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July 01, 2025
2026 EMBRACING OUR DIFFERENCES INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION Seeking submissions for an outdoor exhibition featuring 50 billboard size images and original quotations created by artists and writers reflecting the theme ”embracing our differences.” The exhibition will be on display mid-January through mid-April 2026 in two parks in Florida. Cash prizes totaling $10,000 will be awarded. Call is open to artists and writers of all ages. No Entry Fee. Details: https://bit.ly/4buBi49


April 25, 2025
SDWS 9TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL PLEIN AIR EXHIBITION SDWS 9th Annual International Plein Air Exhibition, Out ‘n’ About, in San Diego Watercolor Society Gallery. Artwork must be painted on location in the spirit of Plein Air. Open to all artists 18 and older. All watercolor, acrylic and gouache mediums presented on paper, synthetic paper, wrapped canvas, or cradled wood panel are eligible. This year’s juror is award-winning artist, Geoff Allen. Entry Fee. Details: 619-876-4550 OR https://www.sdws.org/ OR pleinairshow@sdws.org

April 27, 2025
SUBMERGED: SEA LIFE AND AQUATIC ART This exhibition will plunge viewers into the depths of the ocean through artwork that is inspired by marine life and underwater landscapes. These works will capture the beauty, mystery, and fragility of aquatic ecosystems. From vibrant coral reefs to the edge of an eerie abyss, this show invites audiences to explore the wonders of the deep and reflect on their own connections with the sea. Application Fee. Details: 410-326-4640 OR https://annmariegarden.wufoo.com/forms/submerged-sea-life-and-aquatic-art OR exhibits@annmariegarden.org

April 28, 2025
MEMORIES FROM THE HOUSE Part Crowd Art Gallery seeks entries for an online art exhibition, May 1-31, 2025. We invite artists to submit any artwork that was inspired by their sense of home. Whether good, or bad, a home base shapes the person we become. We will accept artwork in any medium, from any year, and any size you are willing to ship to a potential buyer. Entry Fee. Details: https://bit.ly/41sb13f OR art@partcrowd.com

April 30, 2025
WOW! WOMEN ON WRITING CREATIVE NONFICTION ESSAY CONTEST WOW! Women on Writing is seeking creative nonfiction on any topic (1000 words or less) and in any style–from personal essay and memoir to lyric essay and hermit crab, and more. Electronic submissions via e-mail only; reprints/previously published are okay; simultaneous submissions are okay; multiple submissions are okay. Open internationally. Entry Fee. Details: https://bit.ly/2ma4gSs

April 30, 2025
DIGITAL ART, ASSEMBLAGE AND COLLAGE This exhibition will focus on the various forms of digital art, collage and 3D assemblage. The exhibition will be held at the Limner Gallery from June 19 - July 12, 2025. Entry is open to all forms of digital art, collage, assemblages and combinations thereof. Entry Fee. Details: 518-567-7858 OR https://bit.ly/49lnE1x

April 30, 2025
THE HOMIENS ART PRIZE (INTERNATIONAL) New York, NY (Online). 6 Winners and 12 Finalists Exhibit with Homiens, 200 Highly Commended, $24,000 Awarded Annually, Optional Interview, Letter of Recommendation. All entrants may also apply to our competitive, merit-based Meet the Artists initiative, and to become a Homiens Featured Artist. Entry Fee. Details: https://homiens.com/homiens-art-prize

May 01, 2025
2025 SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY GRANTS Submissions open:15 March 2025 The competition is open to emerging and early-career sports photographers. The 2025 Sports Photography Grants are founded by the Doug Pensinger Photography Fund based in USA. To enter the competition, you must submit 20 sports photographs (action and portrait both accepted). Submissions can only be made through the application process on Picter. No Entry Fee. Details: https://bit.ly/4iSBj4v

May 03, 2025
NUDE:WORKS EXPLORING THE UNCOVERED HUMAN FORM IN CURRENT ART The Cincinnati based non-profit arts organization and gallery, Manifest, invites visual artists and designers to submit original works that address the uncovered human form. Open to any and all traditional and non-traditional 2D and 3D visual arts media. $45 for up to three entries submitted. $5 per each additional entry. Includes honorarium of $50 for each exhibiting artist. Entry Fee. Details: 513-861-3638 OR http://www.manifestgallery.org/nude OR info@manifestgallery.org

