Fusion Art invites submissions for the Urban Landscapes 2025 Art Competition for an online exhibition during the month of January 2025.

For this competition, both 2D and 3D artists, worldwide, are invited to submit their best art depicting cityscapes – cities, towns, urban scenes and/or any related metropolitan subjects. All artists, regardless of location or experience, are invited to submit their best representational and/or abstract art and photography. This is the 9th annual cityscapes art competition that the gallery has held.

The Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, valued at $25,000.00, is an acquisitive prize. Finalists in the competition are also eligible to be considered for The People’s Choice Award, valued at $2,000.00 (non-acquisitive). To celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the event, a second acquisitive prize, the PLC Sydney Prize for Arts Education, valued at a minimum of $5,000, will be awarded in 2025.

Arts Letters & Numbers is a year-round Artist Residency providing a creative sanctuary in the historic Faith Mills Complex in rural Upstate New York. The residency fosters an environment of creative urgency and collaboration, offering inspiring spaces like a warm Victorian home, a white barn, and textile mills turned into studios, all surrounded by woods, lakes, and opportunities for connection. Residents have the freedom to shape their workspace and rhythms while engaging in shared meals, bonfire conversations, and community programming, including open studios, workshops, exhibitions, and more. With seasonal residencies lasting 1 to 12 weeks, the program welcomes artists to explore their work and contribute to the inclusive dialogue through proposed projects such as performances or lectures. 

The Neon Heater is a contemporary artist-run space in Findlay, OH with monthly exhibitions of conceptual and installation-based works, contemporary photography and painting trends, video and new media. The Neon Heater are currently seeking proposals for solo artist and small group exhibitions exploring contemporary issues such as identity, the climate, the socio-political landscape, geopolitics, speculative futures, magic and spirituality, fresh starts, and anything in-between that explores, critiques or promotes the present moment.

Artists who are interested in creating artwork that celebrates the sacred nature of Día de los Muertos (DDLM) are invited to submit proposals to create an original artwork for the 2025 community DDLM celebrations. Cheyenne’s DDLM celebrations offer public places to celebrate and a variety of opportunities to learn about the history, traditions, and significance of DDLM.

The Cheyenne Día de los Muertos celebrations are family-friendly and inclusive of all people. Artwork must be appropriate for children. Artists are encouraged to reflect on their own cultural and traditional connections to DDLM when creating their artwork. Artists should be members of a community that celebrates DDLM.

The City of Olathe is seeking large-scale, three-dimensional sculptures or temporary art installations for its Outdoor Sculpture Series. This initiative aims to enhance the city's identity, activate public spaces, and foster community connections through art. Selected sculptures will be displayed throughout Olathe for one year, with a preference for colorful and interactive pieces.

The Artist in Residence (AIR) Program at Recology King County offers a unique opportunity for artists to expand their studio practice by working with reusable resources. Modeled after the San Francisco program, it encourages conservation of natural resources and inspires artists to consider consumption habits, waste disposal, and sustainability. The four-month residency provides artists with a stipend, access to discarded materials, administrative support, and culminates in a public exhibition. Artists are expected to create a body of work using reclaimed materials and engage with the community through their art.

McColl Center's Artist-in-Residence Program is an internationally acclaimed program that serves as a catalyst for artistic growth for emerging and mid-career artists. Artists-in-Residence receive private housing adjacent to McColl Center, a large-scale private studio in our historic building in Uptown Charlotte, curatorial guidance, marketing and PR support, and a generous stipend. While in residency, artists have the freedom to fully focus on artistic research, exploration, and creation while also engaging with McColl Center’s Igniters community and the local creative sector. An Artist-in-Residence at McColl Center is a moment to think big, take risks with your creative practice, and explore ideas within the context of Charlotte.

McColl Center seeks project proposals from local and regional artists. Artists may work in drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, new media, or interdisciplinary practices. McColl Center look for artists who are engaged in research and investigation and who are interested in the healthcare system as both site and subject for their work. Successful proposals will clearly state how the artist’s project will advance the theme of healthcare and healing and actively engage Atrium patients and/or staff. Applicants must be a resident of the Charlotte region.

