Juried Art Exhibitions, Competitions, and Contests

The Cape Cod Art Center in Barnstable, MA announces a call to artists for a juried art exhibition, July 14 – August 15, 2025. Cash awards given to Best of Show, First, Second, Third, and Best Landscape. Open to all emerging & established artists, photographers and sculptors. No crafts or commercial prints will be accepted. Any subject matter is considered. $30 entry fee ($25 for CCAC Members). Deadline: June 15, 2025. More info. Contact: email or call 508-362-2909.

PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury, VT seeks entries for a juried photography exhibition, August 1-29, 2025. 35 images will be selected for exhibition in the gallery, and up to 40 for our Online Gallery. Distinctions for Juror’s Award, Director’s Award, Honorable Mention. Juror: Laura Moya. Open to photography only. $39 for the first 5 images, $6 each additional image. Deadline: June 16, 2025. More info. Contact: email

SlowArt Productions announces a call to artists for a juried art exhibition, September 4-27, 2025 at the Limner Gallery in Hudson, NY. Juror: Limner Gallery Director. Open to all media. $35 entry fee. Deadline: June 30, 2025. More info. Contact: email or call 518-567-7858.

The Foundry Gallery in Washington DC seeks entries for a juried photography exhibition, August 1-31, 2025. $100 Best In Show. Juror: Larry W. Cook. Photography artists age 18 and up or with parental consent may submit entries. $15 for one, $10 each additional image up to 5. Deadline: June 30, 2025. More info (PDF). Contact: email or call 571-277-3050.

The Nashua Area Artists Association announces a call to artists for the 72nd annual Greeley Park Art Show, an outdoor juried art show, August 16 and 17, 2025 at beautiful Greeley Park in Nashua NH. Open to all artists 18 years of age or older working in 2D and 3D media. Awards in several categories. $25 jury fee for new exhibitors. Booth fee $130 Members/$185 Non-Members. Deadline: July 1, 2025. More info. Contact: email

The Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts in Providence seeks entries for a juried photography exhibition, September 18 – October 10, 2025. $475 in awards. Juror: Harvey Stein. Artists of all levels, at least 18 years or older, are invited to enter Street Photography in all forms and formats. $45 for the first 3 images, $10 for each additional image. Deadline: July 1, 2025. More info. Contact: email or call 401-400-2542.

Community Arts Center in Wallingford, Pennsylvania is seeking 25 artists residing in the United States or US territories to participate in a group exhibition celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States, June 13 – July 17, 2026. Each artist will be assigned a 10-year period between 1776 to 2026 and asked to created 2-3 pieces of new work related to events, inventions, people, etc. relevant to that 10 year period. People’s Choice: $500, Best of Show: $400, Second: $300, Third: $200. Judge of Prizes: Susanna Gold. Interested artists are to email required information as outlined in the prospectus. No entry fee. Deadline: July 4, 2025. More info (PF). Contact: email or call 610-566-1713.

Upstream Galley in Hastings on Hudson, NY announces a call to artists for a juried art exhibition, August 7-24, 2025. Juror: Dr. Wendy Simonds. Seeking work focused on the human figure that speaks to the idea of individual identity. Drawing, painting, printmaking, and sculpture are all eligible. Successful entries will demonstrate clear thematic relationships among two or more pieces. Photography is not eligible for this exhibition. Maximum framed size may not exceed 30 x 40 inches. Accepted pieces must be properly wired or mounted for hanging. 3-D work must be ready for wall-mounting or have a base included. The gallery reserves the right to reject poorly presented pieces. $45 entry fee. Deadline: July 6, 2025. More info. Contact: email or call 914-674-8548.

The Connecticut Pastel Society announces a call to artists for a juried art exhibition, September 5-28, 2025 at Art Center East in Vernon, CT. Over $7,000 in awards. Juror: Liz Haywood-Sullivan. Open to all artists residing in the United States and working in the soft pastel medium, not oil pastels. Work must be at least 80% soft pastel. It cannot be painted over an AI-created or mechanical reproduction or collage, but cut pieces of pastel paper are acceptable. Work must not use any varnish or finish except traditional pastel fixative. Any subject or style is eligible. Work must have been completed within the past three years and must be original. $55 for non members, $45 for members. Deadline: July 14, 2025. More info. Contact: email

Aplomb Gallery in Dover, NH announces a call to artists for a juried art exhibition, August 8 – September 30, 2025. Juror: Danielle Festa. Artists may submit up to 6 works that relate to the theme “Rising” literally or abstractly. Two-dimensional artwork ready to hang with frame or gallery wrap (wired), three-dimensional, or multimedia work in all mediums. $35 entry fee. Deadline: July 15, 2025. More info. Contact: email or call 603-208-3300.

