"The meeting of land and water is a place of transformation—a space where motion and stillness, power and tranquility, coexist. The Coastal Landscape is a juried photography exhibition that celebrates the varied and dynamic character of coastlines, shorelines, and waterscapes.

This call invites photographic works that convey the beauty, force, and atmosphere of coastal environments, from dramatic seascapes to quiet, contemplative shores. All photographic approaches—traditional, digital, and experimental—are welcome.

Jurors Alissa and Jacob Hessler will select up to 35 photographs for display in the Middlebury, Vermont Exhibition Gallery and an additional 40 for the Online Gallery. All 75 selected works will be featured in the exhibition catalog, archived on the gallery’s website, and promoted across social media platforms with direct links to the artists’ websites."

Pedantic Arts Residency (Pedantic) re-embraces the significant impact that education, study, and structured contemplation can have on artistic output by emphasizing the art world tradition of interconnecting creators, organizers, and critics. Pedantic is an opportunity for exchange and inspiration between 3 such creatives who practice visual art, curating, and writing. It is a unique invitation to open greater and more cross-disciplinary dialogue within the arts where each singular, definitive role becomes part of a collective, exploratory experience.

For FROZEN, they seek photography that captures the distilled essence of winter—its clean lines, soft textures, and silent spaces. Think snow-covered hills at dawn, delicate frost crystals, breath turning to mist, frozen rivers, or the quiet geometry of ice.

Whether stark and minimal or rich with detail, they welcome work that celebrates winter’s ability to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. All photographic approaches are encouraged—black and white, color, traditional, experimental, and everything in between.

They look forward to seeing how you capture the frozen world.

The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) and its Renwick Gallery invites applications to its premier fellowship program, the oldest and largest in American art. Scholars from any discipline whose research engages the art, craft, and visual culture of the United States are encouraged to apply, as are those who foreground new perspectives, materials, and methodologies. Fellowships are residential and support full-time research in the Smithsonian collections. SAAM is devoted to advancing excellence in art history and encourages candidates from all backgrounds to apply. Each fellow is provided a carrel in SAAM’s Research and Scholars Center. There, they have access to the museum’s collection of over 46,500 works, specialized study collections and databases, the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, and an 180,000-volume branch library specializing in American art.

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.

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.

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! 🌟

apexart's Open Calls are opportunities for artists, curators, and other professionals to turn their curatorial idea into an apexart exhibition, combined with inviting apexart’s international community to collectively determine their programming through an online jury process. Winning proposals become part of apexart’s next exhibition season and receive funding and staff support. apexart is not a granting organization-all exhibitions are part of apexart’s programming.