Artist Grants & Opportunities with February 2025 Deadlines
Call for Artists: "Under the Influence" juried group show Exhibition
- Organization: Lux Center for the Arts
- Submission Deadline: February 1, 2025
- Event Dates: May 2, 2025 - June 22, 2025
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: Lincoln, NE 68504, United States
Description
They invite artists to submit their work for their upcoming group show titled "Under the Influence."
This exhibition will explore the profound impact that artists have on one another. Art is a dynamic conversation—a dialogue that transcends time and space, where each artist builds upon the ideas and styles of those who inspire them.
In "Under the Influence," they invite you to showcase how your work reflects this interconnectedness, whether it’s a nod to a lesser-known contemporary artist, a dialogue with a peer, or a response to a collective movement. Every artist, regardless of their level of recognition, contributes to the evolving narrative of art, shaping the way we perceive and create.
Eligibility Info
Open to artists internationally working in any medium: painting, sculpture, photography, mixed media, installation, and more.
The Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grants Grants & Fellowships
- Submission Deadline: February 1, 2025
- Entry Fee: $7
- Award Info: 1st $60,000 / 2nd $40,000 / 3rd $20,000
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Sculpture
- Location: Lake Forest, IL 60045
Description
Each year the Virginia A. Groot Foundation offers three grants to artists who have exceptional talent and demonstrated ability in ceramic sculpture or sculpture of diverse mediums. The Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant was established so that ceramic sculpture artists or sculptors of diverse mediums may have the opportunity to devote a substantial period of time to the development of his or her own work. For more than 30 years, the foundation has supported artists in launching their body of work, furthering their artistic careers, expanding their talent or skill set, and create a community of like-minded individuals.
Eligibility Info
Open to all artists internationally.
The Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grants Grants & Fellowships
- Submission Deadline: February 1, 2025
- Entry Fee: $7
- Award Info: 1st $60,000 / 2nd $40,000 / 3rd $20,000
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Sculpture
- Location: Lake Forest, IL 60045
Description
Each year the Virginia A. Groot Foundation offers three grants to artists who have exceptional talent and demonstrated ability in ceramic sculpture or sculpture of diverse mediums. The Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant was established so that ceramic sculpture artists or sculptors of diverse mediums may have the opportunity to devote a substantial period of time to the development of his or her own work. For more than 30 years, the foundation has supported artists in launching their body of work, furthering their artistic careers, expanding their talent or skill set, and create a community of like-minded individuals.
Eligibility Info
Open to all artists internationally.
Call for Skateboard Artists for June 2025 Exhibition
- Organization: Center for the Arts Crested Butte
- Submission Deadline: February 1, 2025
- Entry Fee: $5
- Eligibility: State
- Categories: Photography, Drawing, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting
- Location: Crested Butte, Colorado
Description
The Kinder Padon Gallery at the Center for the Arts Crested Butte is seeking Colorado-based artists for a June 2025 group exhibition. Artists are invited to create works on blank skate decks, exploring traditional, non-traditional, and contemporary interpretations of the rainbow, with an emphasis on the use of color. This exhibition honors Pride Month, encouraging participation from allies and members of the LGBTQIA+ community. Final works must be completed by May 1, 2025. Artists of all 2D media are encouraged to apply. This show will be in honor of Pride Month, and allies and members of the LGBTQIA+ community are also encouraged to apply.
Eligibility Info
Open to 2D artists that are Colorado Residents
The Art Gallery at East Central College - Request for Exhibit Proposals Exhibition
- Submission Deadline: February 1, 2025
- Eligibility: National
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: Union, MO, United States
Description
The Art Gallery at East Central College in Union, MO is pleased to announce an open call for proposals for exhibitions in Fall 2025 and Spring 2026. Open to artists in North America working in all visual media, the call encourages proposals for exhibition by both individuals and groups. The ECC Art Gallery enhances the education and culturally enriches the daily life of Art and Design majors, non-majors, ECC faculty and staff, and the broader community. In choosing exhibition programming for the Art Gallery, attention is paid to crafting a schedule that is diverse in media, style, and content providing students and the community with a wide range of art forms, means of visual communication, and messages.
Eligibility Info
Open to all U.S. based artists
Artist-in-Residence Wabash College Art Department Residency
- Submission Deadline: February 1, 2025
- Award Info: Stipend $25,000, exhibition Budget $3,000, travel stipend $1,800
- Eligibility: National
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: Crawfordsville, IN 47933, United States
Description
The Wabash College Art Department seeks artists with demonstrated experience in and a commitment to socially engaged art practice and/or community-based art projects to apply for our Restoring Hope, Restoring Trust Artist-in-Residence position for Spring 2026. The Artist-in-Residence will be a mentor for undergraduate students and engage in creative collaborations that involve students/campus community and local community partners in Crawfordsville/Montgomery County.
Eligibility Info
Open to artists with demonstrated experience in and a commitment to socially engaged art practice and/or community-based art projects.
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft Residency
- Submission Deadline: February 1, 2025
- Event Dates: September 1, 2025 - August 31, 2026
- Award Info: $1000 monthly stipend
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline
- Location: Houston, TX 77002, United States
Description
A juried selection is held annually to award artists three-to-twelve month residencies. Artists selected for the program receive 24/7 access to studio space, cultural and professional development opportunities, a monthly stipend that includes a small housing/materials allowance, and the opportunity to give an artist talk. The studios are equipped with sinks, telephones and wireless Internet access. Artists are selected based on the quality of their creative work, ability to interact with the public, career direction, and program diversity. To support artistic development, the program offers additional opportunities such as discussions with curators and gallery owners, exposure at HCCC events, and interactions with visiting art professional.
Eligibility Info
Open to emerging, mid-career, and established artists working in all craft media. International applicants must submit proof of eligibility to work in the U.S.
Create! Magazine Women’s Issue 2025 Competition
- Submission Deadline: February 1, 2025
- Entry Fee: $40
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Online Only: Yes
Description
Create! Magazine is thrilled to announce the call for entries for our 2025 Women’s Issue. This annual print and digital publication celebrates the creativity, resilience, and brilliance of women artists around the world. Create! Magazine warmly welcome submissions from women-identifying and gender non-conforming artists who resonate with the theme of celebrating women in art. This special edition is dedicated to increasing representation and visibility in the art world. Whether you’re an emerging or established artist, this is an opportunity to share your work with a global audience of curators, collectors, and art enthusiasts.
