Artist Opportunities #711
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 Artists, Visual AIDS – Postcards From the Edge — New York
Deadline: November 22 Donate an original, postcard-sized artwork to this benefit supporting artists living with HIV. Postcards will be featured anonymously in an exhibition at Berry Campbell Gallery in New York and sold online for $100 each starting January 25, 2025. Click here for details.
Call for Artists, National Liberty Museum Winter 2025 Exhibition — Philadelphia
Deadline: December 1 The NLM in Philadelphia is looking for art that celebrates the power of language to connect, confront, and uplift communities. Artwork should relate to ideas of free speech, illuminating tensions between expression and censorship. Click here for details.
Call for Entires, The Aftermath Project—1492/1619 American Aftermaths Grant
Deadline: December 1 Open to photographers globally, this opportunity seeks work that illuminates the aftermath of historic events and fosters public discourse. One winner will be awarded $25,000, with four finalists receiving $5,000 each. Click here for details.
Open Call for Artist Ideas, Monument Lab 30th Street Station — Philadelphia
Deadline: December 4 Submit ideas for a “living memorial” to Congressman William H. Gray III in the great hall of Philadelphia’s Gray 30th Street Station. The budget for the selected project is $1,250,000 in addition to a $250,000 artist fee. Click here for details.
Call for Artists,The College of New Jersey Campus Sculpture Installation Quad Project — Ewing, NJ
Deadline: December 16 On behalf of The College of New Jersey (TCNJ), the New Jersey State Council on the Arts is soliciting Expressions of Interest (EOI) from prospective artists to design, fabricate, and install artwork on Forcina/West quad on the TCNJ campus in Ewing, NJ. The proposed artwork is part of the New Jersey Public Arts Inclusion Program and is coordinated by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and The College of New Jersey. Click here for details.
Call for Artists, Western Loudoun Art and Studio Tour — Loudoun County, VA
Deadline: December 31 The 2025 Western Loudoun Art and Studio Tour (WLAST) is the 18th anniversary of the Tour. Our mission is to help promote Loudoun County as a scenic and cultural destination by producing a tour of our county’s visual artists, celebrating their work, and providing an educational experience for the public. Professional and emerging visual artists whose studios in Western Loudoun County meet specified criteria may apply as Studio Artists. Click here for details.
Re-runs: These were previously posted, but it’s not too late to enter!
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 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 Artists, First Street Gallery SELECTS 2025 Exhibition — New York
Deadline: November 15 Entries are open for First Street Gallery’s SELECTS 2025 juried exhibition. This is an opportunity to exhibit a small body of work that explores a current or long-standing artistic interest. The show opens on January 9, 2025 with the reception from 6–8 pm, and runs through January 24, in our exhibition space in the Chelsea Art District in NYC. 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 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.
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].
WVU Libraries’ Art in the Libraries Residency Opportunity: Feminist Activist Collection Artist in Residency
Deadline: November 30 WVU Libraries’ Art in the Libraries invites artists to apply for the West Virginia Feminist Activist Collection Artist in Residency (FAIR) program, a unique opportunity to engage with the West Virginia & Regional History Center’s (WVRHC) West Virginia Feminist Activist Collection (FAC). This pilot residency supports creative projects that explore, engage with, and expand upon the FAC materials. Artists working in visual arts, performance, writing, curatorial practice, and more are encouraged to apply, with preference given to WVU alumni. 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, 35th Biennial Creative Crafts Council Exhibition — North Bethesda, MD
Deadline: December 10 The 2025 Creative Crafts Council 35th Exhibition will present some of the Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia region’s top artworks in ceramics, enamel, fiber, glass, metal, mixed media, wood, book arts, jewelry and wearable art from Saturday, March 15, 2025 – Saturday, May 24, 2025, at the Mansion at Strathmore located at 10701 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD. 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.
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.
Call for Entries, 2025 New River Art Biennial Exhibition
Deadline: January 8 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. 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.
Instructors Wanted at The Art League — Alexandria, VA
Deadline: Until filled The Art League is looking for skilled instructors in all visual arts disciplines. We’re particularly keen to recruit new hires for our sculpture, stained glass, and watercolor departments. Preferred applicants will have a personable and patient disposition, excellent communication skills, and the ability to teach their medium to groups of beginning, intermediate, and/or advanced level students. Class sizes range, depending on enrollment, from around 5 to 30 students. Experience teaching is helpful but not an absolute requirement. To apply, send a cover letter with statement of intent, resumé, and 6-10 tiffs or jpegs of current work to Ariane D’Souza via email at [email protected].
Ongoing: These opportunities have rolling deadlines.
Studio Sundays Submissions, Create! Magazine
Every month Create! Magazine! picks several winning images of artists’ studio spaces and features them on their website and social media along with artists’ work and story. Submit a quality image of your workspace, studio or kitchen table where you make work for a chance to be featured. For more information and to submit, click here.
