EMAF 2026: Call for Entries

Deadline: 22 December 2025

About the call: Media artists from around the world can now enter their work to be considered for the 2026 European Media Art Festival.

Eligibility: We welcome current works in the categories Film (experimental short and feature films), Installation (installative, interactive, spatial or sculptural media art works), and Expanded (performances, live events, or workshops).

What you get: Exhibition opportunity and fees will be paid to all artists whose work is selected for the festival.

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In Between Knots. Issue Two: A Soft Undoing

Deadline: 30 September 2025

Submission Fee: Free

Eligibility: All ages, nationalities, and places of residence. There are no formal requirements for professional experience or level of expertise — we welcome both emerging and established artists, writers, and practitioners. Submissions may take any of the following forms: poetry, short prose, hybrid or experimental writing, visual or textile-based work (e.g., embroidery, mending, collage, scans), annotated maps, ritual recipes, walking scores, letters, conversations, or embodied reflections.

About the call: This issue turns toward the slow, deliberate work of repair — the forms of care that emerge when something frays, ruptures, or no longer fits. We’re thinking of knots that slip, seams that split under strain, and the fragile joins that hold us together — until they don’t.

Repair, here, is not about perfection or closure. It’s about "a form of counter-reaction, aimed at resisting something, but also as an extremely interesting approach to injury," as artist Kader Attia writes.

What you get: Your work published in the second print issue of In Between Knots, offering publication exposure to an international, multidisciplinary community. Contributors may also be invited to participate in related workshops, events, or online features, providing opportunities for networking and dialogue with other artists, writers, and practitioners.

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Denver International Airport Rotating Sculpture Program

Deadline: September 21, 2025

Submission Fee: Free

About the call: Through a competitive selection process, artists will loan DEN an existing large-scale sculpture or installation to be temporarily displayed. The sculpture or installation should create a sense of place, elevate visitor experience, and create a memorable impression of Denver and the region for travelers and staff.

What you get: Artists are provided with a budget of $7,500

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Open Call: Hearth House

Deadline: September 30, 2025

Submission Fee: Free

About the call: ‘a space’ arts are pleased to announce a new public art project and now invite Expressions of Interest from artists. The project will introduce a series of exciting new works into new high quality academic accommodation on Hulse Road, Southampton. The vision is for a series of works to populate a number of open spaces across the development along with a signature/headline piece towards the front of the site. Collectively these work will bring a sense of intrigue and enhance the experience of living at Hearth House for its future residents.

Eligibility: Everybody

What you get: 4 artists will be selected from the Expressions of Interest stage receive a £500 Proposal Development fee. The artist selected from the Proposal Development Stage will have an total delivery budget of £25k to cover artist fees, materials, third party fabrication costs, travel, expenses and VAT (if applicable). Mentoring and Project Support from the ‘a space’ arts team will be available across the project and the organisations. Director will take on lead on working with the selected artist.

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AMADEUS Festival International Design Competition 2025/2026

Deadline: 04 October 2025

Submission Fee: Free

About the call: AMADEUS Festival Vienna launches its fourth International Design Competition 2025/26, celebrating emerging talent in visual arts and graphic design. Framed within the Festival’s communication strategy, the competition offers a platform to showcase creativity inspired by classical music while promoting the Festival’s international image. This year’s theme, Metamorphosis, invites artists to explore transformation and creativity, with the chance to gain recognition and visibility on a global stage.

Eligibility: Any nationality between the ages of 16 and 30 are eligible to enter. Participants with any level of experience, whether it is amateur or professional, are eligible as long as their work abides by the stipulated regulations.

What you get: The winner will receive €500, a diploma, and a double ticket to the Opening Gala of the AMADEUS Festival 2026. Their design will be featured in the Festival’s official promotion, with full credit in all materials. The Public Jury winner, chosen via social media impact, will be awarded €50, a diploma, and a double ticket to the Opening Gala.

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Woman Scream Call for Poets, Artists and Storytellers

Deadline: 28 September 2025

About the call: For fifteen years, the international Woman Scream cause has united voices from around the globe through poetry, art, and storytelling, amplifying awareness for women’s and girls’ rights. Join our next book!

Who can apply:
Artists and writers over 18.

What you get:
Book publication.

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International Call for Art - Divide Magazine Issue 16

Deadline: September 27, 2025

Submission Fee: There is a £35 submission fee per application.

About the call: Are you ready to showcase your art on a global stage? Divide Magazine, a leading Contemporary Art Magazine, is excited to announce our Open Call for Issue 16. With a dedicated annual readership of over 86,000+ and a vibrant Instagram community of 22,000+ followers at @dividemag, your work will be seen by thousands of art enthusiasts, collectors, and industry professionals from around the world.

Why Submit?

• Global Exposure: Your work will be featured alongside some of the most exciting emerging and established artists.

• Influential Platform: Artists like the Popovy Sisters, Coderch & Malavia Sculptors, Erik Minter, and Annan Affotey have all graced our pages.

• Instagram Features: Selected submissions may also be showcased on our Instagram, giving your work even more visibility.

