There are a lot of great opportunities this month. Thanks to our hard-working volunteers Sandra Vise, Terry Cook and Alisa Looney, for all their hard work to research all these great opportunities
Wade Womack
links to arts orgs supporting arts in Oregon
https://www.americansforthearts.org/by-location/oregon
https://www.oregon.gov/biz/aboutus/artscommission/Pages/default.aspx
CSE 2025-26 Exhibit
In its 24th year, the Chicago Sculpture Exhibit is continuing its mission to encourage public encounters with art while going about daily lives. Professional 3-D artists are invited to create and install sculptures at identified public sites. A $2,000 honorarium will be awarded for each selected work – half paid at contract signing and balance at installation. Artwork will remain on display for one calendar year. At least 40 sculptures will be included in the 2025-26 Exhibition.
Chicago Sculpture Exhibit is a private, not-for-profit organization that partners with private businesses, cultural institutions, neighborhood organizations, individuals and chambers of commerce. that partners with the City of Chicago and the Chicago Park District. Chicago Sculpture Exhibit works under the guidance of the City of Chicago and Chicago Park District.
Applications will be accepted from October 1 – December 13 (only)
Farewell to the Dragon (welcome to the snake) Art at the Cave, Vancouver, WA
Important dates:
Exhibit dates: January 3-31
Submission deadline: December 14
Notification date: December 20
Drop off date: December 28th
Artist Reception: January 3
Artist Talk: January 18
Say hello and goodbye to our scaly brethren! The lunar new year in 2025 transitions from Dragon to Snake in eastern astrology. These have both been powerful archetypes and totems in cultures throughout the world.
Dragon From the Aztec’s Quetzalcoatl, the feathered wind serpents – The Nidhogg who gnaws at a root of the world tree in Norse legend – Japanese large, wingless, serpentine water deities, Humans have a long history of naming elemental powers and visceral fears.
Snake Snakes often have a mixed fear and reverence, representing death and renewal, transformation, secrets, and danger. From the Hindu naga, and Greek gorgons, and as a clan animal in America, snakes truly traverse continents and sometimes make their absence felt as with the legend of St. Patrick in Ireland.
The gallery has a preference for large works and an interest in showing more 3D/sculptural work, as well as videos.
How to submit your work: This is a juried show. Please send us an email with photo(s) of your work(s). Include your name, the media used and the size (horizontal” x vertical”). If submitting video, please include a link to the entire video. Each person may submit up to 3 works for consideration for a nonrefundable $15 entry fee payable at this link.
2024 The Artful Genius of the (Chaotic) Mind
Purple Octopus Art online art exhibition $225 in cash prizes
Seeking 2D/3D art related to Mental Health illnesses
$20 for 1 entry $40 for 3
Deadline: December 15, 2024
https://zealous.co/purpleoctopusart/opportunity/Artful-Genius-of-the-chaotic-mind-2024
My Best Work of 2024
Camelback Gallery 7th annual exhibition
Open Theme, artists to submit their best work created in wow, all visual arts, styles and subject matter
$25 entry fee
Deadline: December 15, 2024
https://www.camelbackgallery.com/mybestwork2024
Brushstrokes of Emancipation | Abstract Art Competition
TERAVARNA
Cash prizes up to $3500
Figurative and abstract art across all mediums
$15 per artwork
Deadline: Dec. 15, 2024
https://www.teravarna.com/abstract-art-competition
“Open” 2025 Call for Entry – Online Art Show
Colors of Humanity Art Gallery
January 1 – 31, 2025
Cash award for best of show
Theme is “Open”, any medium and style
$20 for 1 or 2 pieces
Deadline: December 15, 2024
https://www.colorsofhumanityartgallery.com/Open-2025/OPEN-2025-Prospectus-and-Entry-Form/n-vDzRgF
Expo 44
B.J. Spoke Gallery art exhibition
February 1 – March 31, 2025
$300 Ist place, $200 2nd place, $100 3rd place
$35 for up to 6 images
Deadline: December 20, 2024
https://www.bjspokegallery.org/call-for-artists/expo-44
Looking In / Looking Out
Conversations with Artists
Submit artwork for possible inclusion in our online group exhibition called Looking
In / Looking Out, which will address the theme of identity.
