The Twining Humber Award is an unrestricted award of $10,000 given annually to a Washington State female visual artist, age 60 or over, who has dedicated 25 years or more to creating art. The award is made possible by a generous gift from the painter Yvonne Twining Humber (1907-2004), who established the Irving and Yvonne Twining Humber Fund for Artistic Excellence to support the grant through Artist Trust in recognition of female-identified artists who oftentimes must interrupt or postpone art-making in order to answer the demands of family life. The award recognizes artistic excellence, professional accomplishment, and longstanding dedication to the visual arts.

Art of the Story invites artists from around the country to explore the connection between literature and the visual arts. This exhibition challenges artist to select a fiction or nonfiction book that moves them and create works in any medium that visually interpret or respond to its pages.

SOLA (Support Old Lady Artists) Awards are ten unrestricted awards of $5,000 given annually to Washington State female visual artists, age 60 or over, who have dedicated 25 years or more to creating art. Founded in 2016 by Seattle artist Ginny Ruffner, the SOLA Award seeks to encourage and celebrate women’s achievements in the arts. Ginny and friends’ generous contributions to this award seek to honor, encourage and celebrate the lifetime contributions of women whose artwork has not been sufficiently or widely recognized. One of the ten SOLA Awards will specifically honor a BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) artist.

RivelinCo are inviting applications for a £12,000 outdoor art commission, to take place in public spaces across North Sheffield in Summer 2026. They're looking for an artist or collective to create and present an outdoor artwork which engages communities with the theme of RUBBISH in a thoughtful, playful and creative way.

The Demuth Museum is a nonprofit arts organization in Lancaster, Pennsylvania working to preserve Charles Demuth’s (1883-1935) legacy, amplify contemporary artists’ voices, and inspire creative exploration and expression. The Demuth Artist Residency program was created to engage with an artist focused on drawing and/or painting to create a new body of work that’s rooted in their collection and artistic community. The residency program will support their mission by fostering deeper connections with contemporary artists and connecting today’s art world with Demuth’s pioneering style and vision for American Art.

• Deadline: Wed., March 25th at 11:59pm.


• Acceptance Notification: Thurs., March 27th via email.


• Artwork Delivery: Mon, March 30th between the hours of 11:30am to 6:30pm to Gallery 86:
  • Address: 2084 N. Jim Miller Rd. Suite 102A, Dallas, TX 75217.
  
  


• Show Opening: Sat., April 4th from 5-7pm at Gallery 86.


• Show Closing: Sat., April 11th at 7pm.


• Artwork Pick Up: Mon., April 13th between the hours of 11:30am to 6:30pm at Gallery 86.

• Photograph your artwork with a camera parallel to the artwork. 


• Artwork resolution should be a minimum of 2000 pixels on the shortest side. Example: 2000 x 4000 pixels @ 300dpi resolution


• Acceptable file types: .jpg, .jpeg, .png


• Artwork with shadows will NOT be accepted. Be careful not to have YOUR shadow showing when you are photographing.


• Do not alter the values or colors of work beyond the original.

• TIPS: 
  
  
  • Prop work on a hard surface up against the wall 
  
  
  • Photograph in daylight or light over art 
  
  
  
  

Rumriver Art Center is calling for artists to submit works inspired by memories. People are all a beautiful tapestry of experiences, sometimes neatly woven, other times chaotically snarled. They encourage artists to look inwards on the memories that they hold most dear to their hearts, whether those be quiet moments of peace and harmony, defining moments of hope or strength, times of love and care, or even fleeting feelings of times gone by. This show is on display at Rumriver Art Center from April 25th – May 30th, 2026. The exhibition will then move to the Anoka County Library’s Northtown branch and be on display from June 1st through August 6th, 2026.

Britten Pears Arts invites artists to submit work for their upcoming Summer Contemporary Exhibition 2026. Experience Britten Pears Arts’ most ambitious summer exhibition of work by contemporary artists. Summer Contemporary is a five-week visual art exhibition that celebrates artworks in a variety of mediums and disciplines. Every July and August, Snape Maltings welcomes many tens of thousands of visitors to enjoy visual art alongside music, shopping, eating and the unrivalled natural landscape. They are looking for visual artists over the age of 18 in the United Kingdom. There is a charge of £20 per artwork for artists and free for current university students studying an arts degree or masters.

Fairfield City Museum & Gallery’s Artist in Residence (AiR) program supports artistic development for artists at any stage of their career. Applications are open to artists working across a range of disciplines.

