Artist Opportunities #719 – The Art League

Every week we gather a variety of artist opportunities from the DC area and beyond. Find one below and apply today — good luck! Click here for recent opportunities posts, and submit your opportunity listing here.

Opportunities 

Call for Muralists, Waynesboro, Virginia Street Art Festival — Waynesboro, VA

Deadline: January 31    Artists will be chosen based on their portfolios, artistic style, and how well their proposals align with the mural themes, which may include outdoor, historical, or other community-inspired subjects. Selected artists will create their murals live during the festival weekend, working alongside volunteers from Shenandoah Valley Art Center, Destination Downtown Waynesboro, and the community. Spectators will have the chance to witness the creative process firsthand and engage with you as you bring your vision to life. Click here for details.

Call to Artists, Western Loudoun Art and Studio Tour — Loudon County, VA

Deadline: January 31    Eligible Loudoun artists working in all visual media may apply to this juried event. Those selected will open their studios to the public for two or three full days, exposing their work to visitors from the metropolitan region. Click here for details.

Call for Entries, Art Speaks Juried Exhibition — Mathews, VA

Deadline: March 1    Calling all Virginia artists! The Bay School Community Arts Center is accepting submissions for the 2025 Art Speaks Juried Exhibition, April 26 to May 26. The show is open to any artist living or working in Virginia, 18 or older. Both 2D and 3D media are eligible, and $6,350 in prize money is available for award. Click here for details.

Call to Artists, Augusta Savage Grant

Deadline: March 3    The National Sculpture Society presents a $2,500 grant to be awarded to a talented emerging sculptor who self-identifies as Black or African American. Applicants must be citizens of or residents in the United States with a social security number. Works inspired by nature are preferred. Click here for details.

Re-runs: These were previously posted, but it’s not too late to enter!

Call for Artists, Teeny Tiny Art Show — Cumberland, MD

Deadline: January 21    The Allegany Arts Council is pleased to announce a call for entries into its 2025 Teeny Tiny Art Show, taking place in collaboration with Allegany College of Maryland’s Hazen Gallery. The show celebrates small works and offers a total of $1500 in cash prizes and awards. Click here for details.

Call for Entries, Montpelier Arts Center 2025 Artists on the Rise: Juried Teen Exhibition — Laurel, MD

Deadline: January 26    Montpelier Arts Center presents the 2025 edition of Artists on the Rise, an annual, juried exhibition designed to provide local teens the opportunity to showcase their artistic accomplishments in a professional setting. Come on, give it a try—YOU are an artist on the rise! Click here for details.

Call for Exhibitors, 2025 Capital Art Book Fair — D.C.

Deadline: January 27    Applications are being accepted for exhibitors at the 2025 Capital Art Book Fair scheduled for April 5–6 in Washington, D.C. Click here for details.

Call for Artists, Artist Open Studios — Maryland

Deadline: January 31    The annual Artist Open Studios (AOS) offers a behind-the-scenes look at a day in the life of a visual artist through an easy-to-navigate, self-guided tour. Each April, visitors from all over are invited to explore hundreds of artist studios and creative spaces throughout Maryland — free of charge. Featured exhibitions, demos, and artist talks connect artists with the public and highlight each neighborhood’s unique flavor and contributions to Maryland’s artistic vibrancy. Click here for details.

Call to Artists, Harmony Hall Arts Center Open Call for Solo and Group Exhibitions — Ft. Washington, MD

Deadline: February 1    Harmony Hall Arts Center’s (HHAC) Main and Community Galleries are now accepting solo and group visual art exhibition proposals for the 2025 – 2026 season. Harmony Hall Arts Center’s season runs September – July. This call for entry is open to all Visual Artists living or working in the greater Washington D.C. Metropolitan area. Click here for details.

Call for Entries Light & Dark: Contrast Fine Art Photography — Falls Church, VA

Deadline: February 2    Photographers are invited to explore the dynamic interplay of light and dark through contrast, in both black-and-white and color photography. Works must not be generated through the use of artificial intelligence. Click here for details.

