Deadline Driven Opportunities
Deadline: September 17
Guggenheim Fellowships are intended for mid-career individuals who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts and exhibit great promise for their future endeavors. The purpose of the Guggenheim Fellowship program is to provide Fellows with blocks of time in which they can work with as much creative freedom as possible. As such, grants are made freely, without any special conditions attached to them; Fellows may spend their grant funds in any manner they deem necessary to their work. Fellowships are awarded through an annual competition open to citizens and permanent residents of the United States and Canada.
Wassaic Project Summer Exhibition
Deadline: September 20
The Wassaic Project is currently holding our annual Open Call for our 2025 Summer Exhibition for artists of all mediums, including: 2D work, sculpture, video, new media, site-specific installation, performance, text, poems, essays, publication-specific work, etc. Artists interested in creating a site-specific installation for the 2025 Summer Exhibition are also eligible for an Exhibitions Fellowship to help realize their work. Fellows will be offered a no-fee residency for 1 – 4 weeks in April or May 2025. Artists interested in making site-specific work for the exhibition should still apply regardless of whether or not they are interested in or able to be in residence in April or May. There is a $25 application fee.
Deadline: September 20
The mission of the Adolf Busch Award is to recognize and honor organizations that use music to address social injustice, inequity and lack of opportunity. The Award grants $10,000 to one organization each year. Smaller awards are often given to additional compelling applicants.
Opera Discovery Grants for Women Composers
Deadline: September 20
OPERA America offers two types of Opera Grants for Women Composers: Commissioning Grants available to Professional Company Members; and Discovery Grants available to individual artists. Both programs provide support for the development of new operas by women composers, advancing the important objective to increase gender parity and diversity across the field. Grant recipients will receive Up to $15,000 per applicant to support costs associated with the Discovery Grant.
6th edition of the International Mauricio Kagel Composition Competition
Deadline: September 20
We are looking for piano pieces written for children and young adults which, although limited in their technical difficulty, remain uncompromising in their artistic aim; pieces written with a contemporary compositional technique which offer the young student stimulus, insight and new experiences: experiences about oneself and the world in which we live.
Deadline: September 20
For our juried exhibition MARK, Artlink invites artists to submit works of drawing, encompassing any artistic style and any media related to the practice of drawing. This exhibition is juried by professional artist Shelby Shadwell, and will take place at Artlink Contemporary Gallery Oct 24 – Nov 17, 2024. From traditional to exploratory, realism to abstract, all approaches to drawing are welcome. There is a $12.00 entrance fee.
Deadline: September 20
Artlink Contemporary Gallery is currently accepting entries for our upcoming exhibition COMPACT. We invite artists to submit small works of any media that are no larger than 6” in any dimension. Both two and three dimensional works are accepted. For works that are framed, the frame can go slightly beyond the size limit but ideally no more than a few inches. There is a $12 entry fee.
Visionary Projects: Open Call for Small Works
Deadline: September 22
To celebrate the opening of our new concept gallery space, we are excited to bring back our signature salon exhibition with a spotlight on individuals who make up The Collective. We will be bringing together artists to share their personal stories and inner worlds. Mediums we are looking for: wall-based painting, mixed media, sculpture, photography, prints. All work must be ready for install – including any wiring for hanging. Artwork dimensions must be 16”x20” and under (or 20”x20” square). This can be excluding a frame. Any framing must be clear in your submission, the smaller the piece the better. Submitted artwork should be for sale, all accepted artwork will have the option to be purchased in person and directly through our e-commerce portal. Artwork submissions allow for up to 10 pieces for $30. This fee goes toward supporting the exhibition installation and all future opportunities around supporting our creative community.
Community Art Book for Palestine
Deadline: September 22
Baltimore Artists Against Apartheid and the Jensen-Khamis Art Collective are teaming up to continue engaging in collaborative projects at the intersection of art and resistance. We invite you to join us in creating a community art book that documents and extends the vision of the We Will Be What We Want to Be exhibition. You can use sheets of paper and pens to contribute to a book/zine/cartonera that we will be curating and hand-stitching on Sunday, October 6, at Nomunomu Gallery, in commemoration of the one year anniversary of the Gaza Genocide.
