Professional Basics grants fund up to $500 and are for the essentials of an art practice such as quality artwork samples, display/framing, shipping, travel to professional events, website development, etc. Applications are evaluated by measuring the quality of the proposed project, ability to complete project, and relevance based on portfolio.

Creative Projects grants fund up to $1500 and are for creating new work that will culminate in a public event focused on artist’s own work. Applications are evaluated by measuring career altering potential, quality of work, concept, and ability to complete project.

This gift is for visionary artists and creators who draw from deep insights, dreams, and cosmic energy to bring fresh perspectives into the world. They see beyond the obvious, channeling transformative forces to inspire humanity’s growth. Whether artists, entrepreneurs, or innovators, they bridge abstract wisdom with everyday life, creating from the heart with conscious intention. Roze Umbra is a sanctuary and movement for those ready to move beyond surface aesthetics and connect with the vast, invisible consciousness behind true creation. They value vision, originality, authenticity, and long-term impact, supporting artists who craft work that resonates personally and universally. Together, they remember their purpose and build new mythologies through inspired, purposeful creation.

UPWARD Gallery invites artists to submit artwork for the juried online art exhibition, Dreams and Fantasy. This exhibition explores how the subconscious and imagination are refracted through the prism of surrealism and magical realism, how dreams and fantasies reflect the conflict between fate and choice, transformation, personal fears, and desires. UPWARD Gallery welcome submissions from a variety of media, including but not limited to: painting, drawing, digital painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, textiles, and mixed media.

Art Quilt Elements 2026, the 17th International Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Fine Art Quilts. Wayne Art Center seeks submissions for Art Quilt Elements 2026, an international juried group exhibition of contemporary fine art quilts. Selected works will be on display in both the Davenport and Ethel Sergeant Clark Smith Galleries of Wayne Art Center in Wayne, Pennsylvania.


For eight decades, Skowhegan has offered artists the opportunity to engage within an experimental framework based on the idea of sharing knowledge and skills within and among artists. Applications will be accepted from September 1, 2025 through October 17, 2025. During the nine-week program, artists working across all disciplines have the opportunity to live as a community of peers on Skowhegan’s 350-acre campus in rural Maine. Participants dedicate time to their studio practices while engaging in a collective learning process through a variety of skill-sharing and theoretical workshops, group and individual studio visits, performances, lectures, and reading groups.

Of Mark & Meaning: American Women Artists will be exhibited at the Customs House Museum in Clarksville, TN from February 13, 2026 – April 26, 2026. Call for Entries: August 22 through October 17, 2025. Selected artists will be notified October 31, 2025. AWA will award a $10,000 Grand Prize Cash Award in addition to approximately $20,000 in other cash and merchandise awards.

Art Scene West invites artists worldwide to submit work for Modern Media, a curated exhibition celebrating innovative and non-traditional approaches in bringing their visions to life. This exhibition continues our commitment to spotlighting works that push boundaries and intrigues diverse audiences. Selected pieces will be displayed in our gallery in Seaport Village of San Diego, California—America’s Finest City.

If you create with acrylic, spray paint, collage, digital art, resin, wood, mixed media, photography, glass, fiber, or other non-traditional methods, this call is for you. Artists may enter up to 4 works, or a total of 4 images, per submission. Artworks are juried according to their originality, overall quality, and relevance to the exhibition theme, as determined by submitted images, compared to all other submissions.

Grants up to $15,000 are awarded to support new and interdisciplinary research about craft in the United States. The Craft Research Fund is the Center for Craft's first and longest-running grant program dedicated to supporting new and interdisciplinary research about craft in the United States. Since 2005, the program has supported 255 projects in 41 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico by distributing over $1,900,000. In addition to receiving this prestigious award and funding, recipients of the Craft Research Fund will become members of the Center for Craft Alumni Network. This social platform is designed exclusively for current and previous grantees and offers valuable resources, networking opportunities, and ongoing support for craft research.

Springboard for the Arts is seeking artists in Saint Paul to propose modest projects that celebrate the magic of winter in Minnesota. Projects are encouraged to either enhance or reinvigorate existing community winter traditions, or try out entirely new ones – all with the goal to draw people outdoors, bring people together across generations, lift spirits, and highlight the unique beauty of winter. Potential projects might include performances on ice, installations that encourage people to explore nature, experiences that bring brightness to dark nights, creative games or competitions …or anything else that brings warmth, joy, and connection to the coldest season.

PADA Studios is an independent, not-for-profit, artist-led organisation based in Barreiro, on the south bank of Lisbon. The international residency at PADA welcomes applications from artists in a variety of media for a duration of 1 or 2 months. The residency is primarily self led and artists are expected to be self sufficient. The supplementary programme at PADA is designed to introduce artists to the area, to the Lisbon art scene and to encourage dialogue between those in residence. Artists are provided with large studio space and accommodation in a private double bedroom. The international residency hosts 10 artists at a time and the residency as a whole welcomes 13, including the other programmes.

The New Emergence Art Prize 2025 is open to artists worldwide, has no set theme and welcomes all media. They want to champion emerging artists with meaningful recognition.

