Surveillance
Deadline: February 14, 2025

Artist Opportunity Type: Exhibition
Entry Fee: $45 for up to THREE entries submitted. $5 per each additional entry.
Open to (any restrictions on entries):Open Internationally 
Exhibition/Event Dates: May 30 - June 27, 2025
Event Location (City/Venue): Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, 2727 Woodburn Avenue, Cincinnati, OH, 45206
Contact: Jason Franz, info@manifestgallery.org
Additional Information: The Cincinnati based non-profit arts organization and gallery, Manifest, invites visual artists and designers to submit original works about looking and being looked at. Open to all traditional and non-traditional genre and media, including 2D, 3D, etc.
What does it feel like to be looked at?
A part of us craves the attention of others. Kids beg to be observed as they dive into a pool. So many of us post pictures online, waiting for responses from our audience of friends and strangers. Being watched means that we may be loved, or that we may be important. Maybe others will be impressed! Maybe they will like us more—or maybe they will like us less. We modulate our behavior for that attention. It changes us. It creates ‘culture'.
$45 for up to three entries. $5 per each additional entry.
Includes honorarium of $50 for each exhibiting artist, and Grand Jury Award of $1,000 for one jury-selected work from among the exhibits on view.
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RITES OF PASSAGE: 21st National Emerging Artists Exhibition
Deadline: February 15, 2025

Artist Opportunity Type: Exhibition
Entry Fee:$25 for one entry, $40 for two to four entries, and $5 per each additional entry.
Open to (any restrictions on entries):Open Internationally 
Exhibition/Event Dates: May 30 - June 27, 2025
Event Location (City/Venue): Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, 2727 Woodburn Avenue, Cincinnati, OH, 45206
Contact: Jason Franz, info@manifestgallery.org
Additional Information: The Cincinnati based non-profit arts organization and gallery, Manifest, invites visual artists and designers to submit works created by college juniors, seniors, and recent undergraduates in 2024, 2025, or 2026. Open to any and all 2d and 3d traditional and non-traditional visual arts media, genre, subject matter, and content.
Every year through this exhibition Manifest surveys work by students and recent graduates of art and design programs, seeking to assemble, promote, and document examples of the excellence being achieved by new or emerging artists for Rites of Passage. This exhibit, season publication, and award are intended to support that emergence.
For a twenty-first straight year we offer this challenge to students and the recently graduated in regional, national, and international college undergraduate programs to show us what they have achieved, bring it off campus, and share it with our international viewing public. To date Manifest has exhibited student works representing over 232 different academic institutions!
$25 for one entry, $40 for two to four entries, and $5 per each additional entry.
Includes honorarium of $50 for each exhibiting artist, and Grand Jury Award of $1,000 for one jury-selected work from among the exhibits on view.
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MAGNITUDE SEVEN: 21st Annual Call for Small Works
Deadline: February 16, 2025

Artist Opportunity Type: Exhibition
Entry Fee: $45 for up to THREE entries submitted. $5 per each additional entry.
Open to (any restrictions on entries):Open Internationally 
Exhibition/Event Dates: May 30 - June 27, 2025
Event Location (City/Venue): Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, 2727 Woodburn Avenue, Cincinnati, OH, 45206
Contact: Jason Franz, info@manifestgallery.org
Additional Information: The Cincinnati based non-profit arts organization and gallery, Manifest, invites visual artists and designers to submit works of any genre, subject matter, and/or content that measures no more than 7 inches in any direction.
Every year Manifest produces a special exhibit of LITTLE works of art from around the world.
Each iteration of the exhibit brings in hundreds of powerful yet diminutive works for our jury to consider. Inevitably this results in a gallery full of diverse, compelling, and exquisite little gems. Manifest’s patrons eagerly await the Magnitude SEVEN event each year. This annual project is one of the most varied exhibits in our season. So we are always excited to offer this call to artists to submit works no larger than seven inches in any dimension (any proportion).
Standard presentation devices such as pedestals, mats, and frames that are not considered part of the work of art are not limited by the 7" criteria.
$45 for up to THREE entries submitted. $5 per each additional entry.
Includes honorarium of $50 for each exhibiting artist, and Grand Jury Award of $1,000 for one jury-selected work from among the exhibits on view.
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The Matriarch Reload: We Mother the Earth
Deadline: February 20, 2025

