FEATURED ART & PHOTO CALLS
OPA National Salon: Exhibition of Small Paintings Deadline : Jun 12, 2026 - up to $20,000 in cash & merchandise in Awards
Call for Artists – 2027 Embracing Our Differences... Deadline : Jul 01, 2026 - $6,000 in Awards
Art Scene West - Icons: Art for the Ages Deadline : May 18, 2026 - Physical Gallery Exposure & Promotion in Awards
Central Valley Community Foundation 60th Anniversa... Deadline : May 29, 2026 - $1,500 + materials in Awards
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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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 - 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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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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L.A. PHOTO CURATOR 'FROM YOUR ARCHIVE'
Deadline : May 03, 2026 Awards: The winning photographer OF THIS CALL will receive a solo online exhibition. Consideration for Top Images of the Year Opportunity to be named Photographer of the Year. First Place winner featured in an online article including a Q&A with juror responses.JUROR: Laurie Freitag - Founder L.A. Photo Curator 11+ years, named one of the "10 Incredible Women Photographers to Follow" (2026) and with recent sales at Duncan Miller Gallery.
Freitag says, "Submit work from your archive--images you believe in.
I'm drawn to photographs that feel clear, res...
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Decagon Gallery - This Is A Person
Deadline : May 03, 2026 Awards: First Place: $500 + Solo Exhibition on the gallery website Second Place: $300 Third Place: $200This Is a Person.
The life you can’t see.
Deadline: May 3.
Exhibition Dates: May 20 – July 20.
Portraiture often records appearance. This exhibition asks what lies beneath it.
We invite photographs that suggest interior life rather than surface identity — images that hold psychological t...
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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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