Author: Julia Chance

Opportunities

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].

Call for Entries, Elemental Effects – Water, Wind, Earth, Fire, Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences — Long Beach, NJ

Deadline: January 28   A national juried competition and exhibition, this venturous exhibition pays tribute to the enduring effects of water, wind, earth, and fire which have been forming planet Earth since its inception, and that account for the precise conditions that enable life. Instead of presenting abstractions, symbols, and representations, the works of art manifest and explore the influence of these almighty forces because they were formed by actual charring, saturating, melting, freezing, rusting, eroding, floating, erupting, dissolving, sprouting, combusting, fermenting, evaporating, condensing, or other processes that account for the dynamics of our planetary home.  The work incorporates and demonstrates the elemental effects of our material world and in the resulting artwork. Artworks that manifest intersections of art with science and design are encouraged. For more information, click here.

Peter Bullough Foundation Fall 2022 Artist Residency — Winchester, VA

Deadline: February 22   The Peter Bullough Foundation in downtown historic Winchester, Virginia provides residencies to emerging artists and scholars, including those elevating voices and topics relevant to the LGBTQIA2S+ community. Applications are now being accepted for fall 2022 residencies to work in the private studios and enjoy the garden and former homes of Dr. Peter Bullough. The ideal applicant will be self-directed and able to work independently. For more information, click here.

H2O National 2022 — Virginia Beach, VA

Deadline: May 10  The Virginia Beach Art Center presents a nation-wide showcase which features water, water, everywhere! It has no taste, no smell, no color, yet we can’t live without it.  Artists from Alabama to Wyoming are invited to show our relationship to water through visual media. All media welcome! For more information, click here.

Call for Entries, Potomac River Life, Athenaeum — Alexandria, VA

Deadline: May 26    In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the enactment of the Clean Water Act, The Athenaeum Gallery invites DC, Virginia, and Maryland artists to explore concepts related to the Potomac River, its vital role in the regional ecosystem, and the importance of working toward a clean, healthy river. We are looking for a wide variety of interpretations on the theme – but everything accepted will be a plausible fit to “Potomac River Life.” Work can be literal or abstract. Learn more here.

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

Openings at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design — D.C.

Deadline: Until filled   The Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at the George Washington University invites applications for full-time faculty positions in Art History, Design, Graphic Design, Interior Architecture, and Theatre to begin in the fall of 2022. Review of applications will begin on January 15, 2022, and will continue until the positions are filled. To learn more and apply, click here.

Call for Teaching Artists at Summer Arts for Learning Academy — Baltimore

Deadline: January 26   The Summer Artists Corps is a comprehensive, high-quality, and holistic professional development program for professional practicing artists who want to work in our award-winning Summer Arts for Learning Academy this summer and earn up to $11,500 ($50/hour) during the program. For more information, Click here.

Call for Apprentice Curator, DC Arts Center Curatorial Initiative 2022 — D.C.

Deadline: January 31   The Curatorial Initiative reflects DC Arts Center’s commitment to curatorial practice as an integral part of supporting emerging and under-recognized artists. Each year, an apprentice curator is selected to gain experience in the process of planning and mounting an exhibition by working with an experienced mentor curator. The program results in two exhibitions each year at the DC Arts Center, located in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Learn how to apply here.

Call to Artists, Wheaton Mural — Wheaton, MD

Deadline: January 31    Artists who are residents of Maryland are invited to submit qualifications to paint an outdoor mural celebrating Downtown Wheaton and its variety of cultures. The purpose of this project is to help make Wheaton a truly enjoyable place to walk where people can experience art daily. It is intended to enhance our sense of community as well as attract visitors to strengthen our local economy. For more information, click here.

Call for Entries, 2022 Spring Haverford Guild of Craftsmen Fine Craft & Art Show —Haverford, PA

Deadline: January 31   The Haverford Guild of Craftsmen, a chapter of the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen, is holding its 2022 Spring Fine Art and Craft Show. Accepted categories include 2-Dimensional, Basketry, Ceramics, Fiber, Glass, Jewelry, Leather, Mixed Media, Paper, Photography, Sculpture, and Wood. For more information, click here.

Open Call, Counter Histories Grant

Deadline: February 1   Counter Histories is an initiative supporting projects that creatively reframe the past to engage with questions of the present and future. Magnum Foundation is calling for proposals from photographers and artists working with photography who would like to expand and complete a project and be an active member of a creative community fostering interdisciplinary exploration and collaboration. Up to twelve selected participants will receive a grant of $10,000, take part in project development workshops, and connect with collaborative partners and networks. Learn more here.

Call for Entries, Wharton Esherick Museum 28th Annual Juried Woodworking Exhibition — Malvern, PA

Deadline: February 4   As the Wharton Esherick Museum celebrates its 50th Anniversary in 2022, we’re reflecting on how we’ve shared and interpreted Esherick’s remarkable self-portrait for thousands of people over half a century. In turn, we invite you to share innovative works of art, craft, and design that represent a self-portrait; wood must be part of your entry, but it doesn’t have to be the only material used. You might approach this call through traditional portraiture, an abstract interpretation, a functional work that represents your unique outlook on the world, or some other form of object making that captures who you are. Learn how to enter here.

Call for Artists, 40UNDER40 2022, Shenandoah Valley Art Center — Waynesboro, VA

Deadline: February 4    The 10th annual 40UNDER40 exhibition is seeking submissions from Virginia based artists age 40 and under. We are looking for works that will challenge viewers and push boundaries of themes, materials, and media. Accepting all media including visual, video, installation, and sound. This exhibit will take place in person and virtually. A printed catalog will be produced as well. For more information, click here.

Call for Entry, 2022 Floyd Plein Air Biennial — Floyd, VA

Deadline: February 4  Artists juried into this event will enjoy painting plein air the Blue Ridge Parkway, the famed Buffalo Mountain, unique sites along the beautiful Little River, local farms and vistas, as well as the Town of Floyd. Events include artist demonstrations, collector educational talks, Juried Artist Collector Preview Exhibition, Artist/Patron Welcome Reception including Wet Paint Sale, Artist/Patron Cocktail Party, Quick Draw Contest at the Historic Floyd Country Store & Friday Night Jamboree, Gala Reception and Art Sale. The top cash prize for this exhibition is $1000, as well as other cash prizes for “Best of” themes and manufacturer awards and gifts. Learn more here.

Request for Qualifications, DC Public Library — D.C.

Deadline: February 7   The District of Columbia Public Library (DCPL) is issuing this Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to engage individual artists, designers, and art/design teams (Artists) to respond to this RFQ for Call to Artists. The Artists shall respond with professional qualifications in addition to proposals for the design of a permanent work of public art for an interior “Heritage Wall” in the entrance area of the newly constructed Lamond-Riggs Neighborhood Library, located at 5401 South Dakota Avenue, NE, Washington, D.C. For more information, click here.

2022 Floyd Plein Air Biennial — Floyd, VA

Deadline: February 14   Artists juried into this event will enjoy painting plein air the Blue Ridge Parkway, the famed Buffalo Mountain, unique sites along the beautiful Little River, local farms and vistas, as well as the Town of Floyd. Events include artist demonstrations, collector educational talks, Juried Artist Collector Preview Exhibition, Artist/Patron Welcome Reception including Wet Paint Sale, Artist/Patron Cocktail Party, Quick Draw Contest at the Historic Floyd Country Store & Friday Night Jamboree, Gala Reception and Art Sale. The top cash prize for this exhibition is $1000, as well as other cash prizes for “Best of” themes and manufacturer awards and gifts.  Learn more here.

Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program 2022–2023 Residencies — Brooklyn, NY

Deadline: February 15  Now accepting applications for its 2022–2023 residency period, the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program awards rent-free studio space to 17 visual artists for yearlong residencies in Brooklyn, New York. For more information, click here.

Summer 2022 Denbo Fellowship, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center — Hyattsville, MD

Deadline: February 18    The Denbo Fellowship is designed to offer artists, from a range of artistic disciplines, an environment conducive to individual and collaborative creative practice. This Fellowship will provide a unique opportunity to complete a new body of work at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center. Selected artists will receive access to Pyramid’s printshop, paper studio or bindery; technical assistance; a locker and flat file for tools and materials; use of standard shop supplies; and a stipend for travel, materials, housing, etc. ($250 two weeks, $350 three weeks, or $500 one month). For more information, click here.

Call for Exhibition Proposals, Pyramid Atlantic art Center — Hyattsville, MD

Deadline: February 18  Pyramid is currently interested in proposals for exhibitions to run between July 2022 to June 2023. While the call is open to all media, Pyramid is particularly interested in exhibitions that tie to one of its core art forms: printmaking, papermaking, and book arts. Proposals may come from curators, individual artists, or artist groups. For more information, click here.

2022 Summer Internships, Pyramid Atlantic art Center — Hyattsville, MD

Deadline: February 18  Pyramid Atlantic  offers studio internships for enthusiastic and serious-minded college or recently graduated art students. Our interns assist resident artists, renters, artistic staff, with printmaking, papermaking, and book arts projects, and in outreach education programs. In addition to hands-on experience with artistic projects, interns gain an understanding of the day-to-day operation of a non-profit art center and gallery. For more information, click here.

Vita Paper Arts Residency, Pyramid Atlantic art Center — Hyattsville, MD

Deadline: February 18   Created in honor of artist Gregory Vita, this artist residency offers a competitive opportunity for emerging and seasoned artists alike who hope to gain more knowledge, improve their skills, and explore new techniques in papermaking. For more information, click here.

Call for Entries, Persistence IV: d’Art Center’s Annual National All Women’s Exhibition — Norfolk, VA

Deadline: February 20  Persistence is an annual exhibition that features work from female artists from across the country to celebrate Women’s History Month. This exhibition is open to functional, non-functional, 2D, 3D, fine art, and fine craft in all mediums. In honor of Women’s History Month, this exhibition is only open to female artists, and is held at the d’Art Center in Norfolk, Virginia. This exhibition is open to all female artists living in the United States. For more information, click here.

Honfleur Artist in Residency 2022 Program, Honfleur Gallery — D.C.

Deadline: March 31   Honfleur Gallery is delighted to announce the invitation to apply for its 2022 Artist-in-Residence program. This program is open to emerging or professional artists in any artistic discipline, including (but not limited to) visual, performing, spoken word, literary arts, film as well as curation of an exhibition. The artist must live in Ward 7 or 8 pursuing research or in the development stage or production of artistic project/exploration. Learn more here.

NEW! 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.

NEW! 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.

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

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].

Call to Artists, Wheaton Mural — Wheaton, MD

Deadline: January 31    Artists who are residents of Maryland are invited to submit qualifications to paint an outdoor mural celebrating Downtown Wheaton and its variety of cultures. The purpose of this project is to help make Wheaton a truly enjoyable place to walk where people can experience art daily. It is intended to enhance our sense of community as well as attract visitors to strengthen our local economy. For more information, click here.

Call for Entries, 2022 Spring Haverford Guild of Craftsmen Fine Craft & Art Show —Haverford, PA

Deadline: January 31   The Haverford Guild of Craftsmen, a chapter of the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen, is holding its 2022 Spring Fine Art and Craft Show. Accepted categories include 2-Dimensional, Basketry, Ceramics, Fiber, Glass, Jewelry, Leather, Mixed Media, Paper, Photography, Sculpture, and Wood. For more information, click here.

Call for Artists, 40UNDER40 2022, Shenandoah Valley Art Center — Waynesboro, VA

Deadline: February 4    The 10th annual 40UNDER40 exhibition is seeking submissions from Virginia based artists age 40 and under. We are looking for works that will challenge viewers and push boundaries of themes, materials, and media. Accepting all media including visual, video, installation, and sound. This exhibit will take place in person and virtually. A printed catalog will be produced as well. For more information, click here.

