Fine artists working in 2D and 3D media are invited to submit work for the ArtWorks Open Prize Award Show. This annual platform supports emerging and mid-career UK artists, awarding cash prizes, exhibitions, and residencies. With Joseph and Piper as selectors, the 2025 show will likely showcase diverse, socially engaged art that foregrounds identity, dialogue, and impact.

Brooklyn Arts Council gives grants, presents free and affordable arts events, trains artists and arts professionals, teaches students, incubates new projects and promotes artists and cultural groups across our borough. As Brooklyn’s cultural anchor since 1966, BAC has also been the catalyst helping the arts community grow. BAC continually evaluate and evolve to meet the changing times, and keep a commitment to community engagement, diversity and inclusion when it comes to the arts in the borough of Brooklyn.

Arts North International is a juried, physical exhibition open to artists from around the world. Entering its 31st year, the exhibition is displayed at the Hopkins Center for the Arts in the heart of historic main street Hopkins, 15 minutes from downtown Minneapolis. ANI is a physical exhibition featuring an additional virtual tour supplement. More than $10,000 in awards are available: including juror-selected Best of Show ($3000), 2 Awards of Excellence ($1000 each), 2 Awards of Merit ($500 each), as well as honors for medium specific categories and sponsor-selected awards.

The vision for this artwork is that it will serve as both a gateway piece and sign including the park's name to create an exciting and engaging entry point for the park, elevating the position of the park as a major gateway that welcomes people to the City of Rockville. Because the location of the park also creates an entryway into East Rockville and Lincoln Park and is near the edge of northeastern Rockville, it is ideal that the artwork’s design incorporate and/or acknowledge elements of the landscape, nature, history, and/or local cultures.

Mark Arts in Wichita, Kansas, invites artists to submit works for the biennial Abstract National Exhibition opening January 9, 2026. Artists may submit original two-dimensional or three-dimensional abstract, nonobjective or nonrepresentational works. Media may include, but is not limited to: watercolor, oil, gouache, sculpture, photographs, acrylics, inks, printmaking, graphite, charcoal, ceramics, pastel, collage, ready-made assemblage, and mixed media. Artwork must be for sale, created in the last two years, and not previously exhibited in Wichita, Kansas.

Established in 1993, the A.I.R. Fellowship Program for Emerging and Underrepresented Women and Non-Binary Artists has enabled more than 120 artists to realize their first solo exhibition in New York City with the support of the A.I.R. community. The Fellowship Program annually awards six local emerging artists with their first solo exhibition, professional development programming, curatorial support, and mentorship during a 12-month fellowship that runs September–August. Intended to support artists in building sustainable and enriching artistic practices, the program provides participants with career-changing, lifelong resources and community in a space that encourages creative risk-taking and intergenerational dialogue. Central to the program are a series of professional development workshops on subjects such as grant writing and exhibition design, close collaboration with an A.I.R. artist mentor, and scheduled studio visits throughout the year, including one with a selection panelist.

SlowArt Productions presents the thematic exhibition: Unexpurgated: Freedom in Form and Color. This exhibition will be held at the Limner Gallery from March 5 – 28, 2026. The exhibition invites artists to explore the concept of art as a form of speech and expression. Works may address themes of personal truth, social commentary, identity, resistance, or the uninhibited creative voice. All media and stylistic approaches are welcome. All interpretations of the theme Unexpurgated: Freedom in Form and Color, will be reviewed and considered.

The AJF Young Artist Award, generously supported by Karen and Michael Rotenberg, acknowledges promise, innovation, and individuality in the work of a jewelry artist who: is early in their career; has created an independent body of work; shows potential for continuing to create new work; and is rigorous in their approach to creating and producing new, exciting, thoughtful viewpoints. The award consists of an unrestricted cash award of US$7,500 to the winner and US$1,000 to each of four finalists, plus a travel allowance to receive the prize. Application deadline: November 9, 2025. Additional information about Art Jewelry Forum can be found on AJF’s website.

The Billboard Creative (TBC) is now accepting submissions for their annual exhibition, transforming Los Angeles into an open-air gallery. This is your chance to have your work displayed on a billboard in LA , reaching millions of people in one of the world’s most vibrant art cities. TBC showcases emerging, underrepresented, and mid-career artists by placing mass-scale works on billboards throughout the city. Strategically located in high-traffic neighborhoods near galleries, museums, and art districts, each billboard amplifies the artist's impact, turning public spaces into a citywide exhibition. Their past exhibitions have been viewed over 82 million times and featured in Hyperallergic, Huffington Post, NPR, and more. They believe art should be accessible to everyone—not confined to gallery walls—and their mission is to provide artists with an opportunity to share their work on a massive scale.