Seeking inventive artworks that explore the form and conceptual possibilities of the book, including printed and linear, hand-crafted and tactile, abstract and questioning, edition and one-of-a-kind interpretations of what a book is and can be. They are curious about artists’ books, altered books, sculptural books, book objects, and zines. They encourage artists to consider surprising solutions that can unfold on the wall, unfurl from the ceiling, or sprawl on the floor.

Opening Reception: Friday, February 7, 2025, 6:30-8pm

Submit via email to [email protected].
The deadline for submission is 11:59pm EST January 6, 2025

The City of Loveland's Art in Public Places program invites Colorado artists to submit original two-dimensional artworks for a one-year on-loan exhibition at the Loveland Public Library’s Central Galleria. This initiative aims to promote regional artists through public display and provides opportunities for artwork sales. Selected pieces will also inspire collaborative poetry from local poets, enhancing the exhibit's depth and community engagement.

Woman Made Gallery seeks entries in all media by women and non-binary artists worldwide for its 26th International Open, on view in March 2025. Juried by artist and educator, Savneet K Talwar, this open theme encourages entries in any media that explore or challenge conceptual and material boundaries. Please submit up to three images of your work in any media. A general artist statement and short bio are required.

This residency program is designed for fine artists working across discipline, medium and platform. Through online platforms, it aims to deliver a robust, global residency experience. The goal of The Artist Residency Project is to create an inclusive online space where artists can thrive, nurture their practice and build an active, engaged community. Faculty will conduct remote studio visits and discuss each participant's work on an individual basis, as well as facilitate group critiques and reading groups. Alongside these visits, daily activities and ways to connect will keep participants engaged with their community of artists, and a cohort of professional mentors spanning the fields of art, design and contemporary practice.

The Interdisciplinary Residency Programme 2025 is open to those working across the arts, who have urgent projects to address, or require time to focus on a specific area of development in their work. The programme is open to applications from National and International artists, researchers and creative practitioners working across all art forms. This can include, but is not limited to, writers, musicians, architects, producers, dancers, choreographers, curators, designers, educators and researchers.

The Interdisciplinary Residency is an opportunity to spend two weeks of highly focused time with peers working in a broad range of practices and can be a test bed for new ideas and work.

In celebration of Nude Nite's 20th anniversary, the 2025 theme is Nostalgia—a journey through memory. Artists are invited to reflect on the moments, people, and places that have shaped them. Nostalgia is felt in the body: in the lines on our faces, the way we move, and the stories our skin tells over time.

Artists are encouraged to explore how nostalgia shapes identity and the human experience, whether through the vulnerability of the nude form, memory, or the body as a vessel of time and history. While the theme serves as inspiration, Nude Nite embraces a range of perspectives and creative expressions, inviting artists to interpret or diverge from it as they choose.

Each year, the Saltonstall Foundation awards free, stipend-supported, accessible residencies to artists and writers who are residents of New York State and Indian Nations therein. They support artists and writers working in the following disciplines: 
Poetry
Playwriting & Screenwriting (NEW in 2025!)
Photography (film or digital) & Filmmaking
Painting | Sculpture | Visual Arts

A Saltonstall residency is a small community. They strive to provide a quiet, inviting, respectful, and nurturing community for creative individuals looking for uninterrupted time to focus on their craft.

There are just five individuals in residence at a time: one poet, one playwright or screenwriter, one photographer or filmmaker, and two visual artists. Each group of five arrives and departs at the same time.

The Cultural Center of Cape Cod invites artists to submit works for "Botanica 2025," an event where art and nature converge in a five-course dining experience. Selected artworks will be featured during the dinner and in a month-long salon exhibition. The event includes an artist meet-up, VIP cocktail hour, and a luxurious dinner, providing opportunities for artists to connect with collectors and art enthusiasts.

The Hugo Burge Foundation is offering free studios to emerging makers for a period of 12 months. The studios are located in historic buildings set in the beautiful landscape of the Scottish Borders. Springboard tenants will join a larger creative community, including potters, silversmiths, chair-makers, sculptors, and artists visiting on monthly residencies. Tenants are expected to contribute to this community during their time, participating in Open Studios, social events, and offering talks or workshops where appropriate. Affordable accommodation for up to two tenants is available at nearby Fogo Cottage.

