"On the Trail," an oil painting by Kenneth Bachman, is onview in Gallery 75 through September 8.
Welcome to Artful Weekend
-our listing of area art exhibits and events-
This weekend: August 2024 Open Exhibit, Tabletop 2024, Why Be Real by LindaBankerd, and Gallery 75at The Art League; Movement and Memory by Ernest Shaw at Latela Curatorial; Off Broadway: Grit and Grandeur by Van Pulley at Multiple Exposures Gallery; and the 14th Annual Workhouse Clay International at Workhouse Arts Center.
August 2024 Open Exhibit
Autumn Harvest Eggplant and Nasturtiums by Brent Erickson; Oil
Experience the vibrant diversity of our member artists’ work at The Art League’s Open Exhibits. This month, we’re proudly showcasing 89 unique pieces, featuring a wide range of mediums such as painting, drawing, photography, glass, sculpture, collage, and mixed media. The captivating selection for our August 2024 Open Exhibit was thoughtfully curated by painter and sculptor, Andy Yoder.
Tabletop 2024
Metal napkin rings by by Sarah Porter.
At this annual favorite, you’ll find a delightful array of ceramic, glass, wood, and metal wares, expertly crafted for both function and aesthetic appeal. Tabletop 2024 features 28 artworks, and was juried by potter and educator Naomi Clement.
Why Be Real? by Linda Bankerd
Abstract #15 by Linda Bankerd; Acrylic
Linda Bankerd, our featured solo artist for August, passionately uses elements like shape, color, form, line, collage, and gestural marks in her artwork. Her creations thrive in their own existence, requiring no tangible reference or desire. This authentic approach to artistry makes her work truly unique and engaging.
Gallery 75: July – August
Sailing By by Katie Flack; Oil
Come and explore Gallery 75, our vibrant art hub nestled right here in our main gallery. It’s a treasure trove where you can find a range of affordable, extraordinary artwork created by our talented local member artists. Whether in the market for framed, unframed, or even three-dimensional pieces, you’ll find a wealth of pieces waiting for you to take home and display.
Movement and Memory by Ernest Shaw
Ernest Shaw, Luba, 2024, paint marker, oil pastel, oil stick, photo in white frame, 30 x 22 in.
Movement and Memory, at the Silva Gallery x Latela Curatorial, showcases Ernest Shaw’s ability to blend energetic linework with areas of color blocking, fusing realistic portraits of contemporary young Black males with sketches of historical ethnic tropes. Through these multi-layered images, Shaw offers a deeply personal reflection on grief, vulnerability, and healing, following the loss of his young son to cancer. Movement and Memory is on view through October 20, with an artist reception September 5 form 6–8 p.m.; 1630 Columbia Rd NW, Washington, D.C.
Off Broadway: Grit and Grandeur by Van Pulley
Van Pulley Off Broadway
On the streets of New York City, fresh and unconventional scenes play out continuously. Every block offers a living tableau that can amaze and excite — or shock and repel — an unsuspecting audience. In Off Broadway: Grit and Grandeur, at Multiple Exposures Gallery fine art photographer and Art League member Van Pulley pulls viewers into scenes that feel like frozen moments of a compelling Off Broadway play where both the grit and grandeur of the city come into focus. Memorable characters living in the city and throngs of visiting “extras” share equal billing with the “set designers” who constructed the extraordinary backdrops that serve as the stage for the daily unfolding drama that is New York City. Off Broadway: Grit and Grandeur is on view through October 6. Meet Van Pulley will be at Multiple Exposures Gallery from 11am-5pm on August 30, 31; September 1, 14, 15, 28 ; and October 5, 6; Torpedo Factory Art Center #312, 105 N. Union Street, Alexandria, Virginia.
14th Annual Workhouse Clay International
Lattice Cube by Eliza Au
The Annual Workhouse Clay International exhibition, at Workhouse Arts Center, represents the depth and breadth of contemporary functional and sculptural ceramic artworks being created throughout the country. Ceramic artist and educator Matt Kelleher juried over 125 images to select 46 artworks that incorporate a contemporary spirit as well as technical skill in the material. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to see a variety of styles and techniques that encompass the field of contemporary ceramic arts. The Annual Workhouse Clay International is on view through October 20; 9518 Workhouse Way, Lorton, Virginia.
Call for Entries, LensCulture Black & White Photography Awards 2024
Deadline: August 21 The competition is open to all photographers over the age of 18. The competition is organized by the LensCulture, a photography magazine based in Netherlands. ” The competition is open to all types of B&W photography: fine art, experimental, fiction, documentary, visual storytelling, portraits, landscapes, staged/constructed, street, mixed media, alternative processes, conceptual. No Entry Fee. Click here for details.
Call for Entry, Snapshot America: A Portrait of the United States in 2024
Deadline: September 1 This is a call for entries to capture, in photographs, [the United States of] America today. We are looking for pictures of your community, your friends, your neighborhood, local events, landmarks and just everyday activities that represent your daily life in America. We are looking to put together an exhibition to document the unique times we live in and take a Snapshot of these United States. Click here for details.
Call for Entries, 14th Annual “Animals” Online Juried Art Competition
Deadline: September 26 Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announces an art call for the gallery’s 14th Annual “Animals” Online Juried Art Competition. Best in Show winner will receive a cash prize. Winners receive extensive worldwide publicity and promotion. Click here for details.
Open Call, The Homiens Art Prize — New York
Deadline: October 31 The Homiens Art Prize is an international, non-acquisitive art prize open to all artists and art forms. We celebrate our chosen artists across our media, exhibiting their art online where it is viewed by artists and collectors in the United States and throughout the world. Homiens sponsors a platform for artists to network and collaborate, reach a global audience of buyers and collectors, gain institutional validation, and locate international professional opportunities. Each round 6 Winning artists are exhibited by Homiens, receive an unrestricted cash award of $500, are published in our exhibition catalog, receive an optional interview, feature in our prestigious annual publication TheHomiens 60, and may request a letter of recommendation from our jurors. Click here for details.
Call for Entries, International Compost Awareness Week 2025 Poster Contest
Deadline: November 1 The contest is open to anyone aged 14 years or older. he competition is organized by the Compost Research & Education Foundation based in Raleigh, United States of America. The winning poster will be used to promote International Compost Awareness Week 2025. The poster theme is “Sustainable Communities Begin with Compost!” Click here for details.
Call for Entries, The Nature Photography Contest 2024
Deadline: November 15 Don’t miss the opportunity to participate in The Nature Photography Contest, an international photography contest for professionals and amateurs. You can win €2000 in cash prizes, international recognition and help plant trees. Click herefor details.
Request for Qualifications: Department of Parks & Recreation, Prince George’s County Wall Artist Roster — Prince Georges County, MD
Deadline: November 29 The M-NCPPC is actively seeking muralists, as well as artists proficient in mosaic tile, low-relief, and other installation media suitable for both temporary and permanent installations on exterior walls. We especially encourage artists that reside or have a studio in the Prince George’s County area to apply. Click here for details.
Call for Entries, Great American Nudes, Limner Gallery — Hudson, NY
Deadline: November 30 The Great American Nudes exhibition explores the beauty, strength, diversity and vulnerability of the human body. The exhibition will be held at the Limner Gallery from March 1 – 29, 2025 and is open for entry to all artists working in the Americas. All media, styles, and artistic interpretations of the theme will be reviewed and considered. Click here for details.
Open Call, Sony World Photography Awards 2025
Deadline: January 1, 2025 Rewarding the best photo series worldwide! Entry is free and you could win $25,000, a solo show, a range of Sony digital imaging equipment plus more! Click herefor details.
Re-runs: These were previously posted, but it’s not too late to enter!
Call for Entries, EGPAF Illustration Competition — D.C.
Deadline: August 27 The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) invites established and emerging illustrators from around the globe to share their interpretation of “What does an AIDS-free generation mean to you?” The contest includes categories for emerging and established artists, cash prizes ($4,600+), with winners being showcased at the Umbrella Fair, and an exclusive feedback session with our esteemed judges. Click herefor details.
Call for Entries, 2024 Quilts Unlimited — Old Forge, NY
Deadline: August 30 Each year, View Arts Center holds the “Quilts Unlimited” exhibition — which is open to all artists working in the fiber based quilting medium. View is a dynamic Center for Arts and Culture based in the Adirondack Region of New York State. Click here for details.
Corning Museum of Glass – Black, Indigenous, & People of Color Residency — Corning, NY
Deadline: August 31 Artists who identify as Black, Indigenous, or people of color can spend five weeks in Western New York exploring new directions in glassmaking or expanding on their current work. Transportation, room and board, and a supply budget are provided. Click here for details.
Call to Artists, Exchange Exhibit, Maryland Art Place — Baltimore
Deadline: September 2 Maryland Art Place (MAP,) in partnership with Quinn Evans, is excited to announce an open call for EXCHANGE. We are seeking artworks centric to energy in relation to the built environment. Artworks can be literal or abstract, but must examine the dynamic relationship between energy systems and architectural spaces, and how these interactions shape our daily lives, environments, and future. Click here for details.
2024 National Collage Society 40th Annual Juried Exhibit — Baltimore and Online
Deadline: September 6 The National Collage Society will host it’s 40th Annual Juried Exhibit at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, Maryland, and online. This exhibition is open to all artists and will count toward Signature Membership. Click here for details.
Call for Entries, Dwelling in Hope, Studio Montclair — Montclair, NJ
Deadline: September 6 Studio Montclair is calling for entries for Dwelling in Hope 2024, our first exhibition focusing exclusively on photography. It is especially fitting that in challenging times cultivating hope is both beneficial and meaningful. Open to all photographers, Dwelling in Hope seeks images expressing the concept of finding hope within the familiar, everyday aspects of our lives. We challenge you to submit photographs made in and around your own home or in the heart of your community. Your photographs can be specific, such as a person or event, or they can be more abstract, drawing from nature, or images containing symbols, of refuge and possibility. Click here for details.
Call for Applications, MacDowell Fellowship Spring/Summer 2025 —Peterborough, NH
Deadline: September 10 Artists who are creating new original works of art are welcomed to apply for a MacDowell Fellowship. A MacDowell Fellowship (awarded through a competitive application process) consists of a residency up to six weeks and includes a private studio, housing, and meals. MacDowell is designed to facilitate a balance between social interaction and independent focus on work. Click here for details.
Call for Entries, Artificial or Intelligence?, Del Ray Artisans — Alexandria, VA
Deadline: September 10 Talk about artificial intelligence (AI) abounds. Do the possibilities for AI inspire, excite, unnerve, or frighten you? This show invites artists to explore what the future might look like with AI, what we gain and lose, and whether or not machine learning feels artificial or intelligent at the present moment. The exhibit is open to all area artists. Click herefor details.
Innovate Grant Summer 2024 Cycle Open for Submissions.
Deadline: September 12 Innovate Grant awards (2) $1,800.00 grants each quarter, to one Visual Artist and one Photographer. In addition, (12) honorable mentions (6 in art and 6 in photo), will be featured on our website and join a growing community of vibrant and talented artists. Innovate Grant’s commitment extends beyond the grant cycle by promoting the work of selected winners and honorable mentions into the future. Click here for details.
Call for Entries, 2024 Annual Juried Exhibition, Suffolk Art League — Suffolk, VA
Deadline: September 12 The Suffolk (Virginia) Art League’s Annual Juried Exhibition will be held at the Suffolk Art Gallery, 118 Bosley Ave. Suffolk, VA October 26 – December 6, 2024. This exhibit is open to artists working in all mediums. They must be over age 16 and currently live in Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, or Washington, D.C. Click herefor details.
Call for Entry, The Figure: Portrait & Narrative – A Juried Exhibition, Wayne Art Center — Wayne, PA
Deadline: September 16 The Figure: Portraiture & Narrative – A Juried Exhibition invites submissions in painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, photography and mixed media that explore the overlapping territories of portraiture and visual storytelling created by artists 18+ from PA, NJ, NY, DE, MD, VA and Washington, DC. Click here for details.
Call for Entries, Stitching Together History: 250 Quilts Commemorating the Commonwealth of Virginia — Harrisonburg, VA
Deadline: September 30 This project asks artists to commemorate a person, place, event, thing, or idea from Virginia or West Virginia’s history. Artists are encouraged to think beyond the obvious and well-known aspects of Virginia and explore the history of people and places that have been overlooked. The history of Virginia started long before the settlement of Jamestown in 1606 and includes much more than the history of presidents born in the Commonwealth. Click here for details.
Call for Entries, The Bennett Prize 2024.2025 Award Cycle
Deadline: October 4 For women figurative realist painters. The grand prize is $50,000 and a solo show, with an additional finalist receiving $10,000. A four-person jury will select 10 finalists to be featured in a group exhibition that will travel the US. Click here for details.
The Bennett Prize 2024/2025 Award Cycle
Deadline: October 4 The Bennett Prize is open to women figurative realist painters. The grand prize is $50.000 and a solo show , with an additional finalist receiving $10,000. Click here for details.
Call for Submissions, Frame + Frequency — Rockville, MD
Deadline: October 4 Frame + Frequency is an ongoing international new media, film, and video art screening series presented by VisArts in Rockville, Maryland (a suburb of Washington, DC). The series highlights artists who explore contemporary visual culture through new media, experimental film, and video and presents an intimate panorama of the variety and breadth of video art in artistic practice today.
This year’s edition will be held on November 22, 2024.It will include a special section highlighting works that address climate change and its intersection with social, racial, and environmental justice. Click here for details.
Multiple Exposures Gallery: Call for New Members — Alexandria, VA
Deadline: October 7 In anticipation of two openings in late 2024 due to relocations, Multiple Exposures Gallery (MEG) is issuing a Call for New Members and invites local photographers interested in gallery membership to apply for consideration. Click here for details.
Call for 2025 Bresler Resident Artists + Montgomery College Collaborative AiR — Rockville, MD
Deadline: October 25 In honor of patrons Fleur and Charles Bresler, VisArts invites applications and proposals from local, national, and international artists for a four-month residency at our studios in Rockville, Maryland. The Bresler Residency provides three dynamic individual artists or collaborative artist groups the gift of time, space, and financial support, along with a unique opportunity to create a new body of work, evolve an existing body of work, or develop a project in a stimulating, supportive environment. · The Bresler Residency encourages interaction, dialogue, experimentation, and exploration with the VisArts artist community and the local community. Click here for details.
Call to Artists; VCU Health — Richmond, VA
Deadline: December 1 VCU Health is seeking artists to submit digital images of original artwork available for purchase for the new inpatient and outpatient Liver Transplant Units. This opportunity is open to artists in Virginia, North Carolina, Washington, DC, Maryland and West Virginia. Click here for details.
Call for Entries, Unleashing the Wolf, William King Museum of Art — Abingdon, VA
Deadline: January 1, 2025 William King Museum of Art located in Abingdon, Virginia is excited to announce Unleashing the Wolf our first triennial outdoor sculpture exhibition. 6 custom works will be chosen by 2 selected jurors and be displayed on the museum campus for 3 years. Abingdon, Virginia (also known as “Wolf Hills”) is not without its share of wolf folklore, hence the theme of our sculpture exhibition. All entries must fit the theme of Unleashing the Wolf. Click herefor details.
