EXPIRED: The Art Open Calls Directory #19 (42 Open Calls closing between March 24th. 2025 and April 30th, 2025)
In this list there are 42 international opportunities for artists ending between: April 24th. 2025 - April 30th, 2025
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Deadline: April 24th. 2025
FREE ENTRY / Artly Mix - Exhibit in Brazil: Fragmentos Exhibition
24 Apr 2025, 11:30 pm
Fee: Free / Prize: Exhibition
Discipline: Multi-Discipline. Open theme Send min. 3 - max. 5 images (from different artworks). Show your best work! Artworks can be in any medium, but the artworks must be in DIGITAL FORMAT, meaning that paintings, illustrations, mix-media, sculptures and other formats will have to be scanned...
Deadline: April 25th. 2025
FREE ENTRY / CCA Islands Travel Scholarship 2025 – 2026
25 Apr 2025, 6:00 pm
Fee: Free / Prize: ¥200,000
Category: Scholarship. CCA Islands offers CCA Travel Scholarship for emerging artists, curators, architects, designers and those who aim to be a professional in various areas of contemporary art and culture, pursuing their research and creative activities in Japan.
FREE ENTRY / Artists’ Drawings - Call for Submissions: Artists' Drawings Issue No. 1
25 Apr 2025, 11:30 pm
Fee: Free / Prize: Publication
Theme: Drawings Issue. Artists' Drawings magazine is seeking submissions for its first issue. Artists are invited to submit up to three images of their work in response to the theme 'drawing sculpture'. Selected submissions will be published in print in Summer 2025...
FREE ENTRY / Art Collide - “Open Theme” Award Competition
25 Apr 2025, 11:30 pm
Fee: Free / Prize: $1,000 + Exhibition
Discipline: Open. Presenting Art Collide’s “Open Theme”, Winter 2025, international competition and online exhibition. Artists of all ages from around the world are invited to participate, with complete freedom in choosing their preferred media and style...
View Art Center - "The Book as Art" Open Call
25 Apr 2025, 11:30 pm
Fee: $35 / Prize: Exhibition
Theme: Book as Art. View Art Center in Old Forge NY seeks works of art in all media exploring the theme of The Book as Art. For more than five centuries, mass-produced books have connected us at an unprecedented scale through the power of shared ideas, inspiration, imagination, and information...
Las Laguna Art Gallery - Botanic and May Flowers 2025
25 Apr 2025, 11:30 pm
Fee: $35 / Prize: Exhibition
Discipline: Flowers. Las Laguna Art Gallery is pleased to present our Botanic and May Flowers, 2025 exhibition. All artists, internationally, are encouraged to submit any work related to plants, trees, flowers and anything Botanical in nature. Acceptable mediums include, but are not...
FREE ENTRY / The Macmillan Prize for Illustration 2025
25 Apr 2025, 11:30 pm
Fee: Free / Prize: £1,000
Theme: Illustration Art. The Macmillan Prize for Illustration is awarded for an unpublished children’s picture book. Submissions are open for 2025 and digital submissions will be welcomed until 5.30pm on 25 April 2025. No physical submissions will be accepted...
Deadline: April 26th. 2025
ARC Gallery - "Home" Call for Entries
26 Apr 2025, 11:30 pm
Fee: $40 / Prize: Exhibition
Discipline: Home. What does it mean to call a place home? How does the act of moving—leaving, arriving, migrating—shape a person? When we think of our relationship to place, there are many complex experiences to consider, and many questions to ask. Perhaps the thread that connects us all...
Deadline: April 27th. 2025
Encontros da Imagem Award 2025
27 Apr 2025, 11:30 pm
Fee: €30 / Prize: €1,000 + Exhibition
Theme: Discovery. 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...
FREE ENTRY / Berlin Circus Festival 11th Edition - Open Call for Artists
27 Apr 2025, 11:30 pm
Fee: Free / Prize: €350 + Art Transport
Theme: Circus Festival. We are looking for artists to present their artwork or create site specific works during the international Berlin Circus Festival at Tempelhofer Feld. The festival offers a platform for encounters between contemporary circus and visual arts. In an open-air exhibition...
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