Creative Music Intensive (CMI) is a two-week in-person program held August 1–16, 2026, at Arts Letters & Numbers. Open to musicians of all genres, CMI immerses participants in composing, performing, and developing new individual and collaborative work. Directed by composer Reiko Fueting (Manhatta...
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The new Education Building at Northeastern Illinois University is currently being constructed with a projected completion date of Spring 2027. This addition to campus continues a long and rich educational tradition at NEIU, which was founded in 1867 as the Cook County Normal School, the county's fir...
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The ANNUAL is one of the oldest and most prestigious art competitions in the United States. Open to local, national and international artists, The Print Center is particularly interested in highlighting the use of photography and/or printmaking in new and intriguing ways, including in content, form...
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SPRING 2026 OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS — Innovate Grant is thrilled to introduce our newly increased award amounts of $1,800.00. ➡️➡️➡️ Innovate Grant awards (2) $1,800.00 grants each quarter, to one Visual Artist and one Photographer. In addition, (18) honorable mentions (9 in art and 9 in photo), wil...
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CICA Museum invites artists worldwide to participate in the international exhibition Message. The exhibition explores art that examines meaning, communication, language, perception, and contemporary social and cultural contexts. The exhibition welcomes works that question the role of language and sy...
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We invite artists, scholars, and researchers from around the world to participate in the International Symposium for Visual Culture & Exhibition 2026. *How to submit: Please visit our website for more information. See links below. We look forward to the participation of creative artists.
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Art Fluent’s grant cycle is now open to individual artists through an international open call. The Evolution Grant will provide unrestricted funding to an individual artist with recognized artistic excellence in fine art media and a demonstrated commitment to their art. $1,000 to one visual artist e...
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Years pass. People change. Places disappear. Entire parts of our lives quietly fall out of reach. And yet, some photographs remain impossibly close to us. Not because they are perfect, but because they continue holding something we were never fully able to leave behind. Decagon Gallery invites ph...
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The Cincinnati based non-profit arts organization and gallery, Manifest, invites visual artists and designers to submit proposals of original bodies of work for consideration during the 2026/27 exhibit season. On average, one-third of Manifest's exhibits are dedicated to solo exhibits. Solo exhib...
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The Cincinnati based non-profit arts organization and gallery, Manifest, invites visual artists and designers to submit proposals of original bodies of lens-based work for consideration during the 2026/27 exhibit season, to be exhibited during the 2026 FotoFocus Biennial. This call is open to all tr...
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