encourage growth and experimentation in their practice for three weeks on campus. The Summer Residencies are held while our core classes and community programs are in session. During this time, a small group of residents have access to Ox-Bow’s artist community of students, faculty, and visiting artists.

 

Blue Line Arts: SCG Artist in Residence & Teaching Program

Deadline: March 8

The SCG ART program brings established artists to Placer County for the purpose of teaching and sharing their artistic talents and experience to the greater community. The program was lovingly established at PCF in memory of a local artist, Susan Cooley Gilliom, by her family.  Both Susan and her mother took part in workshops from established and talented artists across the country.  They appreciated the perspective and expertise it offered their own work and wanted similar opportunities afforded to local artists, art students, art educators and art enthusiasts in Susan’s hometown and county.

 

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.

 

Laura Bassi Scholarship

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.

 

VisArts NextGen 13.0 Exhibition

Deadline: March 11

VisArts invites emerging artists ages 17–27 from the DC, Maryland, and Virginia region to apply for NextGen 13.0, our annual exhibition spotlighting new and developing voices. Designed especially for artists with little or no prior exhibition experience, NextGen 13.0 offers a rare chance to present work in a professional gallery setting while engaging in a robust slate of supportive programming. Selected artists will participate in an opening reception, artist talks, and conversations with fellow emerging artists, as well as critiques and professional development sessions led by local curators and arts administrators who actively work with young artists.

 

dokumentART European Film Festival

Deadline: March 11 (earlybird), March 31 regular

At the heart of the festival lies a shared exploration of contemporary realities:

In which world are we heading? How do new technologies and artificial intelligence shape our lives? How do societies respond to ecological exhaustion, political crises, the rise of right-wing movements, social fragmentation, and changing forms of community? The will festival present films that reflect on social transformation, lived realities, and future perspectives, while remaining deeply rooted in human experience.

 

A Space Gallery: My Social Media is My Art Open Call

Deadline: March 12 ($25 fee)

This open call invites artists to examine social media as both a tool and a territory. We are interested in works that respond to the aesthetics, behaviors, pressures, and possibilities of online space. How does the logic of the feed influence composition, scale, repetition, or self-presentation? What does authorship mean in a culture driven by circulation, metrics, and visibility?

 

The Kollection: Rebel Open Call

Deadline: March 12

The exhibition explores rebellion and resistance as sustained practices shaped by resilience, care, and adaptation across social, political, and personal contexts. It examines how artists engage acts of defiance today as resistance becomes increasingly mediated and aestheticized through digital platforms without losing urgency. We especially encourage applications from artists working in performance and installation due to the venue’s flexible spatial layout and capacity for site-specific projects. Outdoor art proposals of any scale are also strongly encouraged.

 

University of Arkansas Little Rock: Windgate Artist in Residence

Deadline: March 12

The Windgate Artist in Residence at UA Little Rock is a semester-long residency program open to artists, designers, and craftspeople. This residency offers the selected applicant the opportunity to create work and engage with the School of Art and Design community, as well as the greater Little Rock community. The primary goal of the residency program is to provide time to make and develop work, and the space to make it while interacting with our community.

 

Candela Books + Gallery: UnBound 15 Exhibition

Deadline: March 13

This summer group exhibition, held in Richmond, VA, is  the only open call exhibition Candela Gallery offers each year. It is dedicated to featuring a wide range of photographic artworks and artists books from 40-50 fine art photographers. UnBound! generates opportunities and exposure beyond the traditional group or juried show by providing collection and funding opportunities for artists.

 

Creative Alliance Resident Artist

Deadline: March 13

The Resident Artist Program is a collaborative live/work residency at Creative Alliance in Baltimore, MD designed for artists seeking sustained time, space, and community to focus on their practice. For over a decade, the program has supported artists from Baltimore and beyond through reduced-rent studio housing, professional development opportunities, and ongoing engagement within a creative environment. 

 

Tussle Magazine: When the Artwork Disappears Open Call

Deadline: March 14

The project goal is to transform a physical artwork into a collective, textual work, challenging visual primacy and shared ownership. Tussle Magazine is seeking three artists to contribute a small-scale, conceptually potent artwork designed to inspire deep textual interpretation. The successful artworks will serve as the catalyst for a three-month interpretive journey being hosted by three writers in their homes/studios.

Spraygrounds Public Art Project: Harrisonburg, VA

March 15

Arts Council of the Valley, in collaboration with the City of Harrisonburg, the Northeast Neighborhood Association, and two private project donors, is seeking original, non-AI-generated artistic design submissions for three works of art – a mosaic, an archway and freestanding sculpture(s) – to be installed at the Spraygrounds at Harrisonburg’s Ralph Sampson Park.