Call for Entry, 2022 Floyd Plein Air Biennial — Floyd, VA

Deadline: February 4  Artists juried into this event will enjoy painting plein air the Blue Ridge Parkway, the famed Buffalo Mountain, unique sites along the beautiful Little River, local farms and vistas, as well as the Town of Floyd. Events include artist demonstrations, collector educational talks, Juried Artist Collector Preview Exhibition, Artist/Patron Welcome Reception including Wet Paint Sale, Artist/Patron Cocktail Party, Quick Draw Contest at the Historic Floyd Country Store & Friday Night Jamboree, Gala Reception and Art Sale. The top cash prize for this exhibition is $1000, as well as other cash prizes for “Best of” themes and manufacturer awards and gifts. Learn more here.

Request for Qualifications, DC Public Library — D.C.

Deadline: February 7   The District of Columbia Public Library (DCPL) is issuing this Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to engage individual artists, designers, and art/design teams (Artists) to respond to this RFQ for Call to Artists. The Artists shall respond with professional qualifications in addition to proposals for the design of a permanent work of public art for an interior “Heritage Wall” in the entrance area of the newly constructed Lamond-Riggs Neighborhood Library, located at 5401 South Dakota Avenue, NE, Washington, D.C. For more information, click here.

Call for Entries, Persistence IV: d’Art Center’s Annual National All Women’s Exhibition — Norfolk, VA

Deadline: February 20  Persistence is an annual exhibition that features work from female artists from across the country to celebrate Women’s History Month. This exhibition is open to functional, non-functional, 2D, 3D, fine art, and fine craft in all mediums. In honor of Women’s History Month, this exhibition is only open to female artists, and is held at the d’Art Center in Norfolk, Virginia. This exhibition is open to all female artists living in the United States. For more information, click here.

Peter Bullough Foundation Fall 2022 Artist Residency — Winchester, VA

Deadline: February 22  The Peter Bullough Foundation in downtown historic Winchester, Virginia provides residencies to emerging artists and scholars, including those elevating voices and topics relevant to the LGBTQIA2S+ community. Applications are now being accepted for fall 2022 residencies to work in the private studios and enjoy the garden and former homes of Dr. Peter Bullough. The ideal applicant will be self-directed and able to work independently. For more information, click here.

Call for Entries, Future Places 7th Annual Juried Exhibition — Harrisburg, PA

Deadline: May 4    What does a better future look like to you as an artist? Susquehanna Art Museum is challenging artists to render their vision of a promising future for its exhibition Future Places. We believe that artwork addressing this theme will bring the viewer one step closer to imagining a better world. Allow your unique creativity to describe a place where artist and viewer can thrive. Applicants are encouraged to depict spaces where innovation is valued and essential. Submissions may illustrate imaginative landscapes, technology, ecology, and architecture, as well as demonstrate concepts and values that are important in the social systems of the future. The exhibition is meant to inspire viewers to consider the state of humanity while incorporating hope of what may come. Learn more here.

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

Openings at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design — D.C.

Deadline: Until filled   The Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at the George Washington University invites applications for full-time faculty positions in Art History, Design, Graphic Design, Interior Architecture, and Theatre to begin in the fall of 2022. Review of applications will begin on January 15, 2022, and will continue until the positions are filled. To learn more and apply, click here.

Maryland State Art Council Public Art Across Maryland Artwork Commissions

Deadline: January 19   The state of Maryland is requesting qualifications from artists to create site-specific works at St. Mary’s College of Maryland and Bowie State University. Project budgets are $250,000 and $515,000, respectively. For more information, click here.

Frankenthaler Climate Art Awards

Deadline: January 20   Presented by Asia Society and the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, the Frankenthaler Climate Art Awards aim to foster climate change awareness through the imagination and insights of an upcoming generation of visual artists. Eligible artists and collectives are invited to submit video artworks (e.g. digital video art, animation, film) or videos about visual artworks (e.g. documentation of 2D or 3D artworks, such as sculptures, photos, or paintings, installation, or performance works) that tackle the climate change emergency directly on this webpage. Applicants must be either currently enrolled in a US-based fine or visual art MFA program or will have graduated from such a program in the past five years (no earlier than 2017). They must reside in the United States, with the exception of students currently enrolled in US-based programs who are pursuing their studies remotely due to Covid-19 travel restrictions, for which special consideration may be given. For more information, click here.

Call for Teaching Artists at Summer Arts for Learning Academy — Baltimore

Deadline: January 26   The Summer Artists Corps is a comprehensive, high-quality, and holistic professional development program for professional practicing artists who want to work in our award-winning Summer Arts for Learning Academy this summer and earn up to $11,500 ($50/hour) during the program. For more information, Click here.

Call for Apprentice Curator, DC Arts Center Curatorial Initiative 2022 — D.C.

Deadline: January 31   The Curatorial Initiative reflects DC Arts Center’s commitment to curatorial practice as an integral part of supporting emerging and under-recognized artists. Each year, an apprentice curator is selected to gain experience in the process of planning and mounting an exhibition by working with an experienced mentor curator. The program results in two exhibitions each year at the DC Arts Center, located in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Learn how to apply here.

Open Call, Counter Histories Grant

Deadline: February 1   Counter Histories is an initiative supporting projects that creatively reframe the past to engage with questions of the present and future. Magnum Foundation is calling for proposals from photographers and artists working with photography who would like to expand and complete a project and be an active member of a creative community fostering interdisciplinary exploration and collaboration. Up to twelve selected participants will receive a grant of $10,000, take part in project development workshops, and connect with collaborative partners and networks. Learn more here.

Call for Entries, Wharton Esherick Museum 28th Annual Juried Woodworking Exhibition — Malvern, PA

Deadline: February 4   As the Wharton Esherick Museum celebrates its 50th Anniversary in 2022, we’re reflecting on how we’ve shared and interpreted Esherick’s remarkable self-portrait for thousands of people over half a century. In turn, we invite you to share innovative works of art, craft, and design that represent a self-portrait; wood must be part of your entry, but it doesn’t have to be the only material used. You might approach this call through traditional portraiture, an abstract interpretation, a functional work that represents your unique outlook on the world, or some other form of object making that captures who you are. Learn how to enter here.

2022 Floyd Plein Air Biennial — Floyd, VA

Deadline: February 14   Artists juried into this event will enjoy painting plein air the Blue Ridge Parkway, the famed Buffalo Mountain, unique sites along the beautiful Little River, local farms and vistas, as well as the Town of Floyd. Events include artist demonstrations, collector educational talks, Juried Artist Collector Preview Exhibition, Artist/Patron Welcome Reception including Wet Paint Sale, Artist/Patron Cocktail Party, Quick Draw Contest at the Historic Floyd Country Store & Friday Night Jamboree, Gala Reception and Art Sale. The top cash prize for this exhibition is $1000, as well as other cash prizes for “Best of” themes and manufacturer awards and gifts.  Learn more here.

Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program 2022–2023 Residencies — Brooklyn, NY

Deadline: February 15  Now accepting applications for its 2022–2023 residency period, the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program awards rent-free studio space to 17 visual artists for yearlong residencies in Brooklyn, New York. For more information, click here.

Summer 2022 Denbo Fellowship, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center — Hyattsville, MD

Deadline: February 18    The Denbo Fellowship is designed to offer artists, from a range of artistic disciplines, an environment conducive to individual and collaborative creative practice. This Fellowship will provide a unique opportunity to complete a new body of work at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center. Selected artists will receive access to Pyramid’s printshop, paper studio or bindery; technical assistance; a locker and flat file for tools and materials; use of standard shop supplies; and a stipend for travel, materials, housing, etc. ($250 two weeks, $350 three weeks, or $500 one month). For more information, click here.

Call for Exhibition Proposals, Pyramid Atlantic art Center — Hyattsville, MD

Deadline: February 18  Pyramid is currently interested in proposals for exhibitions to run between July 2022 to June 2023. While the call is open to all media, Pyramid is particularly interested in exhibitions that tie to one of its core art forms: printmaking, papermaking, and book arts. Proposals may come from curators, individual artists, or artist groups. For more information, click here.

2022 Summer Internships, Pyramid Atlantic art Center — Hyattsville, MD

Deadline: February 18  Pyramid Atlantic  offers studio internships for enthusiastic and serious-minded college or recently graduated art students. Our interns assist resident artists, renters, artistic staff, with printmaking, papermaking, and book arts projects, and in outreach education programs. In addition to hands-on experience with artistic projects, interns gain an understanding of the day-to-day operation of a non-profit art center and gallery. For more information, click here.

Vita Paper Arts Residency, Pyramid Atlantic art Center — Hyattsville, MD

Deadline: February 18   Created in honor of artist Gregory Vita, this artist residency offers a competitive opportunity for emerging and seasoned artists alike who hope to gain more knowledge, improve their skills, and explore new techniques in papermaking. For more information, click here.

Honfleur Artist in Residency 2022 Program, Honfleur Gallery — D.C.

Deadline: March 31   Honfleur Gallery is delighted to announce the invitation to apply for its 2022 Artist-in-Residence program. This program is open to emerging or professional artists in any artistic discipline, including (but not limited to) visual, performing, spoken word, literary arts, film as well as curation of an exhibition. The artist must live in Ward 7 or 8 pursuing research or in the development stage or production of artistic project/exploration. Learn more here.

NEW! 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.

NEW! 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.

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

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].

Openings at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design — D.C.

Deadline: Until filled   The Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at the George Washington University invites applications for full-time faculty positions in Art History, Design, Graphic Design, Interior Architecture, and Theatre to begin in the fall of 2022. Review of applications will begin on January 15, 2022, and will continue until the positions are filled. To learn more and apply, click here.

Call for Entry, Red, Colors of Humanity Art Gallery — Online Gallery

Deadline: January 15   Red is symbolic for many different things and emotions. It is most commonly associated with heat, activity, passion, sexuality, anger, love, joy, and, in some cultures, it is the color of happiness. We want to see your interpretation of RED in our February 2022 show. For more information, click here.

Frankenthaler Climate Art Awards

Deadline: January 20   Presented by Asia Society and the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, the Frankenthaler Climate Art Awards aim to foster climate change awareness through the imagination and insights of an upcoming generation of visual artists. Eligible artists and collectives are invited to submit video artworks (e.g. digital video art, animation, film) or videos about visual artworks (e.g. documentation of 2D or 3D artworks, such as sculptures, photos, or paintings, installation, or performance works) that tackle the climate change emergency directly on this webpage. Applicants must be either currently enrolled in a US-based fine or visual art MFA program or will have graduated from such a program in the past five years (no earlier than 2017). They must reside in the United States, with the exception of students currently enrolled in US-based programs who are pursuing their studies remotely due to Covid-19 travel restrictions, for which special consideration may be given. For more information, click here.

Call for Teaching Artists at Summer Arts for Learning Academy — Baltimore

Deadline: January 26   The Summer Artists Corps is a comprehensive, high-quality, and holistic professional development program for professional practicing artists who want to work in our award-winning Summer Arts for Learning Academy this summer and earn up to $11,500 ($50/hour) during the program. For more information, Click here.

Maryland State Art Council Public Art Across Maryland Artwork Commissions

Deadline: January 19   The state of Maryland is requesting qualifications from artists to create site-specific works at St. Mary’s College of Maryland and Bowie State University. Project budgets are $250,000 and $515,000, respectively. For more information, click here.

Open Call, Counter Histories Grant

Deadline: February 1   Counter Histories is an initiative supporting projects that creatively reframe the past to engage with questions of the present and future. Magnum Foundation is calling for proposals from photographers and artists working with photography who would like to expand and complete a project and be an active member of a creative community fostering interdisciplinary exploration and collaboration. Up to twelve selected participants will receive a grant of $10,000, take part in project development workshops, and connect with collaborative partners and networks. Learn more here.