Instructors Wanted at The Art League — Alexandria, VA
Deadline: Until filled The Art League is looking for skilled instructors in all visual arts disciplines. We’re particularly keen to recruit new hires for our sculpture, stained glass, and watercolor departments. Preferred applicants will have a personable and patient disposition, excellent communication skills, and the ability to teach their medium to groups of beginning, intermediate, and/or advanced level students. Class sizes range, depending on enrollment, from around 5 to 30 students. Experience teaching is helpful but not an absolute requirement. To apply, send a cover letter with statement of intent, resumé, and 6-10 tiffs or jpegs of current work to Ariane D’Souza via email at [email protected].
Ongoing: These opportunities have rolling deadlines.
Studio Sundays Submissions, Create! Magazine
Every month Create! Magazine! picks several winning images of artists’ studio spaces and features them on their website and social media along with artists’ work and story. Submit a quality image of your workspace, studio or kitchen table where you make work for a chance to be featured. For more information and to submit, click here.
Call for Artists, Prince George’s Arts and Humanities Council
Prince George’s Arts and Humanities Council (PGAHC) is featuring county artists at its newest art space Arts’tination at National Harbor, the premier arts and entertainment destination in our regions Located at 162 Waterfront Street, National Harbor, MD. Arts’tination is dedicated to supporting local artists and curating immersive creative experiences. PGAHC is recruiting artists to show and sell their work and/or to conduct arts related workshops for the public. Artists should submit work samples and inquires to [email protected]. For more information please visit https://www.pgahc.org/artstination.
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants
These monthly grants range from $500–$3,000, with the average amount being $1,700. Visual and performing artists whose work is of a contemporary, experimental nature and who have a US Tax ID Number can apply. For more information, click here.
Call for Art, Links Bridge Vineyards—Thurmont, MD
Links Bridge Vineyards, a small artisan style winery located just outside of Frederick, Maryland, is looking to feature the artwork of various artists on the walls of their tasting barn for two weeks at a time. To learn more, call Joan Cartier 301-602-5733 or email her at [email protected].
Pyramid Atlantic offers year-round workshops in printmaking, papermaking, book arts, and hybrids thereof. We offer multi-week, daytime, evening, and weekend intensives for adults in our fully equipped studios. As part of a robust and diverse schedule of offerings, we welcome unsolicited workshop proposals, and hope that you will consider applying! Workshop proposal reviews are ongoing, but for best consideration, submit class proposals by the following dates: 1/15 for Summer Workshops; 4/1 for Fall Workshops; 7/1 for Winter Workshops; 10/1 for Spring Workshops. Questions? Email Gretchen, Artistic Director, [email protected]
Call For Stories About Women in the Arts, Maryland State Arts Council
2020 has been dedicated to the Year of the Woman in Maryland. Do you have an inspiring story about vital contributions of women-identifying people who are artists, arts administrators, or cultural workers? Perhaps an exhibition, performance or project featuring women? Share it with the Maryland State Arts Council for potential use in marketing and communications! Send your ideas to [email protected], and include “Year of the Woman” in the subject line. Satff will contact senders whose stories are selected for inclusion in future newsletters, eblasts, or social media postings. Learn more about Maryland’s year of the Woman here.
Call For Artists, Busboys and Poets
Busboys and Poets is looking for submissions from Maryland and Virginia artists as it expands to new locations in both areas. Submissions can include drawings, painting, photography, sculpture, mixed media, assemblage, fiber, quilts, etc. Art images reflecting life in the city, family, portraits, whimsy, abstraction, social uplift and life experiences within diverse cultures are encouraged for submission. For more information, click here.
Alterwork Studios Online Residency
This residency was designed to give emerging contemporary artists an online platform to create new work and explore their practice. Over the course of four weeks, artists will be encouraged to experiment and explore their concepts and move their work forward in the contemporary art world. Learn more here.
Accepting Artwork for Curatorial Review by AIWA
The Alper Initiative for Washington Art features five exhibitions per year in the newly constructed first floor space in the American University Museum. We accept submissions, on a rolling basis, from Washington artists of all ages and backgrounds, and working in diverse media. The museum’s Director and Curator, Jack Rasmussen, will select curators who will review these submissions for potential use in Alper Initiative exhibitions. For more information click here.
Call For Entry Hamilton Arts Collective Guest Artist Exhibition – Baltimore, MD
The Hamilton Arts Collective (HAC) and the Hamilton Gallery seek applications from artists for month-long Guest Artist exhibitions at Hamilton Gallery located at 5502 Harford Road, Baltimore, MD. The selected guest artists will be invited to exhibit a selection of their current work in Gallery I of the Hamilton Gallery. The Guest Artist exhibition is featured in Hamilton Gallery communications and will be promoted by the HAC and Hamilton Gallery. This is an open call to artists residing within 60 miles of Baltimore City. Baltimore residents are encouraged to apply. Click here to learn more.
Howard County Arts Council Quarterly Call For Artists – Ellicott City, MD
The Howard County Arts Council gallery program was established to enhance the public’s appreciation of the visual arts, provide a venue to exhibit the work of local, regional, and national artists in a professional space, and provide leadership in the arts by presenting a broad spectrum of arts in all media from both emerging and established artists. Artists, ages 18 and older, working in all media and styles including time-based and installation artists, are encouraged to apply either individually or as a group. Proposals from curators and arts organizations are also welcome. Click here to learn more.
Exhibit at Hotel Indigo Downtown Baltimore — Baltimore, MD
The Maryland Art Place (MAP) is working with Hotel Indigo in downtown Baltimore to offer rotating exhibitions in the hotel’s library and Poets Modern Cocktails and Eats restaurant. This opportunity is open to visual artists living or working in Maryland. ’s public art partnership projects (MAP), in partnership with Hotel Indigo, is pleased to announce an open call to artists. MAP will curate four exhibitions a year based on submissions entered through a rolling basis. Click here to learn more.
Solo or Group Shows in Athenaeum Gallery – VA
The Athenaeum Gallery in Alexandria, Virginia exhibits visual arts created solely by artists living or working in the region (DC, Maryland and Virginia) 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. For more information, click here.
The Creativity Grant Program State of Maryland (MD)
Deadline: Rolling. The purpose of the Creativity Grant Program is to strengthen the vitality and sustainability of artists and small organizations to maintain a strong and stable arts infrastructure in the State of Maryland. The Creativity Grant also provides opportunities to serve the growing needs of relevant arts projects and collaborations within Maryland communities. For more information regarding eligibility and funding timelines, please review the Creativity Grants Guidelines. For more information about the program, and to apply visit the Creativity Grant Program State of Maryland website.
Artist/Writers: Cover Art for Academic Medicine
Deadline: Rolling. Submit original works of art inspired by, but not necessarily representative of, an academic medicine experience from any perspective: caregiver, researcher, teacher, learner, or patient (for example, learning how to be a physician or scientist, caring for patients, exploring research questions, making a new discovery, being a research participant, teaching, or being cared for in a teaching hospital). The journal welcomes photography, sculpture, painting, textile work, and other visual media. Images may be cropped or resized to fit into the allotted cover space. Artists must also submit a related Cover Art essay as a narrative companion to the artwork, to explain the connection between the work and the “academic medicine experience.” The related narrative should be 250 to 600 words and is subject to editing. To apply for this opportunity, and to learn more, visit the Academic Medicine website.
The Awesome Foundation Accepting Applications for Art Projects
Deadline: Open. The Awesome Foundation for the Arts and Sciences is a worldwide network of people devoted to forwarding the interest of “awesomeness in the universe.” Established in 2009, the foundation distributes $1,000 grants on a monthly basis to projects and their creators. The money is pooled from ten or more self-organizing “micro-trustees.” The chapters are autonomous and organized by the trustees around geographic areas or topics of interest. Apply on the Awesome Foundation website.
Call for Artists: Maryland Art Place Seeks Proposals for Rotating Exhibition Partnership with Baltimore’s Hotel Indigo (MD)
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. Guidelines and information here.
Peripheral ARTeries – Biennial Contemporary Art Publication
Deadline: Rolling. Peripheral ARTeries is looking for artists to be featured in the new special Biennial Edition of their art publication, that comes to its 10th edition. This opportunity is great for both established and early career artists who need a boost to their artist portfolio. The 10th edition will once again explore and show current trends and tendencies in Contemporary Art: Peripheral ARTeries cultivates a spirit of openness through a unique collaborative and participatory approach.Each artist may submit a maximum of three works or projects made in any technique: painting, drawing, video art, experimental cinema, fine art photography, experimental media, mixed media, installations, public art, performance. The call is open to all proposed kind of art and media capable of challenging the viewers’ traditional perspective on art itself. To submit, visit the Peripheral ARTeries website.
Exhibit at Hotel Indigo (VA)
Artists works will displayed in the hotel’s gallery (220 S Union St, Old Town Alexandria) for a six-month period. Two-dimensional, framed works only. Artists will install the work using the hotel’s mounting hardware. Labels will be provided by the hotel. All sales handled by artist, no commission. Preference for local or locally influenced selections but not required. The space measures approximately 7’10” by 8’3.″ If interested, contact Kate Ellis, General Manager, [email protected].
The New Project Studio – Ongoing Opportunity (VA)
Ongoing. Located in Studio 8, the New Project Studio is a community-focused arts incubator space that offers a short-term location to test new program ideas, spotlight underrepresented voices, and enhance community engagement. Projects rotate on a regular basis. For more information, click here.
Public Arts Grants & Opportunities (VA)
Ongoing. The City of Alexandria’s Office of the Arts provides grants for nonprofit arts organizations as well as individual artists. See all current opportunities and online applications here.
Residency: Maryland
Deadline: ongoing. Montgomery College, Rockville and Germantown Art Department is seeking proposals for its Artist-in-Residence Program, encouraging proposals that cultivate collaborative work between artists and students.
Looking for artists: Foundry Gallery (DC)
Deadline: ongoing. Foundry Gallery is seeking a few artists in the greater Washington, DC area. If interested in applying for membership please send up to five images (jpg attachments) and an email letter to: [email protected]. The oldest cooperative in Washington, the gallery holds monthly solo and members’ group shows at its beautiful space north of Shaw near the 9:30 Club.
Looking for artists: Printmakers (DC)
Deadline: ongoing. Washington Printmakers Gallery is seeking artist members specializing in printmaking, photography and book arts. An active cooperative for over 30 years, the gallery holds monthly solo and members’ group shows in its lovely space in upper Georgetown. Distant and shared memberships are available. If interested in applying for membership please email [email protected].
"Dixie Liquor," watercolor by Angela Lacy, is on view in August's Open Exhibit through September 8.
Welcome to Artful Weekend
-our listing of area art exhibits and events-
This weekend: August 2024 Open Exhibit, Tabletop 2024, Why Be Real by LindaBankerd, and Gallery 75at The Art League; Homeat Falls Church Arts; Jeffrey Berg and Sally Veach: Hear and Where? at DC Arts Center; and Fighters for Freedom: William H. Johnson Picturing Justice at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
August 2024 Open Exhibit
Vessel for Figs by Michaela Borghese; Glass
Experience the vibrant diversity of our member artists’ work at The Art League’s Open Exhibits. This month, we’re proudly showcasing 89 unique pieces, featuring a wide range of mediums such as painting, drawing, photography, glass, sculpture, collage, and mixed media. The captivating selection for our August 2024 Open Exhibit was thoughtfully curated by painter and sculptor, Andy Yoder.
Tabletop 2024
Coral Cake Stand by Rachel Witt
At this annual favorite, you’ll find a delightful array of ceramic, glass, wood, and metal wares, expertly crafted for both function and aesthetic appeal. Tabletop 2024 features 28 artworks, and was juried by potter and educator Naomi Clement.
Why Be Real? by Linda Bankerd
Abstract Composition #16 by Linda Bankerd
Linda Bankerd, our featured solo artist for August, passionately uses elements like shape, color, form, line, collage, and gestural marks in her artwork. Her creations thrive in their own existence, requiring no tangible reference or desire. This authentic approach to artistry makes her work truly unique and engaging.
Come and explore Gallery 75, our vibrant art hub nestled right here in our main gallery. It’s a treasure trove where you can find a range of affordable, extraordinary artwork created by our talented local member artists. Whether in the market for framed, unframed, or even three-dimensional pieces, you’ll find a wealth of pieces waiting for you to take home and display.
Home
Emma Hill Cherry Cherry
For Home, at Falls Church Arts, artists were invited to submit works that embody what home means to them. The exhibition features a wide range of subjects capturing the feeling of home in nature, at worship, with family and friends, in media including watercolor, acrylic, metal, mixed media, mosaics, and photography. It opens Saturday, August 24, with a reception from 6–9 p.m. Home is on view through September 29; 700-B West Broad St. (Route 7), Falls Church, Falls Church, Virginia.
Jeffrey Berg and Sally Veach: Hear and Where?
Sally Veach, human Nature 18, oil on linen mounted on wood panel, 25” x 15”, 2024
Works by artists Sally Veach and Jeffrey are the focus of Hear and Where?, a two-person show of drawings and paintings that explores some of the internal and the external environments of the human experience, at the DC Arts Center. Berg’s drawings engage the viewer in an internal journey (thoughts, dreams, memories) and ask: how do we define ourselves as individuals within our social context? Veach’s paintings and drawings explore the sublime power of nature and the outward-looking attempts of humans to control and domesticate the natural world. Hear and Where is on view through October 6, with an opening reception on Friday, August 23, from 7-9 p.m.; 2438 18th Street NW, Washington, D.C.
Fighters for Freedom: William H. Johnson Picturing Justice
William H. Johnson, Harriet Tubman, ca. 1945, oil on paperboard, 28 7⁄8 x 23 3⁄8 in. (73.5 x 59.3 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Harmon Foundation, 1967.59.1146
William H. Johnson (1901 – 1970) painted his Fighters for Freedomseries in the mid-1940s as a tribute to African American activists, scientists, teachers, and performers as well as international heads of state working to bring peace to the world. He celebrated their accomplishments even as he acknowledged the realities of racism, violence, and oppression they faced and overcame. Some of his Fighters — Harriet Tubman, George Washington Carver, Marian Anderson, and Mahatma Gandhi — are familiar historical figures; others are less well-known individuals whose determination and sacrifice have been eclipsed over time. Johnson elevates their lives, offering historical insights and fresh perspectives. This exhibition, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM), is drawn primarily from the collection of more than 1,000 works by William H. Johnson given to the museum by the Harmon Foundation in 1967. Fighters for Freedom is on view through September 8; 8th and G Streets, NW, Washington, D.C.
Call for Entries, Dwelling in Hope, Studio Montclair — Montclair, NJ
Deadline: September 6 Studio Montclair is calling for entries for Dwelling in Hope 2024, our first exhibition focusing exclusively on photography. It is especially fitting that in challenging times cultivating hope is both beneficial and meaningful. Open to all photographers, Dwelling in Hope seeks images expressing the concept of finding hope within the familiar, everyday aspects of our lives. We challenge you to submit photographs made in and around your own home or in the heart of your community. Your photographs can be specific, such as a person or event, or they can be more abstract, drawing from nature, or images containing symbols, of refuge and possibility. Click here for details.
Call for Entries, Artificial or Intelligence?, Del Ray Artisans — Alexandria, VA
Deadline: September 10 Talk about artificial intelligence (AI) abounds. Do the possibilities for AI inspire, excite, unnerve, or frighten you? This show invites artists to explore what the future might look like with AI, what we gain and lose, and whether or not machine learning feels artificial or intelligent at the present moment. The exhibit is open to all area artists. Click herefor details.
