Deadline Driven Opportunities
Workspace Residency | Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center
Deadline: October 3
Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency supports artists and researchers working on media arts projects. The short-term residency is open to applicants from Buffalo and across the United States who are seeking resources, time, and support for ongoing projects or the creation of new work.
Deadline October 3
Causability is one of the few U.S. nonprofits offering unrestricted grants to creators, enabling them to collaborate with local nonprofits to develop impactful programs that benefit both creators and their communities. These grants support creators who may or may not yet be partnered with a nonprofit, providing opportunities to co-create initiatives that address underserved or socio-economically marginalized communities through the arts.
Deadline: October 4
This international conference aims to bring long-overdue visibility to women photographers active between 1840 and 1960 by uncovering their identities, practices, and visual legacies. It invites contributions that reframe photographic history through the lens of women’s history and gender studies, with particular attention to figures and practices that have been overlooked or insufficiently studied. By revisiting archival materials and questioning established historiographies, the conference aims to foster a more inclusive and critical understanding of Photography’s past.
National Arts Futures Fellowship: Creative West Grants
Deadline: October 5
The National Arts Futures Fellowship (NAFF) is a six-month virtual leadership development program rooted in democracy, wellness, and belonging. It calls on early and mid-career arts and culture professionals from all backgrounds to step into their power as civic leaders and cultural innovators—building the skills, networks, and vision needed to shape a future where creativity drives justice, care, and connection.
Open Call – Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig
Deadline: October 5 (note: for MFA graduates during 2015 – 2022 only)
With the programme Braunschweig Projects, HBK Braunschweig offers 7 artistic fellowships on behalf of the State of Lower Saxony for the year 2026/27: 2 sound art scholarships and 5 visual arts scholarships. The programme is aimed at artists, who would like to work on a project in the immediate vicinity of HBK Braunschweig. With their project proposal, fellows should make a significant contribution towards the further development of forms of artistic practice.
Windgate | Artist in Residence
Deadline October 5
The Windgate Artist in Residence is made possible through a generous grant from the Windgate foundation. The Windgate Foundation, based in Little Rock Arkansas, is a private foundation established in 1993 whose purpose is to advance contemporary craft and strengthen visual arts education in the United States. Education, health, and community initiatives are an additional area of focus in Arkansas.
Deadline October 5, $50 fee
The W. Eugene Smith Grant is designed to encourage and support visual storytellers whose photographic work renews the tradition of W. Eugene Smith’s dedicated compassion as evidenced during his 45-year career as a photographic essayist. Special consideration will be given to work that promotes social change, that embraces new technologies and image distribution, and that seeks to integrate the tradition of photography and social change with contemporary practice.
Fellowships | American Antiquarian Society
Deadline: October 5
Fellowships for Creative and Performing Artists and Writers at the American Antiquarian Society are residential fellowships for historical research by artists, writers, film makers, journalists, and other persons whose goals are to produce imaginative works dealing with pre-twentieth-century American history, literature, and culture. The fellowships will provide the recipients with the opportunity for a period of uninterrupted research, reading, and collegial discussion at the Society, located in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Exposure – International Open Call
Deadline October 6, $45 CAD fee
The International Open Call welcomes diverse and innovative submissions from photographers and visual artists around the world who incorporate, celebrate or challenge the photographic medium within their practice. Selected artists will participate in a group exhibition at Contemporary Calgary, receive an artist fee of $188, be featured in a public billboard exhibition, and more!
Feed Gaza / End the Genocide — SaveArtSpace
Deadline October 6, Application fees
SaveArtSpace x Slow Factory is proud to present Feed Gaza / End the Genocide, a public art exhibition on billboard ad space in New York, NY, starting November 21, 2025, curated by Slow Factory. We invite artists of all ages and talents to submit their artwork between August 25 and October 6, 2025 in order to be considered for the exhibition. This is an opportunity to have your work exhibited on billboard ad space in New York, NY.
Residency Application | Studio Museum in Harlem
Deadline October 7
The Studio Museum in Harlem offers an eleven-month studio residency for three emerging artists working in any media. The program is designed to serve emerging artists of African and/or Afro-Latinx descent working locally, nationally, or internationally.
Talk To Me About It: Call Out – Light Moves
Deadline: October 7
Talk To Me About It is an initiative of dance+words, a collective led by Canadian writer/filmmakers Philip Szporer (Montreal) and Kathleen Smith (Toronto). Developed for dance, theatre, and screendance festivals, the project invites participants into guided small-group discussions that encourage reflection and dialogue. The sessions, shaped by their critical framework, focus on audience enrichment rather than artist feedback. They provide fresh entry points into understanding works, particularly in screendance and new technologies.
