Month: September 2024

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 Photography, Spectrum of Exposure — Brooklyn, NY

Deadline: October 4    The Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC) presents  Spectrum of Exposure,  a national juried photography exhibition opening November 2, 2024. Spectrum of Exposure will showcase photography-based artwork that exemplifies and defines the realm of photography in our post-Covid culture. We seek to make a comprehensive statement that demonstrates the art, science, vision, and magic of photography. Click here for details.

 

Call for Entries, Strathmore’s 33rd Annual Juried Exhibition: Full Circle — Bethesda, MD

Deadline: November 19    Strathmore welcomes artists to submit original artwork for Strathmore’s 33rd Annual Juried Exhibition: Full Circle. This call invites artists to create work depicting subjects with a circular form; or exploring symbolism, metaphor, or traditions expanding the basic circle. From apples to eggs, drum rolls to figure eights, we challenge artists to close the loop, spiral out of control, and share their sphere of influence in this year’s call for art. Click here for details.

 

Call for Artists, Those Who Tend, Visionary Art Collective — New York

Deadline: December 1    Visionary Art Collective is partnering with Warnes Contemporary Gallery in New York City to present our annual in-person juried group exhibition, Those Who Tend, curated by Kaylan Buteyn. These days, we have so much to tend to—countless demands that deserve our attention. Our art practice needs nurturing, our children need feeding, our gardens need weeding, and our inboxes need clearing. We are pulled in many directions, tending to various aspects of life. Yet, the most important tending we often overlook is towards ourselves. This call is a reflection for “those who tend”—an invitation to submit work created amidst the challenges of balancing a life full of responsibilities. Artist parents who are juggling their art practice, careers, domestic tasks, caregiving, and carving out time for self-care are invited to submit their work. Click here for details.

 

Call for Photography, Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest 2024

Deadline: December 2    The competition is open to anyone aged 18 or over. This photo contest is organized by Smithsonian Magazine. There are 6 categories: • Natural World: Animals, plants and landscapes; geological or climatological features; and scientific processes and endeavors. • Travel: Locales, peoples or activities in the United States and abroad that convey a sense of place. Click here for details.

 

Call for Photography, Sony World Photography Awards 2025

Deadline: January 1    The Sony World Photography Awards are held annually by the World Photography Organisation. There are four competitions: • Professional competitionAll entrants must be over 18. Click here for details.

 

Re-runs: These were previously posted, but it’s not too late to enter!

 

Call to Artists/Designers, Wayfinding/Public Art Request for Qualifications, Catonsville Arts District, Baltimore County Arts Guild — Catonsville, MD

Deadline: September 24    The Catonsville Arts District, as part of the second phase of the Public Art Across Maryland (PAAM) Planning grant, invites professional artists and design teams to submit qualifications for a public art and wayfinding project. This initiative aims to enhance community engagement, tourism, and economic revitalization through creative signage and public art installations that reflect Catonsville’s rich cultural heritage and vibrant arts community. 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.

 

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.

 

Open Call, Highly Animated Art Exhibition and Event at the beachKraft StudioGallery — Olney, MD

Deadline: September 30 “Highly Animated” is an open-call exhibit inviting artists to display their work in a professional gallery setting and compete in a contest. Artwork should feature favorite saga/storytelling characters in inventive ways or introduce new original characters. Submissions will be juried into two categories: Original Characters and Fan Art Expressionism, with judging based on unique poses, background integration, and color scheme. Click here for details.

 

Call to Artists, Pioneer Works 2025 Residency — Brooklyn, NY

Deadline: September 30    Pioneer Works is pleased to announce its 2025 Open Call for Visual Arts and Music Residents. The Brooklyn nonprofit cultural center welcomes residents working outside the norm who will benefit from its unique facilities and collaborative environment. 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.

 

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.

 

Center for Craft – Craft Research Fund Grant

Deadline: October 4    The Craft Research Fund supports and expands craft research in the US. Proposals are welcome from a variety of applicants, including organizations, curators, artist-researchers, and scholars. Grants range from $5,000 to $15,000. 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 for Exhibitors, 2024 DC Risoprint Fair — D.C.

Deadline: October 7    The DC Risoprint Fair is an event organized by Phil Hutinet with East City Art, DC’s publication of record, as the presenting sponsor. The DC Risoprint Fair will showcase and elevate the distinctive printing process known as Risography or Risograph printing. Click here for details.