NARS call for Exhibition Proposals
Deadline: September 23
NARS is pleased to invite exhibition proposals for solo and group curated exhibitions for 2026. Exhibition proposals from both artists and curators will be considered for solo or group exhibitions for our Main Gallery Space and the Project Space, designed for smaller and more dynamic programming. NARS invites artists, curators, collectives, cultural producers, and thinkers to propose solo or group exhibitions that reflect our mission to foster and represent important artistic directions and critical dialogue in contemporary art and culture writ large. NARS will invite select applicants to further develop proposals and provide the space, support, and resources to mount ambitious and compelling exhibitions. Proposals will be considered and developed for either exhibition space, for shows running from 3 weeks, at NARS’ discretion.
NARS Foundation International Residency
Deadline: September 23
We’re pleased to announce that starting in 2024, Internationally based artists are welcome to apply during the Open Call, which is live through September 23rd, 2024, or at any time of year using our rolling application. As part of the Open Call, U.S. based artists are encouraged to apply for the new International Residency Full Fellowship. One U.S. based artist per season will be awarded the Full Fellowship, which covers all program fees for the residency. Please note that only U.S. based artists are eligible to apply for the Full Fellowship. Please note that there is a $35 application fee.
Inez Nash Park Public Art Project – Toledo OH
Deadline: September 24
The Arts Commission of Greater Toledo’s Art in Public Places Program has partnered with the City of Toledo’s Parks Department to commission a new work of public art integrated into Inez Nash Park. Renovations to the park will include a quarter mile walkway, shelter, main event plaza, and a system of pathways and plazas that ultimately serve to connect several areas designed to encourage a variety of play, including the site of this public art project: a shoot-around court with five hoops designed for freeform play. A Design Review Board (DRB) plans to select three artists/teams to propose complete designs for the surface of the court and each of the 5 backboards. Finalists will be paid a stipend of $2000 to participate in the concept proposal process. We are looking for artists that have experience with integrating public art into park/court environments as well as incorporating community input and engagement into the creative process. Submitted qualifications will be judged on a competitive basis.
Deadline: September 25
White Wave will be presenting our 9th Annual SoloDuo Dance Festival (February 13th & 14th, 2025) with 30 participating choreographers/companies in 3 different programs. The SoloDuo Dance Festival’s foremost priority is to inspire performing artists of all stripes and callings to stretch the limits of their creativity and take it to new heights, and to provide vivid experiences for audiences, with the goal of finding and nurturing promising young talent. Each choreographer/company may submit up to two applications for SoloDuo Dance Festival (each application requires a separate application form, video, and application fee). The fee is non-refundable. Early Bird Application Fee is $75 before September 11th, 11:30pm. The regular application Fee is $85 until September 25th, 11:30pm.
2024 Foundwork Artist Prize: International Open Call
Deadline: September 26
This year’s honoree will receive an unrestricted $10,000 grant and remote studio visits with each of the esteemed jurors. The honoree—and three shortlisted artists—will also be invited for interviews, as part of our Dialogues program, to further public engagement with their practices. To be considered, artists will need to register (if you haven’t already) and maintain a published profile on Foundwork, with at least 6 artworks and an artist statement published on your profile page, throughout the 2024 selection period.
Baltimore Clay Works: Call for Entry “Garden Reverie”
Deadline: September 27
This national juried exhibition will showcase ceramic artists who draw inspiration from the ubiquitous garden. Wild and tame, exotic and sweet, foreign and familiar, resilient and vulnerable, the garden is a sacred space of botanical dreams, natural beauty, and the cycle of life, producing abundant metaphors for all kinds of thoughts, feelings, and narratives, human or otherwise. For this exhibition we seek sculpture, wall work, utilitarian works, and installations that explore all that is, in, and around the garden. The application fee is $25 for up to three pieces.
