The City of Mount Holly, with help of Sculpture in the Landscape, wishes to lease 8 sculptures for one year. Selected sculptures will be installed at a time mutually agreeable for both the City and Artist between April and June of 2026. Lease amounts are $3,000 for large scale statement pieces and $1,800 for small streetscape size sculptures.

Fees or awards
Lease amounts $1,800 to $3,000 - Depending on size.

The South Arts Southern Prize and State Fellowships acknowledge, support, and celebrate the highest quality artistic work being created in the American South. The program is open to individual artists living in the South Arts region: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. The cohort of nine-state fellows will be selected through a two-tiered selection process by a national jury. A second national jury will select the Southern Prize Winner and Finalist. Jurors will make their selections based on artistic excellence that reflects and represents the array of artistic expression of the region. This program is open to visual artists in several categories.

South Arts State Fellowship: $5,000

South Arts Southern Prize: $25,000 And $10,000

The South Arts Southern Prize and State Fellowships acknowledge, support, and celebrate the highest quality artistic work being created in the American South. The program is open to individual artists living in the South Arts region: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. The cohort of nine-state fellows will be selected through a two-tiered selection process by a national jury. A second national jury will select the Southern Prize Winner and Finalist. Jurors will make their selections based on artistic excellence that reflects and represents the array of artistic expression of the region. This program is open to writers for scriptwriting.

South Arts State Fellowships: $5,000

South Arts Southern Prize: $25,000 And $10,000

The A.D. Gallery at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke welcomes all interpretations of the theme Belonging. As our culture becomes increasingly divisive and exclusionary, what does it mean to belong? Why does it matter, and how do we find a sense of belonging?

• February 12-March 6, 2026
• Entry Deadline: Monday, December 15, 2025
• Entry Fee: $35.00
• Awards: $400 first prize, $200 second prize, and $100 third prize
• Juror: Annah Lee

All entries must be submitted on CaFÉ.

The City of Raleigh is looking for nine artists to create art for windscreens and cut metal railings at BRT stations as part of the planned Southern Corridor. Artist designs should be unique and aesthetically pleasing, and speak to the community character, stories, and/or histories associated with each station. The Artist fee for the project is $6,000 for one shelter design or $10,000 for two shelter designs. Artists will provide final vector files, City will fabricate and install.

Fees or awards
$6,000 - $10,000 budget, no fee to apply

The City of Raleigh is looking for an artist to create up to three public art elements along the Wake BRT: Southern Corridor (Raleigh to Garner). Artwork could be freestanding or integrated into the existing landscape and should engage both pedestrian and vehicular traffic. Selected artist will receive $160,000 to design and fabricate up to three installations along the corridor and will work with the planning/design teams to integrate artwork into the landscape and built elements of the site.

Fees or awards
$160,000 budget, no fee to apply

This International Call for Mail Art: Celebration of Sapphire commemorates our 5th Seaside Sessions mixed media art retreat which will take place in Surf City, NC in March of 2026.
Artists of all ages and abilities are encouraged to submit a postcard-sized flat piece of art on the theme of sapphire, which will be exhibited online.

 

The City of Durham’s Cultural and Public Art Program invites artists and artist teams to submit portfolios as an entry to join the City of Durham Pre-Qualified Artist Registry. This registry will serve as a resource for the program’s selection of artists and artist teams to create City cultural and public art projects. Access to a predetermined network of qualified artists saves artists and staff members valuable time by making the process for responding to the numerous calls issued by the City more efficient. It also strengthens and streamlines the program by maintaining a database of artists in the community with particular skill sets.

The application process does not have a deadline. 

 

Hinds’ Feet Farm is a partner and neighbor of Cain Center for the Arts. This year Cain Center for the Arts and Hinds’ Feet Farm will collaborate on a mural to happen on Hinds’ Feet Farms property. This mural will be a joined effort of both organizations to lighten, and inspire the facility, staff, and residents of Hinds’ Feet Farm every day.

The mural will be based off work that residents (Participants) have created in class at Davidson College with Professor Tyler Starr. The mural is reminiscent of a “Barn Quilt” that will be displayed on finished wood hung on one of the Hinds’ Feet Farm buildings.

This is a unique opportunity for Artists/muralists to be a part of an amazing partnership and project in the Lake Norman region.

This is a paid opportunity with the artists receiving $2000 for the labor, and $1000 for supplies totaling in $3000 for the overall project.

Trillium Arts residencies offer secluded space for rejuvenation and creating in a beautiful, remote setting in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Our location is ideal for an individual artist to complete an existing work, or develop and incubate new material. Our current facilities are best suited to the disciplines of literary arts, photography, visual arts and arts administration. Applications are currently being accepted for residencies one week in length anytime between April 15-May 15, 2026.

Location
Mars Hill, NC

Fees
The fee for a residency starts at $600. A limited number of work exchange scholarships are available.