May 05, 2025
STILL LIFE 2025 ART COMPETITION Fusion Art announces the 2025 Still Life Art Competition. For this competition, both 2D and 3D artists, worldwide, are invited to submit their best art and photography depicting an arrangement of everyday inanimate objects. Choice of a cash prizes and/or complimentary one-year membership to Fusion Art’s Members Gallery for Best in Show winners. $25 for 1-2 images / $40 for up to 5 images. Entry Fee. Details: https://www.fusionartps.com/calls-for-artists OR info@fusionartps.com

May 11, 2025
FLOWER POWER 2025 VIRTUAL JURIED COMPETITION Call for submissions into our 8th annual competition. We are looking for submissions of all flowers, plant blooms and botanicals. Jurors will be looking quality of work, composition, value, color, technique, depth and overall impact of the art. Artist’s work will be juried into a Virtual Award Exhibition. Cash award, social and art media promotion + much more. All visual arts. (No AI) Entry Fee. Details: https://www.camelbackgallery.com/flowerpower2025

May 13, 2025
$3,500 & $1,000 ARTIST GRANTS The Hopper Prize is accepting submissions for $3,500 and $1,000 artist grants. They will be providing 6 grants totaling $11,000 USD. 2 artists will each receive $3,500 and 4 artists will each receive $1,000. All media is eligible. Additional exposure is available via a 30 artist shortlist, online journal, & Instagram currently reaching over 150k. Entry Fee. Details: https://hopperprize.org

May 15, 2025
BREAKING BOUNDARIES | ABSTRACT ART COMPETITION Push the limits of creativity for a chance to win up to $3,500 in cash prizes and a certificate of recognition. Let vibrant shades of blue, dazzling pink, and crimson red blend with raw emotion in the 14th Abstract International Juried Online Art Competition by TERAVARNA! Here, art breaks all boundaries – 2D or 3D, every medium is welcome. Entry Fee. Details: https://bit.ly/3LnDhM1 OR info@teravarna.com

May 15, 2025
THE 2025 PHOTO REVIEW INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION 40th Annual Competition. Juror: Peter Fetterman. Exhibition on The Photo Review website. Prizewinners exhibited at the Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia. Several thousand dollars in awards including a purchase prize, features on Laurence Miller Gallery’s Picture of the Week and Peter Fetterman Gallery’s The Power of Photography. Full details on our website. Entry Fee. Details: 215-891-0214 OR https://photoreview.org/events/competition OR info@photoreview.org

May 15, 2025
ARTIST RESIDENCIES IN KEY WEST, FL Escape to the Southernmost Point and let Key West inspire your next work. The Studios of Key West offers monthlong residencies to nearly 40 artists each year — visual artists, writers, musicians, performers and interdisciplinary creatives. Residents receive private accommodations, workspace, and the time and space to imagine, create, and connect. Open to emerging and established artists worldwide. Application Fee. Details: 305-296-0458 OR https://tskw.org/pear-program OR info@tskw.org

May 15, 2025
“WATER” 2025 CALL FOR ENTRY ONLINE ART SHOW Colors of Humanity Art Gallery seeks entries for an online art exhibition, June 1-30, 2025. Cash prize for Best of Show. Juror: Janelle Cogan. Theme- “Water” covers 71% of the Earth’s surface and is vital for all known forms of life. 96.5% of the Earth’s crust water is found in seas and oceans. Entry Fee. Details: https://bit.ly/4lEDrPh OR colorsofhumanity@gmail.com

May 18, 2025
SDWS 45TH INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION Open to artists 18 years and older. Paintings must be water-based media (watercolor, acrylic, gouache, casein, or tempera) on paper, synthetic paper, paperboard, wrapped canvas, or cradled wood panel. $20,000 in cash and merchandise anticipated. $6,000 1st Prize. Visit San Diego Watercolor Society website for Prospectus. Exhibition runs 9/28-10/31,2025. Entry Fee. Entry Fee. Details: 619-876-4550 OR https://sdws.org OR ishowinformation@sdws.org

May 18, 2025
GLOBAL PEACE PHOTO AWARD 2025 The competition is open to professional and amateur photographers from anywhere in the world. The Global Peace Photo Award is awarded by Edition Lammerhuber. ” The Global Peace Photo Award recognizes and promotes photographers from all over the world whose pictures capture human efforts towards a peaceful world and the quest for beauty and goodness in our lives. No Entry Fee. Details: https://bit.ly/42oi5hO