Call for Entries, Wharton Esherick Museum 28th Annual Juried Woodworking Exhibition — Malvern, PA

Deadline: February 4   As the Wharton Esherick Museum celebrates its 50th Anniversary in 2022, we’re reflecting on how we’ve shared and interpreted Esherick’s remarkable self-portrait for thousands of people over half a century. In turn, we invite you to share innovative works of art, craft, and design that represent a self-portrait; wood must be part of your entry, but it doesn’t have to be the only material used. You might approach this call through traditional portraiture, an abstract interpretation, a functional work that represents your unique outlook on the world, or some other form of object making that captures who you are. Learn how to enter here.

2022 Floyd Plein Air Biennial — Floyd, VA

Deadline: February 14   Artists juried into this event will enjoy painting plein air the Blue Ridge Parkway, the famed Buffalo Mountain, unique sites along the beautiful Little River, local farms and vistas, as well as the Town of Floyd. Events include artist demonstrations, collector educational talks, Juried Artist Collector Preview Exhibition, Artist/Patron Welcome Reception including Wet Paint Sale, Artist/Patron Cocktail Party, Quick Draw Contest at the Historic Floyd Country Store & Friday Night Jamboree, Gala Reception and Art Sale. The top cash prize for this exhibition is $1000, as well as other cash prizes for “Best of” themes and manufacturer awards and gifts.  Learn more here.

Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program 2022–2023 Residencies — Brooklyn, NY

Deadline: February 15  Now accepting applications for its 2022–2023 residency period, the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program awards rent-free studio space to 17 visual artists for yearlong residencies in Brooklyn, New York. For more information, click here.

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

The Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant

Deadline: January 14   The Foundation wishes to encourage artists who have dedicated their lives to developing their art, regardless of their level of commercial success. Please note that these grants are available only to mature individual visual artists. The Foundation defines maturity in this case as having worked for 20 years or more in a mature phase of art. This program was conceived in order to recognize and support the serious, fully-committed artist, and we hope these individuals will consider applying. Twelve grants are awarded each year. For more information and to apply, click here.

Call for Entries, 33rd National Drawing & Print Competitive Exhibition — Baltimore

Deadline: January 14   Gormley Gallery invites entries for the annual National Drawing & Print Competitive Exhibition, juried this year by Joy Davis, Director and Curator of Waller Gallery in Baltimore. A minimum of $1,500 is available in purchase prize money. Drawings and prints (not photography) in any medium up to 60 inches high (with frame) are eligible with no limitations as to color, surface or materials. The exhibition will be on view March 7 through April 14, 2022. Learn more here.

Marian Treger Fellowship for Enduring Creativity — Amherst, VA

Deadline: January 15  This VCCA fellowship is intended to support women artists (fiction writers, screenwriters, or visual artists) emerging in mid-life and beyond, whose creative paths, like Marian’s, may have been detoured or hindered by chronic health conditions or disabilities. In addition to a two-week residency at VCCA, the fellowship will include a stipend to help support the artist financially in order to be able to take this time away from her daily life and focus fully on her creative project. For more information, click here.

Fall Residencies, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts — Amherst, VA

Deadline: January 15   The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts is currently accepting applications from writers, visual artists, and composers for Fall 2022 residencies to take place between September 1 and December 31, 2022, at Mt. San Angelo in the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains.  During residencies lasting anywhere from two weeks to two months, VCCA Fellows enjoy private studios, private bedrooms, and meals, sequestered in the rolling foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains. VCCA Fellows are selected by peer review on the basis of professional achievement or promise of achievement in their respective fields. For more information, click here.

Call for Mural Artists, miXt Food Hall — Brentwood, MD

Deadline: January 15   miXt seeks an artist to paint an interactive selfie mural inside our food hall. The purpose of the mural is to provide additional entertainment where guests can photograph themselves and post on their social media. Examples above. Work comes with a $1,000 honorarium plus maximum reimbursement of $200 in supplies. For more information, click here.

Call for Entry, McLean Project for the Arts Spring 2022 Exhibitions — McLean, VA

Deadline extended to January 17  McLean Project for the Arts is seeking solo exhibition proposals for the Spring of 2022. Contemporary living artists working in the Mid-Atlantic Region are invited to submit exhibition or project proposals to be on display in the Emerson and Atrium Galleries. The dates for the exhibitions will be from April 14 – June 11, 2022. For more information, Click here.

Call for Apprentice Curator, DC Arts Center Curatorial Initiative 2022 — D.C.

Deadline: January 31   The Curatorial Initiative reflects DC Arts Center’s commitment to curatorial practice as an integral part of supporting emerging and under-recognized artists. Each year, an apprentice curator is selected to gain experience in the process of planning and mounting an exhibition by working with an experienced mentor curator. The program results in two exhibitions each year at the DC Arts Center, located in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Learn how to apply here.

Summer 2022 Denbo Fellowship, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center — Hyattsville, MD

Deadline: February 18    The Denbo Fellowship is designed to offer artists, from a range of artistic disciplines, an environment conducive to individual and collaborative creative practice. This Fellowship will provide a unique opportunity to complete a new body of work at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center. Selected artists will receive access to Pyramid’s printshop, paper studio or bindery; technical assistance; a locker and flat file for tools and materials; use of standard shop supplies; and a stipend for travel, materials, housing, etc. ($250 two weeks, $350 three weeks, or $500 one month). For more information, click here.

Call for Exhibition Proposals, Pyramid Atlantic art Center — Hyattsville, MD

Deadline: February 18  Pyramid is currently interested in proposals for exhibitions to run between July 2022 to June 2023. While the call is open to all media, Pyramid is particularly interested in exhibitions that tie to one of its core art forms: printmaking, papermaking, and book arts. Proposals may come from curators, individual artists, or artist groups. For more information, click here.

2022 Summer Internships, Pyramid Atlantic art Center — Hyattsville, MD

Deadline: February 18  Pyramid Atlantic  offers studio internships for enthusiastic and serious-minded college or recently graduated art students. Our interns assist resident artists, renters, artistic staff, with printmaking, papermaking, and book arts projects, and in outreach education programs. In addition to hands-on experience with artistic projects, interns gain an understanding of the day-to-day operation of a non-profit art center and gallery. For more information, click here.

Vita Paper Arts Residency, Pyramid Atlantic art Center — Hyattsville, MD

Deadline: February 18   Created in honor of artist Gregory Vita, this artist residency offers a competitive opportunity for emerging and seasoned artists alike who hope to gain more knowledge, improve their skills, and explore new techniques in papermaking. For more information, click here.

Honfleur Artist in Residency 2022 Program, Honfleur Gallery — D.C.

Deadline: March 31   Honfleur Gallery is delighted to announce the invitation to apply for its 2022 Artist-in-Residence program. This program is open to emerging or professional artists in any artistic discipline, including (but not limited to) visual, performing, spoken word, literary arts, film as well as curation of an exhibition. The artist must live in Ward 7 or 8 pursuing research or in the development stage or production of artistic project/exploration. Learn more here.

NEW! 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.

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

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].

Call for Entries, New Photography III, Academy Art Museum — Easton, MD

Deadline: January 9    The Academy Museum’s acclaimed national juried photography exhibition returns in its third year with artist, publisher and editor Kris Graves as juror. The open call invites photographers at any stage of their career to submit a cohesive body of work comprising of five images, made between 2019 and 2021. The exhibition seeks to showcase the most compelling and relevant work made by photographers all over the US. Click here to learn more.

2022 Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize — Baltimore

Deadline: January 10    The Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts, Inc. (BOPA) is proud to announce the 17th edition of the Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize. The prize will award $30,000 to a visual artist or visual artist collaborators living and working in the Baltimore region. Approximately three finalists will be selected for the final review for the prizes; their work will be exhibited in the Walters Art Museum in June and July, 2022. All Sondheim Prize Finalists will receive a Finalist Award of $2,500 each, and ten semi-finalists will receive a $500 award and an exhibition during Artscape 2022. We will also be awarding two residencies to finalists not selected for the Sondheim Prize: a six-week fully funded residency at Civatella Ranieri, in the Umbria region of Italy, and a six month long residency at the Bromo Seltzer Art Tower in Baltimore. For more information, click here.

The Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant

Deadline: January 14   The Foundation wishes to encourage artists who have dedicated their lives to developing their art, regardless of their level of commercial success. Please note that these grants are available only to mature individual visual artists. The Foundation defines maturity in this case as having worked for 20 years or more in a mature phase of art. This program was conceived in order to recognize and support the serious, fully-committed artist, and we hope these individuals will consider applying. Twelve grants are awarded each year. For more information and to apply, click here.

Call for Entries, 33rd National Drawing & Print Competitive Exhibition — Baltimore

Deadline: January 14   Gormley Gallery invites entries for the annual National Drawing & Print Competitive Exhibition, juried this year by Joy Davis, Director and Curator of Waller Gallery in Baltimore. A minimum of $1,500 is available in purchase prize money. Drawings and prints (not photography) in any medium up to 60 inches high (with frame) are eligible with no limitations as to color, surface or materials. The exhibition will be on view March 7 through April 14, 2022. Learn more here.

Call for Entry, McLean Project for the Arts Spring 2022 Exhibitions — McLean, VA

Deadline now extended to January 17  McLean Project for the Arts is seeking solo exhibition proposals for the Spring of 2022. Contemporary living artists working in the Mid-Atlantic Region are invited to submit exhibition or project proposals to be on display in the Emerson and Atrium Galleries. The dates for the exhibitions will be from April 14 – June 11, 2022. For more information, Click here.

Summer 2022 Denbo Fellowship, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center — Hyattsville, MD

Deadline: February 18    The Denbo Fellowship is designed to offer artists, from a range of artistic disciplines, an environment conducive to individual and collaborative creative practice. This Fellowship will provide a unique opportunity to complete a new body of work at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center. Selected artists will receive access to Pyramid’s printshop, paper studio or bindery; technical assistance; a locker and flat file for tools and materials; use of standard shop supplies; and a stipend for travel, materials, housing, etc. ($250 two weeks, $350 three weeks, or $500 one month). For more information, click here.

Call for Exhibition Proposals, Pyramid Atlantic art Center — Hyattsville, MD

Deadline: February 18  Pyramid is currently interested in proposals for exhibitions to run between July 2022 to June 2023. While the call is open to all media, Pyramid is particularly interested in exhibitions that tie to one of its core art forms: printmaking, papermaking, and book arts. Proposals may come from curators, individual artists, or artist groups. For more information, click here.

2022 Summer Internships, Pyramid Atlantic art Center — Hyattsville, MD

Deadline: February 18  Pyramid Atlantic  offers studio internships for enthusiastic and serious-minded college or recently graduated art students. Our interns assist resident artists, renters, artistic staff, with printmaking, papermaking, and book arts projects, and in outreach education programs. In addition to hands-on experience with artistic projects, interns gain an understanding of the day-to-day operation of a non-profit art center and gallery. For more information, click here.

Vita Paper Arts Residency, Pyramid Atlantic art Center — Hyattsville, MD

Deadline: February 18   Created in honor of artist Gregory Vita, this artist residency offers a competitive opportunity for emerging and seasoned artists alike who hope to gain more knowledge, improve their skills, and explore new techniques in papermaking. For more information, click here.

Honfleur Artist in Residency 2022 Program, Honfleur Gallery — D.C.

Deadline: March 31   Honfleur Gallery is delighted to announce the invitation to apply for its 2022 Artist-in-Residence program. This program is open to emerging or professional artists in any artistic discipline, including (but not limited to) visual, performing, spoken word, literary arts, film as well as curation of an exhibition. The artist must live in Ward 7 or 8 pursuing research or in the development stage or production of artistic project/exploration. Learn more here.

