Featured Art & Photo Calls

Portraiture emerged as one of the most prominent genres of depictive media early in the history of the visual arts, and tacit or explicit rules, conventions, and cultural expectations have always influenced the ways in which artists approached the genre. Photography is no exception; numerous differe...
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Baroque Blue Art & Nature Residency 2026 (5th Edition) The Nachiri Routes: Biodiversity and Landscape Curated by Dores Sacquegna Torre Dell’Orso, Lecce Puglia, Italy September 19 – October 3, 2026. Primo Piano invites you to join the fifth edition of its Baroque Blue Art & Nature Residency,...
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Strange Figurations is an international, thematic group exhibition curated and hosted by the Limner Gallery. The exhibition is open to all interpretations of the concept, Strange Figurations, which would include surreal, visionary and generally all out of the ordinary figurative art. The show is ope...
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Embracing Our Differences invites artists worldwide to submit original artwork for the 2027 international outdoor exhibition in Sarasota and St. Petersburg, Florida. Each year, 50 works are selected and reproduced on billboard-sized panels displayed in public parks, paired with thought-provoking...
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for - got- ten : abandoned, buried, erased, gone, lost, obliterated, repressed, bygone, past, oblivion, suppressed, omitted, deserted, forsaken, neglected, vacated, left, dissipated, discarded, rejected, shunned, ended, retired, disappeared, vanished…. Photographers of all levels are invited to s...
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The Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, now in its 9th year, is an annual non-acquisitive international art prize that celebrates diversity and excellence in the representational visual arts. It includes all static mediums: Traditional Art media, Digital Art media, and Photographic media; and all styles fr...
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A SHOW OF HEADS is a thematic group exhibition of work that includes and/or is based on the portrayal and interpretation of the human head. The exhibition will be held at the Limner Gallery, October 8 - 31, 2026 and is open for entry to all artists working in any media.
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Call for Artists — THE MINI MASTERS SHOW. The Arts Center in Orange, VA, invites submissions for The Mini Masters Show, a juried group exhibition celebrating the power, intimacy, and innovation of small-scale works. The exhibition will feature 8” x 8” paintings by regional and national artists work...
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A Juried Exhibition on James Baldwin’s proposition for Truth. February 5 through March 27, 2027. Exhibition Title: As Much Truth as One Can Bear. Entry Fee: $20. Prize Money: Up to $3500 in awards. The Arts Center in Orange, VA, is accepting submissions from artists of African American heritage...
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For later career artists, age 65+. June 4 through July 31, 2027. Up to $3500 in awards. Centered on artists who have sustained their practices beyond the age of 65, the exhibition understands duration not as decline, but as density. These artists work within time as material: accumulating, sheddin...
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