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The Hopper Prize - $3,500 & $1,000 Artist Grants - Spring 2025

Deadline : May 13, 2025

The Hopper Prize is now accepting entries for our Spring 2025 artist grants. We are offering grants in the amount of $3,500 (2 available) and $1,000 (4 available) to artists & photographers worldwide working in all media. In total, 6 artists will receive unrestricted cash grants totaling $11,0...
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Colors of Humanity Art Gallery "WATER" 2025 Call for Entry - Online Art Show

Deadline : May 15, 2025 Awards: Cash Award

THEME- "WATER" covers 71% of the Earth's surface and is vital for all known forms of life. 96.5% of the Earth's crust water is found in seas and oceans. Although the sea moderates the Earth's climate and has important roles in the water, carbon, and nitrogen cycles, it is often viewed for its beauty...
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Call For Artists: Art in the Pines: The 6th Annual Prescott Plein Air Festival

Deadline : May 24, 2025 Awards: The Best of Show winner will be awarded $1,000 and a solo exhibition at the Yavapai College Patty McMullen-Mikles Gallery in the Clarkdale, Arizona Other Prizes Include: $500 for 1st Place $250 for 2nd Place $150 for 3rd Place

Calling all Plein Air painters! Yavapai College is looking for artists to apply to Art in the Pines: The 6th Annual Prescott Plein Air Festival, in the beautiful mile-high town of Prescott, Arizona. Come paint the pine forests, boulder-lined highland lakes, and historic architecture of this popular ...
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PH21 Gallery presents: Motion – A Curated International Photography Exhibition, July 26 – August 19, 2025

Deadline : May 26, 2025 Awards: One curator's choice and three honourable mentions

Photography is a medium of still images; it cannot create the illusion of motion the way moving images such as film, video, or cartoons can. The static nature of the image itself, however, has never prevented photographers from putting motion in the centre of their endeavours. In addition to freezin...
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Art Scene West - POP ART-esque

Deadline : May 27, 2025 Awards: 50 Day Gallery Showcase - 60% Sales Commission

To complement the simplicity of summer where the best times are had, we are calling artists to showcase the spirit of Pop Art—a genre known for challenging conventions and celebrating popular culture from over the decades. If you’ve been looking for a new opportunity to display your contemporary...
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Call For Entries: 18th International ARC Salon Competition

Deadline : Jun 12, 2025 Awards: Top Prize $25,000 cash award, Exhibition opportunity with the ARC Salon Live Exhibition, Over 180 awards and honorable mentions, 1st, 2nd, 3rd place plus 8 honorable mentions in each of 11 categories, Publication awards through partnering magazines, Purch

When talking about competitions dedicated to 21st Century Realism, the Art Renewal Center’s International ARC Salon® is the largest in the world, receiving over 5,000 entries from 87 countries last competition. It is no wonder why artists are entering. With over $130,000 in cash awards and intern...
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33rd Annual Emerald Coast National Juried Art Exhibition

Deadline : Jun 13, 2025 Awards: $1975.00 total in awards

The Emerald Coast National (ECN) is a popular juried exhibition held annually at Mattie Kelly Arts Center Galleries, Northwest Florida State College. ECN, originally a regional exhibition, now includes artists from across the country. The show brings creative, inspired, and skilled artwork from work...
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LH Horton Jr Gallery - Visions In Clay

Deadline : Jun 23, 2025 Awards: $2100

Horton Art Gallery is located on the campus of San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, California. Visions In Clay was founded by the San Joaquin Potters Guild in 2002, and presented by the Horton Art Gallery since 2010. Visions In Clay is one of the largest ceramic exhibitions in Northern California...
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The Holy Art Gallery - Amsterdam Open Art

Deadline : Jun 28, 2025

Our Amsterdam event is the perfect opportunity for you to showcase your art to the world. Our annual event offers discounted rates for artists to showcase their work.. This is a unique chance to have your art seen by people from around the world! We’re inviting artists from around the world ...
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SlowArt Productions / Limner Gallery - Surreal Visions: Call for Entries

Deadline : Jun 30, 2025 Awards: Exhibition and promotion at the Limner Gallery

Surreal Visions is a thematic exhibition open to all interpretations of the concept, Surreal Visions. Open to all media and styles of surreal, visionary and fantastic art. 72" maximum dimension. The exhibition will be held at the Limner Gallery, September 5 - 28, 2024....
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2026 Embracing Our Differences International Art Exhibition

Deadline : Jul 01, 2025 Awards: Cash prizes totaling $6,000

Seeking submissions for a juried exhibition based on the theme “embracing our differences.” On display mid-January through mid-April 2026 in two outdoor parks in Florida. Open to all ages....
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Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2025

Deadline : Jul 17, 2025 Awards: Over USD$70,000 in cash and prizes to be won (prize list still growing!), see the full list of prizes here: https://beautifulbizarreartprize.art/prizes

The Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, now in its 8th year, is an annual non-acquisitive international art prize that celebrates diversity and excellence in the representational visual arts. It includes all static mediums: Traditional Art media, Digital Art media, and Photographic media; and all styles fr...
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SlowArt Productions / Limner Gallery - A Show of Heads: Call For Entries

Deadline : Jul 31, 2025 Awards: Exhibition and promotion at the Limner Gallery

A SHOW OF HEADS is a thematic group exhibition of work that includes and/or is based on the portrayal and interpretation of the human head. The exhibition will be held at the Limner Gallery, October 9 - November 1, 2025 and is open for entry to all artists working in any media. ...
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Showcase in Tokyo, Japan

Deadline : Aug 20, 2025

We’re inviting artists from all countries and backgrounds to submit their work for our upcoming group exhibition. The theme? Completely OPEN. We want to see your boldest, most expressive work — in any medium. Painting, photography, sculpture, installation, mixed media, poems, illustration —...
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Showcase in Athens, Greece

Deadline : Oct 01, 2025

Be Seen. Be Celebrated. Be Part of Something Global. With over 10,000 artists exhibited and 500,000+ guests across 20+ cities worldwide, The Holy Art Gallery continues to showcase bold, brilliant, and boundary-pushing creativity. ...
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