Calls For Entry

2024 OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS — Innovate Grant awards (2) $1,800.00 grants each quarter (in the Q1: Winter, Q2: Spring, Q3: Summer, and Q4: Fall), to one Photographer and one Artist. In addition, (12) honorable mentions (6 in art and 6 in photo), will be featured and recognized on our website and join a growing community of vibrant and talented artists. 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 Grants to a Photographer
+ 1 x $1,800.00 Grants to a Visual Artist
+ 12 x Honorable Mentions Interviews

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Stage 1: Open for Applications

We’re accepting applications for Beyond the Silence, a collaborative project initiated by Magnum Photos in partnership with five organisations around the world.

In Stage 1, 15 photographers will be selected from each partner region/country to attend a one-day online masterclass with Fred Ritchen, Dean Emeritus of the International Center of Photography (ICP).

Participants in Stage 1 will be invited to submit a detailed project proposal for Stage 2, following which one participant from each country/region (Southeast Asia, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Nigeria) and four participants from Ukraine will be selected and provided US$3,000 each for the completion of their proposed project. All eight projects, alongside the work of four Magnum photographers, will be presented in public exhibitions in all partner countries as well as the United States.

Our open call is for applicants from Southeast Asia, with no age limit. Photographers from other participating countries (Mexico, Nigeria, Kazakhstan, Ukraine), have to apply via their representative organisation. See the list here.

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The Color photograph. We want to celebrate Color in all its forms at the SE Center. Our juror would like to see creativity and self-expression. He has no preference for subject, or style but would like to be able to see the photographer’s mind at work, his or her use of visual composition and original thinking.

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The goal of this open call is to give participants the opportunity to see their work exhibited at a renowned international photo festival and, consequently, promote their visibility.

For the 34th edition of the photo festival Encontros da Imagem, we would like to present different trends in contemporary photography. Highlight its democracy and richness in its different approaches. Therefore, all projects are welcome: from documentary typology works to others that explore the limits of photographic construction.

Encontros da Imagem returns to Braga this year between September 20th and November 3rd, with a new concept and an approach that looks forward while using the past as guidance. With exhibitions also in the cities of Porto, Guimarães, and Barcelos, we hope to democratize photography for its fruition and creation — and to hear both the individual and collective experience.

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Families, we want to showcase the many different ways that family can be represented. It can be a place you seek comfort in, but for many it could be harmful. We aim to explore the many different photographic representations of what “family” could be.

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The Center Annual is Houston Center for Photography’s yearly group exhibition that seeks to highlight and provide insight into current themes, technologies, and practices in photography. The show features a diverse array of works from members of our global photography community and is selected by a leading curator, editor, or artist. This annual exhibition opens our galleries to photographers from anywhere in the world, whether emerging, mid-career, or established, and as such, aims to provide viewers with critical insight into our current moment—both within the field of photography and within society at large. Of those selected, two artists are chosen to receive an HCP Juried Membership Honoraria of $500 each.

**Entrants will be required to be current members of HCP. For those that are already members, there is no additional fee.

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There are two kinds of photographs with respect to the significance of their use of colours. On the one hand, ever since colour film technology became widely available, colour has become the default in most photographic practices. That is, some photographs are in colour not because their colours bear some special significance (compared, for instance, to their possible black and white counterparts) but simply because the available film or digital technology has long made colour the common method of capturing photographic images. We may think of these photographs as colour by default. On the other hand, colours are often central to the meaning of photographs for their emphatic, symbolic, psychological, social, compositional, etc. significance. These photographs would not work in black and white the same way, or they would not work at all. That they are in colour is not merely a technological given; rather, it is an integral, formative, and significant aspect of their photographic meaning. We may think of these photographs as colour by significance.

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town & country: metropolis, farmland, village, city, hamlet, metropolitan, suburb, asphalt jungle, pastoral, rural, boondocks urban, boonies, downtown, backwoods ….

