Deadline: Ongoing

Compete with other artists in our free monthly online art contests for cash and other great prizes. A Singular Creation Art Community provides a free online venue to showcase your art and photography. All winners will also be featured on our website and in our e-newsletters sent to over 6,200 subscribers. Different themes every month. read more

Deadline: Friday, September 10

On behalf of the Tubman-Mahan Art Gallery of the Center for Green Urbanism, Authentic Contemporary Art is inviting artists to submit artwork for ReCREATE. This will be the inaugural exhibition of the Gallery and will showcase artwork that is made up of recycled or recyclable materials. It will coincide with the Center's official Grand Opening, scheduled for Friday, October 15, 2010. Open to U.S. artists 18 years and older. In keeping with the "green" mission of the Center and Gallery, ReCREATE focuses on art created from items that are normally thrown away but can be recycled. Recyclable or recycled objects must be incorporated into the artwork. read more

Deadline: Monday, September 13

Still Point Art Gallery invites submissions for its upcoming online exhibition: Global Lifestyles: Large Cities, Small Towns, Tiny Villages. Some people love the big city, others love small towns, and still others enjoy a stay in a tiny village. Around the globe, the city, the town, the village. Each has its own skyline, view, personality, flavor, aroma, and feeling. Perhaps your art is inspired by where you live or maybe it is the product of your travels. In any case, artists are invited to share expressions of the global lifestyle, be it in the big city, a small town, or a tiny village. Open to artists 18 years of age or older from around the world who submit artwork in any medium except video and wearable art. Submissions must be the creation of the artist. Reproductions of original artwork are not accepted. Final selections for the exhibition will be made by the Gallery Director, Christine Brooks Cote. A small number of Artists of Distinction will be chosen who will be invited to show their art as Gallery Artists in 2011. read more

Deadline: Wednesday, September 15

12 12 Gallery announces an open call to all artists working with any photographic process to submit entries for its International Juried Photography Exhibition 2010. The exhibition juror, Dr. Patrick Amsellem, Associate Curator of Photography at the Brooklyn Museum, will award up to $1000 in cash prizes. Open to photographers around the world age 18+, working in any photographic process, may submit up to 3 images. Additional images may be submitted at additional cost for up to a total of 5 works. Work previously exhibited at 12 12 Gallery is not eligible. All work must be for sale. 12 12 Gallery will receive a 35% commission on the sale of any work. Visit home page or view prospectus.

Deadline: Tuesday, September 14

This exhibition is open to all photographers world wide, both amateur and professional. The Center for Fine Art Photography invites photographers working in all mediums, styles and schools of thought to participate in this exhibition. The natural world can be seen from the subatomic to the cosmic. It can be raw, powerful, serene, destructive, fertile and delicate. This exhibition will illustrate all aspects of nature. With selection for this exhibition, featured artist’s work will be seen by an international audience of collectors, curators, art consultants and other advocates of fine art photography. Each participant will be included in the Center's Main Gallery exhibition and Online Gallery exhibition. There will be $1,300 in cash and prizes awarded. read more

Deadline: Wednesday, September 15

Verizon Wireless is calling on artists to submit designs for a mural competition to celebrate Hispanic Pride as part of 2010 Hispanic Heritage Month. Each Winner Receives: Design transformed into a mural; $500 art store gift voucher; feature in national arts magazine, Samsung's new Fascinate Smartphone. The deadline for submissions is September 15, 2010. After the finalists are announced, the public will vote for their favorite designs and the most votes win! read more

Early Discounted Deadline: September 8 - Final Deadline: September 24

The Upstream People Gallery presents an exhibition with 12 month's gallery representation, October 1, 2010 through September 30, 2011, with approximately 900,000 hits each month. Open to all artists worldwide with two- and three-dimensional semi-abstract, non-objective to pure abstract works in all media. Cash Awards of Excellence and Special Recognitions will be given at the juror's discretion; the amounts and number of which is determined by the entries and their quality. Specially recognized artists will be reviewed in the juror's statement published worldwide and sent in a press release to the artist's local newspaper(s). read more

Deadline: Saturday, October 16

A jury panel will select artworks for the Florida West Arts Juried Exhibition representing the traditional, the contemporary and the new directions in art. Works completed in the last three years, by artists 18 years of age and older are eligible. Two and three dimensional original artworks in all media, as well as photographic and digital works (editions up to 40) are accepted for entry. A Best in Show artist's works will be featured in a "One Person Show" at the gallery. The works of two or more artists receiving Awards of Distinction and two or more artists receiving Awards of Artistic Achievement will be featured in a small group show at the gallery. read more

Deadline: Sunday, October 17

A Smith Gallery invites submissions for Spherical. Circles and spheres are an integral part of our lives. From the wheels on our cars to the cup you pour your morning coffee into, circles appear everywhere. This exhibition is open to all photographers working in all mediums and styles. Up to 45 images will be selected for exhibition and inclusion in a gallery catalogue. Cash awards will be given. read more

