Month: October 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 Entries, Lowe Foundation Craft Prize 2025

Deadline: October 30    The competition is open to professional artisans of 18 years or older. The competition is organized by the Loewe Foundation, a Spanish company based in Madrid. LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize is an international award for contemporary craft. The work must be handmade or partly handmade by the participant. Click here for details.

 

The Hopper Grants Prize Artist Grants

Deadline: November 12    The Hopper Prize is accepting entries for Fall 2024 artist grants. We are offering $3,500 and $1,000 grants to artists around the world. 2 artists will each receive $3,500 and 4 artists will each receive $1,000. Click here for details.

 

Call to Artists, Traffic Box Art Wrap Project — Hyattsville, MD

Deadline: November 18    On behalf of the Town of Berwyn Heights, the Hyattsville Community Development Corporation announces a Call for Artists’ designs to transform select traffic signal and utility cabinets in Berwyn Heights into public artworks. Traffic signal cabinets – the stainless-steel structures located at every signalized intersection – are vulnerable to graffiti and vandalism. This project will utilize a public art application to address community blight and enhance the visual landscape.  Artist designs will be printed on vinyl and wrapped around state-maintained signal box cabinets in the Town of Berwyn Heights. This project is made possible through funding from the Town of Berwyn Heights and the support of the Maryland State Highway Administration. Click here for details.

 

Call for Entries, 2025 New River Art Biennial Exhibition — Blacksburg, VA

Deadline: January 8, 2025    This is the 18th New River Art Juried Biennial Exhibition. All fine art mediums made between the years of 2022-2024 are accepted for review in the following categories: Oil, Acrylic/Gouache, Watercolor, Mixed Media, Drawing/Pastel/Printmaking, Photography, Fiber, and Sculpture/3D. Art exhibited in previous New River Biennials is not eligible for review. Click here for details.

 

VisArts Invites Applications for the 2025 Emerging Curator Program — Rockville, MD

Deadline: January 10, 2025    The VisArts Emerging Curator Program offers a unique opportunity for an emerging curator or artist with an interest in exhibition-making or curating to work with an experienced mentoring curator to develop and present an exhibition and to assist in the presentation of the mentor’s exhibition. To develop expanded education programming and enhanced visitor experiences, the 2025 Emerging Curator and the 2025 Mentoring Curator will also focus on developing tools to support public programming that promotes social interaction, creative exchange, and audience engagement. Click here for details.

 

 

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

 

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.

 

Applications Open for 2025 Post-Graduation Residency at the Torpedo Factory Art Center — Alexandria, VA

Deadline: October 31    The Torpedo Factory Art Center Post-Graduation Residency is a competitive juried program that provides meaningful support and a three-month term studio space in the nation’s longest continually operated community of publicly accessible artists’ studios in a converted industrial space. 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.

 

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, 2025 Hill Center Regional Juried Art Show — D.C.

Deadline: November 8    The 2025 Hill Center Regional Juried Art Show is open to artists residing in Maryland, D.C. and Virginia. Original hanging work, in any medium, will be considered. Three cash prizes and five Honorable Mention awards will be made. First place $1000; Second Place $750, Third Place $500. Plus, Honorable Mention Certificates. Exhibition Dates: January 13-May 3, 2025. 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.

 

Call for Submissions, Tendrils, Art & Literary Journal

Deadline: November 18 Tendrils, a new art and literature journal focused on trauma, is seeking submissions of visual art and short-form literature for its premiere issue. The first edition of Tendrils will explore the profound theme of trauma and the body—how it’s held, manifested, and transmitted in physical form. We invite creators to interpret this theme in their unique way, whether conceptually in abstraction, or more realistically. 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 for Jurors, Falls Church Arts 2025-2026 Exhibit Season — Falls Church, VA

Deadline: November 30    Falls Church Arts, a non-profit art organization in Northern Virginia, is seeking jurors for its 2025-2026 exhibit season. Ideal candidates will have experience in jurying, reside in the DMV area, and possess strong oral and written communication skills. Jurors should be comfortable presenting their art selections to an audience, have excellent attention to detail, and adhere to deadlines. Jurying will be conducted remotely, with the juror expected to speak at the exhibit opening event. An honorarium of $250 will be provided. For more information, please contact Pam Huffman at [email protected].

