Art Calls - March Deadlines

The City of Suffolk, Virginia is hosting the 5th Annual Suffolk Plein Air Festival, September 7-12, 2026. Cash awards will be given for Best In Show ($3,000), 2nd Place ($1,000), and 3rd Place ($500). Additional monetary awards are given for Best Historic, Waterfront, Farmland, Rural, and Cityscape paintings. The festival is hosted by the Suffolk Art League, Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts, and...

The Bellevue Downtown Arts Market brings the original work of 120+ artists to Bellevue in an open-air showcase of sculpture, jewelry, home décor, wood and glass work, fabrics and more. The event houses an eclectic mix of outstanding arts and crafts and provides the opportunity to discover the perfect treasure from baskets and beadwork to paintings and pottery.

Fusion Art announces the Artist’s Choice 2026 Art Competition. For this open (no theme) competition, both 2D and 3D artists, worldwide, are invited to submit their best art and photography in any subject matter and any media.

Art in the Park, Loveland is celebrating its 59th annual festival, recognized as a leading show in the industry. The event invites applications from artists to exhibit their work in a vibrant art scene.

The Wrangell Mountains Center (WMC) is a nonprofit organization connecting people with wildlands through art, science, and education in Alaska. The Wrangell Mountains Residency Program supports visual artists of all genres, performers, and writers. The residency provides unrestricted work time and space in McCarthy, Alaska, near Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve.

The Ankeny Art Center and Uptown Ankeny will host the Ankeny Art Center Arts Festival on May 16th, 2026. The festival will transform several streets of Ankeny's Historic Uptown into a celebration of artistic expression, featuring 50+ artist booths, live music, artist demonstrations, food trucks, and entertainment. Artists work in mediums including painting (acrylic, oil, pastel), ceramics,...

The Oregon Country Fair is an annual 3-day festival held in Veneta, Oregon, about 15 miles west of Eugene. The Fair offers entertainment, hand-made crafts, food, and information sharing in a wooded setting. The organization is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization founded in 1969. Craft applications are accepted from individual artists only.

The Corey Avenue Art & Craft Festivals return for their 32nd annual season, transforming the historic Corey Avenue—the cultural and social heart of downtown St. Pete Beach—into a lively, open-air marketplace. Hosted by the Corey Area Business Association (CABA), these multi-day festivals feature world-class artistry and handcrafted treasures from skilled artisans and craftsmen. 2026 event dates:...

Art Speaks Juried Exhibition is presented by the Bay School Community Arts Center. The exhibition runs April 25 - May 25, 2026, with an opening reception on Saturday, April 25, 5:00-7:00 p.m. Artwork delivery is Monday - Saturday, April 6-18, 10am–4pm at 279 Main Street, Mathews, VA. Pick up artwork Wednesday - Saturday, May 27-30, 10am–4pm.

The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden Art Fair will take place May 9-10, 2026 (Mother's Day Weekend) at the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, one of Minneapolis' most popular parks featuring more than 60 sculptures from the Walker Art Center's collection, including the iconic Spoonbridge and Cherry. The event will feature approximately 175 artist booths, along with music, crafts, botanicals, food, and...

The Long's Park Art Festival is held on Labor Day weekend (September 4-6, 2026) in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Presented by the Long's Park Amphitheater Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to enriching Lancaster through art and music, the festival is recognized as one of the nation's best outdoor fine arts festivals. The event showcases handmade fine art and craft in an outdoor gallery setting,...

Discover Wauwatosa’s ART 64® is back, and this is your reminder that applications are officially open! It’s a live painting tournament where 64 artists go brush-to-brush in a fast-paced, bracket-style format. The audience votes in real time, deciding who advances and who ultimately takes home the $20,000 grand prize.

The 2026 Wyoming Art Show will be held in-person on Sunday, May 17th from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. along the shaded, tree-lined streets of historic Wyoming, Ohio in the Greater Cincinnati area. This marks the 40th year of one of Southwest Ohio/Greater Cincinnati's premiere juried art shows and competitions.

The TroyFest Art & Craft Festival, held in honor of Jean Lake, is the premier fine art & craft festival for the central Alabama region taking place April 25 & 26, 2026. The weekend-long show draws upwards of 10,000 people to downtown Troy to celebrate the arts, offering a wonderful selection of art, food, entertainment, and activities for people of all ages. Check-in is Friday night (4/24) and...

For 26 years, The Village at Winona Art Fair has staged a juried show of original fine art that is welcoming and profitable for exhibiting artists. The fair features $30,000+ in pledged money from patrons, providing built-in sales before the show begins. Located on the shores of Winona Lake, Indiana, the event is centrally positioned for easy access to top-rated shows in Chicago, Columbus, and...

The Prairie Village Art Show is celebrating its 69th year and is the second-oldest show in Kansas City. Located in the heart of the Kansas City metro area and surrounded by upper-income demographics, the show is well-attended and draws patrons from the entire metropolitan area. The show features only 100 artists who come from all parts of the country, and this shopping area was developed by the...

