The City of Westminster’s Sculpture on Loan Program provides memorable outdoor art experiences in Historic Westminster and Downtown Westminster. The Vicky Bunsen Sculpture Garden, located in Historic Westminster, is a community jewel that contributes to the cultural identity of the Historic Westminster Arts District. The Downtown Westminster Art Walk is a new feature of the downtown area and provides a walkable experience that connects with the city's Fuse Box Art Gallery and other art installations in the downtown area.

Since 1976, Birds in Art has showcased the remarkable talents of more than 1,100 international artists, who have presented their best work interpreting birds and related subject matter. It has made its place as the exhibition recognized globally as setting the standard for avian art. The Woodson Art Museum again invites artists working in all mediums excluding photography and documentary to submit original two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and time-based media artworks for jury consideration for Birds in Art 2025, the milestone 50th annual exhibition, on view September 6, 2025 through January 4, 2026.
Participation fee $150.

Holyoke Paper Festival is a celebration of arts and culture recognizing the historic significance of Holyoke, MA as The Paper City. HPF will hold a one-day exhibition of fine art and feature tours, workshops, and more.

Artists making work in, on, about, or of paper are encouraged to submit 1-3 works that highlight the significance and possibilities of paper. Proposals for workshops, talks, etc. are also open

$30 for 3 works.

This exhibition is open to any media. Artists must be over 18, not currently enrolled in an undergraduate program, and reside in the U.S.

All work must be original. Collaborations are accepted. Any media is accepted, though should strongly related to the theme.

The FiKVA Foundation proudly presents the 3rd International FiKVA Award for Representational & Figurative Painters—a remarkable opportunity for artists worldwide to gain international recognition, share their talent globally, and earn substantial financial rewards. Best of all, the entire
process is online—no need to ship your work or part with it!

Submit your best paintings from the past two years for a chance to win up to €5,000 in cash, premium art supplies, a 6-month gallery representation or be featured in a celebrated online exhibition! The International FiKVA Award for painters is open to all artists 18 years of age or older.

The Hambidge Center is situated on 600 forested acres in the mountains of north Georgia and offers miles of nature trails, meadows, waterfalls, a swimming hole and an abundance of wildflowers. The oldest residency program in the Southeast, Hambidge provides a self-directed program that honors the creative process and trusts individuals to know what they need to cultivate their talent, whether it’s to work and produce, to think, to experiment or to rejuvenate. Residents’ time is their own; there are no workshops, critiques, nor required activities. Each resident is given their own private studio which provides work and living space with a bathroom and full kitchen. The studios are designed to protect residents’ time, space and solitude.

The Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grants (AWAW EAG) provides grants of up to $20,000 to environmental art projects led by women-identifying artists in the United States and US Territories.

The AWAW EAG supports environmental art projects that inspire thought, action, and ethical engagement. Projects should not only point at problems, but aim to engage an environmental issue at some scale. Proposals should illustrate thorough consideration of a project’s ecological and social ethics. Projects that explore interdependence, relationships, and systems through Indigenous and ancestral practices are encouraged to apply.

Twelve winning images will be professionally printed, matted, and framed at no cost to the photographer. Each print will be displayed and offered for sale for one month at the gallery between June 2025 and May 2026. Your winning photographs will be promoted on ViewPoint's website, newsletter, and social media channels. The 12 winners will have the opportunity to become Virtual Associates of the Gallery, with a free profile page on their website for one year (June 2025-May 2026).

The FiKVA Foundation proudly presents the 3rd International FiKVA Award for Representational & Figurative Painters—a remarkable opportunity for artists worldwide to gain international recognition, share their talent globally, and earn substantial financial rewards. Submit your best paintings from the past two years for a chance to win up to €5,000 in cash, premium art supplies, a 6-month gallery representation or be featured in a celebrated online exhibition! The International FiKVA Award for painters is open to all artists 18 years of age or older. The FiKVA Award is open to all styles of representational painting—modern and classical realism, imaginative realism, hyperrealism, photorealism, luminism, surrealism etc – as long as the artwork reads as representational and not stylized or abstract.

