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Fountain Festival of Fine Arts and Crafts SPRING 2026

Deadline : Nov 30, 2025

Call to Artists: Spring 2026 Fountain Festival of Fine Arts & Crafts. February 20-22, 2026. Fountain Hills, Arizona. Since its founding in 1974, the Fountain Festival of Fine Arts & Crafts has become the largest juried art show in the Southwest United States, attracting hundreds of fine artis...
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Decagon Gallery - Sanctuary Online Photography Open Call

Deadline : Nov 30, 2025 Awards: Awards and Features: First Place: $500 cash prize and an online Solo exhibition Second Place: $300 cash prize Third Place: $200 cash prize Juror’s Awards and Honorable Mentions All the above awards include a FREE exhibition catalog

Decagon Gallery invites photographers from around the world to submit images for Sanctuary, an online exhibition exploring the spaces, places, and moments that offer us refuge, peace, and renewal. What does sanctuary mean to you? It might be a quiet corner of your home, a place of worship, a stre...
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Melbourne Open Art

Deadline : Dec 01, 2025

We’re inviting artists from around the world to submit their work for our upcoming exhibition in Melbourne! This is your chance to showcase your art in a vibrant gallery space in the heart of the city. THEME: OPEN. We welcome work in any medium—painting, photography, printmaking, video ar...
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Yavapai College Art Gallery - To Alter or Abolish: A Group Exhibition Celebrating the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence

Deadline : Dec 05, 2025 Awards: TBD

Yavapai College Art Gallery in Prescott, Arizona Presents: To Alter or Abolish: A Group Exhibtion Celebrating the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. January 23 – February 20, 2026. The Yavapai College Prescott Art Gallery will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declarat...
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PHOTOPLACE GALLERY - CALL FOR ENTRIES: ON THE STREET

Deadline : Dec 08, 2025 Awards: 35 images for the Exhibition Gallery, and 40 more for our Online Gallery. Distinctions for Juror’s Award, Director’s Award, and Honorable Mention

ON THE STREET – CALL FOR ENTRIES - JUROR ELIZABETH AVEDON. See Prospectus link below for more information. “A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know.” – Diane Arbus From fleeting glances to bold confrontations, street photography captures the uns...
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PH21 Gallery Barcelona presents: "Upside down" – A Curated International Photography Exhibition, February 7 – March 3, 2026

Deadline : Dec 08, 2025 Awards: One curator's choice and three honourable mentions

While photographs are valued for their depictive potential and representative content, the non-depictive, non-representational aspects of photographic works are also strongly related to their aesthetic significance. In this spirit, art photography has always aimed for the unity of form and content. ...
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A Smith Gallery | Online Photographic Call for Entry: "trees"

Deadline : Dec 08, 2025 Awards: Juror's and Director's award each receive an online solo exhibition and a copy of the limited edition hardbound fine art book of the exhibition. Visitors' award receives $100.

trees: forest, sapling, oak, timber, woods, leaves, seedling, topiary, thicket, park, trunk, branches, family, grove, pine, foliage…. Photographers of all levels are invited to submit work reflecting the theme "trees" to A Smith Gallery by December 8, 2025. Entries of 13 or more images are elig...
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FALL * $1,800.00 Innovate Grants for Art + Photo

Deadline : Dec 11, 2025 Awards: Innovate Grant awards: + 1 x $1,800.00 Grant to a Visual Artist + 1 x $1,800.00 Grant to a Photographer + 12 x Honorable Mentions

FALL 2025 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, (12) honorable mentions (6 in art and 6 in...
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Black Box Gallery - Focus: Shadow and Light

Deadline : Dec 12, 2025 Awards: None

A juried group photo show on shadow and light at Black Box Gallery. Black Box Gallery is excited to announce a juried group photo show on shadow and light. Photography is the documentation of patterns of darkness and light. Shadows enhance the relationships of subjects in an image, they give defini...
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Colors of Humanity Art Gallery - "OPEN" 2026 Call for Entry - Online Art Show

Deadline : Dec 15, 2025 Awards: Cash, Membership

THEME- "OPEN" As one year closes and a new one begins, it opens all of us up to new possibilities, hopes, and dreams. Therefore, we want to give artists an opportunity to show their best work in any medium and style without barriers. PAY IT FOWARD- We will be donating 10% of all entry fees from t...
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Beam Camp Project Open Call

Deadline : Dec 29, 2025 Awards: $5,000

Beam Center seeks design proposals for an ambitious public artwork that will be brought to life through collaborations between youth, Beam Camp staff and the selected proposer. Projects will be realized by a community of more than 100 young people at Beam Camp in July 2026. Beam Camp is a specia...
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A Smith Gallery | Photographic Mysticism / an instant film call for entry

Deadline : Dec 29, 2025 Awards: Juror's and Director's award each receive a copy of the limited edition hardbound fine art book of the exhibition. Juror's award receives a solo online exhibition. Visitors' award receives $100.

Photographers of all levels are invited to submit work reflecting the theme "Photographic Mysticism / an instant film call for entry" to A Smith Gallery by December 29, 2025. This call is open exclusively to instant film: Polaroid, Fuji Instax, or discontinued formats such as Impossible Project and ...
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Idaho Falls Arts Council & Willard Arts Center - 18th Annual National Juried Exhibition

Deadline : Jan 14, 2026 Awards: First place $750, Second place $500, Third place $250, Curator's Choice $125

The Idaho Falls National Exhibition is an annual juried exhibition by the Idaho Falls Arts Council and exhibited at the Willard Arts Center in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Artists working in all mediums throughout the United States are invited to submit. All accepted artworks are exhibited in the two beautif...
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SlowArt Productions / Limner Gallery - NEOTERIC ABSTRACT XIV: Call for Abstract Art

Deadline : Jan 31, 2026 Awards: Exhibition and promotion at the Limner Gallery

Neoteric Abstract XIV is the fourteenth annual, thematic exhibition dedicated to abstract art that is open for entry to all artists working in any media. The exhibition will be held at the Limner Gallery, April 9 - May 2, 2026 and is open to all forms of abstraction, from the geometric to the lyric...
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SlowArt Productions / Limner Gallery - ARTE NATURA: Call for Art based on Nature

Deadline : Feb 28, 2026 Awards: Exhibition and promotion at the Limner Gallery

Arte Natura is a thematic exhibition based on art inspired by the world of nature and biology. The exhibition will be held at the Limner Gallery, May 14 - June 6, 2026 and is open for entry to all artists working in any media. All interpretations of the theme are acceptable, including landscape, fru...
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