External Opportunities

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Maryland State Arts Council – Art in Transit Open Call

April 12

The pilot MTA’s Art in Transit call for Existing Artworks invites artists to imagine public transportation as a moving art show. Artworks will be placed on MTA buses, turning everyday commutes into art experiences. This program will feature two-dimensional artworks by artists in Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Anne Arundel County, and or Howard County. The project brings meaningful contemporary art into daily life.

 

Martirano Award – School of Music: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

April 15

Any composer, regardless of age or nationality is eligible. Previous winners, as well as faculty and currently enrolled students at the University of Illinois are ineligible for the award. First Prize cash award of $750, and Second Prize cash award of $500. Winning pieces will also receive a performance by the Illinois Modern Ensemble on the Annual Martirano Award Concert on the campus of the University of Illinois. 

 

Art & Protest at America’s 250th | One Mile Gallery

April 15

In 2026, the United States marks its 250th anniversary. A moment to reflect not only on our nation’s founding ideals, but on the ongoing struggle to realize them. One Mile Gallery invites artists to submit work for a group exhibition examining America through the dual lens of love and protest: honoring the country while questioning, challenging, and expanding its promises.

 

Chamber Music America: Thea Musgrave Performance Fund

April 16

Chamber Music America’s Thea Musgrave Performance Fund is created in partnership with Scottish-American composer Thea Musgrave, whose endowment gift provides support to professional, US-based ensembles dedicated to performing her more than 60 chamber music works. Grants are intended to encourage the performance of her works in their original versions and instrumentation. The fund aims to deepen appreciation of her music and bring her works to new audiences in chamber music settings through encouraging performances that celebrate Musgrave’s distinguished artistry.

 

South Dakota State University School of Design Stuart Artist-in-Residence

April 17

Applications for 4-week artist-in-residence are now being accepted from visual artists working in any discipline, including interdisciplinary approaches. The committee encourages artists to create and develop artwork independently in the Ritz Gallery. Artists should be willing to discuss their project conceptualization and visual progression with School of Design students, faculty, and the community during open studio hours and public events. It is not intended that the selected artist teach or provide workshops.

 

Open Call – Embassy of Foreign Artists Art & Science Residencies

April 19

From 2026 onwards, the programme will be rolled out on a new basis, centred on the cross-cutting theme of imagination — considered to be an essential driver of thought, creativity and research. This cycle of residencies will run for three years (2026–2028), with three three-month sessions, and will be open to new scientific, academic, medical, technological and industrial partners. The aim is to create artist-scientist duos around ongoing research projects, in which artistic practice questions, enriches or recontextualises scientific processes and representations.

 

Onishi Art Festival

April 19

In 2026, the festival will be in its 12th year and will embrace a wider range of groups, professions and genres. Formerly known as the Kanna Art Festival, the Onishi Art Festival connects people and places within its cultural sphere, forging new relationships and spaces. Drawing inspiration from the town’s heritage and the legend of a stone-throwing demon, we looking forward to create artistic content that enriches everyday life. The festival will take place throughout most of the year, with the main events occurring in September and October.

 

Open Call – GhostMachine Gallery

April 19

GHOSTMACHINE Gallery is pleased to announce an Open Call for artists to participate in a TWO- or THREE-person exhibition organized by guest curator Dominika Tylcz. We invite individual submissions from artists and collectives of all career levels working in any media. While we welcome applications from outside New York, please note that artists are responsible for shipping their work to the gallery and back if it doesn’t sell. Artists are also expected to assist with installation and de-installation; however, the gallery will manage these processes for works with simple setup requirements, like paintings and small artworks. 

 

Art Center Sarasota – Medium Mutiny

April 19

This exhibition seeks work that defies expectation and reinvents tradition. We’re looking for pieces that experiment boldly—with process, form, and concept. Whether through unexpected techniques, hybrid materials, or subversive approaches to craft, the work in Medium Mutiny resists easy categorization. If your creative practice breaks boundaries, blurs lines, and challenges how art is made—or how it’s perceived—we want to see it.  Medium Mutiny is a celebration of fearless experimentation. Show us how you turn convention on its head and redefine what art can be or how it communicates.

 

Winging It: Birds In Art – Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center

April 19

Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center invites emerging and established artists to submit original artworks to “Winging It: Birds in Art.” This exhibition aims to celebrate the beauty, diversity, and symbolism of birds as interpreted through artistic expression. Birds have long inspired artists with their graceful forms, vibrant plumage, and powerful associations with freedom, migration, and the rhythms of the natural world.

 

A Space Gallery Summer 2026 Open Call: Solo Exhibition

April 20

A Space Gallery (Brooklyn, NY) is excited to announce that our Summer 2026 Open Call for Artist Solo Exhibition is now open for submissions. Selected solo exhibitions will take place during the Summer 2026 , with final scheduling determined in collaboration with each selected artist based on the nature of the work and the gallery’s programming calendar.