 

Call to Artists, Plein Air at Meadowkirk at Delta Farm — Middleburg, VA

Deadline: October 9    In commemorating 10 years of life-giving retreat service, partnership and impact, Meadowkirk at Delta Farm invites you to join us for a special multi-day plein air painting opportunity at our 358-acre retreat center near Middleburg, Virginia. Our invitation includes an initial four-day series of plein air painting opportunities. Participating artists are also encouraged to join us for Meadowkirk’s anniversary main event on Saturday, October 26 when the grounds will also be
open for plein air painting. Click here for more information.

 

Call for Entries, Contemporary Realism at Site:Brooklyn — Brooklyn, NY

Deadline: October 14    Realism has made a powerful return in recent decades. It is a style that speaks to both contemporary and long-term questions about nature, beauty, technology, and representation. Site:Brooklyn is looking for works, across all mediums, which engage and develop this tradition. Click here for details.

 

Call for Entries, Contemporary Realism Online Exhibition

Deadline: October 14    While abstraction dominated much of 20th-century art, Realism has made a powerful return in recent decades. It is a style that speaks to both contemporary and long-term questions about nature, beauty, technology, and representation. Photography, painting, sculpture, and digital media have each used Realism to approach contemporary life in compelling and new ways. Site:Brooklyn is looking for works, across all mediums, which engage and develop this tradition. Click here for details.

 

Smithsonian American Art Museum – 2025–2026 Research Fellowships — D.C.

Deadline: October 15    Residential fellowships at SAAM and its Renwick Gallery support full-time, independent research on US art, craft, and visual culture. Paid appointments are available at graduate, predoctoral, postdoctoral, and senior levels. Click here for details.

 

Call to Artists, collaborate / kəˈlabəˌrāt, Gallery Y, Anthony Bowen YMCA Anthony Bowen — DC

Deadline: October 16    Gallery Y invites you to celebrate the power of creative partnerships and the magic that happens when artists partner together on the same vision. Artists from all disciplines and backgrounds are welcome to submit their collaborative works for this group exhibit. Collaboration in art is more than just working together; it’s about blending visions, skills, and perspectives to create something greater. 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 for Entries, Falls Church Arts Vivid! — Falls Church, VA

Deadline: October 27    Artists are invited to submit their boldest, brightest pieces for Vivid!, an exhibit at Falls Church Arts on view from November 23, 2024 – January 5, 2025. 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 The Homiens 60, and may request a letter of recommendation from our jurors. Click here for details.

 

Call to Artists, Residency, William Flanagan Memorial Creative Persons Center — Montauk, NY

Deadline: October 31    The Edward F. Albee Foundation exists to serve writers and visual artists from all walks of life, by providing time and space in which to work without disturbance. Using only talent and need as the criteria for selection, the Foundation invites any and all artists to apply. 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 Artwork Portraits Project—Trans and Nonbinary Artists — D.C.

Deadline: November 1    The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC (GMCW) is seeking artwork by trans and nonbinary artists to be included as part of the PORTRAITS project. PORTRAITS represents, through visual art, music, and dance, the spectrum of sexual, gender, racial, ethnic, and cultural identities. Paintings, drawings, and photographs are welcome. The artworks may be a portrait or a scene depicting an aspect of the human experience, including identity expression and historical references specific to the LGBTQ+ community. Photographs of selected artworks will be projected as part of a live performance, brought to life aurally by music inspired by the selected artwork, visually by GMCW’s 17th Street Dance Company. Click here for details.

 

Call for Artwork, Portraits Project—Trans and Nonbinary Artists — D.C.

Deadline: November 1    The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC (GMCW) is seeking artwork by trans and nonbinary artists to be included as part of the PORTRAITS project. PORTRAITS represents, through visual art, music, and dance, the spectrum of sexual, gender, racial, ethnic, and cultural identities. Paintings, drawings, and photographs are welcome. The artworks may be a portrait or a scene depicting an aspect of the human experience, including identity expression and historical references specific to the LGBTQ+ community. Photographs of selected artworks will be projected as part of a live performance, brought to life aurally by music inspired by the selected artwork, visually by GMCW’s 17th Street Dance Company. Click here for details.

 

National Sculpture Society – Stanley Bleifeld Memorial Grant

Deadline: November 4    This $5,000 prize supports a sculptor with exceptional skill and a mature, nature-inspired body of work. Eligible works include sculptures in the round and bas-relief, excluding those made in workshops or classes. 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 here for 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.

