Call For Art
Artists Call – Light Trails 2025/26
An open call for artists to propose works for major illuminated light trails across the UK and USA, including Christmas and Lightscape events at leading gardens, heritage sites, and cultural destinations.
Deadline: January 16, 2026
Existing Outdoor Artwork for Light Up Kilburn 2026
Hive Curates and Camden Council invites artists, designers and architects working with outdoor light installations to submit existing artworks for Light Up Kilburn 2026. Applicants are encouraged to respond to the festival’s themes of biodiversity and women’s night-time safety, both with the aim of uniting communities. On Friday 27th and Saturday 28th of February, Light Up Kilburn 2026 will illuminate Kilburn Grange Park during some of the darkest winter nights, transforming it into a captivating immersive experience of light.
Deadline 05 January 2026
What Keeps Us Well? Open Call
“Woven into the days of stress, the golden threads of thankfulness.”
Inspired by A. F. Foreman’s 1921 poem, INYBB invites artists, writers, and filmmakers to explore what keeps us well.
We welcome visual art, film (up to 3 minutes), or writing (up to 500 words).
Between wandering and wondering lies opportunity—share how you navigate what keeps you well.
Deadline: January 18, 2026
Creative Climate Awards 2026 - Collective Power Apr 2026 – May 2026
Our theme, Collective Power, calls on artists everywhere to explore how unity, solidarity, and shared vision fuel transformative change. Through a month-long series of public exhibitions, performances, and a film festival, the 2026 CCAs will showcase artworks that illuminate how people come together to create resilience in the face of the climate crisis. Use your creativity to celebrate collaboration, amplify frontline voices, and inspires collective action toward a more livable future.
Deadline: February 2, 2026
Lee Miller Open Call
An open call for photography and film responding to Lee Miller’s work and themes of community, resistance, surrealism, and activism. Selected works will be exhibited at Late at Tate Britain in February 2026
Deadline: January 7, 2026
Call for Artists: Photomontage as Activist Practice
Are you an artist working with collage and/or photomontage to question or disrupt dominant narratives? We’re inviting artists who have a series of work (by which we mean 10 or more pieces) to share your work with us. Our panel of judges will select their favourite(s) and the successful applicants’ work will be featured in an online gallery on Autograph's website, and will receive a £400 fee as well as editorial support from Autograph's experienced staff.
Deadline: January 12, 2025
EMAF 2026: Call for Entries
Media artists from around the world can now enter their work to be considered for the 2026 European Media Art Festival.
Deadline: December 22, 2025
Open Call Mail Art: "Fragments of What Makes Us Alive"
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
Deadline: December 25, 2025
IHRAM Literary Magazine
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.
Deadline: Ongoing
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.
Deadline: Ongoing