Deadline Driven Opportunities
Loveland, CO – Willow Bend Adaptive Park RFQ
Deadline: January 25
Willow Bend will be the first universally accessible playground in the City of Loveland and one of only a few such specialized facilities in the Colorado Front Range area. Willow Bend Neighborhood Park, Playground, and Natural Area will encompass roughly 125 acres of property located southeast of downtown Loveland. Because of the combination of a playground within a larger nature area, there is a desire for artwork with a nature-based, whimsical, fantasy-like theme and/or a kinetic piece. The selected artists for the site should have demonstrated experience designing and/or fabricating creative elements suitable for a park and playground environment.
Ortega y Gasset Projects: Curatorial Open Call
Deadline: January 26
Ortega y Gasset Projects is pleased to announce our Curatorial Open Call in the Main gallery! OyG co-directors may select multiple curatorial proposals with exhibitions opening between October-December of 2025. Perks of this opportunity include an opening event, public programming (an artist/curator talk or a closing event), promotion on all OyG social media outlets, professional exhibition photography, and a total budget/honorarium of $1000 ($500 exhibition budget + $500 curator honorarium). There is a $25 application fee.
Deadline: January 28
Nature has long been a source of inspiration, creativity, and healing, providing profound insights that shape human expression. In an era defined by technological advancement, the connections between the environment, artistic innovation, and interactive experiences are more vital than ever. SIGGRAPH 2025 explores how artists and technologists draw upon nature’s beauty, complexity, and rhythms to inspire new forms of immersive and interactive experiences. We are looking for artworks in the following categories: art that creates interactive, viewer-engaged experiences inspired by nature’s forms, processes, or phenomena. Art that utilizes technology to explore themes of environmental sustainability and awareness. Art that utilizes immersive technologies such as AR or VR to evoke a deep connection to the natural world. Art that incorporates elements of biomimicry or sustainable design principles in innovative ways. Or art that reflects the interconnected and harmonious relationship between humans, nature, and technology.
Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition 2025
Deadline: January 28
The University of Louisville School of Music is pleased to announce the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition 2025. The University will offer an international prize in recognition of outstanding achievement by a living composer in a large musical genre: choral, orchestral, chamber, electronic, song cycle, dance, opera, musical theater, extended solo work, etc. The award will be granted for a work premiered during the five-year period between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2024. The amount of the award to the composer will be a minimum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00). There is a $50 application fee.
RFQ: Forest Green Branch Library Public Art Project
Deadline: January 30
Help us create a playful, welcoming, happy environment that sparks curiosity and learning in families from our urban yet quiet, green and well-established Highland Lakes neighborhood. The Public Art Program of the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture invites submissions for this request for qualifications from professional artists to design, fabricate and install an outdoor public art piece.
Brooks International Fellowships 2025 in Tate St Ives
Deadline: January 30
Tate, in collaboration with Delfina Foundation, invites applications for the Brooks International Fellowship Programme 2025. Tate welcomes applications for a Fellow to work with Tate St Ives, located in an artistically important coastal town in the far southwest of England, at a significant moment of change. The Fellow will contribute to the development of its artist residency programme, known as the Artists Programme. Tate also welcomes applications for a Fellow to focus on developments in ink art across East and Southeast Asia from the modern period (20th century), as Asian artists encountered Western styles and ideas and began to innovate, while still holding on to the key principles of ink practice. This research Fellowship will respond to Tate’s commitment to expand its ink collection and will contribute to forthcoming exhibitions and displays.
Dacia Gallery Call for Solo Artists
Deadline: January 30
Dacia Gallery invites emerging and established artists to submit artwork for an opportunity to have a Solo Exhibition. We are actively searching for new talented artists in all media and styles to work with, exhibit and represent. If you are looking for gallery representation and to have a Solo Exhibition in New York City, submit your art that we may discover your compelling work and present it to the public, gallery directors, curators and collectors. The gallery will advertise and promote the selected artist for the exhibition and host a formal Opening Reception for the exhibition, including an Artist Talk during the reception. We look forward to discovering your artwork. There is a $45 submission fee.
Finland: One Month Residency for Printmaker October/November 2025
Deadline: January 31
This residency offers free accommodation at the guest room in the city of Jyväskylä. The selected artist will receive free studio space at the print workshop (except plates, papers and special materials) and a grant of 300 euros for living and material costs. There is no separate travel or residential stipend.
LUCKY TRIMMER Tanz Performance Serie!
Deadline: January 31
Lucky Trimmer is a performing arts platform for artists who take risks with their creative vision. Be it mainstream or avant garde, Lucky Trimmer is open to all genres of dance and performance. With a curated selection of short performances chosen for their novelty, ingenuity, and sass, Lucky Trimmer creates extravagant feature-length programs that showcase diverse perspectives, bold insight, and unfettered artistry. Submissions should be under 10 minutes.
2025 Weir Farm Artist-In-Residence Program
Deadline: January 31
Weir Farm’s AIR Program fosters contemporary artistic expression on site and prioritizes experimental and thought-provoking approaches to examining and interpreting our world through the medium of contemporary visual art practice. Applicants may apply in any of the following visual art media: Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, Fiber Art, andMixed Media. There is a $35 entry fee.
