A flare of creativity could net you $100 and publication. Check out Sunspot Lit’s Solar Flare contest opening May 1, closing May 31. Authors and artists eligible in all genres/forms. Guidelines and entry form here: https://sunspotlit.submittable.com/submit/318762/solar-flare-2025-100-for-fiction-cnf-poem-art-graphic-novel.
Freelance
Artist of the Spring | Juried Online Exhibition
UPWARD Gallery invites artists to submit artwork for our juried online exhibition, Artist of the Spring.
All media is welcome, including: painting, drawing, digital painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, textiles, mixed media, etc.
Awards: Interview and other publications in our print edition of UPWARD’s magazine and on the website, digital certificate, personal artist page on the gallery website. The exhibition will be promoted online on the our website and social media channels. All artists retain 100% of sales with inquiries directed to them.
Fee: $15 for entry, $12 (2-4 entries), $10 (5 or more entries).
Deadline: May 31, 2025
Visit https://upwardgallery.com/ad/competitions/101/artist-spring for a full information.
The UPWARD Gallery was founded in 2021. Our online platform is designed to share art with new audiences using modern technologies. We help emerging artists to become known and established artists to expand their influence.
Bloom | Juried Online Exhibition
UPWARD Gallery invites artists to submit artwork for our juried online exhibition, Bloom.
All media is welcome, including: painting, drawing, digital painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, textiles, mixed media, etc.
Awards: Interview and other publications in our print edition of UPWARD’s magazine and on the website, digital certificate, personal artist page on the gallery website. The exhibition will be promoted online on the our website and social media channels. All artists retain 100% of sales with inquiries directed to them.
Fee: $15 for entry, $12 (2-4 entries), $10 (5 or more entries).
Deadline: May 27, 2025
Visit https://upwardgallery.com/ad/competitions/103/bloom for a full information.
The UPWARD Gallery was founded in 2021. Our online platform is designed to share art with new audiences using modern technologies. We help emerging artists to become known and established artists to expand their influence.
Board Treasurer (volunteer)
Women Eco Artists Dialog (WEAD) is in search of a Treasurer to join our volunteer board.
WEAD is a pioneering network of feminist ecoartists, educators, curators, and writers working toward the goal of a just and healthy world. Founded in 1994, we focus on women’s unique perspective in ecological and social justice art. WEAD maintains a website (weadartists.org) that serves as a virtual gallery of ecoartists work, connects artists and curators with exhibition opportunities, and educates and enlightens through its annual WEAD Magazine. Please read more about WEAD on our website: www.weadartists.org.
WEAD’s purpose:
- Provide information regarding the ecoart and social justice art fields to artists, curators, writers, art and public art administrators, educators in art and ecology, cross-disciplinary professionals and others
- To facilitate international networking among artists working with ecological and social justice issues
- To further the fields of, and the understanding of environmental and social justice art
WEAD does not subscribe to a single definition for ecofeminism or ecoart, nor one set of cultural, political, or social beliefs. Instead, WEAD celebrates a spectrum of differences under the colorful collective umbrella called ecofeminist art. Here women speak in their own voices, define their own work and map its place in the world. Together we work toward a just, sane, healthy world for all.
POSITION SUMMARY
Role: The Board Treasurer is a vital leadership position on the board of directors, playing a critical role in the organization’s financial health and stability.
Responsibilities:
- Monitor and reconcile bank statements. Save bank statements and reconciliation documents in WEAD files.
- Monitor and reconcile PayPal, Stripe and Eventbrite income and payments. Facilitate balance transfers. Save records and reconciliation documents in WEAD files. Record name, contact info, and type of income or expense (reimbursement, donation, member dues, et al).
- Maintain a complete itemized financial spreadsheet.
- Administer twice-monthly payroll via Gusto and remit payment to vendors, such as:
- Fundraising contractor
- Web development contractor
- Magazine authors
- Board reimbursements
- Artist stipends
- Ensure compliance with all relevant laws and regulations regarding financial reporting and taxation. Track tax and other legal requirements, complete filings and remit payments. WEAD has a very small budget so taxes are simple. Instructions and necessary contact information, etc. will be provided.
- Send donation thank you letters to donors.
- Communicate with Fundraiser, Staff and Chair as needed.
- Provide financial reporting to the Board prior to each board meeting (every two months). Provide updates on monthly income and expenses, and current assets. Note trends, issues, and special circumstances.
- Create or revise financial systems and reporting, as needed or requested, in coordination with the Board Chair, fundraising contractor, and administrator.
- Attend six board meetings annually (2 hours each).
Qualities we are looking for:
- Honest, reliable and manage your own money well
- Detail oriented, accurate, organized and responsive
- Able to create charts with categories of money in/money out
- Previous bookkeeping or accounting experience a plus
- Dedication a must
- Asking a 2 year commitment
- Able to provide 10-15 volunteer hours a month. Not already overcommitted.
Please email info@weadartists.org with your resume and statement of interest. We look forward to hearing from you!
Ann Getty Endowed Visiting Artist-Scholar
The University of San Francisco’s newly endowed Ann Getty Institute of Art and Design is an interdisciplinary center of experiential learning and innovation in the arts. It champions visual and performing artists, designers and architects, writers and filmmakers, and arts and museum scholars as they hone their craft. The institute honors the legacy of renowned art collector Ann Getty, and is funded by her husband, San Francisco philanthropist Gordon Getty.