Call for Entries, 2024 Annual Juried Exhibition, Suffolk Art League — Suffolk, VA
Deadline: September 12 The Suffolk (Virginia) Art League’s Annual Juried Exhibition will be held at the Suffolk Art Gallery, 118 Bosley Ave. Suffolk, VA October 26 – December 6, 2024. This exhibit is open to artists working in all mediums. They must be over age 16 and currently live in Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, or Washington, D.C. Click herefor details.
Call for Entries, Unleashing the Wolf, William King Museum of Art — Abingdon, VA
Deadline: January 1, 2025 William King Museum of Art located in Abingdon, Virginia is excited to announce Unleashing the Wolf our first triennial outdoor sculpture exhibition. 6 custom works will be chosen by 2 selected jurors and be displayed on the museum campus for 3 years. Abingdon, Virginia (also known as “Wolf Hills”) is not without its share of wolf folklore, hence the theme of our sculpture exhibition. All entries must fit the theme of Unleashing the Wolf. Click herefor details.
Re-runs: These were previously posted, but it’s not too late to enter!
Call for Entries, Snapshot America: A Portrait of the United States in 2024
Deadline: August 23 The Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts in Providence is looking to take a snapshot of America today for a gallery exhibition and book to document these unique times we live in. From Main Street to your back yard, everyday activities to the grand celebrations and the tragedies that touch us all, we want to see what your America looks like. Click herefor details.
Call for Entries, Small Works 2024 — Clifton Springs, NY
Deadline: August 24 Our eleventh annual national juried exhibition of small works (12 inches or smaller in any direction*) is open to artists working in all media excluding video/sound and installation art. This exhibition is open to all U.S. residents. Click here for details.
Call for Entries, EGPAF Illustration Competition — D.C.
Deadline: August 27 The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) invites established and emerging illustrators from around the globe to share their interpretation of “What does an AIDS-free generation mean to you?” The contest includes categories for emerging and established artists, cash prizes ($4,600+), with winners being showcased at the Umbrella Fair, and an exclusive feedback session with our esteemed judges. Click herefor details.
Call for Entries, 2024 Quilts Unlimited — Old Forge, NY
Deadline: August 30 Each year, View Arts Center holds the “Quilts Unlimited” exhibition — which is open to all artists working in the fiber based quilting medium. View is a dynamic Center for Arts and Culture based in the Adirondack Region of New York State. Click here for details.
Corning Museum of Glass – Black, Indigenous, & People of Color Residency — Corning, NY
Deadline: August 31 Artists who identify as Black, Indigenous, or people of color can spend five weeks in Western New York exploring new directions in glassmaking or expanding on their current work. Transportation, room and board, and a supply budget are provided. Click here for details.
Call to Artists, Exchange Exhibit, Maryland Art Place — Baltimore
Deadline: September 2 Maryland Art Place (MAP,) in partnership with Quinn Evans, is excited to announce an open call for EXCHANGE. We are seeking artworks centric to energy in relation to the built environment. Artworks can be literal or abstract, but must examine the dynamic relationship between energy systems and architectural spaces, and how these interactions shape our daily lives, environments, and future. Click here for details.
2024 National Collage Society 40th Annual Juried Exhibit — Baltimore and Online
Deadline: September 6 The National Collage Society will host it’s 40th Annual Juried Exhibit at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, Maryland, and online. This exhibition is open to all artists and will count toward Signature Membership. Click here for details.
Call for Applications, MacDowell Fellowship Spring/Summer 2025 —Peterborough, NH
Deadline: September 10 Artists who are creating new original works of art are welcomed to apply for a MacDowell Fellowship. A MacDowell Fellowship (awarded through a competitive application process) consists of a residency up to six weeks and includes a private studio, housing, and meals. MacDowell is designed to facilitate a balance between social interaction and independent focus on work. Click here for details.
Innovate Grant Summer 2024 Cycle Open for Submissions.
Deadline: September 12 Innovate Grant awards (2) $1,800.00 grants each quarter, to one Visual Artist and one Photographer. In addition, (12) honorable mentions (6 in art and 6 in photo), will be featured on our website and join a growing community of vibrant and talented artists. Innovate Grant’s commitment extends beyond the grant cycle by promoting the work of selected winners and honorable mentions into the future. Click here for details.
Call for Entry, The Figure: Portrait & Narrative – A Juried Exhibition, Wayne Art Center — Wayne, PA
Deadline: September 16 The Figure: Portraiture & Narrative – A Juried Exhibition invites submissions in painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, photography and mixed media that explore the overlapping territories of portraiture and visual storytelling created by artists 18+ from PA, NJ, NY, DE, MD, VA and Washington, DC. Click here for details.
Call for Entries, Stitching Together History: 250 Quilts Commemorating the Commonwealth of Virginia — Harrisonburg, VA
Deadline: September 30 This project asks artists to commemorate a person, place, event, thing, or idea from Virginia or West Virginia’s history. Artists are encouraged to think beyond the obvious and well-known aspects of Virginia and explore the history of people and places that have been overlooked. The history of Virginia started long before the settlement of Jamestown in 1606 and includes much more than the history of presidents born in the Commonwealth. Click here for details.
Call for Entries, The Bennet Prize 2024.2025 Award Cycle
Deadline: October 4 For women figurative realist painters. The grand prize is $50,000 and a solo show, with an additional finalist receiving $10,000. A four-person jury will select 10 finalists to be featured in a group exhibition that will travel the US. Click here for details.
The Bennett Prize 2024/2025 Award Cycle
Deadline: October 4 The Bennett Prize is open to women figurative realist painters. The grand prize is $50.000 and a solo show , with an additional finalist receiving $10,000. Click here for details.
Call for Submissions, Frame + Frequency — Rockville, MD
Deadline: October 4 Frame + Frequency is an ongoing international new media, film, and video art screening series presented by VisArts in Rockville, Maryland (a suburb of Washington, DC). The series highlights artists who explore contemporary visual culture through new media, experimental film, and video and presents an intimate panorama of the variety and breadth of video art in artistic practice today.
This year’s edition will be held on November 22, 2024.It will include a special section highlighting works that address climate change and its intersection with social, racial, and environmental justice. Click here for details.
Multiple Exposures Gallery: Call for New Members — Alexandria, VA
Deadline: October 7 In anticipation of two openings in late 2024 due to relocations, Multiple Exposures Gallery (MEG) is issuing a Call for New Members and invites local photographers interested in gallery membership to apply for consideration. Click here for details.
Call for 2025 Bresler Resident Artists + Montgomery College Collaborative AiR — Rockville, MD
Deadline: October 25 In honor of patrons Fleur and Charles Bresler, VisArts invites applications and proposals from local, national, and international artists for a four-month residency at our studios in Rockville, Maryland. The Bresler Residency provides three dynamic individual artists or collaborative artist groups the gift of time, space, and financial support, along with a unique opportunity to create a new body of work, evolve an existing body of work, or develop a project in a stimulating, supportive environment. · The Bresler Residency encourages interaction, dialogue, experimentation, and exploration with the VisArts artist community and the local community. Click here for details.
Call to Artists; VCU Health — Richmond, VA
Deadline: December 1 VCU Health is seeking artists to submit digital images of original artwork available for purchase for the new inpatient and outpatient Liver Transplant Units. This opportunity is open to artists in Virginia, North Carolina, Washington, DC, Maryland and West Virginia. Click here for details.
Instructors Wanted at The Art League — Alexandria, VA
Deadline: Until filled The Art League is looking for skilled instructors in all visual arts disciplines. We’re particularly keen to recruit new hires for our sculpture, stained glass, and watercolor departments. Preferred applicants will have a personable and patient disposition, excellent communication skills, and the ability to teach their medium to groups of beginning, intermediate, and/or advanced level students. Class sizes range, depending on enrollment, from around 5 to 30 students. Experience teaching is helpful but not an absolute requirement. To apply, send a cover letter with statement of intent, resumé, and 6-10 tiffs or jpegs of current work to Ariane D’Souza via email at [email protected].
Ongoing: These opportunities have rolling deadlines.
Studio Sundays Submissions, Create! Magazine
Every month Create! Magazine! picks several winning images of artists’ studio spaces and features them on their website and social media along with artists’ work and story. Submit a quality image of your workspace, studio or kitchen table where you make work for a chance to be featured. For more information and to submit, click here.
Call for Artists, Prince George’s Arts and Humanities Council
Prince George’s Arts and Humanities Council (PGAHC) is featuring county artists at its newest art space Arts’tination at National Harbor, the premier arts and entertainment destination in our regions Located at 162 Waterfront Street, National Harbor, MD. Arts’tination is dedicated to supporting local artists and curating immersive creative experiences. PGAHC is recruiting artists to show and sell their work and/or to conduct arts related workshops for the public. Artists should submit work samples and inquires to [email protected]. For more information please visit https://www.pgahc.org/artstination.
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants
These monthly grants range from $500–$3,000, with the average amount being $1,700. Visual and performing artists whose work is of a contemporary, experimental nature and who have a US Tax ID Number can apply. For more information, click here.
Call for Art, Links Bridge Vineyards—Thurmont, MD
Links Bridge Vineyards, a small artisan style winery located just outside of Frederick, Maryland, is looking to feature the artwork of various artists on the walls of their tasting barn for two weeks at a time. To learn more, call Joan Cartier 301-602-5733 or email her at [email protected].
Pyramid Atlantic offers year-round workshops in printmaking, papermaking, book arts, and hybrids thereof. We offer multi-week, daytime, evening, and weekend intensives for adults in our fully equipped studios. As part of a robust and diverse schedule of offerings, we welcome unsolicited workshop proposals, and hope that you will consider applying! Workshop proposal reviews are ongoing, but for best consideration, submit class proposals by the following dates: 1/15 for Summer Workshops; 4/1 for Fall Workshops; 7/1 for Winter Workshops; 10/1 for Spring Workshops. Questions? Email Gretchen, Artistic Director, [email protected]
Call For Stories About Women in the Arts, Maryland State Arts Council
2020 has been dedicated to the Year of the Woman in Maryland. Do you have an inspiring story about vital contributions of women-identifying people who are artists, arts administrators, or cultural workers? Perhaps an exhibition, performance or project featuring women? Share it with the Maryland State Arts Council for potential use in marketing and communications! Send your ideas to [email protected], and include “Year of the Woman” in the subject line. Satff will contact senders whose stories are selected for inclusion in future newsletters, eblasts, or social media postings. Learn more about Maryland’s year of the Woman here.
Call For Artists, Busboys and Poets
Busboys and Poets is looking for submissions from Maryland and Virginia artists as it expands to new locations in both areas. Submissions can include drawings, painting, photography, sculpture, mixed media, assemblage, fiber, quilts, etc. Art images reflecting life in the city, family, portraits, whimsy, abstraction, social uplift and life experiences within diverse cultures are encouraged for submission. For more information, click here.
Alterwork Studios Online Residency
This residency was designed to give emerging contemporary artists an online platform to create new work and explore their practice. Over the course of four weeks, artists will be encouraged to experiment and explore their concepts and move their work forward in the contemporary art world. Learn more here.
Accepting Artwork for Curatorial Review by AIWA
The Alper Initiative for Washington Art features five exhibitions per year in the newly constructed first floor space in the American University Museum. We accept submissions, on a rolling basis, from Washington artists of all ages and backgrounds, and working in diverse media. The museum’s Director and Curator, Jack Rasmussen, will select curators who will review these submissions for potential use in Alper Initiative exhibitions. For more information click here.
Call For Entry Hamilton Arts Collective Guest Artist Exhibition – Baltimore, MD
The Hamilton Arts Collective (HAC) and the Hamilton Gallery seek applications from artists for month-long Guest Artist exhibitions at Hamilton Gallery located at 5502 Harford Road, Baltimore, MD. The selected guest artists will be invited to exhibit a selection of their current work in Gallery I of the Hamilton Gallery. The Guest Artist exhibition is featured in Hamilton Gallery communications and will be promoted by the HAC and Hamilton Gallery. This is an open call to artists residing within 60 miles of Baltimore City. Baltimore residents are encouraged to apply. Click here to learn more.
Howard County Arts Council Quarterly Call For Artists – Ellicott City, MD
The Howard County Arts Council gallery program was established to enhance the public’s appreciation of the visual arts, provide a venue to exhibit the work of local, regional, and national artists in a professional space, and provide leadership in the arts by presenting a broad spectrum of arts in all media from both emerging and established artists. Artists, ages 18 and older, working in all media and styles including time-based and installation artists, are encouraged to apply either individually or as a group. Proposals from curators and arts organizations are also welcome. Click here to learn more.
Exhibit at Hotel Indigo Downtown Baltimore — Baltimore, MD
The Maryland Art Place (MAP) is working with Hotel Indigo in downtown Baltimore to offer rotating exhibitions in the hotel’s library and Poets Modern Cocktails and Eats restaurant. This opportunity is open to visual artists living or working in Maryland. ’s public art partnership projects (MAP), in partnership with Hotel Indigo, is pleased to announce an open call to artists. MAP will curate four exhibitions a year based on submissions entered through a rolling basis. Click here to learn more.
Solo or Group Shows in Athenaeum Gallery – VA
The Athenaeum Gallery in Alexandria, Virginia exhibits visual arts created solely by artists living or working in the region (DC, Maryland and Virginia) 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. For more information, click here.
The Creativity Grant Program State of Maryland (MD)
Deadline: Rolling. The purpose of the Creativity Grant Program is to strengthen the vitality and sustainability of artists and small organizations to maintain a strong and stable arts infrastructure in the State of Maryland. The Creativity Grant also provides opportunities to serve the growing needs of relevant arts projects and collaborations within Maryland communities. For more information regarding eligibility and funding timelines, please review the Creativity Grants Guidelines. For more information about the program, and to apply visit the Creativity Grant Program State of Maryland website.
Artist/Writers: Cover Art for Academic Medicine
Deadline: Rolling. Submit original works of art inspired by, but not necessarily representative of, an academic medicine experience from any perspective: caregiver, researcher, teacher, learner, or patient (for example, learning how to be a physician or scientist, caring for patients, exploring research questions, making a new discovery, being a research participant, teaching, or being cared for in a teaching hospital). The journal welcomes photography, sculpture, painting, textile work, and other visual media. Images may be cropped or resized to fit into the allotted cover space. Artists must also submit a related Cover Art essay as a narrative companion to the artwork, to explain the connection between the work and the “academic medicine experience.” The related narrative should be 250 to 600 words and is subject to editing. To apply for this opportunity, and to learn more, visit the Academic Medicine website.
The Awesome Foundation Accepting Applications for Art Projects
Deadline: Open. The Awesome Foundation for the Arts and Sciences is a worldwide network of people devoted to forwarding the interest of “awesomeness in the universe.” Established in 2009, the foundation distributes $1,000 grants on a monthly basis to projects and their creators. The money is pooled from ten or more self-organizing “micro-trustees.” The chapters are autonomous and organized by the trustees around geographic areas or topics of interest. Apply on the Awesome Foundation website.
Call for Artists: Maryland Art Place Seeks Proposals for Rotating Exhibition Partnership with Baltimore’s Hotel Indigo (MD)
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. Guidelines and information here.
