Art Calls in Iowa - March Deadlines

We are looking for work primarily of political and social resistance. With the past year of chaos, and domestic terrorism from ICE, Boarder Patrol agents, and the Fed at large, we want to provide a space for artists, writers, journalists / citizen journalists, musicians, activists, organizers, and the rest of us to tell our stories and our truth. Work can directly reference the past year in the...

Ignition Project Space is an artist owned and run gallery on the west side of Humboldt Park, Chicago, IL, USA. We support Illinois artists by providing a space and modest stipend for solo shows a variety of spaces in the building. Ignition encourages non-commercial project-based exhibitions, events and general risk-taking. All media, artistic backgrounds and experience levels are welcome - we...

The 21st annual Lakeview East Festival of the Arts will take place on September 19-20, 2026. This festival encompasses all fine art and fine craft and is open to other disciplines upon individual consideration.

Artist Grant awards an unrestricted $1200 USD grant to one visual artist three times each year.

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 photo), will be featured on our website and join a growing community of vibrant and talented artists.

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.” We invite women and non-binary artists to submit artwork inspired by the poem and its themes.

Still After: Threads of Remembrance brings together contemporary AAPI artists who understand memory not as a fixed archive, but as an embodied, recursive, and unfinished process. For diasporic and displaced subjects, remembrance is often a form of labor—painful and necessary, but also rich with connection and discovery—carried through the body, materials, and acts of making.

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.

OH Art Foundation presents 4th Asian Pacific American Festival of the Arts - “Still After: Threads of Remembrance” a group exhibition curated by Yi Cao. The exhibition invites contemporary AAPI artists to explore memory as an embodied, recursive, and unfinished process.

We are accepting proposals for our Monthly Installation Artist Residency space, AKA miar. We are seeking artists to create site-specific installations in our space and large scale sculptural installations to activate our gallery's window display. Selected artists will have their work on view for a month, including during the opening reception to meet other artists in our community. There will...

Chicago Grand Gallery is now accepting applications for our Wall Space Rental Program, offering Chicago artists a flexible and affordable opportunity to showcase their work in an established gallery setting. Artists retain 100% of all sales — no commission taken. Promotion of your work via Instagram Stories, Facebook, and email newsletters. Opportunity to propose workshops or events in the space...

Portraits, bodies, gestures, expressions, posture, the quiet story a figure can hold. Faces & Figures invites artists to explore the human form in any style, from realism to experimental, from intimate studies to bold narrative scenes. Selected works are featured in a curated online collection with your name, artwork title, and website link for lasting visibility.