Calls for Submissions

FOCUS: A Feast for the Eyes - a juried exhibition featuring 8-10 artists that use vibrant colors, captivating patterns, or optical illusions as the visual focus of their work. As a Focus exhibition, 8-10 artists will be selected to display a small body of work, approximately 2-6 works each, on t...
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Open Call: PRALINE & SNOWBALL Christmas Special. Deadline: 29 December 2025. As the year draws to a close, we invite you to wrap your art in the warmth of festive light and the sparkle of winter’s magic. PRALINE & SNOWBALL – Christmas Special celebrates creativity in all its forms: painting, d...
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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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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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The 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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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: 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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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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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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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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