 

St. Elmo Arts Residency University of Texas at Austin

April 20

The St. Elmo Arts Residency within the Department of Art and Art History offers one fellowship each academic year to a recent MFA graduate specializing in painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, sculpture, or multimedia. The residency includes a charming house and studio in a small artist community in the St. Elmo district of South Austin.

 

NYC Department of Design and Construction

April 20

The New York City Department of Design and Construction (“DDC”) seeks artists interested in being commissioned to provide artwork for the New York City Borough-Based Jails Program (“BBJ”). The City will be selecting artists soon for upcoming artwork commissions at the Bronx, Queens, and Manhattan BBJ facilities. These commissions will be an opportunity for selected artists to make a lasting improvement to the facilities and have a positive impact on people in custody, their family and friends, facility staff, neighbors, and others in the greater community. The BBJ projects represent a transformational investment by the City of New York in implementing its commitment to justice reform

 

Art in Odd Places: Utopias

April 21

Art in Odd Places (AiOP) 2026: UTOPIAS, the 21st edition of Art in Odd Places invites proposals that inhabit the city not as it is, but as it could be—transforming 14th Street into a living laboratory for collective dreams, radical care, and shared futures, as this festival has been doing for over two decades. We invite individual artists and collectives to propose projects for this outdoor public visual and performance art festival taking place in New York City. We welcome projects that use installations, performance, actions, gestures, sound, and participatory practices to activate public space and spark imagination. 

 

ZED Festival Internazionale Videodanza

April 21

This open call is for two different competitions: International Screendance Film Competition focused on international short dance films of a maximum 20 minutes duration and VR 360° Dance Film Competition focused on international short dance films related to dance, choreography and movement, specifically meant to be seen on a VR headset, with no duration limits and released no early then 2020; throughout the whole duration of the Festival two VR corners will be available with several VR headsets to present selected works

 

Prince Street Gallery Juried Exhibition

April 21

Prince Street Gallery 2026 Juried Exhibition, July 7 – July 25 held at Prince Street Gallery, Chelsea, NYC. The juror this year will be Sharon Butler, a painter, writer and founder of the popular blog, Two Coats of Paint. For artists working in 2 dimensional mediums of painting, drawing, printmaking, collage and mixed media only.

 

Call for Artists: The JJC Artist in Residence at MICA | Baltimore Museum of Art

April 22

The Joshua Johnson Council (JJC) Artist in Residence (AIR) program is a collaboration between the JJC, the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA), and the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). The JJC AIR program seeks applications to select two (2) artists living and working in Baltimore City for the summer residency. Applicants are not required to be alumni of MICA. Artists of color are strongly encouraged to apply.

 

Exhibition Calls – Baltimore Jewelry Center – Inconspicuous Interference

April 22

For Inconspicuous Interference, the Baltimore Jewelry Center is seeking artwork which investigates the role of objects carried on the body as instruments for resistance, protest, and change. How do craftspeople, as makers, do our part in building a brighter future? What role do our objects play in building that future?

 

Unmoored/Unbound – Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition | NYFA

April 22 

Unmoored/Unbound is a BWAC juried group exhibition in collaboration with Powerhouse Arts. The show will present artworks that explore themes of loss, transition, liberation, freedom and deliverance. . Art of all mediums will be considered including drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, video and installation. The curators welcome existing work as well as new work made in response to the exhibition prompt. Of particular interest is work that explores how art can be a vessel for transition, lesser known sources of strength and wisdom, and the value of community in times of disruption. Unmoored/Unbound will provide viewers with inspiring and expansive accounts of how artists survive and thrive in dark and challenging times.

 

Call For Scores – Musica del Vivo MusEcology

April 22

MusEcology is Musica del Vivo’s international Call for Scores, dedicated to compositions for solo instrument and piano inspired by the theme of ecology. The selected pieces will be performed during the 2026 fall concert season.

 

Creative Residency Program – Frank Lloyd Wright’s Martin House

April 24

The Martin House Creative Residency Program is a project-based residency that provides creative individuals a designated time and space to develop new works of the imagination inspired by one of the great examples of 20th century architecture. The residency is a competitive program that is open to applicants who seek the resources to support ongoing projects or the creation of new work.

 

The Trawick Prize – Bethesda Urban Partnership

April 24

The Trawick Prize: Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards produced by the Bethesda Arts & Entertainment District honors artists from Maryland, Washington, D.C. & Virginia. Eight finalists will be selected for consideration for Trawick Prize. The exhibition of finalists will be held at Gallery B from Sept. 3 – 27, 2026, and the opening reception will be held on Friday, Sept. 4th from 6-8pm.