The Spencertown Academy Arts Center seeks entries for a juried art exhibition, September 27 – October 26, 2025 in Spencertown, NY. $300 First Place, $200 Second Place, $100 Third Place; two $50 Honorable Mentions, and $100 Audience Favorite. Jurors: Ian Berry, Dayton Director of The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery (Saratoga Springs, NY) and Sienna Patti, founder of the Sienna Patti Contemporary Art Gallery (Lenox, MA). Artists must be residents of Columbia County, New York, or one of the following nearby counties: Albany, Dutchess, Greene, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Ulster, and Washington in NY; Berkshire, Franklin, and Hampshire in MA; or Fairfield and Litchfield in CT. All traditional media in 2D or 3D, and all styles and genres are welcome. Work must have been created in the last 3 years and not previously exhibited at the Academy. Three entries: $45 for Non-Members, $35 for Academy Members. Deadline: July 16, 2025. More info. Contact: email or call 518-755-7525.

The Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, now in its 8th year, is an annual non-acquisitive international art prize that celebrates diversity and excellence in the representational visual arts. The exhibition opens at Haven Gallery in Northport, NY, USA. Over USD$70,000 worth of cash and product prizes. Open to all static mediums: Traditional Art media, Digital Art media, and Photographic media; and all styles from realism and hyperrealism, to pop surrealism and lowbrow. It has 5 award categories you can enter: Painting, Drawing, Photography, Sculpture, Digital Art, and Emerging Artist award. You can enter more than one category if you wish. USD$40. Deadline: July 17, 2025. More info. Contact: email

The Guild of Boston Artists announces a call to artists for a juried art exhibition, August 30 – September 27, 2025. Over $2,500 in cash awards. Jurors: Christina Mastrangeo, Pamela Pindell, Mark Shasha. Accepted media include sculpture, oil, acrylic, watercolor, gouache, pastel, graphite, charcoal, scratchboard, pen and ink, and pencil. Please check if using any other medium. Prints (including giclées), kits, and AI generated artworks are ineligible. Using a print as an underpainting is also prohibited. Preference is given to work done from life, rather than from photographs. $50 entry fee. Deadline: July 19, 2025. More info. Contact: email or call 617-536-7660.

The Rehoboth Art League Exhibitions Committee is in the process of organizing solo and group exhibitions for 2026. This is a very competitive program as RAL can only accept a limited number of proposals each year. Artworks in any media will be reviewed. The RAL is situated in the town of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, a highly traveled area not only by the residents of this and the expanding surrounding communities, but also by art patrons from the Washington DC, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and New York metropolitan areas. Over 30,000 people participate in Rehoboth Art League programs annually. Registration Fee: $25 Members / $45 Non-members. Deadline: July 21, 2025 (4pm). More info. Contact: email or call 302-227-8408 ext 104.

Arcadian Gallery in Cumberland, MD seeks entries for a juried art exhibition, October 1-31, 2025. $5250 in prizes. Juror: Carel Pieter Brest van Kempen. Two-dimensional artwork only. This exhibition is unusual in that it welcomes fine art print submissions and original artwork. Artists may also submit digital files, which, if accepted into the exhibition, the Gallery will print for the brick-and-mortar show. There will be an online exhibition as well. Artwork must depict North, Central, or South American wildlife and may include extinct species, including dinosaurs. Artwork may not be priced higher than $4000 and must have been created within the last seven years. $30 for the first two pieces. $20 for each additional entry up to five entries. Deadline: July 31, 2025. More info at CafÉ. Contact: email or call 301-919-3494.