The Lake George Arts Project’s Courthouse Gallery
Deadline: January 31
The Lake George Arts Project’s Courthouse Gallery presents 8 exhibitions annually by national, regional, emerging and established contemporary visual artists who work in all media. The Mission of our gallery is to provide exhibition opportunities to emerging and professional artists, with preference given to work created within the last two years, and to experimental or non-traditional work. There is no application fee.
2025 Month of Photography Denver Festival
Deadline: January 31
The Curtis Center for the Arts invites photographers to submit work for an upcoming exhibition as part of the 2025 Month of Photography Denver Festival. This juried show will explore the dynamic world of The Urban Landscape, capturing the essence of city life through architecture, street scenes, and abstract interpretations of urban environments. Submission Fee: $15.
Ensemble_Codec Call for Scores
Deadline: January 31
Ensemble_Codec is pleased to publish its first international call for new scores. The call is open to all composers and artists who pursue experimentation through sounds, with no limit of aesthetics, nationality or age. The entry fee for participation is 10 euros.
Emily Harvey Foundation Venice Residency
Deadline: January 31
The Emily Harvey Foundation offers residencies in Venice, Italy, for innovative international artists, writers, musicians, videographers, dancers and other creative thinkers with preference given to those 40 years or older. Each resident will have a conveniently located apartment with a fully equipped kitchen.
Visual Artist Fellowship 2025-27
Deadline: January 31
The Visual Artist Fellowship is designed to help artists in the Philadelphia Region reach new levels in their career. Artists will be asked to demonstrate a vision for the next stage of their professional or artistic practice and a clear plan for CFEVA’s proposed role in reaching it. Artists will be selected by an independent Board of Artistic Advisors based on the merit of their artwork and a demonstrated ability to reach stated goals. Four artists will be selected to receive a full range of career support during the two-year Fellowship period. In addition, selected artists will receive a $1,000 award and up to $3,000 to cover expenses related to the proposed activity. We invite all artists to apply with their current needs and ideas. Artists within 150 miles of Philadelphia are eligible to apply (Baltimore is approximately 100 miles from the city). There is a $25 application fee.
RFQ Bus Shelter Beautification/Art Project Howard County
Deadline: January 31
Art design concepts should be forward thinking, vibrant, and upbeat. Themes of transit can be included in the art but are not a requirement to be selected. The artwork design should be affirming and inspirational, evoking positivity. The artwork may relate to the location in design and content. For example, art could connect visually to the site or interpret historical, environmental, decorative, architectural, scientific, or cultural aspects of the site. Artwork should be designed to last at least five years. Artwork may be open to the weather, and any permanent damage to the artwork may result in its early removal.
“Under the Influence” – LUX Center for the Arts Group Juried Show
Deadline: February 1
“Under the Influence” is an opportunity to reflect on the ways in which art is a dialogue between the past and the present. We encourage submissions that reveal connections to specific artists, movements, or styles—whether through technique, concept, or thematic resonance. There is no submission fee. Open to artists working in any medium: painting, sculpture, photography, mixed media, installation, and more.
Transmission Arts Radio Art Residencies
Deadline: February 1
Wave Farm welcomes submissions from artists, researchers, tinkerers, and writers, from a variety of disciplines who will embrace this opportunity to create work for a terrestrial radio station that celebrates risk-taking work and prioritizes the uniquely urgent and intimate nature of the radio medium. Applicants should deeply consider the distinctive qualities of FM radio as opposed to online radio and/or podcasts. This is an opportunity open to international applicants. Women, gender non-conforming people, and people of color are encouraged to apply. Artists-in-residence will spend 10-days on-site at Wave Farm (Acra, NY) developing a new 55-minute radio artwork designed explicitly for terrestrial radio broadcast on Wave Farm’s creative community radio station WGXC 90.7-FM: Radio for Open Ears. Radio Art Fellows will dedicate a month-long remote engagement researching and selecting radio artworks by historical and contemporary artists to comprise an episode of the The Radio Art Hour. Fellowships will commence with a brief, in-person visit to Wave Farm, and are awarded in three categories: Research, Community Engagement, and Arts Writing.
Deadline: February 1
The ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival is a project of the Haus für Poesie and has been running since 2002. It is a platform for short films based on poetry – the poetry films. Every year it offers poets, filmmakers and festival organizers from all over the world a platform for creative exchange, brainstorming and encounters with a broad audience. With a competition, film programs, poetry readings, retrospectives, exhibitions, performances, workshops, colloquia, lectures and a children’s program, it presents the diversity of the poetry film genre in various sections. Films based on poems under twelve minutes are eligible for submission for free.
Deadline: February 1
The mission of the NeuroArts Blueprint is to ensure the arts — and their use in all their many forms — become part of mainstream medicine and public health. Each Award is to be jointly presented to (1) an early-career researcher who is affiliated with an academic institution and engaged in a field of basic science related to neuroarts; and (2) an arts practitioner working in an arts-based neuroarts discipline. Applicants may submit one proposal for an Award of up to $25,000. Applications will be reviewed by an external committee of experts in the field of neuroarts.
Wabash College of Art AIR Spring 2026
Deadline: February 1
The Wabash College Art Department seeks artists with demonstrated experience in and a commitment to socially engaged art practice and/or community-based art projects to apply for our Restoring Hope, Restoring Trust Artist-in-Residence position for Spring 2026. The Artist-in-Residence will be a mentor for undergraduate students and engage in creative collaborations that involve students/campus community and local community partners in Crawfordsville/Montgomery County.
