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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.

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"Regeneration" Spring Art Competition

The Agility Award is an Arts Council funding scheme for individual professional artists and arts practitioners who have not been previously funded as an individual by the Arts Council. You can apply for the Agility Award if you want to: 

  
• Develop your practice 

• Develop your work 

• Develop your skills. 

**You can apply for any amount between €1,500 and €5,000.** _You can’t apply for any amounts below €1,500 or above €5,000\. If you do, your application will be ineligible, and we won’t assess it._ 

Agility Award

The Macmillan Prize for Illustration is awarded for an unpublished children’s picture book. Submissions are open for 2025!

  
Established in 1985, this prize is open to non-professional illustrators and celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. The aim of the award is to stimulate new creative work that helps students to take the first steps in their professional careers. This coveted award has discovered many award-winning and bestselling talents, including Emily Gravett, Lucy Cousins, Ross Collins, Bethan Woollvin and Morag Hood. 

  
The winners will be chosen by a panel of judges comprising individuals from Macmillan as well as independent guest judges. 

a) The prizes for the winners of the Competition consist of:

  
* First Prize: £1,000
* Second Prize: £500
* Third Prize: £250

  
b) The prize-winners, plus the highly commended entrants, will be invited to a reception where the winners’ and highly commended entrants’ work will be exhibited. We intend to hold the reception in London in the summer.

Macmillan Prize for Illustration

The goal of this open call is to give participants the opportunity to see their work exhibited at a renowned international photo festival and, consequently, promote their visibility.

  
For the 35th edition of the Encontros da Imagem festival, the organisation intends to present different proposals for contemporary photography, highlighting the diversity and richness of the different approaches, from documentary projects to those that want to explore the limits of photographic construction.

  
Encontros da Imagem returns between 18th of September and 2nd of November, with exhibitions in various cities in the north of Portugal, with the aim of cultivating visual literacy and contributing to the democratisation of photography in its enjoyment and creation.

**What winners receive**

* The finalists will have their work produced and exhibited at the 2025 edition of the festival;
* The finalists will have their work published in the catalog of the 2025 edition;
* The winner of the Encontros da Imagem Award 2025 will be awarded with 1000€ (one thousand euros)

Encontros da Imagem Award 2025

**Cleveland Arts Prize promotes creativity in Northeast Ohio by honoring artists for artistic excellence and recognizes community** **leaders who help regional arts flourish.** Cleveland Arts Prize (CAP) was established by the Women’s City Club in 1960, and continues today as the nation’s oldest municipal arts award and an ongoing platform for celebrating Northeast Ohio’s exceptional arts community. In its earliest years, the group commissioned the Arts Prize medal, launched a scholarship program and established an endowment that secured the annual awarding of prizes.

  
**Discipline Prize Criteria:**

A body of original work that consistently exemplifies the highest level of artistic excellence as shown by but not limited to:

* Mastery of traditional skill and willingness to challenge status quo
* Awareness and/or acknowledgment of contemporary and/or changing schools of thought respective to discipline
* High level of continuity between artist statement and work
* Regional, national and/or international recognition\*
* Contributions to the canon of knowledge that will endure beyond the artist's life\*

\*These criteria will be assessed relative to career level.

Applicants will be placed into career levels based on the following requirements:

**Emerging Artist Award:** Candidate is currently living in Northeast Ohio and has created significant work or projects and shows remarkable promise for further development of their artistic careers.

**Mid-Career Artist Award:** Candidate is currently residing or has previously resided in Northeast Ohio and whose work has received both regional and national recognition.

**Lifetime Achievement Award:** Candidate who has worked or has been influential in the Northeast Ohio region over a period of decades and whose artistic achievements have brought distinction to the artist individually and to our region as a whole. 

Discipline Prize winners receive an unrestricted prize of $10,000 each. Special Prize recipients are honorary. 

  

Cleveland Arts Prize

**Artists** are an integral part of Berlin. Whether you are born and raised here, or now call this city your home, your unique perspective and creative input are what make this place one of the most exciting cities IN THE WORLD! But hey, we’re not biased 😉

  
As a Berlin-based gallery, BBA has developed the Made in Berlin Art Award to champion our local community. There are no restrictions on the medium or theme of your art, we are simply looking for Berlin-based creatives to be a part of our anniversary exhibition at Kühlhaus Berlin. 

  
Submit 1 work to be considered for the shortlist!

