Submit your Equine Art and Photography. Any species of Equine is welcome, ie horses, donkeys, zebras, etc. Artwork in this field often depicts the beauty of horses, human connection, emotion, and many forms of symbolism.

They welcome all 2D and 3D mediums (no AI): painting, drawing, print making, sculpture, fiber arts, digital (no AI), mixed media, and more. Artists have submitted murals, jewelry, miniature art, kinetic art, mosaics, and installations to their art calls. Wild Heart Gallery loves seeing it all.

This virtual exhibition will be at wildheartgallery.com and social media starting February 2026. Multiple award tiers.

Beauty is subjective in the eye of the viewer. Societal conventions pressure one to conform to like-mindedness, yet the most ethereal craft often originates from divergent work that transgresses tradition. True innovation and creative brilliance often occur when individuals question or break away from established norms...

Artsfest makes art essential to the lives of those living in the Southwest Missouri by showcasing talented artists and their creativity in a community-centric festival. More than forty years strong, this outdoor event hosts over 110 artists on the beautiful Historic Walnut Street in Springfield, Missouri. With more than 20,000 attendees, Artsfest prides itself on Midwestern hospitality for artists. More than $5,000 in cash awards will be given at the festival, including:

Best of Show - $1,000
Best of Show 2D - $500
Best of Show 3D - $500
​People's Choice - $500
​Award of Excellence (as many as eight) - $500

Art Fluent invites artists worldwide to submit artwork to their online exhibit, THE BIG CHILL.

THEME
Winter strips it all down with its bare trees, frosted mornings, and that sharp breath of cold air. But it’s not all icy; there’s cocoa, cozy fires, and the sparkle of snowflakes, too. Show them your version of winter’s beauty and transformation… show them THE BIG CHILL from your perspective.

JPEGs due by Friday, January 23, 2026 at midnight MST.
Notification of acceptance and online gallery opening by Friday, February 20, 2026.

Artists are invited to submit work for exhibition alongside members of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours at the RI Exhibition 2026

The Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI) seeks the best in contemporary watercolour and water-based media painting for the RI 214th Exhibition.

The show, in spring 2026, offers the opportunity to win prizes and awards worth over £10,000 and have your work seen by thousands of visitors to Mall Galleries. The exhibition is the largest of its kind, featuring over 400 of the finest works from around the world.

Educating in their chosen medium and promoting the appreciation of the arts to all, the UKCPS are a welcoming home for creatives who share a passion for producing the very finest art with the most accessible of media, colour pencils. And so it is with great pleasure that the society invites you to join them at the UKCPS Silver Exhibition, celebrating 25 years of the beauty of colour pencil. This juried event, their celebratory Silver Exhibition, showcases beautiful artwork from all corners of the country and beyond, so do join in with celebrating the joy of creating with colour pencil.

The open call invites artists to propose 3–6 permanent public artworks for Springfield Village, a new mixed-use neighbourhood in Tooting Bec, London Borough of Wandsworth, London, UK. The goal is to create site-specific, permanent public art that enhances the identity of the area and connects to mental health and wellbeing themes, celebrating the history of the site and fostering inclusion and community engagement.

The NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship is an $8,000 unrestricted cash grant available to artists living in New York State and/or one of the Tribal Nations located therein. This grant is awarded in fifteen different disciplines over a three-year period (five categories a year) and the application is free to complete. The NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship is not a project grant, but is intended to fund an artist’s vision or voice, at all levels of their artistic development.

Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announces the 16th Annual “Botanicals” Online Art Competition.

The “Botanicals” theme is the artist’s interpretation and depiction of botanical and/or floral art. Botanical subjects include flowers, herbs, fruit, leaves, plants and related botanical and floral subjects. Both 2D & 3D artists (including photography & digital arts) are invited to submit their best representational and/or abstract art.

Your archive is an asset at every stage of your art career.

A strong archive allows you to take control of your creative story: what is documented, how your work is contextualized, and how your career is understood now and in the future. From photographing your artwork to capturing essential details, documentation supports confidence, opportunity readiness, and long-term artistic legacy.

In this live workshop, you'll explore archiving as an active, ongoing part of your art practice. You’ll learn how documentation, inventory, and archiving work together to strengthen your practice, reduce stress, and support everything you do as an artist.

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The Homiens Art Prize, which awards over $12,000 USD annually to artists, is an internationally celebrated event that elevates art careers to new heights. Open to all art forms and artists internationally.

Artworks completed in any year are eligible, and there are no theme or size restrictions. Artists who enter retain full ownership of their submitted works and are free to exhibit or display them elsewhere at any time.

Homiens celebrates selected artists across their media, exhibiting their art online where it is viewed by artists and collectors throughout the world. The gallery sponsors a platform for artists to network and collaborate, reach a global audience of buyers and collectors, gain institutional validation, and locate professional artistic opportunities.

The Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park (JRSP) is offering up to three Exploratory Research Residencies for the 2026 season, providing accommodation, local transport, and a food stipend for six nights on Hornby Island, with options for longer stays: available time slots are April 26 – May 3, May 3 – 10, and May 10 – 17, 2026.

How does one define freedom in the 21st century? How has the pursuit of happiness changed in the face of personal, political, and cultural transformation? This thought-provoking exhibition will bring together regional contemporary artists whose work reflects on the ever-shifting meaning of freedom in today's world.

The Maguire Art Museum at Saint Joseph’s University invites contemporary artists to submit work that reflects on the shifting landscape of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This exhibition seeks to explore how these foundational ideals are interpreted, challenged, and reimagined through personal experience, social movements, and collective memory.

They are looking for photography and print-based works that engage critically, poetically, or personally with themes.

Keep good on your New Year’s resolutions by starting 2026 at the beautiful Ou-Telier on Vancouver Island in the Pacific Northwest.

A warm and thoughtful space curated to support artists and writers in their creative journey, The Ou is located in a 100 year-old boat-building workshop with original fir floors and open rafters. Accommodations face a year-round creek fed by Swuq'us mountain and lush forest trails are only minutes away.

Vancouver Island is a stunning, nature-filled place. Come here to decompress, gather new inspiration alongside like-minded artists and devote space and time to your work.

There is no fee to apply. Residencies are two or four weeks long. Learn more and apply on their website.

‍East Quay is inviting proposals from architects, craftspeople, artists and designers to create a new piece of outdoor furniture for their unique building in Watchet, West Somerset. The furniture will be installed on the terrace outside one of their bespoke accommodation Pods, offering a place for guests and members of the public to sit and soak up the coastal atmosphere. Designed by PEARCE+Faegen, each of their five accommodation Pods has its own concept and story, reflecting the town, its culture, heritage, and future. This commission is for the space outside Pod 3, their ‘Romantic Industrial’ pod, which is situated on a platform above the second floor of East Quay.

The Blu Sky Artist Award honors two outstanding artists each round. One in traditional or mixed media, and one in photography or digital, with $1,000 in awards and lasting promotion.

MasterWorks of New Mexico consists of four separately juried and judged shows.
It is a collaborative effort by Bardean LLC, New Mexico Watercolor Society,
Pastel Society of New Mexico and the Rio Grande Art Association
exhibiting together as MasterWorks of New Mexico to create a showcase
highlighting the excellence of visual art in New Mexico.

They’re interested in the dialogues that emerge when images from different contexts begin to act like parts of a larger organism. In what they reveal when they find one another. They start from the broadest field of images and, by listening closely, arrive at another layer of meaning for the whole. This is why they don’t have a specific theme. Their collective books function more like artist books than curated magazine issues. Each edition differs in concept, size, materials, and approach, yet certain lines connect them all. In their first four books, they have published 498 artists from all around the world.

cia gallery, nyc is proud to present their inaugural open call for a solo and a group exhibition. Two proposals will be selected, each presenting an up to three week exhibition with an opening at the physical, ground floor gallery in NYC, off of the L train in the 11385 zip code. Each exhibition will be funded at $2,000, with $1,200 distributed ahead of the opening and the rest as artist or curator fee at the time of the opening. The deadline is January 31st, 2026 for solo exhibitions. Each project or artist website will receive written feedback. Selected exhibitions will be provided promotion, installation support on-site, and some staffed gallery hours open to the public during the exhibition’s run.

Centre Pompadour, the feminist laboratory is an all gender inclusive, trans-generational feminist space based on solidarity. A non-profit organization housed in a Northern French château in the middle of nowhere, near the Atlantic coast, between London, Paris, and Bruxelles, they promote artistic, creative, scientific work and research projects in the fields of feminism and gender studies.
You are welcome to apply for a creative residency or a reading residency.

The 15th Annual PleinAir Salon is an online art competition with 11 monthly cycles, and is open to a variety of mediums and styles. It’s not just for plein air painters! They invite a variety of top master artists, museum directors and gallery owners to judge each month. All monthly winners are automatically included in the Annual Competition where the Grand Prize winner receives $15,000 and has their painting featured on the cover of PleinAir Magazine, the #1 representational art magazine at Barnes & Noble.

In addition to over $50,000 in ALL Cash Prizes, winners receive exposure and recognition through their various magazines, websites, newsletters and social media platforms.

Early Bird Registration ends on the 15th. Enter before the deadline to receive 25% off every entry. The regular cost is $40 for the first entry, and just $16 for each additional entry. Artists are welcome to enter as many paintings as they like, in as many categories as they like. There are 19 categories in all.