All materials will be considered, both 2D and 3D
Artwork will be kept on file and artists will also be considered for future shows and/or to have their interview featured on Conversations with Artists
$25 entry fee
Deadline: December 20, 2024
https://www.conversationswithartists.com/open-call
Silicon Valley International Contemporary Art Review Exhibition ArtX Gallery, UCCF
Explore the evolving relationship between artificial intelligence and the human experience
in an online art exhibition
December 30, 2024, to January 30, 2025
All mediums and formats
$30 for first 3 entries
Deadline: December 22, 2024
https://www.art-x.gallery/synthetica-and-alterica
14th Annual “All Women” online Art Competition
Light Space & Time online Art Gallery
January 1 – 31, 2025
Best in Show winner to receive a cash prize
Representational and/or abstract art, any subject or media
$18 for 1 -2 entries, $26 for 3 – 5
Deadline: December 27, 2024
Flower Art Competition
TERAVARNA’s 9th Flower Art Competition
Cash Prizes up to $3500
Theme: Flowers
2D and 3D work
$15 per artwork
Deadline: December 31, 2024
https://www.teravarna.com/flower-art-competition
Urban Landscapes 2025 Art Competition
Fusion Art
Jan 5 – Feb 4, 2025
Cash award or complimentary one-year membership to Fusion Art’s Members
Gallery for Best in Show winners
Artists to submit best art depicting cityscapes – cities, town, urban scenes or metropolitan subjects
$25 for 1-2 images/$40 for up to 5
Deadline: January 1, 2025
City of Olympia Percival Plinth
Applications due: January 6 by 11:45pm.
Submitted work needs to be available from June 2025-June 2026.
Selected artists receive a $1,000 honorarium for the one-year loan of their work and are eligible for consideration for the Peoples’ Prize purchase award of up to $10,000, where one sculpture is selected for purchase by public vote and added to the City’s public art collection.
Roundabout Artwork Call for Artists – Sisters, Oregon
Entry Deadline: 1/7/25
Work Sample Requirements
Images | Minimum: 1, Maximum: 6
Total Samples | Minimum: 1, Maximum: 6
Call Type: Public Art
Eligibility: Regional
State: Oregon
Budget: 175,000
Contact Email: kprosser@ci.sisters.or.us
Yosemite Renaissance 40
Traveling art exhibition
March 8, 2025 through February 1, 2026
$4000 in cash awards
$25 for first entry, $15 for each additional entry
Deadline: January 14, 2025
https://www.yosemiterenaissance.org/yosemite-renaissance-40-prospectus
Love is Love Art At The CAVE Vancouver,
Important dates:
Exhibit dates: February 6-28
Submission deadline: January 15, 12am
Notification date: January 23
Drop off date: February 1
Artist Reception: February 7, 5-9pm
Artist Talk: February 15
This February, we welcome work related to all the various forms of love. Love can be a fixture in someone’s life, or it can be more mercurial or fleeting.
Please submit a few sentences along with your artwork explaining how it fits the theme “Love is Love.”
How to submit your work: This is a juried show. Please send us an email with photo(s) of your work(s). Include your name, the media used and the size (horizontal” x vertical”). If submitting video, please include a link to the entire video. Each person may submit up to 3 works for consideration for a non-refundable $15 entry
fee payable at this link.
Metal Museum | 2025-2027 Apprenticeships & Internships
The Metal Museum is the only museum of its kind in the country dedicated to preserving, promoting, and advancing the art and craft of fine metalwork.