Artist Opportunity Type: Exhibition
Entry Fee: $0
Open to (any restrictions on entries):Call for art:  all women artists' exhibition at Chestnuts and Pearls Art Gallery for Women's History Month. Canvas size limit 48x60, sculpture must be table top size, no student work.  
Exhibition/Event Dates: March 1-31
Event Location (City/Venue): Chestnuts and Pearls Art Gallery, 157 E Main , New Albany , Indiana
Contact: Jada Lynn Dixon, jadaart@gmail.com
Additional Information: The Matriarch Reloaded:  We Mother the Earth. Please send submissions to jadaart@gmail.com by February 20. Opening is March 1st from 1pm to 3pm
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Advocacy
Deadline: February 21, 2025

Artist Opportunity Type: Exhibition
Entry Fee: $0
Open to (any restrictions on entries): All visual arts, with a submission limit of two submissions per artist.
Exhibition/Event Dates: Opening Reception: March 28, 2025 Exhibition Duration: March 28, 2025 - June 13, 2025
Event Location (City/Venue): MOSAIC, 701 Camp St., Louisville, KY, 40203
Contact: Alec Brohnson,  alec@mosaiclouisville.org
Additional Information: To coincide with the exhibition The Art of Living on Death Row - an exhibition of art, created by artists on death row - we are seeking out art that advocates for a more just world.
From I AM A Man! to The Fearless Girl, art has been created to advocate for change. Advocacy challenges conventions, ignites passion, inspires meaningful dialogue, and calls for justice.  We want to see your advocating art. Your causes. Your pursuit of justice.
Artwork accepted into the show will be juried, and a cash prize of $300 will be given to the 1st place winner.
Submission Deadline: Feb. 21, 2025
Acceptance Notifications: Feb. 28, 2025
Art Drop Off/Registration: Mar. 3 - 7, 2025
Opening Reception: Mar. 28, 2024
Exhibit Duration: Mar. 28 - Jun. 13, 2025
mosaiclouisville.org
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Limestone Award Presented by The Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels
Deadline: February 24, 2025

Artist Opportunity Type: RFQ or RFP
Entry Fee: $0
Open to (any restrictions on entries):
Invited Kentucky artists
Kentucky Juried Artists
Students enrolled in any degree-granting program are not eligible to apply.
Material Requirement: The award must be primarily crafted from limestone or incorporate a significant emphasis on limestone in its design. Given the name and significance of the award, limestone should be a dominant or defining element in the final piece. While other materials may be used to complement the design, limestone must be the primary material or a central visual and structural component.
Exhibition/Event Dates: 11/1/2025
Event Location (City/Venue): 943 South First Street, Louisville, KY, 40203
Contact: Heather Campbell, hcampbell@kycolonels.org
Additional Information: The Honorable Order of the Kentucky Colonels seeks to commission a professional Kentucky artist to create a limestone award to honor a Colonel, as desired, who are pillars of the community, demonstrating an unwavering dedication to community improvement, leadership, and philanthropy. Just as limestone forms the bedrock of Kentucky’s heritage, the honoree has created a lasting foundation for positive change, leaving a legacy that inspire others to follow their example.
Email the following required materials to hcampbell@kycolonels.org
Resume: 2 pages maximum
Work examples: 5-10 jpg or pdf images
Proposed concept: 3-5 jpg or pdf images (may include sketches, CAD, photos of maquette, and/or finished sculpture)
Image list: 2 pages maximum (include titles, dates, materials and size)
Artist statement: 1 page maximum
Letter of interest: 1 page maximum
Please include your initial impressions of this commission and approach to the limestone award. Please also include a narrative description of the proposed concept.
Budget: 1 page maximum
References: 3
Artists are allowed to apply in teams.
Artists applying as a team must split the allotted number of work examples between themselves.
ESTIMATED TIMELINE
RFP Open: January 24, 2025
Artist Submissions due by:  5:00pm EST, March 7, 2025
Finalist(s) selected and notified by: April 7, 2025
Finalist(s) design Presentations: beginning of May 2025
Commission awarded: May 2025
Project Completion: October 2025
CONTACT INFORMATION
Heather Campbell
Senior Director of Colonel Relations
943 South First Street
Louisville, KY 40203
hcampbell@kycolonels.org
502-266-6848
 