ONE DAYTONA Art Festival, in partnership with Gallery500, is an award-winning annual fine art festival featuring juried fine artists and non-juried craft artisans at ONE DAYTONA in Daytona Beach. The festival takes place March 28-29, 2026 (Saturday and Sunday, 10am-5pm) at the ONE DAYTONA shopping and entertainment destination. The event offers an opportunity for local and visiting collectors to...

Mayfaire by-the-Lake is a juried, fine arts festival held on the shores of Lake Morton in downtown Lakeland, Florida. This two-day, free community festival, traditionally held on Mother's Day weekend, is a premier fine arts festival in Florida. Attendance is approximately 15,000 and award money is $17,000. The festival is celebrating its 54th year and has been voted as one of the Best Fine Art...

Leeper Park Art Fair is known as one of the premier fine art fairs in the country, ranked #34 in Sunshine Artist Magazine's 2025 100 Fine Art and Design Festivals in the US. Situated in a picturesque park along the banks of the St. Joseph River in South Bend, IN, the fair attracts top-ranked artists and enthusiastic patrons year after year. The show is run by volunteers of the St.

The 5th Annual Daytona Beach Arts Fest returns April 11-12, 2026, featuring an expanded prize purse and the return of the People's Choice Award. This immersive art experience unites award-winning artists, emerging talent, artisans, and local organizations in Downtown Daytona Beach along the Riverfront Esplanade and Beach Street corridor. The festival includes live art demos and installations,...

Crooked Tree Arts Center invites you to apply to its 65th Annual Art Fair, held on Saturday, July 25, 2026 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (rain or shine) at the south east end of the Civic Center - A Grand Traverse County Park. This new location on the corner of Titus and Fair Street offers street side parking in addition to parking lots on the property, public restrooms, and food trucks.

The Trout Museum of Art is proud to host the two-day 66th Annual Art at the Park on Saturday, July 25 and Sunday, July 26, 2026. Outdoors in Appleton, Wisconsin's City Park, Art at the Park is a visual art fair visited by more than 20,000 annually. Art at the Park hosts artists presenting high-quality, handmade artwork. In addition to the best in visual art, visitors enjoy original live music...

Ramona Residency, founded in 2024, is a nonprofit organization based in Houston and the first dedicated artist mother residency in Texas. Their mission is two-fold: enrich the Houston arts landscape by inviting artists to engage with the community through artist talks and pop up exhibitions while simultaneously creating opportunities to amplify the voices and creative practices of Artist Mothers....

The Harden Art Prize is a prestigious national acquisitive award recognising excellence in Australian landscape painting. Open to artists across the country, the Harden Art Prize offers $15,000 in prize money and the opportunity for national exposure. Accepted mediums include watercolour, acrylic, and oils. Finalists’ works will be exhibited in Harden–Murrumburrah, NSW, from 18–26 April 2026,...

Artlink is now accepting proposals for solo, group, and curated exhibitions! Exhibition proposals will be reviewed by the Artlink Artist Panel and Exhibitions Coordinator once a year for consideration in our exhibition schedule for the following year. Those whose proposals are selected will be notified by email and provided with an exhibition contract.

The Adirondack Artists Guild announces its twenty-eighth annual juried competition. Entries will be accepted through OnlineJuriedShows, and the actual exhibit will be both on our website and in the Gallery. NOTE: all accepted pieces need to be hand-delivered, so please do not enter if you are unable to deliver in person.

Coastal Arts League is hosting the Signs of Spring - Painting & Drawing Show 2026. The show will feature original works in various painting mediums.

This exhibition explores abstraction as a mode of visual thinking. From non-representational form to works that depart from observed reality, abstraction has long served as a site of experimentation, resistance, and reinvention. Artists are invited to submit work that engages abstraction formally, materially, or conceptually—through color, gesture, structure, pattern, process, or reduction. All...

The El Paseo Sculpture Exhibition invites artists to submit proposals for a two-year temporary exhibition of outdoor sculptures. This exhibition aims to enhance the cultural landscape of Palm Desert and engage the community through art.

The Veterans Residency Program is funded in part by Creative Forces®: NEA Military Healing Arts Network, an initiative of the National Endowment in partnership with the U.S. Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs.

They are excited to launch a new Curatorial Fellowship this cycle at Kala. For the inaugural program we are accepting applications from Bay Area curators, artists, and cultural workers to provide research and exhibition development opportunities. The year-long program culminates in an 8-10 week exhibition in the Kala Gallery. For this pilot program, Kala will select and support one Curatorial...

The 2026-2027 Fellowship program period is July 2026 – June 2027. Artists must be able to schedule a residency during that time. The Fellowship group exhibition schedule is to be determined. Artists enrolled in a degree-granting program during the fellowship program period are not eligible for the Fellowship, but are eligible for the Artist-in-Residence program.

EXHIBIT26 is their curated exhibition programme designed to create well-timed, consistent opportunities for artists to be seen throughout the year — with purpose, context, and professional visibility.

