Artist Opportunities

Northern Clay Center continually solicits guest curators and exhibition opportunities for the Emily Galusha Gallery.

Seeking submissions of films produced, directed, and starring a person who is of African, Caribbean, Latino, Asian, Native American, or African American descent. If producer or director is not a person of color, the film must at least star or prominently feature actors/actresses of the above ethnicities. The festival is July 18-20 in Charlotte, NC.

This is a new grant for a short documentary film entering post-production. The selected finalist will receive $10,000 for to finish a cinematic documentary film and the opportunity to screen at Camden International Film Festival.

Accepting submissions for the 8th annual Surfalorus Film Festival. The Festival takes place September 19-21, 2019 on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. This three-day celebration showcases the year's best surf films, supporting the work of award winning veterans to first-time filmmakers. Surfalorus is presented by Cucalorus and the Dare County Arts Council.

For a new blog series celebrating the life of James Baldwin in Saint-Paul de Vence, we are soliciting submissions of articles, book excerpts and personal essays that address the elder Baldwin, from the years 1970 to 1987. 

Showcase your work to international audiences and further your involvement in the literary world by entering the @AestheticaMagazine Creative Writing Award 2019. Prizes include; £1,000 cash, publication in within an inspiring anthology and more.

The Governor Morehead for the Blind Alumni Association is hosting an Author's Showcase as part of their annual convention on August 3, 2019, in Raleigh. There is no fee to participate in the Author's Showcase.

The BLR seeks high-caliber, unpublished work, broadly and creatively related to our themes of health, healing, illness, the mind, and the body.  We welcome submissions of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry.  We encourage you to read BLR before you submit. 

The literary journal Inch is looking for flash fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Rolling deadline.

In celebration of Lucille Clifton, Mentor & Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets (https://mentorandmuse.net) wishes to compile an issue of craft-centric essays that honor Clifton’s work.To submit to the Clifton tribute, please email the editors. We seek essays that explore Clifton’s poetic choices—her voice, diction, figurative language, allusions, music, subject, aesthetic, risks, and so on—and explore how her poetry has influenced your own poems and/or subsequent generations’ poems. We envision—and are open to!—different approaches to the Clifton tribute. For example, one approach is to consider how one of her poems helped you better understand a specific poetic principle. Another approach is to interview someone who apprenticed with Clifton’s poetry, whose own poetic knowledge and inspiration arose from studying Clifton’s language and lines. Another approach is to consider what you learned from workshopping with Clifton, or how you introduce Clifton’s work to your own students. (Surprise us. We are excited to love—and learn from—Clifton further!)While we occasionally print longer work, we suggest essays range from 750 to 2,500 words. Please query us with your questions about subject, style, or mode. Email to submit.

The Diode Editions Book & Chapbook Contests are open April 15, 2019 through August 15, 2019. Winners will be announced by September 15, 2019! Read on below for submission information.

Gibson House Press seeks fiction manuscripts for their Fall 2019-Spring 2020 list.

For an unpublished poem. Submit 3-5 poems (10 pages maximum), $20 check or money order entry fee (includes one-year subscription), and SASE for reply only, by May 31 (postmark).

Queerness is not uniquely coastal. Queerness is not uniquely urban. Queerness has always existed in “Flyover country,” and it still does today. Belt Publishing is excited to announce an anthology of LGBTQ stories from the Midwest and Appalachia, to be published in Fall 2020.

Seeking fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for publication. Cash awards. Rolling deadline.

The MTB Audio Drama Scriptwriting Competition celebrates engaging storytelling. All genres considered and authors retain all script rights. The script should be your original work/story. Adaptations of another author’s works or use of proprietary characters such as Dr. Who, Frankenstein, or Othello will lead to disqualification. Scripts should run no longer than 30 minutes.

We are trying to support new work and involve actors, playwrights, and directors of all experience levels. We have had a wide variety of artists involved from very experienced to first time directors and actors, to an 8 year old playwright (very short, well received play). We feel having a wide range of experience involved helps the new people learn from the more experienced.