Old National Bank Memorial Sculpture
Deadline: February 28, 2025

Artist Opportunity Type: RFQ or RFP
Entry Fee: $ Honorarium will be provided.
Open to (any restrictions on entries):
Open to materials used. The two-year anniversary of the tragedy is April 10, 2025. If we were able to have the sculpture in place by that date, that is our preference, however, we are flexible given the timeframe.
An honorarium will be provided to any artist(s) being considered.
Exhibition/Event Dates:     April 10, 2025
Event Location (City/Venue):Old National Bank, 400 W Market St, Suite 2500,
Contact: Laura DeMent,  laura.dement@oldnational.com
Additional Information: Old National Bank is interested in commissioning a sculpture to display in the lobby of our new 25th floor office at 400 W Market Street.  The sculpture would be in memory of the 5 teammates we lost in the tragedy on April 10, 2023.  We are open to materials used and have a place in mind that we would like to display the sculpture. 

No-Jury Art Show
Deadline: February 28, 2025

Artist Opportunity Type: Exhibition
Entry Fee: $35
Open to (any restrictions on entries):
Artists 18 or older living in zip codes starting with 400, 401, 402, 471; paintings, drawings, prints, and collages 3'x4' and sculptures 3' and under 50lbs are accepted
Photography, fiber arts, and computer generated art is not accepted
Exhibition/Event Dates: Wed March 12th - Sunday March 16th
Event Location (City/Venue): Woman's Club of Louisville, Frazier House, 1320 S 4th St, Louisville, Kentucky, 40208
Contact: Millicent Evans, mumsie0342@aol.com
Additional Information: Submitted pieces are automatically eligible for 13 individual awards and can be sold with 20% commission to the venue (WCL). David Schuster of David Schuster Creations will judge.
Entries must be delivered before noon Saturday March 8th
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CALL TO ARTISTS
Deadline:March 1, 2025

Artist Opportunity Type: Exhibition
Entry Fee: $0
Open to (any restrictions on entries):All Tristate Artists
Exhibition/Event Dates:2025
Event Location (City/Venue): 4936 Brownsboro Road, Louisville, KY, 40222
Contact: Jill Baker,  jillwbaker@gmail.com
Additional Information: All Peoples Unitarian Universalist Congregation (formerly Thomas Jefferson UU Church) is putting out a call for an artist to create a work of art that represents the church today. It may be any medium or size, which will be decided according to the artist and its placement in the building. There is a budget of $5,000.
Please visit our website: https://www.allpeoplesuu.com/ to make yourself familiar with the congregation. If you would like to visit the church or attend services, you are welcome. You may do so by visiting alone, or if you wish to be accompanied by a member of the Aesthetics Committee, please contact Jill W. Baker. The church is located at 4936 Brownsboro Road, Louisville, Kentucky 40222.
Please respond by email to Jill W. Baker at jillwbaker@gmail.com with your Artist’s Proposal, accompanied by your bio and images of past artwork.
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Studio Remix: A Mixed Media Art Exhibition
Deadline:March 1, 2025

Artist Opportunity Type: Exhibition
Entry Fee: $0
Open to (any restrictions on entries): Open to all local artists.
Exhibition/Event Dates:     3/28/2025-6/1/2025
Event Location (City/Venue): StudioWorkZ @ Zoom Group Main Building,  4545 Taylorsville Road, Louisville, KENTUCKY, 40220
Contact: Tory Zakarian, tzakarian@zoomgroup.org
Additional Information: ZG | StudioWorkZ is seeking mixed media artwork for our spring exhibition. All local artists are welcome to apply. Artwork can be on any theme. Artwork must incorporate at least two mediums. Please submit images of artwork via email to tzakarian@zoomgroup.org.
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Revelry Artists’ Alley Vendor
Deadline: March 5, 2025

