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Deadline: March 17, 2025

Artist Opportunity Type: Exhibition
Entry Fee: 0
Open to (any restrictions on entries): All
Exhibition/Event Dates: April 19, 2025
Event Location (City/Venue): KMAC, 715 West Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky, 40202
Contact: julia@kmacmuseum.org
Additional Information: JIn conjunction with KMAC Couture 2025 we are inviting you to share your vision, talent and artistry by creating a unique fashion accessory inspired by the
“Lucky 13” theme of this year’s KMAC COUTURE.
We are looking for innovative jewelry, hatwear, scarves, eyewear, handbags, shoes, etc. to be featured on the KMAC Couture runway and subsequently in the KMAC Shop. Items need to be available for sale and moderately priced.
Please confirm your participation and submit your entry
no later than March 17, 2025.

NOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS:
KMAC Couture is adding a new component to the Runway Show called ”Couturism” featuring high fashion accessories that will be showcased during the KMAC Couture 2025 intermission on April 19th, 2025.
This year’s curatorial statement is Lucky #13, where we are calling on artists to explore themes of superstition and good luck through fashion!
We are looking for innovative jewelry, hatwear, scarves, eyewear, handbags, shoes, etc. to be featured on the KMAC Couture 2025 Runway and in a shop-related COUTURISM showcase.
Please submit your entry no later than March 17th, 2025. All submissions must include photos of the pieces you intend to submit.
Work needs to be moderately priced and will be available for sale in the KMAC shop on commission (60% to the artist, 40% to KMAC Museum).
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Deadline: March 17, 2025

Artist Opportunity Type: Residency or Fellowship
Entry Fee: $0
Open to (any restrictions on entries): The opportunity for curators and the artists that they select is open to any individual 18 years of age and above who lives within the boundaries of Jefferson County Kentucky or a county that borders Jefferson County.
Applicants are not limited to formally trained or self-taught curators, but could also include artists, designers, writers, or others who are engaged in creative practice.
*Current students in any college or university are not eligible.
*Those who currently hold a paid position as a curator, gallerist, or curatorial faculty in either a for-profit or non-profit space are not eligible.
Exhibition/Event Dates: Spring-Summer 2026
Event Location (City/Venue): To Be Determined, Louisville, KY, 40203
Contact: Keith Waits,  keith@louisvillevisualart.org
Additional Information: Each year, LVA will choose two emerging local curators to spend six months working with a non-profit or public partner to identify local artists’ work for purchase and installation in publicly accessible spaces. For the purposes of this program, the “curator” applicants are not limited to formally trained or self-taught curators, but could also include artists, designers, writers, or others who are engaged in a creative practice. CPI will set Louisville apart from other cities by providing several unique benefits:
The local artists whose work is selected will benefit from the sales and be invited to participate in LVA’s professional development workshop series (ARS) that teaches fundamentals of art-related business practices. The non-profit partner will receive the art on permanent loan, with the provision that it must remain on display in a place where the public can view it and create a healing, contemplative, or inspiring space for visitors. LVA will also create a web-accessible catalog of the CPI artworks that can be viewed by the entire community.
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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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Deadline: March 31, 2025

Artist Opportunity Type: Residency or Fellowship
Entry Fee: free
Open to (any restrictions on entries): 18+
Exhibition/Event Dates: July-December 2025
Event Location (City/Venue): South Central Regional Library, 7300 Jefferson Blvd, Louisville, KY, 40219
Contact: Liz Magee, collider@lfpl.org
Additional Information: The COLLIDER Artist-in-Residence program serves to connect the public with art and the people who create it. We are currently accepting applications from artists for the July - December 2025 monthly residency spots. Selected artists lead three public workshops and complete 40 studio hours for their residency month. All interested artists — including visual artists, traditional craftspeople, musicians, dancers, digital artists, writers, and more — are encouraged to apply.
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Deadline: March 31, 2025

Artist Opportunity Type: Exhibition
Entry Fee: $0

Open to: Open to: 2D and 3D artists (must be able to hang on a wall), 18 and over (priority will be given to artists living in the Louisville and Southern Indiana areas).
Louisville Visual Art (LVA), in association with AC Hotels (Nulu, LLC), is reviewing submissions from local artists for installation on the first and second floor lobby of the AC Hotel for the 2024-5 season. Seven artworks will be selected. Artists of all mediums are encouraged to apply. All artwork must be under glass and ready to hang with the appropriate hardware. The AC Hotel exhibition space hosts 2 exhibitions per year. These artworks will have high visibility and will be prominently displayed within the restaurant/bar and foyer in the AC Hotel. Artist receives 100% of sale price when artwork is sold through the AC Hotel.