Call for Poetry for Raleigh Review's Laux/Miller Prize. 

Seeking submissions of reviews of exhibitions on view within six months of submission date. Rolling deadline.

We are looking for previously unpublished pieces in all styles and genres of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, photography, and art—works centered around queer themes. Give us your coming out story, your love wins. Flash fiction, lyric prose, and hybrid forms are welcome. We are especially interested in publishing authors based in the NC Triad area, or authors who have called the Triad their home. Submit works of fiction or nonfiction of up to 1,000 words or up to two pages of poetry.

The Susan Laughter Meyers Fellowship in Poetry is an annual merit-based residency at the Weymouth Center in Southern Pines for one North Carolina or South Carolina poet. The Fellowship is co-sponsored by the North Carolina Poetry Society (NCPS) and the Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities. Applicants will submit a single document of 5 pages of poetry. One poem per page for short poems. Poems may be previously published – we are looking for examples of the applicant’s best work. Applicants must be at least 18 years old.

The Washburn Chapbook Prize is awarded once a year to a woman or non-binary writer for a micro-chapbook. Our definition of woman includes all women, including transgender and all female-identifying individuals. Women of color and queer women are encouraged to apply.

The University of New Orleans Press is looking for full-length fiction manuscripts, either novels or short story collections, for the fifth annual Publishing Lab Prize. The selected author will receive a ten thousand dollar ($10,000) advance on royalties and a contract to publish their winning manuscript with UNO Press. The work does not have to be regionally focused. There is no word limit. There is no limit on subjects covered.

- POETRY (submit up to 3 poems, 10 pages maximum)

- FICTION (including flash fiction, short story, and novel excerpt. Up to 5000 words) Each story, including flash fiction, must be submitted                  separately with fee.

- NON-FICTION (including memoir, essay, journal entries, and other creative non-fiction. Up to 3500 words)

Authors of Non-Fiction requiring identifiable names, should use pseudonyms during the judging process. If their work is accepted, they will have the opportunity to change those names prior to publication.

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The Yadkin Arts Council is seeking 2D and 3D NC Artists to participate in the 8th Annual Yadkin Arts Council Juried Exhibition to be shown in the Welborn Gallery July 9 - August 30, 2019.

Do you have an unanticipated opportunity to present your work? Did you incur an unexpected expense that you didn’t budget for? The Foundation for Contemporary Arts offers Emergency Grants between $200 and $2,500 for visual and performing artists. They review applications once a month, so you can quickly take advantage of momentum or solve any budget errors. Rolling deadline.

Innovate Grant is a new initiative that supports artists and photographers through quarterly grants. Innovate Grant distributes (2) $550.00 grants to one Visual Artist and one Photographer each quarter. In addition to receiving a grant, winners will be featured on our website. 

Accepting film and art submissions for the 2019 Raleigh Film and Art Festival. The Raleigh Film & Art Festival is a creative explosion and a wonderful exploration of art, music and film. This all-day event includes amazing parties showcasing painters, tattoo artists, filmmakers, jewelry makers, fashion designers, jazz, blues, R&B, neo-soul, spoken word, and panels/seminars.
 

The Hopper Prize is a grant-making institution and digital archiving platform offering a series of individual artist grants on a bi-annual basis totaling $10,000.00 USD. Rolling.

Seeking applicants to showcase their work in a unique outdoor environment. Rolling deadline. 

CenterFest 2019 performing artist applications are now OPEN! Apply for an opportunity to participate in Durham’s signature arts festival no later than June 14, 2019. 

The Latino Public Broadcasting Funding Cycle is now accepting applications for two funding initiatives, the Public Media Content Fund and the Current Issues Fund. This is an open invitation to independent producers to submit between $40,000 and $100,000, exploring a range of topics on any subject that relates to or is representative of Latino Americans.

Terem Quartet has announced the dates for the Sixth TEREM CROSSOVER International Music Competition. The Competition will be held on October 22-25, 2019 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The Competition supported by the Government of St. Petersburg is open to instrumental, vocal and mixed ensembles of 3-8 members, from any country. The minimum age of ensemble members is 18 years, the maximum age is not limited.