The purpose of the apprenticeships is to assist the Metals Studio with commissioned projects and classes, to serve as an ambassador of the Metal Museum and the metalworking community, and to advance design, fabrication, and business skills.
Apprentices are expected to, encouraged, and supported to achieve the following:
•Advance foundry and/or blacksmithing, design, administrative and business skills
•Use your personal access to the shop in off hours to create a new body of work
•Take a leadership role in organizing and participating in an annual group exhibition, under guidance of Museum staff
•Apply for an emerging artist grant to attend a workshop or conference
•Learn other metalworking techniques and expand your knowledge of all areas of the Museum
If you are interested in becoming a Metal Museum Apprentice for 2025–2027, please find more info below or email our Metals Studios Director, Jeannie Tomlinson
Saltmarsh.
2025-2027 Smithy Apprenticeship
Applications due 1/28/25
With Notification by 2/13/25
2025-2027 Foundry Apprenticeship
Applications due 2/4/25
With Notification by 2/20/25
https://www.metalmuseum.org/artist-opportunities
Arts Downtown Outdoor Sculpture Gallery
Call Type: Public Art
Eligibility: Regional
State: Washington
Entry Deadline: 1/31/25
Event Dates: 4/27/25 – 4/25/27
Number of Applications Allowed: 3
Arts Downtown, an independent, nonprofit organization that selects and maintains public art for the city of Puyallup, Washington, is seeking five (5) leasable, pre-existing, outdoor sculptures to be installed for two years in Downtown Puyallup, WA for the Rotating Art portion of our outdoor Gallery. No entry fee,
$2,000 stipend for each of the five winners.
https://artist.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=14592
The Homiens Art Prize
6 Winners and 12 Finalists exhibit online with Homiens. Winners receive $500 each
All medium eligible, no theme
$20 for 1-3 artworks
Deadline: January 31, 2025
Fort Collins Sculpture in the Square 2025
Call Type: Public Art
Eligibility: National
State: Colorado
Entry Deadline: 1/31/25
Old Town Square is the heart of Fort Collins. We are looking for six sculptures that are resilient and durable for our year-round sculpture on loan exhibit. Each artist will receive a $1,500 honorarium. We will award a $1,000 People’s Choice Award in the fall of 2025. All artists and a guest are invited to join us for lunch on installation day. Installation will occur on Saturday, April 26, 2025, and remain for one year.
https://artist.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=14306
Fusion Art Black & White 2025 Art Competition
February 5 – March 4, 2025
Choice of cash prize or complimentary one-year membership to Fusion Art’s
Members Gallery for Best in Show winners
Artists to submit art using black & white & the nuanced shades in between
$25 for 1 -2 images
Deadline: February 1, 2025
Into the Wild 2025 Art Competition
Fusion Art exhibition
February 15 – Mary 14, 2025
Choice of a cash prize or complimentary one-year membership to Fusion Art’s
Members Gallery for Best in Show winners.
Artists to submit best art depicting wildlife
$25 for 1-2 images, $40 for up to 5
Deadline: February 5, 2025
Interpretations 2025 Call for Entry
Visions Museum of Textile Art
San Diego juried exhibition
October 15, 2025 – January 10, 2026
Seeking innovative textile art that explores form and technique of 2D artworks, 2D art Quilts, and 3D wall hanging and free-standing work that highlights fiber.
$40 -$50 entry fee
Deadline: February 7, 2025
https://interpretations2025.artcall.org
2024 Deschutes Public Library Seeks Artists for District Collection
Call Type: Public Art
Eligibility: Regional
State: Oregon
Entry Deadline: 3/1/25
Budget: $1,500,000+
The Deschutes Public Library seeks works by artists who reside in states west of the Rockies. Situated in the center of Oregon, over 200,000 people call Deschutes County home. Central Oregon, widely known for its stunning mountains, rivers, pine forests and recreational opportunities, will now be home to a new 100,000 square foot Central Library in east Bend, a new branch library in Redmond and completely renovated libraries in La Pine, Sunriver and Sisters as well as in historic downtown Bend. The project is funded by a voter approved bond measure. 1% of the brick-and-mortar costs are reserved for the purchase of art.