Eligibility Info
Open to women artists (female-identifying and gender non-conforming artists) worldwide.
Wave Farm Transmission Art Residencies Residency
- Submission Deadline: February 1, 2025
- Award Info: $1000 artists fee
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: Arca, NY 12405, United States
Description
Wave Farm welcomes submissions from artists, researchers, tinkerers, and writers, from a variety of disciplines who will embrace this opportunity to create work for a terrestrial radio station that celebrates risk-taking work and prioritizes the uniquely urgent and intimate nature of the radio medium. This is an opportunity open to international applicants. Women, gender non-conforming people, and people of color are encouraged to apply. Artists-in-residence will spend 10-days on-site at Wave Farm (Acra, NY) developing a new 55-minute radio artwork designed explicitly for terrestrial radio broadcast on Wave Farm’s creative community radio station WGXC 90.7-FM: Radio for Open Ears. In 2025, residencies will be offered monthly, May through October.
Eligibility Info
Open to all artists internationally
Loneliness, Isolation, and Connection Exhibition
- Organization: Lundington Area Center for the Arts
- Submission Deadline: February 2, 2025
- Event Dates: March 7, 2025 - March 29, 2025
- Entry Fee: $30
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: Lundington, Michigan
Description
The Ludington Area Center for the Arts invites artists to submit works exploring themes of loneliness, social isolation, social connection, relationships, and resilient communities. This in-person juried exhibition aims to raise awareness of these issues through visual art. The exhibition is held in conjunction with West Shore Community College's Humankind outreach series, reflecting the World Health Organization's mission on social connection. Artists are encouraged to submit pieces that are for sale, though 'Not For Sale' works are also accepted.
Eligibility Info
Open internationally to artists must be 18 years or older; 2D and 3D artworks, including painting, drawing, photography, graphics, digital art, sculpture, and installations
KALA FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM Grants & Fellowships
- Submission Deadline: February 2, 2025
- Entry Fee: $25
- Award Info: $3000 Fellowship stipend among other awards and opportunities
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: Berkeley, CA 94710, United States
Description
Kala Fellowship is an artist residency for international, national, and local artists producing innovative work in and across multiple media. For over 30 years, Kala Art Institute has provided artists with equipment, time, space, and financial support for their work through Kala Fellowship. The Fellowship is geared towards supporting artists in completing specific projects or bodies of work that would benefit from Kala’s specialized equipment.
In 2025, Kala will support up to 6 artists with a $3000 stipend, 1 month of housing for artists outside of the 9 Bay Area counties, 24/7 access to Kala’s facilities for 1-9 months, a Kala class or workshop, and a culminating group show in the Kala Gallery.
Apply by the February 2nd, 2025 (9:00 PM PST) deadline.
Eligibility Info
Open to artists internationally
The Stifel Artist Residency 2024-25 Residency
- Submission Deadline: February 2, 2025
- Entry Fee: $20
- Award Info: 12 week residency
- Eligibility: National
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Sculpture
- Location: West Virginia, United States
Description
Since 1930, the nonprofit Oglebay Institute has served as the cultural hub of Wheeling, West Virginia. Oglebay Institute fosters appreciation, expression and discovery by engaging people of all ages and abilities through exceptional programming in performing and visual arts, dance, history and nature. Oglebay Institute advocates the essential value of arts and nature in personal lives and its public worth to the community. Experiences in arts and nature break cultural, generational and social barriers, teach commonalities, connect people more deeply to the world and open up new ways of seeing.
Eligibility Info
The residencies are open to all professional and emerging artists, age 21 and over. Preference given to artists working in ceramics, jewelry, stained glass, and/or print making.
Call For Art - Family Portraits Exhibition
- Submission Deadline: February 2, 2025
- Event Dates: March 20, 2025 - May 11, 2025
- Entry Fee: $15
- Eligibility: Local
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: Chico, CA 95926, United States
Description
The Museum of Northern California Art invites artists to submit their original artwork for Family Portraits, an upcoming exhibition that celebrates the complex and personal concept of “family” leaving open the interpretation of what a family is and can be. They aim to create a tapestry of stories that reflect the variety of familial bonds that shape individuals and communities in today’s world.
The exhibit will be held at the Museum of Northern California Art in Chico.
The Museum of Northern California Art (monca) is seeking original artworks, not previously exhibited at monca. They welcome original artwork in any medium (no AI) that captures the essence of family, whether by representing biological ties, chosen families, close-knit friendships, cultural bonds, communities, or something entirely unique.
Eligibility Info
Original works created by artists residing in Northern California, defined as San Jose and all points north, east, and west to the state border are eligible.
Art in the Village 2025 Other
- Organization: North Shore Art League
- Submission Deadline: February 3, 2025
- Event Dates: June 21, 2025 - June 22, 2025
- Entry Fee: $45
- Award Info: Up to $3,000 of award money
- Eligibility: National
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Drawing, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: Winnetka, Illinois
Description
The North Shore Art League invites artists to apply for the 12th annual "Art in the Village" juried fine art and fine craft fair, scheduled for June 21 & 22, 2025, in Hubbard Woods Park, Winnetka, Illinois. This boutique show offers great visibility, enthusiastic buyers, and free parking. The event is well-promoted through Chicago media, local publications, and radio stations, providing artists with an excellent platform to showcase and sell their work. Artists must submit five images, including a booth shot, for jurying.
Eligibility Info
Open to U.S. artists with Original works in various fine art and fine craft disciplines
Art On Loop Tokyo Exhibition
- Organization: The Holy Art Gallery
- Submission Deadline: February 3, 2025
- Event Dates: February 10, 2025 - April 12, 2024
- Entry Fee: Free to apply, but selection fee applies
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
Description
Be part of an exciting immersive art show in Tokyo, Japan!
Showcase your art digitally on our special projectors!
Artists from all countries are welcome to submit their works for consideration. You are welcome to submit works in any medium. (painting, photography, printmaking, video art, installation, films, sculpting, mixed media, poems, illustration, etc). The theme of the exhibition is OPEN.
Any artist from any background can submit any of their work.