May 27, 2025
15TH ANNUAL “LANDSCAPES” ONLINE ART COMPETITION Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announces a call to artists for an online art exhibition, June 1-30, 2025. Best in Show winner will receive a cash prize. Winners receive extensive worldwide publicity and promotion. Jurors: Chris and Valerie Hoffman. Entry Fee. Details: 888-490-3530 OR https://bit.ly/41oS5SJ OR info@lightspacetime.art

May 31, 2025
INTERNATIONAL LOGO DESIGN CONTEST Love First International proudly invites graphic designers from around the globe to participate in the International Logo Design Contest. This unique opportunity allows you to showcase your creativity and join a global competition. Through this festival, artists can contribute to realizing this vision by designing a creative logo. No Entry Fee. Details: 548-468-4346 OR https://lovefirstinternational.com/logocontest OR internationallovefirst@gmail.com

June 12, 2025
CALL FOR ENTRIES: 18TH INTERNATIONAL ARC SALON COMPETITION The Art Renewal Center’s International ARC Salon is the largest competition for representational art in the world with $130,000+ in cash awards and publication, exhibition and sale opportunities. Categories include: Figurative, Portraiture, Imaginative Realism, Drawing, Landscape, Still Life, Plein Air Painting, Fully From Life, Sculpture, Animals, and a special category for teens. Entry Fee. Details: (732) 636-2060 OR https://www.artrenewal.org/arc-salon-application#

June 15, 2025
APPLY NOW FOR A $1,000 ART GRANT! ArtFund.ME is giving unrestricted cash grants to help artists, musicians, and photographers worldwide focus on what matters—creating. $1,000 Grants Every Quarter Open to all styles, mediums & genres Winners get global promotion No complicated hoops. Just support for your creativity. Spring 2025 Applications Open: March 1, 2025 Deadline: June 15, 2025 Winners Announced: July 1, 2025 Entry Fee. Details: https://www.artfund.me/apply OR hello@artfund.me

June 19, 2025
ROYAL SOCIETY OF BIOLOGY PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION 2025 The competition is open to amateur photographers. The Organiser of the competition is the Royal Society of Biology in the United Kingdom. This year’s theme is “Restoring Biodiversity and Habitat”. ” This topic could mean so many things and we would love to see your interpretation. [… No Entry Fee. Details: https://bit.ly/2vBjIv7

June 20, 2025
BIODIVERSITY DRAWING CONTEST 2025 The competition is open to anyone. he competition is organised by the Municipality of Vila Real, Portugal. There are two categories: Scientific drawing and Nature drawing. Illustration / Scientific drawing, which applies concepts and techniques of drawing and elements of descriptive and informative character with scientific accuracy. Entry Fee. Details: https://bit.ly/2pmLOEO

June 20, 2025
EDINBURGH SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2025 OPEN FOR ENTRIES 15th Edinburgh Short Film Festival – Open For Entries All genres will be considered. Maximum duration 25 minutes. Scottish and International films welcomed. Early Bird Deadline: Friday February 21st Entry Fee. Details: https://bit.ly/3Dxmm8r OR edinburghshorts@gmail.com

June 26, 2025
🌸 SPRING * $1,800.00 INNOVATE GRANTS FOR ART + PHOTO SPRING CYCLE OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS — Innovate Grant awards (2) $1,800 grants each quarter, to (1) Artist and (1) Photographer. In addition, (12) honorable mentions (6 in art and 6 in photo), will be featured on our website and join a growing community of vibrant and talented artists. Visit website to apply today. Application Fee. Details: https://innovateartistgrants.org

June 27, 2025
ABSTRACT Part Crowd Art Gallery announces a call to artists for an online art exhibition, July 1 – August 31, 2025. We invite artists to submit any abstract artwork that celebrates one of the most polarizing forms of art. Abstract art allows artists to express their vision in an array of techniques and styles. Abstract art also leaves room for vast interpretation. Entry Fee. Details: https://bit.ly/3XbJz70 OR art@partcrowd.com

June 28, 2025
AMSTERDAM OPEN ART The Holy Art Gallery invites artists from around the world to submit their work for our upcoming open theme exhibition in Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 4-7, 2025. This is your chance to showcase your art to a diverse audience in a prime space with high foot traffic and a vibrant atmosphere. Entry Fee. Details: https://bit.ly/41TASzZ OR submissions@theholyart.com

