Deadline Driven Opportunities
Las Lagunas Call for Art “Botanical”
Deadline: April 27
Las Laguna Art Gallery is pleased to present our BOTANICAL 2024 exhibition. All artists, internationally, are encouraged to submit any work related to plants, trees, and anything Botanical in nature. Acceptable mediums include, but are not limited to: painting, digital art, video, sculpture, illustration. All artists who submit to this show will be accepted and have at least one of their submitted works posted and promoted on our website and to our client list. A select number of artists will be chosen to send their work to the gallery for the in-person exhibition at our brick-and-mortar gallery in Laguna Beach, California. There is a $35 entry fee.
Deadline: April 28
We are seeking a curatorial research fellow at any stage of their career to help support the BROADCAST arm of our programming, highlighting media-based artists throughout the year. The selected candidate will design a cohesive program comprised of at least four BROADCAST segments (open to the public online events ranging from screenings, Q&A sessions with artists, and/or workshops) organized around a theme of their choosing. This is an outstanding opportunity for the candidate to come in direct contact with a vast scope of artists. The selected curator will be awarded a $500 research honorarium for their curatorial research, with the possibility of receiving additional funds to conduct the program in 2025. We are particularly interested in curators who have a strong interest in environmental issues, climate change, and the impact of human existence in the arts.
Printmaking Artist in Residence, 2024-2025 academic year
Deadline: April 29
The University of Wisconsin-Parkside offers an Artist-in-Residence (AIR) position in Printmaking for the 2024/2025 Academic year (August 30, 2024 – May 16, 2025). Residency includes campus housing for non-local applicants, full access to the academic/professional printmaking studio in UWP’s Rita Tallent Picken Regional Center for the Arts and Humanities, and a $3000 per semester stipend ($6000 for the entire academic year.) The studio features up-to-date ventilation and equipment for artists creating prints through a variety of methods including lithography, linocuts, woodcuts, letterpress, monoprint, screen printing, and intaglio. The AIR is expected to be comfortable interacting with students/staff/public, and dedicated to fostering a positive, friendly, and open artistic environment. The AIR will also function as the printmaking studio manager, providing general upkeep and maintenance for the studio and its equipment.
PhotoVogue 2024 Global Open Call
Deadline: April 29
PhotoVogue’s 2024 Global Open Call invites artists worldwide to share works that celebrate nature’s beauty and resilience. Our goal is to foster compassion and respect for the environment and all living beings, seeking submissions that inspire hope and positive change. Endorsed by all 27 editions of Vogue worldwide, this Open Call offers artists the chance to be featured at the 2024 PhotoVogue Festival in Milan, and potentially in an issue of Vogue. The two artists who submit the most compelling work will also receive a $5,000 grant each (TBC), supporting their artistic growth.
Creature Conserve Scholarships
Deadline: April 30
We provide scholarship stipends for artists, designers, writers, and scientists to support their creative process, including making art informed by science that inspires conservation action. Funds can be spent on creative time, art supplies, logistical support, travel, and conference fees. A basic budget is required. Stipend amounts range from $500 to $1500 per project. We welcome applications from people at all skill levels, from all backgrounds, and in all countries. Successful applicants receive feedback and guidance from our program leaders and free access to our online workshops for a full year. The Scholarship Program Application requires that the scholar propose a specific project as the focus of their exploration; this can be an existing or new project.
HCAC Artist Studio Opportunities
Deadline: April 30
The Howard County Arts Council is seeking applications from emerging and mid-career artists, for whom a short-term artist studio may make a significant difference to their career development or completion of a project. The selected artist will fill one available artist studio space, approximately 216 square feet, sharing access with two other artists in adjoining studios, for $171/month for the period of July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025. There are also other studios available at the link.
O Rumo do Fumo– Dance Residency
Deadline: May 1
The programme supports the contemporary artistic creation, stimulating its research and development by hosting two residencies for EMERGING ARTISTS. It provides to the selected projects conditions for its development during one month. O Rumo do Fumo offers: rehearsal studio during 4 weeks, 1.000€ grant, partial reimbursement of logistics expenses, artistic counselling and organization of a work-in-progress presentation at Espaço da Penha.