Underdonk is thrilled to announce their Summer Solo open call! The selected artist or collaboration will receive an NYC solo show in their Lower East Side gallery for two weeks. The run of the show will be July 18-27, 2025. They are looking for artists who have an exhibition concept ready! This exhibition opportunity is perfect for experimental and interdisciplinary work that activates the space and fosters cultural dialogue. In addition to choosing one solo exhibition, Underdonk members will also promote their top ten picks from the application process and post them on their social media platforms. Open to professional working artists only. Currently enrolled students are not eligible to apply.

The Attleboro Arts Museum, a prominent cultural institution between Boston and Providence, invites U.S. artists to submit work for its 2025 National Juried Exhibition, Reign, Rain, Rein. Open to all mediums and interpretations, the exhibition challenges artists to explore themes of power, weather, and restraint. Submissions might depict a reign of terror, heavy downpours, or control and discipline. Artists may reference The Queen of Hearts, the end of a drought, or an equestrian maneuver. Works could examine authority, climate change, or redirection—potentially merging all three concepts. Selected pieces will be displayed from June 14 to July 11, 2025.

All the Fixins: Artists from the South is a juried exhibition showcasing the phenomenal artistic talent of artists living and working in the South. All the Fixins will be on view at the Reeves House Visual Arts Center in Woodstock, GA from May 15, 2025 - July 12, 2025. Guest jurors will review artist submissions to determine which work will be shown and which artworks will receive awards. An opening reception will take place on Thursday, May 15th from 6:00pm - 8:00pm, which is when award recipients will be announced.

🌟 Call for Digital Art Submissions – Athens Exhibition! 🌟

Exciting news! Their gallery in Athens is now welcoming submissions for digital exhibits—open to all artists and all mediums: painting, photography, video art, printmaking, sculpture, and even poetry!

🎨 No fee to apply – only pay if selected.
📽️ Selected works will be featured on their rotating digital screens—an ever-evolving exhibition!
💳 Flexible payment options available, including instalments.

📅 Exhibition Dates: 25 April - 3 May 2025
⏳ Submission Deadline: 19 April 2025

Get creative and submit your work today! 🚀

The Arts Council Korea (ARKO) has launched a new International Art Studio program for 2025 to promote global artistic activity and cultural exchange.

CO.LABS Art Residency project is intended for skilled artists as well as for creative people who are at the beginning or their artistic process. Project is open for various art forms – visual arts, fine art, multimedia arts or others. Anyone who agrees with co.labs' code of ethics is eligible to apply. You will get networking with other artists who will be in other residencies at co.labs - performing arts, marketing, technics and mentoring support established Brno. Costs covered by the organization: Space, technical support, production, PR. Costs covered individually by artists: Travel expenses, food, accommodation.

The COAL Prize 2025 dedicated to fresh water is a call to fight against the drying up of the sensitivities towards WATER, to elevate it to its rightful place at the heart of general attention, to rehabilitate it in its symbolic and sacred prerogatives, to consider it as the ally and partner of existence. The winning artist of the COAL Prize will receive €12,000 and a creative residency. The winning artist of the Special Jury Prize receives
3,000 euros. The winner of the Ateliers Médicis award will benefit from a residency in Clichy-sous-Bois and Montfermeil, in association with the Bondy regional forest. The winning artist in the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles/ Paris aka le vaisseau award receives 2,000 euros and will be invited to exhibit at the Paris institution.

Field Projects (NYC) is teaming up with In Situ Polyculture Commons, an arts residency and eco-cultural catalyst (Southeastern Vermont) to offer their inaugural 2025 Solo Show & Residency Fellowship. This opportunity includes a 2-4 week art residency in Vermont, plus a 5-week solo exhibition for an individual artist or collaborative group of up to 4 people, as well as a stipend of $1000 to be used as the artist sees fit. They are two artist-run organizations, and for their first-ever collaboration, they have created a fellowship opportunity that they would want!

Bowery Gallery in New York, NY announces a call to artists for a juried art exhibition, August 5-23, 2025. Juror: Elisa Jensen. Eligible: two-dimensional media including painting, drawing, printmaking, pastel and mixed media. Sculpture, photography and digital art are not eligible. Work may not exceed 36" in height or width, excluding frame.

Introducing Art Collide’s "Open Theme”, Spring 2025, international competition and online exhibition. This competition is open to artists of all ages internationally with no restrictions on media or style. The theme for this competition is “Open”; participants are free to create and submit artworks based on any subject matter or theme of their choice. Only artists whose work is selected as finalists must pay the $35 participation fee. Finalists will have their work exhibited online and move on to the final round of Jurying in consideration for cash prizes and the opportunity to win the grand prize of $1,000.