 

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.

 

Tour de Force Foundation Grants for Artists

Deadline: December 7    Are you an artist or educator in the DMV area with an innovative idea for civic engagement? The Tour de Force Foundation is looking for creative projects that can enrich and inspire the community. In the past two years, we have awarded 26 grants totaling $52,000, supporting over 200 artists. Click here for details.

 

Call for Entries, Lust for Rust at Atlantic Gallery — New York

Deadline: December 15    Atlantic Gallery, located in the historic Landmark Arts Building in Chelsea, invites artists to submit work for the upcoming juried show, Lust For Rust. Rust is the most visible result of entropy, yet rust also protects, often described as a sacrificial element in architecture. Rust is poetic, time-worn, and open to interpretation. We are seeking innovative artworks, 2D and 3D, that utilize painting, sculpture, cartooning or graphic novels, collage, and mixed media that communicates your lust for rust. 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 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 here for details.

 

 

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].

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 

 

Open Call, Environmental Justice Public Art Project for DC Ward 5 Artists — D.C.

Deadline: September 30    The Environmental Justice “Artivists” of Social Art and Culture are excited to invite you to contribute to a community-driven public art project entitled Up in the Air. We are seeking photographic portrait submissions that reflect your vision of Clean Air in Ward 5, DC. If accepted, your submission will be featured in the final design of the Up in the Air mural, which will be installed in Ward 5 during the Fall of 2024. Click here for details.

 

Center for Craft – Craft Research Fund Grant

Deadline: October 4    The Craft Research Fund supports and expands craft research in the US. Proposals are welcome from a variety of applicants, including organizations, curators, artist-researchers, and scholars. Grants range from $5,000 to $15,000. Click here for details.

 

Call for Entries, Contemporary Realism Online Exhibition

Deadline: October 14    While abstraction dominated much of 20th-century art, Realism has made a powerful return in recent decades. It is a style that speaks to both contemporary and long-term questions about nature, beauty, technology, and representation. Photography, painting, sculpture, and digital media have each used Realism to approach contemporary life in compelling and new ways. Site:Brooklyn is looking for works, across all mediums, which engage and develop this tradition. Click here for details.

 

Smithsonian American Art Museum – 2025–2026 Research Fellowships — D.C.

Deadline: October 15    Residential fellowships at SAAM and its Renwick Gallery support full-time, independent research on US art, craft, and visual culture. Paid appointments are available at graduate, predoctoral, postdoctoral, and senior levels. Click here for details.

 

National Sculpture Society – Stanley Bleifeld Memorial Grant

Deadline: November 4    This $5,000 prize supports a sculptor with exceptional skill and a mature, nature-inspired body of work. Eligible works include sculptures in the round and bas-relief, excluding those made in workshops or classes. Click here for details.

 

 

Re-runs: These were previously posted, but it’s not too late to enter!

 

Call to Artists/Designers, Wayfinding/Public Art Request for Qualifications, Catonsville Arts District, Baltimore County Arts Guild — Catonsville, MD

Deadline: September 24    The Catonsville Arts District, as part of the second phase of the Public Art Across Maryland (PAAM) Planning grant, invites professional artists and design teams to submit qualifications for a public art and wayfinding project. This initiative aims to enhance community engagement, tourism, and economic revitalization through creative signage and public art installations that reflect Catonsville’s rich cultural heritage and vibrant arts community. 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.

 

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.

 

Open Call, Highly Animated Art Exhibition and Event at the beachKraft StudioGallery — Olney, MD

Deadline: September 30 “Highly Animated” is an open-call exhibit inviting artists to display their work in a professional gallery setting and compete in a contest. Artwork should feature favorite saga/storytelling characters in inventive ways or introduce new original characters. Submissions will be juried into two categories: Original Characters and Fan Art Expressionism, with judging based on unique poses, background integration, and color scheme. Click here for details.

 

Call to Artists, Pioneer Works 2025 Residency — Brooklyn, NY

Deadline: September 30    Pioneer Works is pleased to announce its 2025 Open Call for Visual Arts and Music Residents. The Brooklyn nonprofit cultural center welcomes residents working outside the norm who will benefit from its unique facilities and collaborative environment. 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.

 

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 Exhibitors, 2024 DC Risoprint Fair — D.C.