Peripheral ARTeries – Biennial Contemporary Art Publication
Deadline: Rolling. Peripheral ARTeries is looking for artists to be featured in the new special Biennial Edition of their art publication, that comes to its 10th edition. This opportunity is great for both established and early career artists who need a boost to their artist portfolio. The 10th edition will once again explore and show current trends and tendencies in Contemporary Art: Peripheral ARTeries cultivates a spirit of openness through a unique collaborative and participatory approach.Each artist may submit a maximum of three works or projects made in any technique: painting, drawing, video art, experimental cinema, fine art photography, experimental media, mixed media, installations, public art, performance. The call is open to all proposed kind of art and media capable of challenging the viewers’ traditional perspective on art itself. To submit, visit the Peripheral ARTeries website.
Exhibit at Hotel Indigo (VA)
Artists works will displayed in the hotel’s gallery (220 S Union St, Old Town Alexandria) for a six-month period. Two-dimensional, framed works only. Artists will install the work using the hotel’s mounting hardware. Labels will be provided by the hotel. All sales handled by artist, no commission. Preference for local or locally influenced selections but not required. The space measures approximately 7’10” by 8’3.″ If interested, contact Kate Ellis, General Manager, [email protected].
The New Project Studio – Ongoing Opportunity (VA)
Ongoing. Located in Studio 8, the New Project Studio is a community-focused arts incubator space that offers a short-term location to test new program ideas, spotlight underrepresented voices, and enhance community engagement. Projects rotate on a regular basis. For more information, click here.
Public Arts Grants & Opportunities (VA)
Ongoing. The City of Alexandria’s Office of the Arts provides grants for nonprofit arts organizations as well as individual artists. See all current opportunities and online applications here.
Residency: Maryland
Deadline: ongoing. Montgomery College, Rockville and Germantown Art Department is seeking proposals for its Artist-in-Residence Program, encouraging proposals that cultivate collaborative work between artists and students.
Looking for artists: Foundry Gallery (DC)
Deadline: ongoing. Foundry Gallery is seeking a few artists in the greater Washington, DC area. If interested in applying for membership please send up to five images (jpg attachments) and an email letter to: [email protected]. The oldest cooperative in Washington, the gallery holds monthly solo and members’ group shows at its beautiful space north of Shaw near the 9:30 Club.
Looking for artists: Printmakers (DC)
Deadline: ongoing. Washington Printmakers Gallery is seeking artist members specializing in printmaking, photography and book arts. An active cooperative for over 30 years, the gallery holds monthly solo and members’ group shows in its lovely space in upper Georgetown. Distant and shared memberships are available. If interested in applying for membership please email [email protected].
"Watergate Steps," photography by Jo Ann Tooley, is on view in the August Open Exhibit through September 8.
Welcome to Artful Weekend
-our listing of area art exhibits and events-
This weekend: August 2024 Open Exhibit, Tabletop 2024, Why Be Real by LindaBankerd, and Gallery 75at The Art League; Hung Liu: Making History at NMWA; Come Together: A CoLab Collage Project at Fred Schnider Gallery of Art; and Forces of Nature: Voices that Shaped Environmentalism at the National Portrait Gallery.
August 2024 Open Exhibit
Cusco Market by Anna Getter; Acrylic
Experience the vibrant diversity of our member artists’ work at The Art League’s Open Exhibits. This month, we’re proudly showcasing 89 unique pieces, featuring a wide range of mediums such as painting, drawing, photography, glass, sculpture, collage, and mixed media. The captivating selection for our August 2024 Open Exhibit was thoughtfully curated by painter and sculptor, Andy Yoder.
Tabletop 2024
Not a Weed by Gerda Atzl; Glass
At this annual favorite, you’ll find a delightful array of ceramic, glass, wood, and metal wares, expertly crafted for both function and aesthetic appeal. Tabletop 2024 features 28 artworks, and was juried by potter and educator Naomi Clement.
Why Be Real? by Linda Bankerd
Abstract Composition with Collage #2 by Linda Bankerd; Mixed media
Linda Bankerd, our featured solo artist for August, passionately uses elements like shape, color, form, line, collage, and gestural marks in her artwork. Her creations thrive in their own existence, requiring no tangible reference or desire. This authentic approach to artistry makes her work truly unique and engaging.
Come and explore Gallery 75, our vibrant art hub nestled right here in our main gallery. It’s a treasure trove where you can find a range of affordable, extraordinary artwork created by our talented local member artists. Whether in the market for framed, unframed, or even three-dimensional pieces, you’ll find a wealth of pieces waiting for you to take home and display.
Hung Liu:Making History
Hung Liu, La Ran-Butterfly, 2003; Color softground, spitbite aquatint and aquatine etching with scrape and burnish with attached objects, 31 x 25 in.
Chinese-born American artist Hung Liu (1948 to 2021) transformed her canvases and paper surfaces into memorial sites for the women and children who she represented. Growing up during Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution in China, she toiled in forced labor and trained as a painter before immigrating to California in 1984, where she continued her art education. Hung Liu: Making History, at the National Museum for Women it the Arts, highlights the array of techniques that Liu used to create her poignant portraits, including collage, layered colors and motifs, and screens of drip marks that she described as a “veil of tears.” It is on view through October 20; 1250 New York Avenue, NW Washington, D.C.
Come Together: A CoLab Collage Project
The CoLab Collage Collective, Parinaz Bahadori
Since June 2023, nine local artists have been meeting monthly, sharing food and unusual found or created collage papers, while working on individual collage projects. Thus began the CoLab Collage Collective. In Come Together, at Fred Schnider Gallery of Art, the artists, who each have their own idiosyncratic language and use their own unique materials, created a few larger pieces to explore the concept of collectively made artworks. The larger collages in this exhibit are the resulting collaborative collages created by the group. It is on view through Sunday, August 18, with a closing reception from 3–5 p.m.; 888 N. Quincy Street, #102, Arlington, Virginia.
Forces of Nature: Voices that Shaped Environmentalism
George Washington Carver by Prentice H. Polk; Gelatin silver print, 1938
Forces of Nature: Voices that Shaped Environmentalism, at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, presents some of the key people—scientists, politicians, activists, writers and artists—whose work has influenced attitudes toward the environment in the United States from the late 19th century until today. It features more than 25 portraits of people who have made an enduring impact on public perceptions of the natural world, including the well-known figures Rachel Carson, George Washington Carver, Maya Lin, Henry David Thoreau and Edward O. Wilson. The exhibition brings together portraiture, visual biography and the sitters’ own words to probe this important—and complicated—history. It is on view through September 2. The National Portrait Gallery is located at Eighth and G streets NW, Washington, D.C.
Adjunct Faculty Sought for Printmaking, Stone Carving, Clay Modeling — Bethesda, MD
Deadline: August 19 The Washington Waldorf School in Bethesda, MD, seeks “block” instructors for Printmaking and Clay Modeling (grade 10) and Stone Carving (grade 12.) There are two sections each of Printmaking and Clay Modeling, meeting for 15 class sessions Monday mornings 10:00-11:40 and Friday afternoons 1:15-2:50. Stone Carving runs for 24 class sessions on Wed & Thursday mornings 10:00-11:40. We also seek a P/T Middle School art teacher. Click here for details.
Call for Artists, Gallery B 2025 Exhibitions — Bethesda, MD
Deadline: August 26 Gallery B is calling all local artists looking to showcase their work in downtown Bethesda. Gallery B is now taking rental applications for 2025 exhibits for solo or group shows. They offer the opportunity for you to sell your art and receive exposure in downtown Bethesda with no commission on artwork sold. Click herefor details.
Call to Artists, IA&A at Hillyer Seeks Exhibition Proposals — DC
Deadline: August 30 Hillyer is currently accepting proposals for solo and curated exhibitions that will take place at Hillyer’s contemporary art space between February 2025 and January 2026. Proposals are open to local, regional, national, and international artists. Click here for details.
Call for Entries, International ‘FL3TCH3R Exhibit’ Invites Artists for 2024 Exhibition at ETSU’s Reece Museum — Johnson City, TN
Deadline: August 31 Artists from around the world are invited to participate in the 12th annual “FL3TCH3R Exhibit: Social & Politically Engaged Art” at East Tennessee State University’s Reece Museum. This prestigious international juried exhibition will be held from September 30 to December 6, 2024.
The exhibition, renowned for its exploration of contemporary social and political movements, will feature a diverse array of artworks that address pressing global issues. Click here for details.
Call for Entries, Transformation and Change National Juried Exhibition — Kensington, MD
Deadline: September 7 This October, Compass Gallery hosts its first National Juried Exhibition. Focused on the theme Transformation and Change, and juried by Lesley Morris, Director of Mansion and Galleries at Strathmore, this exhibition will feature a wide range of interpretations and mediums, from personal growth and societal shifts to environmental changes and technological advancements. Artists are encouraged to think broadly about this topic. We cannot wait to see what you submit. Click here for details.
Call for Entries, SPIE – International Day of Light Photo Contest
Deadline: September 16 Photographers of all levels are invited to submit work to this year’s theme, “The Power of Light,” which explores the impact of light on our lives, communities, and planet. Cash prizes range from $750 to $2,500. Click herefor details.
Call for Entry, The Homiens Art Prize — New York
Deadline: October 31 The Homiens Art Prize is an international, non-acquisitive art prize open to all artists. All art forms, mediums, and completion dates are eligible. We’re excited to welcome artworks of all dimensions, on any theme. Click herefor details.
Re-runs: These were previously posted, but it’s not too late to enter!
Rhizome DC Fall 2024 Film & Video Open Call — D.C.
Deadline: August 15 Rhizome DC invites local filmmakers to submit short moving picture works in any genre and format for a screening in September 2024. Experimental subjects and works shot on film are encouraged to submit. Click here for details.
Call to Young Artists, The Future Generation 2025 Juried Art Competition — D.C.
Deadline: August 15 Calling all young artists ages 18-25 years old! This competition acknowledges the work of talented, emerging portrait artists. Enter up to three works. Artwork must include human figure and be the artist’s own original design and concept, no digital media. First Place receives $1200 cash award and medal presented at annual The Art of the Portrait conference in Washington, DC, May 8-11, 2025. Click here for details.
Call for Entry, Minimalism Online Photography Exhibit
Deadline: August 15 The Chateau Gallery (TCG) seeks entries for an online photography exhibition, September 1 – October 1, 2024. Minimalism is a form of art that highlights simplicity, focusing on the basic features of our surroundings. Open to all photographers ages 18 and older. Click here for details.
Arts Enrichment Programs for Youth Grant Program — Alexandria, VA
Deadline: August 16 The Alexandria Recreation, Parks and Cultural Activities’ Office of the Arts is collaborating with the Recreation Services Division to create Arts Enrichment Program for Youth – Grant Program (AEPY) which is funded by the American Rescue Fund Program for Alexandria. The AEPY is a program to provide funding for nonprofit organizations and teaching artists to develop high quality summer and afterschool arts programs which could be Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math; art, musical performance, culture, both traditional and nontraditional arts; and other creative projects will be in the City’s Recreation Centers. Click here for details.
Call for Entries, McLean Community Center Public Art Project – Mural — McLean, VA
Deadline: August 16 McLean Community Center (MCC) is accepting qualifications from artists or artist teams for two public art projects it is commissioning in McLean. The two public art projects are part of the center’s 50th Anniversary celebration, which will take place in 2025. The second project is a typographical sculpture to be placed on the rear plaza of MCC, which is located at 1234 Ingleside Ave. Click here for details.
Call for Artists, New Visionary Magazine: Issue 12
Deadline: August 18New Visionary Magazine, a publication by Visionary Art Collective, features contemporary artists, exclusive interviews with art world professionals, and valuable art career resources. Based in New York City, Visionary Art Collective aims to uplift artists through magazine features, virtual exhibitions, podcast interviews, and mentorship programs. We are seeking artists of all experience levels to highlight in our upcoming issue. Selected artists will receive a 2-page spread, along with a custom article about their work written by our head writer. Click here for details.
Call for Entries, Snapshot America: A Portrait of the United States in 2024
Deadline: August 23 The Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts in Providence is looking to take a snapshot of America today for a gallery exhibition and book to document these unique times we live in. From Main Street to your back yard, everyday activities to the grand celebrations and the tragedies that touch us all, we want to see what your America looks like. Click herefor details.
Call for Entries, Small Works 2024 — Clifton Springs, NY
Deadline: August 24 Our eleventh annual national juried exhibition of small works (12 inches or smaller in any direction*) is open to artists working in all media excluding video/sound and installation art. This exhibition is open to all U.S. residents. Click here for details.
Call for Entries, EGPAF Illustration Competition — D.C.
Deadline: August 27 The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) invites established and emerging illustrators from around the globe to share their interpretation of “What does an AIDS-free generation mean to you?” The contest includes categories for emerging and established artists, cash prizes ($4,600+), with winners being showcased at the Umbrella Fair, and an exclusive feedback session with our esteemed judges. Click herefor details.
Call for Entries, 2024 Quilts Unlimited — Old Forge, NY
Deadline: August 30 Each year, View Arts Center holds the “Quilts Unlimited” exhibition — which is open to all artists working in the fiber based quilting medium. View is a dynamic Center for Arts and Culture based in the Adirondack Region of New York State. Click here for details.
Corning Museum of Glass – Black, Indigenous, & People of Color Residency — Corning, NY
Deadline: August 31 Artists who identify as Black, Indigenous, or people of color can spend five weeks in Western New York exploring new directions in glassmaking or expanding on their current work. Transportation, room and board, and a supply budget are provided. Click here for details.
Call to Artists, Exchange Exhibit, Maryland Art Place — Baltimore
Deadline: September 2 Maryland Art Place (MAP,) in partnership with Quinn Evans, is excited to announce an open call for EXCHANGE. We are seeking artworks centric to energy in relation to the built environment. Artworks can be literal or abstract, but must examine the dynamic relationship between energy systems and architectural spaces, and how these interactions shape our daily lives, environments, and future. Click here for details.
2024 National Collage Society 40th Annual Juried Exhibit — Baltimore and Online
Deadline: September 6 The National Collage Society will host it’s 40th Annual Juried Exhibit at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, Maryland, and online. This exhibition is open to all artists and will count toward Signature Membership. Click here for details.
Call for Applications, MacDowell Fellowship Spring/Summer 2025 —Peterborough, NH
Deadline: September 10 Artists who are creating new original works of art are welcomed to apply for a MacDowell Fellowship. A MacDowell Fellowship (awarded through a competitive application process) consists of a residency up to six weeks and includes a private studio, housing, and meals. MacDowell is designed to facilitate a balance between social interaction and independent focus on work. Click here for details.
Innovate Grant Summer 2024 Cycle Open for Submissions.
Deadline: September 12 Innovate Grant awards (2) $1,800.00 grants each quarter, to one Visual Artist and one Photographer. In addition, (12) honorable mentions (6 in art and 6 in photo), will be featured on our website and join a growing community of vibrant and talented artists. Innovate Grant’s commitment extends beyond the grant cycle by promoting the work of selected winners and honorable mentions into the future. Click here for details.
Call for Entry, The Figure: Portrait & Narrative – A Juried Exhibition, Wayne Art Center — Wayne, PA
Deadline: September 16 The Figure: Portraiture & Narrative – A Juried Exhibition invites submissions in painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, photography and mixed media that explore the overlapping territories of portraiture and visual storytelling created by artists 18+ from PA, NJ, NY, DE, MD, VA and Washington, DC. Click here for details.