Call for Entries, 15th Annual Patricia Sitar Juried Exhibition: Reflections — D.C.

Deadline: February 3    Reflections is a journey into perception and introspection. We invite you to create a piece that mirrors reality or imagination. This exhibition offers an opportunity to explore what reflections mean to you—whether literal or metaphorical—and how they represent your current stance or direction in life. Click here for details.

Open Call, Publication in Art Magazine

Deadline: February 15   Visual Art Journal is a magazine that selects and publishes works of talented emerging artists. Magazine features up to 120 elegantly designed pages, printed on high-quality paper and is distributed worldwide. Artists are encouraged to submit their work. Submission is free and open to artists from any country who are 18 years and older. All forms of visual art are accepted. Click here for details.

Call for Artists, BAC 2025 Emerging Artist Fellowship — Ossining, NY

Deadline: February 19    In 2022, Bethany Arts Community (BAC) identified the need and opportunity to support a longer-term fellowship specifically for emerging artists ages 21+. In 2025, BAC welcomes their thirdEmerging Artist Fellowship, running in two cohorts from May 22 to September 11, 2025 and July 24 to November 13, 2025. Click here for details.

Call for Entries, Wayne Art Center 17th Annual Plein Air Festival — Wayne, PA

Deadline: February 20    Wayne Art Center’s 17th Annual Plein Air Festival will take place May 4 through May 10, 2025 when 32 juried artists from across the country arrive to paint scenes within a 35-mile radius of Wayne, Pennsylvania including historic Main Line towns, rolling farm country, downtown Philadelphia and the Delaware and Schuylkill riverfronts. The work resulting from the 7-day competition will be exhibited at the Wayne Art Center Preview Party & Sale on May 10 and remains on view through June 21, 2025. Juror Larry Moore will choose participating artists from online entries and award cash prizes of $25,000. Click here for details.

Call for Entries, Bethesda Painting Awards — Bethesda, MD

Deadline: February 26    The Bethesda Arts & Entertainment District once again invites local artists to submit work to the 21st annual Bethesda Painting Awards. This juried art competition awards $14,000 in prizes to four selected winners. Click here for details.

2025 New River Art Biennial Exhibition — Blacksburg, VA

Deadline: March 1    This is the 18th New River Art Juried Biennial Exhibition. This exhibit traditionally rotates every two years between the Floyd Center for the Arts, the Fine Arts Center for the New River Valley in Pulaski and the Blacksburg Regional Art Association (BRAA). The 2025 exhibition is sponsored by BRAA and hosted by the Moss Arts Center for the second time! The BRAA, established in 1950, created this juried biennial in 1991 and remains the driving force behind the event. Click here for details.

Call to Artists, Montpelier Arts Center Solicits Exhibition Proposals — Laurel, MD

Deadline: March 2    Montpelier Arts Center is holding a competition for exhibitions that will be held in the Library Gallery, September 2025–August 2026. Eligible artists must be 18 years and older and reside in Maryland. An honorarium of $500 will be presented for each exhibition (i.e. groups would share the $500 honorarium). Click here for details.

Call for Entries, VMRC Juried Art Exhibition 2025 — Harrisonburg, VA

Deadline: March 10    An annual juried exhibition, now entering its 22nd year, accepting entries of original art in two and three dimensions from artists nationwide. Approximately 100 works will be selected for display in the Park Gables Gallery on the campus of the Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community (VMRC) during the month of June. The Exhibition will be open to the public as well as to VMRC residents and staff. A total of $6,250 in cash prizes will awarded and grant funding for continued artistic development is available. Click here for details.

Call for Entries, Works on Paper 2025 — Loveladies, NJ

Deadline: March 21   Works on Paper 2025 is the 27th Annual National Juried Competition and Exhibition at the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Long Beach Island, New Jersey. Works on Paper can include but is not limited to Drawing, Painting on Paper, hand pulled Prints, Photographic Prints, Digital Works on Paper, and Paper constructions that can be wall hung. The Juror will select 65 artworks to be on display in our spacious Gallery. Click here for details.