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

Call for Entries, DADA 2.0, Del Ray Artisans Gallery – Alexandria, VA

Deadline: January 10   This exhibit invites artists to express absurdity and discontent through the lens of Dada. All forms of art are welcome – particularly the mediums of collage, cut-up writing, and sculpture, which embody the spirit of original Dada. The more absurd, the better! DADA 2.0 is a Del Ray Artisans exhibit open to all area artists; however, Del Ray Artisans members pay a lower entry fee. For more information, click here.

Marian Treger Fellowship for Enduring Creativity — Amherst, VA

Deadline: January 15  This VCCA fellowship is intended to support women artists (fiction writers, screenwriters, or visual artists) emerging in mid-life and beyond, whose creative paths, like Marian’s, may have been detoured or hindered by chronic health conditions or disabilities. In addition to a two-week residency at VCCA, the fellowship will include a stipend to help support the artist financially in order to be able to take this time away from her daily life and focus fully on her creative project. For more information, click here.

Fall Residencies, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts — Amherst, VA

Deadline: January 15   The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts is currently accepting applications from writers, visual artists, and composers for Fall 2022 residencies to take place between September 1 and December 31, 2022, at Mt. San Angelo in the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains.  During residencies lasting anywhere from two weeks to two months, VCCA Fellows enjoy private studios, private bedrooms, and meals, sequestered in the rolling foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains. VCCA Fellows are selected by peer review on the basis of professional achievement or promise of achievement in their respective fields. For more information, click here.

Call for Mural Artists, miXt Food Hall — Brentwood, MD

Deadline: January 15   miXt seeks an artist to paint an interactive selfie mural inside our food hall. The purpose of the mural is to provide additional entertainment where guests can photograph themselves and post on their social media. Examples above. Work comes with a $1,000 honorarium plus maximum reimbursement of $200 in supplies. For more information, click here.

Call for Apprentice Curator, DC Arts Center Curatorial Initiative 2022 — D.C.

Deadline: January 31   The Curatorial Initiative reflects DC Arts Center’s commitment to curatorial practice as an integral part of supporting emerging and under-recognized artists. Each year, an apprentice curator is selected to gain experience in the process of planning and mounting an exhibition by working with an experienced mentor curator. The program results in two exhibitions each year at the DC Arts Center, located in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Learn how to apply here.

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

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].

Call for Artists, (GSA) Art in Architecture Program — D.C.

Deadline: December 17  The General Services Administration (GSA) Art in Architecture Program commissions American artists (citizens and Lawful Permanent Residents or Permanent Workers of the United States) to create publicly scaled and permanently installed artworks for Federal buildings nationwide. GSA announces an opportunity for a federal art commission in conjunction with the new construction of the DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) headquarters building in Washington, D.C. at the St Elizabeths – West Campus located in SE Washington, DC. Learn more on how to apply, as well as joining the National Artist Registry, click here.

Graphic Design Coordinator Wanted, Brentwood Arts Exchange — Brentwood, MD

Deadline: December 17   Brentwood Arts Exchange is seeking a graphic design candidate to join our unique and creative workplace. This position is primarily responsible for designing digital and printed marketing materials such as exhibition promo cards, music flyers, newsletter images, social media images, and other collateral designated by the marketing team. The graphic designer will also serve as front desk staff, providing customer service and administrative support to management, and performing other duties as assigned. Click here for more information.

Call for Artists, Large Scale Art Reproduction for Showplace Arena — Upper Marlboro, MD

Deadline: December 31    We are seeking artwork entries from artists that will be re-printed to a 4 x 6-foot full color reproduction to be displayed at The Showplace Arena for a period of 1 year. This call is open to all artists in the District/Maryland/Virginia Area who are 18 years of age or older. All art media is welcome for submission; however, the selected works must be ones that a large-scale re-sizing would be most beneficial for. For more information, click here.

Screen Printing Associate Wanted, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center — Hyattsville, MD

Deadline: January 3  In exchange for volunteering 12 hours a month for Pyramid Atlantic (10 onsite, 2 offsite), the screen print associate will have 24-hour access to studios and equipment and receive a 40% discount on most workshops. The screen print associate also has the opportunity to teach classes, collaborate with resident artists, and sell artwork in the Pyramid Atlantic shop. For more information, click here.

Call for Entries, Fourth LaGrange Southeast Regional — LaGrange, Georgia

Deadline: January 6   The LaGrange Art Museum and the Lamar Dodd Art Center of LaGrange College announce a call to artists for the Fourth LaGrange Southeast Regional – a biannual juried competition open to artists over 18 years of age who live in the Southeastern United States.  The categories are painting, prints, drawings, ceramics, sculpture, photography, and mixed media.  Learn more and apply here.

Request for Qualifications for Public Art, 11th Street Bridge Park Commissions — D.C.

Deadline: January 6    Artists or artist teams are invited to submit qualifications to be considered to participate in the design phase for the four public art opportunities described below. Artists will be asked in the application for which opportunity they are applying. Artists may apply to more than one opportunity, but it is not required. If you would like to apply to multiple opportunities, you will need to submit a separate application for each. Artists/artist teams applying for any of these opportunities can be located anywhere in the country but must have a team member with a connection to the DMV (DC, Maryland, Virginia) area. For more information, click here.

Call for Entry, McLean Project for the Arts Spring 2022 Exhibitions — McLean, VA

Deadline: January 7  McLean Project for the Arts is seeking solo exhibition proposals for the Spring of 2022. Contemporary living artists working in the Mid-Atlantic Region are invited to submit exhibition or project proposals to be on display in the Emerson and Atrium Galleries. The dates for the exhibitions will be from April 14 – June 11, 2022. For more information, Click here.

Call for Entries, Near and Far Photography Exhibit, Falls Church Arts — Falls Church, VA

Deadline: January 9   Some photographers find inspiration from people and places in their far-away travels, and others find it in their own backyards. Macro photography, with its close-up, minute details, calls to some photographers, while others delight in distant, expansive vistas. And some find depth of expression through determining depth of field. Wherever you fall on the Near and Far photography spectrum, this show is for you. For details, click here.

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

Keyholder Residency Spring/Summer 2022, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center — Hyattsville, MD

Deadline: December 18   Pyramid Atlantic Art Center’s Keyholder Residency is a competitive opportunity for emerging to mid-career artists who want to have unlimited access to the studios in exchange for working 4 hours a week for Pyramid Atlantic. The residency is awarded to artists who hope to gain more knowledge and improve their skills in the printmaking, papermaking, or book arts studios. Two artists are selected twice a year by the Pyramid Atlantic artistic staff. Keyholders work in a productive community atmosphere alongside other artists and are expected to abide by all studio policies. Learn more here.

Call for Entry, New Photography III: National Juried Exhibition – Easton, MD

Deadline: January 2   The Academy Art Museum’s open call invites photographers at any stage of their career to submit a cohesive body of work comprising of five images, made between 2019 and 2021. The exhibition seeks to showcase the most compelling and relevant work made by photographers all over the US. The juror will select between 13 – 15 artists for the exhibition. Click here for more information.

Call for Art, Adorned: Inspired by Fabric and Fashion, Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center – Salmons, MD

Deadline: January 2   Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center invites emerging and established artists to submit original artworks to the juried exhibition ‘Adorned: Inspired by Fabric and Fashion’. This is a national juried exhibition. All media and performance welcome; small to large-scale works; cash awards. For more information, click here.

2022 Open Call for Solo Exhibition, Target Gallery – Alexandria, VA

Deadline: January 2   Target Gallery invites regional artists living in the D.C., Maryland, or Virginia to apply for an open call for proposals for a solo exhibition for the summer of 2022. The individual with the chosen proposal will receive an exhibition at Target Gallery from April 23 – July 17, 2022, as well as a virtual online catalog. The artist will also receive a $2000 stipend as well as $100 for an artist talk and additional programming throughout the exhibition. For more information, click here.

Open Call for Exhibition Proposals, Second Street Gallery – Charlottesville, VA

Deadline: January 3, 2022   Second Street Gallery is now accepting proposals for solo/group exhibitions for Season 49 (2022-2023). The gallery welcomes proposals for consideration in works of all media – drawings, prints, photography, paintings, sculptures, installations, videos, sound, performance, and interdisciplinary projects. Exhibition proposals must represent living artists, who may be of both emerging and established reputations. For more information, click here.

New Photography III: National Juried Exhibition – Easton, MD

Deadline: January 5   The Academy Museum’s acclaimed national juried photography exhibition returns in its third year with artist, publisher and editor Kris Graves as juror. The open call invites photographers at any stage of their career to submit a cohesive body of work comprising of five images, made between 2019 and 2021. The exhibition seeks to showcase the most compelling and relevant work made by photographers all over the US. For more information, click here.

New Photography III: National Juried Exhibition, Academy Art Museum – Eaton, Maryland

Deadline: January 5 The Academy Art Museum’s acclaimed national juried photography exhibition returns in its third year with artist, publisher, and editor Kris Graves as juror. The open call invites photographers at any stage of their career to submit a cohesive body of work comprising of five images, made between 2019 and 2021. The exhibition seeks to showcase the most compelling and relevant work made by photographers all over the US. The juror will select between 13 – 15 artists for the exhibition. Click here for more information.

Call for Proposals, Spring Solos 2022, McLean Project for the Arts – McLean, VA

Deadline: January 7   McLean Project for the Arts is seeking solo exhibition proposals for the Spring of 2022. Contemporary living artists working in the Mid-Atlantic Region are invited to submit exhibition or project proposals to be on display in the Emerson and Atrium Galleries. The dates for the exhibitions will be from April 14 – June 11, 2022. For more information, Click here.

2022 International Krappy Kamera Competition – New York

Deadline: January 10   Soho Photo Gallery (SPG) is pleased to announce the 24th Annual International Krappy Kamera Competition.  SPG is New York City’s longest running co-operative photography gallery. All selected photographs will be exhibited from March 2 – 20, 2022 in the gallery and permanently on the SPG website. Learn more here.

Call for Entries, 33rd National Drawing & Print Competitive Exhibition – Baltimore

Deadline: January 14   Gormley Gallery invites entries for the annual National Drawing & Print Competitive Exhibition, juried this year by Joy Davis, Director and Curator of Waller Gallery in Baltimore. A minimum of $1,500 is available in purchase prize money. Drawings and prints (not photography) in any medium up to 60 inches high (with frame) are eligible with no limitations as to color, surface, or materials. To enter, click here.

Call for Entry, Contemporary Color, Site:Brooklyn – New York

Deadline: January 24   Color is among the most significant phenomena of both the natural and human world: it bears on our biology and survival, shapes our attitudes towards what we eat and drink, suffuses religious and political movements, and not least, goes to the very core of our artistic sensibilities. Color generates attraction and opposition, it marks, classifies, and symbolizes. It is an integral part of our shared visual language, extending to the beginning of art history. Site:Brooklyn invites artists, working across all mediums and methods, to submit work that centers, questions, analyzes, or makes use of color in their practice. For more information, click here.

Call for Entry, Self-Expression and Speech/Language Disorders Virtual Art Exhibition – College Park, MD

Deadline: January 24   This exhibit encourages those who identify with having speech, language, or related disorders to submit artworks that express what their disorder means to them. Co-survivors may also contribute or submit artwork. What do you want others to know about your speech/language disorder? How does it impact your everyday life? If you have the choice to completely get rid of your disorder, would you? You may consider the topic from several different lenses: personal, social, realistic, abstract, and more. This is a virtual exhibition, only photographs of artwork will be necessary. This exhibition will be part of University of Maryland’s Arts Fest. Website will be available from May 2022 onwards for anyone who wants to visit it. Learn more here.