 

The Barn at Lee Residency

Deadline: March 15

The Barn at Lee provides residencies for artists working in the live arts, including but not limited to, playwrights, dancers, musicians, performance artists and other live performance practices. If you currently practice an artform not performed in front of a live audience (e.g. screenwriting, fiction, painting and sculpting, photography or video arts), we are not equipped to support your work at this time. Our residencies are open to artists working on projects at all stages of development. There is no deliverable requirement of a resident artist. The Barn at Lee only asks that a portion of the residency be open for public interaction.

 

Deep Focus Open Call – Unbuild/Unbuilt: Experimental Cinema

Deadline: March 15

Deep Focus invites a new round of submissions for films reflecting on the tensions between creation, destruction and de-construction. Unbuild/Unbuilt proposes to look at ways in which the components of a structure are removed from it one by one, putting said structure, be it anything from architectures to epistemologies, ideologies and relations, through a process of transformation or complete renewal. And when everything is removed, or nothing has been created yet, what occupies that state of potentiality?

 

Tall Stories at Maryland Film Festival: Vertical Video

Deadline: March 15

Submit your 9:16 aspect ratio film for a chance to be screened at the SNF Parkway. Whimsical, cinematic, global and regional stories welcome! 

 

Jerusalem International Solo Dance Festival 2026

Deadline: March 15

JISDF’s artistic mission highlights the performative art of storytelling in a multicultural spectrum. Bringing forward the individual’s narrative in response to their reality, using physical, quality, multi-disciplinary expression of contemporary dance and Body – as a common ground between People. The festival welcomes works from a broad spectrum of disciplines including, contemporary circus, contemporary flamenco, Site-specific, and any other genre that correspondence with contemporary performance and dance.

 

The Riga Performance Festival STARPTELPA “Sonic Vibrations”

Deadline: March 15

We are seeking video performance works that engage with sound and vibration as forces that carry memory, conflict, and connection across bodies, spaces, and time. Submissions are invited to explore sonic vibrations as carriers of heritage as a living, contested, and embodied process, rather than a fixed inheritance. We welcome works that work with resonance and dissonance, with echoes, silences, and interruptions, where sound becomes a means of re-performing histories and sensing unfinished pasts and possible futures.

 

Mayor Brandon Scott’s Baltimore Screenwriters Competition 2026

Deadline: March 15

The Mayor’s Office of Arts, Culture and Entertainment (MOACE) and the Baltimore Film Office are accepting screenplays for Mayor Brandon Scott’s Baltimore Screenwriters Competition 2026. This new, expanded initiative celebrates the talents of Baltimore-based screenwriters whose stories reflect the rich culture and vast landscape of Baltimore City. The competition awards prizes in the episodic, feature and short film formats. This program, organized by Mayor Scott, the Mayor’s Office of Arts, Culture and Entertainment, and the Baltimore Film Office, is intended to uplift Baltimore’s screenwriters and expand youth participation in the arts.

 

Brückerei

Deadline: March 15

The third edition of BRÜCKEREI will take place 06–18 July 2026 under the mentorship of Thomas Hauert — Swiss award-winning performer, choreographer, and teacher. This year’s edition will center on improvisation as a mode of creation and performance. The process will emphasize collective research, compositional tools, and real-time decision-making. We also solicit work on the convergence of arts activism and revolution; how forms of creative expression drive social and/or policy change in areas affecting human rights, systemic inequality, and climate change, etc. We welcome articles with video or audio components, as well as projects that incorporate movement, somatic practices, theater and performance into the classroom or curriculum.

 

Interdisciplinary Arts Activism

Deadline: March 15

We seek scholarly, experimental, and/or experiential work on all forms of arts activism, including: street art/community installations; music and composing; public performance; use of architecture and design/space to support movements, philosophies, and community engagement; somatic activism; comedy and activism; digital/social media; recent resurgence of zines/pamphlets; comics; and more. We also solicit work on the convergence of arts activism and revolution; how forms of creative expression drive social and/or policy change in areas affecting human rights, systemic inequality, and climate change, etc. 

 

International Choreographic Competition Hannover 2026

Deadline: March 15

This competition estimated within the last years as an important event in the national and international dance scene. The internationality of the both sides, the participating choreographers and the jury shows the high international ranking of this unique competition in Germany.

 

Call for Papers at Art of Research 2026: Aalto University

Deadline: March 15

‘Voices’, the theme of the 9th Art of Research conference, addresses the various voices that constitute research through arts, design and architecture. It enquires particularly about the potential of artistic research to engage with contemporary discussions and affect our current condition. The theme explores the diversity of terminologies, territories, frameworks, practices and formats of research, as well as how artistic research is employed, adapted, translated in other fields of research and practice.