Call for Entries, Stitching Together History: 250 Quilts Commemorating the Commonwealth of Virginia — Harrisonburg, VA
Deadline: September 30 This project asks artists to commemorate a person, place, event, thing, or idea from Virginia or West Virginia’s history. Artists are encouraged to think beyond the obvious and well-known aspects of Virginia and explore the history of people and places that have been overlooked. The history of Virginia started long before the settlement of Jamestown in 1606 and includes much more than the history of presidents born in the Commonwealth. Click here for details.
Call for Entries, The Bennet Prize 2024.2025 Award Cycle
Deadline: October 4 For women figurative realist painters. The grand prize is $50,000 and a solo show, with an additional finalist receiving $10,000. A four-person jury will select 10 finalists to be featured in a group exhibition that will travel the US. Click here for details.
The Bennett Prize 2024/2025 Award Cycle
Deadline: October 4 The Bennett Prize is open to women figurative realist painters. The grand prize is $50.000 and a solo show , with an additional finalist receiving $10,000. Click here for details.
Call for Submissions, Frame + Frequency — Rockville, MD
Deadline: October 4 Frame + Frequency is an ongoing international new media, film, and video art screening series presented by VisArts in Rockville, Maryland (a suburb of Washington, DC). The series highlights artists who explore contemporary visual culture through new media, experimental film, and video and presents an intimate panorama of the variety and breadth of video art in artistic practice today.
This year’s edition will be held on November 22, 2024.It will include a special section highlighting works that address climate change and its intersection with social, racial, and environmental justice. Click here for details.
Multiple Exposures Gallery: Call for New Members — Alexandria, VA
Deadline: October 7 In anticipation of two openings in late 2024 due to relocations, Multiple Exposures Gallery (MEG) is issuing a Call for New Members and invites local photographers interested in gallery membership to apply for consideration. Click here for details.
Call for 2025 Bresler Resident Artists + Montgomery College Collaborative AiR — Rockville, MD
Deadline: October 25 In honor of patrons Fleur and Charles Bresler, VisArts invites applications and proposals from local, national, and international artists for a four-month residency at our studios in Rockville, Maryland. The Bresler Residency provides three dynamic individual artists or collaborative artist groups the gift of time, space, and financial support, along with a unique opportunity to create a new body of work, evolve an existing body of work, or develop a project in a stimulating, supportive environment. · The Bresler Residency encourages interaction, dialogue, experimentation, and exploration with the VisArts artist community and the local community. Click here for details.
Call to Artists; VCU Health — Richmond, VA
Deadline: December 1 VCU Health is seeking artists to submit digital images of original artwork available for purchase for the new inpatient and outpatient Liver Transplant Units. This opportunity is open to artists in Virginia, North Carolina, Washington, DC, Maryland and West Virginia. Click here for details.
Instructors Wanted at The Art League — Alexandria, VA
Deadline: Until filled The Art League is looking for skilled instructors in all visual arts disciplines. We’re particularly keen to recruit new hires for our sculpture, stained glass, and watercolor departments. Preferred applicants will have a personable and patient disposition, excellent communication skills, and the ability to teach their medium to groups of beginning, intermediate, and/or advanced level students. Class sizes range, depending on enrollment, from around 5 to 30 students. Experience teaching is helpful but not an absolute requirement. To apply, send a cover letter with statement of intent, resumé, and 6-10 tiffs or jpegs of current work to Ariane D’Souza via email at [email protected].
Ongoing: These opportunities have rolling deadlines.
Studio Sundays Submissions, Create! Magazine
Every month Create! Magazine! picks several winning images of artists’ studio spaces and features them on their website and social media along with artists’ work and story. Submit a quality image of your workspace, studio or kitchen table where you make work for a chance to be featured. For more information and to submit, click here.
Call for Artists, Prince George’s Arts and Humanities Council
Prince George’s Arts and Humanities Council (PGAHC) is featuring county artists at its newest art space Arts’tination at National Harbor, the premier arts and entertainment destination in our regions Located at 162 Waterfront Street, National Harbor, MD. Arts’tination is dedicated to supporting local artists and curating immersive creative experiences. PGAHC is recruiting artists to show and sell their work and/or to conduct arts related workshops for the public. Artists should submit work samples and inquires to [email protected]. For more information please visit https://www.pgahc.org/artstination.
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants
These monthly grants range from $500–$3,000, with the average amount being $1,700. Visual and performing artists whose work is of a contemporary, experimental nature and who have a US Tax ID Number can apply. For more information, click here.
Call for Art, Links Bridge Vineyards—Thurmont, MD
Links Bridge Vineyards, a small artisan style winery located just outside of Frederick, Maryland, is looking to feature the artwork of various artists on the walls of their tasting barn for two weeks at a time. To learn more, call Joan Cartier 301-602-5733 or email her at [email protected].
Pyramid Atlantic offers year-round workshops in printmaking, papermaking, book arts, and hybrids thereof. We offer multi-week, daytime, evening, and weekend intensives for adults in our fully equipped studios. As part of a robust and diverse schedule of offerings, we welcome unsolicited workshop proposals, and hope that you will consider applying! Workshop proposal reviews are ongoing, but for best consideration, submit class proposals by the following dates: 1/15 for Summer Workshops; 4/1 for Fall Workshops; 7/1 for Winter Workshops; 10/1 for Spring Workshops. Questions? Email Gretchen, Artistic Director, [email protected]
Call For Stories About Women in the Arts, Maryland State Arts Council
2020 has been dedicated to the Year of the Woman in Maryland. Do you have an inspiring story about vital contributions of women-identifying people who are artists, arts administrators, or cultural workers? Perhaps an exhibition, performance or project featuring women? Share it with the Maryland State Arts Council for potential use in marketing and communications! Send your ideas to [email protected], and include “Year of the Woman” in the subject line. Satff will contact senders whose stories are selected for inclusion in future newsletters, eblasts, or social media postings. Learn more about Maryland’s year of the Woman here.
Call For Artists, Busboys and Poets
Busboys and Poets is looking for submissions from Maryland and Virginia artists as it expands to new locations in both areas. Submissions can include drawings, painting, photography, sculpture, mixed media, assemblage, fiber, quilts, etc. Art images reflecting life in the city, family, portraits, whimsy, abstraction, social uplift and life experiences within diverse cultures are encouraged for submission. For more information, click here.
Alterwork Studios Online Residency
This residency was designed to give emerging contemporary artists an online platform to create new work and explore their practice. Over the course of four weeks, artists will be encouraged to experiment and explore their concepts and move their work forward in the contemporary art world. Learn more here.
Accepting Artwork for Curatorial Review by AIWA
The Alper Initiative for Washington Art features five exhibitions per year in the newly constructed first floor space in the American University Museum. We accept submissions, on a rolling basis, from Washington artists of all ages and backgrounds, and working in diverse media. The museum’s Director and Curator, Jack Rasmussen, will select curators who will review these submissions for potential use in Alper Initiative exhibitions. For more information click here.
Call For Entry Hamilton Arts Collective Guest Artist Exhibition – Baltimore, MD
The Hamilton Arts Collective (HAC) and the Hamilton Gallery seek applications from artists for month-long Guest Artist exhibitions at Hamilton Gallery located at 5502 Harford Road, Baltimore, MD. The selected guest artists will be invited to exhibit a selection of their current work in Gallery I of the Hamilton Gallery. The Guest Artist exhibition is featured in Hamilton Gallery communications and will be promoted by the HAC and Hamilton Gallery. This is an open call to artists residing within 60 miles of Baltimore City. Baltimore residents are encouraged to apply. Click here to learn more.
Howard County Arts Council Quarterly Call For Artists – Ellicott City, MD
The Howard County Arts Council gallery program was established to enhance the public’s appreciation of the visual arts, provide a venue to exhibit the work of local, regional, and national artists in a professional space, and provide leadership in the arts by presenting a broad spectrum of arts in all media from both emerging and established artists. Artists, ages 18 and older, working in all media and styles including time-based and installation artists, are encouraged to apply either individually or as a group. Proposals from curators and arts organizations are also welcome. Click here to learn more.
Exhibit at Hotel Indigo Downtown Baltimore — Baltimore, MD
The Maryland Art Place (MAP) is working with Hotel Indigo in downtown Baltimore to offer rotating exhibitions in the hotel’s library and Poets Modern Cocktails and Eats restaurant. This opportunity is open to visual artists living or working in Maryland. ’s public art partnership projects (MAP), in partnership with Hotel Indigo, is pleased to announce an open call to artists. MAP will curate four exhibitions a year based on submissions entered through a rolling basis. Click here to learn more.
Solo or Group Shows in Athenaeum Gallery – VA
The Athenaeum Gallery in Alexandria, Virginia exhibits visual arts created solely by artists living or working in the region (DC, Maryland and Virginia) 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. For more information, click here.
The Creativity Grant Program State of Maryland (MD)
Deadline: Rolling. The purpose of the Creativity Grant Program is to strengthen the vitality and sustainability of artists and small organizations to maintain a strong and stable arts infrastructure in the State of Maryland. The Creativity Grant also provides opportunities to serve the growing needs of relevant arts projects and collaborations within Maryland communities. For more information regarding eligibility and funding timelines, please review the Creativity Grants Guidelines. For more information about the program, and to apply visit the Creativity Grant Program State of Maryland website.
Artist/Writers: Cover Art for Academic Medicine
Deadline: Rolling. Submit original works of art inspired by, but not necessarily representative of, an academic medicine experience from any perspective: caregiver, researcher, teacher, learner, or patient (for example, learning how to be a physician or scientist, caring for patients, exploring research questions, making a new discovery, being a research participant, teaching, or being cared for in a teaching hospital). The journal welcomes photography, sculpture, painting, textile work, and other visual media. Images may be cropped or resized to fit into the allotted cover space. Artists must also submit a related Cover Art essay as a narrative companion to the artwork, to explain the connection between the work and the “academic medicine experience.” The related narrative should be 250 to 600 words and is subject to editing. To apply for this opportunity, and to learn more, visit the Academic Medicine website.
The Awesome Foundation Accepting Applications for Art Projects
Deadline: Open. The Awesome Foundation for the Arts and Sciences is a worldwide network of people devoted to forwarding the interest of “awesomeness in the universe.” Established in 2009, the foundation distributes $1,000 grants on a monthly basis to projects and their creators. The money is pooled from ten or more self-organizing “micro-trustees.” The chapters are autonomous and organized by the trustees around geographic areas or topics of interest. Apply on the Awesome Foundation website.
Call for Artists: Maryland Art Place Seeks Proposals for Rotating Exhibition Partnership with Baltimore’s Hotel Indigo (MD)
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. Guidelines and information here.
Peripheral ARTeries – Biennial Contemporary Art Publication
Deadline: Rolling. Peripheral ARTeries is looking for artists to be featured in the new special Biennial Edition of their art publication, that comes to its 10th edition. This opportunity is great for both established and early career artists who need a boost to their artist portfolio. The 10th edition will once again explore and show current trends and tendencies in Contemporary Art: Peripheral ARTeries cultivates a spirit of openness through a unique collaborative and participatory approach.Each artist may submit a maximum of three works or projects made in any technique: painting, drawing, video art, experimental cinema, fine art photography, experimental media, mixed media, installations, public art, performance. The call is open to all proposed kind of art and media capable of challenging the viewers’ traditional perspective on art itself. To submit, visit the Peripheral ARTeries website.
Exhibit at Hotel Indigo (VA)
Artists works will displayed in the hotel’s gallery (220 S Union St, Old Town Alexandria) for a six-month period. Two-dimensional, framed works only. Artists will install the work using the hotel’s mounting hardware. Labels will be provided by the hotel. All sales handled by artist, no commission. Preference for local or locally influenced selections but not required. The space measures approximately 7’10” by 8’3.″ If interested, contact Kate Ellis, General Manager, [email protected].
The New Project Studio – Ongoing Opportunity (VA)
Ongoing. Located in Studio 8, the New Project Studio is a community-focused arts incubator space that offers a short-term location to test new program ideas, spotlight underrepresented voices, and enhance community engagement. Projects rotate on a regular basis. For more information, click here.
Public Arts Grants & Opportunities (VA)
Ongoing. The City of Alexandria’s Office of the Arts provides grants for nonprofit arts organizations as well as individual artists. See all current opportunities and online applications here.
Residency: Maryland
Deadline: ongoing. Montgomery College, Rockville and Germantown Art Department is seeking proposals for its Artist-in-Residence Program, encouraging proposals that cultivate collaborative work between artists and students.
Looking for artists: Foundry Gallery (DC)
Deadline: ongoing. Foundry Gallery is seeking a few artists in the greater Washington, DC area. If interested in applying for membership please send up to five images (jpg attachments) and an email letter to: [email protected]. The oldest cooperative in Washington, the gallery holds monthly solo and members’ group shows at its beautiful space north of Shaw near the 9:30 Club.
Looking for artists: Printmakers (DC)
Deadline: ongoing. Washington Printmakers Gallery is seeking artist members specializing in printmaking, photography and book arts. An active cooperative for over 30 years, the gallery holds monthly solo and members’ group shows in its lovely space in upper Georgetown. Distant and shared memberships are available. If interested in applying for membership please email [email protected].
"Guiding Light," Photography by Rashelle Quinn, is on view in August's Open Exhibit through September 8.
Welcome to Artful Weekend
-our listing of area art exhibits and events-
This weekend: August 2024 Open Exhibit, Tabletop 2024, Why Be Real by LindaBankerd, and Gallery 75at The Art League; Fleeting Moments Street Photography IIat the Athenaeum Gallery; The Marvels of Treesat Zenith Gallery; and 14 VISIONS at Multiple Exposures Gallery.
August 2024 Open Exhibit
Angel 10 by Karen Schmitt; Mixed media
Experience the vibrant diversity of our member artists’ work at The Art League’s Open Exhibits. This month, we’re proudly showcasing 89 unique pieces, featuring a wide range of mediums such as painting, drawing, photography, glass, sculpture, collage, and mixed media. The captivating selection for our August 2024 Open Exhibit was thoughtfully curated by painter and sculptor, Andy Yoder.
Tabletop 2024
Two Spotted Sandpipers with Fuzzy Bean Weed by Shirley Gromen
At this annual favorite, you’ll find a delightful array of ceramic, glass, wood, and metal wares, expertly crafted for both function and aesthetic appeal. Tabletop 2024 features 28 artworks, and was juried by potter and educator Naomi Clement.
Why Be Real? by Linda Bankerd
Collage #3 by Linda Bankerd; Mixed media
Linda Bankerd, our featured solo artist for August, passionately uses elements like shape, color, form, line, collage, and gestural marks in her artwork. Her creations thrive in their own existence, requiring no tangible reference or desire. This authentic approach to artistry makes her work truly unique and engaging.
Come and explore Gallery 75, our vibrant art hub nestled right here in our main gallery. It’s a treasure trove where you can find a range of affordable, extraordinary artwork created by our talented local member artists. Whether in the market for framed, unframed, or even three-dimensional pieces, you’ll find a wealth of pieces waiting for you to take home and display.
Fleeting Moments Street Photography II
RUSH HOUR by Vincent Ricardel; Black and white photograph
Art League members Ron Colbroth, Daniel Horowitz, Suzanne McIntire, and Jo Ann Tooley are among the photographers whose work can be seen in Fleeting Moments Street Photography IIat the Athenaeum Gallery. Back by popular demand, this show features photographs that capture candid moments, revelatory interpretations, and brilliant reflections of the mundane—work commonly referred to as “street photography.” It is on view through September 22, with an artist reception on Sunday, August 18, from 4–6 p.m.
