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SPRING * $1,800.00 Innovate Grants for Art + Photo

Deadline : Jun 26, 2025 Awards: Innovate Grant awards: + 1 x $1,800.00 Grant to a Visual Artist + 1 x $1,800.00 Grant to a Photographer + 12 x Honorable Mentions

SPRING 2025 OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS — Innovate Grant is thrilled to introduce our newly increased award amounts of $1,800.00. ➤ ➤ ➤ Innovate Grant awards (2) $1,800.00 grants each quarter, to one Visual Artist and one Photographer. In addition, (12) honorable mentions (6 in art and 6 in ph...
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The Holy Art Gallery - Amsterdam Open Art

Deadline : Jun 28, 2025

Our Amsterdam event is the perfect opportunity for you to showcase your art to the world. Our annual event offers discounted rates for artists to showcase their work.. This is a unique chance to have your art seen by people from around the world! We’re inviting artists from around the world ...
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SlowArt Productions / Limner Gallery - Surreal Visions: Call for Entries

Deadline : Jun 30, 2025 Awards: Exhibition and promotion at the Limner Gallery

Surreal Visions is 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 5 - 28, 2024....
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PH21 Gallery presents: Stories: Narrative Photography – A Curated International Photography Exhibition, August 23 – September 16, 2025

Deadline : Jun 30, 2025 Awards: One curator's choice and three honourable mentions

While photography is popularly associated with capturing the moment, it has always been a sensitive medium of storytelling as well. Looking at a photograph may allow for an understanding of much about the past that has led up to the moment frozen in time; it may also enable the viewer to imagine the...
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June PleinAir Salon Online Art Competition

Deadline : Jun 30, 2025 Awards: $2,250 per month, over $50,000 annually

The PleinAir Salon Online Art Competition has 11 monthly cycles, is open to a variety of mediums and styles, and not just for plein air painters! All monthly winners are included in the Annual Competition where the Grand Prize winner receives $15,000 and has their painting featured on the cover of P...
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2026 Embracing Our Differences International Art Exhibition

Deadline : Jul 01, 2025 Awards: Cash prizes totaling $6,000

Seeking submissions for a juried exhibition based on the theme “embracing our differences.” On display mid-January through mid-April 2026 in two outdoor parks in Florida. Open to all ages....
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Black Box Gallery - Dynamic: Shadow and Light

Deadline : Jul 11, 2025

Black Box Gallery is excited to announce a juried group photo show on shadow and light. Photography is the documentation of patterns of darkness and light. Shadows enhance the relationships of subjects in an image, they give definition and dimension, which complements the quality of the light values...
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PhotoPlace Gallery - The Coastal Landscape

Deadline : Jul 14, 2025 Awards: 35 images for the Exhibition Gallery, and 40 more for our Online Gallery. Distinctions for Juror’s Award, Director’s Award, and Honorable Mention

The Coastal Landscape. Deadline for submissions: Jul 14, 2025. Juror: Jacob and Alissa Hessler. Prints due: Aug 22, 2025. Exhibition: September 5 - September 26, 2025. The meeting of land and water is a place of transformation—a space where motion and stillness, power and tranquility, exist...
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Woodson Art Museum Artist Residency Open Call

Deadline : Jul 15, 2025

The Woodson Art Museum Artist Residency Program provides space and time for artists to experiment, explore, and produce individually developed or collaborative artwork in any medium. The Artist Residency Program will increase community engagement and accessibility to the visual arts in north central...
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Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2025

Deadline : Jul 17, 2025 Awards: Over USD$70,000 in cash and prizes to be won (prize list still growing!), see the full list of prizes here: https://beautifulbizarreartprize.art/prizes

The Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, now in its 8th year, is an annual non-acquisitive international art prize that celebrates diversity and excellence in the representational visual arts. It includes all static mediums: Traditional Art media, Digital Art media, and Photographic media; and all styles fr...
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NYC4PA CALL FOR ENTRY - ABANDON/ABANDONMENT

Deadline : Jul 20, 2025 Awards: $4000 TOTAL PRIZES AWARDED

What comes to mind when you hear these two words? Though they have the same root the meanings can be quite far apart. Is your first thought about things abandoned – like that empty building in the tenement section of town that has been left to the elements with broken windows and peeling paint, o...
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SlowArt Productions / Limner Gallery - A Show of Heads: Call For Entries

Deadline : Jul 31, 2025 Awards: Exhibition and promotion at the Limner Gallery

A SHOW OF HEADS is a thematic group exhibition of work that includes and/or is based on the portrayal and interpretation of the human head. The exhibition will be held at the Limner Gallery, October 9 - November 1, 2025 and is open for entry to all artists working in any media. ...
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A Smith Gallery | Photograhic Call for Entry "open theme | unleashed"

Deadline : Aug 04, 2025 Awards: Juror's and Director's award each receive a copy of the limited edition hardbound fine art book of the exhibition and a solo online exhibition. Visitors' award receives $100.

open-theme | unleashed : release, unbridled, untie, loose, unchain, unloose, discharge, let go of …. Photographers of all levels are invited to submit work reflecting the theme "open theme | unleashed" to A Smith Gallery by August 4, 2025. Entries of 13 or more images are eligible for a compl...
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A Smith Gallery | photographic call for entry "The Imperfect Lens"

Deadline : Aug 18, 2025 Awards: Juror's and Director's award each receive a copy of the limited edition hardbound fine art book of the exhibition, solo exhibition and GalleryTalk. Visitors' award receives $100.

Photographers of all levels are invited to submit work reflecting the theme "The Imperfect Lens" to A Smith Gallery by August 18, 2025. Images captured using toy, pinhole and any camera using homemade or plastic lenses are eligible for submission. The camera that the lens is attached to is immateri...
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Open Call for Artists – Exhibit in Madrid, Spain

Deadline : Aug 18, 2025

Join over 10,000 artists who’ve showcased their work with us across 20+ cities worldwide! We’re now inviting artists from all backgrounds and disciplines to submit their work for our upcoming group exhibition in Madrid, taking place in the heart of the city this September 3–6, 2025. ...
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