 

Sofia Art and Music Festival (SAMF) Orchestral Opportunity

Deadline: March 15

The Sofia Art and Music Festival (SAMF) is a two-week international orchestral festival for composers and conductors, presented by Global Arts United (GAU) in partnership with the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra. Selected composers collaborate directly with the orchestra and conductor.

 

Immigrant Song: A hymn to immigrants in our country

Deadline: March 15

Whether one is a European model who migrates to the US to pursue her ambition and ultimately becomes First Lady of the country, or an Iraqi Jew exiled over his religion, or a Chilean youngster who escapes the violence of a cruel dictatorship, each person immigrating to this country has their own story and adds to the fabric of diversity in our union.  Leaving one’s homeland and giving up one’s cultural and family ties to become a stranger in a strange land is daunting and not for the weak-hearted.  This exhibition seeks to depict the immigrant experience here in the US and to celebrate our brothers, sisters, and neighbors who made this country their home. 

 

Residencies – La Becque

Deadline: March 15

Participants to La Becque’s Principal Residency Program are selected globally by a transdisciplinary jury of experts. The program is open to both accomplished practitioners and up-and-coming candidates with a high potential for artistic growth. Applicants are evaluated on their practice as well as on the quality and pertinence of a residency project specifically written for their time at La Becque.

 

Artist Grants

Deadline: March 15

Artist Grant, founded in 2017, is a small group of creative people from diverse artistic and professional backgrounds, united by a shared commitment to funding artists and supporting the visual arts. We believe  artists deserve fair compensation for their work. Too often, society expects creatives to work for free. We exist to help shift that narrative — empowering artists to fully engage in their practice and make meaningful contributions to culture and society.

 

The Neon Heater Open Call

Deadline: March 15

The Neon Heater is a contemporary artist-run space in Findlay, OH with monthly exhibitions of conceptual and installation based works, contemporary photography and painting trends, video and new media. We are currently seeking proposals for solo artists and small group exhibitions exploring social praxis as a response to current conditions. Themes can include solidarity, sustainability, reclamation, resilience, connection, mutual aid, spirituality, or anything else that dares to envision solutions to contemporary issues.

 

Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program: RAiR Program

Deadline: March 15

Well known by visual artists as the “Gift of Time”, the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program was established in 1967 to provide gifted studio-based visual artists with the unique opportunity to concentrate on their work in a supportive, collegial environment for an entire year. This gift of time allows artists to work without distraction in an effort to break new ground and focus on individual goals. The Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program’s interest is in strengthening the vitality of the visual art in New Mexico and has been a catalyst in broadening community understanding of contemporary art for over fifty years.

 

Community Engagement Artist Grants

Deadline: March 15

We are committed to helping projects that depart from the routine and present new, distinct and imaginative possibilities. Our spring grants are open to artists living or working anywhere in the US. We do not fund projects by artists living outside the United States. We especially encourage applications from those who have been historically excluded from the mainstream art world. This includes, but is not limited to, those who are Black, Indigenous, People of Color, Trans, Deaf, Disabled, Immigrant or Refugee, or Self-Taught.

 

Writing Residency – Blue Ridge Center Arts

Deadline: March 15

We expect to meet initially with the artist and provide context and introductions to support and enable the artist to create a set of original stories, essays and articles (or more broadly perhaps, poetry or one-act plays or other format as appropriate). We envision that these could be character sketches about interesting local residents, historical fiction relating to past events in the area (including Shenandoah National Park), ghost stories using local properties as the backdrop, materials relating to local agriculture, fly fishing hunting, grape growing or other important activities in our valley – or other topics and formats as appropriate.

 

Edited Volume: Nam June Paik as a California Artist

Deadline: March 15

Nam June Paik’s artistic legacy is frequently framed through the lens of the Fluxus movement in New York and Europe. However, his rigorous engagement with California’s unique media ecology during the 1970s remains a critical, yet under-examined, chapter in the history of video art. This edited volume invites contributions that reevaluate Paik’s “California Period” (1970–1980), arguing that the West Coast provided a distinct “California Triangle” of infrastructure—broadcasting, education, and museum institutions—that was central to realizing his avant-garde vision.