Arrowmont Gallery Call for Works
Deadline: September 29
Arrowmont seeks work for two one-month-long exhibitions in our Featured gallery space. A Penny in Your Pocket is a two-part exhibition. Part I will be in January, opening to the public on First Friday, January 3rd, and Part II will be on view in February beginning First Friday, February 7th. Carrying a penny in your pocket into the new year is alleged to bring good fortune and prosperity and we are interested in interpretations of what this means to you, other superstitions that are meaningful in your life or practice, or even new works that are being sent out into the world for exhibition for the first time 2025. Please submit up to three pieces completed within the past five years and a short statement about the work, process and/or superstition for consideration. All media considered, including book arts, ceramics, drawing, fiber, glass, metal, painting, photography, printmaking, wood, mixed media, video, and installations. Submission fee is $25.
“Container” Group Exhibition Open Call
Deadline: September 29
The term “container” refers not only to a physical vessel but also carries metaphorical meanings on social, cultural, and psychological levels. This exhibition explores how individuals form their identities within these “containers” and interact with people in other “containers,” challenging and reshaping existing perceptions. Submission fee is $25.
Lensdansfest: Open Call for Video Dance Works
Deadline: September 30
Registration to the video dance and Live Performance competition is free and can be submitted by filling out the registration form. Monetary prizes will be awarded to the best video dance films. Submission minimum length should be 1 minute, with a maximum of 15 minute long films.
Journal for Artistic Research: Call for Submission
Deadline: September 30
JAR is an internationally recognised Open Access journal that publishes artistic research from all arts disciplines. 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, Spanish, and French.
Image Center Howard Tanenbaum Fellowship
Deadline: September 30
The Image Centre will offer four competitive fellowships for research related to photography. The Howard Tanenbaum Fellowship includes a $4,000 (CAD) stipend for travel, research, and other related expenses. Candidates may hold any level of education, and/or be independent artists with relevant experience and demonstrated interests. Candidates’ research should utilise the collections and resources of The Image Centre and/or Toronto Metropolitan University Archives and Special Collections in support of their artistic practice; applicants should propose creative methodologies and outputs. Other fellowships available to PHDs or Masters students.
September 30
RAIR has 2 residency programs: The Standard Residency and The Biggie Shortie. Both are given access to Revolution Recovery’s waste stream as well as access to RAIR’s staff- who work closely with all residents. The standard residency is a longer, more traditional studio based program. Residencies are open to all emerging and mid career artists based nationally and internationally. Applicants must be 21 years of age or older and not be actively enrolled in a college or university program during the time of residency. Standard residents are given access to waste materials and a studio and project space. There is a $25 application fee.
Siena Art Institute Summer Residency Program
Deadline: September 30
The Siena Art Institute’s Summer Residency Program awards accomplished professional artists & writers the opportunity to stay for a month in the beautiful historic city of Siena, in the heart of Tuscany, Italy. The month-long Summer Residency Program grants resident artists a studio space at the Siena Art Institute & a private 1-bedroom apartment in the historic city center of Siena, as well as flight compensation for getting to and from Italy. Summer Residents are granted uninterrupted time to pursue their own independent projects, as well as the opportunity to explore the area of Siena, and interact with the local community.
Lunch Ticket Online Literary Magazine
Deadline: September 30
Lunch Ticket, an online literary magazine published biannually by the Antioch University’s MFA in Creative Writing Program, is accepting visual art submissions for its next issue. In addition to interviews with renowned writers, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, literary translation, and YA writing, Lunch Ticket seeks submissions of remarkable contemporary art in the form of high-resolution images of: photography, mixed-media work, painting, sculpture, installation, printmaking, as well as graphic narratives, stills of time-based work, and video. We accept up to 10 images per submission in JPEG, PDF, TIFF, GIF or PNG format.