Call for Entry, Wharton Esherick Museum 28th Annual Juried Woodworking Exhibition – Malvern, PA

Deadline: February 4   As the Wharton Esherick Museum celebrates its 50th Anniversary in 2022, we’re reflecting on how we’ve shared and interpreted Esherick’s remarkable self-portrait for thousands of people over half a century. In turn, we invite you to share innovative works of art, craft, and design that represent a self-portrait; wood must be part of your entry, but it doesn’t have to be the only material used. For more information, click here.

The Chelsea International Photography Competition – NYC

Deadline: February 15   The Competition is an ideal way to exhibit your talent to a wider international audience. With a distinguished panel of jurors and more than $55,000 in valuable prizes, it is open to photographers from around the world at any stage of their careers. To learn more and enter, click here.

Studio Internship Summer 2022, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center — Hyattsville, MD

Deadline: February 18, 2022   Pyramid Atlantic offers internship opportunities for enthusiastic, engaged, and serious-minded college or post-college artists. Our interns assist resident artists, renters, artistic staff, with printmaking, papermaking, and book arts projects, and in outreach education programs. In addition to hands-on experience with artistic projects, interns gain an understanding of the day-to-day operation of a non-profit art center and gallery. For the Summer 2022 season, Pyramid will accept two interns for this program. Click here to apply.

Call for Artists, The Delaware Contemporary’s Artist Registry – Wilmington, DE

Deadline: August 1, 2022   The Delaware Contemporary’s Artist Registry promotes working artists of our region through exhibitions, residencies, and commissioned projects. The Artist Registry is available to artists within a 250 mile radius of Wilmington, DE and will be the tool by which The Delaware Contemporary will collect, review and select artists for juried and curated exhibitions and projects. By submitting an application for the Artist’s Registry, The Delaware Contemporary will have access to an artist portfolio for the 2021 – 2022 season. During each season, artist portfolios will be regularly reviewed for upcoming opportunities including exhibitions, programs, and special events, as well as selected to be highlighted on the museum’s social media platforms. Learn more here.

Ongoing: These opportunities have rolling deadlines.

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.

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

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].

New Photography III: National Juried Exhibition, Academy Art Museum – Eaton, Maryland

Deadline: January 5 The Academy Art Museum’s acclaimed national juried photography exhibition returns in its third year with artist, publisher, and editor Kris Graves as juror. The open call invites photographers at any stage of their career to submit a cohesive body of work comprising of five images, made between 2019 and 2021. The exhibition seeks to showcase the most compelling and relevant work made by photographers all over the US. The juror will select between 13 – 15 artists for the exhibition. Click here for more information.

2022 International Krappy Kamera Competition – New York

Deadline: January 10   Soho Photo Gallery (SPG) is pleased to announce the 24th Annual International Krappy Kamera Competition.  SPG is New York City’s longest running co-operative photography gallery. All selected photographs will be exhibited from March 2 – 20, 2022 in the gallery and permanently on the SPG website. Learn more here.

Call for Entry, Contemporary Color, Site:Brooklyn – New York

Deadline: January 24   Color is among the most significant phenomena of both the natural and human world: it bears on our biology and survival, shapes our attitudes towards what we eat and drink, suffuses religious and political movements, and not least, goes to the very core of our artistic sensibilities. Color generates attraction and opposition, it marks, classifies, and symbolizes. It is an integral part of our shared visual language, extending to the beginning of art history. Site:Brooklyn invites artists, working across all mediums and methods, to submit work that centers, questions, analyzes, or makes use of color in their practice. For more information, click here.

Call for Entry, Self-Expression and Speech/Language Disorders Virtual Art Exhibition – College Park, MD

Deadline: January 24   This exhibit encourages those who identify with having speech, language, or related disorders to submit artworks that express what their disorder means to them. Co-survivors may also contribute or submit artwork. What do you want others to know about your speech/language disorder? How does it impact your everyday life? If you have the choice to completely get rid of your disorder, would you? You may consider the topic from several different lenses: personal, social, realistic, abstract, and more. This is a virtual exhibition, only photographs of artwork will be necessary. This exhibition will be part of University of Maryland’s Arts Fest. Website will be available from May 2022 onwards for anyone who wants to visit it. Learn more here.

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

Call for Entry, High Contrast International Juried Exhibition – Poughkeepsie, New York

Deadline: December 10   High Contrast invites artworks that make stark contrasts visible and/or draw our attention to radical difference in the world around us. “High contrast” can exist in an artwork’s juxtaposition of strong black and white elements or vivid, bright objects cast against deep, dark shadows. The term might refer to oppositional differences in subject matter, i.e. big/small, curvilinear/angular, rough/polished. In our lives, we also encounter examples of “high contrast” in social and economic disparities, political polarization, or even in the plastic bag or garbage we see sitting in an otherwise pristine natural landscape. Learn more here.

Open Call, Mattress Factory 2021 Residency – Pittsburgh, PA

Deadline: December 10   The Mattress Factory is pleased to announce our new International Open Call for artist residencies and solo exhibitions. During their residency, artists are free to explore wherever their process leads them. The Mattress Factory will support each artist’s process from development through production and installation to exhibition. Solo exhibitions resulting from residencies will be scheduled from Spring 2023 onwards. Learn more here.

Call for Artists, Like Clockwork, Vestige Concept Gallery – Pittsburgh

Deadline: December 11   Like Clockwork seeks to showcase works of art that address the nature of time.  From birth, our daily routines, anxieties on aging, death, rebirth, to creation and destruction, the forms of time give shape to human experience. We are accepting works from emerging, mid-career, and/or professional artists. Work should somehow relate to the theme of the show. For more information, click here.

Call for Artists + Photographers $550.00 Innovate Grants

Keyholder Residency Spring/Summer 2022, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center — Hyattsville, MD

Deadline: December 18   Pyramid Atlantic Art Center’s Keyholder Residency is a competitive opportunity for emerging to mid-career artists who want to have unlimited access to the studios in exchange for working 4 hours a week for Pyramid Atlantic. The residency is awarded to artists who hope to gain more knowledge and improve their skills in the printmaking, papermaking, or book arts studios. Two artists are selected twice a year by the Pyramid Atlantic artistic staff. Keyholders work in a productive community atmosphere alongside other artists and are expected to abide by all studio policies. Learn more here.

Call for Entry, New Photography III: National Juried Exhibition – Easton, MD

Deadline: January 2   The Academy Art Museum’s open call invites photographers at any stage of their career to submit a cohesive body of work comprising of five images, made between 2019 and 2021. The exhibition seeks to showcase the most compelling and relevant work made by photographers all over the US. The juror will select between 13 – 15 artists for the exhibition. Click here for more information.

Call for Art, Adorned: Inspired by Fabric and Fashion, Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center – Salmons, MD

Deadline: January 2   Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center invites emerging and established artists to submit original artworks to the juried exhibition ‘Adorned: Inspired by Fabric and Fashion’. This is a national juried exhibition. All media and performance welcome; small to large-scale works; cash awards. For more information, click here.

2022 Open Call for Solo Exhibition, Target Gallery – Alexandria, VA

Deadline: January 2   Target Gallery invites regional artists living in the D.C., Maryland, or Virginia to apply for an open call for proposals for a solo exhibition for the summer of 2022. The individual with the chosen proposal will receive an exhibition at Target Gallery from April 23 – July 17, 2022, as well as a virtual online catalog. The artist will also receive a $2000 stipend as well as $100 for an artist talk and additional programming throughout the exhibition. For more information, click here.

Open Call for Exhibition Proposals, Second Street Gallery – Charlottesville, VA

Deadline: January 3, 2022   Second Street Gallery is now accepting proposals for solo/group exhibitions for Season 49 (2022-2023). The gallery welcomes proposals for consideration in works of all media – drawings, prints, photography, paintings, sculptures, installations, videos, sound, performance, and interdisciplinary projects. Exhibition proposals must represent living artists, who may be of both emerging and established reputations. For more information, click here.

New Photography III: National Juried Exhibition – Easton, MD

Deadline: January 5   The Academy Museum’s acclaimed national juried photography exhibition returns in its third year with artist, publisher and editor Kris Graves as juror. The open call invites photographers at any stage of their career to submit a cohesive body of work comprising of five images, made between 2019 and 2021. The exhibition seeks to showcase the most compelling and relevant work made by photographers all over the US. For more information, click here.

Call for Proposals, Spring Solos 2022, McLean Project for the Arts – McLean, VA

Deadline: January 7   McLean Project for the Arts is seeking solo exhibition proposals for the Spring of 2022. Contemporary living artists working in the Mid-Atlantic Region are invited to submit exhibition or project proposals to be on display in the Emerson and Atrium Galleries. The dates for the exhibitions will be from April 14 – June 11, 2022. For more information, Click here.

Call for Entries, 33rd National Drawing & Print Competitive Exhibition – Baltimore

Deadline: January 14   Gormley Gallery invites entries for the annual National Drawing & Print Competitive Exhibition, juried this year by Joy Davis, Director and Curator of Waller Gallery in Baltimore. A minimum of $1,500 is available in purchase prize money. Drawings and prints (not photography) in any medium up to 60 inches high (with frame) are eligible with no limitations as to color, surface, or materials. To enter, click here.

Call for Entry, Wharton Esherick Museum 28th Annual Juried Woodworking Exhibition – Malvern, PA

Deadline: February 4   As the Wharton Esherick Museum celebrates its 50th Anniversary in 2022, we’re reflecting on how we’ve shared and interpreted Esherick’s remarkable self-portrait for thousands of people over half a century. In turn, we invite you to share innovative works of art, craft, and design that represent a self-portrait; wood must be part of your entry, but it doesn’t have to be the only material used. For more information, click here.

The Chelsea International Photography Competition – NYC

Deadline: February 15   The Competition is an ideal way to exhibit your talent to a wider international audience. With a distinguished panel of jurors and more than $55,000 in valuable prizes, it is open to photographers from around the world at any stage of their careers. To learn more and enter, click here.

Studio Internship Summer 2022, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center — Hyattsville, MD

Deadline: February 18, 2022   Pyramid Atlantic offers internship opportunities for enthusiastic, engaged, and serious-minded college or post-college artists. Our interns assist resident artists, renters, artistic staff, with printmaking, papermaking, and book arts projects, and in outreach education programs. In addition to hands-on experience with artistic projects, interns gain an understanding of the day-to-day operation of a non-profit art center and gallery. For the Summer 2022 season, Pyramid will accept two interns for this program. Click here to apply.

Call for Artists, The Delaware Contemporary’s Artist Registry – Wilmington, DE

Deadline: August 1, 2022   The Delaware Contemporary’s Artist Registry promotes working artists of our region through exhibitions, residencies, and commissioned projects. The Artist Registry is available to artists within a 250 mile radius of Wilmington, DE and will be the tool by which The Delaware Contemporary will collect, review and select artists for juried and curated exhibitions and projects. By submitting an application for the Artist’s Registry, The Delaware Contemporary will have access to an artist portfolio for the 2021 – 2022 season. During each season, artist portfolios will be regularly reviewed for upcoming opportunities including exhibitions, programs, and special events, as well as selected to be highlighted on the museum’s social media platforms. Learn more here.

Ongoing: These opportunities have rolling deadlines.

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.

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

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].

Call for Entry, Capricious Photo Award 2021 – NYC

Deadline: December 1   The Capricious Award provides one photographer with the resources and editorial support to bring a body of work to fruition. Each year the award is juried by photographers, critics and curators, with the intent to select a photographer whose work is both distinct in point of view and boldly relevant to the unfolding issues of our time. The recipient will be awarded with resources, valued at $25,000, geared towards the production of a limited-edition book. For more information, click here.

Call for Entry, True Blue Online Exhibit

Deadline: December 3   The color blue is the most universally appealing color on the spectrum. It can represent trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, and sensitivity. But it can also convey fragility, depression, impersonality, and even coldness. There was a time when the pigment blue was the rarest and most precious shade of all. Some artists even went into debt just to use the color! With so many intriguing shades of blue and so many meanings and representations, show us True Blue through your perspective. Learn more here.