The Marvels of Trees
Nature’s Symphony (triptych) by Ronni Jolles
The Marvels of Trees, a group exhibition at Zenith Gallery, not only takes the tree as a starting point, but also exploits arboreal remains like bark, twigs, driftwood, lumber, or tree pulp as the medium. Subjects vary widely. A path through the woods evokes the stark enchantment of Rock Creek Park. Contrasting veneers suggest the shape of trees. A heron haunts the swampy sphere of cattail and deadfall. Steps lead upward to nature’s cathedral door. In addition, there is figurative work carved in wood and a painting of an elm in front of the iconic Smithsonian Castle. Featured artists include Anne Bouie, Jackie Braitman, Margery Goldberg, Ronni Jolles, George Lorio, Carol Newmyer, Larry Ringgold, Lynda Smith-Bugge, Bradley Stevens, and Robert Weston. The Marvels of Trees is on view through September 14; 1429 Iris Street, NW, Washington, D.C.
14 VISIONS
Weathered Hands by David Myers
Multiple Exposures Gallery presents 14 VISIONS, juried by Allison Nance, managing director of The Nicholson Project. This fine art photography exhibition presents a rich mosaic of styles, subjects and stories, with each photograph reflecting the distinctive voice and technique of the photographer who made it. 14 VISIONS is on view through August 25; Torpedo Factory Art Center #312, 105 N. Union Street, Alexandria, Virginia.
Call for Entries, For Love of Kensington Juried Exhibition — Kensington, MD
Deadline: August 7 From now until August 7th, we are accepting artwork submissions. Artwork MUST depict Kensington. It can previously have been exhibited in the MAA Labor Day show or be a completely new work of art. Starting Labor Day weekend and continuing through the entire month of September, we offer a love letter to Kensington, our gorgeous new home town. For the past 30+ years, the Montgomery Art Association has hosted its Kensington ‘Paint The Town’ Exhibition every Labor Day weekend. One stipulation to exhibiting artists has always been that they needed to produce at least one artwork with Kensington as the subject. Click here for details.
Call for Entry, Sculpture Now 2024 at McLean Project for the Arts — McLean, VA
Deadline: August 11 Sculpture NOW 2024 is a non-thematic exhibition of new works, finished within the last two years. Three-dimensional freestanding sculpture, wall-hung and ceiling-hung sculpture, and installations as well as multimedia and performance-based works are welcome. Basic technical support will be provided by MPA. The artist must provide any video and sound equipment. The art may be finished or in the form of a proposal. We highly recommend that artists visit the space if they wish to submit installations, site-specific work, or a proposal. Click here for details.
Call for Entries, McLean Community Center Public Art Project – Mural — McLean, VA
Deadline: August 16 McLean Community Center (MCC) is accepting qualifications from artists or artist teams for two public art projects it is commissioning in McLean. The two public art projects are part of the center’s 50th Anniversary celebration, which will take place in 2025. The second project is a typographical sculpture to be placed on the rear plaza of MCC, which is located at 1234 Ingleside Ave. Click here for details.
Call for Artists, New Visionary Magazine: Issue 12
Deadline: August 18New Visionary Magazine, a publication by Visionary Art Collective, features contemporary artists, exclusive interviews with art world professionals, and valuable art career resources. Based in New York City, Visionary Art Collective aims to uplift artists through magazine features, virtual exhibitions, podcast interviews, and mentorship programs. We are seeking artists of all experience levels to highlight in our upcoming issue. Selected artists will receive a 2-page spread, along with a custom article about their work written by our head writer. Click here for details.
Call for Entries, EGPAF Illustration Competition — D.C.
Deadline: August 27 The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) invites established and emerging illustrators from around the globe to share their interpretation of “What does an AIDS-free generation mean to you?” The contest includes categories for emerging and established artists, cash prizes ($4,600+), with winners being showcased at the Umbrella Fair, and an exclusive feedback session with our esteemed judges. Click herefor details.
Call for Applications, MacDowell Fellowship Spring/Summer 2025 —Peterborough, NH
Deadline: September 10 Artists who are creating new original works of art are welcomed to apply for a MacDowell Fellowship. A MacDowell Fellowship (awarded through a competitive application process) consists of a residency up to six weeks and includes a private studio, housing, and meals. MacDowell is designed to facilitate a balance between social interaction and independent focus on work. Click here for details.
Call for Submissions, Frame + Frequency — Rockville, MD
Deadline: October 4 Frame + Frequency is an ongoing international new media, film, and video art screening series presented by VisArts in Rockville, Maryland (a suburb of Washington, DC). The series highlights artists who explore contemporary visual culture through new media, experimental film, and video and presents an intimate panorama of the variety and breadth of video art in artistic practice today.
This year’s edition will be held on November 22, 2024.It will include a special section highlighting works that address climate change and its intersection with social, racial, and environmental justice. Click here for details.
Call for 2025 Bresler Resident Artists + Montgomery College Collaborative AiR — Rockville, MD
Deadline: October 25 In honor of patrons Fleur and Charles Bresler, VisArts invites applications and proposals from local, national, and international artists for a four-month residency at our studios in Rockville, Maryland. The Bresler Residency provides three dynamic individual artists or collaborative artist groups the gift of time, space, and financial support, along with a unique opportunity to create a new body of work, evolve an existing body of work, or develop a project in a stimulating, supportive environment. · The Bresler Residency encourages interaction, dialogue, experimentation, and exploration with the VisArts artist community and the local community. Click here for details.
Re-runs: These were previously posted, but it’s not too late to enter!
Call for Entries, Quilts = Art = Quilts 2024 — Auburn, NY
Deadline: August 6Quilts=Art=Quilts is an international juried quilt exhibition at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn, New York. The Art Center has been a longstanding proponent of quilts as a visual arts medium and has been presenting quilts in a gallery setting since 1981. Jurors select quilts based on overall quality of design, visual impact and originality. Prizes are awarded, including $1,000 for Best of Show. Click here for details.
Deadline: August 7 Sponsored by the Baltimore Watercolor Society (BWS), this exhibit of watermedia is open to all artists residing in the Mid-Atlantic states (NY, NJ, PA, DE, MD, VA, WV, and DC) and all BWS signature members regardless of residence. Entries must be original watermedia paintings completed in the last 5 years. Click here for details.
Call for Entries, Library of Virginia exhibit Virginia Stories: Underground Art — Richmond, VA
Deadline: August 10 Submissions are being accepted for the Library of Virginia’s First Fridays exhibition on Sept. 6, 2024, titled “Virginia Stories: Underground Art.” As defined for this exhibition, underground art includes artistic expression beyond the conventional and subjective boundaries of the mainstream art world, such as graffiti or street art, tattoo art, comic strips and zines. This can include essentially any genre of art that is outside the mainstream art world. Click herefor details.
Call to Artists, reGENERATE Exhibit, Maryland Art Place — Baltimore
Deadline: August 12 Maryland Art Place (MAP), in partnership with Lumina Solar, is excited to announce an open call for reGENERATE, an upcoming exhibition exploring the dynamic, controversial, and multifaceted concept of “energy.” This exhibition aims to delve into the various interpretations and manifestations of energy. Artworks can be literal or abstract. Click here for details.
Rhizome DC Fall 2024 Film & Video Open Call — D.C.
Deadline: August 15 Rhizome DC invites local filmmakers to submit short moving picture works in any genre and format for a screening in September 2024. Experimental subjects and works shot on film are encouraged to submit. Click here for details.
Call to Young Artists, The Future Generation 2025 Juried Art Competition — D.C.
Deadline: August 15 Calling all young artists ages 18-25 years old! This competition acknowledges the work of talented, emerging portrait artists. Enter up to three works. Artwork must include human figure and be the artist’s own original design and concept, no digital media. First Place receives $1200 cash award and medal presented at annual The Art of the Portrait conference in Washington, DC, May 8-11, 2025. Click here for details.
Call for Entry, Minimalism Online Photography Exhibit
Deadline: August 15 The Chateau Gallery (TCG) seeks entries for an online photography exhibition, September 1 – October 1, 2024. Minimalism is a form of art that highlights simplicity, focusing on the basic features of our surroundings. Open to all photographers ages 18 and older. Click here for details.
Arts Enrichment Programs for Youth Grant Program — Alexandria, VA
Deadline: August 16 The Alexandria Recreation, Parks and Cultural Activities’ Office of the Arts is collaborating with the Recreation Services Division to create Arts Enrichment Program for Youth – Grant Program (AEPY) which is funded by the American Rescue Fund Program for Alexandria. The AEPY is a program to provide funding for nonprofit organizations and teaching artists to develop high quality summer and afterschool arts programs which could be Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math; art, musical performance, culture, both traditional and nontraditional arts; and other creative projects will be in the City’s Recreation Centers. Click here for details.
Call for Entries, Snapshot America: A Portrait of the United States in 2024
Deadline: August 23 The Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts in Providence is looking to take a snapshot of America today for a gallery exhibition and book to document these unique times we live in. From Main Street to your back yard, everyday activities to the grand celebrations and the tragedies that touch us all, we want to see what your America looks like. Click herefor details.
Call for Entries, Small Works 2024 — Clifton Springs, NY
Deadline: August 24 Our eleventh annual national juried exhibition of small works (12 inches or smaller in any direction*) is open to artists working in all media excluding video/sound and installation art. This exhibition is open to all U.S. residents. Click here for details.
Call for Entries, 2024 Quilts Unlimited — Old Forge, NY
Deadline: August 30 Each year, View Arts Center holds the “Quilts Unlimited” exhibition — which is open to all artists working in the fiber based quilting medium. View is a dynamic Center for Arts and Culture based in the Adirondack Region of New York State. Click here for details.
Corning Museum of Glass – Black, Indigenous, & People of Color Residency — Corning, NY
Deadline: August 31 Artists who identify as Black, Indigenous, or people of color can spend five weeks in Western New York exploring new directions in glassmaking or expanding on their current work. Transportation, room and board, and a supply budget are provided. Click here for details.
Call to Artists, Exchange Exhibit, Maryland Art Place — Baltimore
Deadline: September 2 Maryland Art Place (MAP,) in partnership with Quinn Evans, is excited to announce an open call for EXCHANGE. We are seeking artworks centric to energy in relation to the built environment. Artworks can be literal or abstract, but must examine the dynamic relationship between energy systems and architectural spaces, and how these interactions shape our daily lives, environments, and future. Click here for details.
2024 National Collage Society 40th Annual Juried Exhibit — Baltimore and Online
Deadline: September 6 The National Collage Society will host it’s 40th Annual Juried Exhibit at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, Maryland, and online. This exhibition is open to all artists and will count toward Signature Membership. Click here for details.
Innovate Grant Summer 2024 Cycle Open for Submissions.
Deadline: September 12 Innovate Grant awards (2) $1,800.00 grants each quarter, to one Visual Artist and one Photographer. In addition, (12) honorable mentions (6 in art and 6 in photo), will be featured on our website and join a growing community of vibrant and talented artists. Innovate Grant’s commitment extends beyond the grant cycle by promoting the work of selected winners and honorable mentions into the future. Click here for details.
Call for Entry, The Figure: Portrait & Narrative – A Juried Exhibition, Wayne Art Center — Wayne, PA
Deadline: September 16 The Figure: Portraiture & Narrative – A Juried Exhibition invites submissions in painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, photography and mixed media that explore the overlapping territories of portraiture and visual storytelling created by artists 18+ from PA, NJ, NY, DE, MD, VA and Washington, DC. Click here for details.
Call for Entries, Stitching Together History: 250 Quilts Commemorating the Commonwealth of Virginia — Harrisonburg, VA
Deadline: September 30 This project asks artists to commemorate a person, place, event, thing, or idea from Virginia or West Virginia’s history. Artists are encouraged to think beyond the obvious and well-known aspects of Virginia and explore the history of people and places that have been overlooked. The history of Virginia started long before the settlement of Jamestown in 1606 and includes much more than the history of presidents born in the Commonwealth. Click here for details.
Call for Entries, The Bennet Prize 2024.2025 Award Cycle
Deadline: October 4 For women figurative realist painters. The grand prize is $50,000 and a solo show, with an additional finalist receiving $10,000. A four-person jury will select 10 finalists to be featured in a group exhibition that will travel the US. Click here for details.
The Bennett Prize 2024/2025 Award Cycle
Deadline: October 4 The Bennett Prize is open to women figurative realist painters. The grand prize is $50.000 and a solo show , with an additional finalist receiving $10,000. Click here for details.
Multiple Exposures Gallery: Call for New Members — Alexandria, VA
Deadline: October 7 In anticipation of two openings in late 2024 due to relocations, Multiple Exposures Gallery (MEG) is issuing a Call for New Members and invites local photographers interested in gallery membership to apply for consideration. Click here for details.
Call to Artists; VCU Health — Richmond, VA
Deadline: December 1 VCU Health is seeking artists to submit digital images of original artwork available for purchase for the new inpatient and outpatient Liver Transplant Units. This opportunity is open to artists in Virginia, North Carolina, Washington, DC, Maryland and West Virginia. Click here for details.
Instructors Wanted at The Art League — Alexandria, VA
Deadline: Until filled The Art League is looking for skilled instructors in all visual arts disciplines. We’re particularly keen to recruit new hires for our sculpture, stained glass, and watercolor departments. Preferred applicants will have a personable and patient disposition, excellent communication skills, and the ability to teach their medium to groups of beginning, intermediate, and/or advanced level students. Class sizes range, depending on enrollment, from around 5 to 30 students. Experience teaching is helpful but not an absolute requirement. To apply, send a cover letter with statement of intent, resumé, and 6-10 tiffs or jpegs of current work to Ariane D’Souza via email at [email protected].
Ongoing: These opportunities have rolling deadlines.
Studio Sundays Submissions, Create! Magazine
Every month Create! Magazine! picks several winning images of artists’ studio spaces and features them on their website and social media along with artists’ work and story. Submit a quality image of your workspace, studio or kitchen table where you make work for a chance to be featured. For more information and to submit, click here.
Call for Artists, Prince George’s Arts and Humanities Council
Prince George’s Arts and Humanities Council (PGAHC) is featuring county artists at its newest art space Arts’tination at National Harbor, the premier arts and entertainment destination in our regions Located at 162 Waterfront Street, National Harbor, MD. Arts’tination is dedicated to supporting local artists and curating immersive creative experiences. PGAHC is recruiting artists to show and sell their work and/or to conduct arts related workshops for the public. Artists should submit work samples and inquires to [email protected]. For more information please visit https://www.pgahc.org/artstination.
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants
These monthly grants range from $500–$3,000, with the average amount being $1,700. Visual and performing artists whose work is of a contemporary, experimental nature and who have a US Tax ID Number can apply. For more information, click here.
Call for Art, Links Bridge Vineyards—Thurmont, MD
Links Bridge Vineyards, a small artisan style winery located just outside of Frederick, Maryland, is looking to feature the artwork of various artists on the walls of their tasting barn for two weeks at a time. To learn more, call Joan Cartier 301-602-5733 or email her at [email protected].