This year’s awards are as follows:
• £1,000 Main Award
• NG Art Creative Residency: Emerging Artist Award (2 week residency in Provence, France)
• The Staedtler Award (£350+ worth of Staedtler products)
• The Daler-Rowney Prize (£250 worth of Daler-Rowney materials)
• The New Emergence Art Founder’s Prize (£150)
• The GreatArt Prize (£75 worth of GreatArt materials)

Accepted Mediums

Alternative Prints
Digital Art
Photography
Risograph
Giclée
Collage
Multimedia

🎨 What They're Looking For
Work that expands traditional definitions of print
Prints that use experimentation, technology, or material play
Drawings, paintings, and digital works that have been transformed into high-quality prints
Artworks that stand on their own rather than serving as simple reproductions
High Quality Photography, Collage, and MultiMedia

You are invited to enter the 6th annual Martha’s Vineyard Drawing Prize, a competition established to encourage the pursuit of excellence in drawing.

Application Requirements

• Entries may be created using graphite, charcoal, Conté, silverpoint, pen & ink, or other suitable drawing media including colored pencils and chalk.
• Each artist may submit up to 3 works for the $15 fee.
• Categories of drawing can include academic, realistic, contemporary, fantasy, historic, etc.
• This is an online-only competition, so no need to frame or send in your artwork. For that reason, please take your best photos of your artwork.
• Submissions must be entered through Artcall.org by Monday, October 20, 2025 at midnight EST.

The 11th Annual MFA Online Exhibition titled ‘Residue’ is now open for submissions! This international exhibition is organized and juried by graduate students from the University of Montana and Montana State University.

This exhibition provides graduate students the chance to see what their peers are creating, to connect with one another, build their resume and network. Last year, students from more than half of the MFA programs in North America, as well as from eight countries, participated. All visual art mediums are welcome.

Residue
The aftermath of events—whether within the environment, artist studio practice, or one's self—often lingers far longer than the events themselves. Residue is an online exhibition highlighting graduate students from all visual art disciplines, showcasing the ways these experiences shape people and continue to influence the present. This year’s theme encourages exploration of what remains: joy, nostalgia, anxiety, grief, anger, or otherwise—the lasting impressions embedded in people's lives.

Peninsula Art League (PAL) is proud to present the 23rd National Fine Art Show (NFAS), their annual juried art exhibition celebrating excellence in two- and three-dimensional and photo/digital art. This prestigious show (formerly the Open Juried Show) has a long-standing tradition of attracting outstanding submissions from talented artists across the country. PAL invites local, regional, and national artists to submit their work to be juried for exhibition by noted Northwest artist, educator, and curator Cable Griffith. Prizes and gift certificates totaling more than $6,500 will be awarded.

They are seeking three socially engaged artists to each create site-specific works to be displayed outdoors at Norwich Cathedral, in collaboration with people in the communities of three local charities. They invite artists to engage with their Benedictine priorities of hospitality, wholeness and healing, and contemplative learning, to produce art work for temporary installation in parallel with an exhibition on the Rule of St Benedict by the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts (University of East Anglia). Their art works will be displayed from May-October 2026.

Artist Space Gallery announce their third Blue online Art Competition for the month of October 2025. The theme may feature any work that interprets the color blue or its various shades as either a primary or secondary element. All visual art mediums are allowed. In addition to the selected artists, the jury will select award winners in the following art categories: painting, photography, sculpture. All selected artists will receive a digital award certificate. An article about each artist will be displayed alongside the best of show and three winners. The best of show will be displayed on the poster of the exhibition. Judging the artwork will be based on the following criteria: creativity, originality and quality of art, overall design, demonstration of artistic ability, and usage of medium. 

The Lewisham Arthouse Graduate Award is an exciting opportunity providing recent graduates from universities colleges and alternative art education programmes with a free studio space, a mentorship programme and production support for one year. The Graduate Award was started in 2010, to help artists who have recently left art school and were faced with an increasingly expensive and difficult task of continuing to make art. As an artist led cooperative, they understand the challenges of sustaining an art practice in London and decided collectively to dedicate one of their studios permanently as a free space for a recent graduate and to fund the project themselves.

Grey Cube Gallery proudly presents the fifth "Yellow" online art contest for the month of October 2025. Contest is open to all artists worldwide over 18 years of age. The theme may include any work with depiction of the color “Yellow” or shades of Yellow (beige, lemon yellow, canary yellow, golden yellow). All visual art mediums (except video and sound) are allowed. Best of Show artwork will be on the poster of the show. Winning artists (Merit Award & Honorable Mention) will receive a digital award certificate. The deadline to submit entries is the October 23, 2025.

Exhibit your sculpture outdoors in downtown Lafayette, Colorado for one year. Artists who participate in Lafayette's Art on the Street (AOTS) sculpture on loan program tell them that we are one of the best programs they've experienced. They feature each sculpture on its own web page and brochures are printed in English and Spanish. If your sculpture is selected by the Public Art Committee the honorarium is $1,200 for a one year installation. Three additional prizes are awarded each year: the $1000 Jean Mellblom Award for Artistic Excellence; the $500 People's Choice Award; and the $500 Most Inspiring Award.