 

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.

 

Call for Entries, National Portrait Gallery Teen Portrait Competition — D.C.

Deadline: December 23    The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced its 2025 Teen Portrait Competition, which is open to students between the ages of 13 and 17 residing in the U.S. and its territories. Teens are invited to submit original digital photography to this national competition hosted by the Portrait Gallery’s Teen Museum Council. Artwork by the winners for each of the two age groups (13–15 and 16–17 years old) will be displayed near the museum’s upcoming “The Outwin 2025: American Portraiture Today” exhibition. Opening May 3, 2025, “The Outwin 2025” will showcase portraits from artists ages 18 and older selected from the museum’s triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. The teens’ winning portraits, alongside those that receive honorable mentions, will be viewable online. 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 

 

Call to Artists, Maryland Art Place UNDER 2500— Baltimore

Deadline: November 1    Have your work purchased by local buyers & collectors, just in time for the holidays! Maryland Art Place (MAP) is seeking artists for UNDER$2500, our upcoming winter benefit exhibition & affordable art sale. The exhibition will include approximately 1-3 works by each selected artist (scale dependent – in the case of smaller works more than 3 pieces may be accepted). Each individual piece must retail for $2,500 or less. Click here for details.

 

Call for Entries, Traffic Box Art Wrap Project — Hyattsville, MD

Deadline: November 8    On behalf of the Town of Berwyn Heights, the Hyattsville Community Development Corporation announces a Call for Artists’ designs to transform select traffic signal and utility cabinets in Berwyn Heights into public artworks. Traffic signal cabinets – the stainless-steel structures located at every signalized intersection – are vulnerable to graffiti and vandalism. This project will utilize a public art application to address community blight and enhance the visual landscape.  Artist designs will be printed on vinyl and wrapped around state-maintained signal box cabinets in the Town of Berwyn Heights. This project is made possible through funding from the Town of Berwyn Heights and the support of the Maryland State Highway Administration. Click here for details.

 

Opening, Public and Visual Arts Specialist Support, M-NCPPC —

Deadline: November 12 The Arts and Cultural Heritage Division (ACHD) of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (M-NCPPC) is seeking an Administrative Specialist I to work within the Public And Visual Arts (PAVA) work unit. Click here for details.

 

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

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. Artwork may be of any style and medium. Artists from within the DMV region and beyond are encouraged to apply. Click here for details.

 

Call for Entries, Creative Crafts Council 35th Biennial Exhibition — North Bethesda, MD

Deadline: December 10    Plan now to submit your artwork to the 35th Biennial Creative Crafts Council Exhibition to be held from Saturday March 15, 2025 through Saturday May 31, 2025.  Applications for the exhibition will be accepted from Friday November 1, 2024 through Tuesday December 10, 2024. The Exhibition will be held at the Mansion at Strathmore, 10701 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda, MD. All artists living, working, and/or going to school in Virginia, Mar/land, or DC or who are members of sponsoring guilds residing anywhere may apply. Click here for details.

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

 

Rhizome DC Fall 2024 Film & Video Microgrants

Deadline: October 22    Rhizome DC invites proposals from DC area artists for its inaugural microgrant program. Grantees will be awarded a nominal fee of $100 each towards the production or completion of an original moving picture work with the aim of screening the finished work in December. The categories under consideration include film and video as well as expanded formats that incorporate live performance. 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, Request for Qualifications: E. Gudie Mural Project — Rockville, MD

Deadline: October 25    VisArts, with the support of Rockville Economic Development Inc. (REDI) and Promark Partners, invites professional artists to create a site-specific digital mural design. This project will reproduce an original artwork from the selected artist. The final design image will be printed on commercial sign material and installed on the facade of the Gude Plaza Storage Sense building at 1350 E Gude Drive, Rockville, MD 20850, facing Southlawn Lane. The final design will be provided to VisArts as a scalable, vector based file for large scale printing. 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.