Accepting exhibition proposals for gallery space. Honorarium and non-cash awards. 

Offering one-on-one Artist Business Brainstorm Sessions for artist entrepreneurs. 

Offering professional development courses through their podcasts, Thriving Artist.

Accepting application for the The Works-in-Progress lab; program supports social justice documentaries by African American filmmakers. Filmmakers explore audience engagement strategies through workshops, consultations, and screenings.

Offering business and marketing courses with some specifically for artists.

One of the most inclusive and diverse open submission prizes in London, the Sunny Art Prize offers unique exposure for both emerging and established artists to an audience spanning two continents. Created around the Sunny Art Centre’s unparalleled links between London, Beijing, Guangzhou and Macau, the prize winners will not only enjoy a month-long residency in China, but also the opportunity to exhibit both in our central London gallery and in prestigious galleries in China. Cash prize, residency, exhibition of work, and non-cash prizes. 

On June 15, 2019 from 1-5pm NC State and University Theatre will pull back the curtain for a never before seen glimpse of live theatre. TheatreFESTival is a casual open house experience allowing the audience backstage to see the magic behind live performance.

Up to 50 sculptors will be selected to participate in the Sculpture Walk surrounding Chetola Lake in Blowing Rock, NC. The Sculpture Walk on Chetola Lake is a national competitive exhibition offering emerging, mid-career and professional sculptors a notable venue. All types and manner of sculpture are accepted including site specific installations, with preference given to mid and large-scale works. Applicants will be automically enrolled for consideration in a permanent sculpture placement along the Interstate 321 corridor. The sculpture walk will take place on August 9-11, 2019.

The free Artist Registry is for artists, designers, and architects interested in pursuing public art projects.

This Artist Residency is designed for choreographers–both seasoned artists and those newly emerging– who are looking to create new work and/or explore new territory, and do not otherwise have affordable access to adequate rehearsal space. Interdisciplinary artists and artists interested in community-based practices are strongly encouraged to apply, along with choreographers working in more formal dance practices.

The STARworks Clay Studio is accepting applications for residency positions of one to six months duration.  The residency allows artists the opportunity to expand studio practices, and experiment with a stipend of STARworks manufactured local clay and work with visiting artists and the opportunity to become connected with nearby Seagrove, NC potters.

Seeking applications for 2018 residencies. Rolling deadlines.

Seeking entries for their Writers-in-Residence program for N.C. natives, current residents, or those with significant ties to the state. Rolling deadlines.

Accepting artists' applications for the Vendor Marketplace at the African American Cultural Festival of Raleigh and Wake County. The event will take place August 31 - September 1, 2019.
 

Arts at The Mill retuns November 8-10, 2019. Arts at The Mill is a three-day indoor fine arts festival held at the historic Mill in downtown Mooresville, NC, allowing nationally-selected artists to display and sell original art. The festival is jointly promoted and organized by The Mill and Mooresville Arts. This will be a juried event, with space for up to 80 artists/booths. Early-bird applications are accepted through April 5th with the final application deadline on August 2nd.

The annual juried Summer Regional Art Show will open on June 24, 2019 at Franklin Square Gallery. Registration is online. Each artist may enter two pieces of art (any combination of 2D and 3D). 

Call for Entries - Small Works: 42nd Harper College National Juried Exhibition! "Small Works" is a national juried show of artwork no more than 24” in its largest dimension (including frame). 

All interpretations of the theme , “Art in Times of Anxiety,”  are welcome in a variety of media, subjects, and approaches.  Artists are invited to submit two-dimensional, three-dimensional, installation or digital media (including video based media). Composition, technique, style, expression, and craft will be considered in the selection process.

The Arts Council is accepting submissions for our upcoming exhibition, Reclaimed!, featuring artwork created from found objects or repurposed materials. Sponsored by Waste Management and The City of Fayetteville's Environmental Services Department.

Oak Spring Garden Foundation is now accepting Letters of Intent to for a 2020 place-based project in the Virginia Piedmont that relates to the American chestnut tree.

