The City of Raleigh seeks to hire three (3) artist/artist teams will be selected to create durable public art on tunnel entrances or wing walls along the Raleigh Greenway. Artwork may consist of ceramic or mosaic art, fabricated metalwork, or similar installations with long-lasting materials. Each award will have a project budget of $30,000.

Location
Raleigh, NC

Fees or awards
$30,000 per project

The City of Raleigh seeks to hire two (2) artist/artist teams will be selected to create public art on existing infrastructure along the Raleigh Greenway. Each artist/team will be assigned up to five (5) sewer risers in a designated area to paint. Each award has a budget of $5,000.

Location
Raleigh, NC

Fees or awards
$5,000 per project

Craven Arts Council & Gallery is seeking entries for their Mini-Masterpieces exhibition in the Main Gallery at Bank of the Arts this November to December. This exhibit is open to all mediums, styles, and ages, so long as the work is smaller than 5”x5”x7”. The artists may enter up to 30 pieces, unique or identical to each other. This exhibition is intended to provide artists with a unique sales opportunity, and provide visitors and the community with a unique artist market for the holiday season.

Location
New Bern, NC

Fees or awards
All artworks in the exhibition will be priced at $15, $30, or $60, with the artist receiving CAC&G's standard 60/40 split, in the artist's favor.

Established to recognise and encourage creative writing and art and provide a platform for publication, the Anthology Creative Awards are open to original and previously unpublished written and visual work. There are eight competitions to enter: Short Story, Poetry, Flash Fiction, Personal Memoir, Nature Writing, Travel Writing, Photography, and Cover Art.

Individual competition info, entry requirements and prizes can be found on our website.

Fees or awards
€300-€1000 for winning entries and publication in Anthology Magazine. Fees differ by competition, €12-18.

Bridge is currently seeking submissions for its V26 N1 Journal and Bridge Magazine. We welcome submissions in poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction, visual art, cultural criticism, design, and hybrid work from established as well as emerging writers and artists. We are especially interested in work that embraces the world and continues, however subtly, the ongoing global conversation about culture and society that Bridge has championed from its beginning in 1999.

Location
Chicago, IL

Fees or awards
$5 to $25 submission fee

A 12-week program designed to bring creative minds from around the world to Manchester, NH. Experience an environment that allows creative freedom to discover, define, and refine your creative practice.

The program is designed to support emerging artists with a place to live for up to 3 months. During this time selected applicants can focus full-time on further developing their creative practice as they take steps to cross the bridge into becoming career professionals.

Location
Manchester, NH

Fees or awards
Selected applicants are provided a studio apartment with basic household amenities, heat, hot water, electricity & internet provided. Additionally, each artist is granted a $350 travel stipend and a $1600 stipend that covers food and art supplies.

In recognition of Lancaster County’s rich history in textile arts, the Lancaster County Council of the Arts invites artists to submit their original designs for the second phase of a new public art initiative. This installation will include 40+ permanent art columns along the Lindsay Pettus Greenway. Each column will feature a unique piece of art, inspired by a historic Springs Industries textile design.

Location
Lancaster, SC

Fees or awards
$20 to enter; $100 honorarium for selected artists

Looking for a place to rehearse, meet, create, or bring a public arts program to life? The Durham Arts Council’s Creative Spaces Grants provide artists and arts organizations with access to spaces in the Durham Arts Council building.

Upcoming opportunities include Creative Residency Grants, which provide ongoing space for rehearsals, meetings, work sessions, and other activities, and Creative Showcase Grants, which support public-facing performances, presentations, and pop-up exhibits.

The current Creative Residency application is open through October 15, with space available January–June 2027. Creative Showcase applications for activities beginning April 2027 open October 16.

Location
Durham, NC

Pinstripe World is a new online art marketplace shaped like a 3D globe. Artists place their own store at their real location, hang their work and sell directly to visitors. Artists anywhere, including North Carolina, who open a store before November 30, 2026 get a Founding member badge. Seven categories incl. painting, sculpture, photography, craft and apparel. No jury, no entry fee.

Fees or awards
No entry fee. Stores free for 14 days (no card), then $3/month. 10% fee on sales.

The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County (WSFC) Public Art Commission is seeking qualifications from professional artists or artist-led teams to design, paint, and install a mural on two exteriors walls of the Sunrise Towers, an 11-story public housing apartment building in the east Winston-Salem neighborhood. This public art project is funded as part of the Choice Neighborhoods (CNI) Public Art Revitalization Program in partnership with the City of Winston-Salem and ASPIRE.

Location
Winston-Salem, NC

Fees or awards
$100,000 - $150,000