 

Applications Open for 2025 Post-Graduation Residency at the Torpedo Factory Art Center — Alexandria, VA

Deadline: October 31    The Torpedo Factory Art Center Post-Graduation Residency is a competitive juried program that provides meaningful support and a three-month term studio space in the nation’s longest continually operated community of publicly accessible artists’ studios in a converted industrial space. 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, 2025 Hill Center Regional Juried Art Show — D.C.

Deadline: November 8    The 2025 Hill Center Regional Juried Art Show is open to artists residing in Maryland, D.C. and Virginia. Original hanging work, in any medium, will be considered. Three cash prizes and five Honorable Mention awards will be made. First place $1000; Second Place $750, Third Place $500. Plus, Honorable Mention Certificates. Exhibition Dates: January 13-May 3, 2025. 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.

 

Call for Submissions, Tendrils, Art & Literary Journal

Deadline: November 18 Tendrils, a new art and literature journal focused on trauma, is seeking submissions of visual art and short-form literature for its premiere issue. The first edition of Tendrils will explore the profound theme of trauma and the body—how it’s held, manifested, and transmitted in physical form. We invite creators to interpret this theme in their unique way, whether conceptually in abstraction, or more realistically. 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 for Jurors, Falls Church Arts 2025-2026 Exhibit Season — Falls Church, VA

Deadline: November 30    Falls Church Arts, a non-profit art organization in Northern Virginia, is seeking jurors for its 2025-2026 exhibit season. Ideal candidates will have experience in jurying, reside in the DMV area, and possess strong oral and written communication skills. Jurors should be comfortable presenting their art selections to an audience, have excellent attention to detail, and adhere to deadlines. Jurying will be conducted remotely, with the juror expected to speak at the exhibit opening event. An honorarium of $250 will be provided. For more information, please contact Pam Huffman at [email protected].

 

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.

 

Call for Entries, National Portrait Gallery Teen Portrait Competition — D.C.

Deadline: December 23    The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced its 2025 Teen Portrait Competition, which is open to students between the ages of 13 and 17 residing in the U.S. and its territories. Teens are invited to submit original digital photography to this national competition hosted by the Portrait Gallery’s Teen Museum Council. Artwork by the winners for each of the two age groups (13–15 and 16–17 years old) will be displayed near the museum’s upcoming “The Outwin 2025: American Portraiture Today” exhibition. Opening May 3, 2025, “The Outwin 2025” will showcase portraits from artists ages 18 and older selected from the museum’s triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. The teens’ winning portraits, alongside those that receive honorable mentions, will be viewable online. 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 

 

Rhizome DC Fall 2024 Film & Video Microgrants

Deadline: October 22 Rhizome DC invites proposals from DC area artists for its inaugural microgrant program. Grantees will be awarded a nominal fee of $100 each towards the production or completion of an original moving picture work with the aim of screening the finished work in December. The categories under consideration include film and video as well as expanded formats that incorporate live performance. Click here for details.

 

Call for Submissions, Tendrils, Art & Literary Journal

Deadline: November 18 Tendrils, a new art and literature journal focused on trauma, is seeking submissions of visual art and short-form literature for its premiere issue. The first edition of Tendrils will explore the profound theme of trauma and the body—how it’s held, manifested, and transmitted in physical form. We invite creators to interpret this theme in their unique way, whether conceptually in abstraction, or more realistically. Click here for details.