Call to Artists, Montpelier Arts Center Opens Resident Artist Studio Competition — Laurel, MD

Deadline: March 23    Join a thriving community of professional artists in the Montpelier Resident Artist Program. Resident artists work in a diverse variety of media and styles, maintain studio hours for the public to visit, and participate in community events. Resident artists are selected by an annual jury panel and exhibit their work in the Montpelier Arts Center’s Resident Artist Gallery on a revolving basis. Click here for details.

Call for Entries, Colored Pencil Society of America 33rd Annual International Exhibition — Bethesda, MD

Deadline: March 31    The Colored Pencil Society of America invites you to show the world what you can create with the vibrant, versatile medium of colored pencil. Submit your original artwork created 100% in colored pencil to our 33rd Annual International Exhibition, to be displayed in the historic Mansion at Strathmore in Bethesda, MD. Click here for details.

Call for Artists, The Haute-Couture Boat Exhibit — New York

Deadline: May 1    Imagine your artwork being celebrated at a prestigious high-fashion and art event on a stunning yacht. This unique experience will feature an art exhibition, a full runway show, engaging photo and video productions, and extensive social media coverage. Additionally, a visual artist will be invited to design the scenery and lights for the couture show,  enhancing the overall aesthetic. Click here for details.

Call for Entries, 2025 Virginia Watercolor Society Annual Juried Exhibition — Radford, VA

Deadline: May 23    You are invited to apply for the Virginia Watercolor Society  46th Annual Juried Exhibition to be held at the Art Museum at the Covington Center,  Radford University , E. Main St, Radford, Va from September 26 until November 4 2025. We welcome applications from paid-up members of the Virginia Watercolor Society (VWS) only. Click here for details.

Ongoing: These opportunities have rolling deadlines.

Studio Sundays Submissions, Create! Magazine

Every month Create! Magazine!  picks several winning images of artists’ studio spaces and features them on their website and social media along with artists’ work and story. Submit a quality image of your workspace, studio or kitchen table where you make work for a chance to be featured. For more information and to submit, click here.  

Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants

These monthly grants range from $500–$3,000, with the average amount being $1,700. Visual and performing artists whose work is of a contemporary, experimental nature and who have a US Tax ID Number can apply. For more information, click here.

 

Call for Art, Links Bridge Vineyards—Thurmont, MD

Links Bridge Vineyards, a small artisan style winery located just outside of Frederick, Maryland, is looking to feature the artwork of various artists on the walls of their tasting barn for two weeks at a time. To learn more, call Joan Cartier 301-602-5733 or email her at [email protected].

 

Pyramid Atlantic Workshop Proposals – Hyattsville, MD

Pyramid Atlantic offers year-round workshops in printmaking, papermaking, book arts, and hybrids thereof. We offer multi-week, daytime, evening, and weekend intensives for adults in our fully equipped studios. As part of a robust and diverse schedule of offerings, we welcome unsolicited workshop proposals, and hope that you will consider applying! Workshop proposal reviews are ongoing, but for best consideration, submit class proposals by the following dates: 1/15 for Summer Workshops; 4/1 for Fall Workshops; 7/1 for Winter Workshops; 10/1 for Spring Workshops. Questions? Email Gretchen, Artistic Director, [email protected]

 

Call For Stories About Women in the Arts, Maryland State Arts Council

2020 has been dedicated to the Year of the Woman in Maryland. Do you have an inspiring story about vital contributions of women-identifying people who are artists, arts administrators, or cultural workers? Perhaps an exhibition, performance or project featuring women? Share it with the Maryland State Arts Council for potential use in marketing and communications! Send your ideas to [email protected], and include “Year of the Woman” in the subject line. Satff will contact senders whose stories are selected for inclusion in future newsletters, eblasts, or social media postings. Learn more about Maryland’s year of the Woman here.

 

Call For Artists, Busboys and Poets

Busboys and Poets is looking for submissions from Maryland and Virginia artists as it expands to new locations in both areas. Submissions can include drawings, painting, photography, sculpture, mixed media, assemblage, fiber, quilts, etc. Art images reflecting life in the city, family, portraits, whimsy, abstraction, social uplift and life experiences within diverse cultures are encouraged for submission. For more information, click here.