On view at the Palo Alto Art Center June 21-August 17, 2025

The Palo Alto Art Center encourages submissions relating to the theme of functional ceramics by artists throughout Northern California.

From the daily rituals of shared meals to the grandest celebrations, food and functional ceramics weave the fabric of the human experience. These objects become a powerful expression of cultural heritage and personal identity. They find that food does more than fill plates—it fills the need for belonging, understanding, and shared experience.

This exhibition will explore the artistry of functional ceramics and its power to nourish both body and spirit, building bridges of understanding through the universal language of shared meals.

Artworks should be completed pieces.

View Art Center in Old Forge NY seeks works of art in all media exploring the theme of The Book as Art. For more than five centuries, mass-produced books have connected humankind at an unprecedented scale through the power of shared ideas, inspiration, imagination, and information. The Book as Art will feature works that repurpose, reference, and reimagine this ubiquitous form, inspired by content, history, and physicality. This call is open to all media. Artists may submit up to 3 pieces. The Book As Art will be open in View's 1 largest gallery from May 24, 2025 - July 27, 2025. Deadline for entry is April 25, 2025. Work to be received at View by May 16, 2025.

The Nancy Fyfe Cardozier Gallery is committed to student growth, exhibiting works of emerging and established artist, and serving the Permian Basin community. Their program allows students to engage directly with artists through hands-on workshops, lectures, and studio visits. Prints: All artworks must be original works of art. Submissions must utilize a form of traditional hand printed media as their primary technique. Artwork submissions may include but are not limited to: monoprint, monotype, screen print, etching, engraving, drypoint, photopolymer, photogravure, collagraph, stone lithography, plate lithography, woodcut, linocut, and letterpress. Ceramics: Ceramics based installations will be considered if they include the use of traditional hand-built or wheel thrown artwork. Artists must be present during installation.

The LUX Center for the Arts, Lincoln's community art center located in Lincoln, NE, is looking for artists to present exhibition applications for the fiscal year beginning in summer of 2025.

Each year the LUX opens up the opportunity for artists to submit exhibition proposals for review. A group of selected jurors from the staff, committee and community, will review all applications and proposals.

Selected artists will be contacted to discuss timing and details of their potential inclusion. Artists may be selected to show their work as an individual artist, or may be contacted to show their work in a group show with other selected artists.

The Big Gay Art Show is a juried art show that exhibits and sells artwork in support of the LGBTQ+ community and allies. The Big Gay Art Show is a much anticipated, well attended exhibition open to all artists in any medium and of any level. In 2012, the Big Gay Art Show was conceptualized by a small group – some connected to SAC and others in the Sedona Pride organization. The event began as an effort to offer the LGBTQ+ community a voice in the local art scene. Since that first show, SAC has welcomed hundreds of emerging and professional artists to Sedona to share their work throughout the history of the event. All art mediums will be accepted.

Visual Art Journal is a magazine that selects and publishes works of talented emerging artists.
Magazine features up to 120 elegantly designed pages, printed on high-quality paper and is distributed worldwide.

Artists are encouraged to submit their work. Submission is free for all applicants.
Submissions are open to artists from any country who are 18 years and older. All forms of visual art are accepted.

Selected artists will be featured in both the print and digital versions of the magazine.
Chosen artists will receive a free digital copy of the magazine (in PDF format) and photos of their physical magazine pages.
All selected artists will also be featured on our Instagram account (50k+ subscribers).

The magazine is curated by artist Anna Gvozdeva.

The photographic, digital and video works that will be selected for the collective exhibition scheduled for July 2025 and curated by LoosenArt will be focused on the theme of rites. The rite is understood as a recurrent practice, conducted with seriousness and commitment through a prescribed procedure that gives it validity. This call is open to works related to ritual practices that testify to its wider functions, from sacred to social ones, and from the family-biographical to psychological and introspective ones.

CollexArt invites artists to submit work for the CollexArt Grand Prize 2025.

Open Theme. All mediums are welcome, including but not limited to painting, sculpture, photography, mixed media, digital art (except sound and video).

