CALLS FOR WORK
We regularly hear from individual artists and non-profit organizations inquiring about calls for work and other artistic opportunities. This is a collection of those opportunities and their deadlines. NOTE: If you have specific questions regarding calls for work outside of Arts Services Inc., please directly contact the organization requesting the artistic work. If you have an art submission deadline, please submit your information to [email protected] and we would be glad to add it to our listing.
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In 1988, a group of artists and crafts people joined together as the “Allegany Artisans” and opened their studios to the public for a weekend. The artisans chose their name to represent their proximity to the Allegany foothills and called their event “The Allegany Artisans Studio Tour.” This venture became an annual cooperative event and grew to include artisans of diverse styles, tastes and traditions working with clay, wood, metal, fiber, jewelry, paint, and other media. Over the years, many Allegany Artisans have established an audience and market through participation in regional, national and international events but they have maintained their relationship with friends and neighbors through the annual Allegany Artisans Studio Tour.
Only a few of the studios keep regular business hours throughout the year. Many studios function primarily as workshops but artisans are often willing to open their private spaces to visitors by appointment. This is one way to shop locally and directly. Please contact individual artisans to make arrangements.
Area artisans interested in joining the 2025 Studio Tour should Contact Allegany Artisans to apply in the spring. Membership is open to artisans living/working in Allegany County.
Deadline: Spring 2025 (for October 2025 event)
Join our impactful, juried online art exhibitions, where emerging and established artists from all corners of the world are welcome to share their work. Art Fluent’s Call for Art is here!
Imagine your artwork reaching a global audience! Each exhibition features a unique theme, offers cash prizes, and provides artists a permanent spot in our online art gallery.
Our journey, which began in 2020, marks the inception of our commitment to empower the arts. We allocate a portion of our entry fees to support the arts and artists through donations to dedicated nonprofit organizations.
We can’t wait to see your artwork!
Deadlines: Rolling (Multiple, themed opportunities available simultaneously)
Buffalo Arts Studio is accepting applications for the 2024/2025 exhibition cycle that reflect on the concept of “necropolitics,” as originally defined by Achille Mbembe. This theory describes how political powers relegate select oppressed populations to death by subjecting them to inhospitable living conditions. Also informing this series of exhibitions is Michael Truscello’s Infrastructural Brutalism: Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure, which focuses on governmental violence such as the destruction of towns and villages for the “progress” of building a dam or the constant polluting of a community to support industry.
In support of Buffalo Arts Studio’s curatorial goal of economic and representational justice, we are providing a $1,000 honorarium to solo exhibiting artists for the 2024/25 exhibition calendar with $500-$1,500 in material and installation support is available as well. Additionally, shipping and travel costs, including food and lodging per diem, may be included in project proposals made by artists living and working outside of the WNY region.
Deadline: Rolling
Buffalo Art Wall provides a free online display platform for contemporary artists in Buffalo, NY. Artists galleries are generated upon submission. When site visitors roll a cursor over your art, your name appears below; with one click, they enter your personal gallery. Viewers can contact you or your gallery for purchase. Site is designed for display only; no sales.
Deadline: Ongoing
Buffalo Latino Village is looking to establish a Latino art gallery and is in search of exhibition material. Images contributed or donated will be:
- Displayed on their online website with headshot and bio
- Listed with places where the work is currently exhibited
- Linked to where people can purchase your work
- Published (one time per year)
Deadline: Ongoing
Cereal City Sticker Co. seeks artists to feature in local artist sticker vending machines. Artist Emma Brittain-Hardy has received funding from Awesome Buffalo to start a local artist sticker vending machine.
Looking to feature 3 artists per . Selected artists will be paid $200 for 3 sticker designs – designs submitted will be printed in a limited run (300 per design) followed by the next series of 3 artists.
Email [email protected] with questions
Deadline: Rolling – artists will be notified upon acceptance
PROJECT OVERVIEW:
The Erie County Arts in Public Places Committee seeks professional artists or artist-led teams to design, fabricate and install public art at the following locations:
- Seneca Bluffs Natural Habitat Park
- Como Lake Park
- Ellicott Creek Park
- Erie County Health Mall
- Buffalo Convention Center
Artists and artist-led teams are invited to submit public art proposals for one or more of the above-listed locations. Proposals should include and consider the location, the history and background of the site. Please note that artists will not be selected to complete projects at more than one location.