Bellevue Arts Museum hosts the largest, award-winning arts & crafts festival in the Northwest as part of a community-wide, three-day celebration of the arts in Downtown Bellevue. The fair showcases exceptional local and national designers, artists, and craftspeople. More than 150,000 visitors will shop from over 250 juried artists exhibiting unique, handmade crafts and art, representing modern,...

The Arts Interchange program originated during the COVID-19 pandemic when the arts community in Ruston, Louisiana, came together to keep artists connected despite physical isolation. In 2022, the Ross Lynn Charitable Foundation launched the North Louisiana Arts Interchange project in partnership with the North Central Louisiana Arts Council, supported by a Project Grant from the Louisiana...

This exhibition explores abstraction as a mode of visual thinking. From non-representational form to works that depart from observed reality, abstraction has long served as a site of experimentation, resistance, and reinvention. Artists are invited to submit work that engages abstraction formally, materially, or conceptually—through color, gesture, structure, pattern, process, or reduction. All...

L7 Gallery invites contemporary artists to share their art that investigates and represents the concept of stillness. Being more than just quiet or calm, stillness in a moment can be filled with serene reflection, joyous possibility or anxious alertness. Stillness can be evoked through muted colors such as Giorgio Morandi's still lifes, Gwen John's various portraits and Agnes Martin's large...

The nation’s largest live bracket-style painting tournament is coming back to The Village of Wauwatosa, Wisconsin for the 5th year! ART 64 presented by North Shore Bank is a unique live painting tournament where 64 artists go head-to-head in a high-energy, bracket-style format. The twist? The public votes in real-time to decide who moves forward, and ultimately, who will take home the $20,000...

The nation’s largest live bracket-style painting tournament is coming back to The Village of Wauwatosa for the 5th year! Discover Wauwatosa seeks 64 artists to participate in ART 64 presented by North Shore Bank, a two-day live bracket-style painting tournament taking place in The Village of Wauwatosa. In three (3) rounds taking place June 5-6, 2026 (rain date on June 7, 2026) artists will be...

STAR BFA Portfolio Submissions is an application process for students seeking admission to the BFA program. Students who have completed Foundation 1, 2, 3, and ART 1010 will be given priority consideration. Applicants must submit a portfolio under one concentration area (Painting, Drawing, Photography, Visual Communication Design, 3D Studies, Multimedia Arts, or Art Education). The submission...

This is a competition for emerging artists in the craft field. The Spector Craft Prize recognizes and supports emerging talent in craft disciplines. Eligibility, submission requirements, deadlines, and award details are available through the official opportunity listing.

The Mountain Artists Guild invites its members to participate in our upcoming exhibition, 'Spring Fling.' Artists are invited to submit work that reflects the spirit of spring in all its forms.

Protest: The Art of Activism is a group exhibition centered on the urgent need to resist systems, policies, and power structures that cause harm. This show exists in direct response to what is happening in America and other places around the world, as people take to the streets to defend bodily autonomy, human rights, immigrant lives, queer and trans existence, racial justice, and collective...

The 2026 Edina Art Fair celebrates its 59th year as one of the most respected and highly attended fine art festivals in the Midwest. This three-day event is nationally recognized for presenting high-quality fine art and attracts tens of thousands of art lovers and collectors. The fair is located on the streets of the 50th & France Business District in Edina, an upscale destination known for...

The City of Henderson is seeking 12 local artists or artist teams from the Las Vegas Valley to create bench murals on Army Street in the Water Street downtown corridor. The theme is "The Flow of Time on Water Street," depicting how downtown Henderson has changed since its incorporation in 1953. Nine murals will be completed prior to the City of Henderson's Art Festival in May 2026, and three will...

The Clarke County Historical Association invites artists to submit applications for our juried Art at the Mill Show. All work submitted must be for sale. Our exhibition offers emerging and established artists the opportunity to showcase their talents and latest works.

The Painted Gardens Art Fair is a 2-day, outdoor, high-quality fine art fair presented by Summit Art and hosted by Powell Gardens, Kansas City’s Botanical Gardens. Located in Kingsville, MO this event will feature artists from across the Kansas City region, Warrensburg, Sedalia, Columbia and beyond.

The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA) is accepting applications for the 68th annual Art Fair on the Square, to be held July 11 and 12, 2026. As one of Madison, Wisconsin's most highly anticipated annual events, Art Fair on the Square brings nearly 200,000 visitors from across the region to Wisconsin's beautiful Capitol Concourse. The fair is amongst the largest art fairs in the Midwest...

The 47th Annual Art Fair Off the Square occurs concurrently with the Art Fair on the Square, featuring approximately 113 artist spaces and expecting over 200,000 visitors.

The Highlands Art Festival is presented on the grounds of The Highlands Masonic Lodge in Denver's Highlands neighborhood. The event accepts all forms of original fine art and fine crafts, including painting, sculpture, metal, glass, printmaking/drawing, ceramics, mixed media, jewelry, wood, fiber, and photography. Artists must be present to exhibit and may only display their own original work. A...