Deadline: October 7    The DC Risoprint Fair is an event organized by Phil Hutinet with East City Art, DC’s publication of record, as the presenting sponsor. The DC Risoprint Fair will showcase and elevate the distinctive printing process known as Risography or Risograph printing. Click here for details.

 

Call to Artists, Plein Air at Meadowkirk at Delta Farm — Middleburg, VA

Deadline: October 9    In commemorating 10 years of life-giving retreat service, partnership and impact, Meadowkirk at Delta Farm invites you to join us for a special multi-day plein air painting opportunity at our 358-acre retreat center near Middleburg, Virginia. Our invitation includes an initial four-day series of plein air painting opportunities. Participating artists are also encouraged to join us for Meadowkirk’s anniversary main event on Saturday, October 26 when the grounds will also be
open for plein air painting. Click here for more information.

 

Call for Entries, Contemporary Realism at Site:Brooklyn — Brooklyn, NY

Deadline: October 14    Realism has made a powerful return in recent decades. It is a style that speaks to both contemporary and long-term questions about nature, beauty, technology, and representation. Site:Brooklyn is looking for works, across all mediums, which engage and develop this tradition. Click here for details.

 

Call to Artists, collaborate / kəˈlabəˌrāt, Gallery Y, Anthony Bowen YMCA Anthony Bowen — DC

Deadline: October 16    Gallery Y invites you to celebrate the power of creative partnerships and the magic that happens when artists partner together on the same vision. Artists from all disciplines and backgrounds are welcome to submit their collaborative works for this group exhibit. Collaboration in art is more than just working together; it’s about blending visions, skills, and perspectives to create something greater. 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 for Entries, Falls Church Arts Vivid! — Falls Church, VA

Deadline: October 27    Artists are invited to submit their boldest, brightest pieces for Vivid!, an exhibit at Falls Church Arts on view from November 23, 2024 – January 5, 2025. 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 The Homiens 60, and may request a letter of recommendation from our jurors. Click here for details.

 

Call to Artists, Residency, William Flanagan Memorial Creative Persons Center — Montauk, NY

Deadline: October 31    The Edward F. Albee Foundation exists to serve writers and visual artists from all walks of life, by providing time and space in which to work without disturbance. Using only talent and need as the criteria for selection, the Foundation invites any and all artists to apply. 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 Artwork Portraits Project—Trans and Nonbinary Artists — D.C.

Deadline: November 1    The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC (GMCW) is seeking artwork by trans and nonbinary artists to be included as part of the PORTRAITS project. PORTRAITS represents, through visual art, music, and dance, the spectrum of sexual, gender, racial, ethnic, and cultural identities. Paintings, drawings, and photographs are welcome. The artworks may be a portrait or a scene depicting an aspect of the human experience, including identity expression and historical references specific to the LGBTQ+ community. Photographs of selected artworks will be projected as part of a live performance, brought to life aurally by music inspired by the selected artwork, visually by GMCW’s 17th Street Dance Company. Click here for details.

 

Call for Artwork, Portraits Project—Trans and Nonbinary Artists — D.C.

Deadline: November 1    The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC (GMCW) is seeking artwork by trans and nonbinary artists to be included as part of the PORTRAITS project. PORTRAITS represents, through visual art, music, and dance, the spectrum of sexual, gender, racial, ethnic, and cultural identities. Paintings, drawings, and photographs are welcome. The artworks may be a portrait or a scene depicting an aspect of the human experience, including identity expression and historical references specific to the LGBTQ+ community. Photographs of selected artworks will be projected as part of a live performance, brought to life aurally by music inspired by the selected artwork, visually by GMCW’s 17th Street Dance Company. 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 here for 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.

 

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.

 

Tour de Force Foundation Grants for Artists

Deadline: December 7    Are you an artist or educator in the DMV area with an innovative idea for civic engagement? The Tour de Force Foundation is looking for creative projects that can enrich and inspire the community. In the past two years, we have awarded 26 grants totaling $52,000, supporting over 200 artists. Click here for details.

 

Call for Entries, Lust for Rust at Atlantic Gallery — New York

Deadline: December 15    Atlantic Gallery, located in the historic Landmark Arts Building in Chelsea, invites artists to submit work for the upcoming juried show, Lust For Rust. Rust is the most visible result of entropy, yet rust also protects, often described as a sacrificial element in architecture. Rust is poetic, time-worn, and open to interpretation. We are seeking innovative artworks, 2D and 3D, that utilize painting, sculpture, cartooning or graphic novels, collage, and mixed media that communicates your lust for rust. 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 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 here for details.