Artlink Contemporary Gallery is a non-profit creative art space and gallery supporting artists through exhibition, education and community engagement in Fort Wayne, IN since 1978. Held annually, Artlink's Midwest Regional is a juried group exhibition open to Midwest artists working in any medium. This exhibition celebrates the incredible work being created right here in the Midwest and offers 3 cash awards! Midwest states include Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas.

Est-Nord-Est (ENE) is an artist-run center whose mission is to support an international community of artists and authors in contemporary art by offering a space and time for research and experimentation, as well as privileged access to local resources and know-how. The center is located in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, a village on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, in a unique geographical and historical setting. The landscape is dominated by farms, forests, and the river. Saint-Jean-Port-Joli is located 115 km from Quebec City and 350 km from Montreal. The eight-week residencies, bringing together four artists and one author from the field of contemporary art, are offered in spring, summer, autumn, and winter.

Center on Contemporary Art will present the latest incarnation of its storied series exploring contemporary art. The CoCA Annual, a juried group exhibition seeking work from emerging as well as established artists in the Northwest and worldwide. For the 25th edition, CoCA is proud to announce Joseph DeLappe as juror, presenting the the following description of the exhibition: “We Don’t Need This Fascist Groove Thang”. CoCA welcomes submissions in any form—visual art, performance, games, writing, film, sound, installation, digital media, and hybrid practices. This exhibition is rooted in the belief that creativity is both a tool of resistance and a catalyst for change. Let’s come together to insist that another world is possible—and that we don’t need this fascist groove thang!

Fitton Center for Creative Arts, a community arts center in Hamilton, Ohio, offers exhibitions, performances, classes, rentals and more to thousands of participants monthly. The Fitton Center’s galleries offer professional exhibitions to the public free of charge. Featuring world-renowned artists while maintaining a local focus, the diverse programming engages the community through gallery openings, guided field trips, event rentals, and original art to purchase and take home. Exhibitions in the professional series change four times a year. Multiple gallery rooms allow one or two solo artists to be featured concurrently with a group or traveling show.  A group show might consist of selected individual artists curated by the Fitton Center or it might present members of a guild, a partnering gallery or exhibitions by guest curators.  Fitton Center values exhibitions with collaborative and interactive elements.

The CVG Show is an all medium, open-themed juried art competition hosted by Collective Visions Gallery in Bremerton, WA. Open to artists residing in Washington State and Oregon only. All submitted art work must have been completed on or before January 1, 2021. The exhibition dates are from January 17, 2026 – February 27, 2026, held in person at Collective Visions Gallery in Bremerton, WA. With over $10,000 in cash and prizes across three categories: Two-Dimensional / Three-Dimensional / Photo/Digital.

The City of Petoskey, located in Northern Michigan, is seeking submissions from individual artists or teams for a public artwork for Sunset Park, located on the shores of Little Traverse Bay, in Petoskey, Michigan, featuring spectacular views of the sunset. Images of the Sunset Park are attached to the call.

The Castle Rock Public Art Commission seeks to enrich the visitor experience in Downtown Castle Rock through the installation of large-scale banner artworks on the Encore parking garage. In honor of the Sesquisemiquincentennial (America 250 – Colorado 150), this project aims to celebrate their shared history, diverse stories, and community heritage while inspiring reflection and unity as people imagine the future together.

Storied is a juried group exhibition open to all narrative art! Any medium is welcome and all artists 18+ years of age residing in the United States are eligible. Narrative artwork is that which tells a story. Whether it be a personal experience, a historical happening, or an imagined tale… narrative artwork brings people together in a shared experience of curiosity and interpretation. It allows artists to communicate directly to the viewer, pulling them in to a moment in time or a sequence of events.

World Forestry Center seeks artists, foresters, researchers, architects, designers, engineers, and visionary thinkers to submit existing innovative forest-based research and solutions for our upcoming museum exhibition: Forest Hope Through Innovation opening February 2026. In this era of profound climate uncertainty, World Forestry Center is leveraging creativity, aesthetics and art to spotlight forest-based climate solutions as an optimistic path forward. This interdisciplinary exhibition highlights the aesthetics of innovative forest-based research via emerging technology, design, engineering, and imaginative science-art collaborations. It is designed to spark climate hope and inspire community-based solutions that support the sustainability of future forests. By displaying research happening behind the scenes in incubator-type spaces, the exhibition becomes both a gallery and living laboratory; transforming museum visitors from passive observers into curious, playful, and critical participants in imagining solutions for a sustainable forest future.

Business for the Arts Broward (BFA) invites muralists to apply for the inaugural BFA Art Walls Mural Fest, a two-day outdoor festival in Downtown Fort Lauderdale, February 28–March 1, 2026. Compensation: Established Artists: $2,000 mural honorarium, $200 stipend to display artwork in BBX Capital. Emerging Artists: $1,000 mural honorarium, $200 stipend to display in artwork BBX Capital. Artists will create murals on 8’ x 8’ freestanding panels installed on the grounds of History Fort Lauderdale, 231 SW 2nd Ave, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301. Each muralist will be paired with a local nonprofit organization. Each Muralist will have the opportunity to hang additional artwork in BBX Capital for a 4-month exhibition.