Eligibility Info
Open internationally to all artists
Secluded Farmhouse Artist Residency Residency
- Organization: Pottery Farm Gallery
- Submission Deadline: February 3, 2025
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: Au Husté, Mauvezin , France
Description
Pottery Farm Gallery offers a serene artist residency in the French countryside, accommodating up to five creative practitioners at a time. Residents live and work on a hillside farmhouse with 360° views of rolling hills and the Pyrenees mountain range. The farmhouse features five spacious bedrooms, two bathrooms, two lounges, and a large kitchen with a log fire and heat pump. Artists are responsible for their own equipment, though access to the ceramics studio may be arranged upon special request and availability. The residency is self-funded and self-directed, with durations of up to one month. Applications are accepted year-round.
Eligibility Info
Open internationally to potters, writers, filmmakers, visual artists, designers, photographers, musicians, researchers and all other types of creative practitioners
Chadron State College Art Gallery Exhibition proposal submissions for the 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 Exhibition
- Submission Deadline: February 3, 2025
- Eligibility: National
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: Chadron, NE, United States
Description
Chadron State College's Art Program and Galaxy Series are accepting exhibition proposal submissions for the 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 academic years. The exhibitions provide the educational and regional communities with visual art experiences that are aesthetically stimulating and engaging. Exhibition Proposal: Proposals for all forms of visual art, including new media and installations, are encouraged. The exhibition proposals should be professional and cohesive, demonstrate innovative concepts, and be conceptually engaging. Each art exhibition will last approximately four to six weeks and be on display during the academic year. Workshops and gallery talks are also available in conjunction with the exhibit. Solo or group show submissions will be accepted.
Eligibility Info
Open to all U.S. based artists
2025-2026 Visual Arts Fellowship Residency
- Organization: Fine Arts Work Center (FAWC)
- Submission Deadline: February 3, 2025
- Event Dates: October 1, 2025 - April 30, 2026
- Entry Fee: $65
- Award Info: Monthly stipend $1250, housing, studio space
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: Provincetown, Massachusetts
Description
The Fine Arts Work Center offers a seven-month residency program for emerging visual artists. Located in Provincetown, Massachusetts, the program provides artists with time and space to develop their work. Fellows receive a monthly stipend, housing, and studio space. The residency runs from October 1, 2025, to April 30, 2026.
Eligibility Info
Open internationally to all emerging artists in visual arts
15th Annual Patricia Sitar Juried Exhibition: Reflections Exhibition
- Organization: Sitar Arts Center
- Submission Deadline: February 3, 2025
- Event Dates: March 4, 2025 - April 25, 2025
- Entry Fee: $10
- Award Info: $1,200 in cash awards, various awards
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: Washington, DC, District of Columbia 20009, United States
Description
Sitar Arts Center is excited to announce its 15th Annual Patricia Sitar Juried Exhibition! This year’s exhibition theme, "Reflections," is a journey into perception and introspection. They invite you to create a piece mirroring reality or imagination.
They encourage artists ages 16 and up to apply for a chance to win cash prizes and have their work on display at the Sitar Arts Center’s Cafritz Gallery. Artists ages 22 and up also have an opportunity to win a solo exhibition at Sitar.
Eligibility Info
Open to artists internationally
The Spirit of a Femininomenon Exhibition
- Submission Deadline: February 4, 2025
- Eligibility: National
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: West Long Branch, NJ 07764, United States
Description
Across the globe, women continue to endure the oppressive weight of patriarchy. From the stripping of healthcare rights to restricted access to education, women face countless barriers to true freedom and equality. Liberation is interconnected—no woman is free until all women are free. They invite you to submit artwork that brings women's diverse experiences and challenges to life and celebrates the unbreakable bond of sisterhood. This project is about feminine expression in all forms; they welcome transgender and queer perspectives. Work may explore drag queens, nonbinary folks, or any topic that inspires, empowers, and sparks conversation about femininity. Join the Femininomenon! Let your creativity become a force for progress in the ongoing struggle for equity and equality for all women.
Eligibility Info
Artists submitting must be 18 years or older and students enrolled in a college or university in the United States
Biennial Australian Monoprint Prize Competition
- Submission Deadline: February 4, 2025
- Entry Fee: $35-$50
- Award Info: Major Prize $3,000, 2nd Prize $500
- Eligibility: National
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline
- Location: Armadale, Victoria 3143, Australia
Description
The Australian Monoprint Prize is open to Australian citizens or permanent residents of Australia.
2025 Monoprint Prize Judges:
Lisa Sullivan, Senior curator,
Geelong Gallery Emily Ferretti, renowned Australian Painter and printmaker
Eligibility Info
The Australian Monoprint Prize is open to Australian citizens or permanent residents of Australia.
Large Format Residency - Summer and Fall 2025 Residency
- Submission Deadline: February 5, 2025
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: Chão da Serra, Chão da Serra 2240-334, Portugal
Description
Aviário Studio is an art residency situated in the center of Portugal. The residency is customized according to the duration you wish to stay, your artistic and aesthetic focus, and the outcomes you wish to achieve. You can test what’s possible. And translate ideas into reality. Your stay can be a time of transition, working with experimentation, research, and new techniques. Or, your residency could be a time of realization, creating the physical outputs of your artistic process.
Residency durations are from 2 weeks to 6 months.
Eligibility Info
Open to all artists internationally
Group Exhibition Call for Artists: "In Tandem: Art as a Shared Journey" Competition
- Submission Deadline: February 5, 2025
- Entry Fee: $5
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: New York, NY 10001
Description
L’appartement 49C is excited to announce an open call for its upcoming collaborative exhibition, In Tandem, opening Sunday, March 9th, 2025. This exhibition celebrates the magic of partnerships in art, inviting submissions from artist duos, trios, or collectives working in any medium. This exhibition will take place in L'appartement 49C, an artist-run salon-style gallery founded by Steffie Chau in New York. In Tandem explores the power and complexity of collaboration in contemporary art. Each partnership will reflect its unique dynamics, showcasing how collective voices harmonise, clash, or amplify each other to create something extraordinary. Submissions are welcome from artists in partnerships of any kind (romantic, platonic, professional, or serendipitous), that leave a lasting creative imprint.
