Art Deadlines - Art Contests - Call to Artists - Opportunities
2nd Annual Paint the Parks100 - Call for Entries
Deadline: Saturday, May 31
PaintAmerica announces a call to artists for the Second Annual Paint the Parks100, held August 1, 2008 - August 1, 2009. $10,000 Grand Prize Purchase Award plus additional cash prizes and purchase awards. Nature, landscape, cityscape, wildlife, and/or history represented within any area under the supervision of the National Park Service in America are eligible. Original, two-dimensional art only. read more
Strange Figurations - Call for Entries
Deadline: Saturday, May 31
Slowart Productions presents a thematic exhibition open to all interpretations of the concept, Strange Figurations. Open to all figurative styles from the realist to the surreal and visionary. Open to all media. 72" maximum dimension. The exhibition will be held at the Limner Gallery, September 4 - 27, 2008. National magazine publication awards. read more
10th Annual Landscape Juried Online International Art Exhibition
Deadline: Sunday, June 8
The Upstream People Gallery presents an exhibition with 12 month's gallery representation, from July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009, with approximately 900,000 hits each month. Open to all artists worldwide working in any media, with traditional and contemporary interpretations of landscape as the main subject matter. Cash Awards & Recognitions will be given. read more$3500 FindYourArtSchool.com - Free Online Art Contest
Deadline: Sunday, June 15
FindYourArtSchool.com announces its first annual Online Art Competition! You can Enter to Win over $3,500 in cash prizes! The competition is free to enter and only takes 2 minutes to get started. Once your art is up you let the community do the rest. We have empowered hundreds of friends, family, and art connoisseurs to vote on the art and help select the winner. read more
Artists Wanted - Exposure Photography Competition
Deadline: Tuesday, June 17
Artists Wanted is proud to announce EXPOSURE: a nationwide open call for photography! All photographers will have their own online portfolio & receive a complimentary copy of JPG Magazine. The Top Photographers will be selected by New York Times Photo Editor Patrick Witty, Supermodel and Fashion Icon Tiiu Kuik, and NYC Gallery Owner David Kesting. Large cash prizes and great promotions. read moreAll Things Horses - Call for Entries
Wednesday, June 18
From Appaloosas to Zebras, country roaming to carousel rotating are welcome to this call for entry. Images of working horses, wild horses, dressage, tack, anything related to the life of our equine friends is welcome. The Center for Fine Art Photography invites photographers working in all mediums and styles to participate in its exhibitions. Cash awards, magazine feature,exhibition and more. read more2 - 4 week Art/Creative Writing Workshop in Italy
Deadline: Monday, June 30
Live and work in a 12th century hill town. Outstanding faculty. Classes in art-making, all media, levels; artist books, drawing, pastel portraiture, watercolor plein air. Independent program for professional artists. Classes, studio, lodging, meals all in a beautifully situated air-conditioned hotel overlooking the Umbrian plain. Critiques, lectures, conferences. Also writing, Italian language, culinary arts courses. Workshop date are July 24 - August 20, 2008 read moreCall For Artists - West Region
Deadline: Friday, April 30
This competiton is open to all artists in the following states: AZ, CO, ID, MT, NE, NV, KS, ND, NM, OK, SD, TX, UT, WY. Open Studios Competitions are conducted annually in each of 6 regions of the country. Competitions lead to full-color spreads in our nationally distributed periodical, New American Paintings. All styles: painting, drawing, monoprints/types, mixed media; 2-D only. read more9th Annual Summer All Media Juried Online International Art Exhibition
Deadline: Tuesday, July 8
The Upstream People Gallery presents an exhibition with 12 month's gallery representation, from August 1, 2008 through July 31, 2009, with approximately 900,000 hits each month. Open to all artists worldwide with original artwork in all media, processes and forms. Cash Awards of Excellence and Special Recognitions will be given. read more
2008 International Exhibition of Fine Art Photography - Call for Entries
Deadline: Tuesday, July 8
2008 International Exhibition of Fine Art Photography will spotlight images from around the world. All subjects are eligible. The exhibition is open to all domestic and international, professional and amateur, photographers working with digital or traditional photography or combinations of both. $800 cash awards, Inclusion in the Center's 2008 Exhibition Collection CD distributed worldwide and more. read moreCall for Entries: 108th Philadelphia Water Color Society International Exhibition
Deadline: Friday, July 18
Call for entries: 108th Philadelphia Water Color Society International Anniversary Exhibition of Works on Paper at the McKinney and Long Galleries of West Chester University, West Chester, Pa. Include water media, pastel, drawings, and hand pulled prints. Selection Juror: Jean Grastorf AWS, NWS. Awards Juror: Charles McVicker AWS, NWS. Prizes over $6,000. read more
Richeson75: International Landscape, Seascape & Architectural Art Competition
Wednesday, July 30
Richeson School of Art & Gallery, a division of Jack Richeson & Co., Inc., is proud to announce the Richeson 75 Landscape Competition. Seventy-five two-dimensional works of art and several alternates will be selected to represent the finest examples of painting and drawing being produced by today’s visual artists. Best in show: $3,000 cash award - 3 first prizes: $1000 Richeson Art Materials Certificates - 3 second prizes: $500 Richeson Art Material Certificates. read more5th Annual Art/Literary Competition 2009 for Sculpture, Painting, and Poetry
Deadline: Monday, August 18
The theme for the competition is A Journey Through The Mind. All entries must be postmarked on or before August 18, 2008. Eligibility: International. Artists 18 and older. Student work NOT eligible. Submit images of original works created since January, 2006. Sculptors featured in Sculptural Pursuit articles before January 2006 are also eligible. A grand prize will be awarded for sculpture. Other awards and prizes will also be given for sculpture, painting and poetry. read more
Our Environment: The Good, Bad and The Ugly - Call for Entries
Deadline: Monday, August 18
This exhibition is for those who consider themselves nature conservationists and just photographers with a conscience. The exhibition is open to all domestic and international, professional and amateur, photographers working with digital or traditional photography or combinations of both. $1300 cash awards, Inclusion in the Center's 2008 Exhibition Collection CD distributed worldwide and more. read moreA Show of Heads - Call to Artists
Sunday, August 31
Slowart Productions presents a thematic exhibition based on the portrayal and interpretation of the human head to be held at the Limner Gallery, November 1 - 29, 2008. Open to all artists working in any media, this exhibition will include all interpretations and portrayals of the human head, from the traditional to the abstract and conceptual. $2600 in publication awards. read morePleiades Gallery - Call for Artists
Ongoing: Sunday, November 16
Join our community of fine artists at this esteemed artist-run gallery with its many Winners of Awards, Grants, Fellowships and Juried Shows. Exhibit your work and advance your career. For information, visit our website at www.pleiadesgallery.com or send SASE to the following address: Pleiades Gallery - 530 W. 25 St., 4th floor - NY, NY 10001-5516Residences
Residences
offer artists the possibility to focus on new work or projects
during a concentrated period of time
July 15 Hotel MariaKapel in Hoorn calls for artists and curators to submit proposals for projects in 2009. The all-year program title is "The future is near". Invited artists are offered the residency at Hotel Mariakapel. The length of the residency depends on the nature of the work and is agreed in advance.