Founded in 1975 by writer and social justice activist Barbara Deming, Money for Women is the oldest ongoing feminist granting agency in the US and Canada. Grants from the foundation give monetary support and encouragement to feminist writers and visual artists who identify as women, cis-women, trans-women, and/or nonbinary. The Fund relies on a volunteer Board of Directors and carefully chosen judges who collaborate in making awards. While other grant sources have come and gone, Money for Women is now in its sixth decade – still feminist and still willing to take risks. NOTE: This year, the submissions portal will close after 250 submissions in each genre, so be sure to send in your materials early.

The PQ Performance Space program section of Prague Quadrennial aims to present a range of spaces where performances emerge. These spaces are not limited to buildings as static containers, but may include places that have been built, repurposed, or transformed into gathering sites for shared performance experiences. The program builds on previous editions of PQ that expanded the traditional section of theatre architecture into a more encompassing presentation of performance space.

Artists are invited to be creatively brave, bold and daring when applying to be a part of SWELL 2026, Queensland’s largest outdoor sculpture exhibition taking place at Currumbin Beach on the Gold Coast. SWELL is a ten-day manifestation of concepts and visual commentary, and presents small, medium and large-scale sculpture, installations, and digital works as a FREE outdoor gallery at Currumbin Beach, 11 – 20 September 2026.

This exhibition explores the intersection of fashion, circus, and stagecraft, capturing the drama, elegance, and eccentricity of the performing arts. Art of the Spectacle creates a visual celebration of performance, where costume, movement, and theatrics take center stage. Artists are invited to submit works that embrace the bold, the theatrical, and the extraordinary. Whether inspired by vintage vaudeville, avant-garde fashion, or the magic of the circus, this show seeks artwork that transforms the gallery into a stage, where every piece tells a story.

The Lux Center for the Arts invites artists to submit work for TOUCHé, an exhibition exploring the tactile language of texture. From the smooth to the rough, the layered to the ephemeral, this show celebrates the material qualities that invite touch—both real and imagined.
They’re seeking artworks that highlight the sensory experience of texture—pieces that evoke touch through illusion, surface, and materiality, as well as works that can be physically touched or handled by viewers. The exhibition will include a mix of “look-but-don’t-touch” and interactive works, creating a conversation between the seen and the felt.
They ask that each selected artist provide a small sample piece, if conducive to the material, that may be safely handled by visitors. This will allow audiences to engage directly with the materials and gain a tactile experience rarely available in a gallery setting.
Artists may interpret “texture” literally or conceptually—through surface, pattern, density, or emotional resonance. All mediums are welcome, including painting, sculpture, fiber, ceramics, mixed media, installation, and digital work.

Artists are invited to submit original artwork for Monmouth University’s new art exhibit, Diversity Lives Here: Representation Through Art.

From the impressive, multi-tiered waterfalls of the Tennessee River Valley to the wide and shallow Mobile Bay, Alabama boasts a rich and complex network of waterways recognized globally for its unique ecological significance. Members of the Alabama Women’s Caucus for Art, comprising a nexus of creatives from throughout the “River State”, will create a diversity of interpretive works that reflect on the rivers, streams, wetlands, and coastal borders of this sweet, beautiful, biodiverse home. ALWCA presents “From Source to Sea: Alabama Streams of She”, a juried exhibition to be held at the Library Gallery at Birmingham Botanical Gardens, open to all ALWCA members in good standing. This will be the first ALWCA full-member exhibition in Birmingham, Alabama.

Celebrating its 30th touring year, the Bald Archy Prize is one of Australia’s most beloved and irreverent art competitions. Known for its blend of satire, skill, and unmistakable Australian larrikin spirit, the prize invites artists to submit comic or satirical portraits of Australians distinguished in art, science, letters, politics, sport, or the media.

Finalists compete for a $10,000 acquisitive first prize and the $2,000 People’s Choice Award, proudly sponsored by Briggs Law. Judged by the world’s only avian art critic, the sulphur-crested Professor Maude Cockatoo, the Bald Archy Prize celebrates the lighter side of art and culture.

With an online PhD from the Marilyn Munro University of Little Rock, Professor Maude Cockatoo is the most qualified art critic, avian or otherwise, in Australia (according to Maude). As Coolac’s Visual Arts Laureate, Maude has been the sole judge of the Bald Archy Prize from its inception at the 1994 Coolac Festival of Fun.

Maude’s number one rule for a prize-winner is that it must be funny. Her idea of humour, according to a 2015 interview includes, “wit, slapstick, satire, vulgarity, farce, black comedy, irreverence and everything else that falls between high and low comedy”. On the other hand, Maude loathes ‘hate portraiture’, or ‘soap box art’ as she calls it.