 

#Banana Slips Open Call | Elsehere Global

Deadline: March 15

The banana peel is both object and metaphor, a trace left after consumption, a bodily reaction that precedes rational thought, and a site where systems reveal themselves through minor cracks. We are interested in how artists misread, magnify, dismantle, or redefine this image, transforming it into works with contemporary relevance and critical depth. A banana peel is a minor residue, easy to miss, yet it can trigger imbalance, interruption, and deviation from the intended path. Banana Slips invites artists to begin from that small rupture, attending to failure, absurdity, misuse, risk, embarrassment, slipping, and subtle disruptions of everyday order, and to translate the image into work with contemporary relevance and critical depth.

 

PlatteForum

Deadline: March 15

PlatteForum pairs youth from the ArtLab Internship program with professional artists from our Artist Residency together in learning laboratory settings to build meaningful connections and to collaborate on creative projects. These collaborations culminate in public art exhibitions. The goals of PlatteForum’s Artist Residency are to: support working artists to create new work to catalyze conversation and action for social change; to offer professional development for working artists including supported teaching experiences; to foster mutually beneficial and generative connections and education between professional artists and youth; and to engage the artist’s work in the larger context of Denver’s arts and culture community. 

 

NEFA: National Dance Project Production Grant

Deadline: March 16

Now in its third decade, National Dance Project is widely recognized as one of the country’s major sources of funding and field building for dance. NDP has invested more than $38.5 million in funding primarily to support the creation and touring of new dance works, as well as other initiatives, including production residencies and regionally focused professional development for dance artists.

 

48th Avenue Center: Denver Public Art

Deadline: March 16

Denver Rescue Mission’s 48th Avenue Center is in Northeast Park Hill and operated throughout the year in partnership with the City and County of Denver. The center is a safe and comfortable space for men as they plan their next steps and move towards stability. The building operates 24/7, offers nightly beds, three meals a day served from the commercial kitchen, restrooms, and access to various support services like the medical clinic. This project is backed by RISE Denver, a voter-approved program that aims to build, rebuild or purchase facilities that serve youth, families and people experiencing homelessness.

 

Democracy Center: Irene Yamamoto Arts Writers Fellowship

Deadline: March 16

This fellowship is for arts writers, defined as journalists, critics, and cultural commentators who analyze, contextualize, and interpret the arts for public audiences. Arts writing includes criticism, reviews, essays, opinion pieces, and other forms of nonfiction writing about art, artists, cultural institutions, and creative movements.

 

Residency: Ellis-Beauregard Foundation

Deadline: March 16

The Ellis-Beauregard Foundation recognizes that the arts are essential to an open, enlightened society. The residency program values innovation, experimentation and creative risk-taking in all genres, known and as yet to be discovered. We envision the residency as inclusive and diverse, prompting reflection and dialogue with other residents and the community, offering the gift of concentrated time and space in which to unveil new ideas and imagine new ways of working.

 

T3%+!le$: The Language of Fiber | Schweinfurth Art Center

Deadline: March 16

This exhibition, playfully titled T3%+!le$, explores language in all its expressive forms: written, spoken, and illustrative. SDA seeks artists whose work engages broadly with ideas of communication—from poetry and prose to computer code, indexing, and archiving—as it relates to the grammar of textiles and the vocabulary of fiber. Artists working in text- and sound-based works, alternative signs and symbols, and processes that document making, individual moments, or longer histories are encouraged to apply. Submissions should evoke responses, provoke thought, and foster connections between textiles and language.

 

ArtTable Fellowship

Deadline: March 17

Since 2000, the ArtTable Fellowship Program has focused on strengthening pathways into

visual arts careers by providing meaningful professional experiences, mentorship, and

network-building opportunities for students and early-career professionals. Now in our 26th

year, the program supports individuals navigating the transition from academic training or

alternative career paths into professional roles within the arts sector. This year, ArtTable is offering 10 Fellowship placements at different host organizations.

 

The Human Form: An Exhibition of Sculptures | Buckham Gallery 

Deadline: March 18

For all of recorded human history, we have created images in our likeness, images that act as vessels for our expression of existence and life and humanity. Through our bodies, we interact and experience the world; no wonder the history of art teems with our interpretations of this fragile and wonderful vehicle. As sculptor Leonard Baskin stated: “The human figure is the image of all (people) and of one (person.) It contains all and can express all.” Buckham Fine Arts Project welcomes submissions of three dimensional works that depict, reference, or are otherwise inspired by our human form.

 

Visual Arts Application: Dag Foundation

Deadline: March 18

We aim to support work that offers significant innovation—for example, at the level of medium, content, technique, or expressive style. The award will go to an emerging artist who has achieved some early success but who has not yet received a major prize or widespread recognition. The DAG Prize is meant to support a specific project or exhibition that represents a new direction for the artist’s work.