Artist Opportunity Type: Fair or Festival
Entry Fee: $0
Open to (any restrictions on entries): Open to all local artists.
Exhibition/Event Dates: 03/22/2025
Event Location (City/Venue): Revelry Boutique + Gallery, 742 E Market St, Louisville, Kentucky, 40202
Contact: Jacob Grant, jacob@revelrygallery.com
Additional Information: We are thrilled to premiere Revelry's Artist's Alley during this year's Bock Fest! This special pop-up market will bring together a curated selection of talented local artists, makers, and creatives, offering a unique opportunity for the community to engage directly with Louisville's finest. Attendees can explore an inspiring array of original artwork, handmade goods, and one-of-a-kind creations while connecting with the artists behind them. The booths will be setup in our sideboard and backyard, we have lots of space we have been wanting to utilize and figured this would be the perfect time.
- Our first Artists' Alley will be held on March 22nd, 2025, during the Annual Bock Fest Celebration in NULU! We are offering 15 spots for 10' x 10' size booths. For all prospective vendors, please note the following:
For this opportunity, you are not required to be a consigned member of Revelry Boutique + Gallery. Our goal is to introduce new artists to the NULU neighborhood through a market-style experience during big events for an affordable cost! 
- All vendors will be required to pay a $200 booth fee upon acceptance of their application ($100 deposit, $100 paid day before). Our booth fee guarantees protection for artists retaining 100% of the sales they may make on this occasion and a guaranteed space.
- 50% down payment invoice will be sent to your email upon application approval. On the day before the event, we will send you a payment link for the remaining 50%
In case of extreme weather, Revelry will provide a full refund of your vendor fee.
- You are responsible for products you choose to sell at this event. Any lost, stolen, or damaged merchandise is not liable by Revelry Boutique + Gallery.
- We are confined to a small space at Revelry and cannot store any booth materials. Before submitting your application, please note the following:
- Booth Area: 10' x 10'
- Please provide your own tables, displays for Merchandise, and indicate whether you will need access to electricity.
- Please ensure you have a proper Point of Sale System for your booth (PayPal, Square, Venmo, etc.) with cellular or hotspot capabilities.
- Our Artists' Alley will be active from 12-6pm. Set-up will begin at 10am and Take-Down will begin directly after the event from 6-8pm.
- We intend to market this event greatly on our social media platforms so we request all vendors make sure to stay active with our posts and help advertise the market.
We are excited to offer this opportunity and be a part of connecting your talents to the greater Louisville Community! If you are interested, please fill out the application form linked below. For any additional questions or concerns, please email: jacob@revelrygallery.com
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VISITING ARTIST WORKSHOP | EMIL ROBINSON
Deadline:March 6, 2025

Artist Opportunity Type: Workhop
Entry Fee: $ 560
Open to (any restrictions on entries): All Ages
Exhibition/Event Dates: March 7-9, 2025
Event Location (City/Venue): Manifest Drawing Center | 3464 Central Parkway, Cincinnati OH, 45223
Contact: Kevin Leigh-Manuell, kevin@manifestvisualarts.org
Additional Information: Light As Subject: Color and Material Reality in Painting
A 3-day Intensive Workshop with Emil Robinson
March 7-9, 2025  (Friday- Sunday)
Recognize ways that light changes the world around you and learn how to translate this experience into an abstract language for building powerful representational paintings. This 3-day oil painting workshop led by Cincinnati-based artist Emil Robinson is designed to help you gain a greater appreciation for the ways that light and color can transform your paintings. The workshop will include a combination of art historical precedent, non-objective color exercises, and observational painting. Participants will be introduced to a curated group of artists from throughout history who will guide our weekend. These artists will be studied in a number of ways through lecture and painting. Color will be analyzed on its own terms through small painted exercises. These discoveries will culminate in a series of observational paintings from the live model, allowing you to attempt to integrate the insights gained throughout the workshop. Whether you’re an experienced artist or just beginning your journey in observational painting, this workshop will introduce you to a new perspective on painting and how and why Emil has constructed this philosophy for his own work.
About the instructor:
Emil Robinson received his master of fine arts degree from the University of Cincinnati in 2006 and his bachelor of arts from Centre College in Danville Kentucky in 2003. He has taught as a professor of art and design for almost twenty years. In 2007 he received a grant from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation which allowed him to spend six months painting in London. In 2009, he was a prize winner in the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Recently Emil has been chosen for solo exhibitions in London and the Taft Museum of Art here in Cincinnati. In December of 2024 Emil's painting became the winner of the 15th annual Manifest Prize, a significant international competition. He is the first Cincinnatian to receive this award. Robinson maintains his own studio in Cincinnati, Ohio and exhibits his paintings widely. This workshop will address some of the same questions he wrestles with in his own work.
AREA ACCOMMODATIONS FOR THOSE TRAVELING TO ATTEND
For those traveling to Cincinnati to attend this visiting artist workshop, there are many exciting or practical options for accommodations. For a special stay within a mile of Manifest's new facility, we would recommend checking with The Clifton House Bed & Breakfast* (https://thecliftonhouse.com), The Gaslight Bed & Breakfast (https://www.gaslightbb.com), or Six Acres Bed & Breakfast (http://sixacresbb.com). Alternatively, the 21c Museum Hotel is in the heart of downtown just four miles from our location (link). Many other common hotels are within a few miles of our location as well.
*We have confirmed that the Clifton House will honor a special discounted rate for Manifest workshop participants when rooms are available.
LOCATION: Unless otherwise specified, all courses are hosted at Manifest's new facility at 'M1' in Clifton at 3464 Central Parkway (see map and directions below). Manifest's new facility provides multiple studio classrooms, private lesson space, a darkroom, a film processing room, and a multi-purpose lecture and class meeting space as well as on-site parking, grounds, and exterior spaces in which to relax, discuss, and make art. The studios are outfitted with professional equipment, furniture, and study aids.
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Lou on Lumber
Deadline:March 8, 2025