Call for Artists, Prince George’s Arts and Humanities Council
Prince George’s Arts and Humanities Council (PGAHC) is featuring county artists at its newest art space Arts’tination at National Harbor, the premier arts and entertainment destination in our regions Located at 162 Waterfront Street, National Harbor, MD. Arts’tination is dedicated to supporting local artists and curating immersive creative experiences. PGAHC is recruiting artists to show and sell their work and/or to conduct arts related workshops for the public. Artists should submit work samples and inquires to [email protected]. For more information please visit https://www.pgahc.org/artstination.
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants
These monthly grants range from $500–$3,000, with the average amount being $1,700. Visual and performing artists whose work is of a contemporary, experimental nature and who have a US Tax ID Number can apply. For more information, click here.
Call for Art, Links Bridge Vineyards—Thurmont, MD
Links Bridge Vineyards, a small artisan style winery located just outside of Frederick, Maryland, is looking to feature the artwork of various artists on the walls of their tasting barn for two weeks at a time. To learn more, call Joan Cartier 301-602-5733 or email her at [email protected].
Pyramid Atlantic Workshop Proposals – Hyattsville, MD
Pyramid Atlantic offers year-round workshops in printmaking, papermaking, book arts, and hybrids thereof. We offer multi-week, daytime, evening, and weekend intensives for adults in our fully equipped studios. As part of a robust and diverse schedule of offerings, we welcome unsolicited workshop proposals, and hope that you will consider applying! Workshop proposal reviews are ongoing, but for best consideration, submit class proposals by the following dates: 1/15 for Summer Workshops; 4/1 for Fall Workshops; 7/1 for Winter Workshops; 10/1 for Spring Workshops. Questions? Email Gretchen, Artistic Director, [email protected]
Call For Stories About Women in the Arts, Maryland State Arts Council
2020 has been dedicated to the Year of the Woman in Maryland. Do you have an inspiring story about vital contributions of women-identifying people who are artists, arts administrators, or cultural workers? Perhaps an exhibition, performance or project featuring women? Share it with the Maryland State Arts Council for potential use in marketing and communications! Send your ideas to [email protected], and include “Year of the Woman” in the subject line. Satff will contact senders whose stories are selected for inclusion in future newsletters, eblasts, or social media postings. Learn more about Maryland’s year of the Woman here.
Call For Artists, Busboys and Poets
Busboys and Poets is looking for submissions from Maryland and Virginia artists as it expands to new locations in both areas. Submissions can include drawings, painting, photography, sculpture, mixed media, assemblage, fiber, quilts, etc. Art images reflecting life in the city, family, portraits, whimsy, abstraction, social uplift and life experiences within diverse cultures are encouraged for submission. For more information, click here.
Alterwork Studios Online Residency
This residency was designed to give emerging contemporary artists an online platform to create new work and explore their practice. Over the course of four weeks, artists will be encouraged to experiment and explore their concepts and move their work forward in the contemporary art world. Learn more here.
Accepting Artwork for Curatorial Review by AIWA
The Alper Initiative for Washington Art features five exhibitions per year in the newly constructed first floor space in the American University Museum. We accept submissions, on a rolling basis, from Washington artists of all ages and backgrounds, and working in diverse media. The museum’s Director and Curator, Jack Rasmussen, will select curators who will review these submissions for potential use in Alper Initiative exhibitions. For more information click here.
Call For Entry Hamilton Arts Collective Guest Artist Exhibition – Baltimore, MD
The Hamilton Arts Collective (HAC) and the Hamilton Gallery seek applications from artists for month-long Guest Artist exhibitions at Hamilton Gallery located at 5502 Harford Road, Baltimore, MD. The selected guest artists will be invited to exhibit a selection of their current work in Gallery I of the Hamilton Gallery. The Guest Artist exhibition is featured in Hamilton Gallery communications and will be promoted by the HAC and Hamilton Gallery. This is an open call to artists residing within 60 miles of Baltimore City. Baltimore residents are encouraged to apply. Click here to learn more.
Howard County Arts Council Quarterly Call For Artists – Ellicott City, MD
The Howard County Arts Council gallery program was established to enhance the public’s appreciation of the visual arts, provide a venue to exhibit the work of local, regional, and national artists in a professional space, and provide leadership in the arts by presenting a broad spectrum of arts in all media from both emerging and established artists. Artists, ages 18 and older, working in all media and styles including time-based and installation artists, are encouraged to apply either individually or as a group. Proposals from curators and arts organizations are also welcome. Click here to learn more.
Exhibit at Hotel Indigo Downtown Baltimore — Baltimore, MD
The Maryland Art Place (MAP) is working with Hotel Indigo in downtown Baltimore to offer rotating exhibitions in the hotel’s library and Poets Modern Cocktails and Eats restaurant. This opportunity is open to visual artists living or working in Maryland. ’s public art partnership projects (MAP), in partnership with Hotel Indigo, is pleased to announce an open call to artists. MAP will curate four exhibitions a year based on submissions entered through a rolling basis. Click here to learn more.
Solo or Group Shows in Athenaeum Gallery – VA
The Athenaeum Gallery in Alexandria, Virginia exhibits visual arts created solely by artists living or working in the region (DC, Maryland and Virginia) and strives to present visitors with a wide variety of excellent art and unique experiences. In addition to the shows curated by the Gallery Director, the Athenaeum Gallery invites artists and curators to submit show proposals. For more information, click here.