Lensdansfest: Open Call for Video Dance Works
Deadline: September 30
Registration to the video dance and Live Performance competition is free and can be submitted by filling out the registration form. Monetary prizes will be awarded to the best video dance films. Submission minimum length should be 1 minute, with a maximum of 15 minute long films.
Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency
Deadline: October 1
The Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency (EMAR) program by Collar Works is designed to provide emerging, underrepresented, and established artists an immersive, supportive, productive, and communal atmosphere for art-making and dialogue on a bucolic 77-acre farm in Granville, NY. The summer residency offers 2 and 4-week residencies for individual artists and 1-week residencies for families. Daily meals are prepared by a chef, with dinner served in a communal atmosphere to foster dialogue between residents. Artists will have the time and space to work in their studios to develop new works, with the opportunity to share in conversation with peers, meet with visiting curators (COVID protocols permitting), and engage with the surrounding art communities. Accepted artists will receive a $250 stipend to be used at their own discretion towards travel, materials, or other associated costs related to this opportunity. There is a $25 application fee.
Fisher Island Fellowship Program
Deadline: October 1
Our Fellowship Program supports a diverse range of cultural producers working in the vanguard of their creative fields. Fellowships are six weeks in length, occur year-round and provide fellows with housing, food, studio space, and $1,750 in financial support. Fellows enjoy a private bedroom and share a kitchen, bathrooms, and living space in a 3-story Victorian house. All dietary needs are accommodated, and on most nights, Lighthouse Works staff cook for and eat dinner with the fellows. Artists at any stage of their career are encouraged to apply for a fellowship. The application fee is $25.
Deadline: October 1
From March through November, Millay Arts invites 6-7 multidisciplinary artists for two-week to month-long stays at Steepletop, the historic estate of poet/activist Edna St. Vincent Millay. In December (March application deadline only), we offer group/collective week-long residencies. (We also allow collaborative residencies for 2 persons.) There is a 45$ application fee.
Deadline: October 1
We invite artists from all backgrounds to submit their artwork for our juried exhibition, “Small Works.” This showcase aims to celebrate the power of small artworks that invites viewers to explore the intricacies of minute details. All media is welcome, including: painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, textiles, mixed media, etc. Artwork must not exceed 16 inches in any dimension, including frame. There is a $35 entry fee.
Deadline: October 1
The Getty Scholars Program supports innovative research about art, conceived in the broadest terms, and its histories, by providing a locus for international scholars to forge collaborations across disciplines and professional practices, while also developing new audiences for their work. During their residency, the scholar cohort is immersed in a vibrant local community devoted to the advancement of knowledge and hosted at an institution committed to preserving, understanding, interpreting, and sharing its vast library and collections.
Rijksakademie Two year residency
Deadline: October 1
The Rijksakademie is a two-year residency programme that annually offers 50 artists space for research, experimentation and for the production of new work. Residents are supported with a studio, a work budget and a stipend and can seek advice from leading art professionals from a wide variety of cultural and creative backgrounds. In addition there is a rich research and production infrastructure, consisting of various technical workshops operated by specialists, a library and a historical and contemporary art collection. There is a 60 euros application fee.
Deadline: October 4
GEN-ART is a national all-ages open juried exhibition inviting artists to submit work as a personal representation of their generation. This open call welcomes all mediums and styles, including sculpture, installation, digital, and literary work. Artists can enter up to three [3] submissions of work. Works must be the artist’s original design and concept, fit within the theme, and not previously shown at East End Arts. There is a $30 entry fee.
Deadline: October 4
The Craft Research Fund is the Center’s first and longest-running grant program dedicated to supporting new and interdisciplinary research about craft in the United States. Since 2005, the program has supported 244 projects in 40 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia by distributing over $1,900,000. Grants up to $15,000.