Exhibition/Event Dates:April 18 - October 17, 2025
Event Location (City/Venue): AC Hotel, 727 E Market Street, Louisville, KY, 40202
Contact: Keith Waits,  keith@louisvillevisualart.org
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Entry Fee: Free
Deadline 5:00 pm, March 31, 2025
Installation Date: April 18, 2025
Exhibition Dates: April 21 - October 17 , 2025
Location: AC Hotel, 725 E. Market St., Louisville, KY
Open to: 2D and 3D artists (must be able to hang on a wall), 18 and over (priority will be given to artists living in the Louisville and Southern Indiana areas).
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Deadline: April 3, 2025

Artist Opportunity Type: Workshop
Entry Fee: $580
Open to (any restrictions on entries): open
Exhibition/Event Dates:  April 4-6,2025
Event Location (City/Venue): Manifest Drawing Center, 3464 Central Parkway, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45223
Contact: Kevin Leigh-Manuell , kevin@manifestvisualarts.org
Additional Information: 
Painting the Head in Space
A 3-day Intensive Workshop with Edmond Praybe
April 4-6, 2025  (Friday - Sunday)
Friday, 10am - 5pm, Workshop
Saturday, 10am - 5pm, Workshop
Sunday, 10am - 5pm, Workshop
Tuition:
Regular Registration by April 3:
$580  (Student Rate: $493 with valid student ID)
* 15% discount student rates offered only with valid academic student i.d. We will contact you to obtain verification in advance of the workshop.
Description:
In this workshop, you will move beyond simply recording visual facts or achieving a likeness when painting the human head. Through daily exercises and working from a live model, you will develop a deeper understanding of form, volume, and spatial relationships while learning to see the head as an integrated part of a larger composition. You will explore methods for breaking down the head into a series of shapes, planes, and marks, allowing for a more structured and dynamic approach to painting.Throughout this workshop, you will create a series of head studies using both limited and full-color palettes, honing your ability to make intentional color choices. You will experiment with strategies for pre-mixing colors and explore how shifts in temperature, saturation, and value can be used to describe form and enhance depth. Additionally, historical and contemporary painting examples will provide insight and inspiration, helping you refine your technical skills and artistic vision. By the end of the workshop, you will have a stronger grasp of observational painting, composition, and expressive mark-making, equipping you with tools to approach head painting with greater confidence and creativity.
About the Instructor:
Edmond Praybe is a Maryland-based painter who received his BFA from the Maryland Institute, College of Art and MFA from the New York Studio School. Praybe has taught with the New York Studio School, Mount Gretna School of Art, The Washington Studio School, College of Notre Dame, MD, Wayne Art Center and Townsend Atelier. He has led online classes with Penn Studio School, Winslow Art Center and the Seattle Artist League. Praybe has been a visiting artist and lecturer at Harrisburg Area Community College and the Pennsylvania College of Art and Design and currently teaches painting at Anne Arundel Community College.
Praybe’s work has been exhibited at venues including First Street, Prince Street and Bowery Galleries in New York City, Manifest Gallery, The University of Mary Washington, and The Mitchell Gallery at St. John’s College. He has been the recipient of the Hohenberg Travel Grant, four NYSS Alumni Exhibition Awards and was a US National Parks Artist-In-Residence. Praybe won the purchase award for the 12th Annual Drawing Discourse at UNC Asheville and was a finalist for the Bethesda Painting Awards in 2021.
Praybe is a member of Zeuxis: An Association of Still Life Painters and is included in their book, Conversations. He has been interviewed for the online blog, Painting Perceptions and the Creative Contemplation Podcast. Praybe’s work has been included in Manifest Press’s INPA publication, 7th and 10th editions.
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Deadline: April 07, 2025