The Bedford’s annual juried exhibition returns with CALeidoscope: Evolving Reflections of California, a vibrant celebration of our Golden State. From the Mexican border to Oregon, California stretches nearly 900 miles along the Pacific Ocean and is home to sundrenched beaches, verdant farmlands, majestic mountains, dramatic deserts, and monumental redwood forests. With all this natural beauty, it’s no wonder California serves as a source of inspiration and promise for dreamers, makers, and visionaries across the US. CALeidoscope honors the breathtaking geography of our great state and reflects its esteemed position as a cultural leader and hotbed for creativity and innovation.

The Cincinnati based non-profit arts organization and gallery, Manifest, invites visual artists and designers to submit works exploring engagement with landscape as condition, as the physical and perceptual space that holds human experience. Open to all traditional and non-traditional genre and media.

Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announces the 17th Annual “Abstracts” Online Art Competition.

The gallery invites both 2D and 3D artists (including photography & digital art), regardless of where they reside, to apply to this competition by submitting their best non-objective and/or non-representational art.

Umpqua Valley Arts is proud to present an open call for artists to submit to our upcoming exhibit: Malleable.

Soft Sculpture in art refers to three-dimensional works made from flexible materials like cloth, foam, or rubber. These sculptures can sometimes take a mixed-media approach, and are often malleable with drooping, sagging, and draping characteristics. In some cases, they even seem to float once installed. Soft Sculpture often challenges the traditional notions of sculpture, which are often made with hard and oftentimes more durable materials which make them rigid as a result. The mediums used in the realm of soft sculpture often evokes notions that their more permanent counterparts do not. They are persistent rather than permanent. These materials all emphasize natural forces like gravity, air, and in some cases even heat. In other contrasting scenarios, they also have metaphorical and metaphysical implications that harder materials do not achieve.

Malleable is a juried exhibition emphasizing/focusing on soft sculpture art. It is open to media and modes of making that emphasize/focus on soft materials. Subject matter may vary, but the emphasis will be on works that use soft materials in the execution. Acceptable media can include (but is not limited to) cloth, foam, rubber, plastic, fiber, paper, wax, sand, and other similar materials.

The Forney Arts Council and City of Forney are now accepting artist applications for participation in the 2026 Forney Wine & Arts Festival on April 18, 2026! Folks throughout Texas are eligible to participate! Join them for a celebration of local art, wine, food vendors, live music, and more.

Event Day & Hours: April 18, 2026 12pm-5pm
Location: 101 E. Main St. Downtown Forney, Texas 75126

This is an open call for all artists in New Mexico to submit their best work to them for their inaugural exhibition, This is Us. This extraordinary exhibition is a celebration of the art and artists of New Mexico. Their beautiful exhibition space is 14,000 square feet and is located on Central Avenue (the historic Route 66) in downtown ​Albuquerque. Their building is on the National Register of Historic Places, too.

This is not a juried exhibition. All artwork should be priced. Artists keep 100% of sales.

Each year the Galveston Artist Residency awards three artist-in-residence fellowships. For ten months, from October through July, resident artists receive 24/7 access to a 500 sq/ft studio space, a studio apartment (all bills paid) a couple blocks away, and a monthly stipend of $1,400 (as well as $500 travel stipend at the start and end of the residency). Residents take part in a group exhibition near the end of their stay and have various studio visits throughout their time. While GAR facilitates this exhibition and studio visits, the ten months of unencumbered studio time is the primary focus of the GAR residency program; a gift of time for artists to sink in and dive deep into their work.

Off the Page: Poetry Reimagined is producing Issue 2: Bodies Luminous—a literary arts magazine that also becomes a gallery exhibition. This issue is inspired by Diamond Forde’s poem “fat girl Dances with a Stranger at a Block Party.” They invite women and non-binary artists to submit artwork inspired by the poem and its themes.. Up to three works per entry; any medium except new media. Curating Team: Madeline McConico, Sarah Peecher, Ren Buchness

Visual Art Journal is a magazine that selects and publishes works of talented emerging artists.
Magazine features up to 120 elegantly designed pages, printed on high-quality paper and is distributed worldwide.

Artists are encouraged to submit their work. Submission is free for all applicants.
Submissions are open to artists from any country who are 18 years and older. All forms of visual art are accepted.
Selected artists will be featured in both the print and digital versions of the magazine.
Chosen artists will receive a free digital copy of the magazine (in PDF format) and photos of their physical magazine pages.
Have the opportunity to participate in a Times Square billboard showcase in New York City.
All selected artists will also be featured on our Instagram account (40k+ subscribers).

The magazine is curated by artist Anna Gvozdeva.

