FEATURED ART & PHOTO CALLS
Black Iris Gallery - Seeking Artists ONGOING
A Smith Gallery | Photographic Mysticism / an inst... Deadline : Dec 29, 2025 - Juror's and Director's award each receive a copy of the limited edition hardbound fine art book of the exhibition. Juror's award receives a solo online exhibition. Visitors' award receives $100. in Awards
Black Box Gallery - Taking Pictures: 2026 Deadline : Jan 09, 2026
A Smith Gallery | Online Photographic Call for Ent... Deadline : Jan 19, 2026 - Juror's and Director's award each receive a copy of the limited edition hardbound fine art book of the exhibition a solo online exhibition. Visitors' award receives $100. in Awards
Photography of the Year 2025 Grid Photo Gallery
Deadline : Jan 15, 2026 Awards: €300, Exhibition and publication.Photography of the Year 2025 at Grid Photo Gallery invites photographers from around the world to take part in our most important annual challenge and compete with the most outstanding images showcased in our gallery throughout the year. With no thematic limitations, this open call celebrates the ve...
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Colors of Humanity Art Gallery - "RED" 2026 Call for Entry - Online Art Show
Deadline : Jan 15, 2026 Awards: Cash AwaradsTHEME- "RED" This color 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 2026 show.
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4th International Photography Competition 'In My Homeland'
Deadline : Jan 15, 2026 Awards: DiplomasYoung photographers from 5 to 18 years old from all countries are welcome to submit their works to the 4th International Photography Competition 'In My Homeland'. Themes of the contest are "In My Homeland" (in genges: peisage; portrait; still life in style; graphics; street photo; B&W photography; p...
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Lancaster County Council of the Arts - Art on the Greenway: Textile Columns
Deadline : Jan 15, 2026 Awards: $100 HonorariumThe Lancaster County Council of the Arts invites artists to submit their designs for a new public art installation on the Lindsay Pettus Greenway. Drawing on Lancaster's rich history in textile art, each piece will be inspired by a historic design from the Baxter Mill Archive. A catalogue of designs...
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Provincetown Dune Shack Residencies
Deadline : Jan 15, 2026 Awards: $500 fellowships; 3-week stays; writer residenciesThe Provincetown Compact announces the 2026 dune shack residency applications are now open. The Compact is pleased to offer residences for C-Scape and Fowler Dune Shacks in the Cape Cod National Seashore, available April through November for the general public with applications due January 15, 2025....
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Academic Labor: Research and Artistry (ALRA) Journal special issue call for proposals
Deadline : Jan 16, 2026Academic Labor: Research and Artistry (ALRA) journal special issue: Recognizing the Invisible and Expected: Art & Engagement as Critical Response.
Editors: Suzanne Faris, MFA and Tobi Jacobi, PhD, Colorado State University.
In the spirit of recognizing the ongoing precarities of higher educatio...
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Art on the River Call for Submissions
Deadline : Jan 16, 2026 Awards: $1,000 for Best in Show and $200 for People’s ChoiceStillness in the Driftless invites visitors to pause within the quiet beauty of the Mississippi River and the bluffs that cradle Dubuque. This theme reflects on the ways stillness allows us to listen to the landscape, to memory, and to one another. Featured works will explore presence, reflection, a...
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Curatone.art: Light & Shadow
Deadline : Jan 18, 2026 Awards: $100 cash prize, certificates for all finalistsWe invite artists from all over the world to join our new Curatone.art exhibition dedicated to the beauty of light and shadow.
Show us your own vision - soft light, deep contrast, quiet moments, dramatic moods. Any style, any medium.
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Vassar Review
Deadline : Jan 19, 2026For our eleventh edition, the Vassar Review seeks to address an era of bearing witness. We live
in an economy of believability, where testimonies are not taken at face value—they must be
maintained through labor. A testimony can voice experiences of injustice; testimonial narrative
can, as Cuban...
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A Smith Gallery | Online Photographic Call for Entry "Portraits"
Deadline : Jan 19, 2026 Awards: Juror's and Director's award each receive a copy of the limited edition hardbound fine art book of the exhibition a solo online exhibition. Visitors' award receives $100.Portraits : vignette, profile, figure, depiction, silhouette, image, portrayal, representation, likeness …
Photographers of all levels are invited to submit work reflecting the theme "portraits" to A Smith Gallery by January 19, 2026. Entries of 13 or more images are eligible for a complementary...
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