Deadline: May 1
Artists are provided with housing and studio space at O’Hanlon Center for the Arts for the duration of their residency. Our residency supports and encourages a collaborative atmosphere among fellow Artists in residence as well as with the membership of O’Hanlon Center for the Arts. We welcome a broad range of creative visual arts disciplines including, sculpture and installations.
Call for Solo & Group Show Proposals
Deadline: May 1
While not necessarily limited to artists age 21+ from the Mid-Atlantic region, preference is given to proposals stemming from Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware and Washington D.C. There are three different gallery locations under the HOYT umbrella to consider when applying.
Cine MIMMOS: International Puppet Film Festival
Deadline: May 1
CINE MIMMOS is an International Exhibition of Puppets, Masks and Objects from Sintra – with open-air shows and free admission, for the whole family, in Jardim da Anta – Agualva (Sintra). We welcome short films, documentaries, music video and experimental videos that include puppets, masks and objects with or without live action and stop motion.
Deadline: May 1
The Napa Art Walk is a curated walking tour program that showcases regularly rotating installation art throughout downtown Napa, California.This program is designed to enhance the local environment and promote the understanding and enjoyment of public art by inviting artists to temporarily exhibit select works in downtown Napa. All pieces submitted for the 8th Napa Art Walk should integrate and embody a work centered around the theme Climate Action and Sustainability. The artwork should embody concepts related to climate change and environmental sustainability or be made from recycled materials. Each selected artist will receive an Artist Honorarium of $3,000 to assist with transportation, travel and other expenses; $2,000 will be paid upon artwork installation in 2024 and $1,000 paid upon artwork deinstallation.
FORM + SPACE 2024 Juried Exhibition
Deadline: May 1
The Museum of Art – DeLand proudly presents the inaugural FORM + SPACE 2024 International Juried Exhibition. This exhibition recognizes an expansive field of contemporary sculpture and the diverse practices of artists today who transform malleable materials into three dimensional artworks. Artists working in traditional and non-traditional sculptural materials are encouraged to apply. Submission cost is $10 per each artwork submitted.
Call for Public Art Qualifications
Deadline: May 1
The City of Bend in partnership with Art in Public Places (AiPP) invites professional Artists to apply for a public art commission in connection with the construction of the Public Works Campus in Bend, Oregon. The commission is for a large-scale Sculptural Screen Wall located at the south boundary of the Public Works campus and a smaller-scale Campus Entry Sculpture located at the main entrance of campus. Both works of art should be related to one another and be a continuous idea, sharing materials and inspiration. See attached graphics package for location and size of both works of art and the general inspiration for the two sculptural elements. The project timeline is 2024-2025 and the project budget is $300,000. The City of Bend and AIPP are dedicated to nurturing, promoting, and preserving a culture of diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage individuals from Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) communities, persons with disabilities, women, and LGBTQIA+ artists to apply.
Deadline: May 1
The Ketchikan Dance Film Festival will take place Saturday, Sept. 21st 2024 in downtown Ketchikan, AK. This is the second annual film festival to premiere in downtown Ketchikan, Alaska. Submissions must, in some way, employ both choreographic concepts and the language of film. Documentation of live performances will not be accepted.
Lillstreet Art Center Residencies
Deadline: May 1
Lillstreet Art Center offers year-long residencies in the departments of Ceramics and Metalsmithing, and 9-Month residencies in Textiles, Drawing & Painting, and Printmaking & Book Arts beginning in September every year. This residency focuses on providing studio space and professional development opportunities. Residents must teach. There is a 20$ application fee.
