Often, one's experiences are rendered within a neat rectangle: a canvas, screen, or mirror. Deviating from the structural confines of the frame leaves space to sprout life of its own. Gallery 263 invites artists from the United States to submit to A Garden Without a Gate, an national exhibition of art that embraces irregular forms, untamed surfaces, and unconstrained ideas that ask what lies beyond the rectangle’s edge. Artists of all experience levels and mediums are encouraged to apply.

Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center (EHHM) is pleased to announce the 2026 Annual JURIED Exhibition. This competitive exhibition is open for works currently being made by established and emerging artists, 18 years or older. EHHM, 82 N. Broadway, Nyack, NY, is located in the family home of iconic American artist Edward Hopper (1882-1967). The EHHM fuels the creative legacy of one of America's most influential painters through changing exhibitions, education programs, and community outreach. Located just over 30 miles north of New York City in a charming Hudson River village in Rockland County, the EHHM is a major cultural anchor and tourism driver for the Hudson Valley and metropolitan area.

The Umbrella Arts Center of Concord, MA presents its second Ceramics Biennial Exhibition, “Earthworks: Evolution”, a regional show celebrating the depth of history, tradition, and cultural expression in contemporary ceramics, and the ways in which artists continue to expand the field through innovation and reinterpretation. As part of The Umbrella Arts Center's continued commitment to the ceramic medium, we intend for this show to highlight emerging and established artists working in clay. This show invites artists currently residing in New England to honor the skill, knowledge, and diversity of our regional ceramics community.

clay as a primary medium

The Roger Tory Peterson Institute in Jamestown, NY, invites artists to submit work for our fifth annual juried exhibition of Art that Matters to the Planet.

Art that Matters to the Planet explores the ways in which art and artists matter – by drawing us into a deeper relationship with nature, opening hearts and minds to the critical challenges of our time and inspiring us to the solutions we need to address those challenges.

Each year, the theme for this exhibition draws inspiration from the work of Roger Tory Peterson, typically his series of field guides. Our 2026 theme, inspired by A Field Guide to Wildflowers, is titled Art that Matters to the Planet: Beyond Beauty. This exhibition will focus on flowering plants across the country and what they can teach us through the dual lenses of science and art. More than just a pretty face (Stamen? Pistil? Calyx?), flowers play vital roles ecologically, biologically, culturally and spiritually.

Site:Brooklyn is looking for contemporary artists who continue to investigate blue's emotional power and cultural role—from its associations with technology and screens to its role in discussions of climate, water, and the natural world. They are looking for artworks across all mediums that explore why blue remains one of art's most compelling colors.

The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program awards rent-free studio space to 17 visual artists for yearlong residencies. The program is in the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, home to art galleries, independent restaurants and shops, and creative professionals. Studios are near public parks, the city waterfront, and many forms of transit. Artist studios are accessible 24/7, include freight and passenger elevator access, and high ceilings. The 2026–2027 Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program residency period will last from September 2026 through August 2027, with an open studios weekend planned for the spring of 2027. The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program has provided working studio space and community for artists since 1991. Artists are selected annually based on merit from a competitive pool of applicants by a professional jury comprised of artists and members of the Artists Advisory Committee.

Emmanuel's Artist-in-Residence program supports a diverse group of artists, providing time and space for established and emerging artists to develop their work.

The Emmanuel College Art Department offers a six-week artists residency to four artists each summer from early-June to mid-July.

The Art Department specifically aims to award a residency to one individual from each of the four categories: Ceramics, Photography, Printmaking and Social Practice. Fostering creative and artistic excellence, the residency also plays an important role in advancing the visual arts in the Emmanuel community.

The residency defines Emmanuel College as a leader in the visual arts and brings greater visibility to that leadership role beyond the confines of the College.

The Provincetown Compact announces the 2026 dune shack residency applications are now open. The Compact is pleased to offer residences for C-Scape and Fowler Dune Shacks in the Cape Cod National Seashore, available April through November for the general public with applications due January 15, 2025. The Compact also offers three, 3-week artist and two writer residencies including a residency for an emerging artist of color, named for the late David Bethuel Jamieson, a Black artist who spent time in Provincetown and died of AIDS in 1992. The top recipient of this residency will receive three funded weeks in the C-Scape Dune Shack and a $500 fellowship. Another 3-week stay also includes a $500 fellowship. Artist residents are selected by a jury.

University of Bridgeport's Schelfhaudt Gallery is seeking artists' interpretations for this themed exhibit: Winter in America. This will be a juried show with first, second, and third best of show recognition. Multiple media, painting, poetry, sculpture, video formats will be accepted. The gallery can accommodate larger pieces of work. What does the phrase “Winter in America” conjure up in your mind? Robert Frost's Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening? Or perhaps the more metaphorical, dystopian view from poet Gil Scott Heron of a period of frozen dreams, frozen ideas, and frozen inspiration? Or a cultural decline, political malaise or chilling of free speech? The seasons can reflect the march of time or signify an eternal natural cycle.

Sculpture Space offers two-month funded residencies for sculptors in a historic industrial studio complex in Utica, New York. Artists receive free housing, semi-private studio space, and access to a 5,500 sq. ft. fabrication environment designed for ambitious, experimental work. Each year, 20–25 artists from around the world join a collaborative and supportive community to participate in an informal Works-in-Progress event. A panel of arts professionals selects artists for the originality, clarity, and potential of their work and proposal. Diverse practices and artists working in material, spatial, and socially-engaged sculpture are encouraged to apply.