Howard County Arts Council | Choreography Grant
Deadline October 9
Mark Ryder was an established dancer, choreographer and leader in the dance community. He passed away in July 2006 and is survived by his wife and family who wish to honor his legacy by offering an annual competitive grant award in the minimum amount of $500 to choreographers through the Howard County Arts Council. Mr. Ryder believed individual expression is the most important part of the creative process for both choreographer and dancer and that more is learned through being a part of the process and actively participating in it than by simply being taught the movements or viewing the final product.
Open Call: Microgrants 2025 | Rhizome
Deadline: October 10
Our 2025 Microgrants ($500-$1500) support creators experimenting with alternatives for digital culture, from community-owned platforms to algorithmic realities. We’re looking for projects that fit four themes: Network Commons (reimagining how we connect), Public Personas (navigating fame and identity in algorithmic environments), Narrative Systems (breaking free from traditional interaction mechanics), and Synthetic Agents (collaborating with other intelligences).
Deadline October 10
Sensorio, the internationally acclaimed immersive art destination located in the scenic heart of California’s Central Coast, is officially inviting artists, designers, and creators to submit proposals for new groundbreaking outdoor installations. With over 20,000 square feet of open exhibit space available, Sensorio is seeking innovative works that fuse light with landscape, designed specifically for nighttime use. The multi-sensory experience looks forward to submissions from a wide range of creators in its first international, open call for exhibit proposals.
Tiger Strikes Asteroid | Open Call
Deadline October 10
Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville (TSA GVL) is pleased to announce our 2026 open call for a solo or two-person exhibition in our gallery space in Greenville, SC. Running January 24 – February 28, 2026, this year’s call is broadly themed around boundaries, interpreted in the widest sense. We welcome exhibition submissions from individual and two-person artist groups to apply. As a national organization, Tiger Strikes Asteroid is committed to highlighting the breadth and range of artists within our community, and encourages historically underrepresented perspectives and viewpoints to apply. All applicants will be considered for future programming in our space, with finalists being notified.
Open Call — Hudson Milliner Art Salon
Deadline: October 10
We’re currently accepting submissions for Nation Faces: Reimagining Americana. We want art that speaks to America—not just the political body—but the place, the culture, and the feeling, interpreted across time and by distinct peoples. America can be a frontier plain or a gilded skyscraper, and it belongs to everyone.
Call for Artists — The Kirkland Art Center
Deadline: October 11, Fee: $10
Broken is a juried exhibition that engages with the idea of being broken—emotionally, physically, socially, politically, ecologically, economically and systemically. Broken objects can be non-functional, or they may be broken into many pieces. People who have endured trauma may refer to themselves as “broken”; although they seem fine on the outside, they may carry a wound deep inside. Ideas, nations, dreams…so many things can be broken.
Curator in Residence — Oregon Contemporary
Deadline: October 11
Oregon Contemporary is pleased to announce an expansion of its Curator in Residence (CIR) program through a new partnership with the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. Since its founding in 2011, the CIR program has been a vital catalyst for curatorial innovation, supporting mid-career voices in the field in developing ambitious projects that culminate in major exhibitions at Oregon Contemporary.
International Showcases | HKPAX
Deadline: October 12
HKPAX provides a platform for arts practitioners and institutions in the performing arts industry worldwide to showcase their work to international peers, fostering collaboration and touring opportunities. Practitioners of all performing arts disciplines are welcome to apply.
Call for Curator in Residence | Oregon Contemporary
Deadline: October 12
The CIR program offers a unique opportunity for mid-career curators to deepen their practice
through a one year (low-residency) research opportunity that culminates in a major group
exhibition in FY2027. Designed for curators with an established body of work, the program
supports rigorous research, interdisciplinary exchange, and engagement with contemporary
discourse, with a special emphasis on Oregon’s artistic landscape.
Deadline October 13
Pedantic Arts Residency (Pedantic) re-embraces the significant impact that education, study, and structured contemplation can have on artistic output by emphasizing the art world tradition of interconnecting creators, organizers, and critics. Pedantic is an opportunity for exchange and inspiration between 3 such creatives who practice visual art, curating, and writing. It is a unique invitation to open greater and more cross-disciplinary dialogue within the arts where each singular, definitive role becomes part of a collective, exploratory experience.