Paseo Project Artist in Residence Fellowship
Deadline: February 1
The Paseo Project Artist in Residence Fellowship is currently seeking proposals for 2025. This unique opportunity provides artists time in the high desert of Northern New Mexico and with our community in the execution of their work. Selected artists are offered a 2 – 4 week residency between April – November 2023 and the use of a private studio/office space, private accommodations, and a stipend. Working closely with the organization and local collaborators, artists will have the opportunity to research, design, and perform their work in the high desert of Northern New Mexico. The Paseo Project provides up to $2,000 (Depending on number of weeks in residence).
Hotel Willa Artist-in-Residence Program
Deadline: February 1
The Hotel Willa Artist-in-Residence Program, activated by The Paseo Project, invites artists across all disciplines to apply for the 2025 residency in Taos, New Mexico. This four-week residency offers a unique opportunity to live and create in the vibrant cultural landscape of Taos, surrounded by the scenic beauty of the Southwest. Artists will have the time, space, and inspiration to develop new work in a supportive, immersive environment, with the freedom to focus on their creative process. Open to artists working in any art form, including but not limited to visual arts, performing arts, music, literature, multimedia, culinary, and interdisciplinary projects. Artists are encouraged to use the time for their own creative process. Please refer to our Paseo Project AIR Fellowship program for community engagement support.
Dare to Dance in Public Film Festival Call for Works
Deadline: February 1
Dare to Dance welcomes dance films of all genres. We seek work that speaks dance as a universal language – transcending perceived borders of culture, religion, gender, race and more… Films that creatively explore what is possible at the intersections of dance and film, and what it is to be human & alive in the world today. There is a $35 application fee.
East Central College Open Call for Proposals
Deadline: February 1
The Art Gallery at East Central College in Union, MO is pleased to announce an open call for proposals for exhibitions in Fall 2025 and Spring 2026. Open to artists in North America working in all visual media, the call encourages proposals for exhibition by both individuals and groups. There is no entry fee.
São Paulo Contemporary Composers Festival
Deadline: February 1
The São Paulo Contemporary Composers Festival provides a once in a lifetime experience for emerging professional composers specializing in the practices of Western contemporary art music. Accepted applicants to the festival will receive professional performances of their chamber or orchestral works by renowned Brazilian and international performers. Additionally, composers will receive recordings of their chamber pieces as well as critique and master classes with our visiting guest honorariums. Composers will be provided housing throughout the duration of the festival along with exclusive tours of the City of São Paulo. There is no application fee.
Ballet Collective Commission for Developing Choreographers
Deadline: February 2
BalletCollective’s Commission for Developing Choreographers, now in its seventh year, offers choreographers the chance to partner closely with a composer and a “source artist” (any non-performative artist) to produce an original dance work and score. Two choreographers will be commissioned to make works that will premiere with live musical accompaniment during BalletCollective’s annual fall season in New York, NY in 2026.
Hotel Willa Artist-in-Residence Program
Deadline: February 1
The Hotel Willa Artist-in-Residence Program, activated by The Paseo Project, invites artists across all disciplines to apply for the 2025 residency in Taos, New Mexico. This four-week residency offers a unique opportunity to live and create in the vibrant cultural landscape of Taos, surrounded by the scenic beauty of the Southwest. Artists will have the time, space, and inspiration to develop new work in a supportive, immersive environment, with the freedom to focus on their creative process. Open to artists working in any art form, including but not limited to visual arts, performing arts, music, literature, multimedia, culinary, and interdisciplinary projects. Artists are encouraged to use the time for their own creative process. Please refer to our Paseo Project AIR Fellowship program for community engagement support.
Dare to Dance in Public Film Festival Call for Works
Deadline: February 1
Dare to Dance welcomes dance films of all genres. We seek work that speaks dance as a universal language – transcending perceived borders of culture, religion, gender, race and more… Films that creatively explore what is possible at the intersections of dance and film, and what it is to be human & alive in the world today. There is a $35 application fee.
East Central College Open Call for Proposals
Deadline: February 1
The Art Gallery at East Central College in Union, MO is pleased to announce an open call for proposals for exhibitions in Fall 2025 and Spring 2026. Open to artists in North America working in all visual media, the call encourages proposals for exhibition by both individuals and groups. There is no entry fee.
São Paulo Contemporary Composers Festival
Deadline: February 1
The São Paulo Contemporary Composers Festival provides a once in a lifetime experience for emerging professional composers specializing in the practices of Western contemporary art music. Accepted applicants to the festival will receive professional performances of their chamber or orchestral works by renowned Brazilian and international performers.
Additionally, composers will receive recordings of their chamber pieces as well as critique and master classes with our visiting guest honorariums. Composers will be provided housing throughout the duration of the festival along with exclusive tours of the City of São Paulo. There is no application fee.
Ballet Collective Commission for Developing Choreographers
Deadline: February 2
BalletCollective’s Commission for Developing Choreographers, now in its seventh year, offers choreographers the chance to partner closely with a composer and a “source artist” (any non-performative artist) to produce an original dance work and score. Two choreographers will be commissioned to make works that will premiere with live musical accompaniment during BalletCollective’s annual fall season in New York, NY in 2026.
Georgetown Common Home Arts Showcase: Climate Art & Poetry
Deadline: February 2
We invite DMV area artists to submit their visual art, poetry, and film for the chance to showcase your work as a part of the Writing Climate: Lannan Symposium and win cash prizes! Selected works will also be showcased at the Earth Commons Spring Festival on April 22nd as well as online.