 

 

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 to Artists, Pioneer Works 2025 Residency — Brooklyn, NY

Deadline: September 30    Pioneer Works is pleased to announce its 2025 Open Call for Visual Arts and Music Residents. The Brooklyn nonprofit cultural center welcomes residents working outside the norm who will benefit from its unique facilities and collaborative environment. Click here for details.

 

Call to Artists, Plein Air at Meadowkirk at Delta Farm — Middleburg, VA

Deadline: October 9    In commemorating 10 years of life-giving retreat service, partnership and impact, Meadowkirk at Delta Farm invites you to join us for a special multi-day plein air painting opportunity at our 358-acre retreat center near Middleburg, Virginia. Our invitation includes an initial four-day series of plein air painting opportunities. Participating artists are also encouraged to join us for Meadowkirk’s anniversary main event on Saturday, October 26 when the grounds will also be
open for plein air painting. Click here for more information.

 

Call for Entries, Falls Church Arts Vivid! — Falls Church, VA

Deadline: October 27    Artists are invited to submit their boldest, brightest pieces for Vivid!, an exhibit at Falls Church Arts on view from November 23, 2024 – January 5, 2025. Click here for details.

 

Call to Artists, Residency, William Flanagan Memorial Creative Persons Center — Montauk, NY

Deadline: October 31    The Edward F. Albee Foundation exists to serve writers and visual artists from all walks of life, by providing time and space in which to work without disturbance. Using only talent and need as the criteria for selection, the Foundation invites any and all artists to apply. Click here for details.

 

Call for Artwork, Portraits Project—Trans and Nonbinary Artists — D.C.

Deadline: November 1    The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC (GMCW) is seeking artwork by trans and nonbinary artists to be included as part of the PORTRAITS project. PORTRAITS represents, through visual art, music, and dance, the spectrum of sexual, gender, racial, ethnic, and cultural identities. Paintings, drawings, and photographs are welcome. The artworks may be a portrait or a scene depicting an aspect of the human experience, including identity expression and historical references specific to the LGBTQ+ community. Photographs of selected artworks will be projected as part of a live performance, brought to life aurally by music inspired by the selected artwork, visually by GMCW’s 17th Street Dance Company. Click here for details.

 

 

Re-runs: These were previously posted, but it’s not too late to enter!

 

Open Call for Latine Artists, Hola Cultura Future Forebears — D.C.

Deadline: September 23    Future Forebears celebrates contemporary Latine artists in the Washington DC area. Created by independent curator Fabiola R. Delgado, this Latine arts dialogue series will feature conversations with artists at various career stages—emerging, mid-career, and established. The series aims to explore how to navigate the arts scene, build bridges across generations, and leverage resources to mutually support artistic growth. The dialogues will be recorded and premiered at a public event in Spring 2025 and will also be published in a limited edition self-published magazine. Click here for details.

 

Call to Artists/Designers, Wayfinding/Public Art Request for Qualifications, Catonsville Arts District, Baltimore County Arts Guild — Catonsville, MD

Deadline: September 24    The Catonsville Arts District, as part of the second phase of the Public Art Across Maryland (PAAM) Planning grant, invites professional artists and design teams to submit qualifications for a public art and wayfinding project. This initiative aims to enhance community engagement, tourism, and economic revitalization through creative signage and public art installations that reflect Catonsville’s rich cultural heritage and vibrant arts community. 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.

 

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.

 

Open Call, Highly Animated Art Exhibition and Event at the beachKraft StudioGallery — Olney, MD

Deadline: September 30 “Highly Animated” is an open-call exhibit inviting artists to display their work in a professional gallery setting and compete in a contest. Artwork should feature favorite saga/storytelling characters in inventive ways or introduce new original characters. Submissions will be juried into two categories: Original Characters and Fan Art Expressionism, with judging based on unique poses, background integration, and color scheme. 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.

 

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 Exhibitors, 2024 DC Risoprint Fair — D.C.

Deadline: October 7    The DC Risoprint Fair is an event organized by Phil Hutinet with East City Art, DC’s publication of record, as the presenting sponsor. The DC Risoprint Fair will showcase and elevate the distinctive printing process known as Risography or Risograph printing. Click here for details.