2026 Symposium Call For Participation | New Media Caucus
Deadline: October 13
The New Media Caucus invites you to join us for the 2026 Symposium: Restoration / Regeneration, a three-day in-person gathering exploring the transformative potential of new media art and scholarship during times of planetary and social crisis. Hosted at the Media and Immersive eXperience (MIX) Center at Arizona State University in Mesa, Arizona, the symposium brings together international artists, designers, theorists, educators, and students to explore how new media practices can contribute to healing, revitalization, and reimagination.
The Edward F. Albee Foundation
Deadline: October 13
The Edward F. Albee Foundation maintains the William Flanagan Memorial Creative Persons Center (better known as “The Barn”) in Montauk, Long Island, New York, as a residence for writers and visual artists of all media. We are proud to be ADA-accessible and open our doors to all creative people.
Direct Purchase of Completed Work for UNL Westbrook Music Building
Deadline: October 14
The Westbrook Music Building is a facility within the Glenn Korff School of Music in the Hixson-Lied College of Fine & Performing Arts at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, which is Nebraska’s only land-grant university. The Glenn Korff School of Music is a professional, comprehensive arts institution devoted to the advancement of music and dance, the preparation of the next generation of arts professionals, and service to the arts professions/institutions. It holds the following key values: collaborative, inclusive, and creative.
Fiscal Sponsorship for Artists | Raise Funds with NYFA
Deadline: October 15
Our fiscal sponsorship program serves individual artists, arts groups/collectives, and emerging arts organizations who are leading arts-focused public benefit projects. NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship is a financial and administrative tool that helps these groups fundraise. Through our program they can access some of the benefits typically reserved for 501c3 organizations, such as receiving grants restricted to 501c3s and offering donors a tax deduction, and receive feedback from NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship staff.
FEST – New Directors/New Films Festival
Deadline: October 15 (earlybird)
New Films Festival is an all-encompassing celebration of the new tendencies of world cinema. The event focuses on a competitive and non-competitive showcase of the most promising new figures and works from around the globe.
Deadline: October 15
What do a concert hall, a synagogue, and an old newspaper headquarters have in common? In Baltimore, they stand as silent witnesses to the city’s evolution—testaments to architectural resilience, civic imagination, and layered histories. Built to Last invites artists to bring these stories to life through original 2D artworks inspired by ten iconic Baltimore landmarks, including The Peale Museum, Monument Square & Battle Monument, and the Baltimore Trust Company Building.
Deadline: October 15
Art Omi: Music invites ten to twelve musicians and composers from around the globe to come together for two and a half weeks each summer for a uniquely collaborative music making residency. The program encourages its participants to share ideas, perform each other’s works, and write music for one another, while exploring their own musical vision and broadening their artistic and cultural horizons.
Deadline: October 15
Art Omi: Artists invites artists, critics, and curators from around the world – representing a wide diversity of artistic styles and practices – to gather in rural New York to experiment, collaborate, and share ideas. Concentrated time for creative work is balanced with the stimulation of cultural exchange and critical appraisal. Art Omi: Artists Residency nurtures deep creative and professional connections in a vibrant social setting.
Fellowship – La Maison Dora Maar et L’Hôtel Tingry
Deadline: October 15
Since 2007, our residency program based at the Dora Maar House has offered residencies of one to two months to mid-career arts and humanities professionals to focus on their areas of expertise.
Deadline: October 15
In 1999, Wildacres Retreat opened our residency program for artists. Since that time, we have had the opportunity to host hundreds of writers, artisans, and musicians. Participants in the program stay in one of three self-catering cabins located just a quarter-mile beyond the retreat entrance. One of the cabins is completely ADA compliant and another can house two residents working on a project together.
Call for Submissions | Struts Gallery Open Studio Residency
Deadline: October 15
Struts Gallery welcomes applications from professional visual and media artists at all career levels to participate in our annual Open Studio Residency Program. Residencies are five-weeks each, beginning in May 2026 through October 2026. The program aims to develop artists’ practices by supporting experimentation without the pressure to present a resolved body of work. Artists are offered the freedom to continue their practice, develop a new project, or create site-specific work. The residency is artist-driven and independent, with staff assistance available for community outreach, technical and logistical support.