Artist Opportunity Type: Award or Grant & Exhibition
Entry Fee: $0
Exhibition/Event Dates: Finalist Exhibition in June TBA
Event Location (City/Venue): Finalist Exhibition will be held at LVA, 1538 Lytle St. Louisville Ky
Contact: Keith Waits,  keith@louisvillevisualart.org
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The Call for Artists will open on February 24, 2025. Deadline for submissions is April 07, 2025
The Bill Fischer Award for Visual Artists is a $10,000 cash prize designed to make a meaningful impact on the career of a visual artist residing in the Louisville Metro Area by providing support in the form of grants for the execution and exhibition of artwork and other efforts to foster a professional career as a visual artist. Recipients of the Fischer Award must show a commitment to experimentation and the creative use of materials and techniques, and a commitment to pursuing a career as a professional working visual artist. 5 Finalists will also receive $500 each.

Recipients of the Fischer Award must show a commitment to experimentation and the creative use of materials and techniques, and a commitment to pursuing a career as a professional working visual artist. Applicants must be residents living in the Louisville Metro Area for a minimum of six months prior to the application deadline. The Metro Area is defined as Jefferson, Oldham, Shelby, Spencer, Bullitt, Nelson, Meade, Trimble and Henry Counties in Kentucky; and Clark, Harrison, Floyd and Washington Counties in Indiana. Applicants must be a minimum of 25 years old and have completed any formal art training a minimum of three years prior to the application deadline, so if you are currently enrolled in an undergraduate or post-graduate art or design program you are not eligible. This is a one-time prize; winners of the Fischer Award are not eligible to apply for future Fischer Awards. The prize may be considered taxable income, so applicants should consult a tax professional. There is no submission fee to the Fischer Award for Visual Artists.
Artists working in the following media are eligible to apply: ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, mixed media, printmaking, graphic design, glass. Artists working in architecture, photography, video, time-based media, limited duration installation and the performing arts are not eligible for this award. Both emerging and established artists are encouraged to apply.
The Bill Fischer Award for Visual Artists is funded by the Artist Bill Fischer Foundation for Working Artists at the Community Foundation of Louisville. Louisville Visual Art serves as the administrative partner to the project and competition process
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Deadline: April 13, 2025

Artist Opportunity Type: Workshop
Entry Fee: $0
Exhibition/Event Dates: LVA workshop - April 13th. More dates are offered at other locations
Event Location (City/Venue): LVA, 1538 Lytle St. Louisville ky. 40203
Contact: Erica Lewis, https://www.evplart.com/contact
Additional Information: Louisville’s foremost CeLOUbration of the printmaking artform is returning for 2025, and just like last year, now’s your chance to get involved! Are you an experienced printmaker? A starting hobbyist? A printmaking organization? Someone who’s always wanted to try printmaking? Well great news, they have opportunities for all experience levels to make and share the creative power of print including free workshops and tabling space, so read on! The event is at the Portland Museum, April 18-19, 2025.Workshops are held at various locations all throughout Louisville Metro with FREE materials and FREE instruction from printmaking pro Erica Lewis (EVPL) LVA is hosting one of these workshops in the gallery, April 13th.Click the link for more information and to register.

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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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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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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.

Deadline: May 4, 2025

Artist Opportunity Type: Exhibition
Entry Fee: $20
Open to (any restrictions on entries): Kinhouse Gallery is seeking work for their fiber-based open call, Fiber Friends.
Historically, fiber art has been a medium that brings folks together. From quilting bees to weaving groups, fiber work has the power to bring people together and create circles of connection and care. Juried by internationally acclaimed fiber artist Cassie Arnold, we invite submissions that reflect a range of work related to and including fiber based mediums and materials. Submissions may range from traditional loom weavings to collaged or mixed media works. Submissions should include a fiber based material or technique; innovative, unexpected, and exploratory submissions within the fiber category are encouraged. This exhibition will create a soft circle of fiber related works for viewers to experience, connecting artists and viewers in community.
All artists who submit to this call will be invited to a Fiber Friends Zoom hosted by Kinhouse co-directors Kaylan Buteyn and Dana Caldera as well as our juror Cassie Arnold. During the zoom we will discuss our favorite contemporary fiber based artworks as well as facilitate discussion and connection! Bringing along a fiber based artwork to stitch, knit, sew, or work on during the zoom call is encouraged! ;) 
Exhibition/Event Dates: July 16th, 2025 - August 20th, 2025 
Event Location (City/Venue): Kinhouse Gallery,  1601 Oakland St, Fort Wayne, IN, 46808
Contact: Kinhouse Team kinhouseart@gmail.com
Additional Information:About Juror Cassie Arnold
Cassie received her BFA in Visual Art Studies from the University of North Texas. She has spent the last decade teaching in both private and public secondary schools and has showcased her work in Fiberart International where she received First Prize, Ashurst Art Prize in London, Mother Art Prize in London, Birth Rites Collection at Kings College, Fantastic Fibers International Exhibition, and numerous other Fine Art exhibitions around the United States and Europe. Currently her work is in Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood, a traveling exhibition sponsored by Hayward Gallery Touring in the UK and curated by art critic, Hettie Judah. Cassie's work has also been featured in international publications such as SLEEK Magazine in Berlin, Vogue Russia, Glamour Brazil, Maker's Magazine's Women's Issue, Friend of the Artist, and Fiber Art Now's Excellence in Fibers Exhibition. Cassie, her partner, and three kids live, work, and play in Denton, Texas.