The Oak Spring Garden Foundation (OSGF) calls for arts and science collaborations to create a site-specific sculpture at the Oak Spring estate in the Virginia Piedmont. The work product will address the story of the American chestnut tree. Letters of Intent are requested by July 29, 2019.
 

The CPCC Art Gallery provides an opportunity for artists to exhibit their paintings, photographs, prints, sculpture, ceramics, and other work on the CPCC Campus and to the Charlotte community.

Calling all artists (photographers, quilters, sculptors, new media and digital artists, etc.). Have your work exhibited at Durham County Library.

The Foothills Folk Art Festival is now accepting artist applications for the juried festival, which will be held in Downtown Newton on Saturday, Oct. 5.

The Hillsborough Arts Council Gallery’s mission is to empower local artists to forge productive cultural and socio-economic ties with their community through professional exhibit opportunities in HAC Gallery. We are a gallery founded on the principle that art is a vehicle for intellectual, cultural, and socio-economic growth and that it is the community’s responsibility to collectively support the arts. We provide a free space with no commercial pressure so that you can make your best work and actively engage with this community in the way you choose. Rolling deadline.

Are you an artist with an interest in portraying the spiritual through the visual arts? The University of St. Thomas invites artists to submit proposals for original artwork to be included as part of the new multi-denominational Iversen Center for Faith, located on the St. Paul, Minnesota campus. 

CALLING ALL CELL PHONE PHO-TOGS!!! Camera phone technology and the accessibility of cell phones has changed people’s abilities to take photos. Along with better cell phone camera technologies, apps to edit photos, and the use of photos in social media, our world has become visually more expressive with the use of pictures. For this month’s show we want to celebrate the art of the “cell phone photograph”.

The cultural association Il Varco is glad to announce its 1st PRISMA Art Prize, an exhibition entirely organized by artists for the artists. A painting competition with $2000 plus in Cash Awards and many other prizes, which takes place seasonally and yearly in Rome. 

The Tarboro Development Corporation (TDC), an affiliate of the North Carolina Main Street Program, is currently accepting designs for a logo. The logo, which will represent the corporation as a whole, will be used on marketing and promotional material including TDC’s website, social media, downtown brochures, and materials promoting events organized by the corporation such as the Summer Music Series, Hometown Homecoming, New Year’s Ball Drop, and Spring Fling.

Artist/Educators are invited to submit to a juried exhibition highlighting their work at The Painting Center, an artist run, non-profit art gallery in the heart of Chelsea, NYC. Patterns of Influence will be highly publicized with a digital catalogue featuring the artists' images and personal statements addressing the interrelationship of their artistic and teaching practices. The Painting Center is interested in work in all media (under 36” in any direction) by artist/educators for this juried exhibition, which will take place from July 16 through August 10, 2019. Entry fee.

Founded in 1976, Touchstone Gallery, located in a modern street-level space in downtown Washington, DC is seeking entries for "America Is ..." a National Juried Show scheduled for August 2 - 29, 2019. Artists are asked to submit artwork that will Explore, Ask and Answer: What is America today?

The Transylvania Community Arts Council has placed a call for artists to enter this open show with the theme “Small Wonders – Small Works”.  All mediums will be accepted, artwork just needs to fit the theme. The exhibit will run November 22 thru December 20.  For more information and to get an application call TC Arts at 828-884-2787 or email tcarts@comporium.net. $5 entry fee for non members of TC Arts.

The Transylvania Community Arts Council has placed a call for artists to enter this open show with the theme “Balance”. All mediums will be accepted, just needs to fit the theme. The exhibit will run May 24 – June 21. To get an application call TC Arts at 828-884-2787 or email tcarts@comporium.net. Artwork should be delivered with the paperwork on May 20 or 21.  An opening reception will be held on May 24 from 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm during the Brevard 4th Friday Gallery Walk. The TC Arts Gallery is open Monday thru Friday from 9:30 am – 5:00 pm. For more information call 828-884-2787. $5 entry fee for non members of TC Arts.