Exceptional portraiture and eye-catching colors are critical elements that will simultaneously draw attention to the artwork and communicate the personality and essence of each featured Airman. Each design should consider the role of visual storytelling as a foundational component of this project and how the installation as a whole aims to be celebratory and illuminating in nature. Upon advancing to the Request for Proposal/Designs (RFP) phase, selected artists should consider the unique characteristics of their assigned Airmen while also understanding and artfully illustrating the unifying aspects between each Airman through his service. Successful artwork will weave together historical references with contemporary design elements, and it should consider how it can stand out among a group of portraits/designs. Each selected artist will receive a creative brief that includes reference imagery and background information on each assigned Airman.

The Lucid Art Foundation’s Residency Program for 2026 will focus on art and science in relation to the environment at large in light of the climate crisis. The program emphasis directs artists towards alternative ways of raising awareness and promoting action. Climate crisis areas include: biodiversity, habitat loss, rapid melting of polar ice caps and its consequences, ocean pollution, food security issues, animal migrations, soil pollution in agriculture and food chain issues, forest extinction, and the sixth mass extinction. The Foundation will create an advisory environmental scientist group that the invited artists can connect with for information and consultation during their residency.

Filling the Frame

Deadline for submissions: Nov 10, 2025
Juror: Dallas Crow
Prints due: Dec 19, 2025
Exhibition: January 2 - January 31, 2026
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For FILLING THE FRAME, they invite photographers to celebrate more: layered compositions, intersecting subjects, overlapping lines, patterns, and textures that fill the space with intention. Think of street scenes bursting with energy, crowded markets, tangled forests, intricate still lifes, or abstractions that challenge people's sense of visual harmony.

Submission Fee: $39 for 5 images, $6 for each additional image

The Hopper Prize is accepting entries for Fall 2025 artist grants. For this open call, they have increased grant amounts to $4,500. They will be providing 6 grants totaling $13,000 USD. This is an international open call. All media is eligible. Their open call provides you with a direct path to get your work in front of an international community of curators, artists, gallerists, and arts administrators. In addition to grants, 30 artists will be selected for a shortlist. Additional exposure is available via their online Journal as well as their Instagram feed, currently reaching an audience over 150k.

A juried group photo show on black and white photography at Black Box Gallery.

For more info: https://blackboxgallery.com

The 41st Annual International Exhibition is a juried visual art competition organized by the Department of Art and Art History at The University of Texas at Tyler. Internationally known artists, curators, and scholars have served as jurors selecting works for exhibition created by some of the best contemporary artists working today. The Department purchases three to six works from the exhibition each year; purchased works are added to our permanent collection. The permanent collection serves as an educational teaching resource; much of the permanent collection is exhibited throughout the UT Tyler main campus.

Located in the heart of downtown Ashland Virginia, the Hanover Arts & Activities Center (the Center) has long served as a home for artists and cultural activity. In partnership with the Town of Ashland (the Town), the Center invites artists working in various media to apply for a yearlong studio residency program through a juried selection process that will provide affordable, professional studio space to local artists. Through the Town’s support, a portion of each artist’s rent will be subsidized, allowing studios to be offered at a substantially reduced rate.

Arch Enemy Arts is an exhibition space for established, mid-career, and emerging artists from all over the world working in the vast and imaginative movement of new-contemporary art. Founded in 2013, AEA is located in the heart of Philadelphia’s historic Old City district and is dedicated to showcasing the striking and unconventional, highly technical, and delightfully strange. The gallery is currently open for submissions to our annual juried Spotlight Showcase group exhibition programmed for January 2026. This show features new and emerging talent, as chosen and curated by Arch Enemy Arts, with no themes or direction in subject matter allowing applicants to focus on their best personal work.

The City of Wichita invites professional artists and artist teams with a demonstrated history of completing permanent outdoor public art projects to submit their qualifications for a $25,000 public art commission for outdoor murals at O.J. Watson Park. The start of this project is scheduled to begin in late 2025. It is anticipated that the execution of the art will be completed in the middle of 2026. Emerging artists are encouraged to apply.​

Akademie Schloss Solitude is accepting applications for its residential fellowships for the period 2026–2028. International artists, researchers, and cultural professionals from all disciplines will have the opportunity to apply for a six- or nine-month fellowship.

Soul of Artists proudly presents the 3rd Online 2D Art International Exhibition a global call for visionary artists ready to express something real, soulful, and human. All subjects, styles, and techniques are honored and considered: painting, drawing, fiber, mixed media, tapestry, encaustic, one-of-a-kind prints, and any other traditional or non-traditional techniques that produce unique 2D artworks.