The John O. Calmore Creative Activism Artist Residency at McColl Center is seeking citizen-artists who are dedicated to addressing social justice issues through their creative practice. The residency aims to emphasize the ways in which art and artists can serve as catalysts for social action, problem-solving, and relationship building.

This opportunity is open to national and international arts professionals 21+ years of age, showing a strong professional working history of socially and/or politically engaged artmaking. We welcome diverse artistic themes and disciplines rooted in the principles of risk-taking, creative expression, and critical thinking. This residency will culminate in an exhibition based in Toronto, Canada, with the specific date to be determined.

  
**Residency Dates: January 7 - April 14, 2026**

Selected artists receive:

* $6,000 living, materials, and travel stipend (United States-based artists or artists with Green Card or J-1 Visa only; due to the limitations of visas, international artists may not qualify for a stipend but may be eligible to receive reimbursement of qualified expenses, such as airfare, ground transportation, supplies, and meals.)
* Furnished apartment (for artists from outside the greater Charlotte area)
* 24-hour access to a private studio with Wi-Fi and common use areas
* Participation in a group showcase on the second floor of McColl Center
* Photo and social media documentation
* Professional curatorial guidance
* Opportunities to engage with McColl Center audiences via public programs.

John O. Calmore Creative Activism Artist Residency

Field Projects (NYC) is teaming up with In Situ Polyculture Commons, an arts residency and eco-cultural catalyst (Southeastern Vermont) to offer our inaugural 2025 Solo Show & Residency Fellowship.

This opportunity includes a 2-4 week art residency in Vermont, plus a 5-week solo exhibition for an individual artist or collaborative group of up to 4 people, as well as a stipend of $1000 to be used as the artist sees fit.

We are two artist-run organizations, and for our first-ever collaboration, we have created a fellowship opportunity that we would want!

  
**Awardee responsible for:**

* Any travel to and from residency or gallery
* Attending the residency
* Grocery / self-catering expenses at residency (kitchen is fully stocked with all cookware and appliances on has many staples on hand)
* Participating / working with Field Projects to install the show
* Exhibiting at Field Projects
* D_onating 2 small works, for the residency & gallery collections_

  
**Important Dates:**

* \*Residency Session Window: June 13 - July 14th
* Installation Window: Sunday July 13th - Wednesday July 16th
* Exhibition dates: July 17 - Aug 21, 2025
* Opening reception: Thursday, July 17th, 2025

  
\*Artist can choose their best arrival / departure dates at the residency within their window, for anywhere from 2-4 weeks, which do not need to be consecutive.

I_n Situ is happy to be flexible for artists, whose calendars are often managed tyrannically by institutional calendar preferences._ 

* 2-4 week residency in S. VT at In Situ Polyculture includes ample studio space & accommodations in a bucolic setting with access to a full kitchen for self catering
* 5-week solo exhibition in NYC at Field Projects Space
* Stipend: $1000 to be used as the artist sees fit
* Studio visit with Jacob Rhodes for exhibition planning / installation support. (In-person in NYC metro area, remote meeting if further afield).
* Pre-installation preparatory support at residency (ex: preparation of cleats for hanging panels, packing work safely for transport to gallery, etc).
* Installation support at Field Projects

  

Solo Show & Residency Fellowship

Call for entries for the 6th Henriettenglück Art Prize 2025

  
On the occasion of the opening exhibition of the Atelierhaus Recklinghausen in the former Königschule in the König Ludwig district, the art prize 'Henriettenglück' was launched in 2014, which is committed to the history of the Ruhr region.

  
The title of the art prize refers to the original name of the local mine. It was originally called "Henriette's Happiness," in honor of Princess Louise Henriette of Orange, the future wife of the Great Elector of Brandenburg. In gratitude to the King of Bavaria, who had given his consent to the Prussian Emperor William during the founding of the German Empire, the mine was subsequently renamed "King Ludwig." The word "luck" in connection with a mine presumably also conjured up the miners' "Glück Auf" (Good Luck).

  
Since 2022, the "Henriettenglück" art prize has been supported by the Cultural Foundation of Sparkasse Vest Recklinghausen.