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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
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Deadline: May 13, 2025

Artist Opportunity Type: Grant
Entry Fee: $40 to submit 10 images
Open to (any restrictions on entries): All visual artists are eligible.
Exhibition/Event Dates: 05/14/25
Event Location (City/Venue): online
Contact: info@hopperprize.org
Additional Information:  The Hopper Prize is now accepting entries for our Spring 2025 artist grants.
We are offering grants in the amount of $3,500 (2 available) and $1,000 (4 available) to artists & photographers worldwide working in all media.
In total, 6 artists will receive unrestricted cash grants totaling $11,000.
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.
In addition to grants, 30 artists will be selected for a shortlist. Additional exposure is available via our online Journal as well as our Instagram feed, currently reaching an audience over 150k.
This is an international open call available to artists around the world. All visual art media is eligible.
Deadline: May 13, 2025
Submit your work at https://hopperprize.org

Deadline: May 16, 2025

Artist Opportunity Type: Fair or Festival
Entry Fee: $25 jury; $230 booth
Open to (any restrictions on entries): Ceramics, Consumables, Drawing, Digital Art, Fiber, Glass, Jewelry, 2D Mixed-Media, 3D Mixed Media, Metal/Blacksmithing, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Wood.
Exhibition/Event Dates: June 14-15, 2025
Event Location (City/Venue): The Maples Park, 6826 W State Hwy 22, Crestwood, KY, 40014
Contact: Erin Gillespie, artsongreen@aaooc.org
Additional Information:  Arts on the Green is a juried Fine Arts and Crafts Festival benefiting the Arts Association of Oldham County (AAOC), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Now in its 25th year, this festival takes place in the beautiful 22-acre Maples Park in Crestwood, KY on June 14-15, 2025.
Festival Dates and Times:
Saturday, June 14, 2025: 10am - 5pm
Sunday, June 15, 2025: 10am - 4pm
Key Deadlines:
Rolling Jury Process: Through May 15, 2025
Invite Notifications: By May 16, 2025
Acceptance Deadline: May 23, 2025
Booth Fee Payment Deadline: May 23, 2025
In order to be included on promotional material, fees must be paid by 5/23/2025
Artist Amenities:
Early Bird & AAOC Members discount
Friday check-in & set-up
Golf cart assistance for loading & unloading
Onsite artist parking
Free artist brunch Saturday & Sunday
Booth sitters
Security Friday & Saturday nights
Discounted hotel rates in La Grange (10 minutes from park)
Professional marketing campaign
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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

Deadline: ongoing

Artist Opportunity Type: Volunteer opportunity
Entry Fee: o
Open to (any restrictions on entries): Adults, High schoolers welcomed
Exhibition/Event Dates: June 2 through August 1
Event Location (City/Venue): Varies
Contact: Annette, Annette@louisvillevisualart.org
Additional Information: We are now accepting sign ups for spring break and summer camp volunteers for 2025. This is a great chance to get teaching experience, volunteer hours, and makes for a great line on a resume! Camps are held at the United Crescent Hill Ministries building (UCHM), the Waterfront Park and the LVA Center for Art & Creativity, please check the location of your camps. Volunteers can learn about the different camps LVA will be offering online here. The Cultural Pass is held at the LVA Center for Art & Creativity and you can learn about our CP summer class here.