SlowArt Productions announces a call to artists for a juried art exhibition, October 9 – November 1, 2025 at the Limner Gallery in Hudson, NY. Juror: Limner Gallery Director. Open to all media. $35 entry fee. Deadline: July 31, 2025. More info. Contact: email or call 518-567-7858.

The Center for American Marine Art seeks entries for a juried art exhibition, September 18 – October 10, 2025 at The Mariner Gallery in Newport, RI. Awards: Rudolph J. Schaefer III Emerging Artist Award, $1000; Rudolph J. Schaefer Maritime Heritage Award, $1000; Marine Wildlife Award, $500, and more. Eligibility: Any painting, drawing, sculpture, or scratch-built ship model whose theme relates to past or contemporary maritime experience of the sea and may include images of ships, yachts, coastal waterways, marshes and beaches, marine wildlife in their natural habitat, and the working boats and people whose lives and fortunes depend on the sea. $45 for first entry, $15 for each additional (up to three). Deadline: August 1, 2025. More info. Contact: email or call 518-466-5975.

ArtSeen invites visual artists from around the world to take part in a unique digital showcase during The Armory Show, one of the most influential art fairs in the world. From September 5-7, 2025, your work could be displayed across digital screens in high-traffic locations throughout New York City, right as the global art scene descends on Manhattan. This is a rare chance to place your art at the heart of the action – where curators, collectors, galleries, and art lovers gather. Selected artists will also benefit from added online visibility through our promotional campaigns. All visual formats accepted: painting, photography, digital, illustration, mixed media, etc. $80 fee. Deadline: August 20, 2025. More info. Contact: email

The New England Watercolor Society announces a call to artists for a juried art exhibition, November 14, 2025 – January 9, 2026 at The Mosesian Center in Watertown, MA. Up to $5,000 in awards. Juror: Janine Gallizia. Open to any artist 18 and older residing in New England. All work must be painted with aqua media; this includes watercolor, acrylic, casein, egg tempera, gouache, and inks on unvarnished paper or synthetic paper such as yupo. Please see prospectus for further details. Non-member: $40 for 1 entry, $45 for 2, $50 for 3; NEWS Members save $10. Deadline: August 28, 2025. More info. Contact: email or call 617-610-0170.

The Miniature Painters, Sculptors & Gravers Society of Washington, DC announces a call to artists for a juried art exhibition, November 22, 2025 – January 10, 2026 at The Mansion at Strathmore in North Bethesda, MD. Awards total about $8,000. Judge: Janet Belich. Artworks in all media accepted, image no larger than 25 sq inches, outside of artwork with frame no larger than 56 sq inches. See prospectus for entry fees. Deadline: August 30, 2025. More info. Contact: email or call 301-538-3103.

Wayne Art Center is seeking submissions for CraftForms 2025, the 30th International Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Fine Craft. Selected works will be on display December 7, 2025 – January 24, 2026 in the Davenport Gallery of Wayne Art Center in Wayne, Pennsylvania. $10,000 in cash prizes. Juror: Bruce Pepich. Eligible mediums: basketry, ceramics, fiber, furniture, glass, jewelry, leather, metal, mixed media, paper, wearable art, and wood. Works created utilizing CAD/CAM technologies and 3D printing tools are also eligible. $50 entry fee. Deadline: September 10, 2025. More info. Contact: email or call 610-688-3553.

Wayne Art Center in Wayne, PA seeks entries for thier biennial quilt exhibition, March 23 – April 25, 2026. Jurors: Toni Kersey, Karl Reichert, Danielle Williams. Artists must be 18 years of age or older. Works submitted must be original in design and completed in the last two years (after January 1, 2024). Collaborative works are accepted. Work previously exhibited at Wayne Art Center is not eligible. All work must be for sale and must remain on display for the duration of the exhibit. Works of any size not exceeding 12′ (144″) high will be considered. $50 entry fee. Deadline: October 16, 2025. More info. Contact: email or call 610-688-3553.

Be part of Art On Loop & New York Open Art, November 7-10, 2025 – a global showcase for artists of all styles and mediums! From paintings to video art, poetry to sculpture, this is your chance to shine in the heart of NYC. No theme limits – just pure creative freedom. Show your work in-person or digitally via our cutting-edge displays. Exhibition fees start at £180. Deadline: October 27, 2025. More info. Contact: email