ART from All Perspectives is a juried exhibition celebrating the voices and visions of regional artists of color. Emerging and established BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) artists are invited to share work reflecting the richness of their cultural, political, personal, or spiritual perspectives. 

• Exhibition: Mar 23–Jun 27, 2026.
• Fees: $5
• City: Salisbury, N.C.

The Hopper Prize is accepting submissions for $4,500 and $1,000 artist grants. They will be providing 6 grants totaling $13,000 USD. 2 artists will receive $4,500 & 4 artists will receive$1,000. All media is eligible. Our open call provides you with a direct path to get your work in front of an international community of curators, artists, gallerists, and arts administrators. Additional exposure is available via a 30 artist shortlist, online journal, & Instagram currently reaching over 150k.
 

A FREE field building webinar from South Arts.

Join Out of Hand Theater’s Artistic Director, Ariel Fristoe, to explore arts-based community engagement, collaborations between arts and non-arts partners to address community issues, and how this work has multiplied support for the company through increased audiences, revenue, leadership opportunities, and awards.

Topics Covered:

• Define Arts-Based Community Engagement (ABCE)
• Understand how ABCE can help address community issues, while also building relationships with new audiences and increasing community support
• Learn how this approach can bring in new funding sources and diversify revenue models
• Gain a practical approach to starting an arts-based community engagement program 

Animals International Art Competition
We invite you to participate in our upcoming Animal themed art show, where you can share your unique vision and creativity with a global audience. The International Animals Art Exhibition explores the beauty of all animals. All 2D and 3D visual art is welcome (Painting, Mixed Media, Photography, Digital, and Sculpture). Competition is open to artists worldwide, all backgrounds, skill level, or style. Applicants must be 18 years or older.

Fees or awards
$100 cash prize awarded to the 1st place winner. The first, second, and third place winners will receive recognition on the websites and through our social media channels. Additionally, merit and honorable mention awards will be presented.ee: €18 (Feb–Jul 2025)

The City of Greensboro and the Dunleath Historic Neighborhood Association are requesting bids for the fabrication of two pedestrian archways at designated entranceways for pedestrian access from the Downtown Greenway.

Conceptual renderings are included in the RFP and original ironwork will be available to the artist in collaboration with the Greensboro History Museum.

Fees or awards
$150,000

The “Miss Sarah” Fellowship for Black Women Writers aims to provide Black women writers a restful environment conducive to reflection and writing. It also offers uninterrupted, independent time to plant the seed of an idea for a new writing project or to develop or complete a project underway.

For 2026 the Fellowship will focus on the genre of Fiction.

The selected writer will receive a ten-day solo residency in July 2026 and can choose whether to stay at Trillium Arts’ rural "Firefly Creek" apartment in Mars Hills, NC or at E. Patrick Johnson and Stephen Lewis’ “Montford Manor” residence near downtown Asheville, NC.

Participants will receive a $1,000 stipend and transportation to and from Asheville, NC. Additional benefits will be custom tailored to the needs of the awardee.

Orange County, NC nonprofits are invited to apply for up to $10,000 in funding for community festivals, art installations, workshops, and art experiences taking place in Chapel Hill. Projects and programs must occur between July 2026 – June 2027 and incorporate a paid artist.

Established for writers who like to share authentic travel experiences and to provide a platform for publication. The Anthology Travel Writing Competition is open to original and previously unpublished travel articles in the English language by writers of any nationality, living anywhere in the world. We are looking for an engaging article that will capture the reader’s attention, conveying a strong sense of the destination and the local culture.

Fees or awards
The winner will receive €300 and the chance to see their work published in a future issue of Anthology. / Very Early Bird fee – €10: – January – February 2025 Early Bird fee – €12: March – April 2025 Standard fee – €15: May – November 2025

Open to photographers working at any level, the Anthology Photography Competition celebrates outstanding standalone images. It also provides a platform for photographers to showcase their work through publication.

Images submitted must be on the theme of ‘The World As You See It’. Submissions will be judged on quality, creativity, originality, and visual/emotional impact.

Fees or awards
The winner will receive a €500 cash prize and editorial coverage in a future issue of Anthology magazine. / Very Early Bird fee – €12 – January – February 2025 Early Bird fee – €15: March – April 2025 Standard fee – €18: May – November 2025

BRIDGE is Chicago's independent, intersectional not for profit org for art and public scholarship. We welcome submissions in poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction, visual art, cultural criticism, design, hybrid work, and book-length pieces and comics.

Fees or awards
fee: 5$-25$