ArtReach St. Croix is seeking artists to create or format artwork around the impactful history of the postal service in the nation's democracy and the significance of stamps as a method of global public art distribution. Throughout 250 years, the USPS has taken many different forms. During early 1700’s, American colonists fostered many underground networks of posts, used mostly to hide rebellion from the British. The USPS became essential in sparking political culture during early American history. Early wagons, trains, lone horseman, and sled dogs brought mail across the American landscape through all terrain and weather, prompting the iconic but unofficial motto, “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” All forms of creative work are encouraged. All media, subjects and styles are welcome including—but not limited to—painting, fibers, printmaking, sculpture, glass, pottery, jewelry, mixed media, photography or video. Artists living and/or working in the St. Croix Valley are especially encouraged to submit applications. Artists can submit one piece of work for consideration though not all may be selected for the exhibition. Artists are encouraged, but not required, to submit a brief statement about their work and how it reflects the exhibition theme.

All the Fixins: Artists From The South is an exhibition open to artists all over the South to submit their work for consideration by a selection of judges. This year’s head juror is none other than the owner and director of the well-known contemporary Whitespace Gallery, Susan Bridges! The exhibit will be on view at the Reeves House Visual Arts Center from May 8, 2026 to July 4, 2026.

The Guildhouse Fellowship is an 18-month opportunity for a South Australian mid-career visual artist, craft practitioner or designer to undertake research, development and the creation of new work culminating in a presentation outcome at the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA). The latest iteration extends the Fellowship from a 12-month to an 18-month engagement and increases the artist’s fee from $35,000 to $50,000, embedding best practice by paying superannuation to the artist. The Guildhouse Fellowship is unique in Australia and creates an extraordinary opportunity to extend artistic practice, grow industry recognition and expand professional horizons. To date, the program has supported six outstanding South Australian visual artists to pursue sustainable careers, contributing to a robust and vibrant South Australian arts sector.

The Gloucestershire Printmaking Cooperative offers an annual artist residency for printmakers. This is to celebrate the contribution to Printmaking by one of the GPC’s Founder Members, Barbara Webb. Barbara studied at the John Cass School, London and at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington. Her work was mainly concerned with urban landscapes in all forms of printmaking. She was a founder member of Camden Print Makers and was also an active member of the Gloucestershire Printmaking Cooperative. Three of her screen prints are in the Government Art Collection. In 2009 she took part in “Art in Action” where she demonstrated etching. She has exhibited extensively in London, including in the Summer Exhibitions at the Royal Academy. Widely travelled and with a wealth of experience in the arts of printmaking, Barbara’s eye for detail and skill resulted in images that have a timeless quality which is pleasing to both the eye and the soul.

Kilnforming in the Upper Midwest is a juried exhibition celebrating contemporary kilnformed glass by artists living and working in Minnesota, Wisconsin, & Iowa. The exhibition highlights the creative breadth and technical innovation of kiln-based glass practices across the region. Foci Minnesota Center for Glass Arts invites artists to submit glass artwork created using kilnforming processes, including but not limited to fusing, slumping, casting, pâte de verre, and experimental kiln techniques. Both functional and sculptural works are welcome. Submissions should demonstrate a strong command of material, concept, and process.

Serlachius Residency is an international artist residency that annually hosts about twenty artists or other professionals working in the field of visual arts from all over the world. They are an active part of the local community in Mänttä. The Serlachius Residency is open to visual artists, art historians, researchers, journalists or curators. Work partners, artist groups and families can also apply for the residency. You can apply for a residency period with an electronic application form on their website. The selections are made by a jury consisting of a representative of the Serlachius and Mänttä Art Festivals and a rotating artist member.

The Saari Residence, maintained by Kone Foundation, is a residence located in Mynämäki, Southwest Finland, for artists of all disciplines and nationalities. At the Saari Residence, artists and researchers can focus on their work in a peaceful rural environment and share their thoughts and experiences with colleagues. The residence’s long-term activities and thinking are underpinned by an ecological approach, which also covers social and psychological sustainability. Its keywords are slowness, insight and change.

VSC’s residency program welcomes artists and writers working across all mediums and genres for two, three, and four week sessions. Residents enjoy well-lit, private studios within a short walk to residency housing, dining hall, and local amenities. Studio spaces range from 170 - 300 square feet. Accommodations include a private room and shared common areas. The campus features include a print shop, digital lab, and metal, wood, ceramic facility. Studios are open 24 hours a day. A VSC residency provides artists and writers the time and space to focus on their creative practice in an inclusive, international community within a small Vermont village.