PROJECT BACKGROUND:
In 2023, the Erie County Legislature passed a Local Law that provides ongoing financial support for public art to make art more accessible to all Erie County residents and visitors and to foster a sense of community connection and civic pride. The Arts in Public Places Committee was established to support the initiative by commissioning, selecting, placing, and preserving public art in a variety of media throughout the county.
ELIGIBILITY:
The project is open to professional artists and artist-led teams residing in Erie County with an additional focus and priority for artists who are racially and ethnically diverse. Applicants who do not live within Erie County will be considered ineligible. Applicants should have experience completing projects of a similar size and budget, experience in completing projects on time and on budget, experience in public art, and experience working with other professionals including fabricators, landscape architects, engineers and government officials. Artists should also have experience creating permanent artwork in materials suitable for the climate of Erie County.
ARTWORK BUDGET: Up to $200,000 per proposal
DEADLINE: December 16, 2024
The Gallery @ 700 Main Street in East Aurora Curator is looking for artists to exhibit in 2024. Paulette Krakowski will be happy to view your high resolution JPEG’s by emailing them to [email protected] for consideration. She will answer any questions you may have about your 7 week exhibit, whether a solo exhibit, an exhibit of two or three artists, or a group exhibit such as the East Aurora Art Society.
Deadline: Ongoing
Hilary House at Horizon Village is seeking submissions from artists to create meaningful, inspiring artwork for a special space: Devin’s Room at Hilary House. This room is dedicated to the memory of Devin Waring, who tragically lost his life to suicide. We aim to create a healing, comforting environment that embodies the importance of mental health awareness and suicide prevention.
Theme: Artists are encouraged to submit works that reflect themes of hope, resilience, healing, and remembrance. The goal is to provide an uplifting and peaceful space for those who visit, in honor of Devin’s memory.
To apply, email Tracy Waring at [email protected].
Deadline: December 15, 2024
LSU is accepting submissions for original plays that explore the intersection of science and art. They are seeking innovative stories where science plays a central role in the narrative. Selected playwrights will have the opportunity to workshop their plays, receive a $500 reward, and travel to Baton Rouge for the festival, which will take place from April 13-15, 2025.
Deadline: November 22, 2024
What is the power of a word? What role does language play in building community? As a part of our Year of Free Speech, the National Liberty Museum (NLM) invites artists and creatives to explore these pivotal questions through their unique lenses. Opening February 7, 2025, the winter 2025 exhibition will showcase a curated selection of artwork that transforms viewers into active readers and interpreters, promoting curiosity and encouraging conversations across a diversity of perspectives.
Selected works should act as a means of communication through the incorporation of words and language, illuminating and engaging with the dual forces of expression and censorship, and asking viewers to reflect on the nature of free speech, its possibilities, and its limits. These works should celebrate the transformative power of words to connectand uplift civil discourse through interactive and reflective experiences.
The NLM is looking for artwork in a range of media including, but not limited to: written word, installation, 2D, 3D, digital media, or performance. Accommodations can be made for multimedia works depending on scale and requirements. Participating artists will be selected through this open call-to-artist and a jury selection committee of community partners.
Deadline: December 1, 2024
The Niagara Arts and Cultural Center (NACC) seeks compelling artists, projects, exhibits, and performances across a range of disciplines and styles for its 2024 calendar year and beyond. As an incubator/maker space in Niagara County, we aim to support arts and cultural projects for any and all types of audiences. Ideas that creatively utilize our home in the old Niagara Falls High School – big, small, traditional, obscure, media, theatre, music, and the practices that defy disciplines – are encouraged and appreciated.
We seek dynamic ideas for all of our venues:
- Townsend Gallery: One of the largest, uninterrupted gallery spaces in Western New York. Open3,200 square foot (78 x 41 feet) gallery; brightly lit space that is handicap accessible.
- Woodbox Theatre: Stage space (in 72-seat proscenium setting): 25 ft wide x 26 ft deep; 8 rows of 9 seats. Total room dimensions: 25 feet wide by 57 feet deep.
- Grand Theatre: Proscenium theatre with 500 seats on the main floor and an additional 400+ in the balcony. 44 foot proscenium arch; 32 feet from the drip line to the back wall; 9 foot apron.