The Vera List Center for Art and Politics invites applications for its 2025–2027 Fellowships, focusing on the theme "Matter of Intelligence." The two-year, non-residential fellowships support artists, writers, scholars, and activists whose work critically engages with this theme. Fellows receive a $25,000 stipend, curatorial and professional development support, and access to the Vera List Center's resources. Projects should explore intelligence as a subject with tangible, material implications, considering its manifestations through human cognition, natural processes, or artificial systems.

The City of Olympia is seeking up to 18 loaned sculptures from Washington and Oregon state artists for temporary outdoor display on Percival Landing a popular .9 mile waterfront boardwalk and sculpture promenade located at the tip of the Puget Sound in the shadow of the state Capitol located in Olympia, WA. Selected artists receive a $1,000 honorarium for the one-year loan of their work and are eligible for consideration for the Peoples’ Prize purchase award of up to $10,000, where one sculpture is selected for purchase by public vote and added to the City’s public art collection.
Artists who are Black or Indigenous, people of color, transgender, non-binary, LGBTQ, immigrants, people with disabilities, and women are encouraged to apply.

Jackson Hole Still Works invites artists to submit original artwork for their annual "Spirit of Wyoming" competition. The winning piece will be featured on their vodka bottle label for one year, and the artist will receive a $2,500 prize. Eight finalists will be selected by a jury and showcased during a Virtual Voting Party via Jackson Hole Still Works' social media platforms from January 22-24, 2025. The public will vote to determine the grand prize winner. The original winning artwork will be auctioned to benefit the Wyoming Arts Council.

Nawat Fes offers funded residencies in the ancient medina of Fes, Morocco to U.S. and international creators in multiple disciplines. Hosted by the American Language Center Fes / Arabic Language Institute in Fez, a member of the American Cultural Association, the initiative engages art to cultivate understanding among multifaceted cultures through the exchange of ideas.Nawat Fes hosts two artist residents at one time for funded residencies of two months. They host international creators in multiple disciplines, including Visual and Performance Art, Music, and Literature. Artists receive a stipend of approximately $1200 and have access to multilingual staff support and opportunities for engagement with the wider community of Fes.

All artists 18 and over are invited to submit up to three digital images of original artwork. Original works in oil, watercolor, acrylic, pastel, charcoal, pencil, photography or a mixture of any of the above media are acceptable. Works previously exhibited in the Heartland Artist Exhibition are not eligible for entry.

Accepted artwork must closely represent the quality of the digital images to be included in the exhibition. All work must be matted, framed and wired for hanging; clip frames will not be accepted. Maximum size of the outside frame measurement is 40 horizontal by 40 vertical inches. The Tim Murphy Art Gallery is located inside the Merriam Community Center, please use discretion regarding subject matter (no nudes).

The Roger Tory Peterson Institute in Jamestown, NY, invites artists to submit work for our fourth annual juried exhibition of Art that Matters to the Planet. Art that Matters to the Planet explores the ways in which art and artists can help to shape a more sustainable future. Art that Matters to the Planet: Wild America will coincide with the 70th anniversary of the publication of Wild America: The Record of a 30,000 Mile Journey Around the Continent by a Distinguished Naturalist and His British Colleague, by Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher. We are pleased to announce that Kenn Kaufman will be serving as the juror for 2025.

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

For more info: https://blackboxgallery.com

The Aperture Portfolio Prize is an annual international competition aimed at identifying trends in contemporary photography and highlighting artists whose work deserves greater recognition. Judges seek innovative bodies of work that have not been widely seen in major publications or exhibition venues. The competition is open exclusively to Aperture magazine print subscribers. An early bird discount on subscriptions is available through December 1. The jury for this year's prize includes leaders in the field, such as Noelle Flores Théard, Lucy Gallun, Zack Hatfield, and Mark Armijo McKnight

VisArts invites emerging curators to collaborate with an experienced mentoring curator to develop and present an exhibition at the Kaplan Gallery in fall 2025. This year-long program, starting in January 2025, offers practical, hands-on experience in a community arts organization, focusing on curatorial research, exhibition design, and public programming.