 

Alterwork Studios Online Residency

This residency was designed to give emerging contemporary artists an online platform to create new work and explore their practice. Over the course of four weeks, artists will be encouraged to experiment and explore their concepts and move their work forward in the contemporary art world. Learn more here.

 

Accepting Artwork for Curatorial Review by AIWA

The Alper Initiative for Washington Art features five exhibitions per year in the newly constructed first floor space in the American University Museum. We accept submissions, on a rolling basis,  from Washington artists of all ages and backgrounds, and working in diverse media. The museum’s Director and Curator, Jack Rasmussen, will select curators who will review these submissions for potential use in Alper Initiative exhibitions. For more information click here.

 

 

Call For Entry Hamilton Arts Collective Guest Artist Exhibition – Baltimore, MD

The Hamilton Arts Collective (HAC) and the Hamilton Gallery seek applications from artists for month-long Guest Artist exhibitions at Hamilton Gallery located at 5502 Harford Road, Baltimore, MD. The selected guest artists will be invited to exhibit a selection of their current work in Gallery I of the Hamilton Gallery. The Guest Artist exhibition is featured in Hamilton Gallery communications and will be promoted by the HAC and Hamilton Gallery. This is an open call to artists residing within 60 miles of Baltimore City. Baltimore residents are encouraged to apply. Click here to learn more.

 

Howard County Arts Council Quarterly Call For Artists – Ellicott City, MD

The Howard County Arts Council gallery program was established to enhance the public’s appreciation of the visual arts, provide a venue to exhibit the work of local, regional, and national artists in a professional space, and provide leadership in the arts by presenting a broad spectrum of arts in all media from both emerging and established artists. Artists, ages 18 and older, working in all media and styles including time-based and installation artists, are encouraged to apply either individually or as a group. Proposals from curators and arts organizations are also welcome. Click here to learn more.

 

 

Exhibit at Hotel Indigo Downtown Baltimore — Baltimore, MD

The Maryland Art Place (MAP) is working with Hotel Indigo in downtown Baltimore to offer rotating exhibitions in the hotel’s library and Poets Modern Cocktails and Eats restaurant. This opportunity is open to visual artists living or working in Maryland. ’s public art partnership projects (MAP), in partnership with Hotel Indigo, is pleased to announce an open call to artists. MAP will curate four exhibitions a year based on submissions entered through a rolling basis. Click here to learn more.

 

 

Solo or Group Shows in Athenaeum Gallery – VA

The Athenaeum Gallery in Alexandria, Virginia exhibits visual arts created solely by artists living or working in the region (DC, Maryland and Virginia) and strives to present visitors with a wide variety of excellent art and unique experiences.  In addition to the shows curated by the Gallery Director, the Athenaeum Gallery invites artists and curators to submit show proposals. For more information, click here.

 

 

The Creativity Grant Program State of Maryland (MD)

Deadline: Rolling. The purpose of the Creativity Grant Program is to strengthen the vitality and sustainability of artists and small organizations to maintain a strong and stable arts infrastructure in the State of Maryland. The Creativity Grant also provides opportunities to serve the growing needs of relevant arts projects and collaborations within Maryland communities. For more information regarding eligibility and funding timelines, please review the Creativity Grants Guidelines. For more information about the program, and to apply visit the Creativity Grant Program State of Maryland website.

 

 

Artist/Writers: Cover Art for Academic Medicine

Deadline: Rolling. Submit original works of art inspired by, but not necessarily representative of, an academic medicine experience from any perspective: caregiver, researcher, teacher, learner, or patient (for example, learning how to be a physician or scientist, caring for patients, exploring research questions, making a new discovery, being a research participant, teaching, or being cared for in a teaching hospital). The journal welcomes photography, sculpture, painting, textile work, and other visual media. Images may be cropped or resized to fit into the allotted cover space. Artists must also submit a related Cover Art essay as a narrative companion to the artwork, to explain the connection between the work and the “academic medicine experience.” The related narrative should be 250 to 600 words and is subject to editing. To apply for this opportunity, and to learn more, visit the Academic Medicine website.