ELIGIBILITY:

• Artists from any country are welcome to apply with works in any medium: painting, sculpture, digital, printmaking, fiber, photography, mixed media, installation, crafts, fashion, illustration, and more. Selected artists will be featured in Issue 16 set to release November 8th 2025. Selected artists will be contacted via email for an interview.

• There is no specific theme for this issue.

• Must be 18 and over.

• This is a juried competition, selected artists will be featured in Issue 16 of Divide Magazine.

HOW TO APPLY:

• You may submit multiple entries for different projects/works, there is no limit.

• Submission fees are non-refundable.

• The deadline to submit all works is September 27th, 2025. Please note that submissions may close prior to this date if capacity is reached. We encourage artists to apply early, as space is limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Artists may submit up to 3 artworks per project submission

• You can enter multiple times and in each submission you will have the opportunity to upload 3 items

• Artists must ensure high quality of images, at least 300 dpi jpeg recommended.

• Artwork images and bio must be uploaded directly ( we will not be accepting any works via email)

• Bio must be under 300 words

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Open Call Mail Art: "Fragments of What Makes Us Alive"

Deadline: 25 December 2025

About the opportunity: Atelier Ghostbirds in Portugal invites artists, makers, and creative souls everywhere to our Mail-Art Exhibition. Send us the images, words, or objects that light up your world—and help us cover our gallery walls with the simple joys and profound treasures of life

Eligibility: Artists, Maker, Crafter, and Creatives of all ages anywhere in the world

What you get: Exhibition opportunity at Atelier Ghostbirds in 2026. All the proceed will be donated to Global Fund for Human Rights

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apexart Seeks Curatorial Proposals for Next Season of Exhibitions

Deadline: 31 October 2025

Submission Fee: Free

About the call: apexart is now accepting proposals for its International Open Call from 1–31 October 2025. Five selected proposals will be realised as exhibitions at apexart’s Tribeca space in New York during the 2026–27 season.

This is an opportunity for curators, artists, writers, and creative individuals—regardless of location or prior experience—to present focused, idea-driven group exhibitions. Proposals must be submitted online in English.

Eligibility

Open to anyone—curators, artists, writers, and creatives of all backgrounds and experience levels. Proposals must:

• Be submitted in English

• Be no longer than 500 words

• Focus on original, idea-driven group exhibitions

• Specify the proposed country and city

• Not include biographical information, CVs, links, or images

Submissions are anonymous and evaluated solely on the strength of the concept.

What You Get

• A confirmed exhibition slot as part of apexart’s 2026–27 season

• A production budget of up to $10,000

• A professionally printed exhibition brochure, mailed to over 6,000 international recipients

• Advertising in both major and local outlets

• Curatorial and logistical support from the apexart team

Selected curators are expected to work within the provided budget to realise a compelling and locally relevant exhibition based on their original proposal.

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Outdoor Sculpture Commission for an Art Trail at CourtX

Deadline: 30 September 2025

About the call: We are inviting artists, creatives, and collectives to submit expressions of interest for a major new art initiative at CourtX in Southsea. This open call is for multiple site-specific sculptures and installations as part of the Art Trail at CourtX, a newly landscaped area designed to showcase outdoor artwork and offer an engaging, evolving visitor experience.

Curated and produced by Natasja Jozsa, founder of Fine Line Art, the Art Trail will feature a range of works including sound, light, sculpture, kinetic elements, and more. Proposals may involve digital components, material-based pieces, or tactile installations, but all must be durable, weather-resilient, and safe for long-term outdoor public engagement.

Eligibility: Open to artists, creatives, and collectives from all backgrounds, disciplines, and career stages. Works must be durable, weather-resistant, and safe for long-term public display.

What you get: Multiple Commissions. Permanent, outdoor sculptures. Life-size or larger, or multiple smaller works.

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Share Prize XVII 2025 - Call for art

Deadline: May 23, 2025

Submission Fee: Free

Eligibility: Tech-artists of any age, gender and nationality.

About the call: Share Festival, the Italian exhibition of contemporary art focused on technological evolution and science, announces the theme of the seventeenth consecutive edition of the Share Prize. The theme of this edition is: "Tomorrow Now: The Art of 2050 AD"

What you get: Share Prize Jury will select six artists among the applicants to be exhibited during Share Festival 19th edition. The winner, announced during the opening of Share Festival, will receive a 2.500 euros award. Share Festival will provide travel and accomodation for the artists selected. The artis will also have the oppurtunity of being represented and networking in a international environment specialized in contemporary tech-art. Curators and artists attend yearly to Share Festival. Furthermore, our festival always provides high visibility from our communication medias and from issueing a catalogue per edition.

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International Call for Artists - Critical Review Catalogue Publication & Online Exhibits

Deadline: Ongoing

Submission Fee: Free

Online Only

About the call: Up to six best in show artists will have their work published with a critical review in the Artist Feature Catalogue. Artists participating in the online exhibit will have two works of art on display and links to their website and social media. Artists keep 100% sales of their work.

How to apply:

You can apply for the online exhibit by emailing us at curator@aedrafinearts.com

Email your resume, 3 image samples, and artist website.