Deadline: October 4
Frame & Frequency is an ongoing international new media, film, and video art screening series presented by VisArts in Rockville, Maryland (a suburb of Washington, DC). The series highlights artists who explore contemporary visual culture through new media, experimental film, and video and presents an intimate panorama of the variety and breadth of video art in artistic practice today. This year’s edition will be held on November 22, 2024. It will include a special section highlighting works that address climate change and its intersection with social, racial, and environmental justice.
Call for work: “Find the Body”
Deadline: October 6
The 2025 A.I.R. Biennial, Find the Body, invites artists to engage with the nebulous boundary between performance and daily life, a line increasingly destabilized by the confusion inherent in our hallucinatory media landscape. Open to text, video, and image submissions. There is a sliding scale application fee between $10 and $30.
Studios at MASS MoCA Fellowship
Deadline: October 8
The Studios is MASS MoCA’s artist and writers residency program situated within the museum’s factory campus and surrounded by the beautiful Berkshire Mountains. Operated by MASS MoCA’s Assets for Artists department, the residency runs year-round and hosts up to 10 artists at a time. Artists of any nationality can apply for stays of 2 or 4 weeks. We offer many full-ride fellowships (no residency fee charged to the artist), often in specific donor-identified categories, but there are always multiple general fellowships available.
Deadline: October 9
Buckham gallery seeks photography for their upcoming exhibit: Snap. All photographic processes are encouraged, including traditional wet processes, digital, and manipulated photographs. The Snap exhibition will be a survey of contemporary photography at a time when anything goes. Each artist may submit 1- 3 works for $25. 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional artworks are welcome. All work must be original in concept, no AI or reproductions. All artists selected for exhibition will receive $50 to assist with shipping costs.
The Northwest chapter of The College Music Society: Call for Compositions
Deadline: October 10
The Program Committee welcomes submissions of original works to be performed during one or more special concerts during the conference. Composers must either perform their own works or provide their own performer(s). The Committee solicits the broadest representation of our profession and its interests and welcomes submissions from all including those (a) in academia (full-time and adjunct faculty, community college faculty, students, and retired faculty), (b) in the music industry, and (c) active as independent musicians and scholars. While the Composition Review Committee welcomes proposals from diverse compositional perspectives, compositional approaches that represent progressive trends including improvisation, extended techniques, electronic instruments, unconventional instrumentation and sound creation will be given special consideration.
Deadline: October 11
The Artist-in-Residency (AIR) program at Arkansas Tech University is an immersive experience within an art and educational community. AIR is a program intended to advance the careers of practicing artists, present the residents as role models for the ATU community, and to strengthen the public’s awareness toward the significance of making art and its effect on the surrounding community. The residency will take place over a five-month period, giving the artist time and space to focus on the creative process. The AIR program for Spring 2025 will select an artist who works two or three-dimensionally to create an outdoor artwork that will enhance the ATU campus.
Deadline: October 15
Art Omi has five distinct residency programs: Art Omi: Architecture, Art Omi: Artists, Art Omi: Dance, Art Omi: Music, and Art Omi: Writers. Through a competitive jury process, residents are chosen, invited to attend at no cost to themselves, except travel. Abundant, catered meals and comfortable, beautiful lodgings are provided in a scenic location in Columbia County, New York.
Vermont Studio Center Residency
Deadline: October 15
Vermont Studio Center residencies are available for visual artists (Painting (2D), Sculpture (3D), Printmaking, and Digital Media/Film). There are a variety of identity based fellowships that would cover full or partial cost of the residency. There are also merit and subject based fellowships, such as the PM Lilac Foundation Fellowship for environmentalist artists.
“Women in Power”: Call for Art
Deadline: October 15
Space Untitled Art Gallery is proud to announce the first annual “Will you hold this against me | Women in Power” art exhibition that celebrates the Power of Women in Art. We invite women artists to submit work that captures and celebrates the strength, resilience, and beauty of women. Whether through painting, sculpture, photography, or mixed media, we’re looking for pieces that honor and amplify women’s voices and experiences. Submissions are $25.