Early Discounted Deadline: October 8 - Final Deadline: October 24

The Upstream People Gallery presents an exhibition with 12 month's gallery representation, November 1, 2010 through October 31, 2011, with approximately 900,000 hits each month. Open to all artists worldwide with original paintings, drawings, photography and prints in all creative processes and forms. Cash Awards of Excellence and Special Recognitions will be given at the juror's discretion; the amounts and number of which is determined by the entries and their quality. Specially recognized artists will be reviewed in the juror's statement published worldwide and sent in a press release to the artist's local newspaper(s). read more

Deadline: Sunday, October 31

It's like a concert tour, but with sketchbooks. Sign up and pick your theme and we'll send you a blank sketchbook. After you fill it up and send it back to us, we'll take it on a national tour to 6+ cities along with thousands of other sketchbooks. The books will travel to museums and galleries in Brooklyn, Atlanta, Austin, San Francisco, Chicago, and Portland, MN. After the tour, your book becomes a part of the permanent collection at the Brooklyn Art Library in Brooklyn, NY. This year we've added a ton of new features including notifications via text message or email when someone looks through your book, bio cards in every book, live webcasts of some of the tour stops, and more! The Sketchbook Project and Art House have been featured in Time out NY, CNN, PBS, Good Magazine, Juxtapoz and more! For more information on the project and to sign up: read more

Deadline: Tuesday, August 31

The Open Studios Press sponsors 6 competitions per year. Winners receive full color spreads in our nationally distributed periodical New American Paintings. We have divided the country into 5 regions (Northeast, South, Midwest, West and Pacific Coast), each of which is the focus of an annual competition, and have recently added a sixth competition for students enrolled in a US passed MFA program. Our competitions are open to all artists working within the United States. All styles and media are welcome, as long as the work is singular and two-dimensional. This competition is open to all artists who are currently Masters of Fine Art candidates. read more

Deadline: Tuesday, November 30

This is the nineteenth annual competition for gallery exhibition and awards. This exhibition is devoted to the discovery, introduction and promotion of emerging artists. The exhibition will be held in April 2011 at the Limner Gallery and is open to all artists working in any media. There will be a $1000 cash award and $2400 in publication awards. On-line entry form or print a postal mail entry form on our website, by email at slowart@aol.com, or via postal mail: send SASE to SlowArt Productions, 123 Warren Street, Hudson, NY 12534. read more

Deadline: Tuesday, November 30

Prizes: $5,000 USD (1st Prize: $2,500; 2nd Prize: $1,500; 3rd Prize: $1,000). 25 artists will be selected by the juror and archived on our website. Each artist will have their own page that will feature an image, caption information, and a link to the artist's website. We will produce a Press Release and obtain Reviews. Currently our private network (offline database) includes over 13,000 contacts spanning over 80 countries. Furthermore, we will send via email an announcement to a group of over 54,000 subscribers. Dave Bown will be buying works of art, on an ongoing basis, from select artists as submissions are received. read more

Deadline: Tuesday, November 30

Richeson School of Art & Gallery, a division of Jack Richeson & Co., Inc., is proud to announce Richeson 75 Small Works 2011 Competition. 75 two-dimensional works of art and several alternates will be selected to represent the finest examples of painting and drawing being produced by today’s visual artists. $6,000 in cash and prizes will be awarded. Finalists and a number of alternates will be selected and invited to participate in the exhibit at the Richeson Gallery in Kimberly, Wisconsin from February 7 thru March 25, 2011. Open to all artists over age 18. 2-D Art in the following categories is eligible: "Oils, Oil Pastel, Paintstiks" - "Other Media" (pastels, pencil, ink, water media, hand-pulled prints etc.). No photography, electronic/computer generated art or 3-D. read more

Deadline: Monday, January 10, 2011

Embracing Our Differences invites artists, photographers, professionals, amateurs, teachers and students to participate in its 8th annual visual art exhibit celebrating diversity. National and international submissions are encouraged. 45 artists will be selected for the exhibit. The Embracing Our Differences exhibit will be displayed throughout the months of April and May 2011 at Island Park along Sarasota's beautiful bayfront. Since 2004, the exhibit has been viewed by more than 850,000 visitors. The exhibit will contain 39 billboard-sized (16 feet wide by 12 1/2 feet high) images of the selected artworks. In the judges’ discretion, an additional six "honorable mention" selections may be made. Final selections will be chosen based on artistic excellence in reflection of the theme "Embracing Our Differences". The art-work will also be evaluated on how effectively it will read outdoors when enlarged to billboard size – 16 feet wide by 12 1/2 feet high. Artists are encouraged to use bold saturated colors and strong lines. Final selections will be made by a 3-judge panel of professional artists, curators and art professionals. A total of $3,000.00 in awards will be presented. There is no submission fee nor limit on the number of entries. read more