June 30, 2025
THE YELLING CONTINUES DIGITAL ANTHOLOGY Hello? Can you hear me? Join us for our 2025 mini-digital-publication, a cacophonous collection of creativity in a small package! Theme: NOISE. Submitted work titles will be styled in ALL CAPS. (NOISE is open to interpretation!) No Entry Fee. Details: https://pwritersu.com/submit

June 30, 2025
THE ALMENARA ART PRIZE Artists worldwide are invited to submit entries for a juried art exhibition, held November 7-30, 2025 at Real CÍrculo de la Amistad in Córdoba, Spain. More than 29000€ in cash awards, 16000€ in products and other prizes. Jurors: Peter Trippi, Bryan Mark Taylor, Jeremy Lipking, Amaya Gurpide, etc. Work must be original in concept and execution, and the copyright must be the artist’s exclusive property. Entry Fee. Details: https://bit.ly/407zH09 OR agustina@thealmenaracollection.com

June 30, 2025
SURREAL VISIONS: CALL FOR ENTRIES A thematic exhibition open to all interpretations of the concept, Surreal Visions. Open to all media and styles of surreal, visionary and fantastic art. 72” maximum dimension. The exhibition will be held at the Limner Gallery, September 4 - 27, 2025. Entry Fee. Details: 518-567-7858 OR https://bit.ly/4b0wgvr

June 30, 2025
ONEPLUS PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS The contest is open to smartphone users worldwide. Participants must be adults according to the laws of their country. The contest is organized by OnePlus, a smartphone manufacturer. There are three thematic categories:• Movement: Breathe Each Moment• Night and Low Light: Light Up Your World• Faces: Portray Each Moment All photos must be taken with a smartphones. No Entry Fee. Details: https://bit.ly/4hLRIaD

July 01, 2025
NORTH STREET BOOK PRIZE 11th year, sponsored by Winning Writers. Submit self-published and hybrid-published books up to 200,000 words long. 8 categories including Art Book, Graphic Novel & Memoir, and Children’s Picture Book. $22,000 in cash prizes, including a grand prize of $10,000. Feedback provided to all contestants who submit online. $85 entry fee. Entry Fee. Details: https://winningwriters.com/our-contests/north-street-book-prize OR info@winningwriters.com

July 01, 2025
2026 EMBRACING OUR DIFFERENCES INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION Embracing Our Differences is seeking submissions for an outdoor juried art exhibition featuring 50 billboard size images reflecting the theme “embracing our differences.” The exhibit will be on display January through April 2026 in two outdoor parks in Sarasota and Pinellas counties in Florida. Cash prizes totaling $6,000 will be awarded. No Entry Fee. Details: https://www.embracingourdifferences.org/submit-art-2026-exhibition

August 31, 2025
AESTHETICA CREATIVE WRITING AWARD 2025 The competition is open to anyone. he competition is organized by the Aesthetica Magazine, an international art and culture magazine. There are two categories: Poetry and Short Fiction. Poetry entries should be no more than 40 lines.Fiction entries should be no more than 2,000 words. There is no theme to the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award. You are welcome to submit work on any subject. Entry Fee. Details: https://bit.ly/2LZtJLh

September 5, 2025
ARTS ON THE GREEN The Art Association of Jackson Hole seeks artists for a juried art fair, September 7, 2025 at Center for the Arts Park in Jackson, WY. Artwork must be original, designed and produced by, or under the direct supervision, of the exhibiting artist. No mass-produced or buy-sell artwork or products. Applicants must live in Wyoming or in a state bordering Wyoming to qualify for this show. Application Fee. Details: 307-733-6379 OR https://bit.ly/41pVBMR OR jenlee@artassociation.org

September 8, 2025
WORD PLAY Arc Gallery in San Francisco, CA announces a call to artists for a juried art exhibition, November 15, 2025 – January 10, 2026. $250 check, juror’s award ribbon, certificate, and exhibition catalog awarded to 3 artists. Juror: Jack Fischer. We are looking for artworks that creatively engage with text, whether through words, letters, phrases, or entire narratives. Entry Fee. Details: 415-606-7059 OR https://bit.ly/41r1qtw OR arcexhibit@gmail.com


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