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This section consists of Calls for Artists across all artistic disciplines. Are you looking to participate in a festival, exhibition, contest, creative collective, or art project? Scroll through the posts below for all kinds of open calls. Are you looking to list your opportunity for artists? To add a Call, visit our Contribute page or click the link below.
BuzzFeed Casting: Black History Month Around the World
BuzzFeed’s Cocoa Butter is now casting Black people across the globe for a video centered around Back History Month. We’re showing Black history month on a global scale!
We’re looking for Black individuals from various countries to share how you celebrate Black History Month!
U.S., U.K., Ireland, Canada, Netherlands, Japan, Brazil, Australia, are our first priority, but feel free to apply if you’re located elsewhere!
This is a paid opportunity, nonunion, and shoots remotely over video conferencing.You must be 18+ to apply. Interested applicants who are not authorized to work in the US must have proper paperwork to receive payment via wire transfer.
Learn more by attending the StART Information Session on January 20, 2021 at 1:00 pm. A video link to a recording of this session will be posted to our website for those who cannot attend.
The City of Toronto is seeking submissions for StreetARToronto’s Partnership Program. The application is open to individual Artists, Artist Collectives, and not-for-profit or charitable organizations operating in the city of Toronto.
The City of Toronto invites professional artists (including artist teams) to submit their Expression of Interest to the first stage of a competition for a public artwork or artworks along the newly redesigned Humber Bay Shores Trail. The trail runs from the Humber River to the east, through Humber Bay Shores park and the Humber Bay Butterfly Habitat, and connects to the Humber Bay East and West parks to the west.
The Art Gallery of Hamilton will celebrate its 22nd AGH Art Sale from April 22 to 25, 2021, exhibiting artworks available for purchase from contemporary artists in Hamilton and surrounding regions. The event is hosted by AGH Art Sales + Services in support of public programming at the AGH.
The name Duke Heights comes from the first two letters of DUfferin Avenue and KEele Street, and its location, at the northernmost and highest part of the City of Toronto. Nestled between Downsview Park and York University, and stretching from Steeles to Sheppard and from Keele to Dufferin, Duke Heights is an area accessible via TTC, GO transit, the 401, 400 and 407 Highways and soon, via the Finch West LRT, currently under construction.
The City of Toronto invites professional artists (including artist teams) to submit their Expression of Interest to the first stage of a competition for a public artwork or artworks as part of the design of a new park for the Lawrence Heights neighbourhood.
The Paul H. Cocker Gallery invites submissions that redirect the eye away from the iconic photographic image toward new forms and representational culture. The aim is to assemble and display alternative representations that lead away from homogeneity toward an architecture and culture that claims no specific center. The abolition of the center, and its replacement with the void is a position in architecture and culture that places no being in the center and redirects perception to the Periphery.
The City of Toronto invites professional artists (including artist teams) to submit their Expression of Interest to the first stage of a competition for a public artwork or artworks as part of the design of the Northeast Scarborough Community Recreation & Childcare Centre (NESCCC). This new multi-use community centre and child care facility in Scarborough’s Joyce Trimmer Park will include a gymnasium to accommodate an indoor cricket and running track, a teaching kitchen, fitness/dance studios, a 25-metre indoor lap pool and leisure pool. In addition to the Centre, the surrounding park will be upgraded with various outdoor amenities, including the addition of a skate park, multiple outdoor play spaces and a tree-lined promenade.
” Create! Magazine Is Pleased To Announce An International Open Call For The Print Issue #25 Juried By Danielle Krysa.
Have your work seen by our 200,000+ readers and followers around the world, including leading galleries, art fairs, collectors, curators, writers, art consultants, and more.
A portion of all submission fees will go to the Tessera Arts Collective and Black Girls Who Paint.”
“Artist submissions for the Joyner Gallery in beautiful Niagara-on-the-Lake are now being accepted for consideration for 2021 & 2022.”
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