- The Gym: 3,840 feet of uninterrupted space (80 x 48 feet) with 26 foot ceilings.
- The Pool: 2,560 total square feet in the pool area (80 x 32 feet) with 14 foot ceilings (additional 200 seat bleacher seating area). 60 foot long pool; depth of pool: 4 feet to 7 feet.
- Hallways throughout: The NACC features wide, 10-14 foot hallways and 12 foot ceilings.
Deadline: Rolling throughout 2024, click below for details.
This is a national short fiction contest that features a first place $1,000 cash award and three $250 runner-up cash awards. The winner stories will be published in the print issue of the Winter/Spring 2025 issue of Philadelphia Stories. We especially encourage writers from underrepresented groups and backgrounds to send their work.
Deadline: December 1, 2024
Our gallery is located on the lobby level of Seneca One in downtown Buffalo. It is curated by Greg Moyer, owner of local company, Leftern (@lefternco on IG) in collaboration with Sean Heidinger of Seneca One.
The idea with this space is to keep a rotating monthly residence of local artists to showcase and sell their work inside the gallery. We will be asking for $0 in commission fees for pieces sold on site. In fact, we will be granting artists a budget to work with for a reception event each month. We aim to make it a destination for people outside of the building to visit the work, as well as a stop-by for the 1k+ commercial and residential tenants and guests of Seneca One each week. It will be open to the public for viewing Monday-Saturday from 8am until 8PM. We’ll also be consistently spreading information on the artists & gallery via multiple social channels and newsletters that we use.
Once a month, we’ll be asking the featured artist to create an opening reception to kick off the residency that we help facilitate and execute smoothly. During this event, they will be allowed to take over the entire gallery, lobby, bar, speaker system, and theater space if wanted- creating a completely immersive experience- a step into their world, if you will; to expand the exhibit beyond just the art on the gallery walls.
Deadline: Rolling
The Roger Tory Peterson Institute in Jamestown, NY, invites artists to submit work for our fourth annual juried exhibition of Art that Matters to the Planet.
Art that Matters to the Planet explores the ways in which art and artists can help to shape a more sustainable future. Art that Matters to the Planet: Wild America will coincide with the 70th anniversary of the publication of Wild America: The Record of a 30,000 Mile Journey Around the Continent by a Distinguished Naturalist and His British Colleague, by Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher.
We are pleased to announce that Kenn Kaufman will be serving as the juror for 2025. Kaufman is an American author, artist, naturalist, and conservationist who was strongly influenced by the artwork and writing of Roger Tory Peterson. In particular, Wild America inspired Kenn to pursue birds all over North America while he was still a teenager.
With Art that Matters to the Planet: Wild America, we will consider three main themes:
- Exploration. In the spirit of the Big Year, we encourage submissions from artists who incorporate exploration of, knowledge about, and advocacy for the wild places of North America.
- Place-based artworks. We hope to see artworks that share the unique spirit of the wilderness around you in a way that inspires us to discover it or re-discover it through new eyes.
- Environmental impact. With this exhibition, we hope to learn about the impact of conservation efforts which have taken place over the past 70 years, as well as ongoing efforts to preserve the natural world.
Deadline: January 10, 2025
Smack Mellon seeks artwork submissions for a summer group exhibition to be guest-curated by New York City-based writer and curator Pallavi Surana. This exhibition conceptually departs from the salt marsh—a transitional zone between terrestrial and aquatic environments that provides critical habitat for a variety of species. As ecosystems, salt marshes carry an inherent tension and exist as intermediaries: between land and sea, and between a perceived desolation and vitality.
Deadline: December 1, 2024
We welcome artists of all backgrounds and career-levels to join us for this beloved exhibition and benefit sale to help us raise vital funds for Visual AIDS’ mission of supporting artists living with HIV, preserving the legacies of those who have been lost, and producing contemporary art programs—because AIDS is not over!
Last year 1525 artists from around the world lent their support towards our most successful PFTE to date.
Deadline: November 22, 2024
Walmart Community Mural Program is a celebration of communities across America and an important part of a new or newly transformed facility. Inspired by the community and together with every store manager, each mural reflects the local diversity and cultural references. Every mural is a unique, original artwork. Walmart works with NOW Art, a public art agency, to curate and engage artists across the country.
Pay is $800 for selected artists.
Deadline: Rolling
Last updated: November 21, 2024
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