 

Music Application: Dag Foundation

Deadline: March 18

The goal of the DAG prize is to contribute meaningfully to music being made in the United States. We aim to support artists who draw on established musical traditions without being bound by them. From session players to songwriters, we support creative, collaborative artists whose work suggests innovation, synthesis, or breakthrough, a unique perspective, and a dedicated practice.

 

Literary Application: Dag Foundation

Deadline: March 18

The goalal of the DAG Prize is to contribute meaningfully to the evolution of American prose literature. To that end, we aim to support writing that offers significant innovation—for example, at the level of form, content, or genre. What more can prose literature be? What more can it do? The recipient will be a writer who has already published one book of prose for adult readers demonstrating commitment to such investigations but whose work has not yet received prominent literary recognition. The DAG Prize is meant to support a second prose project already substantially underway.

 

Ortega y Gasset Projects

Deadline: March 18

We recognize that exploration is key to the sustainment of artistic vitality. Thus, we embark on an exploratory model where artists take the role of curator, critic and promoter. Working without specific intentions of commercial profit or an explicit curatorial ideology, the goal of OyG is to mount exhibitions that provoke interpretation and dialogue. In doing so, we participate within a wider forum to disseminate aesthetic experience in new ways and expand our roles, priorities and scope of influence within art culture.

 

Outdoor Mural: Downtown Ardmore District

Deadline: March 18

After 50 years of creative community impact, Past*Present*Future (PPF) is partnering with the Downtown Ardmore District to transform a beloved alleyway into a vibrant public mural gallery in the heart of Ardmore. Eleven professional artists will be selected through a two-tiered process, each designing and installing one of eleven 10×10 ft. outdoor murals on brick walls along the pedestrian pathway in the Ardmore Commercial Corridor. This project is spearheaded by Sherry Tillman, owner of PastPresentFuture in Ardmore, PA. It builds on five decades of cultural leadership, from First Fridays to artist markets and beyond.

 

Arcus Project Open Call + Residency

Deadline: March 19

Located around an hour from Tokyo, a residency at ARCUS Studio allows participants in the program to come into contact with the contemporary art scene in Japan as well as devote themselves to their creative endeavors in a calm environment while interacting with the local community. Through the support the program offers from its dedicated team of coordinators and regular tutorials with a curator, artists are able to search for and explore approaches in their practices and undertake new challenges in their artistic expression. The program particularly emphasizes research-based practices and presents the initial results of these processes at open studios

 

Innovate Grant

Deadline: March 19

Innovate Grant was created out of the frustration of applying to grants with time-consuming requirements. These lengthy applications took valuable time and energy away from making new work. Countless hours were always sacrificed in either writing artist statements, crafting project proposals and getting letters of recommendation. We believe that time is one of the most valuable components to fostering creativity and innovation. Our aim is to provide the time you need to be fully immersed in your ideas and in creating your work.

 

Rawlings Conservatory Spring Art Exhibition: Rooted

Deadline: March 19

This exhibition embraces the natural world as both subject and inspiration. We welcome two- and three-dimensional works that explore: florals/botanicals, especially spring-blooming flowers, plants, gardens and parks, and cultivated and wild landscapes. Artists are encouraged to interpret these themes broadly. Works that celebrate the beauty of the Conservatory and reflect the spirit of the parks community are especially welcome. We also warmly invite submissions that honor Mango, our beloved late Conservatory cat, whose presence was woven into the daily life of the space.

 

Folklife Apprenticeship | MSAC

March 20

Folklife Apprenticeships support traditional arts education by funding a mentor artist and apprentice artist to work together for one year. During the grant period, the mentor artist passes down their knowledge to the apprentice artist. Folklife Apprenticeships support living cultural traditions and are distinct from registered apprenticeships offered through the Maryland Apprenticeship Training Program (MATP), which supports workforce development.

 

Festival of Animation Berlin

Deadline: March 20

The Festival of Animation Berlin (FAB) is the first film festival dedicated to animation in Germany’s capital. With the festival focus being on artistic animation of all kinds. FAB annually presents the best animated films in both regional and international categories. FAB aspires not only to promote numerous filmmakers but also to pay tribute to the art of animation. Filmmakers from Berlin and across the globe get the opportunity to associate with like-minded people and present their work to the public.