BBA Made in Berlin Art Award

CollexArt invites artists worldwide to submit their work for the **COLLEXART GRAND PRIZE 2025**. This art competition offers up to **$9,500 in cash prizes and exclusive artist benefits**.

  
**Open Theme – All Mediums Welcome!** We accept submissions across various disciplines, including **painting, sculpture, photography, mixed media, and digital art** (excluding sound and video).

  
Don't miss this opportunity to gain recognition and showcase your work! Submit today.

$39.00 for up to 10 entries. $3 for each additional artwork up to 20 works in total.

**$3000 Cash Award -** One artist will be awarded the Grand Prize 2025 Award at the conclusion of this call.

**$2,000 Purchase Award -** This award is used to purchase one or more selected submissions at the conclusion of this call.

**$4,500** in Artist Websites Powered by FolioLink (10 artists will be awarded one year of FolioLink artist website service which includes the option for a discounted subscription rate after the first year).

**Artist Profile Page in CollexArt -** Submitting artists (including the Purchase Award winner/s) may be invited to have their own in-depth Artist Profile Page. 

**Online Exhibit Space in CollexArt -** Depending on the submitted work we sometimes find opportunities to put together a new online solo or group exhibit. CollexArt online exhibits are permanently displayed in our site.

CollexArt Grand Prize 2025

The YICCA international contemporary art prize aims is to promote the enrolled artist, giving them chance to join the international market of contemporary art. This aim will be pursued by taking advantage of the opportunities that the contest offers both cash prizes and exhibition space. Also:

  
* The contest is open to all artists from any country
* There are no special qualifications required for entry
* All works are accepted, including video, installations and performances
* All works will be presented by a picture or a video + description

From the final 18 artists participating in the exhibition will be announced first and second ranked who will win a prize of 3000 and 1000 euro. The final exhibition will take place in a European city.

  
The works of selected artists will be published on "YICCA" catalogue which will be distributed free of charge to the finalists and will be available for professionals and institutions invited during the inauguration of the event.

Yicca Art Prize 2025

The SIYU AWARD, formerly «vfg Young Talent Award for Photography» is a competition organized by SIYU professional photography Switzerland, honouring ten projects to be presented and shown at basically in Switzerland. 

  
Between 1996 and 2022, the NWFP honoured ten outstanding talents in the field of photography each year. Following the merger of the vfg with the SBF and the uspp to form SIYU professionelle fotografie schweiz, the time has come to organise the award again. In doing so, SIYU is emphasising its claim to sustainably promote young local photographers and help young talents gain visibility. 

  
Ten of all the works submitted to the professional and independent jury of three experts will be presented to the interested public at an exhibition and other events and documented in a publication. In addition, workshops and events will be organised to facilitate networking, exchange with other photographers and artists and engagement with the general public.

The winner receives a cash prize of CHF 3000 sponsored by SIYU and its partners.

  
The names of the ten finalists will be presented for the first time and exclusively at the 10th Photo Basel 2025, before the group exhibition “SIYU AWARD 2025” takes place at Photobastei Zurich in October 2025\. All finalists will each receive a production contribution of CHF 500 for the realization of their work (prints, frames...).

  
In addition, the jury will honor one work with the SIYU AWARD, which is endowed with CHF 3000\. The winner will be announced at the vernissage.

SIYU AWARD 2025

In 2025, the Burg Giebichenstein Art Academy Halle will announce the 23rd annual Gustav Weidanz Prize for Sculpture . The award is one of the few young talent awards in Germany exclusively dedicated to sculpture. Sculptors residing in Germany who are under 35 years of age (including those born in 1990) are eligible to apply. The prize has been awarded on a rotating basis since 1975, in accordance with the testamentary disposition of Gustav Weidanz (1889–1970), a Halle sculptor and long-time professor at the Burg Giebichenstein.

  
Founded in 1915, the Burg Giebichenstein Art Academy Halle offers a distinctive profile with excellent educational and study conditions in its art and design departments. With over 1,000 students, it is one of the largest art schools in Germany. Visionary thinking and design are encouraged in its programs, as is the development of practical professional skills. The school has excellently equipped studios, laboratories, and workshops and is networked with numerous research facilities, institutions, and companies.

The Gustav Weidanz Prize is endowed with €2,500\. In fall/winter 2026, a cabinet exhibition featuring the prizewinner's works will be held in cooperation with the Moritzburg Art Museum in Halle (Saale). A photographic documentation will be created. The prize money will be presented at the exhibition opening.

Gustav Weidanz Prize for Sculpture

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