 

Call for Entries, Contemporary Realism at Site:Brooklyn — Brooklyn, NY

Deadline: October 14    Realism has made a powerful return in recent decades. It is a style that speaks to both contemporary and long-term questions about nature, beauty, technology, and representation. Site:Brooklyn is looking for works, across all mediums, which engage and develop this tradition. Click here for details.

 

Call to Artists, collaborate / kəˈlabəˌrāt, Gallery Y, Anthony Bowen YMCA Anthony Bowen — DC

Deadline: October 16    Gallery Y invites you to celebrate the power of creative partnerships and the magic that happens when artists partner together on the same vision. Artists from all disciplines and backgrounds are welcome to submit their collaborative works for this group exhibit. Collaboration in art is more than just working together; it’s about blending visions, skills, and perspectives to create something greater. 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.

 

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 The Homiens 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 Artwork Portraits Project—Trans and Nonbinary Artists — D.C.

Deadline: November 1    The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC (GMCW) is seeking artwork by trans and nonbinary artists to be included as part of the PORTRAITS project. PORTRAITS represents, through visual art, music, and dance, the spectrum of sexual, gender, racial, ethnic, and cultural identities. Paintings, drawings, and photographs are welcome. The artworks may be a portrait or a scene depicting an aspect of the human experience, including identity expression and historical references specific to the LGBTQ+ community. Photographs of selected artworks will be projected as part of a live performance, brought to life aurally by music inspired by the selected artwork, visually by GMCW’s 17th Street Dance Company. 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 here for 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.

 

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.

 

Tour de Force Foundation Grants for Artists

Deadline: December 7    Are you an artist or educator in the DMV area with an innovative idea for civic engagement? The Tour de Force Foundation is looking for creative projects that can enrich and inspire the community. In the past two years, we have awarded 26 grants totaling $52,000, supporting over 200 artists. Click here for details.

 

Call for Entries, Lust for Rust at Atlantic Gallery — New York

Deadline: December 15    Atlantic Gallery, located in the historic Landmark Arts Building in Chelsea, invites artists to submit work for the upcoming juried show, Lust For Rust. Rust is the most visible result of entropy, yet rust also protects, often described as a sacrificial element in architecture. Rust is poetic, time-worn, and open to interpretation. We are seeking innovative artworks, 2D and 3D, that utilize painting, sculpture, cartooning or graphic novels, collage, and mixed media that communicates your lust for rust. 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 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 here for details.

 

 

 

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, 2024 International Alternative Processes Competition — New York

Deadline: September 16    Soho Photo Gallery is pleased to announce the 20th International Alternative Processes Competition. Alternative processes include, but are not limited to: Albumen, Cyanotype, Van Dyke Brown, Platinum/ Palladium, Gum Bichromate, Bromoil, Salt Print, Tintype, Ziatype, Daguerreotype, Image Transfers, Liquid Emulsion, Chemigram, Photogravure as well as handmade prints created from digital negatives. Traditional Silver Gelatin Prints, C-Prints and Digital Prints are not eligible nor is AI generated work. There is no limitation as to subject matter. Click here for details.

 

Call to Artists/Designers, Wayfinding/Public Art Request for Qualifications, Catonsville Arts District, Baltimore County Arts Guild — Catonsville, MD

Deadline: September 24    The Catonsville Arts District, as part of the second phase of the Public Art Across Maryland (PAAM) Planning grant, invites professional artists and design teams to submit qualifications for a public art and wayfinding project. This initiative aims to enhance community engagement, tourism, and economic revitalization through creative signage and public art installations that reflect Catonsville’s rich cultural heritage and vibrant arts community. Click here for details.

 

Call for Entries, Contemporary Realism at Site:Brooklyn — Brooklyn, NY

Deadline: October 14    Realism has made a powerful return in recent decades. It is a style that speaks to both contemporary and long-term questions about nature, beauty, technology, and representation. Site:Brooklyn is looking for works, across all mediums, which engage and develop this tradition. Click here for details.

 

Call to Artists, collaborate / kəˈlabəˌrāt, Gallery Y, Anthony Bowen YMCA Anthony Bowen — DC

Deadline: October 16    Gallery Y invites you to celebrate the power of creative partnerships and the magic that happens when artists partner together on the same vision. Artists from all disciplines and backgrounds are welcome to submit their collaborative works for this group exhibit. Collaboration in art is more than just working together; it’s about blending visions, skills, and perspectives to create something greater. Click here for details.