Pyramid Atlantic offers year-round workshops in printmaking, papermaking, book arts, and hybrids thereof. We offer multi-week, daytime, evening, and weekend intensives for adults in our fully equipped studios. As part of a robust and diverse schedule of offerings, we welcome unsolicited workshop proposals, and hope that you will consider applying! Workshop proposal reviews are ongoing, but for best consideration, submit class proposals by the following dates: 1/15 for Summer Workshops; 4/1 for Fall Workshops; 7/1 for Winter Workshops; 10/1 for Spring Workshops. Questions? Email Gretchen, Artistic Director, [email protected]
Call For Stories About Women in the Arts, Maryland State Arts Council
2020 has been dedicated to the Year of the Woman in Maryland. Do you have an inspiring story about vital contributions of women-identifying people who are artists, arts administrators, or cultural workers? Perhaps an exhibition, performance or project featuring women? Share it with the Maryland State Arts Council for potential use in marketing and communications! Send your ideas to [email protected], and include “Year of the Woman” in the subject line. Satff will contact senders whose stories are selected for inclusion in future newsletters, eblasts, or social media postings. Learn more about Maryland’s year of the Woman here.
Call For Artists, Busboys and Poets
Busboys and Poets is looking for submissions from Maryland and Virginia artists as it expands to new locations in both areas. Submissions can include drawings, painting, photography, sculpture, mixed media, assemblage, fiber, quilts, etc. Art images reflecting life in the city, family, portraits, whimsy, abstraction, social uplift and life experiences within diverse cultures are encouraged for submission. For more information, click here.
Alterwork Studios Online Residency
This residency was designed to give emerging contemporary artists an online platform to create new work and explore their practice. Over the course of four weeks, artists will be encouraged to experiment and explore their concepts and move their work forward in the contemporary art world. Learn more here.
Accepting Artwork for Curatorial Review by AIWA
The Alper Initiative for Washington Art features five exhibitions per year in the newly constructed first floor space in the American University Museum. We accept submissions, on a rolling basis, from Washington artists of all ages and backgrounds, and working in diverse media. The museum’s Director and Curator, Jack Rasmussen, will select curators who will review these submissions for potential use in Alper Initiative exhibitions. For more information click here.
Call For Entry Hamilton Arts Collective Guest Artist Exhibition – Baltimore, MD
The Hamilton Arts Collective (HAC) and the Hamilton Gallery seek applications from artists for month-long Guest Artist exhibitions at Hamilton Gallery located at 5502 Harford Road, Baltimore, MD. The selected guest artists will be invited to exhibit a selection of their current work in Gallery I of the Hamilton Gallery. The Guest Artist exhibition is featured in Hamilton Gallery communications and will be promoted by the HAC and Hamilton Gallery. This is an open call to artists residing within 60 miles of Baltimore City. Baltimore residents are encouraged to apply. Click here to learn more.
Howard County Arts Council Quarterly Call For Artists – Ellicott City, MD
The Howard County Arts Council gallery program was established to enhance the public’s appreciation of the visual arts, provide a venue to exhibit the work of local, regional, and national artists in a professional space, and provide leadership in the arts by presenting a broad spectrum of arts in all media from both emerging and established artists. Artists, ages 18 and older, working in all media and styles including time-based and installation artists, are encouraged to apply either individually or as a group. Proposals from curators and arts organizations are also welcome. Click here to learn more.
Exhibit at Hotel Indigo Downtown Baltimore — Baltimore, MD
The Maryland Art Place (MAP) is working with Hotel Indigo in downtown Baltimore to offer rotating exhibitions in the hotel’s library and Poets Modern Cocktails and Eats restaurant. This opportunity is open to visual artists living or working in Maryland. ’s public art partnership projects (MAP), in partnership with Hotel Indigo, is pleased to announce an open call to artists. MAP will curate four exhibitions a year based on submissions entered through a rolling basis. Click here to learn more.
Solo or Group Shows in Athenaeum Gallery – VA
The Athenaeum Gallery in Alexandria, Virginia exhibits visual arts created solely by artists living or working in the region (DC, Maryland and Virginia) 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. For more information, click here.
The Creativity Grant Program State of Maryland (MD)
Deadline: Rolling. The purpose of the Creativity Grant Program is to strengthen the vitality and sustainability of artists and small organizations to maintain a strong and stable arts infrastructure in the State of Maryland. The Creativity Grant also provides opportunities to serve the growing needs of relevant arts projects and collaborations within Maryland communities. For more information regarding eligibility and funding timelines, please review the Creativity Grants Guidelines. For more information about the program, and to apply visit the Creativity Grant Program State of Maryland website.
Artist/Writers: Cover Art for Academic Medicine
Deadline: Rolling. Submit original works of art inspired by, but not necessarily representative of, an academic medicine experience from any perspective: caregiver, researcher, teacher, learner, or patient (for example, learning how to be a physician or scientist, caring for patients, exploring research questions, making a new discovery, being a research participant, teaching, or being cared for in a teaching hospital). The journal welcomes photography, sculpture, painting, textile work, and other visual media. Images may be cropped or resized to fit into the allotted cover space. Artists must also submit a related Cover Art essay as a narrative companion to the artwork, to explain the connection between the work and the “academic medicine experience.” The related narrative should be 250 to 600 words and is subject to editing. To apply for this opportunity, and to learn more, visit the Academic Medicine website.
The Awesome Foundation Accepting Applications for Art Projects
Deadline: Open. The Awesome Foundation for the Arts and Sciences is a worldwide network of people devoted to forwarding the interest of “awesomeness in the universe.” Established in 2009, the foundation distributes $1,000 grants on a monthly basis to projects and their creators. The money is pooled from ten or more self-organizing “micro-trustees.” The chapters are autonomous and organized by the trustees around geographic areas or topics of interest. Apply on the Awesome Foundation website.
Call for Artists: Maryland Art Place Seeks Proposals for Rotating Exhibition Partnership with Baltimore’s Hotel Indigo (MD)
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. Guidelines and information here.
Peripheral ARTeries – Biennial Contemporary Art Publication
Deadline: Rolling. Peripheral ARTeries is looking for artists to be featured in the new special Biennial Edition of their art publication, that comes to its 10th edition. This opportunity is great for both established and early career artists who need a boost to their artist portfolio. The 10th edition will once again explore and show current trends and tendencies in Contemporary Art: Peripheral ARTeries cultivates a spirit of openness through a unique collaborative and participatory approach.Each artist may submit a maximum of three works or projects made in any technique: painting, drawing, video art, experimental cinema, fine art photography, experimental media, mixed media, installations, public art, performance. The call is open to all proposed kind of art and media capable of challenging the viewers’ traditional perspective on art itself. To submit, visit the Peripheral ARTeries website.
Exhibit at Hotel Indigo (VA)
Artists works will displayed in the hotel’s gallery (220 S Union St, Old Town Alexandria) for a six-month period. Two-dimensional, framed works only. Artists will install the work using the hotel’s mounting hardware. Labels will be provided by the hotel. All sales handled by artist, no commission. Preference for local or locally influenced selections but not required. The space measures approximately 7’10” by 8’3.″ If interested, contact Kate Ellis, General Manager, [email protected].
The New Project Studio – Ongoing Opportunity (VA)
Ongoing. Located in Studio 8, the New Project Studio is a community-focused arts incubator space that offers a short-term location to test new program ideas, spotlight underrepresented voices, and enhance community engagement. Projects rotate on a regular basis. For more information, click here.
Public Arts Grants & Opportunities (VA)
Ongoing. The City of Alexandria’s Office of the Arts provides grants for nonprofit arts organizations as well as individual artists. See all current opportunities and online applications here.
Residency: Maryland
Deadline: ongoing. Montgomery College, Rockville and Germantown Art Department is seeking proposals for its Artist-in-Residence Program, encouraging proposals that cultivate collaborative work between artists and students.
Looking for artists: Foundry Gallery (DC)
Deadline: ongoing. Foundry Gallery is seeking a few artists in the greater Washington, DC area. If interested in applying for membership please send up to five images (jpg attachments) and an email letter to: [email protected]. The oldest cooperative in Washington, the gallery holds monthly solo and members’ group shows at its beautiful space north of Shaw near the 9:30 Club.
Looking for artists: Printmakers (DC)
Deadline: ongoing. Washington Printmakers Gallery is seeking artist members specializing in printmaking, photography and book arts. An active cooperative for over 30 years, the gallery holds monthly solo and members’ group shows in its lovely space in upper Georgetown. Distant and shared memberships are available. If interested in applying for membership please email [email protected].
"One Eyed Stare," photography by Leslie Landerkin, is on view in July's Open Exhibit through August 4.
Welcome to Artful Weekend
-our listing of area art exhibits and events-
This weekend: July 2024 Open Exhibit, Vanishing by Holly Coleat The Art League; National Small Worksat Washington Printmakers Gallery; Candy Coated by Megan Maher at Artists & Makers Studios; and Iteration Reiteration at Touchstone Gallery.
July 2024 Open Exhibit
Duet by Eva Lanyi; Photography
Experience the authentic creativity of member artists through Open Exhibits at The Art League. This collection—92 artworks in all— boasts a vibrant mix of painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and mixed media. The July 2024 Open Exhibit, meticulously curated by respected artist and William & Mary professor, Elizabeth Mead, is a testament to the passion and talent within our artistic community.
Vanishing by Holly Cole
Orphan Toto by Holly Cole; Fiber sculpture
Holly Cole’s enchanting exhibit, Vanishing, is a heartfelt tribute to the disappearing species on our planet. Drawing inspiration from the resilience of endangered animals, she creates breathtaking sculptures and quilts using surplus military fabric and sheers. Through her art, Holly warmly highlights the pressing issues of fast-vanishing habitats, trophy hunting, and shifting climates, inviting us all to take a closer look at the world we share with these magnificent creatures.
July exhibits at The Art League are on view through August 4.
National Small Works
Sachin Pannuri, You’re My Home, etching and aquatint, 8″ x 10″
Washington Printmakers Gallery presents the 26th year of the National Small Works Show. The exhibit honors Peggy Doole (1934-2021), long-time resident of the DC area who shared her love of art by giving lectures, sponsoring exhibits, and leading tours at the Hirshhorn, the National Gallery of Art, and other museums throughout Europe and the U.S. Her post-graduate museum work led her to a focus on, and a special passion for, printmaking. The exhibition includes 36 pieces—fine art prints, photographs, and printed objects chosen by our juror Ann Shafer, an independent curator, art historian and writer. It is on view through August 25, with reception and awards ceromony Saturday, August 10, from 2–5 p.m.; 1675 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Washington, D.C.
Candy Coated by Megan Maher
Double Trouble by Megan Maher; Acrylic, crayon, colored, pencil, and oil pastel on panel
In Candy Coated, at Artist & Makers Studio, artist Megan Maher creates a visual playground of irregular looping lines that invite us to rediscover the color orange. This new series of paintings and drawings centers on the artist’s distinctive “squiggle,” inviting viewers to embrace their inner child and delight in the act of viewing. Candy Coated is on view through August 28. Join Maher for an artist talk Saturdya, August 17, from 1–3 p.m.; 11810 Parklawn Drive, Suite 210, Rockville, Maryland.
Iteration Reiteration
Origin by Sheri Werner, courtesy of Touchstone Gallery and Sheri Werner
Patterns and repetitive elements, integral to the art and design of countless cultures and artistic methods, offer viewers a framework to interpret information through recurring arrangements. This open call solicited artwork that embraces pattern and repetition as the focal point, a complementary element within a piece, or as a fundamental part of the creative process. From symmetrical arrangements, geometric precision, minimalist repetition, and organic flows, Iteration Reiteration honors the power of patterns. Iteration Reiteration is on view at Touchstone Gallery through September 2; 901 New York Ave NW,
Washington, D.C.
Call to Young Artists, The Future Generation 2025 Juried Art Competition — D.C.
Deadline: August 15 Calling all young artists ages 18-25 years old! This competition acknowledges the work of talented, emerging portrait artists. Enter up to three works. Artwork must include human figure and be the artist’s own original design and concept, no digital media. First Place receives $1200 cash award and medal presented at annual The Art of the Portrait conference in Washington, DC, May 8-11, 2025. Click here for details.
Call for Entry, Minimalism Online Photography Exhibit
Deadline: August 15 The Chateau Gallery (TCG) seeks entries for an online photography exhibition, September 1 – October 1, 2024. Minimalism is a form of art that highlights simplicity, focusing on the basic features of our surroundings. Open to all photographers ages 18 and older. Click here for details.
Innovate Grant Summer 2024 Cycle Open for Submissions.
Deadline: September 12 Innovate Grant awards (2) $1,800.00 grants each quarter, to one Visual Artist and one Photographer. In addition, (12) honorable mentions (6 in art and 6 in photo), will be featured on our website and join a growing community of vibrant and talented artists. Innovate Grant’s commitment extends beyond the grant cycle by promoting the work of selected winners and honorable mentions into the future. Click here for details.
Call for Entries, Snapshot America: A Portrait of the United States in 2024
Deadline: August 23 The Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts in Providence is looking to take a snapshot of America today for a gallery exhibition and book to document these unique times we live in. From Main Street to your back yard, everyday activities to the grand celebrations and the tragedies that touch us all, we want to see what your America looks like. Click herefor details.
Call for Entries, Small Works 2024 — Clifton Springs, NY
Deadline: August 24 Our eleventh annual national juried exhibition of small works (12 inches or smaller in any direction*) is open to artists working in all media excluding video/sound and installation art. This exhibition is open to all U.S. residents. Click here for details.
Call for Entry, The Figure: Portrait & Narrative – A Juried Exhibition, Wayne Art Center — Wayne, PA
Deadline: September 16 The Figure: Portraiture & Narrative – A Juried Exhibition invites submissions in painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, photography and mixed media that explore the overlapping territories of portraiture and visual storytelling created by artists 18+ from PA, NJ, NY, DE, MD, VA and Washington, DC. Click here for details.
Re-runs: These were previously posted, but it’s not too late to enter!
Call for Entry, Artina 2024: A Point of View — Sandy Spring, MD
Deadline: August 4 Artists are invited to submit existing or new sculptures, and site-specific installations that fit the theme “Point of View.” You are welcome to take the theme and explore any metaphors in nature, society, politics, etc. Go wild! But provide a point of reference for your viewer/participant. All mediums are welcome, but all works must be suitable for outdoors with little to no maintenance. Click here for details.
Call for Entry, Sculpture Now 2024, McLean Project for the Arts — McLean, VA
Deadline: August 4 Sculpture NOW 2024 is a non-thematic exhibition of new works, finished within the last two years. Three-dimensional freestanding sculpture, wall-hung and ceiling-hung sculpture, and installations as well as multimedia and performance-based works are welcome. click here for details.
Call for Entries, 10th International Phone-ography Competition — Huntington, NY
Deadline: August 4 The competition is open to photographers 18 years of age or older, excluding members of fotofoto
gallery. Image capture must have been made with the camera on your phone. Any phone! Click here for details.
Call for Entries, Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture 53rd Annual Labor Day Art Show — Glen Echo, MD
Deadline: August 5 Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture seeks artists for the 53rd Annual Labor Day Art Show, held August 31 – September 2, 2024 in the Spanish Ballroom, Glen Echo Park in Glen Echo, Maryland. Open to all artists with original works created within the last two years. Click herefor details.
Call for Entries, Quilts = Art = Quilts 2024 — Auburn, NY
Deadline: August 6Quilts=Art=Quilts is an international juried quilt exhibition at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn, New York. The Art Center has been a longstanding proponent of quilts as a visual arts medium and has been presenting quilts in a gallery setting since 1981. Jurors select quilts based on overall quality of design, visual impact and originality. Prizes are awarded, including $1,000 for Best of Show. Click here for details.