Deadline: February 2
The Untitled Space invites artists to apply for a Solo Exhibition to take place at the gallery in Tribeca, New York in 2025. The selected artist will be awarded a solo exhibition that will be presented as an in-person solo show at the gallery on Lispenard Street located in the Tribeca Arts District of New York City. The solo exhibition will be supported by an online exclusive of the exhibition on Artsy, as well as special coverage of the exhibition on a variety of media outlets including The Untitled Magazine among others. The exhibition will be promoted online on the gallery’s websites, on our social media channels, and on a variety of publishing platforms. The 2nd place artist will be awarded an online solo show on Artsy and will be featured on The Untitled Space’s website and other online platforms of the gallery. There is a $50 fee.
Art & Design Center Jantzen Gallery at Arapahoe Community College: Call for Photography
Deadline: February 2
A photograph is an image made from light; there is no lens (nor camera for that matter) required to make a photographic image. This lens-less and alternative photographic-capture exhibition highlights images made from light itself. Entries may include any image made either without a lens or traditional camera as the means of image creation. Think photograms, scanograms, chemigrams, radiograms, pinhole, refractographs, camera obscura, Solography, or any image made without using a lens. Submit up to 3 works via email.
Call for Entry: The Art of Photography
Deadline: February 2
The theme of the show is simply “The Art of Photography” and participants are encouraged to submit work that demonstrates the wide range of what photography can say about the practice of art. Photography can tell compelling stories and explore complex themes. When combined with the skillful use of composition, lighting, color, tone, texture and other visual elements, it can be elevated to art. Emerging and established photographers are eligible to submit up to four works with a consistent theme or visual style.
Expressive+WICED: Call for Art & Papers
Deadline: February 3
The Expressive+WICED event explores the capacity of computer graphics, animation, and computational media to be used in artistic, aesthetic, and creative ways. The field can be seen as encompassing problems in expressive understanding, expressive communication, and expressive interaction. Creative Papers should be descriptions of original creative projects or analyses of expressive techniques used in artworks, performances, or computational design projects. Creative papers should highlight artistic innovation, and we encourage artists submitting to the Expressive 2025 Art Exhibition to also submit a creative paper describing their project.
Deadline: February 3
Founded in 2011, the festival is inspired by the regenerative opportunities in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, once labeled one of the most polluted places in the United States. The themes of renewal and reclamation continue to play a major role in the social and creative fabric of the Greenpoint Film Festival as it constantly expands into a platform for new thinking, as well as a showcase for great art and great film. There is a $30 entry fee.
Chadron State College Art Gallery Call for Artists 2025-2026 and 2026-2027
Deadline: February 3
Chadron State College’s Art Program and Galaxy Series are accepting exhibition proposal submissions for the 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 academic years. The exhibitions provide the educational and regional communities with visual art experiences that are aesthetically stimulating and engaging.
2025-2026 Visual Arts Fellowship Application
Deadline: February 3
The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown has supported emerging writers and artists for over 50 years, granting 10 annual fellowships to visual artists and 10 annual fellowships to writers for a seven-month residency that runs from October 1 – April 30. Visual Arts Fellows are provided with a private furnished apartment and a separate work studio of approximately 400 sq ft. Fellows are awarded a $1250 monthly stipend plus a $1000 exit stipend to support relocation at the end of the Fellowship. There is a $55 application fee.
Chicken and Egg Documentary Research & Development Grants
Deadline: February 4
This program supports filmmakers who are in the research or development phase of their feature documentary. $10,000 USD grants are available for Research and $20,000 USD grants for Development.
Call for Art: “The Spirit of a Femininomenon”
Deadline: February 4
Students enrolled in a college or university: we invite you to submit artwork that brings women’s diverse experiences and challenges to life and celebrates the unbreakable bond of sisterhood. This project is about feminine expression in all forms; we welcome transgender and queer perspectives. Work may explore drag queens, nonbinary folks, or any topic that inspires, empowers, and sparks conversation about femininity. The exhibition will be installed across Monmouth University in March 2025 in honor of Women’s History Month.
11th Annual Allegany National Photography Competition
Deadline: February 6
This 11th Annual Allegany National Photography Competition & Exhibition (ANPCE), sponsored by the Allegany Arts Council, will meld the region’s rich concentration of photographic artists with an influx of national photographers in a juried competition offering $6,500 in cash prizes. Applicants may enter no more than six (6) entries, with no maximum per category. There is a $30 entry fee.
Deadline: February 7
KITOKI launches an open call for artists to send in their creations in the genre of video dance. For its first edition we are welcoming video dance artwork within these themes: poetry, popular culture, animation, empowerment and music video. Maximum video duration is 25 minutes.
Inviting Light: Call for Temporary Public Art
Deadline: March 31
Inviting Light is an ambitious public art project that will bring the vibrant glow of cultural activity to Baltimore’s Station North Arts District (Station North) with five site-specific public art installations and numerous curated events throughout 2025. Five artists, selected by artist and curator Derrick Adams, are currently developing site-specific temporary outdoor artworks that will be installed on a rolling basis from February to August in Station North. Each work will remain on view for one year. While the final date to apply for consideration is March 31, 2025 we encourage early submissions for best consideration.
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.