Eligibility Info
Submissions are welcome from artists in partnerships of any kind (romantic, platonic, professional, or serendipitous)
Into the Wild 2025 Art Competition Competition
- Organization: Fusion Art
- Submission Deadline: February 5, 2025
- Event Dates: February 15, 2025 - May 14, 2025
- Entry Fee: $25 for 1-2 images / $40 for up to 5 images
- Award Info: Cash prize or a one-year Fusion Art's Members Gallery membership
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Online Only: Yes
Description
Fusion Art announces the 2025 Into the Wild Art Competition.
For this competition, both 2D and 3D artists, worldwide, are invited to submit their best art and photography depicting wildlife. The wildlife theme includes any undomesticated animal species including any wild mammal, wild fish, wild bird or wild reptile.
All artists, regardless of location or experience, are invited to submit their best representational and/or abstract art and photography.
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.
Entry Fees: $25 for 1-2 images / $40 for up to 5 images
Please visit https://www.fusionartps.com/calls-for-artists/ for full competition guidelines and to submit.
Eligibility Info
Open to artists internationally
Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year - 2025 Competition
- Submission Deadline: February 6, 2025
- Entry Fee: $38
- Award Info: Over $25,000 in cash awards for multiple categories
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Photography
- Location: Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia
- Online Only: Yes
Description
The annual Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year competition calls on photographers from around the world to celebrate the fauna, flora and natural formations of the Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and the New Guinea region. Submitted entries capture incredible moments in time, bearing witness to the unique beauty of the world around us.
The competition, owned and produced by the South Australian Museum, results in a stunning collection of images that provoke us to explore and understand the changing nature of the natural environment and appreciate the wonder.
Entries in the 2025 competition are open until 5:00pm (ACDT) on Thursday 6 February 2025. Winners will be announced on Thursday 28 August 2025.
Eligibility Info
Open internationally to photographers
Anna Maria Island Feed the Peeps Art Show Exhibition
- Organization: Feed the Peeps
- Submission Deadline: February 6, 2025
- Event Dates: February 7, 2025 - February 8, 2025
- Entry Fee: $25
- Eligibility: National
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: Anna Maria Island, Florida
Description
The Anna Maria Island Feed the Peeps Art Show is scheduled for February 7-8, 2025, at Roser Church on Pine Avenue, located on the north end of Anna Maria Island, Florida. The event is situated near restaurants and shops, providing a vibrant setting for artists and vendors to showcase their work. Participants are required to submit five images, including a booth shot, as part of the application process.
Eligibility Info
Open to U.S. Both artist and non-artist vendors
Cyprus Art Retreat Residency
- Submission Deadline: February 7, 2025
- Award Info: 2-4 week residency
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: Agioi Vavatsinias, Cyprus, Greece
Description
Cyprus Art Retreat offers an art centric environment that allows established artists to reside and work in a remote environment whilst creating a micro-climate for an inspiring artistic-cultural destination (Cyprus Art Retreat) in Agioi Vavatsinias, Cyprus, is established in a peaceful, serene, country setting – that celebrates and promotes the coming together of artistic endeavor from diverse places and cultures around the world. Agioli Vavatsinias offers a world-class, legendary destination, a place of peace, harmony, imagination, and creativity.
Eligibility Info
Open to artists internationally
Rooftop Films Summer Series- February 7th (Late Deadline)
- Organization: Rooftop Films
- Submission Deadline: February 7, 2025
- Entry Fee: $35-$60
- Award Info: Rooftop Films Summer Series Screening
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Film/Video/New Media
- Location: Brooklyn, , NY 11215
Description
"Through the Rooftop Films Summer Series — our signature program of new, independent films — we strive to bring the work of filmmakers to engaged audiences.
The Rooftop Films Summer Series runs annually from May to September, featuring daring new films, all screened outdoors, in front of big, loyal audiences in parks, piers, and on rooftops overlooking the greatest city in the world. Tens of thousands of people attend Rooftop screenings every summer, making it one of the most popular festivals in New York City and one of the biggest festivals for independent films and short films in the world."
02/07/25 (Late)
02/28/2025 (Extended Late)
Eligibility Info
Open internationally to filmmakers
Feathers, Fins, and Fur Exhibition
- Organization: Queen City Clay
- Submission Deadline: February 7, 2025
- Event Dates: February 28, 2025 - April 10, 2025
- Entry Fee: $20- Fee waived for currently enrolled university students
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Sculpture
- Location: Norwood, Ohio
Description
Queen City Clay invites ceramic artists to submit works for the "Feathers, Fins, and Fur" exhibition, celebrating the diverse world of non-human animals. Submissions should feature animals as the primary form or integrated into decorative elements in sculptural and functional pieces. The exhibition will be juried by Sara Torgison. Selected works will be displayed at Queen City Clay from February 28 to April 10, 2025, with an opening reception on February 28, 2025, from 5–8 pm. Artists are responsible for shipping their work and must ensure pieces are for sale; the gallery takes a 40% commission on sales.
Eligibility Info
Open internationally to all Ceramic works
40th Annual Made in California Juried Exhibition Competition
- Organization: Brea Gallery
- Submission Deadline: February 7, 2025
- Event Dates: April 26, 2025 - June 29, 2025
- Entry Fee: 20.00
- Award Info: First Place: $750, Second Place: $500, Third Place: $250, Solo Show: $350, Director’s Choice: $200, Mayor’s Choice: $100, Staff Picks: $100 each, Popular Choice: $100. Honorable mentions and additional awards to be announced.
- Eligibility: State
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: California
Description
This annual juried exhibit showcases artwork from all over the state of California. MICA strives to highlight artists in all stages of their careers and offers them a chance to compete for a number of awards, including the coveted solo show opportunity. This regional show features artwork from an extensive variety of mediums and explores creative movements happening in California.
Eligibility Info
Open to all California-based artists
38th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition Exhibition
- Organization: McNeese State University Department of Visual Arts
- Submission Deadline: February 8, 2025
- Event Dates: March 20, 2025 - May 2, 2025
- Entry Fee: $35
- Award Info: $3,000 available for purchase awards for the McNeese State University Works on Paper Permanent Collection
- Eligibility: National
- Categories: Drawing, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting
- Location: Lake Charles, Louisiana
Description
The McNeese State University Department of Visual Arts invites artists nationwide to submit entries for the 38th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition. This juried exhibition seeks original artworks completed within the last two years that incorporate paper as a primary element. Selected works will be displayed in the Grand Gallery from March 20 to May 2, 2025, with an opening reception and awards presentation on March 27, 2025.