Artist Opportunity Type: Exhibition
Entry Fee: $0
Open to (any restrictions on entries): Adults 18 and older. Parental consent forms needed for minors.
Exhibition/Event Dates: May 19- August 4, 2025.
Event Location (City/Venue): Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory,  800 W Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky, 40202
Contact: KC Colorado, kc.colorado@sluggermuseum.com
Additional Information: Lou On Lumber is an annual summer exhibit showcased at Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory. The exhibit aims to celebrate Louisville culture through the eyes of local artists.
We are looking for five artists to paint the barrels of five Louisville Slugger bats with imagery that follows the theme of ‘hometown pride.’ We encourage you to use imagery of famous Louisville landmarks, events and icons such as Louisville Slugger, Belle of Louisville, the Derby and related events. Artists will be picked from the application pool by a panel of jurors from the local art/museum community. These selected artists will have approximately nine and a half weeks from the date they receive their bats to complete their proposed designs before May 19 - the installation date.
Hillerich & Bradsby Co. - makers of Louisville Slugger - will cover supply costs for each artist up to $200, which the artists will receive along with their bats March 12-14. Each selected artist will receive two bats, although only one will be for display. Bat handles will be painted black.
The five finished bats will be on display at Louisville Slugger Museum through August 4, 2025 - a period in which about 100,000 guests will have a chance to see the artists’ work!
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16th Annual Animal Attraction Art Show
Deadline:March 21, 2025

Artist Opportunity Type: Exhibition
Entry Fee: $30
Open to (any restrictions on entries): A competitive show in all mediums. Must feature an animal. No size restrictions within reason.
Exhibition/Event Dates: 3/25/25- 4/19/25
Event Location (City/Venue): Gallery 104, 104 East Main Street, LaGrange, KY, 40031
Contact: Jacqueline Bryan, shows@gallery104.org
Additional Information: Show information: https://aaooc.org/Upcoming-Shows
Prospectus: https://aaooc.org/ShowProspectus

2025 L+A+N+D (Landscape + Art + Nature + Design) RFP
Deadline:March 24, 2025

Artist Opportunity Type: RFQ or RFP
Entry Fee: $0
Open to (any restrictions on entries): Bernheim seeks regional, national, and international proposals from creatives of all kinds, cultivating diverse perspectives and experiences. While not required, applicants are encouraged to form multidisciplinary teams with other artists, architects, designers, ecologists, scientists, and/or engineers.
Exhibition/Event Dates:    To be installed in spring of 2026
Event Location (City/Venue): Bernheim Forest and Arboretum, 2499 Clermont Road, Clermont, KY, 40110
Contact: Jenny Zeller, landart@bernheim.org
Additional Information: Opened in the fall of 2024, L+A+N+D (Landscape + Art + Nature + Design) celebrates innovative design concepts for immersive outdoor installations on a grand scale that spark imaginations, conversations, and a deeper appreciation of the natural world, fulling Bernheim’s mission of connecting people with nature through the lens of art.
Designed and built by creatives from around the globe, large-scale experiences addressing humans’ connection to nature, beauty in landscape, biodiversity, conservation, sustainability and climate change are placed along new accessible pathways and trails meandering through open expanses and wild woods. As this program builds over time, additional art installations will be added annually and other, more ephemeral works, will rotate out.
Selected experiences are implemented via a stipend to the applicant(s), and a construction budget for fabrication and installation. Experiences will be designed and constructed in an ecologically responsible manner and should be able to withstand the outdoors in Kentucky for 2 to 5 years.
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WINTER *  $1,800.00 Innovate Grants for Art + Photo
Deadline:March 27, 2025