Deadline: rolling
The Clifton Arts Center is planning visual exhibits for the years 2026-2030. The Clifton Arts Center provides approximately 1800 square feet of modern well-lit and upgraded HVAC gallery exhibit space on the grounds of the Clifton Municipal Complex. There is a $10 application fee.
CCA Call for Exhibition Proposals 2025
Deadline: Rolling
CCA invites exhibition proposals from artists, curators, and cultural organizations for rolling review by the CCA Exhibitions Selection Committee. The Main Gallery hosts 3-4 major exhibitions annually, with a rotation of 4-6 exhibitions in the Project Gallery. Interdisciplinary proposals that include digital media or installation elements are encouraged. There is a $10 entry fee.
Call for Artists: The Mulberry Network
Deadline: Rolling
The Crow’s Nest is seeking artists who would like to use their skills to support climate activists. Mulberry Network artists should be willing to meet with activists, learn about their direct action campaign priorities and objectives, and if commissioned, be willing to produce artwork in a relatively short time to support the protest actions. Art may include posters, banners, installations, animations, illustrations, and projections. Artists are not expected (but are welcome) to participate in the direct actions. Let us know if you’d like to make art for climate activists on a volunteer or commission basis & provide some basic information at the form on our website to be added to our directory.
Arts on Broadway call for Solo Shows
Deadline: Rolling
Arts on Broadway invites you to apply for a juried exhibition in our distinct space in Midtown Kansas City, MO. This is a national art exhibition open to emerging, mid-career, or established artists. All media is welcome in our 2500 sq/ft space. Exhibitions are for one month. All work should be original and for sale.
Arts on a Roll: Call for Teaching Artists
Deadline: Rolling
Arts on a Roll is a mobile, on demand program within the Community Arts team of the Department of Parks and Recreation, Prince George’s County, MD. We are seeking enthusiastic artists and arts educators to lead classes, design workshops, develop curriculum, and assist at events for visual and performing arts programs. Our instructors represent a range of artistic backgrounds and varied levels of expertise, and we invite applicants with no prior teaching experience who can assist at classes and events, to skilled educators who can develop curriculum and lead programs. As an Arts on a Roll Teaching Artist, you will interface with program participants of all ages at a variety of events, from individual client parties to Girls and Boys Scouts meetings, summer camps, after school programs, and county and city-wide festivals. You will collaborate with our roster of 20-25 teaching artists to provide high quality programming and prompt and courteous customer service, and to co-foster a respectful and inspiring work environment.
WCAC Call for Artist Proposals
Deadline: Rolling
The Washington County Arts Council is currently accepting show proposals for 2026. Proposals may be for the main (significant body of work) or hall gallery (smaller body of work).
Dorchester Center for the Arts Exhibition Proposal
Deadline: Rolling
Dorchester Center for the Arts (DCA) seeks applications from artists for exhibitions at Dorchester Center for the Arts, located at 321 High Street, Cambridge, MD. The selected artists will be invited to exhibit a selection of their current work in a portion of the Gallery Space at DCA. This is an open call to artists residing within 100 miles of Dorchester County. Residents of Dorchester County are encouraged to apply.
Meeting House Gallery Call for Work
Deadline: Rolling
The Meeting House Gallery has been privileged to promote the work of regional artists while beautifying the public areas of The Meeting House—a multi-use facility that is home to an interfaith center, a school and a special event venue. We thank you for your interest in contributing to the Gallery’s mission. There is a $30 application fee.
Groundworks: General Call for Proposals
Deadline: Rolling
The Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) issues a call for submissions to its online peer-reviewed collection of interdisciplinary arts projects, Ground Works. We welcome submissions that integrate research and practice in the fine, performing, and applied arts and design with other disciplines. We seek a wide range of interdisciplinary works that pose a challenge to traditional peer review methods by inviting examination from multiple disciplinary perspectives. Eligible projects have achieved some initial recognition; they may be collaborative or sole-author, but should demonstrably advance multiple fields within and beyond the arts. Submissions may take traditional forms—performances, exhibitions, compositions, publications, or designed and built projects—that also contribute to fields for which such forms are not typical. Equally, contributions that demonstrate experimental, non-traditional, or atypical approaches are welcomed.
Call for Exhibit Proposals at the Peale
Deadline: Rolling
Calling all curators, artists, and art collectives of Baltimore and surrounding areas! The Peale Community Museum of Baltimore, Maryland invites exhibitors to apply for the opportunity to exhibit in our gallery spaces and create ambitious works. We welcome new and traveling exhibitions.
Ovation Studios: Call for Ballet Teachers
Deadline: Rolling
Ovations Studios in Bethesda, MD is hiring for the 2024-2025 season (September-June)! We are searching for passionate individuals with experience teaching all levels/ages of ballet and at least one other genre up to an advanced level. Schedule is Monday-Thursday for evening classes and Saturday 8:30am-1:00pm. Please email your resume, cover letter and performance/choreography reels to Contact@OvationsStudios.com if you think you might be a good fit for our studio!
Plexus Project: VITRINE SERIES Open Call
Deadline: Rolling
Plexus Projects is accepting submissions of artworks for a series of online solo exhibitions. Artworks of any media will be considered including drawing, painting, photography, video, animation, and sculpture, as well as video documentation of ephemeral, performance, kinetic, web-based, extended reality, interactive or multimedia installation projects. Exhibitions will be curated from the submitted materials as well as artworks on the artist’s website. The artist will have final approval on the proposed curatorial selection for the exhibition. Each solo exhibition will be featured on the Plexus Projects website for one month. There is a $20 submission fee.