Adult Volunteers Sign up HERE | Youth Volunteers Sign Up Here

Deadline: June 1, 2025

Artist Opportunity Type: Exhibition
Entry Fee: $35 for 1 show proposal — Use code “SUPPORT” for $10 off your submission fee if needed, no questions asked
Open to (any restrictions on entries): Kinhouse seeks to support emerging and mid-career artists with this meaningful opportunity to facilitate their own art exhibition in our space! We welcome proposals for solo or small group exhibitions, collaborations, artist collectives or groups, performances, installations, and site-specific artwork. Exhibitions will be considered for our 2026 programming year and we will select between 2-6 proposals. Each selected exhibition proposal will be awarded a stipend of $250 for the artist(s) to use at their discretion.
Curators are also welcome to submit proposals for our space! Proposals are never final but we consider strong proposals to have a clear vision, statement, compelling visuals and consideration towards diversity and inclusion.
Selected artists/curators will receive from us:
- Communication and support leading up to the exhibition
- Installation support at the exhibition
- 2-6 week use of our gallery space for your exhibition
- Promotion and marketing of your artwork and exhibition on our platforms
- $250 stipend for use for your exhibition preparations at your discretion
- Professional documentation of the exhibition and rights to use the images
We welcome submissions from persons of all genders and backgrounds. Work samples may be submitted in a proposed form (not yet finished). See full APPLICATION HERE
Exhibition/Event Dates: TBA
Event Location (City/Venue): Kinhouse Gallery,  1601 Oakland St, Fort Wayne, IN, 46808
Contact: Kinhouse Team kinhouseart@gmail.com
Additional Information: PDF Submission Should Include:
Artist/Curator names at the top of the document
Ensure the document is legible (black text on white background is best)
Proposed exhibition title
Artists to be included (artists should be confirmed) with each artist’s pronouns and location
Artist bios, websites and social media links
Exhibition statement
Images of work (include title, year, materials and dimensions for all work. 20 images maximum)
Link to video work (if included in proposal)

More Information

Deadline: June 1, 2025

Artist Opportunity Type: Exhibition
Entry Fee: Each proposal must be accompanied by a $50 non-refundable submission fee.
Open to (any restrictions on entries): Open Internationally.
Exhibition/Event Dates: September 2025- September 2026
Event Location (City/Venue): Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, 2727 Woodburn Avenue, Cincinnati, OH, 45206
Contact: info@manifestgallery.org
Additional Information:The Cincinnati based non-profit arts organization and gallery, Manifest, invites visual artists and designers to submit proposals of original bodies of work for consideration during the 2025/26 exhibit season.
On average, one-third of Manifest's exhibits are dedicated to solo exhibits. Solo exhibitors have included local, regional, and national artists from as far away as New York City, San Francisco, Canada, and Hong Kong. It is important to our non-profit mission that each of our seasons of free public exhibits consist of a balanced mix of solo and group thematic projects. The group shows provide diversity of approach, media, style, and geographic origin, while the solo exhibits provide a deeper insight into an artist's vision. Open to all traditional and non-traditional genre and media.
Anyone can submit a proposal. Artists should bear in mind the need for a consistent and very strong body of work when submitting. Quality of documentation/images affects the committee's impression of the submitting artist.
Each proposal must be accompanied by a $50 non-refundable submission fee.
Includes honorarium of $100 for each solo exhibiting artist, and Grand Jury Award of $1,000 for one jury-selected work from among the exhibits on view.
More Information

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.

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

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.
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Founded in 1909, Louisville Visual Art (LVA) nurtures our city's diverse artists throughout their creative lifecycles with youth art education, professional artist development, and art in public spaces. Since 1925, we've inspired future generations of creative leaders through Children's Fine Art Classes (CFAC). Our outreach programs span the Louisville Metro, enriching diverse communities. From our creative hub in the Portland neighborhood, we encourage artists through the Artists Talk with LVA radio show, Curate Purchase Inspire (CPI), Open Studio Weekend, and weekly calls for artists.

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1538 Lytle St. Louisville, KY 40203
502.584.8166
www.louisvillevisualart.org

The Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency, provides operating support to Louisville Visual Art with state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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