 

Midwest Nice Art: This Place is Strange Open Call

Deadline: March 20

Midwest Nice Art is excited to announce our spring call for art for this place is strange, a virtual exhibition. for better or worse, the midwest has a “nice” reputation, with friendly smiles, polite small talk, and a whole lot of “ope, sorry!” But underneath that kind surface level, things can get a little… strange. That’s what we want to see! The weird underbelly of place and practice. The stuff hiding just below the surface. Think folklore and local myths, rust belt decay, empty suburbs and boredom, uncanny moments, and outsider perspectives that tap into the darker, messier, more complex parts of everyday life. While we’re playing off a Midwest stereotype, artists from anywhere are welcome to submit, and the work doesn’t have to be about the Midwest at all.

 

The Mary Ann Connelly Fund in Support of Artists ‘Call for Artists’

Deadline: March 20

The Mary Ann Connelly Fund in Support of Artists’ (The Fund) was established to help the Arts in Baltimore in memory of Mary Ann Connelly. This opportunity is intended for emerging artists who practice in visual art mediums (painting, drawing, small-scale sculpture, illustration, etc). Due to the limitations of the studio space, we are not accepting photographers/videographers for this opportunity.

 

Cedar Park Texas: Request for Art Proposals

Deadline: March 20

The City is transforming the previous Cedar Park Public Library into RE|CREATE, a facility offering multigenerational programming in art, theater, fitness, education, and more. In preparation for th opening of RE|CREATE, the City seeks to commission an interactive mural on the pavement outside the building. The City hopes the mural will capture the natural beauty of Cedar Park and serve as an immersive photo opportunity for the community.

 

Beast International Film Festival

Deadline: March 20

Since its first edition (2017), BEAST International Film Festival brought Porto’s community together in celebration of the best cinema from Central & Eastern Europe. Through its public screenings, BEAST IFF premieres a highly curated programme including feature films, documentaries, short films and animation. The post-screenings Q&As create a space for connecting filmmakers, pioneers, opinion-makers, and the wider audience.

 

Winnipeg Underground Film Festival

Deadline: March 22

WUFF seeks new and engaging moving-image works that deviate from traditional cinematic forms (whatever that means). Stronger consideration may be given to work running under 30 minutes, and to works completed in 2024 or later, though exceptions may be made in both cases. WUFF is also interested in hearing proposals for performance and/or installation based work, and as always, we’re on the lookout for films running 90 seconds or less for our longstanding 90 Second program.

 

Collectif Jeune Cinéma: What’s your flavor Open Call

Deadline: March 22

It is through this call that we find the films and filmmakers that we distribute. From this selection, we wish to highlight queer experimental cinema and support contemporary creation by organizing year-round screenings. We are committed to bringing LGBTQIA+ filmmakers greater visibility to all audiences, and the recognition their work deserves. Thanks to the CJC website, we are able to put our catalog and the archives of our screenings online in order to build a database of LGBTQIA+ directors and their filmography.

 

Annmarie Sculpture Garden and Arts Center | Landmark: Iconic American Views

Deadline: March 23

Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center invites emerging and established artists to submit original artworks to “Landmark: Iconic American Views.” This exhibition celebrates the places and scenes that define the American landscape. These places can be manufactured or natural, monumental or ordinary. From sweeping national parks and historic architecture to roadside attractions, coastal horizons, small-town main streets, and urban skylines, this show explores how artists interpret the views that shape our shared visual identity.

 

Photoworks: Awakening Juried Call

Deadline: March 23 ($40 fee)

​Photoworks is proud to announce our 2026 Juried Call for Entries for “AWAKENING”, a celebration of Spring and renewal. The Photoworks Gallery presents solo and group exhibitions by local and nationally known photographers and emerging artists from the Photoworks community and beyond.  Each season our Exhibition Committee and guest curators identify works that challenge assumptions, defy convention, and represent the highest level of technical excellence in the field of photography. 

 

Rubys Artist Grants — Robert W. Deutsch Foundation

Deadline: March 23

The Robert W. Deutsch Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of the 2026 Rubys Artist Grant cycle and the fourth Rubys Alumni Grant.  Beginning in 2026, the Rubys Artist Grants will adopt a rotating, two-discipline structure designed to deepen cohort experience and tailor support to artists’ fields of practice. Rubys Grant program will continue to invite artists to propose new, innovative, and experimental projects for consideration in an annual, open call while offering supplemental support to the awardees. The artistic categories open in 2026 are Visual and Performance arts. 

 

Inter/Access: Vector Festival Call for Submissions

Deadline: March 23, 30

Presented by InterAccess, this year’s festival theme is “Who Cares for the Cyborg?”. This theme will search for parallels between computer and human bodies, looking at how we overheat and sweat, bleed coolant, and are circuited through our veins. In an era of thinner phones and hidden wires, the physical footprint of our technology is obscured, erasing the reminder for maintenance and care. How does this impact those with insulin pumps at their hips or prosthetic arms that require batteries? Can we push back against the techno-optomist desire to create posthuman bodies by seeking to understand the machines already in our homes?

