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FEATURED ART & PHOTO CALLS

Black Box Gallery - Taking Pictures: 2026 Deadline : Jan 09, 2026
Rockbrook Village Art Fair Deadline : Mar 15, 2026 - $3,000 total, First to Third Place & Merit, juried in Awards
Back to Basics - Residency program in Finland, Sum... Dec 19, 2025 to Feb 05, 2026
Westbrook Legacy Foundation - April Showers: Virtu... Deadline : Mar 01, 2026 - Cash/Prizes + Recognition in Awards
Aion Laboratory - 1st Aion Digital Art Prize Deadline : Mar 01, 2026 - Up to 35 Aion Digital Art Prize winners with certificates in Awards
 
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Sony World Photography Awards 2026

Deadline : Jan 13, 2026 Awards: Sony World Photography Awards 2026

The Open and Youth competitions are now closed, but you can still enter your best photo projects to the Professional competition which rewards the best series worldwide - top prizes include $25,000. Enter before 13 January 2026 at 13:00 (GMT). CALLING ALL PHOTOGRAPHERS! The Sony World Photograph...
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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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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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Lancaster County Council of the Arts - Art on the Greenway: Textile Columns

Deadline : Jan 15, 2026 Awards: $100 Honorarium

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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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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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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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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International Open Call - Dek Unu Magazine - November 2025 Edition

Deadline : Jan 20, 2026 Awards: Unique, solo-format publication in online and paperback editions in award-winning Dek Unu Magazine, extensive promotion via email, web and social media, 50% of print sales for the month

Open Call for Fine Art Photo Portfolio Projects Dek Unu Magazine Never a fee to submit. Deadline: December 20, 2025 Last call before deadline for photo portfolio projects for the February 2026 online and paperback issues. Open theme, all genres and techniques: analog, digital, contemporary, h...
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