 

Call for Entries, Lust for Rust at Atlantic Gallery — New York

Deadline: December 15    Atlantic Gallery, located in the historic Landmark Arts Building in Chelsea, invites artists to submit work for the upcoming juried show, Lust For Rust. Rust is the most visible result of entropy, yet rust also protects, often described as a sacrificial element in architecture. Rust is poetic, time-worn, and open to interpretation. We are seeking innovative artworks, 2D and 3D, that utilize painting, sculpture, cartooning or graphic novels, collage, and mixed media that communicates your lust for rust. click here for details.

 

 

Re-runs: These were previously posted, but it’s not too late to enter!

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 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, 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 here for details.

 

Open Call, Altered States Regional Juried Show — Arlington, VA

Deadline: September 13    Alliance Gallery invites artists to apply for its first Regional Juried Show featuring artists from Arlington, Falls Church, Alexandria, and Washington, DC. The exhibition explores artists’ interpretation of the show’s title, Altered States. Themes could include but are not limited to: transformation and change, alternate realities, inner or personal growth, or shifting perspectives. Altered States could also be represented by the physical use of artists’ materials. Click here for details.

 

Call for Entries, Environmental Justice Public Art Project for DC Ward 5 Artists — D.C.

Deadline: September 14    The Environmental Justice Artivist Fellows of Social Art and Culture are excited to announce a unique opportunity for you to contribute your vision to a community-driven public art project. We are looking for photography portrait submissions about Clean Air in Ward 5 DC! If accepted, your artwork will be featured in the final project design for the Up in the Air mural, which will be installed in Ward 5 during the Fall of 2024. 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.

 

Open Call for Latine Artists, Hola Cultura Future Forebears — D.C.

Deadline: September 23    Future Forebears celebrates contemporary Latine artists in the Washington DC area. Created by independent curator Fabiola R. Delgado, this Latine arts dialogue series will feature conversations with artists at various career stages—emerging, mid-career, and established. The series aims to explore how to navigate the arts scene, build bridges across generations, and leverage resources to mutually support artistic growth. The dialogues will be recorded and premiered at a public event in Spring 2025 and will also be published in a limited edition self-published magazine. 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.

 

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.

 

Open Call, Highly Animated Art Exhibition and Event at the beachKraft StudioGallery — Olney, MD

Deadline: September 30 “Highly Animated” is an open-call exhibit inviting artists to display their work in a professional gallery setting and compete in a contest. Artwork should feature favorite saga/storytelling characters in inventive ways or introduce new original characters. Submissions will be juried into two categories: Original Characters and Fan Art Expressionism, with judging based on unique poses, background integration, and color scheme. 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.

 

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 Exhibitors, 2024 DC Risoprint Fair — D.C.

Deadline: October 7    The DC Risoprint Fair is an event organized by Phil Hutinet with East City Art, DC’s publication of record, as the presenting sponsor. The DC Risoprint Fair will showcase and elevate the distinctive printing process known as Risography or Risograph printing. 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.

 

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 The Homiens 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 Artwork Portraits Project—Trans and Nonbinary Artists — D.C.

Deadline: November 1    The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC (GMCW) is seeking artwork by trans and nonbinary artists to be included as part of the PORTRAITS project. PORTRAITS represents, through visual art, music, and dance, the spectrum of sexual, gender, racial, ethnic, and cultural identities. Paintings, drawings, and photographs are welcome. The artworks may be a portrait or a scene depicting an aspect of the human experience, including identity expression and historical references specific to the LGBTQ+ community. Photographs of selected artworks will be projected as part of a live performance, brought to life aurally by music inspired by the selected artwork, visually by GMCW’s 17th Street Dance Company. 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 here for 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.

 

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.

 

Tour de Force Foundation Grants for Artists

Deadline: December 7    Are you an artist or educator in the DMV area with an innovative idea for civic engagement? The Tour de Force Foundation is looking for creative projects that can enrich and inspire the community. In the past two years, we have awarded 26 grants totaling $52,000, supporting over 200 artists. 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 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 here for details.

 

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, Falls Church Arts Beauty of Diversity — Falls Church, VA

Deadline: September 8    Artists are invited to explore the beauty and strength that diversity brings to our lives. Submit works that reference any of the various elements that make our society diverse, such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, experiences, abilities, or opinions. Click here for details.

