Art Calls in District of Columbia - February Deadlines

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Geometry The Shape of Things

Gallery: Site:Brooklyn Gallery

Location: New York, NY, Online

Deadline: Feb 23, 2026

Entry Fee: $26

While geometry has been, from ancient times to the present, a means of achieving artistic effect, it was only during the rise of modernism that it became an end in itself. Artists from a variety of movements and countries—Cubist, Dada, and Russian avant-garde artists of the 1910s and 1920s—created worlds of abstracted shapes and off-kilter planes; post-war artists from Rio de Janeiro to Paris...

Call For Photography: In the Nude Volume No. 2

Gallery: The Chateau Gallery

Location: New York, XX

Deadline: Feb 24, 2026

Entry Fee: Paid

Call For Entry: In the Nude Volume No. 2 International Submission Deadline: February 20th, 2026 11:59 PM In the Nude Volume No. 2 is a photography exhibition that strips away pretense to confront the raw, unapologetic beauty of the human body. From the divine proportions of antiquity to the stark vulnerability of contemporary flesh, these works expose the nude not as an object to be...

In Practice 2027 Open Call

Gallery: SculptureCenter

Location: New York, NY

Deadline: Feb 26, 2026

Entry Fee: FREE

SculptureCenter is pleased to announce that our annual open call for artists is now open. In Practice 2027 will generate a yearlong series of solo presentations. SculptureCenter invites artists who have not yet had an institutional solo exhibition in New York City to submit proposals for solo exhibitions in designated gallery spaces at SculptureCenter. Artists are also invited to propose off-site...

Arte Natura

Gallery: SlowArt Productions

Location: New York, NY

Deadline: Feb 28, 2026

Entry Fee: $35

SlowArt Productions presents the group thematic exhibition, Arte Natura. Eligible are all art forms relating to, or gaining inspiration from the world of nature. Landscapes, skyscapes, flowers, vegetables, fruits and animals are all eligible. The human figure is permitted only as a part of the natural environment.

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What are calls for artists?

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