The Loppet Foundation is seeking local artists to showcase their work in the Trailhead Gallery, a bright, welcoming space in the Trailhead at Theodore Wirth Park — where art, connection to the outdoors, and community meet. Artists receive full visibility in a high-traffic community space. Priority consideration will be given to local, Minnesota artists.

The Robert & Margaret Carolla Arts Exhibition Center at Missouri State University invites artists to submit work for Under the Current, a regional exhibition of contemporary craft taking place February 1 – March 5, 2027. Under the Current is a juried exhibition serving as a platform for artists from across the Midwest whose work reflects the currents shaping the present moment. The exhibition seeks artworks from artists that explore personal experiences, shared concerns, and broader social and cultural conditions. The goal is to showcase a range of viewpoints and responses that reveal how making can become a way to observe, question, and engage with the world.

Office Space Gallery invites artists to submit work for an upcoming exhibition inspired by Legends of Le Détroit, a collection of early Detroit folklore rooted in the city’s French colonial past.

Contact Office Space Gallery for more information: [email protected]

The Artist In Residence Program (AIR) serves K – 5 students in all six Jamestown elementary schools following the school calendar. Residency options include a fall semester and a winter/spring semester, or both. Artists follow a visual arts curriculum structured on basic design elements working with teachers and administrators. Each rotation requires a completed “Unit Plan” which includes lesson plans or goals, supplies needed, and a section for teacher feedback. The resident artist may use the rest of the day and the weekends for personal studio time, including access to the pottery studio and print shop, and teaching classes at the Arts Center.

Creston Arts is looking for talented artists to show at the Creston Arts Depot Gallery for 2026! Creston Arts Gallery is located on the first floor of Creston's historic Restored Depot, which also serves as Creston City Hall and administrative offices, located prominently at 116 W. Adams St. Gallery exhibits run for one month, with an artist's reception/opening night held on the first Friday of the month.

Project Grants: Art Activities in Public Spaces offer funding to organizations and artists for experiences taking place in spaces like parks and libraries in Marion County. Artists and organizations can apply through January 10 for $2,000–$10,000 to bring arts activities to public spaces across Marion County, with no match required.⁠

Anderson Center’s Early Career Artist Residency Program offers month-long residency-fellowships at Tower View to a cohort of emerging artists from Minnesota or one of the five boroughs of New York City for concentrated, uninterrupted creative time to advance their personal artistic goals and projects. Anderson Center’s Early Career Artist Residency is an ideal fit for early-career artists in need of focused time and dedicated space in an inspiring residency work environment that empowers them take risks, embrace challenges, and utilize unconventional approaches to problem-solving. Selected emerging artists receive a $625/week artist stipend, documentation support, art-making resources, lodging & studio space, a travel honorarium, groceries, and chef-prepared communal dinners.

"The Mary G. Stange Fellowship offers $1,500 to support research conducted by artists, performers, creative writers, playwrights, documentarians, journalists, filmmakers, or any creative working professionally. Projects designed for public engagement will be given preference over projects created for academic or educational purposes.
Week-long fellowships require a one-week minimum residency for full-time library research. Fellows will be selected on the basis of the applicant’s scholarly qualifications, the potential significance of the project, and the need for intensive research in materials unique to the Clements Library."

They invite artists to submit their work for their upcoming group exhibition, Aftertaste.

Aftertaste will explore the relationship between food, culture, memory, labor, ritual, politics, and survival. Inspired by conversations around food as a “sustaining force” — something deeply personal yet profoundly social — this exhibition considers how food operates beyond nourishment: as identity, power, comfort, celebration, resistance, inheritance, and exchange.

We are interested in works that examine the emotional, cultural, and political dimensions of food and eating. How do meals carry histories? How does food reflect systems of class, migration, colonialism, family, care, desire, or community? What rituals, tensions, or memories emerge around the table?

Artists working in all media are encouraged to apply, including traditional and experimental practices. Humorous, critical, poetic, and unexpected approaches are welcome.