Queer Urban Orchestra Vanguard Composers Competition
Deadline: October 15
Queer Urban Orchestra is pleased to announce its 2025 Vanguard Composers Competition! This program is open to composers of any age who identify as LGBTQ+, from anywhere in the world. The winning work will be performed by Queer Urban Orchestra in June of 2025, and the composer will receive a $1,000 cash award, plus a small travel stipend to attend the performance.
Land Line: Denver Botanic Gardens’ 2025 Artist Residency Program
Deadline: October 15
Land Line has a unique low-residency format: artists create most of their work independently in their own studio spaces during the residency timeframe (which lasts a full calendar year) but are required to visit the Gardens at least once within a predetermined two-month timeframe called a Focus Period. Time spent on-site at the Gardens during the Focus Period is geared towards meeting with staff collaborators, exploring gardens and collections, conducting research, and conceptualizing work. Artists may work on their projects before and after their Focus Period but should concentrate their engagement with Gardens staff and resources during the identified Focus Period. Artists are responsible for arranging their own travel, lodging, food, and supplies, supported by a $3,000 honorarium. Artists outside of Colorado are welcome to apply. Artists working in 2D and 3D media are welcome to apply. Land Line does not accept applications for video, audio, installations, literary work, exhibitions, or public programming.
Deadline: October 15
Realizing that many contingent faculty cannot take regular full-year fellowships without losing the tenuous support of their positions, these new NFAH fellowships aim to supply two or three subsequent summers of research leave. By working to the extent possible within the hard strictures of contingent/adjunct teaching loads and schedules, NFAH hopes to provide sufficient support to help successful applicants advance by way of research and publication to more secure positions within the discipline, partially ameliorating the current crisis in art historical work. The NFAH will grant each recipient between $10,000 and $15,000 for each summer (up to a total of $45,000 per applicant over three years).
Community Stories Film Festival
Deadline: October 15
The Community Stories Film Festival, produced by Docs In Progress, spotlights contemporary and historical documentaries about our people, places, and events of Maryland, Washington DC, and Northern Virginia. Short submissions are $10, feature submissions are $15.
Great Basin National Park Artist in Residence 2025
Deadline: October 15
The Park offers the solitude of the wilderness and provides expansive and renowned dark-sky stargazing. The sights, sounds, and textures of the environment, along with uninterrupted time, offer a respite from typical daily life and provide inspiration for creative work. Summer and early fall residencies are structured as camping residencies. Fall and winter residencies will be in a cabin provided by the national park. Each AIR will present one public program in the Park during their residency. Each AIR will provide a digital portfolio of visual art, writing, music, or performance created during the residency.
Deadline: October 18
Surreal Salon – the annual exhibition celebrating the pop-surrealist/lowbrow movement – will return to Baton Rouge Gallery (“BRG”) for its 17th year in January 2025! The exhibition will share the work of dozens of artists from across the globe, each hand-picked by the show’s Special Guest Juror. For more than a decade, Surreal Salon has featured paintings, photography, ceramics, textiles, mixed media works, and more. Artists from all corners of the United States and more than a dozen different nations have been featured in previous exhibitions and with Surreal Salon 16, a new group of artists will join them. More than $2,000 in cash prizes are awarded in conjunction with the exhibition and the artist whose work is selected as Best in Show is also profiled in an online editorial by Juxtapoz Magazine.
Mizzou International Composers Festival Application
Deadline: October 20
Eight composers from around the world will be selected through a portfolio application process to compose a work to be performed by the internationally acclaimed new music ensemble, Alarm Will Sound. Composers will take part in discussions and lessons with Distinguished Guest Composers Hilda Paredes and Judd Greenstein; take part in workshops with Alarm Will Sound and receive a professional live recording of the premiere performance of their work. The eight selected resident composers will be expected to compose a work for Alarm Will Sound’s complete instrumentation (see below) lasting up to 8 minutes in duration.