Eligibility Info
Open to all artists living in the U.S. Any medium using paper as a component part; artwork, including frame, should not exceed 40 inches in any dimension.
Variations 2025 Exhibition
- Submission Deadline: February 8, 2025
- Event Dates: April 19, 2025 - June 14, 2025
- Entry Fee: $35
- Award Info: Cash prizes of $1,000, $250, and $100 for each category
- Eligibility: National
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: Marblehead, Massachusetts
Description
The Marblehead Arts Association invites artists nationwide to participate in "Variations 2025," an eight-week juried exhibition showcasing diverse 2D and 3D artworks. Submissions will be evaluated for acceptance and judged for prizes in Fine Art, Photography, and 3D categories. The exhibition runs from April 19 to June 14, 2025, with an opening reception and awards ceremony on April 20, 2025. Artists aged 18 and older are eligible to apply.
Eligibility Info
Open to all artists in the U.S.
Mother's Milk Artist Residency Residency
- Submission Deadline: February 10, 2025
- Entry Fee: $25.00
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: Newton, KS 67114, United States
Description
Mother’s Milk is an interdisciplinary residency (2, 4, 6 weeks) designed to support visual artists, sound artists/composers, dancer/choreographers, writers or other creatives who are pursuing innovative work in their field. The goal of this program is to provide individuals or collaborative teams with the time and space to pursue their creative projects alongside other residents whose different perspectives, backgrounds and interests offer inspiration and interaction. Work that is more experimental in nature without regard to commercial viability is of special interest, a focus on process over product. Residents have studios in a 1,500 sq. ft. hay barn studio and share housing in a fully renovated 1898 farmhouse.
Eligibility Info
Residents cannot be currently enrolled in an undergraduate degree program, must be at least 21 years old, and must reside on-site for the duration of the program.
Gardendale Magnoila Festival 2025 Exhibition
- Organization: Gardendale Magnolia Festival
- Submission Deadline: February 10, 2025
- Event Dates: April 26, 2025
- Entry Fee: $10
- Eligibility: Local
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: Gardendale , Alabama
Description
The 24th Annual Gardendale Magnolia Festival, scheduled for April 26, 2025, is an award-winning, family-friendly event held at the Gardendale Civic Center Complex. The festival features over 150 vendors, two stages of live entertainment, a pooch parade, car show, free kid zone, petting zoo, pony rides, and more. Admission and parking are free. Artists and vendors are encouraged to register on Friday to locate their booth space and avoid lines on Saturday morning.
Eligibility Info
Open to all artists and vendors in the Gardendale region. Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Crafts, Mixed Media
Tartget Prize International Painting Contest Competition
- Submission Deadline: February 10, 2025
- Entry Fee: €50
- Award Info: More than €50,000 in prizes
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Painting
Description
The TARTGET PRIZE International Painting Competition invites artists from all over the world to participate in its first edition. It is one of the most important competitions in the world dedicated to promoting art and creating opportunities for emerging artists, while consolidating the reputation of distinguished painters. With more than €50,000 in prize money and international recognition awards through collaborations with magazines, galleries, fine art materials and art scholarships, there are more than 50 prizes in total. There are 10 categories in which works can be submitted. Works of all styles are accepted, including hyperrealism, photorealism, contemporary realism, imaginative realism, fantastic realism, surrealism, impressionism, expressionism, plein air painting, contemporary, abstraction and any other type of representative painting.
Eligibility Info
Open to painters internationally
PBEAT2025 EOIs for Art Installations Closing 10 Feb 2025 Competition
- Submission Deadline: February 10, 2025
- Award Info: $6,000 prize pool
- Eligibility: National
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: Pearl Beach, NSW 2256, Australia
Description
The Pearl Beach Arboretum Ephemeral Art Trail (PBEAT) aims to create inspiring temporary public art that promotes nature conservation, supports community identity and increases the cultural vibrancy. Creating the unexpected is a key objective. Applications are now invited for THE PBEAT2025 general art Installations closing midnight Monday, 20 February 2025. This program offers a unique opportunity to create a site-specific art installation responding to the theme for PBEAT2025 – HARMONY IN NATURE.
Eligibility Info
Open to Australian artists
BBA Prizes 2025: Open Call for Artists and Photographers Competition
- Organization: BBA Prizes
- Submission Deadline: February 10, 2025
- Entry Fee: 35€
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Online Only: Yes
Description
It’s time to celebrate 10 years of BBA Prizes! They invite artists and photographers of all mediums, from all around the world, to participate in their biggest exhibition ever.
They will be taking over the iconic Kühlhaus Berlin to present the best artworks and photographs from their international Artist Prize and Photography Prize open calls in May/June 2025. Don’t miss this opportunity to exhibit. Cash prizes, solo exhibitions, online promotions + more to be won!
Are you an artist? Are you a photographer? Then enter now! https://bba-prizes.com
Eligibility Info
Open to all artists internationally
MacDowell Fellowship Residency
- Submission Deadline: February 10, 2025
- Entry Fee: $30
- Award Info: Financial assistance to reimburse travel
- Eligibility: International
- Location: Peterborough, NH 03458, United States
Description
MacDowell provides time, space, and an inspiring residential environment to artists of exceptional talent. A MacDowell Fellowship, or residency, consists of exclusive use of a studio, accommodations, and three prepared meals a day for up to six weeks. There are no residency fees, and MacDowell offers financial assistance to reimburse the costs of direct travel to and from the residency, as well as expenses that artists expect to incur while in residence, including rent, lost income, and childcare. MacDowell Fellows are selected by an admissions panel, which is comprised of a revolving group of distinguished professionals in each artistic discipline who serve anonymously for up to three years.
Eligibility Info
Open to all artists internationally
Exhibit in Los Angeles Exhibition
- Organization: The Holy Art Gallery
- Submission Deadline: February 12, 2025
- Event Dates: March 7, 2025 - March 9, 2025
- Entry Fee: £180 - £900, if selected
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: Los Angeles, CA, United States
Description
The Holy Art Gallery is headed to Los Angeles for their first-ever West Coast exhibition, and they’re inviting artists from around the world to join!Ti pncl event welcomes submissions in any medium—painting, photography, sculpture, video art, installations, mixed media, poetry, and more. With an open theme, artists have complete freedom to showcase what inspires them most!
