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Artist Grant - $1,200 Grant for Visual Artists Deadline : Mar 15, 2026 - $1,200 in Awards
Creative Quarterly Call for Entries No. 83 - Theme... Deadline : Jan 30, 2026 - Best of Show and Finalists awards featured in our online gallery and year-end printed Annual 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
A Smith Gallery | "unique: alternative processes" Deadline : Mar 04, 2026 - Juror's and Director's award each receive a copy of the limited edition hardbound fine art book of the exhibition and a solo exhibition. Visitors' award receives $100. in Awards
Curatorial Review Catalogue Publication Editions ONGOING - Curatorial Review Catalogue Essay in Awards
 
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Point Pleasant Publishing - Series 56: Experimental Visual Art for Hardcover Book Editions

Deadline : Feb 02, 2026 Awards: Curatorial Review Catalogue Essay

Point Pleasant Publishing was founded in 2014 in Jersey City, New Jersey (currently based in the New Jersey Shore as well as beyond) and is an international contemporary art publisher specializing in writing critical essays. Selected artists are featured with detailed curatorial review essays in...
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CICA Museum - Call for Artists: International Youth Art Competition and Showcase 2026

Deadline : Jan 30, 2026 Awards: group exhibition at the CICA Museum.

CICA Museum invites young artists worldwide, ages 14 to 22, to participate in the “International Youth Art Competition and Showcase 2026.” Selected artists will receive a digital certificate, with a printed copy available for in person pickup. Selected works including photographs, prints, paintings,...
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Open Call: "A Long Train: 250 Years of Hypocrisy"

Deadline : Feb 08, 2026

DEADLINE for submissions: February 8, 2026. Only artists based in the US are eligible for this open call. Fee to apply: $35* (for up to 3 works) via Zelle (if submitting the submission fee through PayPal, the fee is $36.21 to cover the transaction fee). Curated by Aaron Wilder, "A Long Tra...
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Pittsburg State University - 2026-27 Call For Proposals

Deadline : Mar 15, 2026

Call for Entries for Arists - Solo or Group Show Opportunity. The galleries at Porter Hall are dedicated to celebrating and promoting creativity while fostering artistic dialogue in today's dynamic world. Featuring a diverse array of contemporary art exhibitions, we aim to captivate and inspire v...
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Dodho Magazine - MAGAZINE SELECTION #36 - International Call

Deadline : Mar 08, 2026 Awards: Publication in Dodho Magazine #36 – Your work is featured in the print and digital edition with official credit – International distribution to curators, festival directors, galleries, and industry professionals.

UPCOMING PRINT EDITION: PHOTOGRAPHER SELECTION. Dodho Magazine’s print edition is a curatorial volume conceived to endure and to place each project within a real professional context. Each issue circulates among international curators, galleries, festivals, and editors, offering visibility, edito...
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Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery - 16th Annual “Figurative” Online Art Competition

Deadline : Feb 25, 2026 Awards: Best in Show winner will receive a cash prize. Winners receive extensive worldwide publicity and promotion.

Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announces the 16th Annual “Figurative” Online Art Competition. The “Figurative” theme is the artist’s interpretation and depiction of the human form and human features. Both 2D & 3D artists (including photography & digital arts) are invited to submit their be...
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NYC4PA CALL FOR ENTRIES - WATER

Deadline : Feb 08, 2026 Awards: $4000 TOTAL PRIZES AWARDED

Water surrounds us as rivers, lakes, oceans, seas. It is also so very central to much of our lives – the rain that makes our flowers grow, the ice cubes that cool our drinks, and on and on. And it is beautiful to photograph. This call is about how you, the photographer, capture water in all its...
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Call for Artists: International Exhibition “Voices 2026”

Deadline : Feb 06, 2026 Awards: group exhibition at the CICA Museum.

CICA Museum invites artists worldwide to participate in the international exhibition “Voices 2026.” We are open to photography, 2D digital art, video art, performance art, interactive art, sculpture, painting, and installation art dealing with issues of identities, activism, human rights, politics,...
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WINTER* $1,800.00 Innovate Grants for Art + Photo

Deadline : Mar 19, 2026 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

WINTER 2026 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 photo), wil...
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Creative Quarterly Call for Entries No. 83 - Theme: Yellow

Deadline : Jan 30, 2026 Awards: Best of Show and Finalists awards featured in our online gallery and year-end printed Annual

New Year. New Theme. Help us celebrate the color Yellow. Your choice of medium. Your choice of subject matter. Is it realistic? Or abstract? Will it be a sunflower? Or a yellow raincoat? Or something all together different. As long as the primary color is yellow, you could be a winner.
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