The institute invites applications for up to three Visiting Artist-Scholars during the 2025-26 academic year. We seek candidates able to spend 6-8 weeks in residency at USF (dates to be finalized with candidates). The residencies are open to artist-scholars with national and/or international reputations whose ongoing research, creative activity, and teaching will contribute to USF’s creative work across the Arts. Artist-Scholars will be housed in a furnished one-bedroom apartment on campus and receive a $3500/week salary, plus dedicated office space and a stipend for supplies. Travel to and from USF will also be covered. Studio/creative space available depending on specialty.
In alignment with Ann Getty’s life-long love of beauty and support of the arts — and the University mission to “create a more just and humane world” — we seek applicants whose work promotes conversation and understanding across our various arts disciplines (including visual, performing, literary, media arts as well as architecture, design, art history and museum studies) and whose interdisciplinary work fosters cura personalis, or care for the whole person, in the context of our current and changing world.
Responsibilities
During their time at USF, the endowed Artist-Scholar will:
● Guest lecture in their area(s) of expertise;
● Interact with students as well as with faculty and staff across the University in workshops, forums and discussions;
● Attend Ann Getty Institute events, where they will formally and/or informally share their work with donors, alumni, and other members of the San Francisco/Bay Area creative arts community; and
● Provide one culminating event, showcasing their work.
Eligibility
● Master’s degree in a relevant field and college-level teaching experience required.
● A strong commitment to teaching and scholarship, experience and willingness to work in a culturally diverse environment and an understanding of and commitment to support the mission of the University.
● Current USF employees and students are not eligible to apply.
Applicants whose work intersects with one of USF’s “Horizon Collective” areas, which center on: climate & sustainability, health & well-being, or AI & technology, are highly preferred.
Application Materials:
Please submit the following by 5:00pm (Pacific time) on Monday, May 5, 2025 to ensure full consideration; send all materials to endowedagisearch@usfca.edu
● A 1-2 page proposal of the research or creative project envisioned for the residency period, including how the project 1) fits into the candidate’s larger research trajectory and 2) opens up conversation among multiple genres and arts disciplines
● CV
● Projected itemized budget for materials (note that housing on campus, travel to/from USF at the beginning and end of residency (up to $4K with receipts), and office space are provided). ● Examples of professional work: provide 3-4 samples in a single PDF file no larger than 10 MB with captions throughout (preferred) or an identification list including:
○ Images: title, date, media, and dimensions
○ Audio: title, date, media, duration, and URL to access
○ Video: title, date, media, duration, and URL to access
○ Written: published manuscripts (3-4 poems or 3000-4000 words of creative or scholarly work)
● Statement of preferred semester of residency, with available date range for a 6-8 week period; please plan with the University of San Francisco’s academic calendar in mind:
Fall 2025 semester dates: Aug. 29-Dec. 3, 2025
Spring 2026 semester dates: Jan. 26-May 14, 2026
Candidates will be interviewed via Zoom.
Questions can be addressed to endowedagisearch@usfca.edu. A review of completed applications will begin on May 5th, 2025 and continue until filled.
SNAPPED: Art Bias Photography Open
Art Bias is presenting its inaugural open-call photography exhibition: SNAPPED, an exhibition of broad photographic creativity. Apply Now! A jury process will select images for display at Art Bias, provide image feedback, and award monetary gifts for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place images in each category and Honorable Mention awards as appropriate. The deadline to apply is April 30.
This juried photography exhibition will be on display August 3 – 29, and the opening reception will be on August 3 in Studio 114, the Art Bias gallery, in San Carlos, California. Art Bias, an artist’s collective (https://artbias.org), was voted the Best Art Gallery in San Mateo Area, California in 2024. SNAPPED is our first open-call exhibition specifically focused on digitally and/or analog film captured photographic images of the photographer’s broad interpretation of fine art photography.
Four categories of entry (Black & White, Color, Film captured, and Youth [under 18 years of age]) will each be individually juried with awards announcing the top 3 images in each category. The exhibition competition is open to all photographers internationally, and selected artwork will be invited to be displayed in Studio 114. Please note: While artists from any geographic location may apply, all artwork must be hand delivered, no shipments will be accepted.
David Craven will oversee the jury process for SNAPPED. David directs the Photography Section of the annual San Mateo County Fine Arts Galleria and was the 2019 San Mateo County Photography Exhibitor of the Year. David is a very active photographer, leading multiple workshops and community photo outings each month while also being a student of the great photographic masters of the film eras.
Application Requirements
Submitting photographic artists are responsible for understanding and following the rules of the exhibition competition. Art Bias is a community art destination and will consider all images except for those depicting obscenity, pornography, or hatred. All images must have been captured by digital or film cameras with post-capture editing limited to the subject matter through cropping, tonality and saturation adjustments, and filters. Removal of small defects and distractions, etc., is permitted. For questions prior to entering, you may request clarification via email at: submissions@artbias.org
Eligibility Criteria
ENTRY FEE & AGREEMENTS
All photographers owning the copyrights to the images they are submitting are invited to apply. Artwork ownership remains with the artist.
Artists grant Art Bias the non-exclusive right to use their images for Art Bias advertisement of artist calls and display on the Art Bias website.
Application submissions are to be made through CaFE at https://artist.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=14834
Adult Fee: $25 for one (1) to three (3) image submissions.
Youth Fee: $10 for those under the age of 18, for one (1) to three (3) image submissions.
The entry fee does not guarantee selection for gallery display in Studio 114, but it does guarantee each work will be judged impartially by our jury.
Artists may submit works to any combination of the B&W, Color, & Film exhibition categories and those under-18 years of age, may additionally submit to the Youth category.
Once submitted, entry fees are not refundable.
In the unlikely event of art loss, theft, or damage, Art Bias will only be liable for the materials replacement cost.