Deadline: May 1
Vanguard Arts Fund applications are now open for Olney Theatre Center’s 2024-2025 season. The Vanguard Arts Fund provides developmental support to diverse teams of artists interested in creating theatrical works. From the early drafts of a new play, to a concept for a classic adaptation to the first song of a musical, we provide workshop time for various stages of a work’s development process. We commit to these artistic teams in hopes of producing their work at Olney Theatre Center in a future season.
Processing Foundation Fellowship Season 2024 Sustaining Community: Expansion & Access
Deadline: May 2
The Processing Foundation is thrilled to announce the open call for our 2024 Fellowship Program, themed ‘Sustaining Community: Expansion & Access.’ This year, we seek to support innovative projects from artists, designers, activists, educators, engineers, researchers, coders, collectives, and many more, who are working at the intersection of creative technology, art, and open-source software. Our fellowship is designed to provide substantial support to individuals and groups within our community. This includes a $10,000 stipend, dedicated mentorship, skill-building workshops, public programs, and community engagement opportunities. Participation for the fellowship is entirely online and we invite applicants from around the world to apply.
Deadline: May 3
The Fireline Fellowship invites writers, artists, and thought leaders in the humanities to become part of a thinking community that, for two and a half years, will explore issues related to wildfire at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest (the Andrews). In October, 2024, fellows will meet in person with scientists and stay at the Andrews and then will meet quarterly online. Fellows will receive a stipend, opportunities to learn alongside scientists in the field, and up to four weeks of residency time at the Andrews. Fellows will develop new projects for a public audience and/or involving public engagement, and projects will be presented in collaboration with the Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts (PRAx).
Deadline: May 3
The Art Grants are intended to aid both training and the development of personal and research projects, which must be directly linked to artistic creation rather than to the development of a theoretical study. Specifically, the Fundación Botín offers six scholarships for artists of any nationality with an expected duration of nine months and an endowment of 23,000 euros each, in addition to medical insurance for recipients who need to travel to a country other than their country of residence.
Hayloft Gallery, Floyd Center for the Arts: syn·the·sis: digital craft
Deadline: May 3
This national call is looking for works that were created by taking advantage of all forms of computer technology including; AI, rapid prototyping, computer-aided design, 3D scanning, laser cutting and engraving, and subtractive processes such as computer numerically controlled routers and mills. The “hand” of the computer, however, may not necessarily be evident at first glance, and in some ways this exhibition represents the anti-digital exhibition as selected artists, designers, and craftspeople seek to fully absorb and understand how analog influences inform the digital to create work that might be categorized as digital craft. The work presented investigates the future of craft and the implications of merging traditional craft with digital processes and how these hybrid objects inform the age in which we live. There is a $25 application fee.
Howard County: Rising Star Award
Deadline: May 6
Each year, we choose up to 10 rising stars to compete for our $5,000 Rising Star Award. Emerging performing artists with roots in Howard County can apply to be among the finalists who will perform at our Celebration gala — with the winner voted on by the audience! The competition is open to performers, both individuals and ensembles (up to four members), ages 18-35, who live, train, work or perform regularly in Howard County or have done so in the past.
Wassaic Project: Winter Residency
Deadline: May 6
Winter residents receive 24-hour access to an adaptable, semi-private, ~100 square-foot studio space in the historic Maxon Mills. Accommodations include a private bedroom in a shared house, complete with common spaces, 1–2 full bathrooms, and a kitchen (artists participating in our Family Residency will receive a private house). Artists-in-residence also have access to our wood shop. Monthly programming includes open studios, group studio visits with our embedded critics. Various fellowships are available for this residency. There is a $25 application fee.
Marble House Project Residency
Deadline: May 6
All residents live together in the historic, eight-bedroom Manley-Lefevre house, a communal space organized around responsibilities-sharing systems which highlight sustainability and community. The residency is an opportunity to develop and carry out practices of mutual support, group conversation, and to cultivate adaptive relationships with the environment. This can take the form of discussions with guest multidisciplinary artists, thinkers, and activists and other individual and group activities that benefit our community of residents. Applications are accepted in all creative fields including but not limited to writing, dance and choreography, performance, music composition and sound, film and video, visual arts, and culinary arts. Application fee is $35.
