The Art Open Calls Directory #26 (54 Open Calls closing between July 28th. 2025 and August 1st, 2025)
In this list there are 54 international opportunities for artists ending between: July 28th. 2025 and August 1st, 2025
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Deadline: July 28th. 2025:
SaveArtSpace - Sustain-a-City: Art for Environmental Justice
28 July 2025, 11:30 pm
Fee: $18 / Prize: Exhibition
Theme: Art for Environmental Justice. SaveArtSpace in partnership with Norwest Gallery of Art is proud to present Sustain-A-City: Art for Environmental Justice, a public art exhibition on billboard ad space in Detroit, MI, starting September 12, 2024, curated by Asia Hamilton...
28 July 2025, 11:30 pm
Fee: $45 / Prize: $1,000 + Exhibition
Theme: Lost Arts. The Cincinnati based non-profit arts organization and gallery, Manifest, invites visual artists and designers to submit works made about or using skills and materials the world may have moved on from, but still contain depth of potential, and unappreciated value...
FREE ENTRY / Locust Projects - Project Room Open Call
28 July 2025, 11:30 pm
Fee: Free / Prize: $5,000+ Exhibition
Theme: Multi-Discipline. Locust Projects invites local, national, and international artists to apply for the opportunity to access the space and resources to create ambitious, large-scale new work in our 625 sq ft PROJECT ROOM. Proposals are reviewed by a rotating jury comprised...
Deadline: July 29th. 2025:
Art Collide - “Dreamscapes” $1,000 Award Competition
29 July 2025, 11:30 pm
Fee: $40 / Prize: $1,000 + Exhibition
Theme: Dreamscapes. Presenting Art Collide’s “Dreamscapes” 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. The competition’s theme is “Dreamscapes”...
Upward Gallery - Perspective: Juried Online Exhibition
29 July 2025, 11:30 pm
Fee: $15 / Prize: Exhibition + Certificates
Theme: Perspective. UPWARD Gallery invites artists to submit artwork for our juried online exhibition, Perspective. All media is welcome, including: painting, drawing, digital painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, textiles, mixed media, etc...
HMVC Gallery New York - Freestyle 3.0 Group Art Show
29 July 2025, 11:30 pm
Fee: $35 / Prize: $150+ Exhibition
Theme: Summer Lovin'”. Hello and Welcome to HMVC Gallery New York. We are a contemporary online art gallery that exhibits artworks by artists from all walks of life and disciplines. As an artist-led gallery, our mission is to provide artists with a platform to showcase their talents, give...
Deadline: July 30th. 2025:
FREE ENTRY / North Baltica Contemporary Arts - Nature, Being & Technology
30 July 2025, 11:30 pm
Fee: Free / Prize: Exhibition
Theme: Multi-Discipline. Nature, Being & Technology aims to explore the integration of technology into historically handmade practices and how manufacturing and digitalization is changing the landscape of contemporary textile/fibre arts and societal perceptions of applied technology...
FREE ENTRY / 1952 Africa - Arts Accelerator Open Call
30 July 2025, 11:30 pm
Fee: Free / Prize: Residency + Travel
Theme: Between Here and Elsewhere. Welcome to the FAQ section for the 1952 Africa Arts Initiative Open Call! We understand that applying for opportunities can come with many questions, and we are here to help. This section addresses the most frequently asked questions about the application...
Nota Gallery - "Art Embassy" Exhibition Call
30 July 2025, 11:30 pm
Fee: €25 / Prize: Exhibition
Theme: Open. NOTAGALLERY Art Embassy is a curatorial project and temporary exhibition space located at Checkpoint Charlie—one of Berlin’s most historically symbolic sites. Once a place of separation and political tension, it now becomes a zone for cultural gathering and free expression...
FREE ENTRY / 13Tracks Magazine - Issue 2
30 July 2025, 11:30 pm
Fee: Free / Prize: Publication
Theme: Multi-Discipline. We’ve invited 13 writers and 13 visual artists or designers to respond to each of the 13 tracks of one of the 13tracks playlists, and these works have been brought together in Issue 1 of the 13tracks magazine. The magazine is a physical-only product, available from...
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