A residency for social justice, human rights and the arts in Ithaca, NY. This residency honors the legacy of anthropologist Dr. Sue-Je Lee Gage, pioneering scholar of Amerasians in South Korea, change maker, beloved teacher and mentor whose talents and interests spanned the fine arts, the humanities, and the social sciences. Scholars, artists, writers, and activists are invited to apply for short-term residencies in her former home in Ithaca, New York, to pursue projects related to the passions and interests that motivated Dr. Gage's work for social justice, human rights and the arts on a broad scale.

In celebration of Nude Nite's 20th anniversary, the 2025 theme is Nostalgia—a journey through memory. Artists are invited to reflect on the moments, people, and places that have shaped them. Nostalgia is felt in the body: in the lines on our faces, the way we move, and the stories our skin tells over time.

Artists are encouraged to explore how nostalgia shapes identity and the human experience, whether through the vulnerability of the nude form, memory, or the body as a vessel of time and history. While the theme serves as inspiration, Nude Nite embraces a range of perspectives and creative expressions, inviting artists to interpret or diverge from it as they choose.

TICKET PERKS: All artists who submit receive complimentary entry.

Rubber City Prints (RCP) is thrilled to invite you to renew your membership and participate in the upcoming Members’ Show, with opportunities to showcase your work around Akron in 2025! (Photo Roller logo credit Tara Segars)
This is the first of many opportunities to exhibit at local organizations beyond the RCP studio. Join in as the year kicks off with an exhibition at Summa Health Gallery at the main building in a busy area right next to a Starbucks.

More information on website. Click 'Learn More'

Portraiture: Unveiling Identity
Juror: Jeff Curto
Prints due: Feb 21, 2025

Portraiture is one of photography’s most profound forms of expression, offering a window into the complex inner lives of individuals. A great portrait doesn’t just capture a likeness—it uncovers the depth, emotion, and history that shape the person in front of the lens.

They invite you to create portraits that transcend the surface, revealing the often-hidden dimensions of identity. They seek work that goes beyond physical appearance to explore the subtleties of emotion, history, and the human experience.
Banner image: Katiana Cordoba

The Holy Art Gallery is thrilled to announce an open call for submissions to their upcoming exhibition in West London, running from January 31 to February 3, 2025. Situated at 62 Wood Ln, London, W12 7RH, just steps away from White City station, this prime location offers high foot traffic and a vibrant atmosphere for showcasing your work to a dynamic audience.

They welcome artists from all over the world to submit their pieces in any medium, including painting, photography, printmaking, video art, installation, film, sculpture, mixed media, poetry, and illustration. The theme of the exhibition, OPEN, provides endless possibilities for creative expression.

Anderson Center at Tower View provides residencies of two to four weeks’ duration from May through October each year to enable artists, writers, musicians, and performers of exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishment to create, advance, or complete work. There are typically 5 residents at the Anderson Center at a time, and the organization hosts approximately 35-40 residents each year. The program is one of the largest of its kind in the Upper Midwest. Since the Center opened in 1995, over 900 artists from 45 states and 40 countries have participated in the program.

Yosemite Renaissance 40 is an annual competition and exhibition that encourages artists to create diverse interpretations of Yosemite National Park and the surrounding Sierra Nevada region. The exhibition aims to inspire new generations to understand, preserve, and protect wild lands and natural places through art. The show opens on March 15, 2025, at Yosemite Gateway Art Center in Oakhurst, CA, and then travels to other art centers in California through January 2026.

Ucross strives to provide a respectful, comfortable, and productive environment, freeing artists from the pressures and distractions of daily life. Each year, they provide residencies to approximately 115 individuals. Residencies range from two weeks to six weeks in length. At any one time, there are up to ten individuals in residence, typically four writers, four visual artists, and two composers. Ucross provides each artist with living accommodations, meals, work space, and uninterrupted time so that the artists can focus on their creative process. Residents are responsible for providing their own working materials and for their travel to Sheridan, Wyoming. There is no charge for a residency. The residency program is open to visual artists, writers, composers, choreographers, interdisciplinary artists, performance artists, and collaborative teams.