Doris Duke Performing Arts Technologies Lab
Deadline: May 6
The Performing Arts Technologies Lab is both a grant and a support system designed to expand access to and nurture new methods for creating, sharing and experiencing the performing arts. The Doris Duke Foundation (DDF) is looking for innovative ideas in jazz, contemporary dance and theater that make use of new digital tools and production methods.
Call for Work: All Power on Earth Comes from the Sun
Deadline: May 7
ALL POWER ON EARTH COMES FROM THE SUN is a field sampling of contemporary ecosocial art exploring autonomy, care, and the potential for a more free and ecological world. This group exhibition, curated by Solarpunk Surf Club, gathers prefigurative specimens, tracks movements in positive deviance, and maps the reenchantment of nature in the Bluegrass and beyond. They are open to all artistic mediums including video and performance. Artists must disclose if AI was used in their process. There is a $5 submission fee.
Susan Eley Fine Art Gallery– Call for Student Drawings & Paintings
Deadline: May 8
In 2021 Susan Eley Fine Art devoted its summer exhibitions to celebrating art students amidst the challenges of virtual learning. New Voices for the Twenties- Part I and Part II were exciting group shows that congratulated young artists on the completion of their schooling with an exhibition in NYC. For summer 2024 we want to revisit this theme with a student show. For this exhibition, SEFA is looking for paintings by current or graduating student from BFA and MFA programs in the US. There is no submission fee.
WCADC Call for Artwork “Flora”
Deadline: May 12
Plants and flowers in art can communicate a range of emotions, secret meanings, symbols of femininity. They may serve as a bold, maximalist background for the artist’s subject, or simply depict the glory of nature. The Women’s Caucus for Art of Greater Washington, DC (WCADC) invites women artists based in DC, Maryland, or Virginia to submit botanical and floral-focused work for ‘Flora’. Depictions of plants and flowers in abstract art, representational portraits, photography, sculpture, and mixed media pieces are all welcome and acceptable.
Deadline: May 12
The Nicholson Project was founded with a deep commitment to providing artists with the time, space, and support to create and further their practice. We welcome emerging, mid-career, and established visual artists & designers, but also dancers, poets/writers, makers, chefs, gardeners, architects, engineers, and scientists too. Selected artists will receive a $5,000 artist stipend. Artists will stay at the residency suite for 10 weeks. This suite includes an apartment with an artist studio attached. The apartment includes a fully furnished bedroom, kitchen, and bathroom.
The Hopper Prize: Spring 2024 Grant
Deadline: May 14
The hopper prize supports visual arts & photography. 2 artists will each receive $3,500 and 4 artists will each receive $1,000. In addition to grants, 30 artists will be selected for a shortlist, and all winners will have the opportunity to publish an in depth interview about their work in our online journal.
Peyton Evans Artist Residency (PEAR) Program
Deadline: May 14
The Studios of Key West, the premier arts organization at the Southernmost Point of the US, offers a residency program for emerging and established artists and writers from around the world. We provide one-month residencies to visual artists, writers, composers, musicians, media artists, performers, and interdisciplinary artists. We are currently accepting applications for the 2024/25 season, which runs from October 2024-August 2025.
Chelsea International Fine Arts Competition
Deadline: May 14
Painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, digital media, printing, and mixed media are eligible. Video art, film, performance art, jewelry, and crafts are not eligible. Artificial intelligence-generated art (AI-ART) is also not accepted for the competition. NYAC does not allow the use of AI-ART in any way. Our competition is dedicated to showcasing and celebrating human creativity and artistic expression. Artists with AI-ART entries may face account suspension. There is a $55 entry fee which includes up to 5 images.
