Artist Opportunities

Call to Emerging CRAFT artists. Entry fee, Cash awards, Opportunity for an organization to promote your work through social medial and store representation.

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

The N.C. Museum of History in Raleigh is officially accepting entries for the fifth annual Longleaf Film Festival. Cash and non-cash awards. 

Grant support, outreach, and engagement for social issues documentary film and other storytelling projects. Rolling deadline.

Seeking poetry submissions for online poetry journal. Publication. 

Seeking flash fiction and original short fiction for their online publication. Payment. Rolling deadline.

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

Accepting submissions for Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction, a journal devoted to publishing notable, innovative work in nonfiction. Weclome a variety of works ranging from personal essays and memoirs to literary journalism and personal criticism. 

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

Accepting submissions for The Jacobs/Jones African-American Literary Prize. This prize honors the best in short prose by African-American writers in North Carolina. Cash award and publication. 

Seeking entries for the Emerging Playwright Award. Cash award. Rolling deadline.

Call for artists; Artrooms Fair is the first international contemporary art fair offering free exhibition spaces to independent artists, innovating the way artists and buyers meet.

Roots Artist Registry is an online registry and directory of visual, performing, and literary artists. Listing fee.

The Schuylkill Center’s environmental art department accepts submissions of environmentally themed visual artwork. Entry free. Rolling deadline.

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

ACT 2019 International Festival for Emerging Performing Artists is now open for submissions. Conditions, awards and participation form.

The North Carolina Arts Council and The Carolina Theatre of Durham, Inc. invites you to attend a professional development opportunity for arts education program facilitators, coordinators, managers and others. The symposium will offer you a chance to: enhance your skills, updates on state and national trends, experience master teaching artists, explore new partnerships, methods to attract & serve diverse audiences, and network with peers from across the state. Registration fee.

A digital marketing consulting firm for the arts that offers free webinars throughout the year and hosts an annual Digital Marketing Boot Camp for the Arts Conference.

Designed for artists of all disciplines and at all career stages, webinars are taught by successful artists and arts professionals who share practical tips and tools, case studies and as well as personal examples. Fees.

The application for the Literary Arts Touring Grants is now open. 

Accepting applications for Traditional Arts Touring Grants. Bring a traditional artist/ensemble and a scholar/folklorist for multi-day residencies in Southern communities. 

Accepting applications for the 2019 Folk & Traditional Arts Master Artist Fellowship.

Accepting applications for the South Arts State Fellowship, a state-specific prize awarded to artists whose work reflects the best of the visual arts in the South. 

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. 

The Environmental Resilience Institute at the Unviersity of Virginia seeks artists to participate in Coasts in Crises: Art and Conservation in the Aftermath of Hurricanes. Event will being artists from coastal areas affected by hurricanes in 2017 and 2018. Invited artists will present their work made in the aftermath of the storms, and will have a public dialogue about the role of the arts in hurrican resilience. Application required, honorarium, and exhibition of work. 

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

Azule has a residency program for performers, writers, architects, builders, musicians, and artists of all types. Fees. Quarterly deadlines on March 1, May 15, August 15, and November 1.

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.

Calling all artists interested in being a part of our Holiday Market on Saturday December 8, 11am-5pm! Booths are first-come, first-served are $25 members/$50 non-members. 

ReimagineIt Grants are unconditional, non-matching awards made directly to individual artists to help launch or support careers in the inspiring world of repurposed art. Cash awards. Rolling deadline.

The Downeast National Juried Sculpture Exhibition is located in Pitt County, North Carolina. The Exhibition has two components: a month long indoor exhibition and a year long outdoor exhibition. The Downeast Outdoor Sculpture exhibition is a joint exhibition among Pitt County Arts Council at Emerge, ECU Students Activities Board, City of Greenville, Town of Winterville, Town of Farmville, Wahl-Coates School of the Arts, and the Greenville Museum of Art. Entry fee, cash awards.

Accepting submissions for outstanding emerging artists from North Carolina for the juried exhibition Constant/Change (July 26 – September 8, 2019). Exhibition of work. 

Seeking submissions for Art for Advent. Entry fee and publication. 

Acceptins submissions for multi-media juried exhibition.The exhibition is scheduled for March 10- June 16, 2019 and will take place at the Contemporary Art Museum (CAM) in Raleigh. Entry fee, cash awards, and non-cash awards.

Accepting applications for online gallery.