Artist Opportunity Type: Grant
Entry Fee: $35
Open to (any restrictions on entries): Visual Artists and Photographers 18 years and older, from all around the world, are eligible to apply. All media and genres are accepted. All applicants retain the right to the work they submit.
Exhibition/Event Dates:     01/06/2025-03/27/2025
Event Location (City/Venue): Online
Contact: email@innovateartistgrants.org
Additional Information: WINTER 2025 OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS — Innovate Grant is thrilled to introduce our newly increased award amounts of $1,800.00.
Innovate Grant awards (2) $1,800.00 grants each quarter, to one Visual Artist and one Photographer. In addition, (12) honorable mentions (6 in art and 6 in photo), will be featured on our website and join a growing community of vibrant and talented artists. Innovate Grant's commitment extends beyond the grant cycle by promoting the work of selected winners and honorable mentions into the future. For more information and to apply visit https://innovateartistgrants.org
Innovate Grant supports artists and photographers through quarterly grants. We've simplified the grant process, so that artists and photographers can focus on making their innovative work. The work should speak for itself and our application reflects that.
Innovate Grant awards:
+ 1 x $1,800.00 Grant to a Visual Artist
+ 1 x $1,800.00 Grant to a Photographer
+ 12 x Honorable Mentions
Explore the work of ALL Past Innovate Grant recipients and read their interviews at https://innovateartistgrants.org
How to Apply: Visual Artists and Photographers 18 years and older, from all around the world, are eligible to apply. All media and genres are accepted. All applicants retain the right to the work they submit. Apply today at https://innovateartistgrants.org
Category: Multiple disciplines and genres accepted
Deadline:  Thursday, March 27, 2025 – Submit by 11:59PM Pacific Standard Time
Region: US & International
Awards: 2 x $1,800.00 USD Grants // 12 x Honorable Mentions
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MASTER PIECES: 19th International Call for Works by Current or Recent MFA/MA Graduate Students
Deadline: March 28, 2025

Artist Opportunity Type: Exhibition
Entry Fee: $25 for one entry, $40 for two to four entries, and $5 per each additional entry.
Open to (any restrictions on entries):Open Internationally 
Exhibition/Event Dates: July 11 - Aug 8, 2025
Event Location (City/Venue): Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, 2727 Woodburn Avenue, Cincinnati, OH, 45206
Contact: Jason Franz, info@manifestgallery.org
Additional Information: The Cincinnati based non-profit arts organization and gallery, Manifest, invites current visual art and design graduate students and MFA/MA degree recipients since January 2024 to submit works of art in any media, genre, subject matter, or content, traditional and non-traditional.
Every year Manifest offers an opportunity just for graduate students to exhibit at our gallery in Cincinnati. This 19th installment of the Master Pieces project will continue to reveal the intensity and professionalism of students working towards their terminal academic degree in the field of art or design. Often the most exceptional work comes out of these artists’ immersion in their culture of study and intellectual pursuit. Manifest’s goal, therefore, is to select works that set the standard of quality that the artist is expected to maintain throughout his or her professional career and justify the degree of Master.
$25 for one entry, $40 for two to four entries, and $5 per each additional entry.
Includes exhibitor honorarium of $50 for each exhibiting artist, and new Grand Jury Award of $1,000 for one jury-selected work from among the exhibits on view.
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WHIM: A Call for Works About Play and Spontaneity
Deadline: March 29, 2025

Artist Opportunity Type: Exhibition
Entry Fee:$45 for up to THREE entries submitted. $5 per each additional entry.
Open to (any restrictions on entries):Open Internationally 
Exhibition/Event Dates: July 11 - Aug 8, 2025
Event Location (City/Venue): Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, 2727 Woodburn Avenue, Cincinnati, OH, 45206
Contact: Jason Franz, info@manifestgallery.org
Additional Information: The Cincinnati based non-profit arts organization and gallery, Manifest, invites visual artists and designers to submit original works of art about play, impulse, the fantastic, the fanciful, the mercurial, and the flighty. Open to all traditional and non-traditional genre and media, including 2D, 3D, etc.
A whimsical thing is playful. It is unserious in the best way, shrugging off gravitas to remain unencumbered by serious concerns. Whimsy embraces play and forgoes responsibility; whimsy makes light.
Capricious and cruel, curious and joyful, whimsy is a result of instinct, a spasmodic reaction to an itch. If you do something on a whim, you didn’t think about why you’re doing it, but you permit yourself to follow an impulse. Following that desire leads to unconventional results and embraces unpredicted ends. Whimsy builds to the wonderful and the surreal, inspired by flights of fantasy.
$45 for up to three entries. $5 per each additional entry.
Includes honorarium of $50 for each exhibiting artist, and Grand Jury Award of $1,000 for one jury-selected work from among the exhibits on view.
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TEXTUALITY: An International Exhibit Exploring Art That Incorporates Text or Letter Forms
Deadline: March 30, 2025