 

Suitland Water Tower Art Banners Project

April 26

The Prince George’s County Planning Department of The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (M-NCPPC) is seeking an artist or artist team to lead a collaborative public art opportunity with a cohort of visual arts students from Suitland Creative Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA) High School. Through mentorship with the selected artist or artist team, the 11-student cohort will design 8 prints that will be produced in a series of banners for installation on the Suitland Water Tower.

 

Atlantic Gallery – Graphically Speaking: The Art of Comic Storytelling

April 26

Atlantic Gallery, located in the historic Landmark Arts Building in Chelsea, invites artists to submit work for the upcoming juried show, Graphically Speaking: The Art of Comic Storytelling. With less than a decade until the 100th anniversary of the publication of the very first comic book with original, non-reprinted content, Atlantic Gallery seeks to celebrate the art tradition and future of comic storytelling by inviting comic and graphic artists to submit works for consideration for inclusion in a juried exhibition, GRAPHICALLY SPEAKING.

 

20/92 Video Festival | Icebox Project Space

April 26

The 20/92 Video Festival is a rare opportunity to exhibit your work at an uncommon scale in a unique environment. Located in Philadelphia, PA, Icebox Project Space is one of the largest exhibition spaces in the city at nearly 3,700 sq ft. Within the gallery is a projection system which allows for a continuous image to be cast upon its walls, at a maximum size of 20’ x 92’ with a resolution of 5040 x 1020 pixels.

 

call for work /// MA/IN 10th Edition

April 26

LOXOS~ keeps attention focused on electroacoustic culture by offering, through its annual call, an important stimulus for composers and artists working in the field of digital arts. Each year, MA/IN welcomes artistic proposals through an OPEN CALL, with the aim of selecting works to be included in the 2026 edition of the festival.

 

3pts Artists & Makers Impact Fund

April 27

The 3pts Artists & Makers Impact Fund is a $3,500 award supporting U.S.-based artists and makers who create tangible objects or goods and are working to sustain and grow a business. Funding may be used for materials, equipment, workspace costs, professional development, production expenses, or other needs that strengthen an artist or maker’s practice.

 

What’s Going On? Art in Response

April 27

Contemporary, expressionistic, abstract, exploratory, and/or experimental entries encouraged. As the 21st century unfolds, we find ourselves in rapidly shifting territory. Political, Economic, Social, Technological and Environmental changes are swift and unstable. Many of the institutions, organizations and communities we have relied on to help us make sense of our world seem to be crumbling. Most of us are unsure of what is real. Art reflects the emotions, concerns, and aspirations of a people.  Through artistic expression, artists can communicate, provoke, and challenge injustices and give voice to insecurities and aspirations. Please submit your visual responses and perspectives related to the unsettling and confusing zeitgeist we find ourselves living in.

 

Art + Technology Lab Grant

April 22

Join a radical experiment in art, science, and emerging technology where visionary artists are empowered to test bold ideas, prototype the future, and share their discoveries with the world. The Art + Technology Lab at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is a “safe-to-fail” rapid prototyping environment—a place where the finished work of art is deliberately deemphasized in favor of encouraging artists to test the edges of art and technology. It supports projects that explore artistic applications of new tools and ideas related to technology and culture. The program offers artists and artist collectives financial and in-kind support for new projects, working in collaboration with expert partners from the fields of science, technology, engineering, art history, and museology.

 

Rolling Deadlines

 

Le Petit Versailles Open Call for Proposals

No deadline

The urban botanical landscape is similar to country conditions in many ways. Soil replenishment, fertilization, weeding, and watering are essential to growth. Le Petit Versailles also grows culture. With recent changes in government we feel it more important than ever to continue our mission to unify art and social engagement. The call is made for projects and activities that have direct impact and relationship to the physical site in rebuilding and maintaining a green space for urban gardening. Be creative. Propose what it means for you to grow and develop vegetation and community. Investigate tools, architecture, and social interaction that support green, open, public space.

 

 

The Awesome Foundation Grant

Deadline: Rolling

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

 

WorthlessStudios Photographer in Residence

Deadline: Rolling

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

 

MAP x Hotel Indigo

Deadline: Rolling

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

 

Clifton Arts Center Exhibits

Deadline: rolling

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

 

CCA Call for Exhibition Proposals 2025

Deadline: Rolling

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

 

Call for Artists: The Mulberry Network

Deadline: Rolling

The Crow’s Nest is seeking artists who would like to use their skills to support climate activists. Mulberry Network artists should be willing to meet with activists, learn about their direct action campaign priorities and objectives, and if commissioned, be willing to produce artwork in a relatively short time to support the protest actions. Art may include posters, banners, installations, animations, illustrations, and projections. Artists are not expected (but are welcome) to participate in the direct actions. Let us know if you’d like to make art for climate activists on a volunteer or commission basis & provide some basic information at the form on our website to be added to our directory.