Open Call, Mattress Factory 2021 Residency – Pittsburgh, PA

Deadline: December 10   The Mattress Factory is pleased to announce our new International Open Call for artist residencies and solo exhibitions. During their residency, artists are free to explore wherever their process leads them. The Mattress Factory will support each artist’s process from development through production and installation to exhibition. Solo exhibitions resulting from residencies will be scheduled from Spring 2023 onwards. Learn more here.

2022 Open Call for Solo Exhibition, Target Gallery – Alexandria, VA

Deadline: January 2   Target Gallery invites regional artists living in the D.C., Maryland, or Virginia to apply for an open call for proposals for a solo exhibition for the summer of 2022. The individual with the chosen proposal will receive an exhibition at Target Gallery from April 23 – July 17, 2022, as well as a virtual online catalog. The artist will also receive a $2000 stipend as well as $100 for an artist talk and additional programming throughout the exhibition. For more information, click here.

New Photography III: National Juried Exhibition – Easton, MD

Deadline: January 5   The Academy Museum’s acclaimed national juried photography exhibition returns in its third year with artist, publisher and editor Kris Graves as juror. The open call invites photographers at any stage of their career to submit a cohesive body of work comprising of five images, made between 2019 and 2021. The exhibition seeks to showcase the most compelling and relevant work made by photographers all over the US. For more information, click here.

Call for Proposals, Spring Solos 2022, McLean Project for the Arts – McLean, VA

Deadline: January 7   McLean Project for the Arts is seeking solo exhibition proposals for the Spring of 2022. Contemporary living artists working in the Mid-Atlantic Region are invited to submit exhibition or project proposals to be on display in the Emerson and Atrium Galleries. The dates for the exhibitions will be from April 14 – June 11, 2022. For more information, Click here.

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

Smithsonian Magazine 19th Annual Photo Contest

Deadline: November 30   To be eligible for any category, a photograph must have been shot by the entrant since January 1, 2019. There are 6 categories: Natural World, Travel, People, The American Experience, Altered Images, and Mobile. Learn how to enter here.

Call for Entry, Anacostia Portraits – DC

Deadline: November 30   Anacostia Portraits is a participatory arts project using a historic photographic process to create a visual archive celebrating the people who make up the Anacostia region of the District of Columbia. In this revival of the 19^th century tintype, individuals with a connection to the community are invited to portrait sessions with photographer Elena Volkova at the Anacostia Arts Center. Each sitting produces two portraits, one for the participant and one for a final installation. For more information, click here.

Request for Qualifications, Brightview Innovation Center Public Art — Herndon, VA

Deadline: November 30    Brightview Innovation Center in Herndon, Virginia is requesting proposals for public art for three areas within its complex. Artists and artist teams can demonstrate qualifications for 1, 2, or all 3 of the art locations. Learn more here.

Call for Entries, SlowArt Productions Emerging Artists 2022 – Hudson, NY

Deadline: November 30   SlowArt Productions presents Emerging Artists 2022, the 30th annual competition for exhibition, promotion and $500 cash award. Open to all artists working in any media. This event is devoted to the discovery, introduction, and promotion of Emerging Artists. The exhibition will be held March 3 – 26, 2022, at the Limner Gallery. Click here for more information.

Call for Art, Create! Magazine

Deadline: November 30   Create! Magazine is pleased to announce a new juried call for entries for the Create! Magazine Winter Print Issue 2021-2022. We are proud to present our incredible guest curator for this issue, Daniel Raphael Gallery, a Contemporary Art Gallery based in Marylebone, London with a focus on emerging artists. All are welcome. Our calls for entry are open to all artists from every country unless we have a special edition that highlights a specific topic or interest. All styles and media are welcome. There are no educational requirements to apply to the open calls. Learn more here.

2021/2022 National Arts Club Fellowship – New York

Deadline: December 1   The Artist Fellowship provides a select number of artists, working in any one of the disciplines reflected in the NAC’s arts committees, a 18-month Artist Fellowship at the Club, situated in Gramercy Park, New York. Artist Fellows will be provided with complimentary Club participation, providing access to the historic clubhouse, public programs and discounted private overnight rooms. The Artist Fellowship provides opportunities for the recipient to be featured in Club programming and presentations. Learn more here.

Call for Artists, Hill Center Galleries – DC

Deadline: December 1   Hill Center Galleries is currently welcoming artists residing in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia to submit entries for its Regional Juried Art Exhibition. Three cash prizes and five Honorable Mention awards will be made. For more information, click here.

Call for Entry, Mozaik Future Art Awards

Deadline: December 1   The Future Art Awards is an annual open call to all U.S. artists of all creative expressions and backgrounds, designed to give critical financial support, exhibition exposure, and literary coverage to 50 artists through a blind review of their art by a jury of their peers. This year’s theme is Ecosystem X—an arts-based reimagining of life on planet Earth. We’re offering $5,000 awards to ten selected artists, in addition to a $5,000 student scholarship/stipend to a winning student artist. All artists will showcase their work in a curated virtual exhibition opening free to the public in early 2022. There is no cost to submit. Learn more here.

Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency by Collar Works – Granville, NY

Deadline: December 1   Collar Works is seeking artists to participate in the 2022 Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency program for individuals and parent artists. The Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency (EMAR) program by Collar Works is designed to provide a diverse group of emerging and established artists an immersive, supportive, productive, and communal atmosphere for art-making and dialogue on a bucolic 77-acre farm in Washington County. The summer residency is offered for 5 weeks, with 2 and 4-week residencies for individual artists and 1-week residencies for families. For more information, click here.

Call for Entry, High Contrast International Juried Exhibition – Poughkeepsie, New York

Deadline: December 10   High Contrast invites artworks that make stark contrasts visible and/or draw our attention to radical difference in the world around us. “High contrast” can exist in an artwork’s juxtaposition of strong black and white elements or vivid, bright objects cast against deep, dark shadows. The term might refer to oppositional differences in subject matter, i.e. big/small, curvilinear/angular, rough/polished. In our lives, we also encounter examples of “high contrast” in social and economic disparities, political polarization, or even in the plastic bag or garbage we see sitting in an otherwise pristine natural landscape. Learn more here.

Call for Artists, Like Clockwork, Vestige Concept Gallery – Pittsburgh

Deadline: December 11   Like Clockwork seeks to showcase works of art that address the nature of time.  From birth, our daily routines, anxieties on aging, death, rebirth, to creation and destruction, the forms of time give shape to human experience. We are accepting works from emerging, mid-career, and/or professional artists. Work should somehow relate to the theme of the show. For more information, click here.

Call for Artists + Photographers $550.00 Innovate Grants

Keyholder Residency Spring/Summer 2022, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center — Hyattsville, MD

Deadline: December 18   Pyramid Atlantic Art Center’s Keyholder Residency is a competitive opportunity for emerging to mid-career artists who want to have unlimited access to the studios in exchange for working 4 hours a week for Pyramid Atlantic. The residency is awarded to artists who hope to gain more knowledge and improve their skills in the printmaking, papermaking, or book arts studios. Two artists are selected twice a year by the Pyramid Atlantic artistic staff. Keyholders work in a productive community atmosphere alongside other artists and are expected to abide by all studio policies. Learn more here.

Call for Entry, New Photography III: National Juried Exhibition – Easton, MD

Deadline: January 2   The Academy Art Museum’s open call invites photographers at any stage of their career to submit a cohesive body of work comprising of five images, made between 2019 and 2021. The exhibition seeks to showcase the most compelling and relevant work made by photographers all over the US. The juror will select between 13 – 15 artists for the exhibition. Click here for more information.

Call for Art, Adorned: Inspired by Fabric and Fashion, Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center – Salmons, MD

Deadline: January 2   Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center invites emerging and established artists to submit original artworks to the juried exhibition ‘Adorned: Inspired by Fabric and Fashion’. This is a national juried exhibition. All media and performance welcome; small to large-scale works; cash awards. For more information, click here.

Open Call for Exhibition Proposals, Second Street Gallery – Charlottesville, VA

Deadline: January 3, 2022   Second Street Gallery is now accepting proposals for solo/group exhibitions for Season 49 (2022-2023). The gallery welcomes proposals for consideration in works of all media – drawings, prints, photography, paintings, sculptures, installations, videos, sound, performance, and interdisciplinary projects. Exhibition proposals must represent living artists, who may be of both emerging and established reputations. For more information, click here.

Call for Entries, 33rd National Drawing & Print Competitive Exhibition – Baltimore

Deadline: January 14   Gormley Gallery invites entries for the annual National Drawing & Print Competitive Exhibition, juried this year by Joy Davis, Director and Curator of Waller Gallery in Baltimore. A minimum of $1,500 is available in purchase prize money. Drawings and prints (not photography) in any medium up to 60 inches high (with frame) are eligible with no limitations as to color, surface, or materials. To enter, click here.

Call for Entry, Wharton Esherick Museum 28th Annual Juried Woodworking Exhibition – Malvern, PA

Deadline: February 4   As the Wharton Esherick Museum celebrates its 50th Anniversary in 2022, we’re reflecting on how we’ve shared and interpreted Esherick’s remarkable self-portrait for thousands of people over half a century. In turn, we invite you to share innovative works of art, craft, and design that represent a self-portrait; wood must be part of your entry, but it doesn’t have to be the only material used. For more information, click here.

The Chelsea International Photography Competition – NYC

Deadline: February 15   The Competition is an ideal way to exhibit your talent to a wider international audience. With a distinguished panel of jurors and more than $55,000 in valuable prizes, it is open to photographers from around the world at any stage of their careers. To learn more and enter, click here.

Studio Internship Summer 2022, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center — Hyattsville, MD

Deadline: February 18, 2022   Pyramid Atlantic offers internship opportunities for enthusiastic, engaged, and serious-minded college or post-college artists. Our interns assist resident artists, renters, artistic staff, with printmaking, papermaking, and book arts projects, and in outreach education programs. In addition to hands-on experience with artistic projects, interns gain an understanding of the day-to-day operation of a non-profit art center and gallery. For the Summer 2022 season, Pyramid will accept two interns for this program. Click here to apply.

Call for Artists, The Delaware Contemporary’s Artist Registry – Wilmington, DE

Deadline: August 1, 2022   The Delaware Contemporary’s Artist Registry promotes working artists of our region through exhibitions, residencies, and commissioned projects. The Artist Registry is available to artists within a 250 mile radius of Wilmington, DE and will be the tool by which The Delaware Contemporary will collect, review and select artists for juried and curated exhibitions and projects. By submitting an application for the Artist’s Registry, The Delaware Contemporary will have access to an artist portfolio for the 2021 – 2022 season. During each season, artist portfolios will be regularly reviewed for upcoming opportunities including exhibitions, programs, and special events, as well as selected to be highlighted on the museum’s social media platforms. Learn more here.

Ongoing: These opportunities have rolling deadlines.

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.

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

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].

Call for Entry, 9th Annual All Color Online Art Competition

Deadline: November 28   Contemporary Art Gallery Online is proud to announce their 9th Annual All Color Online Art Competition for 2021. Artists should submit their best representational or non-representational art related to the All Color theme. For more information, click here.

Call for Submissions, Experimental Art & Animation Film Festival – D.C.

Deadline: November 29   Award-winning, long-running Washington DC Independent Film Festival runs March 2-6th, 2022. Submissions welcomed in animation, fiction, experimental, art, documentary and cross-genre. DCIFF2022 transitions to a Forum design with all competitively selected screen artists/filmmakers invited to take active part in discussion with audiences around their films. Includes a high school competition. Learn more here.

