Various competitions with an open call for artists of any medium or genre, gathered from various sources. Let’s spread the word about the art community and be actively engaged with the public. Setting people’s imaginations free is our job as artists!

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But Once A Year: Holiday Art Market

Entry Deadline: Rolling

Event Dates: 11/20/21 – 12/31/21

But Once A Year: Holiday Art Market seeks to display and sell works of art from any style with the primary focus being on sales, particularly end of year during the period between Thanksgiving and Christmas.  Works do not have to express a specific holiday or holiday themes (although this is acceptable), but should be unique art and/or craft items that shoppers would consider purchasing as gifts, and set at affordable prices for casual art buyers.  Authentic reproductions, prints, and works that can be sold in multiples will also be accepted for this opportunity.

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Masterclass: Build A Body of Work 2022

Contact Email: info@firstpersonartist.com
Call Type: Workshops
Eligibility: International
State: California
Entry Deadline: 1/27/22

This six-month master class is designed to help artists hone their vision in creating a cohesive body of work and articulate that vision to the world. The curriculum features recorded lectures on creativity, time, intention, flow as well as bi-monthly live sessions each month in a group setting. The Masterclass artists also gain access to Fireside Chats and live critiques Q & As with artists, curators, publishers, and other art professionals all in the service of helping them nurture their work and how they present it outwardly beyond the art itself.

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RFQ for Public Art: City of Davis F Street Wall

Call Type: Public Art
Eligibility: Regional
State: California
Entry Deadline: 1/28/22

This public art piece will be the final phase of a recent transportation improvement project that includes a new multi-use path that extends from the Southwest corner of the recently developed “Cannery” neighborhood, under the Covell Boulevard overcrossing at the railroad tracks and then up to the existing path on the south side of Covell Boulevard. The improvements include a new connection on the east side of the overcrossing from the existing path to the Cannery development with ADA access, retaining walls and lighting design.

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Spooky Camp

Call Type: Exhibitions
Eligibility: International
State: California
Event Dates: 3/5/22 – 4/1/22
Entry Deadline: 1/28/22

The tools of humor and fear, when used together, can speak to truth in poignant ways. This will be an exhibit of art that is influenced by that notion. One way to look at this is that some of the best horror movies are not only spooky but also very campy. This is probably because they try so hard to be scary that they become funny. Can visual art strike that same balance between dark subjects and absurdity? You are invited to shine a light on the spooky dark corners of your practice, invite us to your Spooky Camp.

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Neoteric Abstract X

Entry Deadline January 31, 2022

SlowArt Productions presents the tenth Neoteric Abstract exhibition. This exhibition is exclusively for the abstract artist and will represent a full range of abstraction, from the geometric to the lyrical, from the precise to the raw. Entry is open to all artists working in any media. The exhibition will be held at Limner Gallery,  April 7 – 30th, 2022. There will be a $500 cash award presented to one artist.

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Call for Sculpture – Percival Plinth Project 2022

Call Type: Exhibitions
Eligibility: Regional
State: Washington
Event Dates: 6/20/22 – 6/16/23
Entry Deadline: 2/1/22

The City of Olympia is seeking up to 18 loaned sculptures from Washington and Oregon state artists for temporary outdoor display on Percival Landing, a waterfront park at the southernmost end of the Puget Sound in view of the state capitol located in Olympia, WA. Selected artists receive a $1,000 honorarium for the one-year loan of their work and are eligible for consideration for the Peoples’ Prize purchase award of up to $10,000, where one sculpture is selected for purchase by public vote and added to the City’s public art collection.

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A New World—Women to Watch 2024

Call Type: Exhibitions
Eligibility: Regional
State: Missouri
Entry Deadline: 2/1/22

This seventh installment of Women to Watch invites close explorations of self-identifying women artists envisioning a different world. Given the extraordinary events of 2020 including a global health pandemic, intense calls for social reform, and unprecedented political division, artists conjure and express visions of a new world. Optimistic or discordant, fantastical or believable, artists have always had a hand in visualizing what could be and, in hard times, have often provided hope—or warning.

Visualizations of different worlds can be figurative or abstract and just as there is no single vision for the future, there is no particular media associated with the art created to envision it. Works in Women to Watch 2024 may be in any medium including, but not limited to, painting, sculpture, print, drawing, photography, film, digital, installation, and sound.

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City of Loveland – TAAP 3D Sculpture On Loan Program

Call Type: Public Art
Eligibility: National
State: Colorado
Entry Deadline: 2/1/22
Days remaining to deadline: 15

The City of Loveland Art in Public Places Program seeks outdoor sculpture to be placed in Downtown Loveland as part of The Art Advocacy Project (TAAP). Sculptors are encouraged to be a part of this one-year sculpture exhibition scheduled from May 2022-May 2023. Selected artists will be awarded an honorarium of $2,000. The installed artwork may be available for sale.

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University of Louisiana Monroe

Eligibility: National
State: Louisiana
Entry Deadline: 2/12/22

Founded in one of the State of Louisiana’s most attractive areas, The University of Louisiana Monroe (ULM) is a comprehensive, state-funded institution of higher education. ULM offers high-quality educational and experiential opportunities to meet the academic, cultural, vocational, social, and personal needs of undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education students.

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No Man’s Land – Juried Competition and Group Exhibition

Call Type: Competitions
Eligibility: International
State: California
Entry Deadline: 2/13/22

This call is open to all Female and Female Identifying artists.
 

Cutting edge Hermosa Beach gallery is looking for the best working Female and Female Identifying artists to feature in an upcoming group exhibition at ShockBoxx Gallery at the beginning of March, 2022. The top artist submissions will win a Cash Prize, as well as receiving Featured Wall Space in the exhibition. The Theme of this call is geared towards highlighting the Female Experience. This can include (but is not limited to) how one identifies as a female, current female social injustices, activism, motherhood, and sexuality. We are looking for your best work. Bring it ladies!

Artworks will be judged based on creativity, originality, quality of work, composition, and overall artistic ability.

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Works on Paper 2022

Call Type: Exhibitions
Eligibility: National
State: New Jersey
Event Dates: 4/16/22 – 5/30/22
Entry Deadline: 3/1/22

“Works on Paper” 2022 is the 24th Annual National Juried Competition and Exhibition at the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Long Beach Island, New Jersey. Works on Paper can include but is not limited to Drawing, Painting on Paper, hand pulled Prints, Photographic Prints, Digital Works on Paper, and Paper constructions that can be wall hung. The Juror will select 65 artworks to be on display in our spacious Gallery.

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Fantastic Fibers 2022

Call Type: Exhibitions
Eligibility: International
State: Kentucky
Entry Deadline: 3/1/22

Yeiser Art Center is now accepting entries for the FANTASTIC FIBERS 2022 international juried exhibition. One of Yeiser Art Center’s most engaging and innovative international exhibitions, FANTASTIC FIBERS seeks to showcase a wide range of outstanding contemporary works related to the fiber medium.

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