Artist Opportunity Type: Exhibition
Entry Fee:$45 for up to THREE entries submitted. $5 per each additional entry.
Open to (any restrictions on entries):Open Internationally 
Exhibition/Event Dates: July 11 - Aug 8, 2025
Event Location (City/Venue): Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, 2727 Woodburn Avenue, Cincinnati, OH, 45206
Contact: Jason Franz, info@manifestgallery.org
Additional Information: The Cincinnati based non-profit arts organization and gallery, Manifest, invites visual artists and designers to submit original works which incorporate text or letter forms. Open to all traditional and non-traditional genre and media, including 2D, 3D, etc.
Not long after humanity began drawing, drawings evolved into writing. Pictures became symbols, abstraction blossomed, and language became visual. Two branches, sharing one root, carried forward people's ideas, feelings, and plans. The visual and the verbal arts shared the role of encapsulating civilization's data. And they continue to do so today, in so many wondrous and varied ways. TEXTUALITY is an exhibit that inquires into the overlap of these two branches, seeking examples of where the verbal is made visual, where language returns into image.
$45 for up to three entries. $5 per each additional entry.
Includes honorarium of $50 for each exhibiting artist, and Grand Jury Award of $1,000 for one jury-selected work from among the exhibits on view.
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Kids Anime and Manga Drawing
Deadline: April 18, 2025

Artist Opportunity Type: Workshop
Entry Fee: $95
Open to (any restrictions on entries): Students ages 8+. This is a beginners course.
Exhibition/Event Dates:     4/21-5/19
Event Location (City/Venue):  Preston Arts Center, 8101 Warwick Ave, Louisville, Kentucky, 40222
Contact: joyce.s.barbour@gmail.com
Additional Information: In this 5 session class, students will learn the basics of drawing in the style of Japanese animation and comics. Students will get a beginner’s look into the elements unique to this art form and use what they learned to create their own unique characters by the end of the five sessions. Classes are on Monday evenings.
Skill Level:beginner
All supplies included
Instructor Name:Joyce Barbour
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FREE Woodcut Workshops
Deadline: April 19, 2025

Artist Opportunity Type: Workshop
Entry Fee: $0
Open to (any restrictions on entries): Anyone interested is welcome.
Please let us know if you need any accommodations to participate in this activity.
Exhibition/Event Dates: April 19 (CeLOUbrate Print)
Event Location (City/Venue):  Portland Museum, 2308 Portland Avenue, Louisville, KY, 40212
Contact: Erica Lewis, erica.lewis@louisville.edu
Additional Information: Join CeLOUbrate Print 2025 for a series of free woodcut workshops around the city! We will update our registration form as we add new workshop dates/locations and as classes fill up.
All materials provided. All we ask that you bring is an idea of something to carve, and we can help with the rest!
These workshops are for carving, so be sure to bring your woodcut back to the Portland Museum anytime 10:00-5:00 for our day of community printing on April 19, 2025, where we will print your artwork with a steamroller!
Stay up to date with our project on social media—@CeLOUbratePrint—and through the Portland Museum’s website.
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Trains
Deadline: May 2, 2025

Artist Opportunity Type: Exhibition
Entry Fee: $30
Open to (any restrictions on entries): A competitive show in all mediums. ). Work must feature trains, in particular the importance of trains in La Grange and Oldham County.
Exhibition/Event Dates: 5/6/2025-5/31/2025
Event Location (City/Venue): Gallery 104, 104 East Main Street, LaGrange, KY, 40031
Contact: Jacqueline Bryan, shows@gallery104.org
Additional Information: No size restrictions within reason.
Please complete a prospectus found at aaooc.org under shows and return with images to shows@gallery104.org
Show information: https://aaooc.org/Upcoming-Shows
Prospectus: https://aaooc.org/ShowProspectus
*Since this is around Derby additional drop off opportunities can be scheduled in advance with the show chair.