🗓️ Exhibition Dates: March 7-9, 2025
💸 Submission Fee: FREE to apply (fee only if selected)
This is a fantastic opportunity to get your work in front of a global audience and to be part of The Holy Art’s international artist community.
Eligibility Info
Open to artists internationally
Home - Call for Art Exhibition
- Organization: Azalea Arts Community
- Submission Deadline: February 15, 2025
- Event Dates: March 1, 2025 - May 1, 2025
- Entry Fee: $6
- Award Info: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Place - 1st Place will receive an artist interview.
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Online Only: Yes
Description
Azalea Arts is now accepting applications for Home. Accepted participants will be notified on February 28th, 2025. Find updates on their Instagram page and subscribe to their newsletter!
What does home mean to you? Is it a place, a person, a feeling, or something intangible? They invite artists to reflect on the theme of Home and its physical, emotional, and metaphorical interpretations. Explore how home can evoke comfort, nostalgia, or longing. Consider its connection to identity, community, and belonging.
Applicants are not restricted on the number of entries but each entry is limited to 3 artworks. If you submit a 3D object, you may provide up to 3 images of said artwork to show different angles.
Eligibility Info
Open internationally to artists 18+ working in all mediums, including but not limited to painting, sculpture, photography, digital art, mixed media, and video
Alderworks Alaska Summer 2025 Residency
- Submission Deadline: February 15, 2025
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: Skagway, AK, United States
Description
Alderworks welcomes writers and artists every summer to work in cabins on the edge of the wilderness in historic and stunningly beautiful Dyea near Skagway, Alaska. The purpose of Alderworks is to enhance the creative process. They host residents in three cabins for 4-6 week summer residencies. Artists also have access to a studio building. Applicants are screened in the winter for the following summer's two residency periods. Residency fee applies.
Eligibility Info
Open to all artists internationally
Lower East Side Printshop Keyholder Residency Program Residency
- Submission Deadline: February 15, 2025
- Eligibility: Local
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: New York, NY 10018, United States
Description
The Keyholder Residency Program offers emerging artists free 24-hour access to printmaking facilities to develop new work and foster their artistic careers. Keyholders work independently, in a productive atmosphere alongside other contemporary artists. Artists from all disciplines are eligible to apply; printmaking skills are not required, but some familiarity with the medium is recommended. Basic instruction in printmaking techniques is available for new Keyholders. Applications are evaluated by an invited panel of artists, critics, curators, and art professionals. A total of 8 artists are awarded the residency annually. Artists based in the New York City area and without access to a studio space are encouraged to apply.
Eligibility Info
Open to all U.S. based artists. Artist must reside in the New York metro area during the year of residency.
Open Call for Long Meadow Art Residency Residency
- Organization: Long Meadow Art Residency
- Submission Deadline: February 15, 2025
- Eligibility: National
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Drawing, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
Description
Long Meadow Art Residency is a six week – three-month solo residency in the Berkshires. LMAR offers studio space and housing, allowing time for artists to retreat and deepen their practice. The residency provides a $3,000 monthly living stipend, a $2,500 supply budget, as well as access to a vehicle for transportation.
Drawing Canyon, Sage and Sky – New Mexico Artist Retreat Residency
- Submission Deadline: February 15, 2025
- Event Dates: May 22, 2025 - May 28, 2025
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Drawing
- Location: Jemez Springs, NM 87025, United States
Description
This is an immersive drawing retreat for artists keen to experiment with mark and image, create with natural materials, and connect to the experience of drawing within the stunning landscape of Northern New Mexico. The retreat creates the mental space to sit, sense, and create with river, stones, and sky, find good ground, and come away with a body of original artwork directly inspired by place.
The residential retreat takes up drawing in an expanded, embodied sense – some may be compelled by the shape and color of the cliffs, while others draw the sound of wind, flow of the river, or simply feel what it’s like to collect and grind clay into powder pigment to draw the red line of the mesa.
This is not a traditional residency, but is a residential workshop.
Eligibility Info
Open to artists internationally
Creekside Arts Spring 2025 Residency Residency
- Submission Deadline: February 15, 2025
- Event Dates: May 25, 2025 - June 15, 2025
- Entry Fee: $20
- Award Info: 3 week residency
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: Humboldt, CA 95501, United States
Description
Creekside Arts’ mission is to create a dynamic and collaborative space where artists push the boundaries of their creative pursuits and engage deeply with one another and their audiences through residencies, workshops, and performances. They are committed to fostering an environment of mutual inspiration, where artists pursue bold experimentation and learn from and inspire their peers. Striving for equity, they actively welcome diverse voices and perspectives, inviting artists from all cultures, backgrounds, and experiences to enrich our community. Through this collective creative energy, they aim to make a lasting impact on both the artistic landscape and the broader Humboldt community.
Creekside Arts residence offers an inspiring rural, natural setting among Northern California’s coastal redwoods, ideal for individual and collaborative artistic work and expression.
Eligibility Info
Open to artists internationally
McKinney International Art and Design Residency Residency
- Submission Deadline: February 16, 2025
- Award Info: Fellowship of $8,000 USD
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: Bloomington, IN, United States
Description
The Eskenazi School of Art Architecture + Design at Indiana University Bloomington invites applications for a 4–6-week McKinney International Art and Design Residency. An established artist or designer will be selected whose primary country of residence is outside the United States. Applicants should be actively engaged in a contemporary artistic practice and show evidence of a national and international exhibition record. Applications from practitioners of studio disciplines, as well as criticism, are welcome.
Eligibility Info
Open to all artists internationally
The Artist & Leisure Painter Open Art Competition 2025 Competition
- Organization: he Artist and Leisure Painter magazines
- Submission Deadline: February 17, 2025
- Event Dates: April 27, 2025 - June 15, 2025
- Entry Fee: £15 - £25
- Award Info: Art prizes worth over worth over £17,000
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Painting
- Online Only: Yes
Description
Brought to you by The Artist and Leisure Painter magazines, The Artist and Leisure Painter Open Art Competition (TALP Open), in partnership with Patchings Art Centre, has been offering artists of all abilities the chance to earn recognition and prizes for their artwork for almost 30 years. TALP Open is an amazing international opportunity for artists of all abilities to gain valuable exposure for their work and have it seen by top artist judges. With a range of art prizes, from their fantastic sponsors, worth over £17,000 (and growing), the opportunity to see your work exhibited at Patchings Art Centre and across their online channels, the chance to be featured in the magazines and more, TALP is the perfect way to get your work seen!