FOMU | OPEN CALL: OCEAN OTHERWISE

Deadline: March 23

For its forthcoming book, TRIGGER, the publication of FOMU – Museum of Photography Antwerp,  invites photographers, filmmakers, and visual artists to submit proposals for new or ongoing work engaging with the ocean as a space of relation, circulation, transformation, and imagination. This edition of Trigger approaches the ocean not as a singular subject, but as an interconnected and stratified system in which ecologies, histories, technologies, and communities are deeply entangled. The book brings together artistic, scientific, and critical perspectives, and understands visual practice as a situated form of research rather than mere representation.

 

The Demuth Museum Artist Residency

Deadline: March 23

The Demuth Museum is a nonprofit arts organization in Lancaster, Pennsylvania working to preserve Charles Demuth’s (1883-1935) legacy, amplify contemporary artists’ voices, and inspire creative exploration and expression. The Demuth Artist Residency program was created to engage with an artist focused on drawing and/or painting to create a new body of work that’s rooted in our collection and artistic community. The residency program will support our mission by fostering deeper connections with contemporary artists and connecting today’s art world with Demuth’s pioneering style and vision for American Art.

 

Art of the Story | Northville Art House

Deadline: March 23

Art of the Story invites artists from around the country to explore the connection between literature and the visual arts. This exhibition challenges artist to select a fiction or nonfiction book that moves them and create works in any medium that visually interpret or respond to its pages. Books spark imagination, stir emotion, and transport us to new worlds—artists will bring those worlds to life!

 

UCSF Library Artist in Residence

Deadline: March 25

The UCSF Library Archives and Special Collections and Makers Lab are accepting proposals for the seventh annual UCSF Library Artist in Residence program. The UCSF Library Artist in Residence award will be given annually to one candidate with a degree in studio arts or a related field and/or a history of exhibiting artistic work in professional venues. 

 

Photographic Exploration Project and loop – raum für aktuelle kunst: Entanglement Open Call

Deadline: March 26

“Entanglement” invites photographers to explore the intricate webs of connections that define contemporary experience. From the most intimate human relationships to the vast systems shaping our planet, existence unfolds through networks of dependency, influence, and mutual transformation.

 

Drawing Rooms Solo Project Space #6 Exhibition

Deadline: March 26

Anything goes for our Drawing Rooms Solo Project Space 6 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.

 

Laurel’s Year of the Horse: Open Call

March 27

On behalf of the City of Laurel, the Laurel Arts Council invites local artists to

submit artwork that celebrates the beauty of horses in motion and the

excitement of thoroughbred racing.  This call is inspired by

the historic Preakness Stakes, to be held for the first time at Laurel Park in Laurel,

Maryland, on May 16, 2026. Selected artworks will be featured in a virtual gallery and reproduced for public display in and around Laurel.

 

Beyond the Reel Filmmaker Submission – Artscape

March 27

Beyond the Reel is a new program track spotlighting the intersection of cinema, television, and digital storytelling that includes screenings, panel discussions, and filmmaker showcases, which celebrate the impact of Baltimore’s film and television industry. Create Baltimore & The Baltimore Film Office invite filmmakers from, living or filming in Baltimore to submit film and video projects in consideration for Beyond the Reel at Artscape 2026.

 

Spectrum Chamber Music Composition Award

Deadline: March 27

Spectrum Chamber Music Society is excited to announce its fourth annual call for new compositions. This year’s contest is for one solo instrument plus piano (piano duo). The instrument other than piano should be drawn from the following list: flute, oboe, B-flat clarinet (or A clarinet), bassoon, F horn, B-flat or C trumpet, tenor trombone, tuba, violin, viola, cello, double bass, or percussion† (one player, see list below). No other instruments can be considered; no instrument doublings, and only one piano. Only one instrument from the above list can be chosen, along with the piano.

 

Maryland Arts Summit Call for Proposals | MCA

Deadline: March 27

This conference is an opportunity to network, share the fantastic work that is being done across the state, learn about communities different from your own, celebrate the accomplishments of what we as a sector have achieved, and, through dialogue and action, bring to light where systems have fallen short of the support required to help artists and organizations thrive. The Maryland Arts Summit is a place for productive conversations to move the Maryland arts sector forward and ensure its long-term success.

 

Scout Art Fair

Deadline: March 27

Scout Art Fair will take place at the War Memorial Building in Baltimore, Maryland, May 21-24, 2026, in partnership with Artscape. With artwork priced between $150 and $5,000 created by both emerging and established artists from Baltimore and the surrounding region, Scout creates opportunities for collectors and newcomers alike to invest in exceptional contemporary art.