  
**Topic in 2025:** In mining, a "cable ride" refers to the transport of people down a shaft in a cage suspended from a cable. "Cable rides" are not only used vertically downwards or upwards, but also as a crossing aid, for example, over a river to another landscape or up from the valley station to the mountain peak, making people's mountain dreams come true all year round. A cable ride down a mine shaft leads into the darkness – at the site of coal mining – but also back into the light again.

  
Rope travel thus leads to a place of fulfillment, a place of hope, or even a place of longing. The participating artists are expected to explore the various aspects of "rope travel" and can interpret the theme of rope travel through painting, photography, media art, sculpture, object art, or installation.

The art prize is endowed with €1,000\. In addition to the prize money, the winner receives a solo exhibition and a catalog for the following year's exhibition. A maximum of three artistic works can be submitted for the "Seilfahrt" project. 

Henriettenglück Art Prize

The Ink Shop Printmaking Center offers an annual Fellowship Grant to a printmaker or book artist. The Fellowship, funded in part from a generous contribution from the Kahn Family, provides an artist with the time and resources to create a new body of work. The Fellow is granted a full year membership to The Ink Shop with 24/7 access to studio and equipment, and is given the opportunity to present this work in a gallery show. The Fellowship enables the artist to participate in Ink Shop exhibitions and portfolio exchanges, and to partake in all aspects of The Ink Shop’s day-to-day management. The Fellow helps with exhibition programs and covers some shop hours. 

The next Fellowship begins May 15, 2025 and ends February 15, 2026.

  

The Fellow will be offered a stipend of $2000 and all the benefits and privileges of a Printmaker Associate. The Fellow may teach workshops and/or edition for other artists (for which one could be paid additionally as an independent contractor). The Ink Shop will provide technical advice, guidance, and assistance in production and use of equipment. For the month of February 2025 the Fellow will have the opportunity to present a Solo show.

Ink Shop Kahn Family Fellowship

Spring is here! Flowers are blooming and bees buzzing, bringing a refreshing sense of renewal. Let's celebrate the beauty and energy of this vibrant season!

​

The theme of the competition is Regeneration. Submit your work for the chance at a $100 cash prize and see your art in our online virtual gallery. Show us your best paintings, photos, digital works, and other 2D images.

$100 cash prize for winning entry paid via PayPal.

"Regeneration" Spring Art Competition

Science Gallery Monterrey invites artists, researchers, community activists and critical thinkers to submit existing, interdisciplinary artistic and research projects for our next exhibition centered around the theme of **CONSCIOUSNESS.** The exhibition will open in October 2025.

  
Science Gallery Monterrey is a space where artistic and scientific modes of thinking collide to push the boundaries of knowledge, catalyzing novel ideas that offer innovative perspectives and solutions to current challenges. 

  
One of the most intriguing paradoxes confronting researchers today is the nature of consciousness. While scientific knowledge is generated by the activity of the conscious mind, science is still unable to understand what consciousness is, how it works, where it exactly resides or how it comes into being. 

  
The answers to these fundamental questions about consciousness have become increasingly urgent in the last few years. This derives not only from the fact that emergent AI technologies aim to produce self-conscious digital learning systems, but also from recent discoveries that vertebrates and invertebrates, across a range of sizes and complexities, have varying forms and degrees of awareness.

  
**Potential subthemes**

* The mind-body duality vs. the AI-machine duality.
* Can science objectively describe the subjective?
* Could a droid enjoy the taste of an apple?
* Do plants experience forms of consciousness?
* The distinction between robot and human consciousness.
* What is it like to be a fruit fly?
* The use of scientific tools to study the nature of dreams.
* Are quantum events the building blocks of consciousness?
* Frankenstein’s creature or Hal: replicas of consciousness made of artificial neuronal organoids.

Projects selected through our open call will be funded up to MXN 150,000 (One hundred fifty thousand Mexican pesos). This budget includes all licensing and artist fees, as well as flights and hotel accommodation for the artist should they choose to attend, plus freight, insurance, and other related costs. **Please note that this is a maximum amount, not a target amount**. No funds will be allocated for production expenses, including materials, tools, or professional services. 