SlowArt Productions presents the group exhibition, Digital Art, Assemblage and Collage III. This exhibition will focus on the various forms of digital art, assemblage and collage. The exhibition will be held at the Limner Gallery from June 19 - July 12, 2025. All digital and collage art forms including digital photography, digital collage, hand cut paper collage, combinations thereof and assemblages will be reviewed and considered.

Hosted by the Gateway Museum at the Red Barn Preserve
Date: May 25, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
The Gateway Museum is thrilled to announce the 5th Annual Arts and Crafts Festival! They’re inviting craft vendors to join them in celebrating creativity and craftsmanship over Memorial Day Weekend. With a goal of featuring 50 vendors, this year’s festival promises to be bigger and better than ever.
Vendor Details:
• Booth Space: 10 ft x 10 ft
• Fee: $80 per space (non-juried)
• Deadline: Payment is due by May 1, 2025
• Vendors are responsible for providing their own setup, including tents, tables, and other equipment.
To reserve your space:
Contact them at [email protected].

Art on the Avenue (AOA) is Manitou Springs’ public art program, administered by Creative Alliance Manitou Springs (CRANE). Each year, they display new rotating sculptures, place new murals, and work to increase Manitou’s public art collection. In 2025, CRANE will install 4 sculptures on 2-year contracts, as well as 2 permanent murals.

2025 marks the first year the exhibition will be hosted by the Oklahoma State University Museum of Art. The Cimarron National Works on Paper is a testament to the history of printmaking at OSU, their current educational initiatives, the diverse holdings of works on paper in the OSU Museum of Art’s collection, and an expression of OSU's enduring commitment to works on paper and contemporary practice. $2,000 will be available for purchase awards. Purchased work will be added to Oklahoma State University Museum of Art permanent collection. Awards will be selected by the juror. Oklahoma State University Museum of Art will pay up to $150 of return shipping costs, the balance will be the responsibility of the artist.

"Fraser Valley Arts is excited to announce the 5th Annual Plein Air @ Altitude, taking place Saturday, August 22 – Sunday, August 31. This beloved event has welcomed juried artists from across the country, facilitated the sale of over 80 paintings, and provided a stunning fall painting experience across Grand County, including private ranches, Winter Park Resort, Grand Lake, and Rocky Mountain National Park.

For 2025, the event continues to grow with increased prize amounts, expanded sales opportunities through Fraser Valley Arts events, and the option to bring a studio painting to the show. Artists will also enjoy more time to connect and socialize, along with new optional painting opportunities throughout the year."

The 2025 Fraser Mountain Mural Festival is presented by the Town of Fraser and the Fraser Public Arts Committee (Fraser PAC). August 1-3, 2025, artists will compete for awards and recognition by producing their best work on 8ft x 8ft primed panels. Mural locations are scattered throughout our downtown businesses and open spaces. Each accepted artist will receive a $600 stipend to help with expenses.

Fusion Art announces the Leaves & Petals 2025 Art Competition.

For this competition, both 2D & 3D artists, worldwide, are invited to submit their best representational and/or abstract art and photography depicting flowers, leaves, herbs, plants, shrubs, bushes, hedges and other botanical or floral subjects.

Remagine Art Prize is an environmental art prize dedicated to bringing awareness of environmental challenges such as waste and consumption. Held in partnership with the Hornsby Art Society since 2009, Remagine Art Prize is delivered and sponsored by Hornsby Shire Council. This year’s theme ‘RE:THINK TO RE:PURPOSE’ refers to the decisions we make each day about how much waste is created, and how materials can be reused to help save precious natural resources. The extraction of raw materials, production, transport, and consumption directly affects the environment, including native wildlife, aquatic species, and birdlife. Artists are asked to submit works that relate to this year’s theme. This non-acquisitive prize is open to Australian residents aged 18 years and over, with total prizemoney of $11,000.

Indiana University Kokomo invites you to participate in their 2023-2025 juried, on-loan, outdoor sculpture exhibit on the Kokomo, Indiana campus. Selected artists must be willing to enter into an Art Loan Agreement with IU Kokomo and will be awarded an honorarium of $2000 per piece. IU Kokomo is a regional campus of Indiana University with a vibrant arts program and extensive art collection. They have installed sculpture pads on our beautiful Kokomo campus to display public sculptures on a rotating basis. The third installment of this exhibit will be from July 2025 through July 2027.