Sustainable Couture Fashion Show
Deadline: May 7, 2025

Artist Opportunity Type: Fair or Festival
Entry Fee: $0
Open to (any restrictions on entries): Emerging and established designers.
Exhibition/Event Dates: 6/7/25
Event Location (City/Venue): Corydon, IN
 113 E Beaver St, Corydon, Indiana, 47112
Contact:Holly Poole, holly@harrisoncountyarts.org
Additional Information:     Sustainable Couture celebrates the transformation of everyday items into art of fashion. Designers who create fashion out of everyday items, reused items, unusual recycled material, upcycled ensembles, or slow fashion processes please apply!
Sustainable Couture builds on the incredible success of our first fashion show, Upcycle which brought together designers of unique talents. This event will also mark Harrison County Arts 20th anniversary, and we hope to celebrate our longevity with stylish success. Let’s make this event a truly memorable celebration of creativity, confidence, and community!
Provide your own models.
Fashion Show Location TBD, but will be in Corydon, IN
More Information

Equine Expressions
Deadline: May 30, 2025

Artist Opportunity Type: Exhibition
Entry Fee: $30
Open to (any restrictions on entries): A competitive art show in all mediums interpreting the equine community.
Exhibition/Event Dates:    6/3/2025-6/28/2025
Event Location (City/Venue): Gallery 104, 104 East Main Street, LaGrange, KY, 40031
Contact: Jacqueline Bryan, shows@gallery104.org
Additional Information: No size restrictions within reason.
Please complete a prospectus found at aaooc.org under shows and return with images to shows@gallery104.org
Show information: https://aaooc.org/Upcoming-Shows
Prospectus: https://aaooc.org/ShowProspectus

Watercolor
Deadline: June 27, 2025

Artist Opportunity Type: Exhibition
Entry Fee: $30
Open to (any restrictions on entries): A competitive art show in the watercolor medium of all subjects.
Exhibition/Event Dates: 7/1/2025-7/26/2025
Event Location (City/Venue): Gallery 104, 104 East Main Street, LaGrange, KY, 40031
Contact: Jacqueline Bryan, shows@gallery104.org
Additional Information: No size restrictions within reason.
Please complete a prospectus found at aaooc.org under shows and return with images to shows@gallery104.org
Show information: https://aaooc.org/Upcoming-Shows
Prospectus: https://aaooc.org/ShowProspectus
*Contact the show chair for an alternate drop off date if traveling for the holiday.

9th Annual What's in Your Garden: Harvest Edition
Deadline: August 15, 2025

Artist Opportunity Type: Exhibition
Entry Fee: $30
Open to (any restrictions on entries): A competitive art show in all mediums with a garden/farm harvest theme.
Exhibition/Event Dates:     8/19/2025-10/13/2025
Event Location (City/Venue): Gallery 104, 104 East Main Street, LaGrange, KY, 40031
Contact: Jacqueline Bryan, shows@gallery104.org
Additional Information: No size restrictions within reason.
Please complete a prospectus found at aaooc.org under shows and return with images to shows@gallery104.org
Show information: https://aaooc.org/Upcoming-Shows
Prospectus: https://aaooc.org/ShowProspectus
 

2nd Annual Women of Abstraction Art Show
Deadline: September 12, 2025

Artist Opportunity Type: Exhibition
Entry Fee: $30
Open to (any restrictions on entries): A competitive art show in all mediums created by women creating abstract work, sponsored by Psi Iota Xi Sorority.
Exhibition/Event Dates:     9/16/2025-10/11/2025
Event Location (City/Venue): Gallery 104, 104 East Main Street, LaGrange, KY, 40031
Contact: Jacqueline Bryan, shows@gallery104.org
Additional Information: No size restrictions within reason.
Please complete a prospectus found at aaooc.org under shows and return with images to shows@gallery104.org
Show information: https://aaooc.org/Upcoming-Shows
Prospectus: https://aaooc.org/ShowProspectus

Henry Vogt Machine Mold Inventory Giveaway
Deadline: Ongoing

Entry Fee: free
Open to (any restrictions on entries): Anyone able to transport the parts
Event Dates: Until they're gone
Event Location (City/Venue): LVA, 1538 Lytle St. Hours: Monday-Thursday 10a-4p.
Contact Name: Taylor Sanders, Taylor@louisvillevisualart.org
Additional Information: LVA is storing Henry Vogt Machine mold inventory and we are giving away the parts to artists who would like to use them however they please. You are welcomed to stop by and see what we have and take home any part of it that is remaining. See the link below for pictures.
Images