Deadline: May 15
The intention of Mid-Atlantic New Painting is to highlight new developments in painting within our region. Artists may submit up to three artworks for consideration. Entries can be any material or medium, with a physical limit of 80” in any dimension. Entries must have been completed within two years of the application deadline (no earlier than May 2022). Works must be suitable for hanging. Unframed work is acceptable if it is submitted with hanging instructions, special hardware, etc.. A $25 non-refundable fee must accompany the entry.
Towson University Call for Scores from Marginalized Composers
Deadline: May 15
The selected composer will produce a newly-composed piece written for a chamber ensemble of no more than 6 parts, and approximately 10 minutes in length. The piece will be learned, rehearsed, and performed by a faculty-led ensemble of current Towson University students and faculty in the Fall of 2024. The deadline for delivering the final score and parts is September 1, 2024. Compensation of $1000 for the score and parts, as well as potential opportunities for recordings of the selected work. The selected composer must be available to attend the performances in the fall and should be present for rehearsals with the ensemble to answer questions and discuss the piece with the performers. Our preference is that applicants are from or have some connection to the Baltimore area.
Deadline: May 15
We are now accepting submissions in the categories of Narrative Features, Documentaries, Short Film, Animation, International, and Student Film. The earlybird deadline is May 15th. There is a $25 application fee.
Ceramics and Woodworking Residencies
Deadline: May 15
For nearly 80 years, Sawtooth has been a creative hub for the region—an energetic craft school environment in downtown Winston-Salem, NC. Our year-long Artist-in-Residence programs encourage the development of new skills, connections, and bodies of work while assisting with studio operations. Ceramic Residents, 2 in wood firing and 1 in electric/gas firing, are given 24/7 access to studio space, materials at cost, free firings, and the opportunity to teach, inspire, and energize our community. Our Gondring Resident in Woodworking will receive round-the-clock access to Wood and Lathe studios, a semi-private studio space, and a $3,000 stipend in exchange for working several hours per week.
Mophradat “self organization” Grants
Deadline: May 15
Self Organizations is a program that aims to provoke inventive ways of working together and collaborating. The program offers support to projects where different arts practitioners take the initiative and join forces to define a mutual resource or interest that’s important for their work, and propose ways to share or develop it. The overall purpose of the program is to incite productive conversations, encourage the development of bespoke protocols for collaboration, and push for new art experiences to take place. This program will support informal co-ops or topical assemblies with a maximum budget of 8,000 euros. Artists should have a relationship to the Arab world.
Deadline: May 15
Separate review panels are created for each category (poetry, fiction, nonfiction, playwriting/screenwriting, children’s literature, performance, film/video, book arts, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, installation art, music composition, etc.). Panelists undergo periodic review and rotate regularly to ensure VCCA admission decisions are guided by high caliber artists who represent a diversity of styles and tastes. All VCCA residency and fellowship applications are accepted online via SlideRoom. The standard application fee is $30. Various fully-funded fellowships are available.
Deadline: May 15
Monson Arts’ residency program supports emerging and established artists and writers by providing them time and space to devote to their creative practices. During each of our 2-week and 4-week programs throughout the year, a cohort of 5 artists and 5 writers are invited to immerse themselves in small town life at the edge of Maine’s North Woods and focus intensely on their work within a creative and inspiring environment. They receive a private studio, private bedroom in shared housing, all meals, and $1,000 stipend ($500 for 2-week programs). The Abbott Watts Residency for Photography offers access to the photography studio and darkroom of Todd Watts in nearby Blanchard, adjacent to the former home of Berenice Abbott.
Women’s Studio Workshop: Residency
Deadline: May 15
The Studio Workspace Residency is an opportunity for artists to create new work and fully immerse themselves in WSW’s supportive environment. We invite applications from artists at any stage of their careers. This residency gives artists the gift of time, an uninterrupted period to live and work away from the stresses of daily life. Artists may choose to work in any one or more of our studios: intaglio, letterpress, papermaking, screenprinting, darkroom photography, or ceramics.
Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant
Deadline: May 15
The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant supports emerging and established writers who write about contemporary visual art. Ranging from $15,000 to $50,000 in three categories—articles, books, and short-form writing—the grants support projects addressing both general and specialized art audiences, from short reviews for magazines and newspapers to in-depth scholarly studies. The program also supports art writing that engages criticism through interdisciplinary methods and experiments with literary styles. As long as a writer meets the eligibility and publishing requirements, they can apply.
Deadline: May 15
AGE seeks to change the equity landscape of the American Theatre canon by increasing the representation of BIPOC playwrights 40+ years of age of marginalized gender. Additionally, in our creation of this initiative, we aimed to amplify the integrity of the recipients. AGE is therefore intentional in making sure that three playwrights receive individual unrestricted grants of $10,000 each. When funders dictate how grant money is used and require complex systems of documentation, oversight, and conditions, it can disempower the recipient.
ASIFA-Hollywood’s Animation Educators Forum Faculty Grant Program
Deadline: May 24
The Faculty Grant program is designed to provide support for individuals or groups with reasonable expenditures associated with research, scholarly activity, or creative projects in the field of animation. Applications from animation faculty around the world are welcome! Recipients will be announced in late June. Awards will range from US$1,000 to a maximum of US$5,000 per applicant. Expenditures must occur for the year running from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025.
Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival
Earlybird Deadline: May 31
We remain dedicated to the search for innovative storytelling and craft, and we are working to create meaningful connections across geographic and stylistic divides. The festival is fully In-Person in 2024 with screenings at a variety of theatre venues in Baltimore, Maryland USA. This year the festival will include multiple programs of International animated short films, a Baltimore Showcase, a Young Audiences program, animator retrospectives, special screenings of independent feature films, workshops and more. For the Baltimore Showcase, submissions must be a film produced within 50 miles of Baltimore City to qualify. Submission fee will rise to $15 after the earlybird deadline, and again after the regular deadline on June 28th.
2024 Charm City Fringe Festival
Deadline: May 31
Virtually any type of performance art is welcome to apply. We particularly encourage original works and innovative adaptations. Categories include: drama, comedy, burlesque, cabaret, circus arts, dance, improv, interdisciplinary, multimedia, musical theater, poetry, puppetry, storytelling, sideshow, spoken word, variety, and other creative madness. There is a $35 application fee.
Rolling deadline opportunities
John Hopkins Hospital Performing Artist in Residence
Deadline: Rolling
The Artist-In-Residence will support the initiatives of the Arts in Health Program through the implementation of musical experiences and processes in a variety of settings within Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. Programming will help children meet the social and emotional challenges of illness as they discover their own creative resources through music activities that focus on expression, play and fun. Artists are trained and supervised by the Child Life Department and may supervise the work of volunteers.
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.
Interview & One Month Solo Exhibition
Deadline: Rolling
Open to artists over 18 working in painting, drawing, photography, sculpture and mixed media. Selection will be made from jpegs or a link to personal website. Selected artist will have a one month on-line artist interview or exhibition on the NYC Phoenix Art Collective website.
Deadline: Rolling
Located at the Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge, the Artist-In-Residence Program offers professional writers, composers, and visual artists the opportunity to pursue their artistic discipline while being surrounded by the Refuge’s inspiring landscape and wildlife. Selected artists stay on the Refuge in bunk-style dorm housing for two- to four-weeks during which they perform their research, participate in the daily and seasonal activities of park rangers, such as monitoring wildlife, and hold two public outreach programs. Artists are required to plan and host two programs open to the public (approx. 45-min each). Programming may include a combination of presentations, demonstrations, workshops, exploratory walks, performances, or meet and greets.
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.
SmackMellon Solo Exhibition Proposals
Deadline: Rolling
Smack Mellon welcomes proposals from emerging and underrecognized mid-career artists. Proposals will be considered for both Gallery One (the larger front space) and Gallery Two (the smaller back space). For Gallery One we encourage site-specific projects and installations that respond to the unusual architecture of the space. Only artists who do not have commercial gallery representation in New York City will be considered. We accept exhibition proposals on a rolling basis, reviewing submissions periodically through the year. We will be considering submissions for 2024 and later.
