The City of Carlsbad’s Library & Cultural Arts Department seeks to qualify an artist or artist team to enter
into an agreement to develop a site-integrated work of art for the Village and Barrio traffic circle project
located at the intersection of Pine Avenue and Harding Street in Carlsbad, California. A permanent public
art should reflect the Barrio’s neighborhood identity and cultural and historic heritage.
Freelance
2024-2025 Performing Arts Residency Call for Proposals
San Diego International Airport is inviting arts groups, collectives, organizations, companies, and higher education performing arts departments to submit proposals for our 2024-2025 performing arts residencies. One residency is expected to begin in the fall/winter of 2024, and one in spring 2025. The Performing Arts Residency Program supports the development and public performance of new work. It offers artists the space to create and rehearse new material while providing SAN patrons a unique opportunity for interaction through the performing arts. This process-oriented residency is open to contemporary performing artists in all disciplines and cross-disciplinary media including digital performance and projection. Examples of programming may include local, regional and international music, modern, traditional or ethnic dance, as well theatrical productions inspired by or developed in response to the airport setting.
Two contracts for $15,000 will be awarded for an 18-week residency period. For full details, please click here.
The deadline to apply is Sunday, June 9, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. PDT.
Portrait | Juried Art Exhibition
UPWARD Gallery invites worldwide artists to submit artwork for our juried exhibition, Portrait.
Artists 18 and older are encouraged to submit their works in any medium, style, and genre.
Acceptable mediums include all traditional art media (e.g., oil, watercolor, acrylic, pastel, mixed media, gouache, egg tempera, pen and ink; drawing media such as graphite, charcoal, colored pencils, scratch board, markers, metal point), sculpture, digital painting, arts and crafts (beadwork, pottery, embroidery, floristry, batik, stained glass, two-dimensional collage and fabric art as well, etc.).
Our platform is designed to share art with new audiences and help artists expand their influence and become known. To achieve our goal, we curate themed online exhibitions and publish UPWARD’s Quarterly, a printed art periodical.
All accepted pieces will be displayed on our website, upwardgallery.com. Art industry professionals will review the artworks, and selected pieces will be published in our magazine. We will showcase the artists behind the selected works by featuring them in interviews, profiles, solo exhibitions, and studio visits.
$12 for entry, $10 (2-4 entries), $9 (5 or more entries).
Deadline: June 7, 2024
Visit https://upwardgallery.com/ad/competitions/81/portrait for a full information.
Artist of the Spring | Juried Art Exhibition
UPWARD Gallery invites worldwide artists to submit artwork for our juried exhibition, Artist of the Spring.
Artists 18 and older are encouraged to submit their works in any medium, style, and genre.
Acceptable mediums include all traditional art media (e.g., oil, watercolor, acrylic, pastel, mixed media, gouache, egg tempera, pen and ink; drawing media such as graphite, charcoal, colored pencils, scratch board, markers, metal point), sculpture, digital painting, arts and crafts (beadwork, pottery, embroidery, floristry, batik, stained glass, two-dimensional collage and fabric art as well, etc.).
Our platform is designed to share art with new audiences and help artists expand their influence and become known. To achieve our goal, we curate themed online exhibitions and publish UPWARD’s Quarterly, a printed art periodical.
All accepted pieces will be displayed on our website, upwardgallery.com. Art industry professionals will review the artworks, and selected pieces will be published in our magazine. We will showcase the artists behind the selected works by featuring them in interviews, profiles, solo exhibitions, and studio visits.
$12 for entry, $10 (2-4 entries), $9 (5 or more entries).
Deadline: May 31, 2024
Visit https://upwardgallery.com/ad/competitions/76/artist-spring for a full information.
Solar Flare contest offers $500 for Fiction, CNF, Poetry, Art, or Graphic Novel
Sunspot Lit is looking for one work, including a novel or novella excerpt, that provides a flare of creative energy. Literary or genre accepted. First prize: $500 plus publication. Open May 1 to May 31. Entry fee: $10 Enter through Submittable or Duotrope.
Visions In Clay 2024
National Call for Ceramic Art
Exhibition Juror: Kevin Snipes, Ceramic Artist
Online Entry at gallery.deltacollege.edu – Call for Entries Menu
Gallery Awards: $800, $600, $400
San Joaquin Potters Guild Founders Award: $300
Regional Artist Award: $800 (Artist to provide ceramic demonstration workshop for Delta College students)
Eligibility: Entry is open to artists residing in the U.S. Ceramic works of any thematic and stylistic presentation are accepted for entry. Clay must be the primary medium. Artwork that has been previously exhibited at the Horton Art Gallery is not eligible for entry. Artwork may not exceed 4ft. in any dimension.
Gallery & Online Exhibition: August 29 – September 20, 2024
Horton Art Gallery is located on the campus of San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, California. Visions In Clay was founded by the San Joaquin Potters Guild in 2002, and presented by the Horton Art Gallery since 2010. Visions In Clay is one of the largest ceramic exhibitions in Northern California.