Ann Arbor Downtown Public Art Request for Qualifications
Deadline: October 20
The Ann Arbor Downtown Development Authority is seeking to commission an artist or artist team to design and install unique and creative art as a wayfinding system to connect the Ann/Ashley Parking Structure to the Farmers Market in Ann Arbor, MI. The installation area will start at the parking structure, follow the south side of Miller Ave/Catherine St to 4th Ave, and 4th Ave to the Farmers Market. The DDA is open to proposals from different types of artists (including 3D-based artists, 2D-based artists, and designers) and desires a family-friendly, playful, and engaging work that visually connects pedestrians and cyclists throughout the entire path. The budget for this commission is $150,000, which will be allocated to the final artist/team selected.
Deadline: October 20
We invite embodied experiments in art, design, and performance that push the boundaries of discursivity in artistic research. A project article results from original work developed as artistic research, to provide an argument or a discussion within a critical framework. It may include different types of visual media intertwined with text, video or audio material. Project articles will be published using the RC and may also be submitted in the form of a single video format. A video article documents and shares the results of research in which embodied practice is an essential part of the methodology. It can intertwine video and audio recordings with still images, graphics, speech, and textual material.
Call for Public Art: Farmers Market Sunshade, Ann Arbor, MI
Deadline: October 20
The Ann Arbor Downtown Development Authority is seeking to commission an artist or artist team to design and install a unique shade structure at the Farmers Market in Ann Arbor, MI. The DDA is open to proposals of different mediums, including fabric or rigid materials, and desires a work that is positive, balances shade and light for different times of the year, and involves color. The budget for this commission is $50,000, which will be allocated to the final artist/team selected.
Maryland School for the Deaf RFQ for public artworks
Deadline: October 25
The Maryland School for the Deaf (MSD) and the Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC) are pleased to announce a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) from artists, or teams of artists (hereafter, “artists” shall mean individuals and/or teams of artists) with personal experience living in Deaf culture and DeafSpace principles to create public art for the MSD campus in Frederick, MD. There are two potential projects for commission. Up to four semi-finalist artists will be selected for each project. Each semi-finalist will receive a $2,500 stipend that covers travel to the MSD campus for a site tour and interview with the Artist Selection Committee. Individual applicants may be selected to be semi-finalists for both projects. While it is unlikely one artist will receive both commissions, MSAC reserves the right to select a single artist for both opportunities, if that is what the artist selection committee and MSD recommend.
Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency
Deadline: October 25
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. Residents have tailored access to facilities, equipment, technical consultation, from Squeaky Wheel, as well as our partners Buffalo Game Space, The Foundry, Mirabo Press, and Silo City. Residents present on their work together in a public event, present a workshop for the Squeaky Wheel community, and participate in tailored activities, such as field trips, critiques, among others. Residents have worked on non-fiction and documentary films, video games, curatorial research, critical essays, experimental film, media art installations, performances, sound work, and much more. The residency attracts practitioners who make challenging and critical inquiries to media art: its possibilities, histories, and the communities it can hold and form. If you are unsure if this is you, we invite you to define how your projects is part of media arts.
Deadline: October 28
601Artspace is now accepting project proposals for exhibitions that advance the space’s mission of furthering the conversation on contemporary art. We offer a minimum stipend of $5000 to curators we select, intended as a compensation for their work. Additional funds are granted based on the scope of the proposal. Exhibition costs will be covered separately. This stipend takes into account the extensive amount of research that goes into a curatorial proposal, as well as the work required to present an outstanding exhibition. Exhibitions typically run for 2-3 months. We ask curators to develop at least two programming events to complement the exhibition. Submissions are reviewed quarterly.
Deadline: October 31
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.
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.
Rolling Deadlines
MSAC Professional Development Grants
Deadline: Rolling
The Professional Development Opportunity Grant assists artists and arts organizations in implementing best practices by embracing growth, learning, and discovery for economic sustainability. The Professional Development Opportunity Grant will open for FY25 applications starting July 1, 2024, through April 30, 2025. Artists and orgs can be awarded up to $2,000.
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.
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.