Great Basin National Park Artist in Residences 2026
Deadline: October 15
Artists have played an important role in the formation, preservation, and enjoyment of national parks. Over a century ago, by painting landscapes of the American West, artists publicized many of the natural wonders of a land little known to an eastern populace. Their body of work helped to foster appreciation for these national wonders which ultimately resulted in the establishment of many national parks. Artist’s interpretation of park landscapes through many types of media connects people to these special places, which is an essential part of the preservation and protection of America’s national parks.
Apply for a Fellowship in American Art | Smithsonian American Art Museum
Deadline: October 15
The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) and its Renwick Gallery invite applications to its premier fellowship program, the oldest and largest in the world for the study of American art. Scholars from any discipline whose research engages the art, craft, and visual culture of the United States are encouraged to apply, as are those who foreground new perspectives, materials, and methodologies. Fellowships are residential and support full-time research in the Smithsonian collections. SAAM is devoted to advancing excellence in art history and encourages candidates from all backgrounds to apply.
Deadline: October 15
Fellowships are awarded every year to established and promising scholars with the aim of fostering a critical commitment to inquiry in the theory, history, and interpretation of art and visual culture. As part of our commitment to cultivating diverse engagements with the visual arts, RAP seeks to elevate constituencies, subjects, and methods that have historically been underrepresented in the discipline. Furthermore, we are particularly committed to supporting scholarship that reveals the systemic inequalities of art history as a discipline and challenges us to address these inequalities as we move forward differently. All fellowships are intended to nurture a variety of disciplinary approaches and support new voices in art history.
Artist Residencies | Morgan Conservatory
Deadline: October 15
The Morgan’s Artist in Residence (AiR) Program is funded by the Windgate Foundation to offer emerging and established artists from around the world who work with papermaking, book arts, and printing to explore focused projects in our facilities. As a working studio, gallery, gathering place for the community, educational hub, and purveyor of some of the finest handmade papers in the world, the Morgan offers AiR a variety of ways to grow their practice and build strong connections with the community.
Call for Proposals | Arts Center at Duck Creek
Deadline: October 15
The Arts Center at Duck Creek is a vibrant, sustainable arts organization dedicated to the stewardship of historic Duck Creek Farm as a place to inspire our community with free creative programming that supports artists, celebrates diversity, and honors the East End’s cultural legacy.
Deadline: October 15
Lighthouse Works connects artists, writers, choreographers, and composers to Fishers Island and provides them with a unique supportive context to focus on their work. By assisting innovative cultural producers at critical junctures in their careers and connecting their persons and work to our local community, Lighthouse Works reinforces the central role of the arts in our culture and enhances the cultural landscape of Fishers Island, NY.
Art Quilt Elements 2026 | Call for Entry
Deadline: October 16
Art Quilt Elements (AQE), the Juried International Exhibition of Contemporary Art Quilts (established in 2008), continues to expand the boundaries of quilt making, showcasing a range of techniques that communicate a unique vision and storytelling through a variety of hand and machine quilt making methods. Wayne Art Center is grateful to the many jurors, artists, sponsors and patrons who have endorsed and supported this eagerly anticipated biennial exhibition over the years.
Courthouse Plaza Mural | Albemarle, NC
Deadline: October 17
The City of Albemarle, North Carolina, is seeking proposals from artists with experience in the design and execution of a large mural. The proposed artwork should be engaging and inviting, beautify Courthouse Plaza, enhance the quality of life for Albemarle citizens, attract tourism, promote arts and culture, and encourage businesses to locate within the city. The mural should also be designed as a memorable visual landmark that prompts visitors to stop, take photographs, and share their experience, further extending the reach and impact of the artwork.
Deadline: October 17
New York City’s Winter Film Festival (WFF) is a volunteer-run and operated celebration of the diversity of local and international film-making. We showcase creative fresh voices from emerging filmmakers worldwide in all genres and lengths – feature length and shorts, narrative fiction, documentary, animation, horror, web series and music videos.
Program — Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture
Deadline: October 17, $50 fee through 10/13, $80 fee 10/13-10/17
Based on a transversal open structure, Skowhegan creates a space where participants collaboratively design the program’s contents alongside an international and distinguished group of residents and visiting artists who serve as faculty. In a continuously work-in-progress environment, which prioritizes process and exchange, each individual’s practice contributes to the collective experience, discussing what “making” means to artists.