  
Please include in your proposal a rough breakdown of the projected costs for licensing your project to Science Gallery Monterrey for **eight** months. Science Gallery Monterrey will not permanently acquire any of the proposals selected through the open call.

  
**What is the exhibition space like?**

The exhibition will take place at Science Gallery Monterrey, located on the ground floor of the Expedition building. It is part of the Innovation District of Tecnológico de Monterrey, in Monterrey, Mexico. 

  
We operate in a 9x20-meter exhibition space with a 3.5-meter ceiling and exhibition area with doors that open onto a public space. Proposals should consider sharing the total space with six to eight other works. For this reason, **we will favor pieces with a footprint not larger than 20 square meters.**

CONSCIOUSNESS: Call for Submissions

Canal Convergence seeks proposals for outdoor, temporary public artworks to be featured in and around the Arizona Canal at the Scottsdale Waterfront in Scottsdale, Arizona. Canal Convergence will be on view for 10 nights, from Nov. 7–16, 2025\. Some projects may be selected to remain installed for an additional 1–2 months after the Canal Convergence event dates. This year’s central theme is “Showtime!”

  
 This call specifically targets outdoor, light-based installations. Nighttime presence/activation is required; daytime presence/activation is encouraged.

  
**A**rtwork Considerations for Canal Convergence 2025:

* Propose an artwork that speaks to the 2025 featured theme, Showtime!
* Present multiple (2-3) installations for the event that can be shipped to and from Canal Convergence in the same truck, container, etc.
* Propose art installations that can be located in smaller, more narrow sections of the ground, ground that is not level, and/or integrated into the landscaping without damaging or destroying any plants.
* Submit art installation proposals that do not require 24-hour security.

  
This call is Phase I of II. Phase I asks artists to focus primarily on the proposal concept, images, rendering, and estimated total budget. Once Phase I closes on April 23, 2025, up to 30 proposals will be selected for Phase II via Scottsdale Public Art staff review. These artists will be asked to provide more detailed information on their proposals, which will be presented to a final selection panel composed of Scottsdale Arts staff and advisory board members, the city of Scottsdale and Salt River Project staff, and community stakeholders. Required additional information for Phase II will include, but is not limited to, a detailed timeline, itemized budget, support crew, heavy equipment and power requirements, etc.

  
**Event Information:**

Canal Convergence | Showtime!

November 7–16, 2025

Fridays and Saturdays: 6–10 p.m.

Monday-Thursday and Sundays: 6–9 p.m.

Scottsdale Waterfront in Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S.A.

Free Admission

**Budget:** We will accept budgets between $5,000 and $35,000 (USD), with a limited number of larger budgets (up to $50,000 USD) being awarded to new commissions and/or major works of a larger physical scale. Artists wishing to provide proposals for larger-scale budgets are required to demonstrate experience in successfully producing projects to the scale being proposed. 

  
Artwork displayed in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.

Call for Public Art: Canal Convergence 2025

Free to apply. Pay for the costs ONLY if selected.

**Exhibit in Brazil - Fragmentos Exhibition** 

  
**Show your work in Brazil without having to be physically present.**

The artists will not have to worry about anything. 

No printing, no framing, no crating, no shipping, no customs. 

We will take care of every detail.

  
**\- OPEN THEME**

  
**\- Artists from all nationalities, backgrounds and styles are welcome.** 

  
**\- All mediums accepted** but the artworks must be in DIGITAL FORMAT, meaning that paintings, mix-media, sculptures and other formats will have to be photographed and sent to us. Short videos are also accepted.

  
\- We will print and mount all the selected images in Brazil.

  
**\- FREE Submission** \- Only the artists who get selected for the exhibition will be asked to pay the participation fee in order to cover the expenses.

  
**\- Submission Deadline: Thu** **24 April 2025**

  
Please visit our website for more info.

https://www.artlymix.com/open-calls/

Exhibit in Brazil - Fragmentos Exhibition   

CICA Museum invites artists worldwide to participate in the International Exhibition “Humanity.” This exhibition delves into the essence of humanity and redefines humanism in our era, exploring the virtues that shape us across personal, cultural, technological, and geopolitical dimensions.Artists are encouraged to submit works in various media, including photography, 2D digital art, video art, interactive art, painting, sculpture, and installation art.