Right now! Studio and living space available at the project space of agentur in Amsterdam. From 1 June - 30 September.
B93,
Enschede
Right now! Two guest studio's available at brand new artist initiative B93 in Enschede.
Right now! The International Art Studio Toos Neger in Dordrecht, offers artists from abroad a space to work and live in. For a period from 1 to 3 months.
Right now! Rooms available at artist-in-residence Kunstenaarslogies, Amersfoort
Right now! Apply for a 3 weeks residency at Frans Masereel Centrum for the graphic arts in Kasterlee.
Projects
Res Artis 11th General Meeting
Artists in Dialogue, Transforming Communities is the theme of the 11th Res Artis General Meeting, which will be hosted by Trans Artists. The conference will provide a forum for international exchange and networking among the professionals who work in artist residency centers worldwide.
- When: October 9 - 10 - 11
Call for Applications: Imaginary Property
Imaginary Property is a new research project of the Jan van Eyck Design department which aspires to explore new potentials for design practices across various registers. The project is set up as a realm of experimentation at the intersections of design-theory and image-production. Candidates interested in this project can apply by submitting a research proposal.
- Deadline: June 15
- Symposium: June 6
Apply now for Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral
Seven residential scholarships will be awarded, six of those to visual artists. In order to promote the dialogue between research and art, one of the scholarships will be awarded to a junior scholar of the humanities (preferably in the field of Art History) to develop his curatorial skills. Additionally, Balmoral will award a project grant to allow a selected visual artist to realize a project elsewhere.
- Where: Bad Ems, Germany
- Duration: 6 months starting in April 2009
- Deadline: July 19
AVLAB 1.0 International Workshop
The AVLAB 1.0 call for projects focuses on work within the framework of sound as protagonist, in addition to the broad field of scientific, anthropological and socio-cultural research related to the sound phenomenon. AVLAB is one of the ongoing programmes at Medialab-Prado, aimed at the production, research, and dissemination of projects related to sound and visual creation.
- Where: Medialab-Prado (Madrid, Spain)
- When: September 17 - October 1
- Deadline: July 1st
Videoakt
The organization of GlogauAir is inviting all videoartists toparticipate in the first International Videoart Show. A jury will select
30 of the works submitted, arranging them in formal and thematic groups in line with the show's format.
- Where: Berlin, Germany
- When: July 8 - 13
- Deadline: June 15
La Familia Alaskan Artist in Residence Program
The La Familia Alaskan Artist In Residence program provides the time for rest and reflection artists need during or after times of turmoil. Artists, authors, musicians and art administrators are invited to apply.
- Where: un the rural community of Talkeetna, Alaska
- Rolling deadlines for 29 residencies throughout the year
- Explore new a.i.r. additions (scroll down for USA)
Writer in Residence Reports
Erik Lindner is a Dutch poet and writer who made his début in 1996 with Tramontane. Read his reports about his experiences at the Centre International de Poésie Marseille, France, and at Taipei Artist Village, Taiwan.
Creator-in-Residence Program at Tokyo Wonder Site
Tokyo Wonder Site is calling for both international and Japanese creators who are planning to undergo cultural study or research based in Tokyo.
- Deadline: July 1
Global Internship Program at Youkobo Art Space
Youkobo Art Space is seeking gifted young curators and art managers who wish to gain hands-on experience in all aspects of art management in a dynamic independent art space, by helping to develop its programs and devising innovative ways of deepening international communication via the arts, linking artists with local communities.
- Duration: 1 year
ICST 2008: Call for Papers
The 3rd International Conference on Sensing Technology is intended to provide a common forum for researchers, scientists, engineers and practitioners throughout the world to present their latest research findings, ideas, developments and applications in the area of sensing technology. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.
- When: November 30 to December 3
- Where: Tainan, Taiwan
- Deadline for submission: June 29
Art All Around Design Competition
The Maine Center for Creativity announces an open call for a juried design competition for a major public art work using Portland, Maine's Sprague Energy Corporation 16 of more than 35 above-ground storage tanks as a canvas.