Deadline: August 7 Sponsored by the Baltimore Watercolor Society (BWS), this exhibit of watermedia is open to all artists residing in the Mid-Atlantic states (NY, NJ, PA, DE, MD, VA, WV, and DC) and all BWS signature members regardless of residence. Entries must be original watermedia paintings completed in the last 5 years. Click here for details.
Call for Entries, Library of Virginia exhibit Virginia Stories: Underground Art — Richmond, VA
Deadline: August 10 Submissions are being accepted for the Library of Virginia’s First Fridays exhibition on Sept. 6, 2024, titled “Virginia Stories: Underground Art.” As defined for this exhibition, underground art includes artistic expression beyond the conventional and subjective boundaries of the mainstream art world, such as graffiti or street art, tattoo art, comic strips and zines. This can include essentially any genre of art that is outside the mainstream art world. Click herefor details.
Call to Artists, reGENERATE Exhibit, Maryland Art Place — Baltimore
Deadline: August 12 Maryland Art Place (MAP), in partnership with Lumina Solar, is excited to announce an open call for reGENERATE, an upcoming exhibition exploring the dynamic, controversial, and multifaceted concept of “energy.” This exhibition aims to delve into the various interpretations and manifestations of energy. Artworks can be literal or abstract. Click here for details.
Rhizome DC Fall 2024 Film & Video Open Call — D.C.
Deadline: August 15 Rhizome DC invites local filmmakers to submit short moving picture works in any genre and format for a screening in September 2024. Experimental subjects and works shot on film are encouraged to submit. Click here for details.
Arts Enrichment Programs for Youth Grant Program — Alexandria, VA
Deadline: August 16 The Alexandria Recreation, Parks and Cultural Activities’ Office of the Arts is collaborating with the Recreation Services Division to create Arts Enrichment Program for Youth – Grant Program (AEPY) which is funded by the American Rescue Fund Program for Alexandria. The AEPY is a program to provide funding for nonprofit organizations and teaching artists to develop high quality summer and afterschool arts programs which could be Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math; art, musical performance, culture, both traditional and nontraditional arts; and other creative projects will be in the City’s Recreation Centers. Click here for details.
Call for Entries, 2024 Quilts Unlimited — Old Forge, NY
Deadline: August 30 Each year, View Arts Center holds the “Quilts Unlimited” exhibition — which is open to all artists working in the fiber based quilting medium. View is a dynamic Center for Arts and Culture based in the Adirondack Region of New York State. Click here for details.
Corning Museum of Glass – Black, Indigenous, & People of Color Residency — Corning, NY
Deadline: August 31 Artists who identify as Black, Indigenous, or people of color can spend five weeks in Western New York exploring new directions in glassmaking or expanding on their current work. Transportation, room and board, and a supply budget are provided. Click here for details.
Call to Artists, Exchange Exhibit, Maryland Art Place — Baltimore
Deadline: September 2 Maryland Art Place (MAP,) in partnership with Quinn Evans, is excited to announce an open call for EXCHANGE. We are seeking artworks centric to energy in relation to the built environment. Artworks can be literal or abstract, but must examine the dynamic relationship between energy systems and architectural spaces, and how these interactions shape our daily lives, environments, and future. Click here for details.
2024 National Collage Society 40th Annual Juried Exhibit — Baltimore and Online
Deadline: September 6 The National Collage Society will host it’s 40th Annual Juried Exhibit at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, Maryland, and online. This exhibition is open to all artists and will count toward Signature Membership. Click here for details.
Call for Entries, Stitching Together History: 250 Quilts Commemorating the Commonwealth of Virginia — Harrisonburg, VA
Deadline: September 30 This project asks artists to commemorate a person, place, event, thing, or idea from Virginia or West Virginia’s history. Artists are encouraged to think beyond the obvious and well-known aspects of Virginia and explore the history of people and places that have been overlooked. The history of Virginia started long before the settlement of Jamestown in 1606 and includes much more than the history of presidents born in the Commonwealth. Click here for details.
Call for Entries, The Bennet Prize 2024.2025 Award Cycle
Deadline: October 4 For women figurative realist painters. The grand prize is $50,000 and a solo show, with an additional finalist receiving $10,000. A four-person jury will select 10 finalists to be featured in a group exhibition that will travel the US. Click here for details.
The Bennett Prize 2024/2025 Award Cycle
Deadline: October 4 The Bennett Prize is open to women figurative realist painters. The grand prize is $50.000 and a solo show , with an additional finalist receiving $10,000. Click here for details.
Multiple Exposures Gallery: Call for New Members — Alexandria, VA
Deadline: October 7 In anticipation of two openings in late 2024 due to relocations, Multiple Exposures Gallery (MEG) is issuing a Call for New Members and invites local photographers interested in gallery membership to apply for consideration. Click here for details.
Call to Artists; VCU Health — Richmond, VA
Deadline: December 1 VCU Health is seeking artists to submit digital images of original artwork available for purchase for the new inpatient and outpatient Liver Transplant Units. This opportunity is open to artists in Virginia, North Carolina, Washington, DC, Maryland and West Virginia. Click here for details.
Instructors Wanted at The Art League — Alexandria, VA
Deadline: Until filled The Art League is looking for skilled instructors in all visual arts disciplines. We’re particularly keen to recruit new hires for our sculpture, stained glass, and watercolor departments. Preferred applicants will have a personable and patient disposition, excellent communication skills, and the ability to teach their medium to groups of beginning, intermediate, and/or advanced level students. Class sizes range, depending on enrollment, from around 5 to 30 students. Experience teaching is helpful but not an absolute requirement. To apply, send a cover letter with statement of intent, resumé, and 6-10 tiffs or jpegs of current work to Ariane D’Souza via email at [email protected].
Ongoing: These opportunities have rolling deadlines.
Studio Sundays Submissions, Create! Magazine
Every month Create! Magazine! picks several winning images of artists’ studio spaces and features them on their website and social media along with artists’ work and story. Submit a quality image of your workspace, studio or kitchen table where you make work for a chance to be featured. For more information and to submit, click here.
Call for Artists, Prince George’s Arts and Humanities Council
Prince George’s Arts and Humanities Council (PGAHC) is featuring county artists at its newest art space Arts’tination at National Harbor, the premier arts and entertainment destination in our regions Located at 162 Waterfront Street, National Harbor, MD. Arts’tination is dedicated to supporting local artists and curating immersive creative experiences. PGAHC is recruiting artists to show and sell their work and/or to conduct arts related workshops for the public. Artists should submit work samples and inquires to [email protected]. For more information please visit https://www.pgahc.org/artstination.
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants
These monthly grants range from $500–$3,000, with the average amount being $1,700. Visual and performing artists whose work is of a contemporary, experimental nature and who have a US Tax ID Number can apply. For more information, click here.
Call for Art, Links Bridge Vineyards—Thurmont, MD
Links Bridge Vineyards, a small artisan style winery located just outside of Frederick, Maryland, is looking to feature the artwork of various artists on the walls of their tasting barn for two weeks at a time. To learn more, call Joan Cartier 301-602-5733 or email her at [email protected].
Pyramid Atlantic offers year-round workshops in printmaking, papermaking, book arts, and hybrids thereof. We offer multi-week, daytime, evening, and weekend intensives for adults in our fully equipped studios. As part of a robust and diverse schedule of offerings, we welcome unsolicited workshop proposals, and hope that you will consider applying! Workshop proposal reviews are ongoing, but for best consideration, submit class proposals by the following dates: 1/15 for Summer Workshops; 4/1 for Fall Workshops; 7/1 for Winter Workshops; 10/1 for Spring Workshops. Questions? Email Gretchen, Artistic Director, [email protected]
Call For Stories About Women in the Arts, Maryland State Arts Council
2020 has been dedicated to the Year of the Woman in Maryland. Do you have an inspiring story about vital contributions of women-identifying people who are artists, arts administrators, or cultural workers? Perhaps an exhibition, performance or project featuring women? Share it with the Maryland State Arts Council for potential use in marketing and communications! Send your ideas to [email protected], and include “Year of the Woman” in the subject line. Satff will contact senders whose stories are selected for inclusion in future newsletters, eblasts, or social media postings. Learn more about Maryland’s year of the Woman here.
Call For Artists, Busboys and Poets
Busboys and Poets is looking for submissions from Maryland and Virginia artists as it expands to new locations in both areas. Submissions can include drawings, painting, photography, sculpture, mixed media, assemblage, fiber, quilts, etc. Art images reflecting life in the city, family, portraits, whimsy, abstraction, social uplift and life experiences within diverse cultures are encouraged for submission. For more information, click here.
Alterwork Studios Online Residency
This residency was designed to give emerging contemporary artists an online platform to create new work and explore their practice. Over the course of four weeks, artists will be encouraged to experiment and explore their concepts and move their work forward in the contemporary art world. Learn more here.
Accepting Artwork for Curatorial Review by AIWA
The Alper Initiative for Washington Art features five exhibitions per year in the newly constructed first floor space in the American University Museum. We accept submissions, on a rolling basis, from Washington artists of all ages and backgrounds, and working in diverse media. The museum’s Director and Curator, Jack Rasmussen, will select curators who will review these submissions for potential use in Alper Initiative exhibitions. For more information click here.
Call For Entry Hamilton Arts Collective Guest Artist Exhibition – Baltimore, MD
The Hamilton Arts Collective (HAC) and the Hamilton Gallery seek applications from artists for month-long Guest Artist exhibitions at Hamilton Gallery located at 5502 Harford Road, Baltimore, MD. The selected guest artists will be invited to exhibit a selection of their current work in Gallery I of the Hamilton Gallery. The Guest Artist exhibition is featured in Hamilton Gallery communications and will be promoted by the HAC and Hamilton Gallery. This is an open call to artists residing within 60 miles of Baltimore City. Baltimore residents are encouraged to apply. Click here to learn more.
Howard County Arts Council Quarterly Call For Artists – Ellicott City, MD
The Howard County Arts Council gallery program was established to enhance the public’s appreciation of the visual arts, provide a venue to exhibit the work of local, regional, and national artists in a professional space, and provide leadership in the arts by presenting a broad spectrum of arts in all media from both emerging and established artists. Artists, ages 18 and older, working in all media and styles including time-based and installation artists, are encouraged to apply either individually or as a group. Proposals from curators and arts organizations are also welcome. Click here to learn more.
Exhibit at Hotel Indigo Downtown Baltimore — Baltimore, MD
The Maryland Art Place (MAP) is working with Hotel Indigo in downtown Baltimore to offer rotating exhibitions in the hotel’s library and Poets Modern Cocktails and Eats restaurant. This opportunity is open to visual artists living or working in Maryland. ’s public art partnership projects (MAP), in partnership with Hotel Indigo, is pleased to announce an open call to artists. MAP will curate four exhibitions a year based on submissions entered through a rolling basis. Click here to learn more.
Solo or Group Shows in Athenaeum Gallery – VA
The Athenaeum Gallery in Alexandria, Virginia exhibits visual arts created solely by artists living or working in the region (DC, Maryland and Virginia) 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. For more information, click here.
The Creativity Grant Program State of Maryland (MD)
Deadline: Rolling. The purpose of the Creativity Grant Program is to strengthen the vitality and sustainability of artists and small organizations to maintain a strong and stable arts infrastructure in the State of Maryland. The Creativity Grant also provides opportunities to serve the growing needs of relevant arts projects and collaborations within Maryland communities. For more information regarding eligibility and funding timelines, please review the Creativity Grants Guidelines. For more information about the program, and to apply visit the Creativity Grant Program State of Maryland website.
Artist/Writers: Cover Art for Academic Medicine
Deadline: Rolling. Submit original works of art inspired by, but not necessarily representative of, an academic medicine experience from any perspective: caregiver, researcher, teacher, learner, or patient (for example, learning how to be a physician or scientist, caring for patients, exploring research questions, making a new discovery, being a research participant, teaching, or being cared for in a teaching hospital). The journal welcomes photography, sculpture, painting, textile work, and other visual media. Images may be cropped or resized to fit into the allotted cover space. Artists must also submit a related Cover Art essay as a narrative companion to the artwork, to explain the connection between the work and the “academic medicine experience.” The related narrative should be 250 to 600 words and is subject to editing. To apply for this opportunity, and to learn more, visit the Academic Medicine website.
The Awesome Foundation Accepting Applications for Art Projects
Deadline: Open. The Awesome Foundation for the Arts and Sciences is a worldwide network of people devoted to forwarding the interest of “awesomeness in the universe.” Established in 2009, the foundation distributes $1,000 grants on a monthly basis to projects and their creators. The money is pooled from ten or more self-organizing “micro-trustees.” The chapters are autonomous and organized by the trustees around geographic areas or topics of interest. Apply on the Awesome Foundation website.
Call for Artists: Maryland Art Place Seeks Proposals for Rotating Exhibition Partnership with Baltimore’s Hotel Indigo (MD)
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. Guidelines and information here.
Peripheral ARTeries – Biennial Contemporary Art Publication
Deadline: Rolling. Peripheral ARTeries is looking for artists to be featured in the new special Biennial Edition of their art publication, that comes to its 10th edition. This opportunity is great for both established and early career artists who need a boost to their artist portfolio. The 10th edition will once again explore and show current trends and tendencies in Contemporary Art: Peripheral ARTeries cultivates a spirit of openness through a unique collaborative and participatory approach.Each artist may submit a maximum of three works or projects made in any technique: painting, drawing, video art, experimental cinema, fine art photography, experimental media, mixed media, installations, public art, performance. The call is open to all proposed kind of art and media capable of challenging the viewers’ traditional perspective on art itself. To submit, visit the Peripheral ARTeries website.
Exhibit at Hotel Indigo (VA)
Artists works will displayed in the hotel’s gallery (220 S Union St, Old Town Alexandria) for a six-month period. Two-dimensional, framed works only. Artists will install the work using the hotel’s mounting hardware. Labels will be provided by the hotel. All sales handled by artist, no commission. Preference for local or locally influenced selections but not required. The space measures approximately 7’10” by 8’3.″ If interested, contact Kate Ellis, General Manager, [email protected].
The New Project Studio – Ongoing Opportunity (VA)
Ongoing. Located in Studio 8, the New Project Studio is a community-focused arts incubator space that offers a short-term location to test new program ideas, spotlight underrepresented voices, and enhance community engagement. Projects rotate on a regular basis. For more information, click here.
Public Arts Grants & Opportunities (VA)
Ongoing. The City of Alexandria’s Office of the Arts provides grants for nonprofit arts organizations as well as individual artists. See all current opportunities and online applications here.
Residency: Maryland
Deadline: ongoing. Montgomery College, Rockville and Germantown Art Department is seeking proposals for its Artist-in-Residence Program, encouraging proposals that cultivate collaborative work between artists and students.
Looking for artists: Foundry Gallery (DC)
Deadline: ongoing. Foundry Gallery is seeking a few artists in the greater Washington, DC area. If interested in applying for membership please send up to five images (jpg attachments) and an email letter to: [email protected]. The oldest cooperative in Washington, the gallery holds monthly solo and members’ group shows at its beautiful space north of Shaw near the 9:30 Club.
Looking for artists: Printmakers (DC)
Deadline: ongoing. Washington Printmakers Gallery is seeking artist members specializing in printmaking, photography and book arts. An active cooperative for over 30 years, the gallery holds monthly solo and members’ group shows in its lovely space in upper Georgetown. Distant and shared memberships are available. If interested in applying for membership please email [email protected].