Call for Entries, SlowArt Productions Emerging Artists 2022 – Hudson, NY

Deadline: November 30   SlowArt Productions presents Emerging Artists 2022, the 30th annual competition for exhibition, promotion and $500 cash award. Open to all artists working in any media. This event is devoted to the discovery, introduction, and promotion of Emerging Artists. The exhibition will be held March 3 – 26, 2022, at the Limner Gallery. Click here for more information.

Call for Art, Create! Magazine

Deadline: November 30   Create! Magazine is pleased to announce a new juried call for entries for the Create! Magazine Winter Print Issue 2021-2022. We are proud to present our incredible guest curator for this issue, Daniel Raphael Gallery, a Contemporary Art Gallery based in Marylebone, London with a focus on emerging artists. All are welcome. Our calls for entry are open to all artists from every country unless we have a special edition that highlights a specific topic or interest. All styles and media are welcome. There are no educational requirements to apply to the open calls. Learn more here.

Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency by Collar Works – Granville, NY

Deadline: December 1   Collar Works is seeking artists to participate in the 2022 Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency program for individuals and parent artists. The Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency (EMAR) program by Collar Works is designed to provide a diverse group of emerging and established artists an immersive, supportive, productive, and communal atmosphere for art-making and dialogue on a bucolic 77-acre farm in Washington County. The summer residency is offered for 5 weeks, with 2 and 4-week residencies for individual artists and 1-week residencies for families. For more information, click here.

Call for Artists + Photographers, Innovate Grants

Deadline: December 14   Innovate Grant distributes two $550.00 grants each quarter, to one visual artist and one photographer. The Fall 2021 cycle is currently open. Apply here.

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

AMWA Seeks Art for Immediate Purchase – DC

Deadline: November 24   Washington DC-based nonprofit Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies, representing urban, local drinking water systems in the U.S. is seeking approximately twenty (20) pieces of wall art for its office suite. Scenes from urban environments, such as water towers or rivers or lakes with cityscapes; urban nature trails or parks; cityscapes; etc. are welcome. Media includes oil, acrylic, paster, or watercolor. The call is open to any artist 18+ living within the DMV. Learn more here.

Call for Proposals, Maritime Center of Excellence, U.S. Coast Guard Academy Alumni Association – New London, CT

Deadline: November 25   The U.S. Coast Guard Academy Alumni Association (USCGAAA) has issued a request for qualifications from talented muralists and artists to create a large-scale art installation at the Maritime Center of Excellence (MCOE). The project seeks to develop artwork that will be prominently displayed in the MCOE, which is currently under construction along the waterfront of the Coast Guard Academy in New London. For more information and qualifications, contact Captain Robert McKenna at [email protected].

Call for Entries, Laid Bare, Gormley Gallery, Notre Dame of Maryland University – Baltimore

Deadline: November 29   Apocalypse, by its original Greek definition, means a revelation. During recent societal upheavals—from the Covid-19 pandemic to the accelerating climate crisis, to increasing political division and violence, to a near coup— apocalyptic thinking has become pervasive, and at times ubiquitous. What new worlds will be revealed, as the world we once knew ceases to exist? What better world can we build from this one? Gormley Gallery invites submissions for an exhibition on the theme of apocalypse as revelation. For more information click here.

Smithsonian Magazine 19th Annual Photo Contest

Deadline: November 30   To be eligible for any category, a photograph must have been shot by the entrant since January 1, 2019. There are 6 categories: Natural World, Travel, People, The American Experience, Altered Images, and Mobile. Learn how to enter here.

Call for Entry, Anacostia Portraits – DC

Deadline: November 30   Anacostia Portraits is a participatory arts project using a historic photographic process to create a visual archive celebrating the people who make up the Anacostia region of the District of Columbia. In this revival of the 19^th century tintype, individuals with a connection to the community are invited to portrait sessions with photographer Elena Volkova at the Anacostia Arts Center. Each sitting produces two portraits, one for the participant and one for a final installation. For more information, click here.

Request for Qualifications, Brightview Innovation Center Public Art — Herndon, VA

Deadline: November 30    Brightview Innovation Center in Herndon, Virginia is requesting proposals for public art for three areas within its complex. Artists and artist teams can demonstrate qualifications for 1, 2, or all 3 of the art locations. Learn more here.

2021/2022 National Arts Club Fellowship – New York

Deadline: December 1   The Artist Fellowship provides a select number of artists, working in any one of the disciplines reflected in the NAC’s arts committees, a 18-month Artist Fellowship at the Club, situated in Gramercy Park, New York. Artist Fellows will be provided with complimentary Club participation, providing access to the historic clubhouse, public programs and discounted private overnight rooms. The Artist Fellowship provides opportunities for the recipient to be featured in Club programming and presentations. Learn more here.

Call for Artists, Hill Center Galleries – DC

Deadline: December 1   Hill Center Galleries is currently welcoming artists residing in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia to submit entries for its Regional Juried Art Exhibition. Three cash prizes and five Honorable Mention awards will be made. For more information, click here.

Call for Entry, Mozaik Future Art Awards

Deadline: December 1   The Future Art Awards is an annual open call to all U.S. artists of all creative expressions and backgrounds, designed to give critical financial support, exhibition exposure, and literary coverage to 50 artists through a blind review of their art by a jury of their peers. This year’s theme is Ecosystem X—an arts-based reimagining of life on planet Earth. We’re offering $5,000 awards to ten selected artists, in addition to a $5,000 student scholarship/stipend to a winning student artist. All artists will showcase their work in a curated virtual exhibition opening free to the public in early 2022. There is no cost to submit. Learn more here.

Call for Entry, High Contrast International Juried Exhibition – Poughkeepsie, New York

Deadline: December 10   High Contrast invites artworks that make stark contrasts visible and/or draw our attention to radical difference in the world around us. “High contrast” can exist in an artwork’s juxtaposition of strong black and white elements or vivid, bright objects cast against deep, dark shadows. The term might refer to oppositional differences in subject matter, i.e. big/small, curvilinear/angular, rough/polished. In our lives, we also encounter examples of “high contrast” in social and economic disparities, political polarization, or even in the plastic bag or garbage we see sitting in an otherwise pristine natural landscape. Learn more here.

Call for Artists, Like Clockwork, Vestige Concept Gallery – Pittsburgh

Deadline: December 11   Like Clockwork seeks to showcase works of art that address the nature of time.  From birth, our daily routines, anxieties on aging, death, rebirth, to creation and destruction, the forms of time give shape to human experience. We are accepting works from emerging, mid-career, and/or professional artists. Work should somehow relate to the theme of the show. For more information, click here.

Call for Artists + Photographers $550.00 Innovate Grants

Keyholder Residency Spring/Summer 2022, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center — Hyattsville, MD

Deadline: December 18   Pyramid Atlantic Art Center’s Keyholder Residency is a competitive opportunity for emerging to mid-career artists who want to have unlimited access to the studios in exchange for working 4 hours a week for Pyramid Atlantic. The residency is awarded to artists who hope to gain more knowledge and improve their skills in the printmaking, papermaking, or book arts studios. Two artists are selected twice a year by the Pyramid Atlantic artistic staff. Keyholders work in a productive community atmosphere alongside other artists and are expected to abide by all studio policies. Learn more here.

Call for Entry, New Photography III: National Juried Exhibition – Easton, MD

Deadline: January 2   The Academy Art Museum’s open call invites photographers at any stage of their career to submit a cohesive body of work comprising of five images, made between 2019 and 2021. The exhibition seeks to showcase the most compelling and relevant work made by photographers all over the US. The juror will select between 13 – 15 artists for the exhibition. Click here for more information.

Call for Art, Adorned: Inspired by Fabric and Fashion, Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center – Salmons, MD

Deadline: January 2   Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center invites emerging and established artists to submit original artworks to the juried exhibition ‘Adorned: Inspired by Fabric and Fashion’. This is a national juried exhibition. All media and performance welcome; small to large-scale works; cash awards. For more information, click here.

Open Call for Exhibition Proposals, Second Street Gallery – Charlottesville, VA

Deadline: January 3, 2022   Second Street Gallery is now accepting proposals for solo/group exhibitions for Season 49 (2022-2023). The gallery welcomes proposals for consideration in works of all media – drawings, prints, photography, paintings, sculptures, installations, videos, sound, performance, and interdisciplinary projects. Exhibition proposals must represent living artists, who may be of both emerging and established reputations. For more information, click here.

Call for Entries, 33rd National Drawing & Print Competitive Exhibition – Baltimore

Deadline: January 14   Gormley Gallery invites entries for the annual National Drawing & Print Competitive Exhibition, juried this year by Joy Davis, Director and Curator of Waller Gallery in Baltimore. A minimum of $1,500 is available in purchase prize money. Drawings and prints (not photography) in any medium up to 60 inches high (with frame) are eligible with no limitations as to color, surface, or materials. To enter, click here.

Call for Entry, Wharton Esherick Museum 28th Annual Juried Woodworking Exhibition – Malvern, PA

Deadline: February 4   As the Wharton Esherick Museum celebrates its 50th Anniversary in 2022, we’re reflecting on how we’ve shared and interpreted Esherick’s remarkable self-portrait for thousands of people over half a century. In turn, we invite you to share innovative works of art, craft, and design that represent a self-portrait; wood must be part of your entry, but it doesn’t have to be the only material used. For more information, click here.

The Chelsea International Photography Competition – NYC

Deadline: February 15   The Competition is an ideal way to exhibit your talent to a wider international audience. With a distinguished panel of jurors and more than $55,000 in valuable prizes, it is open to photographers from around the world at any stage of their careers. To learn more and enter, click here.

Studio Internship Summer 2022, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center — Hyattsville, MD

Deadline: February 18, 2022   Pyramid Atlantic offers internship opportunities for enthusiastic, engaged, and serious-minded college or post-college artists. Our interns assist resident artists, renters, artistic staff, with printmaking, papermaking, and book arts projects, and in outreach education programs. In addition to hands-on experience with artistic projects, interns gain an understanding of the day-to-day operation of a non-profit art center and gallery. For the Summer 2022 season, Pyramid will accept two interns for this program. Click here to apply.

Call for Artists, The Delaware Contemporary’s Artist Registry – Wilmington, DE

Deadline: August 1, 2022   The Delaware Contemporary’s Artist Registry promotes working artists of our region through exhibitions, residencies, and commissioned projects. The Artist Registry is available to artists within a 250 mile radius of Wilmington, DE and will be the tool by which The Delaware Contemporary will collect, review and select artists for juried and curated exhibitions and projects. By submitting an application for the Artist’s Registry, The Delaware Contemporary will have access to an artist portfolio for the 2021 – 2022 season. During each season, artist portfolios will be regularly reviewed for upcoming opportunities including exhibitions, programs, and special events, as well as selected to be highlighted on the museum’s social media platforms. Learn more here.

Ongoing: These opportunities have rolling deadlines.

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.

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

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].

Call for Entry, Sweet Tooth, Target Gallery – Alexandria, VA

Deadline: November 21   Target Gallery invites artists working in all visual media to apply for Sweet Tooth, a group exhibition that is all about decadence, desire, and craving. Artwork can embody this theme physically through vibrancy and the richness of color and texture. Artwork can also represent these themes through a more conceptual connection such as explorations of coveting, gluttony, greed, and yearning. For more information, click here.

Request for Qualifications, Brightview Innovation Center Public Art — Herndon, VA

Deadline: November 30    Brightview Innovation Center in Herndon, Virginia is requesting proposals for public art for three areas within its complex. Artists and artist teams can demonstrate qualifications for 1, 2, or all 3 of the art locations. Learn more here.

Call for Entry, High Contrast International Juried Exhibition – Poughkeepsie, New York

Deadline: December 10   High Contrast invites artworks that make stark contrasts visible and/or draw our attention to radical difference in the world around us. “High contrast” can exist in an artwork’s juxtaposition of strong black and white elements or vivid, bright objects cast against deep, dark shadows. The term might refer to oppositional differences in subject matter, i.e. big/small, curvilinear/angular, rough/polished. In our lives, we also encounter examples of “high contrast” in social and economic disparities, political polarization, or even in the plastic bag or garbage we see sitting in an otherwise pristine natural landscape. Learn more here.