Contemporary Art Observatorium: Exhibition Season 2024-2025
Deadline: rolling
Contemporary gallery in Lavagna, Italy. Accepts: 2D artwork, wall installed, including video art and small objects with some limitations. This is an open call for solo or group exhibits, no application fee.
Washington County Arts Council 2024 Exhibits – Call for Artists
Deadline: Rolling
The Washington County Arts Council is currently accepting show proposals for 2024. There are options for the Main Gallery (Estimate of 50 works) and the Hall Gallery (Estimate of 30 works– suggested small group or solo show.). There is no submission fee.
Somerset County Artist in Residence Program
Deadline: Rolling
The Artist in Residence Program allows for an artist have a semi-private studio within the larger, shared space of the West Main Street Gallery. This program is offered to any visual artist, writer, or musician member of the Somerset County Arts Council. All, Artist in Residence (AIR) participants must be a current member of Somerset County Arts Council. Residencies will be offered for a period of 6 months and can renewed. There is no cost for the residency itself, however artists are expected to acquire their own materials and consumables. The studio is an open space where the general public is invited to visit and learn more about your process and work.
Deadline: Rolling
Digital America is interested in pushing the boundaries of online publishing. We publish an array of digital art, internet art, design, and critical essays that question, analyze, and/or hack the tools of digital culture. We are looking for Multi-media, film, audio, and new media pieces that engage digital art and/or culture with an eye toward the American experience. We encourage creative responses to these parameters as we understand the complexities of engaging “America” in a global, networked world. Our journal seeks to promote student and post-student work as a creative and critical process. You are free to publish your work in any other venue you choose, despite it being featured on our site.
Arts Letters & Numbers Residency
Deadline: Rolling
Arts Letters & Numbers facilities are a collection of buildings once part of the former textile complex Faith Mills along Burden Lake Road in Averill Park, NY: the House on the Hill, the Twins, the Barn, the Studios and the Shop. With a variety of different sized studio spaces (socially distanced areas in both large and smaller rooms), a wooden barn and the outdoor grounds, we welcome artists to think of these spaces at sites they can work with and within. We’ll help you choose one that best suits your practice. The Shop is equipped with basic woodworking tools and an assortment of power and hand tools. Additional equipment are digital media, musical instruments including a 9’ concert grand piano, a 5’ baby grand and upright piano all available for artists to use. Artists are expected to pursue their own creative endeavors and many times this calls for leading a workshop, giving a lecture, sharing a film, partake in critique, exhibiting/performing work etc. These are optional but has proven to be an integral tool for artists to find inspiration and to allow others to experience the works in progress or previous works. The artist will be encouraged to propose any form of sharing suitable for their work.
Deadline: Rolling
The City of Ocala seeks unique, thought-provoking exhibits that are appropriate for a public City space, where work will be viewed by citizens and guests of all ages. Only complete applications will be reviewed. Viewer engagement, artist intent, originality of ideas, and use of media and technique are all considered when an application is being reviewed for approval. The City of Ocala recommends that artist(s) plan on delivering a minimum of 20 works to be exhibited. The gallery selection for displaying accepted works will be determined by the City based on the works submitted, space available, and needs of each gallery space. The City of Ocala will work with artists on the layout of the exhibit, however the City reserves the right to adjust the layout as appropriate for the space and based on past experience in the gallery space.
Deadline: Rolling
Exhibition Opportunities: Art Gotham is dedicated to promoting exceptional contemporary art and provides opportunities for artists to exhibit their work in our Soho and online galleries. They are primarily interested in 2D work, painting and drawing.
Ground Works: General Call for Submissions
Deadline: Rolling
The Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) issues a call for submissions to its online peer-reviewed collection of interdisciplinary arts projects, Ground Works. We welcome submissions that integrate research and practice in the fine, performing, and applied arts and design with other disciplines. Submissions may take traditional forms—performances, exhibitions, compositions, publications, or designed and built projects—that also contribute to fields for which such forms are not typical. Equally, contributions that demonstrate experimental, non-traditional, or atypical approaches are welcomed. Irrespective of mediums and approaches, successful submissions will reveal the integrative processes behind their work. These projects will be included in an online, open-access showcase of exemplar projects that contribute to understanding of the practices that underlie arts-integrative interdisciplinary work.
Artists Side Jobs Open Call for Essays
Deadline: rolling
Are you a professional artist who also works other jobs to pay the bills? What jobs do you work? What does your day to day life look like? How do your “side jobs” influence your artwork? Submit a minimum one page written response along with 3-5 images of your artwork and/or side jobs. Entries are open to interpretation and creativity is encouraged!
Maryland Art Place Impact at Indigo Hotel – Call for proposals
Deadline: rolling
Maryland Art Place (MAP), in partnership with Hotel Indigo is pleased to announce an open ‘Call to Artists’. As an extension of MAP’s annual IMPACT public art partnership projects, MAP is working with Hotel Indigo to offer rotating exhibitions in Hotel Indigo’s library and Poets Modern Cocktails and Eats. This opportunity is available to visual artists living or working in Maryland. Maryland Art Place will curate four exhibitions a year based on submissions entered through a rolling basis. Hotel Indigo, Baltimore Downtown is a boutique hotel located in Baltimore, MD. MAP has been working closely with the hotel since it opened, selecting and installing the hotel’s permanent artwork collection including works by Jared Ragland, Gary Kachadourian and Christos Palios. Hotel Indigo and MAP share the same vision of supporting working artists in the region, and both look forward to their continued partnership and the rotation of quarterly exhibitions.