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.
Deadline: Rolling
The San Antonio College Visual Arts Program is accepting exhibition proposals from professional artists for 2024 and beyond. No deadline is given, but proposals are for professional exhibitions that are on display from October through early December, and mid-January through March. Proposals, portfolios and questions about submitted materials can be sent to the Exhibitions Committee for review to ljennings2@alamo.edu. The gallery exhibits local, national, and international professional artists and student work. Student and professional artist exhibitions are displayed year round.
Danville River District Art Flats: Residency
Deadline: Rolling
VANTAGE Art Flats is now accepting applications for two month residencies in the 500 block of Main Street in downtown Danville, VA. This studio residency, located in the heart of downtown, will give the selected artist an opportunity to fully immerse themselves in a creative environment. It will allow the artist a period of time to live and work away from the stresses of everyday life. The brand-new flat is a one-bedroom, ground level space with an adjacent glass enclosed studio and gallery. Artists will receive a monthly stipend of $3,000.00
Deadline: Rolling
All of WPA’s programming begins with a question. On a rolling basis, we accept 100-word curiosity-driven research ideas from artists based anywhere. Our goal is to support artistic research and interdisciplinary practices through the development and presentation of multidisciplinary, collaborative projects, co-organized with WPA. We believe in artists as intellectuals and that collaborative ideation is a process—which can then lead to meaningful experimentation and imaginative cultural production.
Bucknell University Ekard Artist-in-Residence
Deadline: rolling
The Ekard Artist-in-Residence program at Bucknell University was created to support the creative learning experiences of our students through innovative interactions with practicing artists. Selected artists actively share their own studio methods and processes through master classes, presentations, workshops, studio visits, pop-up exhibitions, installations, or other experiences with students on our residential campus in Lewisburg, PA. Artists are selected through a combination of invitation and proposal-based applications. We are especially interested in activities that will enhance–and may be integrated into–the studio art courses offered in our department.
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.
Deadline: rolling
Radar Sofia is announcing an open call for artists for three fully-funded residencies in Sofia, Bulgaria in 2022 under its year-long programme Distance and Resistance. Radar Sofia is a small artist-run organization that functions as a residency space, a production house and a platform for development of new dramaturgy. The residency period may vary between one and four weeks. The space is designed mainly for writers, special preference is given to dramaturgy and performing arts. Filmmakers, visual and interdisciplinary artists who don’t need a huge studio for their work can also apply to stay with us.
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
Artfare allows artists to present their work to a broad audience and connect with patrons both digitally and in person through studio visits, exhibitions and events. Using our iPhone app, artists can also discover and communicate with other artists and curators, and work together to independently organize exhibitions and events. We started out in New York in early 2019 and are currently accepting submissions from U.S. based artists.
Eyebeam Center for the Future of Journalism
Deadline: rolling
The Eyebeam Center for the Future of Journalism (ECFJ) is a grant-making program that supports artists producing innovative and revelatory journalistic work for major media outlets. Grant support will range from $500 to $5,000. In an effort to be responsive to an ever-fluctuating news cycle, artists and artist-journalist teams can apply to ECFJ for support of their work on a rolling basis. ECFJ supports a variety of work, including: text, photography, audio and video. Artists and artist-journalist teams with longer-term, research-intensive projects are also 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.
Maryland State Arts Council – Creativity Grants
Deadline: rolling
Creativity Grants for Projects strengthen the vitality and sustainability of artists and small organizations and provide opportunities to serve the growing needs of relevant arts projects and collaborations within Maryland communities. Intended to support specific arts projects, events, or programs, this option is available for independent artists, as well as organizations. Each application should focus on a proposal for one specific project or program. Applicants must be an Independent Artist, or an arts-related organization in operation for one year or more and within grant income requirements, and identify a specific event, activity or project to occur within the applicable time frame. Funding amount is $1000 – $3500.
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.