For more information about the future libraries, visit the Deschutes Public Library website.
RESIDENCY AT SITKA
Residency Dates
Fall/ Winter/ Spring Residencies: Dates between October 15, 2025 – April 30,
2026
Recorder Residency Dates: Up to 6 weeks Jan, 2026 – Dec, 2026
Residency Acceptance – Residency applicants will be notified by May 1, 2025
Finalists will participate in an interview process the first 2 weeks of May and receive final notification by June 1.
Application Deadlines: March 15, 2025.
Application Fee: $30 Apply for Residency
The application porcess is completed for fall 2024 / spring 2025 residencies.
Next application cycle will open in December 2024.
Residencies at Sitka
Sitka residencies provide time and space for self-paced work and reflection in an inspiring natural setting. Residents from a broad range of art, writing, performance and science-based practices come to Sitka to create and explore away from the familiar contexts and constraints of daily routines, and free from external expectations.
Located within the unique ecosystems of Cascade Head and the
Salmon River Estuary on Oregon’s central coast, Sitka is a place where natural curiosity is sparked, and creativity is unleashed.
Since our founding, we have hosted hundreds of visual artists, photographers, writers, journalists, musicians, composers, filmmakers, educators and a broad range of natural scientists and interdisciplinary creatives. We currently invite 30- 50 practitioners to stay at Sitka each year. Some are emerging voices while others are practicing professionals, and our residents represent a diversity of geographies and cultural backgrounds. A range of personal and shared experiences are possible at Sitka, from sanctuary and solitude to cross-pollination and community.
Sitka is committed to equity and welcomes people from diverse cultures, backgrounds and experiences. Bringing together people from different backgrounds and fields of expertise is core to Sitka’s art and ecology mission. From climate change and environmental justice to systemic racism and cultural appropriation, diverse perspectives help spark new ideas and collaborative approaches to address today’s challenges in creative ways.
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Deschutes Public Library Seeks Artists for District Collection
Call Type: Public Art
Eligibility: Regional
State: Oregon
Entry Deadline: Rolling
Budget: $1,500,000+
The Deschutes Public Library seeks works by artists who reside in states west of the Rockies. Situated in the center of Oregon, over 200,000 people call Deschutes County home. Central Oregon, widely known for its stunning mountains, rivers, pine forests and recreational opportunities, will now be home to a new 100,000 square foot Central Library in east Bend, a new branch library in Redmond and completely renovated libraries in La Pine, Sunriver and Sisters as well as in historic downtown Bend. The project is funded by a voter approved bond measure. 1% of the brick-and-mortar costs are reserved for the purchase of art.
Call for Artists/Cash, Publication & More
Boynes Monthly Art Award
Monthly three artists are chosen to win $100 cash, a published interview with Chantal Boynes, and more
All emerging artists welcome to apply
$10 application fee
Deadline: End of each Month, 2023
ANTLER GALLERY
no deadline
We do not accept submissions in person at the gallery
We accept email submissions. Standard mail submissions are also acceptable, but submission material will not be returned under any circumstance. (2728 NE
Alberta Street Portland, OR 97211) We look at all submissions, but are unable to respond to every email.
Please do not call to check on the status of your submission. We will be in touch if your work is a good fit for the aesthetic of the gallery.
The subject line of your email should read “Submission – Artist’s Name” (ex. “Submission – Pablo Picasso”)
Please include a link to your website/ (editor’s note – your work shown on the PNWS website should be acceptable)
Your submission email should include 5 – 10 images of your work at 72dpi,
500px at the largest size. Please label them with the title, dimension, medium, year, and price. Please attach a current CV. All submission emails should be sent to antlerpdxsubmissions@gmail.com