 

Call for Jurors, Falls Church Arts 2025-2026 Exhibit Season — Falls Church, VA

Deadline: November 30    Falls Church Arts, a non-profit art organization in Northern Virginia, is seeking jurors for its 2025-2026 exhibit season. Ideal candidates will have experience in jurying, reside in the DMV area, and possess strong oral and written communication skills. Jurors should be comfortable presenting their art selections to an audience, have excellent attention to detail, and adhere to deadlines. Jurying will be conducted remotely, with the juror expected to speak at the exhibit opening event. An honorarium of $250 will be provided. For more information, please contact Pam Huffman at [email protected].

 

Call for Entries, National Portrait Gallery Teen Portrait Competition — D.C.

Deadline: December 23    The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced its 2025 Teen Portrait Competition, which is open to students between the ages of 13 and 17 residing in the U.S. and its territories. Teens are invited to submit original digital photography to this national competition hosted by the Portrait Gallery’s Teen Museum Council. Artwork by the winners for each of the two age groups (13–15 and 16–17 years old) will be displayed near the museum’s upcoming “The Outwin 2025: American Portraiture Today” exhibition. Opening May 3, 2025, “The Outwin 2025” will showcase portraits from artists ages 18 and older selected from the museum’s triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. The teens’ winning portraits, alongside those that receive honorable mentions, will be viewable online. Click here for details.

 

 

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

 

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.

 

Open Call, Request for Qualifications: E. Gudie Mural Project — Rockville, MD

Deadline: October 25    VisArts, with the support of Rockville Economic Development Inc. (REDI) and Promark Partners, invites professional artists to create a site-specific digital mural design. This project will reproduce an original artwork from the selected artist. The final design image will be printed on commercial sign material and installed on the facade of the Gude Plaza Storage Sense building at 1350 E Gude Drive, Rockville, MD 20850, facing Southlawn Lane. The final design will be provided to VisArts as a scalable, vector based file for large scale printing. 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.

 

Applications Open for 2025 Post-Graduation Residency at the Torpedo Factory Art Center — Alexandria, VA

Deadline: October 31    The Torpedo Factory Art Center Post-Graduation Residency is a competitive juried program that provides meaningful support and a three-month term studio space in the nation’s longest continually operated community of publicly accessible artists’ studios in a converted industrial space. 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, 2025 Hill Center Regional Juried Art Show — D.C.

Deadline: November 8    The 2025 Hill Center Regional Juried Art Show is open to artists residing in Maryland, D.C. and Virginia. Original hanging work, in any medium, will be considered. Three cash prizes and five Honorable Mention awards will be made. First place $1000; Second Place $750, Third Place $500. Plus, Honorable Mention Certificates. Exhibition Dates: January 13-May 3, 2025. 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, Request for Qualifications: E. Gudie Mural Project — Rockville, MD

Deadline: October 25    VisArts, with the support of Rockville Economic Development Inc. (REDI) and Promark Partners, invites professional artists to create a site-specific digital mural design. This project will reproduce an original artwork from the selected artist. The final design image will be printed on commercial sign material and installed on the facade of the Gude Plaza Storage Sense building at 1350 E Gude Drive, Rockville, MD 20850, facing Southlawn Lane. The final design will be provided to VisArts as a scalable, vector based file for large scale printing. Click here for details.

 

Applications Open for 2025 Post-Graduation Residency at the Torpedo Factory Art Center — Alexandria, VA

Deadline: October 31    The Torpedo Factory Art Center Post-Graduation Residency is a competitive juried program that provides meaningful support and a three-month term studio space in the nation’s longest continually operated community of publicly accessible artists’ studios in a converted industrial space. Click here for details.

 

Call for Entries, 2025 Hill Center Regional Juried Art Show — D.C.

Deadline: November 8    The 2025 Hill Center Regional Juried Art Show is open to artists residing in Maryland, D.C. and Virginia. Original hanging work, in any medium, will be considered. Three cash prizes and five Honorable Mention awards will be made. First place $1000; Second Place $750, Third Place $500. Plus, Honorable Mention Certificates. Exhibition Dates: January 13-May 3, 2025. Click here for details.

 

 

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

 

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].