  
\*Deadline: April 25, 2025

  
\*Category

\-Photographs & 2D Digital Art

\-Video & Interactive Art

\-Painting & Installation Art

  
\*Installation

\-Photography & 2D Digital Art

Selected works will be printed in 10×15 or 10×10 inches, framed, and installed by our curators & assistants. If requested by the artist, works can be printed and framed in different sizes. Additional fees may apply.

  
\-Video & Interactive Art

We will provide projectors and DVD/DIVX players for the show. Multiple single-channel works will be screened via a projector. If the work is required to be screened via a projector exclusively, or more than two projectors/monitors are needed, please indicate the special requirements in the submission email. Additional fees may apply.

  
\-Physical Works (Painting, Drawing, Print, Sculpture, and Installation Art)

The artist is responsible for the shipment and delivery of his/her physical work to and from CICA Museum, as well as all related expenses. The two-dimensional work should be no larger than 39 inch (1 m) on the longest side, and the installation piece should be no larger than 39x39x79 inches (1 x 1 x 2 m, w x l x h). The work that needs to be mounted on the wall should not exceed 10 kg. Please indicate in the submission email if you are interested in exhibiting works exceeding the size/weight limit.

  
\*Exhibition Dates: January 21 – February 8, 2026

  
\*\*\*The dates are subject to change.

  
\*How to submit your work:

Please visit our website for more information.

https://cicamuseum.com/call-for-artists-humanity/

CICA Museum invites artists worldwide to participate in the International Exhibition “Humanity.” This exhibition delves into the essence of humanity and redefines humanism in our era, exploring the virtues that shape us across personal, cultural, technological, and geopolitical dimensions.Artists are encouraged to submit works in various media, including photography, 2D digital art, video art, interactive art, painting, sculpture, and installation art.

  
**\*Deadline: April 25, 2025**

  
\*Category

\-Photographs & 2D Digital Art

\-Video & Interactive Art

\-Painting & Installation Art

  
\*Installation

\-Photography & 2D Digital Art

Selected works will be printed in 10×15 or 10×10 inches, framed, and installed by our curators & assistants. If requested by the artist, works can be printed and framed in different sizes. Additional fees may apply.

  
\-Video & Interactive Art

We will provide projectors and DVD/DIVX players for the show. Multiple single-channel works will be screened via a projector. If the work is required to be screened via a projector exclusively, or more than two projectors/monitors are needed, please indicate the special requirements in the submission email. Additional fees may apply.

  
\-Physical Works (Painting, Drawing, Print, Sculpture, and Installation Art)

The artist is responsible for the shipment and delivery of his/her physical work to and from CICA Museum, as well as all related expenses. The two-dimensional work should be no larger than 39 inch (1 m) on the longest side, and the installation piece should be no larger than 39x39x79 inches (1 x 1 x 2 m, w x l x h). The work that needs to be mounted on the wall should not exceed 10 kg. Please indicate in the submission email if you are interested in exhibiting works exceeding the size/weight limit.

  
\*Exhibition Dates: January 21 – February 8, 2026

  
\*\*\*The dates are subject to change.

  
\*How to submit your work:

Please visit our website for more information.

https://cicamuseum.com/call-for-artists-humanity/

  

Call for Artists: “Humanity” – An International Exhibition

**Contrast!, Issue 4 is an exhibition and a publication surrounding the theme and concept of contrast- what it means in art and how it is portrayed. We encourage you to take the idea as conceptually or literally as possible, as it is a form of creative research on how contrast as an concept appears in art.**

  
This is the final edition of the Contrast publication and there will be no more Contrast publications thereafter. Therefore the exhibition will span two months in total to celebrate this. 

Contrast Issue 4

Discover open calls, art residencies, exhibitions opportunities, grants, awards, art jobs and more by leading art organizations and institutions worldwide.

Opportunities for Artists in Canada

Find the best opportunities for artists in Canada. Residencies, open calls, grants, exhibitions, awards and more. All in one place.

Add

Opportunities

For Artists

ArtConnect

Support