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants
Deadline: rolling
Since its inception in 1963, the mission of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts has been to encourage, sponsor, and promote innovative work in the arts created and presented by individuals, groups, and organizations. FCA depends on artists to fund its programs; to date, over 1,000 artists have contributed paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, performances, and videos to help fund grant programs that directly support individual artists working in dance, music/sound, performance art/theater, poetry, and the visual arts. FCA remains the only institution of its kind: created and sustained by artists to benefit artists. Created in 1993 to further FCA’s mission to encourage, sponsor, and promote work of a contemporary, experimental nature, Emergency Grants is the only active, multi-disciplinary program that offers immediate assistance of this kind to artists living and working anywhere in the United States, for projects occurring in the U.S. and abroad.
Etant Donnes Contemporary Art Curatorial Fellowship
Deadline: rolling
Etant donnés offers grants to American curators wishing to conduct research on the French art scene. These grants are intended to expand the opportunities of American curators, to encourage in-depth explorations of French cultural resources, and to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and knowledge among artists, professionals, researchers, and institutions.
Maryland State Arts Council Professional Development Opportunity Grant
Deadline: rolling
The Professional Development Opportunity Grant program encourages and supports relevant professional development opportunities for artists and arts organizations throughout Maryland. The grant assists artists and arts organizations to implement best practices by embracing growth, learning, and discovery for economic sustainability.
Maryland Performing Artist Touring Roster
Deadline: rolling
The Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC) advances the arts in our state by providing leadership that champions creative expression, diverse programming, equitable access, lifelong learning, and the arts as a celebrated contributor to the quality of life for all the people of Maryland and uses the roster to promote artistic collaboration between Maryland touring artists and Maryland presenters with the goal of increasing touring engagements for Maryland professional performing artists.
Deadline: Rolling
NSA Artist and Writer Residency is a fully funded six month residence program. Currently we only accept submissions from women, BIPOC, and BAME in the USA. Benefits include fully funded invitation to a panel/artist chat and exhibition at the annual Ibom International Art and Book Festival; Visa fees for international recipients; Studio space; and Monthly Living allowance throughout residency duration.
Busboys and Poets: Call for art
Deadline: rolling
As a space where art, culture and politics intentionally collide, both visual and performing arts are a constant and daily part of the Busboys and Poets environment and experience. Sharing a meal with family, friends and co-workers is further enhanced by art that is at once beautiful and challenging. Throughout the year, we receive many qualified submissions for artwork to be displayed in our locations in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia. We typically rotate artwork twice annually at each venue, and we seek to exhibit artists whose work is thoughtfully crafted, professionally executed, and those artists whose visions reflect our Tribal Statement. Additionally, we often give preference to large format works and artists who have significantly large bodies of work to exhibit. Busboys and Poets supports the creative economy and celebrates art in its spaces by offering a unique platform for visual artists. Unless otherwise noted, all art is available for purchase, with 100% of the proceeds from the sale of work going directly to the artists.
Hamilton Arts Collective (HAC) and the Hamilton Gallery Call for Exhibitions
Deadline: rolling
Hamilton Gallery is a cooperative gallery, artist operated, with monthly shows featuring the works of members as well as monthly guest artists. The Hamilton Gallery exhibits and supports fine art and fine crafts. The gallery maintains an active membership of a number of local artists, and screens for new members on an ongoing basis. We are looking for both artists with a developed body of work, and emerging artists seeking to foster their artistic practice and to begin their careers. Hamilton Gallery artist members enjoy the right to guide gallery policies and control their own exhibitions. This is an open call to artists residing within 60 miles of Baltimore City. Baltimore residents are encouraged to apply.
Deadline: rolling
Innovate grants support artists and photographers. Our $550.00 grants act as sparks of financial support that ignite your creative development. Our grant cycles are open 4 times a year (Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter) giving you more opportunities to access the support you need. Our process is simple so you spend less time on the application and more time making your important work.
Journal of Artistic Research (JAR)
Deadline: rolling
Journal of Artistic Research (JAR) currently publishes three issues each year. From 2020, publications in JAR as well as in the JAR Network space will be covered by the Creative Commons licence CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Please make sure that you are happy with this before proceeding. We accept and review submissions on a rolling basis. The editorial review process typically takes six months from submission to publication. JAR invites submissions from all fields and disciplines in which artistic research may be relevant, including areas that are not usually conceived of as artistic. We welcome submissions from practitioners with or without academic affiliations. JAR’s format for publishing artistic research, the exposition, invites authors to combine text, image, film, and audio material on expandable web pages, challenging the dominance of writing in traditional academic research. The languages currently accepted are English, German, Portuguese, and Spanish. Submissions in other languages are accepted, if accompanied by an English translation, which will act as master version. Multilingual expositions are also welcome as long as translations are provided. JAR does not charge any fees. Authors retain copyright to their submission.