Solo Show 2025 | Call for Entry
Deadline: October 18
Blue Line Arts, in Roseville, CA, invites artists to submit proposals for a solo exhibition in one of our gallery spaces. This opportunity is ideal for early-career or established artists seeking to showcase a medium-sized body of work. This show will be on display in our Westpark Gallery space. Artists who can demonstrate a range of work sizes and price points are encouraged to apply, as this enhances accessibility and engagement for a broader collector and viewer base.
Window Exhibits | Crow’s Nest Bmore
Deadline: October 20
The Crow’s Nest is an art incubator in downtown Baltimore that provides work space, social space, and exhibition space for anyone seeking to address the twin challenges of climate change and environmental justice through artistic expression and cultural production, especially radical and public art.
Deadline: October 20
SaveArtSpace is proud to present #FreeHappy, a public art exhibition on billboard ad space in New York, NY. Happy is not happy. Torn from her natural habitat and herd in Thailand as a baby, Happy has spent nearly 50 years in captivity at the Bronx Zoo. Like humans, elephants are deeply social animals—they don’t thrive in isolation. Alone, they suffer from loneliness, stress, and depression. We want to give Happy the life she deserves: freedom, companionship, and care in an elephant sanctuary where she can finally be with others of her kind.
Biennale Danza 2025 | International call for a new choreographic creation
Deadline: October 20
The Dance Department promotes a multi-year programme aimed at supporting the production (or co-production) of new works by international choreographers or dance companies. In order to participate in the selection, it is necessary to propose an original choreographic project (which has never premiered either in studio or full form).
Deadline: October 20
Sphinx LEAD is a 2-year leadership program designed to evolve the industry landscape by empowering the next generation of executive arts leaders. Sphinx LEAD transforms lives through empowerment, networking, collective learning, and addressing the systemic obstacles within Black and Latino communities. A cohort of arts leaders is selected annually to participate in a comprehensive curriculum that includes leadership retreats at top institutions nationwide.
B5: Immersive Digital Art, Terminal F Pathways (x2)
Deadline: October 22
Successful submissions will likely be from artists mid-career and above. The artist, or artist team, would have developed a consistent body of work and defining style, and has gained local, regional or national recognition. Artists may have a range of professional achievements (e.g., solo and group exhibitions, honors/awards, grants, etc.). While not strictly tied to years of experience, mid-career artists typically have 5–9 years of experience.
Artist Publishing cohort — at Louis Place 2024
Deadline: October 24
at Louis Place is a community for artists and writers. Through an accessible, collaborative online platform, at Louis Place is an ecosystem for artistic practice that values liberation, experimentation, cooperation, and shared leadership. Daily co-writing, weekly writing groups, monthly guest workshops, peer exchange, and other offerings connect participants to peers around the world.
Call for films | International Festival of Films on Art
Deadline: October 24
This call for submissions is aimed at directors, producers or distributors who have finished or are finishing a fiction film about art, a biographical film, a documentary, a performance recording, an art video or media art. It will allow them to premiere their work(s) in Montreal.
Deadline: October 26
The City of Raleigh seeks to hire an artist or artist team to create new public art as part of the Red Hat Amphitheater (RHA) relocation project. The selected artist/team will create an installation for the Performing Arts Parking Deck, an existing structure facing the new amphitheater location. Public art can be facade treatments with durable materials or a hybrid approach of murals and durable mixed media. This project has a total budget up to $700,000. Final budget is dependent on approved design and cost estimates.
Call for Papers: The Chimeric Mind
Deadline: October 26
From early cybernetics to today’s AI frontiers, the entanglement of computational and biological sciences has continuously reshaped our understanding of intelligence, control, and consciousness. Leonardo invites artists, researchers, and theorists to contribute to a special issue exploring The Chimæric Mind—the merging of human cognition, artificial intelligence, and non-human life in scientific, technological, and artistic inquiry.
Memphis Composers Institute Call for Scores
Deadline: October 25
Memphis Composers Institute invites composers in the early stages of their orchestral composing careers to submit one orchestra work for a chance to be performed by the Memphis Symphony. The selected composers will attend a three-day event, February 3-5, 2026, including rehearsals, panel discussions, and a performance of their works by the Memphis Symphony conducted by Kyle Dickson.
Art of the People Open Call | SaveArtSpace
Deadline: October 27
SaveArtSpace is proud to present Art of the People, a public art exhibition on ad space in Your Neighborhood, starting December 8, 2025, curated by SaveArtSpace. We invite artists of all ages and talents to submit their artwork between September 29 and October 27, 2025 in order to be considered for the exhibition. This is an opportunity to have your work placed on ad space in Your Neighborhood.