 

Baltimore Onstage: – Artscape 2026

Deadline: March 27

We invite theater makers, ensembles, and performance artists presenting original, professional-quality work that is intentional, embodied, and audience-aware. We welcome both emerging and established artists, with priority given to work that centers strong voice and clear artistic identity, engages rhythm, language, and sound, invites reflection, intimacy, or collective attention, translates powerfully in a focused performance setting.

 

Decatur Arts Alliance | Home v.2: Homeland

Deadline: March 29

The Decatur Arts Alliance and the Decatur Land Trust are partnering with the Decatur Library to present the second edition of powerful art show celebrating the multifaceted meaning of “Home.”  We invite artists of all mediums to lend their creative voices to this important cause. A person’s or a people’s native land, we look to explore “homeland” as a geographical point of origin and a state of being. Works should express cultural and ethnic elements, and elucidate the view of “home” from the immigrant to the expatriate, the displaced to the indigenous. How do we find “home” when we are away from the land of our forebears? What do newly arrived peoples do to preserve their culture and heritage? How do we honor and acknowledge the indigenous inhabitants of the lands upon which we all now live?

 

Maryland – Mt. Rainer Skate Park: Call for Artists

Deadline: March 29

Mount Rainier Skate Park is located just behind the Imagination Theme Playground, on the corner of Wells Avenue and Otis Street, wedged between a residential area and train tracks. At approximately 6,000 square feet, it provides great space for skaters and all. This park is located within the Mount Rainier Historic District and also the Gateway Arts District, which is a haven for creativity with an array of art studios, event and performance venues, and creative spaces. In fact, the skate park is parallel to the artists’ studios located on Otis Street, where you will find larger-than-life, bold, and colorful murals affixed on the brick walls.

 

Rolling Deadlines

 

The Awesome Foundation Grant

Deadline: Rolling

The Awesome Foundation is an ever-growing worldwide community devoted to forwarding the interest of awesome in the universe. Created in the long hot summer days of 2009 in Boston, the Foundation distributes $1,000 grants, no strings attached, to projects and their creators. There are no limits on project types.

 

WorthlessStudios Photographer in Residence

Deadline: Rolling

The WorthlessStudios Photographer in Residence program is a unique 1 month long photography residency taking place inside a mobile darkroom Airstream trailer. Since 2019, the Airstream trailer has traveled the nation to serve as a darkroom and community resource for keeping analog photography alive and thriving. Unlike other residencies that require artists to travel to them, this residency brings the facilities to you! This residency expands on WorthlessStudios’ comprehensive approach to helping artists realize their creative visions while ensuring they have resources to advance their skills and careers. This program provides support for artists working in a photography based artistic practice that relies heavily on access to a darkroom facility. This residency also provides a $1,500 Artist Stipend.

 

MAP x Hotel Indigo

Deadline: Rolling

Maryland Art Place (MAP), in partnership with Hotel Indigo is pleased to announce an open ‘Call to Artists’. As an extension of MAP’s annual IMPACT public art partnership projects, MAP is working with Hotel Indigo to offer rotating exhibitions in Hotel Indigo’s library and Poets Modern Cocktails and Eats. This opportunity is available to visual artists living or working in Maryland. Maryland Art Place will curate four exhibitions a year based on submissions entered through a rolling basis. Hotel Indigo, Baltimore Downtown is a boutique hotel located in Baltimore, MD. MAP has been working closely with the hotel since it opened, selecting and installing the hotel’s permanent artwork collection including works by Jared Ragland, Gary Kachadourian and Christos Palios. Hotel Indigo and MAP share the same vision of supporting working artists in the region, and both look forward to their continued partnership and the rotation of quarterly exhibitions. Fee is $10 for non-MAP members.

 

Clifton Arts Center Exhibits

Deadline: rolling

The Clifton Arts Center is planning visual exhibits for the years 2026-2030. The Clifton Arts Center provides approximately 1800 square feet of modern well-lit and upgraded HVAC gallery exhibit space on the grounds of the Clifton Municipal Complex. There is a $10 application fee.

 

CCA Call for Exhibition Proposals 2025

Deadline: Rolling

CCA invites exhibition proposals from artists, curators, and cultural organizations for rolling review by the CCA Exhibitions Selection Committee. The Main Gallery hosts 3-4 major exhibitions annually, with a rotation of 4-6 exhibitions in the Project Gallery. Interdisciplinary proposals that include digital media or installation elements are encouraged. There is a $10 entry fee.

 

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.

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.