 

Open Call, Altered States Regional Juried Show — Arlington, VA

Deadline: September 13    Alliance Gallery invites artists to apply for its first Regional Juried Show featuring artists from Arlington, Falls Church, Alexandria, and Washington, DC. The exhibition explores artists’ interpretation of the show’s title, Altered States. Themes could include but are not limited to: transformation and change, alternate realities, inner or personal growth, or shifting perspectives. Altered States could also be represented by the physical use of artists’ materials. Click here for details.

 

Call for Entries, Environmental Justice Public Art Project for DC Ward 5 Artists — D.C.

Deadline: September 14    The Environmental Justice Artivist Fellows of Social Art and Culture are excited to announce a unique opportunity for you to contribute your vision to a community-driven public art project. We are looking for photography portrait submissions about Clean Air in Ward 5 DC! If accepted, your artwork will be featured in the final project design for the Up in the Air mural, which will be installed in Ward 5 during the Fall of 2024. Click here for details.

 

Open Call for Latine Artists, Hola Cultura Future Forebears — D.C.

Deadline: September 23    Future Forebears celebrates contemporary Latine artists in the Washington DC area. Created by independent curator Fabiola R. Delgado, this Latine arts dialogue series will feature conversations with artists at various career stages—emerging, mid-career, and established. The series aims to explore how to navigate the arts scene, build bridges across generations, and leverage resources to mutually support artistic growth. The dialogues will be recorded and premiered at a public event in Spring 2025 and will also be published in a limited edition self-published magazine. Click here for details.

 

Open Call, Highly Animated Art Exhibition and Event at the beachKraft StudioGallery — Olney, MD

Deadline: September 30 “Highly Animated” is an open-call exhibit inviting artists to display their work in a professional gallery setting and compete in a contest. Artwork should feature favorite saga/storytelling characters in inventive ways or introduce new original characters. Submissions will be juried into two categories: Original Characters and Fan Art Expressionism, with judging based on unique poses, background integration, and color scheme. Click here for details.

 

Call for Exhibitors, 2024 DC Risoprint Fair — D.C.

Deadline: October 7    The DC Risoprint Fair is an event organized by Phil Hutinet with East City Art, DC’s publication of record, as the presenting sponsor. The DC Risoprint Fair will showcase and elevate the distinctive printing process known as Risography or Risograph printing. Click here for details.

 

Call for Artwork Portraits Project—Trans and Nonbinary Artists — D.C.

Deadline: November 1    The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC (GMCW) is seeking artwork by trans and nonbinary artists to be included as part of the PORTRAITS project. PORTRAITS represents, through visual art, music, and dance, the spectrum of sexual, gender, racial, ethnic, and cultural identities. Paintings, drawings, and photographs are welcome. The artworks may be a portrait or a scene depicting an aspect of the human experience, including identity expression and historical references specific to the LGBTQ+ community. Photographs of selected artworks will be projected as part of a live performance, brought to life aurally by music inspired by the selected artwork, visually by GMCW’s 17th Street Dance Company. Click here for details.

 

Call for Entries, Strathmore’s 33rd Annual Juried Exhibition: Full Circle — Bethesda, MD

Deadline: November 19    Strathmore welcomes artists to submit original artwork for Strathmore’s 33rd Annual Juried Exhibition: Full Circle. Circles are universal symbols of perpetual motion, balance, and renewal. Nature provides tree rings and seasonal cycles. Music and plays are performed in the round, innovation is marked by the invention of the wheel, and Earth orbits the sun. This call invites artists to create work depicting subjects with a circular form; or exploring symbolism, metaphor, or traditions expanding the basic circle. From apples to eggs, drum rolls to figure eights, we challenge artists to close the loop, spiral out of control, and share their sphere of influence in this year’s call for art. Click here for details.

 

Tour de Force Foundation Grants for Artists

Deadline: December 7    Are you an artist or educator in the DMV area with an innovative idea for civic engagement? The Tour de Force Foundation is looking for creative projects that can enrich and inspire the community. In the past two years, we have awarded 26 grants totaling $52,000, supporting over 200 artists. Click here for details.

 

Re-runs: These were previously posted, but it’s not too late to enter!

 

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 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, 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 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, 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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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 The Homiens 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 here for 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 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 here for details.