 

 

The Awesome Foundation Accepting Applications for Art Projects

Deadline: Open. The Awesome Foundation for the Arts and Sciences is a worldwide network of people devoted to forwarding the interest of “awesomeness in the universe.” Established in 2009, the foundation distributes $1,000 grants on a monthly basis to projects and their creators. The money is pooled from ten or more self-organizing “micro-trustees.” The chapters are autonomous and organized by the trustees around geographic areas or topics of interest. Apply on the Awesome Foundation website.

 

 

Call for Artists: Maryland Art Place Seeks Proposals for Rotating Exhibition Partnership with Baltimore’s Hotel Indigo (MD)

Deadline: rolling. Maryland Art Place (MAP), in partnership with Hotel Indigo is pleased to announce an open ‘Call to Artists’. As an extension of MAP’s annual IMPACT public art partnership projects, MAP is working with Hotel Indigo to offer rotating exhibitions in Hotel indigo’s library and Poets Modern Cocktails and Eats. This opportunity is available to visual artists living or working in Maryland. Maryland Art Place will curate four exhibitions a year based on submissions entered through a rolling basis. Guidelines and information here.

 

 

Peripheral ARTeries – Biennial Contemporary Art Publication

Deadline: Rolling. Peripheral ARTeries is looking for artists to be featured in the new special Biennial Edition of their art publication, that comes to its 10th edition. This opportunity is great for both established and early career artists who need a boost to their artist portfolio. The 10th edition will once again explore and show current trends and tendencies in Contemporary Art: Peripheral ARTeries cultivates a spirit of openness through a unique collaborative and participatory approach.Each artist may submit a maximum of three works or projects made in any technique: painting, drawing, video art, experimental cinema, fine art photography, experimental media, mixed media, installations, public art, performance. The call is open to all proposed kind of art and media capable of challenging the viewers’ traditional perspective on art itself. To submit, visit the Peripheral ARTeries website.

 

 

Exhibit at Hotel Indigo (VA)

Artists works will displayed in the hotel’s gallery (220 S Union St, Old Town Alexandria) for a six-month period. Two-dimensional, framed works only. Artists will install the work using the hotel’s mounting hardware. Labels will be provided by the hotel. All sales handled by artist, no commission. Preference for local or locally influenced selections but not required. The space measures approximately 7’10” by 8’3.″ If interested, contact Kate Ellis, General Manager, [email protected].

 

 

The New Project Studio – Ongoing Opportunity (VA)

Ongoing. Located in Studio 8, the New Project Studio is a community-focused arts incubator space that offers a short-term location to test new program ideas, spotlight underrepresented voices, and enhance community engagement. Projects rotate on a regular basis. For more information, click here.

 

 

Public Arts Grants & Opportunities (VA)

Ongoing. The City of Alexandria’s Office of the Arts provides grants for nonprofit arts organizations as well as individual artists. See all current opportunities and online applications here.

 

 

Residency: Maryland

Deadline: ongoing. Montgomery College, Rockville and Germantown Art Department is seeking proposals for its Artist-in-Residence Program, encouraging proposals that cultivate collaborative work between artists and students.

 

 

Looking for artists: Foundry Gallery (DC)

Deadline: ongoing. Foundry Gallery is seeking a few artists in the greater Washington, DC area. If interested in applying for membership please send up to five images (jpg attachments) and an email letter to: [email protected]. The oldest cooperative in Washington, the gallery holds monthly solo and members’ group shows at its beautiful space north of Shaw near the 9:30 Club.

 

 

Looking for artists: Printmakers (DC)

Deadline: ongoing. Washington Printmakers Gallery is seeking artist members specializing in printmaking, photography and book arts. An active cooperative for over 30 years, the gallery holds monthly solo and members’ group shows in its lovely space in upper Georgetown. Distant and shared memberships are available. If interested in applying for membership please email [email protected].