FEATURED ART & PHOTO CALLS
A Smith Gallery | Photographic Performance 2026 Deadline : May 18, 2026 - online exhibition, GalleryTalk in online blog, exhibition catalogue in Awards
Black Box Gallery - Camera Work: Shadow and Light Deadline : May 08, 2026
Call for Artists – 2027 Embracing Our Differences... Deadline : Jul 01, 2026 - $6,000 in Awards
Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2026 Deadline : Jul 17, 2026 - Over USD$77,000 in cash and prizes to be won (prize list still growing!), see the full list of prizes here: https://beautifulbizarreartprize.art/prizes in Awards
"Vision" The FINAL ArtAscent Open Call to Artists and Writers - Deadline April 30, 2026
Deadline : Apr 30, 2026The FINAL artist's and writer's open call for ArtAscent Art & Literature Journal, the VISION issue, is now open.
Vision shapes how we perceive, interpret, and imagine the world around us. It guides insight and inquiry, revealing what is visible and what lies beneath the surface. A glance can h...
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Gallery Ring May ARTISTS OF THE MONTH Online Art Contest
Deadline : Apr 30, 2026 Awards: Sapphire Award, Ruby Award, Emerald Award, Crystal AwardGallery Ring announces the ARTISTS OF THE MONTH contest! A RUBY, SAPPHIRE, EMERALD and CRYSTAL Artist of May will be named.
The deadline to submit work is Thursday, April 30th 2026. The fee is $20 US for 1-2 artworks.
Winners will have their work featured prominently in a 3D Rotation Galler...
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Ceramics Artist-in-Residence -- The Umbrella Arts Center
Deadline : Apr 30, 2026The Umbrella Arts Center, in Concord MA, seeks applicants for its 2026/27 Artist-in-Residence (AiR) Program. Active artists looking to join a vibrant arts community in Greater Boston and further their careers are encouraged to apply.
The Umbrella’s AiR program brings together a cohort of artists...
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CQ84 International Call for Entries
Deadline : May 01, 2026 Awards: Best of Show, FinalistsPerfect weather to enter our 84th show. Three options. International exposure. Affordable entry fees. Choose from our Quarterly Theme, Portfolio or Standard entries—or all three. This quarter's theme, "Abstraction" is open to all artists and photographers, at all levels, in all countries. Or submit...
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Manifest - VELVET: A Call for Works About, Of, or By the Color Black
Deadline : May 01, 2026 Awards: Includes honorarium of $50 for each exhibiting artist and Grand Jury Award of $1,000 for one jury-selected work from among the exhibits on view.The Cincinnati based non-profit arts organization and gallery, Manifest, invites visual artists and designers to submit original works exploring or using the variance, darkness, and graphic power of the color black. Open to all traditional and non-traditional genre and media.
The color black is f...
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Fusion Art - Waterscapes 2026 Art Competition
Deadline : May 01, 2026 Awards: Choice of a cash prize or complimentary one-year membership to Fusion Art's Members Gallery for Best in Show winners. Winners and finalists are provided with extensive worldwide publicity and promotion.Fusion Art announces the Waterscapes 2026 Art Competition.
For this competition, both 2D and 3D artists, worldwide, are invited to submit their best art depicting waterscapes. The theme includes any art which depicts any type of body of water including the ocean, lakes, rivers, ponds, streams, coas...
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Manifest - NUDE: 18th Annual Call for Works Exploring the Uncovered Human Form in Current Art
Deadline : May 02, 2026 Awards: Includes honorarium of $50 for each exhibiting artist and Grand Jury Award of $1,000 for one jury-selected work from among the exhibits on view.The Cincinnati based non-profit arts organization and gallery, Manifest, invites visual artists and designers to submit original works that address the uncovered human form. Open to any and all traditional and non-traditional 2D and 3D visual arts media.
The human body is a popular subject for ma...
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Open Call: “Word Pictures and Poem Objects” Artsy.net Exhibition
Deadline : May 02, 2026Curated by Christopher Squier, Word Pictures and Poem Objects is an online-only exhibition hosted by Amos Eno Gallery on Artsy.net, running from May 18 to June 27, 2026. This exhibition invites artists and writers to present works that engage with the poetic and the plastic, inhabiting the interdisc...
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Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center - "#HopperHappens" Juried Photography Exhibition
Deadline : May 03, 2026 Awards: First: $500; Second: $300; Third: $200 Juror’s Award: 1-year membership to Friends of the Museum ($150 value)' Visitor’s Choice Award: 1-year membership to Friends of the Museum ($150 value)Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center (EHHM) is pleased to announce the inaugural Juried "#HopperHappens" Exhibition (June 1 - July 5, 2026). This competitive exhibition is open to photographs by established and emerging artists aged 18 or older.
Images are to be inspired by #HopperHappens, t...
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Manifest - PASTEL: A Call for Works Made Of or About Pastel
Deadline : May 03, 2026 Awards: Includes honorarium of $50 for each exhibiting artist, and Grand Jury Award of $1,000 for one jury-selected work from among the exhibits on view.The Cincinnati based non-profit arts organization and gallery, Manifest, invites visual artists and designers to submit original works that explore pastel as a material and/or color.
Pastel is an old medium, colored dust bound into paste, bridging the gap between painting and drawing. Its brillia...
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