The Art Open Calls Directory #31 (54 Open Calls closing between September 30th. 2025 and October 3rd, 2025)
In this list there are 54 international opportunities for artists ending between: September 30th. 2025 and October 3rd, 2025
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Deadline: September 30th. 2025:
PleinAir Magazine - September Pleinair Salon Online Art Competition
30 Sept 2025, 11:30 pm
Fee: Yes / Prize: $2,000 + Publication
Discipline: Painting. The Annual PleinAir Salon Art Competition consists of 12 monthly online competitions, where the winners will then be automatically entered into the annual competition. There is over $50,000 awarded every year. Because this competition was created by PleinAir magazine...
FREE ENTRY / SoilScape Project - Call for European/Transnational Projects
30 Sept 2025, 11:30 pm
Fee: Free / Prize: €2,010,000 Budget
Theme: Multi-Discipline. The SOILSCAPE Open Call aims to incentivize the integration of arts, arts-based, and creative approaches to increase soil literacy, raise awareness and engagement with soil and their preservation. To do so, the project...
FREE ENTRY / In Between Knots - Issue Two: A Soft Undoing
30 Sept 2025, 11:30 pm
Fee: Free / Prize: Publication
Theme: Multi-Discipline. This issue turns toward the slow, deliberate work of repair — the forms of care that emerge when something frays, ruptures, or no longer fits. We’re thinking of knots that slip, seams that split under strain, and the...
FREE ENTRY / Indy Arts Council - Hanover College Bicentennial Art
30 Sept 2025, 11:30 pm
Fee: Free / Prize: $10,000 + Exposure
Theme: Multi-Discipline. Nestled in 650 acres of wooded campus and located on the banks of the scenic Ohio River, Hanover College is a challenging and supportive community whose members take responsibility for lifelong inquiry, transformative learning and meaningful service...
Moho Gallery - YICCA 25/26: International Contest of Contemporary Art
30 Sept 2025, 11:30 pm
Fee: €50 / Prize: €3,000 + Exhibition
Discipline: Contemporary Art. The main goal of the YICCA competition is to promote participating artists, offering them the opportunity to actively engage in the international contemporary art scene. International exposure and networking are the...
FREE ENTRY / Kerenidis Pepe Collection - The Phenomenon Grant
30 Sept 2025, 11:30 pm
Fee: Free / Prize: €60,000 Grants
Theme: Multi-Discipline. The Phenomenon Grant program is committed to supporting art projects by individuals, collectives, and non-for-profit organizations that engage with queer, feminist, anti-colonial, and...
FREE ENTRY / ‘a space’ arts - Open Call: Hearth House
30 Sept 2025, 11:30 pm
Fee: Free / Prize: £500 + Exhibition
Theme: Multi-Discipline. ‘a space’ arts are pleased to announce a new public art project and now invite Expressions of Interest from artists. The project will introduce a series of exciting new...
FREE ENTRY / Hive Curates - Open Call: Artwork for Gobo Projectors
30 Sept 2025, 11:30 pm
Fee: Free / Prize: £1,000
Theme: Multi-Discipline. Are you an artist with a passion for light and an interest in creating artworks to be produced as gobo projection slides? Hive Curates and Camden Council invites local and national artists to submit expressions...
CEV Art Gallery - “Minimalist” Open Call
30 Sept 2025, 11:30 pm
Fee: $12 / Prize: Online Exhibition
Theme: Minimalist. CEV Art Gallery invites artists worldwide to submit work for Minimalist, an online art show celebrating the power of simplicity. We welcome all visual art forms that embody minimalism, through composition, color, form, or concept. Think, the less the...
FREE ENTRY / Fumetto - Call for Satellite Artists
30 Sept 2025, 11:30 pm
Fee: Free / Prize: CHF 100 + Exhibition
Discipline: Comic. The satellite exhibitions will also kick off Fumetto 2026 ten days before the festival and will play a key role in shaping the...
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