Call for Entry, New Photography III: National Juried Exhibition – Easton, MD

Deadline: January 2   The Academy Art Museum’s open call invites photographers at any stage of their career to submit a cohesive body of work comprising of five images, made between 2019 and 2021. The exhibition seeks to showcase the most compelling and relevant work made by photographers all over the US. The juror will select between 13 – 15 artists for the exhibition. Click here for more information.

Call for Art, Adorned: Inspired by Fabric and Fashion, Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center – Salmons, MD

Deadline: January 2   Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center invites emerging and established artists to submit original artworks to the juried exhibition ‘Adorned: Inspired by Fabric and Fashion’. This is a national juried exhibition. All media and performance welcome; small to large-scale works; cash awards. For more information, click here.

Call for Entry, Wharton Esherick Museum 28th Annual Juried Woodworking Exhibition – Malvern, PA

Deadline: February 4   As the Wharton Esherick Museum celebrates its 50th Anniversary in 2022, we’re reflecting on how we’ve shared and interpreted Esherick’s remarkable self-portrait for thousands of people over half a century. In turn, we invite you to share innovative works of art, craft, and design that represent a self-portrait; wood must be part of your entry, but it doesn’t have to be the only material used. For more information, click here.

The Chelsea International Photography Competition – NYC

Deadline: February 15   The Competition is an ideal way to exhibit your talent to a wider international audience. With a distinguished panel of jurors and more than $55,000 in valuable prizes, it is open to photographers from around the world at any stage of their careers. To learn more and enter, click here.

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

Hooper Prize Grant for Artists

Deadline: November 16   The Hopper Prize was established in order to increase the recognition of artwork created by artists and photographers. Our aim is to advance artists’ careers by providing them with unrestricted financial support that is coupled with a platform for increased visibility. We accept submissions twice a year via an open call. We are offering 2 grants in the amount of $3,500 and 4 grants in the amount of $1,000. Grants will be awarded through an open call art competition juried by leading contemporary curators. Apply here.

Call for 2022 Bresler Resident Artists, VisArts — Rockville, MD

Deadline: November 19  In honor of VisArts patrons, Fleur and Charles Bresler, VisArts invites applications and proposals from local, national, and international artists for a four month residency at VisArts in Rockville, Maryland.  This residency provides a unique opportunity for a dynamic individual artist or collaborative artist team to create a new body of work, evolve an existing body of work or develop a project in a stimulating, supportive environment. The current call is for artists or collaborative artist teams whose primary practice is sound, new media and/or photography centering on environmental, social, racial, and economic justice. Artists must be prepared to use online platforms in place of face to face community gatherings due to pandemic safety concerns. For more information. click here.

Call for Student Artwork, The Stamp Gallery – College Park, MD

Deadline: November 19   The Stamp Student Union Gallery announces a call for student artwork for the Second Biennial Student Juried Exhibition to be held during the Winter Session. Artwork will be displayed on the walls in front of the windows of our gallery during the winter session; all forms of media, including 2-D, 3-D and digital, are accepted.  The Juried Winter Show acts as a reflection of the varied artistic interests of the University of Maryland campus community.  Proposals are open to all currently enrolled University of Maryland students. For more information, click here.

Call for Entries, 2021 Cumberland Valley Artists Exhibition & Cumberland Valley Photographers Exhibition – Hagerstown, MD

Deadline: November 19   The Washington County Museum of Fine Arts is pleased to announce a call for entries for the Cumberland Valley Artists Exhibition and the Cumberland Valley Photographers Exhibition. Both are open to artists living in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington D. C. For more information, click here.

Call for Proposals, Maritime Center of Excellence, U.S. Coast Guard Academy Alumni Association – New London, CT

Deadline: November 25   The U.S. Coast Guard Academy Alumni Association (USCGAAA) has issued a request for qualifications from talented muralists and artists to create a large-scale art installation at the Maritime Center of Excellence (MCOE). The project seeks to develop artwork that will be prominently displayed in the MCOE, which is currently under construction along the waterfront of the Coast Guard Academy in New London. For more information and qualifications, contact Captain Robert McKenna at [email protected].

Call for Entry, Maryland Art Place UNDER $500 Exhibit — Baltimore

Deadline: November 20   Have your work noticed and purchased by local buyers & collectors, just in time for the holidays! Maryland Art Place (MAP) is seeking artists for UNDER $500, our upcoming, winter benefit exhibition/affordable art sale. On Friday, December 10 and Saturday, December 11, 2021 this two-day event will promote the sale of artwork by artists in the Maryland region. The virtual exhibition and sale event will take place on Saturday, December 11 at 10am – Wednesday, December 15 at 10pm. Artwork featured virtually will include featured artists in addition to artists presented in the gallery. For more information, click here.

Call for Artists, Make Me Happy, Falls Church Arts Gallery – Falls Church, VA

Deadline: November 21   Artworks in all media that elicit joy, bring a smile, and lift the spirit is the main prerequisite for this in-person and online exhibit. For more information, click here.

Boynes Emerging Artist Award

Deadline: November 22   The Boynes Emerging Artist Award is an online art competition with a reward of cash, marketing, promotion, and art supplies. We accept all 2D and 3D artworks such as paintings, drawings, photography, sculpture, etc. on any support such as canvas, wood, digital, etc.  For more information, click here.  

AMWA Seeks Art for Immediate Purchase – DC

Deadline: November 24   Washington DC-based nonprofit Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies, representing urban, local drinking water systems in the U.S. is seeking approximately twenty (20) pieces of wall art for its office suite. Scenes from urban environments, such as water towers or rivers or lakes with cityscapes; urban nature trails or parks; cityscapes; etc. are welcome. Media includes oil, acrylic, paster, or watercolor. The call is open to any artist 18+ living within the DMV. Learn more here.

Call for Entries, Laid Bare, Gormley Gallery, Notre Dame of Maryland University – Baltimore

Deadline: November 29   Apocalypse, by its original Greek definition, means a revelation. During recent societal upheavals—from the Covid-19 pandemic to the accelerating climate crisis, to increasing political division and violence, to a near coup— apocalyptic thinking has become pervasive, and at times ubiquitous. What new worlds will be revealed, as the world we once knew ceases to exist? What better world can we build from this one? Gormley Gallery invites submissions for an exhibition on the theme of apocalypse as revelation. For more information click here.

Smithsonian Magazine 19th Annual Photo Contest

Deadline: November 30   To be eligible for any category, a photograph must have been shot by the entrant since January 1, 2019. There are 6 categories: Natural World, Travel, People, The American Experience, Altered Images, and Mobile. Learn how to enter here.

Call for Entry, Anacostia Portraits – DC

Deadline: November 30   Anacostia Portraits is a participatory arts project using a historic photographic process to create a visual archive celebrating the people who make up the Anacostia region of the District of Columbia. In this revival of the 19^th century tintype, individuals with a connection to the community are invited to portrait sessions with photographer Elena Volkova at the Anacostia Arts Center. Each sitting produces two portraits, one for the participant and one for a final installation. For more information, click here.

2021/2022 National Arts Club Fellowship – New York

Deadline: December 1   The Artist Fellowship provides a select number of artists, working in any one of the disciplines reflected in the NAC’s arts committees, a 18-month Artist Fellowship at the Club, situated in Gramercy Park, New York. Artist Fellows will be provided with complimentary Club participation, providing access to the historic clubhouse, public programs and discounted private overnight rooms. The Artist Fellowship provides opportunities for the recipient to be featured in Club programming and presentations. Learn more here.

Call for Artists, Hill Center Galleries – DC

Deadline: December 1   Hill Center Galleries is currently welcoming artists residing in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia to submit entries for its Regional Juried Art Exhibition. Three cash prizes and five Honorable Mention awards will be made. For more information, click here.

Call for Entry, Mozaik Future Art Awards

Deadline: December 1   The Future Art Awards is an annual open call to all U.S. artists of all creative expressions and backgrounds, designed to give critical financial support, exhibition exposure, and literary coverage to 50 artists through a blind review of their art by a jury of their peers. This year’s theme is Ecosystem X—an arts-based reimagining of life on planet Earth. We’re offering $5,000 awards to ten selected artists, in addition to a $5,000 student scholarship/stipend to a winning student artist. All artists will showcase their work in a curated virtual exhibition opening free to the public in early 2022. There is no cost to submit. Learn more here.

Call for Artists, Like Clockwork, Vestige Concept Gallery – Pittsburgh

Deadline: December 11   Like Clockwork seeks to showcase works of art that address the nature of time.  From birth, our daily routines, anxieties on aging, death, rebirth, to creation and destruction, the forms of time give shape to human experience. We are accepting works from emerging, mid-career, and/or professional artists. Work should somehow relate to the theme of the show. For more information, click here.

Call for Artists + Photographers $550.00 Innovate Grants

Keyholder Residency Spring/Summer 2022, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center — Hyattsville, MD

Deadline: December 18   Pyramid Atlantic Art Center’s Keyholder Residency is a competitive opportunity for emerging to mid-career artists who want to have unlimited access to the studios in exchange for working 4 hours a week for Pyramid Atlantic. The residency is awarded to artists who hope to gain more knowledge and improve their skills in the printmaking, papermaking, or book arts studios. Two artists are selected twice a year by the Pyramid Atlantic artistic staff. Keyholders work in a productive community atmosphere alongside other artists and are expected to abide by all studio policies. Learn more here.

Open Call for Exhibition Proposals, Second Street Gallery – Charlottesville, VA

Deadline: January 3, 2022   Second Street Gallery is now accepting proposals for solo/group exhibitions for Season 49 (2022-2023). The gallery welcomes proposals for consideration in works of all media – drawings, prints, photography, paintings, sculptures, installations, videos, sound, performance, and interdisciplinary projects. Exhibition proposals must represent living artists, who may be of both emerging and established reputations. For more information, click here.

Call for Entries, 33rd National Drawing & Print Competitive Exhibition – Baltimore

Deadline: January 14   Gormley Gallery invites entries for the annual National Drawing & Print Competitive Exhibition, juried this year by Joy Davis, Director and Curator of Waller Gallery in Baltimore. A minimum of $1,500 is available in purchase prize money. Drawings and prints (not photography) in any medium up to 60 inches high (with frame) are eligible with no limitations as to color, surface, or materials. To enter, click here.

Studio Internship Summer 2022, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center — Hyattsville, MD

Deadline: February 18, 2022   Pyramid Atlantic offers internship opportunities for enthusiastic, engaged, and serious-minded college or post-college artists. Our interns assist resident artists, renters, artistic staff, with printmaking, papermaking, and book arts projects, and in outreach education programs. In addition to hands-on experience with artistic projects, interns gain an understanding of the day-to-day operation of a non-profit art center and gallery. For the Summer 2022 season, Pyramid will accept two interns for this program. Click here to apply.

Call for Artists, The Delaware Contemporary’s Artist Registry – Wilmington, DE

Deadline: August 1, 2022   The Delaware Contemporary’s Artist Registry promotes working artists of our region through exhibitions, residencies, and commissioned projects. The Artist Registry is available to artists within a 250 mile radius of Wilmington, DE and will be the tool by which The Delaware Contemporary will collect, review and select artists for juried and curated exhibitions and projects. By submitting an application for the Artist’s Registry, The Delaware Contemporary will have access to an artist portfolio for the 2021 – 2022 season. During each season, artist portfolios will be regularly reviewed for upcoming opportunities including exhibitions, programs, and special events, as well as selected to be highlighted on the museum’s social media platforms. Learn more here.

Ongoing: These opportunities have rolling deadlines.

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.