Artist Feature Catalogue articles are published on our website at https://www.aedrafinearts.com/artist-feature and on our Substack page at https://aedrafinearts.substack.com

AFA does not accept applications of works made with artificial intelligence.

IHRAM Literary Magazine

Deadline: Ongoing

Submission Fee: Free

Eligibility:
Please submit your ARTWORK, poem, short story, or essay (2500 words or less) to submit@humanrightsartmovement.org, along with the following information:
-Your full name and/or pen name.
-Your country of residence.
-A photograph of you (high-resolution with no filters)
-A brief third-person bio (2-5 sentences). If your bio includes references of your past work, feel free to provide links!
-A brief foreword to your piece, explaining your inspiration for writing the piece, background information, explanation of key characters, and any other key insight for the reader.

About the call:

We publish an ever-expanding collection of original works from lesser known and up-and-coming writers AND ARTISTS who seek to bring attention to urgent social justice issues around the world. We base our work on the values of beauty, sincerity, vulnerability, engagement and celebration of diversity. HRAM Publishes has presented work from 50 countries and 30 U.S. States.

We will be focusing on the following concerns:

FIRST AND FOURTH QUARTER: VOICE OF A REFUGEE: RESILIENCE AMIDST DISPLACEMENT.
According to the UNHCR, 117.2 million people will be forcibly displaced or stateless in 2023 — this is up nearly 100% in the past decade, and the most in recorded history. This issue will drive our literary magazine, bookending our publication year.

We are eager to publish firsthand experiences and factual, sensitive retellings of refugee experiences. We are not looking to publish fictional interpretations of the refugee experience at this time.

Themes: Journey, survival, identity, belonging, loss and resilience, hope, community, solidarity, cultural preservation, chosen family and blood relation, integration into new cultures, intersectionality, and global perspective.

SECOND QUARTER: FEMININE EMPOWERMENT.
Though women comprise more than 50% of the world's population, they only own 1% of the world's wealth. In some places, women still lack rights to own land or to inherit property, obtain access to credit, earn income, or to move up in their workplace, free from job discrimination. In legislatures around the world, women are outnumbered 4 to 1.

We are eager to publish firsthand experiences by women, factual retellings of stories told by women in the author's life, and reflections of the writer's personal experience with gendered inequality. We encourage submissions from, regardless of gender identity!

Themes: Economic empowerment, workplace equality, legal rights, women in leadership roles, educational opportunities, violence against women, health and wellbeing, comparison of historical and contemporary women's voices, solidarity, femininity, gender expression.

THIRD QUARTER: CHILDHOOD EDUCATION IN AFRICA.
Three out of four children do not attend any form of preschool in Central, West and sub-Saharan Africa. Over 20% of children between the ages of about 6 and 11 are out of school; followed by one-third of youth between the ages of about 12 and 14. Almost 60% of youth between the ages of about 15 and 17 are not in school.

We are eager to publish firsthand accounts from African Youth writers, reflections by adult writers on their youth experiences, and firsthand accounts from childhood educators, and factual retellings.

Themes: Access to education, barriers, early childhood development, childhood dreams and aspirations, value of the youth voice, role models, challenges faced by teachers.

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Publish Your Creative Work in an Ivy League Magazine

The Penn Journal of Arts and Sciences (PJAS) is launching an Open Call for our upcoming issue, centered around the theme "How to Let Go." We invite submissions that explore this theme through creative articles, poetry, reviews, and art. Our goal is to provide a platform for diverse voices to express their unique perspectives on letting go, whether it be through personal experiences, philosophical reflections, or artistic interpretations.

Award Info: Selected artists and writers will have their work featured in the Summer 2024 issue of PJAS, reaching a global audience of scholars, artists, and enthusiasts. Additionally, they will receive a certificate of recognition and a spotlight feature on our website and social media channels. Select artists will be featured on our magazine cover.

Deadline: Ongoing

Submission Fee: Free

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Charles W. and Norma C. Carroll Gallery & Birke Art Gallery Artist Proposals

Marshall University’s School of Art & Design is home to two galleries: the Charles W. and Norma C. Carroll Gallery and the Birke Art Gallery. Our galleries are located in the Visual Arts Center in downtown Huntington, WV providing opportunities to view national and international artwork year round.

REVIEW
Proposals are reviewed twice a year and accepted artists are notified via email. Once accepted, artists coordinate with the Gallery Director to finalize exhibition details.

Proposals for art exhibitions are accepted on an ongoing basis, but must be submitted at least eight months prior to the requested exhibition dates.  Group proposals should be submitted as a single form with artist statements, biographies, CV, and sample images from each artist. If the proposal document exceeds 24MB, a link to sample images should be included in the proposal PDF.

SHIPPING
Artist(s) are responsible for the cost of delivery and return shipping for their work.

SALES
Artists provide a price list for works included in an exhibition for insurance purposes. If a gallery patron expresses interest in acquiring a work in an exhibition, sales will be directed to the artist. The artist may also elect to list works as Not for Sale (NFS) on the price list.

Submission Fee: Not applicable

Deadline: Ongoing

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