Gormley Gallery Exhibition Proposal
Deadline: rolling
As an integral element of the liberal arts tradition at Notre Dame of Maryland University, the Art Department is a dynamic learning environment. Art moves beyond the classroom at Notre Dame. Gormley Gallery, through the Art Department, provides a space for emerging and established artists that engages students and reaches the community through visual art. The Gormley Gallery accepts proposals for solo or group exhibits on a rolling basis. Artists from Baltimore and the surrounding Mid-Atlantic region are especially encouraged to apply. Two exhibits are scheduled each year for a four- to six-week show. Artists attend the reception and give an informal gallery talk. We are currently accepting proposals for the 2023-24 academic year.
Leonardo Journal Open Call: Special Sections on Diverse Perspectives
Deadline: rolling through 2024
Published by The MIT Press, Leonardo journal has become the leading international peer-reviewed journal on the use of contemporary science and technology in the arts and music and the application and influence of the arts and humanities on science and technology. We’re interested in a broad expansion of ideation and research that activates creativity to push the boundaries of today and unleash the possibilities of tomorrow. This is a moment to curate your vision and expand the field of art and science beyond what we could imagine. We seek proposals from interested Guest Editors to craft and shepherd themed special sections that invite diverse and intersectional perspectives. The ideal Guest Editor can help to grow and decolonize Leonardo’s contributor network by attracting authors from historically underrepresented demographics including Brown, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color; people of marginalized gender; geographically underrepresented practitioners; and additional marginalized groups.
Deadline: rolling
The City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs Percent for Art Program makes art accessible and visible throughout our city, one of the world’s cultural capitals. Public art serves as an expression of the community, as well as a landmark. These public sites provide an important venue for all New Yorkers and visitors to appreciate artwork outside the traditional museum or gallery setting. Percent for Art projects are site-specific and engage a variety of media-painting, mosaic, glass, textiles, sculpture, and works that are integrated into infrastructure, or architecture. The Program commissions artists of all races and backgrounds that reflect the diversity of New York City. These projects demonstrate how art that is integrated into its site enhances civic architecture and a wide range of public spaces.
Reel Change: The Fund for Diversity in Film Scoring
Deadline: rolling
Reel Change: The Fund for Diversity in Film Scoring is a five-year grant and mentorship program for film composers of diverse ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, and abilities that are historically underrepresented in film composition. The fund assists projects currently in production where additional support and/or mentoring would be beneficial to film composers who are at a pivotal point in their career in which the project will help them break through to the next stage of their profession. The aim of this fund is to support costs that will enhance and help deliver the music score for a narrative or documentary film which is already in production in the US. With each of the grants we award, we hope to: strengthen the composer’s ability to highlight their project as a springboard for the next step in their career; improve composers’ working conditions to maximize creativity and inspiration; help improve the production values of the film as a whole. It is envisaged that grants averaging $20,000 will be given to 4 to 6 film composers per year.
Deadline: rolling
Fountain Street has created a public viewing gallery for video and other digital media art. Exhibitions of short, silent, experimental work are displayed year-round, 24/7, on two 50” monitors facing out from gallery windows at sidewalk level. The programming is intended to promote diversity and include a broad array of artists, styles, thematic content, and levels of experience. In addition to open calls for work, there will be numerous opportunities for guest artists and guest curators, as well as partnerships with local educational and community-focused arts organizations interested in exhibiting digital work in this new public venue.
Deadline: rolling
Stochastic Labs awards fully sponsored residencies to exceptional engineers, artists, scientists, and entrepreneurs from around the world. Residencies are of variable length and include a private apartment at the mansion, co-working and/or dedicated work space, shop access (laser cutter, 3D printer etc), a $1k monthly stipend and a budget for materials. Residents become part of Stochastic’s creative community, participating in weekly dinners and invitation events. Residents may apply as individuals or as teams. While applicants may be at any stage in their career, the selection is highly competitive.
The Woven Tale Press Call for Submissions
Deadline: rolling
The cornerstone of The Woven Tale Press is our magazine—a rare breed, at once a literary journal and an art publication. We take pride in the careful balance of the writing and the visual arts in each issue; distinctly different but equally resonant fine art forms that are perhaps best appreciated when one is complementing the other. We are happy to consider submissions to our magazine and for features on our site. For our magazine, we welcome fiction and creative nonfiction prose writing, poetry, and all mediums in the visual arts, including installation works. Galleries, you are welcome to submit the work of artists you represent. For our site, we seek posts by both visual artists and writers, on any aspect of your creative process.
Athenaeum Solo or Group Show: 2022-2023
Deadline: Rolling
The Athenaeum Gallery in Alexandria, Virginia exhibits visual arts created solely by artists living or working in the DMV region and strives to present visitors with a wide variety of excellent art and unique experiences. In addition to the shows curated by the Gallery Director, the Athenaeum Gallery invites artists and curators to submit show proposals. A curator, living or working anywhere, may submit a proposal for a show featuring works by artists living or working in this area. Entry fee is 40$.
Alper Initiative for Washington Art (AIWA)
Deadline: Rolling
We accept and review submissions on a rolling basis from Washington DC artists of all ages & backgrounds, and exploring different mediums. By submitting, your proposal will be added to the AIWA database and available for review by the museum’s Director & Curator, and to guest curators for potential inclusion in future AIWA exhibitions. On average, 1 out of 5 submissions is accepted for an exhibition or collaboration. Your submission will also be considered to be highlighted in the AU Museum blog. If you are selected, you will be notified via email. Solo, group, and curator proposals are all accepted. All submissions must be made online and by Washington, DC-area artists (no further than 60 miles outside of Washington, DC). Submissions made through any other platform, or that are incomplete, will not be accepted.