Each year, BAXTER ST invites emerging lens-based artists living in New York City to apply for the BAXTER ST Residency Program. This residency offers lens-based artists much-needed workspace in New York City as well as access to the BAXTER ST community and programs. Residents shall have the free use of the facilities and equipment at BAXTER ST for the duration of the Residency during respective hours of operation, as well as a materials fee to cover the cost of film, printing, or other costs related to the making of their work. Residents receive a monthly stipend appropriate to our W.A.G.E. certification level during the three months of workspace access, as well as an additional production fee to realize their exhibition.

Be part of Art On Loop & New York Open Art—a global showcase for artists of all styles and mediums! From paintings to video art, poetry to sculpture, this is your chance to shine in the heart of NYC. No theme limits—just pure creative freedom. Show your work in-person or digitally via our cutting-edge displays.

📍 72 Warren St, Tribeca, NYC
🗓 7–10 November 2025

Submit now and share your vision with the world. The Holy Art is waiting! 🌟

The Rollins Museum of Art and the UCF Art Gallery invite submissions for Pathways 2026: The Carlos Malamud Prize. Pathways is a biennial, juried art competition and exhibition for emerging professional artists living in Florida. This edition will consist of a juried selection process resulting in a Summer 2026 group exhibition for the competition’s finalists. All exhibited artists will receive support and networking through a series of events and direct engagement with curators, museum and gallery professionals, faculty, and community to expand their connections in the art community. Participating artists will arrive at Pathways: The Carlos Malamud Prize from a variety of places within the state of Florida, with diverse professional experience, and have dynamic creative research and practice.

City of Lynnwood Arts Commission invite visual artists of ALL AGES who reside in Washington State to apply. Exhibits are held at beautiful City Hall Art Gallery. Artists are juried by the Lynnwood Arts Commission and will be notified by early December. (Youth artists can also apply to exhibit at the Lynnwood Rec Center. See www.LynnwoodArts.org).

Chromatic Awards is an international competition of color photography open to both professionals and amateurs. Participation in the Chromatic Awards offers not only prestige, but also the opportunity to win extra money for the development of passion.

As such, every professional and amateur photographer from every corner of the world is invited and urged to participate in the 8th edition of this international prestigious photographic competition dedicated to color photography where 20 categories will be adjudicated by an international jury composed of magazine editors, gallery curators, professional agents and other industry professionals.

Eastleigh Borough Council is inviting submissions from Artists to develop and deliver a Public Art Commission providing new wildlife habitats. This project aims to use funding available to commission public art providing new wildlife habitats at Tree and Bee Network sites in the villages of Bishopstoke, Fair Oak and Horton Heath.

Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announces the 15th Annual “Open” (No Theme) Online Art Competition.

There is no theme for this open art competition so any subject matter and any media are acceptable for consideration. Both 2D & 3D artists (including photography & digital arts) are invited to submit their best representational and/or abstract art.

Creators from throughout Australia are invited to submit works into subcultures. They are inviting creators to explore the vibrant and often misunderstood world of subcultures, bringing to light the rich tapestry of alternative identities, communities, and expressions that flourish outside mainstream society. From punk and goth to skateboarding and street art, they encourage creators to celebrate the creativity, resistance, and innovation of those who carve out spaces of belonging in subversive ways. Through a mix of mediums including painting, photography, illustration, and collage, subcultures aims to reflect on how fashion, music, political ideals, and shared lifestyles converge to create powerful subcultural identities. They encourage creators to capture the unique aesthetic markers of these groups but also their stories of solidarity, marginalization, and rebellion. subcultures is a tribute to the underground movements that challenge the status quo and enrich the cultural landscape through their bold, alternative visions of community and identity.

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.
Have the opportunity to participate in a Times Square billboard showcase in New York City.
All selected artists will also be featured on their Instagram account (40k+ subscribers).

The magazine is curated by artist Anna Gvozdeva.

Are you ready to showcase your art on a global stage? Divide Magazine, a leading Contemporary Art Magazine, is excited to announce their Open Call for Issue 16.

With a dedicated annual readership of over 86,000+ and a vibrant Instagram community of 22,000+ followers at @dividemag, your work could be seen by thousands of art enthusiasts, collectors, and industry professionals from around the world.

Your work could be featured alongside some of the most exciting emerging and established artists.
Influential Platform: Artists like the Popovy Sisters, Coderch & Malavia Sculptors, Erik Minter, and Annan Affotey have all graced their pages.
Instagram Features: Selected submissions may also be showcased on their Instagram, giving your work even more visibility.

Artists may submit up to 3 artworks per project submission.
You can enter multiple times and in each submission you will have the opportunity to upload 3 items.

UPWARD Gallery invites artists to submit artwork for their juried online art exhibition, Urban Life. This exhibition features artworks exploring themes of city life, such as community, culture, movement, and the complexity of urban landscapes. UPWARD Gallery welcome submissions from a variety of media, including but not limited to: painting, drawing, digital painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, textiles, and mixed media.