Eligibility Info
This call is open to painters internationally
Los Angeles Open Art Exhibition
- Organization: The Holy Art Gallery
- Submission Deadline: February 19, 2025
- Event Dates: March 7, 2025 - March 9, 2025
- Entry Fee: From 180
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: Los Angeles, CA, United States
Description
The Holy Art Gallery is excited to announce their upcoming exhibition in Los Angeles, California, running from March 7 to March 9, 2025. This is a unique opportunity for artists from around the world to showcase their work and connect with a global audience in one of the world’s most vibrant cultural hubs.
They welcome submissions in any medium, including painting, photography, printmaking, video art, installation, film, sculpture, mixed media, poetry, and illustration. The theme of the exhibition, OPEN, invites diverse and boundless creative expression.
Artists from all backgrounds are encouraged to submit their work.
Eligibility Info
Open to artists internationally
Three-Person Exhibition Spring 2025 Exhibition
- Organization: Space 776
- Submission Deadline: February 20, 2025
- Entry Fee: $35
- Award Info: Selection for a three-person exhibition at Space 776 Gallery in Manhattan, New York City, during Spring 2025.
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: Manhattan, New York City, New York
Description
Space 776 invites artists worldwide to apply for a three-person exhibition in Spring 2025 at their Manhattan gallery. The exhibition will focus on works that push visual and conceptual boundaries, addressing the limits we place on ourselves and others. Artists are encouraged to submit works that challenge established norms, provoke thoughtful dialogue, and engage viewers in meaningful reflection. Applicants should submit five JPEG images (each file 1MB or under) titled in the format: artistname_medium_heightxwidth.jpg. A $35 submission fee applies, with a $0.30 processing fee. Selected artists will be responsible for artwork delivery.
Eligibility Info
Open internationally to all artists
17th Annual Wayne Art Center Plein Air Festival Other
- Submission Deadline: February 20, 2025
- Event Dates: May 4, 2025 - June 21, 2025
- Entry Fee: $50
- Award Info: $25,000 in award cash prizes
- Eligibility: National
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: Wayne, PA 19087, United States
Description
The Wayne Art Center Plein Air Festival and Exhibition are dedicated to enhancing the public’s appreciation of works completed in the plein air method while providing a venue for established and emerging artists to share their work with collectors and the public.
Wayne Art Center’s 17th Annual Plein Air Festival will take place May 4 through May 10, 2025 when 32 juried artists from across the country arrive to paint scenes within a 35-mile radius of Wayne, Pennsylvania including historic Main Line towns, rolling farm country, downtown Philadelphia and the Delaware and Schuylkill riverfronts. The work resulting from the 7-day competition will be exhibited at the Wayne Art Center Preview Party & Sale on May 10 and remains on view through June 21, 2025.
Eligibility Info
Open to artists 18 and older from the United States.
Calling All Creators - 2025 World of WearableArt Competition! Competition
- Submission Deadline: February 20, 2025
- Event Dates: September 18, 2025 - October 5, 2025
- Award Info: Up to 25 awards, over $200,000 NZD in prize value
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: Queens Wharf, Wellington, New Zealand
Description
Since it was established in 1987 WOW has embraced the worlds of art and design, running an international competition that culminates in a spectacular theatrical performance each year. The exhilarating WOW Show is a visual feast for audiences and an opportunity for designers to be recognised and celebrated on the world stage. WOW offers an opportunity to express innovation, originality and to push the boundaries of creativity. The show represents the last stage of the competition as finalists garments get their moment to shine in front of over 60,000 people.
Entry closes 20 February 11:59pm NZDT 2025 for International Designers.
Entry closes 9 April 11:59pm NZST 2025 for New Zealand Designers.
Eligibility Info
The competition is open to anyone over 18, globally.
Call for Art - IMPERMANENCE Exhibition
- Organization: Art Fluent
- Submission Deadline: February 21, 2025
- Entry Fee: $25 first entry/$10 for each additional entry
- Award Info: Best of Show: $750, Two Director’s Choice awards: $250 each
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Online Only: Yes
Description
Art Fluent invites artists worldwide to submit artwork to their online exhibit, IMPERMANENCE.
Let’s celebrate the beauty in the here-today-gone-tomorrow moments. Artists are invited to capture what it means to embrace the temporary and find beauty in what is destined to fade. It’s a chance to get into the passing of time, the fragility of the human experience, the relentless evolution of nature, and the ever-evolving world around us. Show the theme IMPERMANENCE from your perspective.
Eligibility Info
This call is open to artists worldwide. Work that has been selected for previous exhibits with Art Fluent will not be considered.
Call for entries - Bayside Painting Prize 2025 Competition
- Submission Deadline: February 21, 2025
- Event Dates: May 9, 2025 - June 22, 2025
- Entry Fee: $30
- Award Info: $36,000 in cash awards to artists, various art prize categories
- Eligibility: National
- Categories: Painting
- Location: Brighton, Victoria 3186, Australia
Description
First established in 2015 as the Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize, the prize was relaunched in 2024 as the Bayside Painting Prize with an increase in prize money for the Major Prize to $25,000, making it one of the most generous non-acquisitive painting prizes in the country.
The $10,000 acquisitive Beckett Local Prize is open to artists who demonstrate a connection to the municipality of Bayside or the work entered is of local subject matter. There is also a 1,000 People’s Choice Prize.
The Bayside Painting Prize is the only annual painting prize held in Melbourne. The finalist exhibition brings together a broad range of artists from across Australia, both established and lesser known, whose varied approaches to the painted medium conveys the breadth and diversity of painting in Australia today.
Eligibility Info
The Bayside Painting Prize is open to citizens or permanent residents (at least 12 months) of Australia over 18 years of age.