Juried Exhibition: NIGHTFALL | Susquehanna Art Museum
Deadline: October 27
Susquehanna Art Museum invites artists to submit work to this year’s Dōshi Gallery Juried Exhibition, NIGHTFALL. Artists are asked to delve into the concept of oncoming night, whether metaphorically or through medium and technique.
Project Row Houses | Artist Residency
Deadline: October 28
Project Row Houses offers an artist residency program that provides subsidized studio space for up to three years on site. This residency supports artists by giving them affordable space to create, experiment, and grow their practice while being part of the vibrant Third Ward community. Residents are encouraged to engage with the neighborhood through artmaking, workshops, and cultural exchange, continuing PRH’s mission of using art as a tool for social transformation.
Deadline: October 30
At Screener Short Films we showcase the best and most outstanding international short films.
Our mission is to encourage and support filmmakers throughout their creative process in order to provide the recognition they deserve. We are a platform whose main goal is to provide a space for short independent films which create their own unique language and content.
Grants | Gutierrez Memorial Fund
Deadline: October 30 (Legacy grant)
Our annual project-based arts grant calls for proposals from arts organizations and individual artists who are residents of Maryland and whose programs or projects serve Maryland communities. Special consideration is given to projects that build skills, engage community and transform our built environment.
Motion In Frame 2 – Chisenhale Dancespace
Deadline: October 30
The event provides a unique space to celebrate artists working across disciplines who engage with film and video as a space for innovation and storytelling. The featured works may take many forms — narrative shorts, experimental film, video art, performance documentation, animation, or movement-based visual explorations — but they are all united by a desire to push boundaries and connect deeply with audiences.
Union PDX | Festival Applications
Deadline: October 31
Dedicated to the growth and advancement of dancers and artists, selected festival artists perform at the brand-new Foster Theater, teach advanced and professional level dancers, engage with audiences through post-show Artist-Talks and Q&As, network with fellow artists, presenters, and company directors, and celebrate the art of dance.
Call for Documentaries | Docs Barcelona
Deadline: October 31
Submissions are open exclusively to non-fiction feature-length films (over 60 minutes). For Catalan productions or co-productions, medium-length films (from 31 minutes) are also accepted.
Deadline: October 31
apexart’s Open Calls are opportunities for artists, curators, and other professionals to turn their curatorial idea into an apexart exhibition, combined with inviting apexart’s international community to collectively determine our programming through an online jury process. Winning proposals become part of apexart’s next exhibition season and receive funding and staff support. apexart is not a granting organization-all exhibitions are part of apexart’s programming.
2026 OPEN CALL – A4 ART MUSEUM
Deadline: October 31
A4 Residency Art Center located in Chengdu, China, the A4 Residency Art Center is a multidisciplinary global exchange platform that integrates creation, networking, and resources. It is dedicated to fostering cross-cultural creative collisions and innovation through residency programs while promoting the deep integration of creative culture with commerce and communities.
Open call for video art screening | Experimental Cinema
Deadline: October 31
We are looking for completed moving image works ranging from 2 to 10 minutes in length that explore: the experience of being seen, the act of witnessing, surveillance, or observation.
Weatherspoon Art Museum | Art on Paper
Deadline: October 31
The Weatherspoon is excited to announce its call for submissions to Art on Paper 2026. A decades-long museum tradition, this biennial exhibition allows the museum to showcase the diverse and complex ways that contemporary artists work on and with the medium of paper.
Deadline: October 31
Launched in 2025 and based in Berlin, this annual photography grant aims at supporting FLINTA artists (female, lesbian, inter, non-binary, trans, agender). No expectations of finished work. Just the possibility of time, space, and focus.
Calls For Entries | Torpedo Factory Art Center
Deadline: October 31
The 2026 Post-Graduation Residency is open to recently graduated art students who earned a bachelor’s or master’s degree in the visual arts from an accredited university or college. We offer an opportunity for professional development, interaction with the public, and a chance to define independent work processes outside of the academic context.
iea – experimental research residencies
Deadline: October 31 (New Media Residency)
The iea offers time, space, facilities, and support for artists to engage with their research projects. Residents will be expected to engage with the Alfred University campus and communities which extend to Allegany County and the Western New York, Finger Lakes and Southern Tier regions of New York. This engagement is often in the form of a public lecture / artist talk, a demonstration, course-specific involvement, or another agreed-upon event.
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.