Every week we gather a variety of artist opportunities from the DC area and beyond. Find one below and apply today — good luck! Click here for recent opportunities posts, and submit your opportunity listing here.
Opportunities
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 18 New 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 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 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 6 Quilts=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.
Call for Entries, 2024 Mid-Atlantic Regional Watercolor Exhibition — Gaithersburg, MD
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 here for 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 here for 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 Workshop Proposals – Hyattsville, MD
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].