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FEATURED ART & PHOTO CALLS

Back to Basics - Residency program in Finland, Sum... Dec 19, 2025 to Feb 05, 2026
Black Iris Gallery - Seeking Artists ONGOING
Westbrook Legacy Foundation - April Showers: Virtu... Deadline : Mar 01, 2026 - Cash/Prizes + Recognition in Awards
Artist Grant - $1,200 Grant for Visual Artists Deadline : Mar 15, 2026 - $1,200 in Awards
Black Box Gallery - Taking Pictures: 2026 Deadline : Jan 09, 2026
 
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Colors of Humanity Art Gallery - "RED" 2026 Call for Entry - Online Art Show

Deadline : Jan 15, 2026 Awards: Cash Awarads

THEME- "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. PAY IT FO...
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Provincetown Dune Shack Residencies

Deadline : Jan 15, 2026 Awards: $500 fellowships; 3-week stays; writer residencies

The 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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Art on the River Call for Submissions

Deadline : Jan 16, 2026 Awards: $1,000 for Best in Show and $200 for People’s Choice

Stillness 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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Academic Labor: Research and Artistry (ALRA) Journal special issue call for proposals

Deadline : Jan 16, 2026

Academic 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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Montello Foundation - Solitary Retreat in the Nevada Desert

Deadline : Jan 18, 2026 Awards: 2 week residency

Montello Foundation is a foundation dedicated to support artists who foster our understanding of nature, its fragility and our need to protect it. The Montello Foundation provides a solitary retreat where artists can experience the vastness of a desert landscape from a safe building, a “base camp,”...
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Curatone.art: Light & Shadow

Deadline : Jan 18, 2026 Awards: $100 cash prize, certificates for all finalists

We 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, 2026

For 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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The Expressive Hand: Gesture, Figure & Materials A 3-day Intensive Workshop with Edgar Cano

Deadline : Jan 20, 2026

This unique workshop centers on gesture, tactility, and the expressive power of materials through sustained work from the live model. Rather than focusing on a single medium, participants will investigate a wide range of drawing tools—including charcoal, conte, graphite, ballpoint pen, and ink—to ex...
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Wild Heart Gallery - Masters of Equine Art 2026, International Art Competition, 2nd Annual

Deadline : Jan 20, 2026 Awards: $500

Submit your art and photography that features any species of Equine, for example, horses, donkeys, zebras, etc. There are roughly seven living species of Equine to choose from. Artwork in this field often depicts human connection, emotion, and many forms of symbolism. For this virtual exhibition,...
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