Artist Studios Residency at the Museum of Arts and Design: Community Engagement & Professional Development Residency
- Submission Deadline: February 23, 2025
- Event Dates: August 20, 2025 - August 15, 2026
- Award Info: $15,000 stipend
- Eligibility: Local
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: New York, NY 10019, United States
Description
Located on the sixth floor of the Museum and open to the public, the Artist Studios at MAD is a community engagement and professional development program for contemporary artists and designers. The first program of its kind, the Artist Studios opportunity is designed to encourage visitors to meet artists-in-residence as they expand their creative practice while working on-site at MAD. Three artists (two Artist Studios residents and one Artist Fellow) are selected per six-month session, for which they receive access to studio space in the Museum and a stipend. Visitors are welcome to visit MAD’s Artist Studios to view works in progress and converse with the artists and designers.
Eligibility Info
Must be at least twenty-one years old.
Must be a US citizen or legal resident of the US with a valid SSN or EIN
Cannot be enrolled in a full-time degree-granting program or its equivalent.
Be a resident of the New York metro area.
Self as Universe: Mending Our Collective Ecosystem Residencies at A Studio in the Woods Residency
- Submission Deadline: February 24, 2025
- Entry Fee: $25
- Award Info: $3000 stipend and $2000 towards materials
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: New Orleans, LA 70131, United States
Description
The climate crisis is an urgent global concern. Self as Universe: Mending Our Collective Ecosystem Residencies at A Studio in the Woods invite artists to explore the connections within our collective ecosystems and use the power of imagination to heal the wounds in the relationship between ourselves and our communities. Southeast Louisiana’s land and inhabitants are continually scarred by the effects of environmental degradation. These injuries – the historical to the present – affect our bodies, families, communities, and cultures, as well as the land and its other creatures. A studio in the Woods encourage artists to guide a collective response as the caretakers and caregivers to our universe while bringing wisdom, integrity, optimism, and even humor to intentional and timely projects seeking transformation for our species and planet.
Eligibility Info
Open to all artists internationally
15th Annual “Figurative” Online Art Competition Competition
- Organization: Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery
- Submission Deadline: February 25, 2025
- Event Dates: March 1, 2025 - March 31, 2025
- Entry Fee: $18 - $26
- Award Info: Best in Show winner will receive a cash prize. Winners receive extensive worldwide publicity and promotion.
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Online Only: Yes
Description
Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announces the 15th 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 best representational and/or abstract art. Although nude art is acceptable, please, do not submit any erotic art.
Best in Show winner will receive a cash prize. Winners receive extensive worldwide publicity and promotion.
Entry Fees: $18.00 for 1 to 2 entries / $26.00 for 3 to 5 entries. Early entry and art student discounts.
Eligibility Info
Open to artists internationally
The Archives of American Art Internships (Summer 2025) Other
- Organization: Smithsonian
- Submission Deadline: February 25, 2025
- Award Info: Summer internships offer a $6,500 stipend for a full-time, ten-week schedule. Pro-rated stipends may be available for part-time internships
- Eligibility: International
- Location: Washington D.C.
Description
The Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art Internships are offered in the spring, summer, and fall terms to students who have not yet completed their degrees, or who have graduated within the past six months. Summer internships are accompanied by a $6,500 stipend, based on a full-time, ten-week schedule. Pro-rated stipends may be available for part-time internships, which are available during the academic year and, in some cases, during the summer.
Eligibility Info
Open to students enrolled in undergraduate or graduate programs, or those who have graduated within the past six months
Early Career Banff Artist in Residence – Summer 2025 Residency
- Submission Deadline: February 26, 2025
- Event Dates: July 22, 2025 - August 21, 2025
- Entry Fee: $35 - $65
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: Banff, Alberta T1L 1H5, Canada
Description
Early Career Banff Artist in Residence (BAiR) Summer 2025 is an immersive program of studio practice, creative exploration, critical feedback, and mentorship for visual artists and curators in the early stages of their careers.
Open to visual artists and curators working in all visual arts mediums, this program combines the artistic freedom of a self-directed residency with the benefits of technical and faculty support. As well as having the space to create, research, and experiment, participants are part of a community of emerging artists committed to developing and expanding their practice.
Eligibility Info
Open to artists internationally
John Michael Kohler Arts Center - 2026 Arts/Industry Residency Residency
- Submission Deadline: February 28, 2025
- Award Info: Stipend, transportation and housing
- Eligibility: National
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: Sheboygan, WI 53081
Description
Arts/Industry Residency provides the unique opportunity to explore new ideas, processes, and perspectives while creating work using the resources, technology, and materials of the Kohler Co. factory in Kohler, Wisconsin. Arts/Industry artists are given the time and space to pursue their creative process in studios located in Kohler Co.’s industrial foundry and pottery. Artists-in-residence receive 24-hour access to studio space, industrial materials, use of equipment, technical assistance, photographic services, housing, round-trip transportation, and a modest weekly stipend. Experience working in metal or clay is not required. Arts/Industry welcomes artists from all disciplines who are curious about how industrial processes and environments can shape their work.
Eligibility Info
Arts/Industry welcomes artists from all disciplines who are curious about how industrial processes and environments can shape their work.
New American Paintings - Midwest Edition Competition
- Submission Deadline: February 28, 2025
- Entry Fee: $50
- Award Info: Feature in New American Paintings
- Eligibility: Regional
- Categories: Painting
- Online Only: Yes
Description
New American Paintings sponsor six juried competitions per year. The forty winners of each competition receive a four-page, full-color spread in New American Paintings. Five of the annual competitions focus on geographic regions (Northeast, South, Midwest, West and Pacific Coast), and the sixth is only open to current Masters of Fine Arts candidates who are attending schools based in the United States, and current year graduates.
New American Paintings has a targeted readership of more than ten thousand art collectors, art world professionals and art enthusiasts who have a deep interest in contemporary painting and discovering new artists.
Eligibility Info
Open to painters living and working in IL, IN, IA, MI, MN, MO, OH, WI only.
Open Call for Emerging Artists of Color and Women Exhibition
- Submission Deadline: February 28, 2025
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Photography, Drawing, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
Description
This call for art is open to both professional and amateur artists working in a variety of mediums. Submissions are welcome across disciplines, including photography, printmaking, sculpture, painting, and drawing. Accepted painting and drawing mediums include oil, acrylic, ink, graphite, pastels, and more. Please note that works requiring special installation or instructions will not be considered.
To submit, please email the following to [email protected]:
Your resume
Up to two works
An artist bio
A description of the submitted works
Eligibility Info
This show is limited to artists of color and artists who identify as women