The Creativity Grant Program State of Maryland (MD)
Deadline: Rolling. The purpose of the Creativity Grant Program is to strengthen the vitality and sustainability of artists and small organizations to maintain a strong and stable arts infrastructure in the State of Maryland. The Creativity Grant also provides opportunities to serve the growing needs of relevant arts projects and collaborations within Maryland communities. For more information regarding eligibility and funding timelines, please review the Creativity Grants Guidelines. For more information about the program, and to apply visit the Creativity Grant Program State of Maryland website.
Artist/Writers: Cover Art for Academic Medicine
Deadline: Rolling. Submit original works of art inspired by, but not necessarily representative of, an academic medicine experience from any perspective: caregiver, researcher, teacher, learner, or patient (for example, learning how to be a physician or scientist, caring for patients, exploring research questions, making a new discovery, being a research participant, teaching, or being cared for in a teaching hospital). The journal welcomes photography, sculpture, painting, textile work, and other visual media. Images may be cropped or resized to fit into the allotted cover space. Artists must also submit a related Cover Art essay as a narrative companion to the artwork, to explain the connection between the work and the “academic medicine experience.” The related narrative should be 250 to 600 words and is subject to editing. To apply for this opportunity, and to learn more, visit the Academic Medicine website.
The Awesome Foundation Accepting Applications for Art Projects
Deadline: Open. The Awesome Foundation for the Arts and Sciences is a worldwide network of people devoted to forwarding the interest of “awesomeness in the universe.” Established in 2009, the foundation distributes $1,000 grants on a monthly basis to projects and their creators. The money is pooled from ten or more self-organizing “micro-trustees.” The chapters are autonomous and organized by the trustees around geographic areas or topics of interest. Apply on the Awesome Foundation website.
Call for Artists: Maryland Art Place Seeks Proposals for Rotating Exhibition Partnership with Baltimore’s Hotel Indigo (MD)
Deadline: rolling. Maryland Art Place (MAP), in partnership with Hotel Indigo is pleased to announce an open ‘Call to Artists’. As an extension of MAP’s annual IMPACT public art partnership projects, MAP is working with Hotel Indigo to offer rotating exhibitions in Hotel indigo’s library and Poets Modern Cocktails and Eats. This opportunity is available to visual artists living or working in Maryland. Maryland Art Place will curate four exhibitions a year based on submissions entered through a rolling basis. Guidelines and information here.
Peripheral ARTeries – Biennial Contemporary Art Publication
Deadline: Rolling. Peripheral ARTeries is looking for artists to be featured in the new special Biennial Edition of their art publication, that comes to its 10th edition. This opportunity is great for both established and early career artists who need a boost to their artist portfolio. The 10th edition will once again explore and show current trends and tendencies in Contemporary Art: Peripheral ARTeries cultivates a spirit of openness through a unique collaborative and participatory approach.Each artist may submit a maximum of three works or projects made in any technique: painting, drawing, video art, experimental cinema, fine art photography, experimental media, mixed media, installations, public art, performance. The call is open to all proposed kind of art and media capable of challenging the viewers’ traditional perspective on art itself. To submit, visit the Peripheral ARTeries website.
Exhibit at Hotel Indigo (VA)
Artists works will displayed in the hotel’s gallery (220 S Union St, Old Town Alexandria) for a six-month period. Two-dimensional, framed works only. Artists will install the work using the hotel’s mounting hardware. Labels will be provided by the hotel. All sales handled by artist, no commission. Preference for local or locally influenced selections but not required. The space measures approximately 7’10” by 8’3.″ If interested, contact Kate Ellis, General Manager, [email protected].
The New Project Studio – Ongoing Opportunity (VA)
Ongoing. Located in Studio 8, the New Project Studio is a community-focused arts incubator space that offers a short-term location to test new program ideas, spotlight underrepresented voices, and enhance community engagement. Projects rotate on a regular basis. For more information, click here.
Public Arts Grants & Opportunities (VA)
Ongoing. The City of Alexandria’s Office of the Arts provides grants for nonprofit arts organizations as well as individual artists. See all current opportunities and online applications here.
Residency: Maryland
Deadline: ongoing. Montgomery College, Rockville and Germantown Art Department is seeking proposals for its Artist-in-Residence Program, encouraging proposals that cultivate collaborative work between artists and students.
Looking for artists: Foundry Gallery (DC)
Deadline: ongoing. Foundry Gallery is seeking a few artists in the greater Washington, DC area. If interested in applying for membership please send up to five images (jpg attachments) and an email letter to: [email protected]. The oldest cooperative in Washington, the gallery holds monthly solo and members’ group shows at its beautiful space north of Shaw near the 9:30 Club.
Looking for artists: Printmakers (DC)
Deadline: ongoing. Washington Printmakers Gallery is seeking artist members specializing in printmaking, photography and book arts. An active cooperative for over 30 years, the gallery holds monthly solo and members’ group shows in its lovely space in upper Georgetown. Distant and shared memberships are available. If interested in applying for membership please email [email protected].
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