Photographers of all levels are invited to submit work reflecting the theme “town & country” to A Smith Gallery by April 29, 2024. Entries of 13 or more images are eligible for a complementary review by the gallery directors. The entry fee is $40 for the first 5 images and $5 for each additional image. Fifty-five images will be selected for exhibition and shown in the online gallery from May 24 to July 4, 2024. An exhibition catalogue with all the accepted images will be mailed to all accepted artists. 27 images from the total 55 images will be selected for “The 27”, a limited edition hardbound fine art book of the exhibition. The Juror’s and Director’s award winners will each receive a copy of the limited edition hardbound fine art book and a feature story on the gallery blog. The Juror’s Award also includes an online solo exhibition. The Visitors’ Award is $100 and is selected by most Instagram likes.

Juror for “town & country” will be Michael Kirchoff, photographer, curator, artist and editor of Analog Forever Magazine.

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The Viviane Esders Endowment Fund is pleased to announce the opening of the call for applications for the third edition of the Prix Viviane Esders.

If you are a European photographer over 60 years old, if you wish to highlight a singular artistic and photographic career developed over several decades, you have until April 29th, 2024, to submit your application.

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BPA – International photography competition for amateurs and professionals around the world. The competition has 10 different categories. Our jury members are top photographers and photography experts.

The first season featured amazing results and incredible photographs. You can find a gallery of winners on the official website too.

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fruition: accomplishment, fulfillment, achievement, perfection, result, completion ….

Do you have a series of photographs that you are interested in making into a completed mixed media body of work? Images that are ready to be edited, printed, and combined with mixed media?

A Smith Gallery, in conjunction with Fuse Studio, is seeking artists who need studio space and equipment to complete or further a body of work and would like to be supported with guidance, time, and the tools needed to create and complete a project. Potential projects should include the combination of photography and mixed media — analog and or digital photographs combined with collage, encaustic, bookmaking, drawing, painting, etc.

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“Making portraits is more than a physical form, it’s a silent communication in understanding and respect between the photographer and the subject. There’s an internal emotion and fire of the soul that you try to capture.” – J. Grimes

In her book, Portraits and Persons, writer Cynthia Freeland describes three essential elements that constitute a portrait: “(1) a recognizable physical body (2) an inner life, i.e., some sort of psychological or mental states and (3) self-presentation, or the “posing.”

Praxis Gallery seeks the submission of photographs that celebrate the aesthetic and conceptual considerations involved in the creation of the portrait: revealing personal narratives or new anthologies through the artistic representation of the subject. All genres, capture types, black & white and color, traditional and non-traditional photographic and digital post-production processes are welcome for submission.

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“Photographs and taking photographs help people to perceive events and to realize their importance at a non-verbal level.” Loewenthal 2013

Too Tired Project is accepting submissions for our upcoming online exhibition: A Testament to Loss. Grief and loss are pillars of being human, it’s something everyone goes through and affects us all differently. We are looking for photographs that capture this ever-expansive experience.

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We are pleased to announce the launch of the 2024 Daylight Photo Awards!

One grand prize winner will receive $2500, a digital feature and a chance to have their project considered for publication. Previous Daylight Photo Award winners include Takako Kido, Donavon Smallwood, Bryan Thomas, Matthew Genitempo, Bryan Schutmaat, Aaron Vincent Elkaim, Tamas Dezso, Katrin Koenning among others.

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Abstract art is like breaking the rules of traditional art—it doesn’t try to show things as they are in real life. Instead, it uses colors, shapes, and lines in wild and creative ways to express feelings or ideas, often leaving interpretation open to the viewer. It’s a celebration of artistic freedom and imagination. Show us /ˈabˌstrak(t)/ from your perspective.

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Decode Gallery is pleased to announce our upcoming theme: RED. The color of drama and passion. Red attracts attention and elicits strong emotions such as love and anger. This color is used universally to signify danger, strength, and power. Red is stimulating, vibrant and exciting. Red inspires desire. Submit today for your chance to be included in this exhibition.

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The Florida Museum of Photographic Arts (FMoPA) is pleased to announce the beginning of the call for entries for the 2024 International Photography Competition, sponsored by Tampa International Airport (TPA) and Visit Tampa Bay (VTB). Now in its 13th year, this competition invites global photographers to submit their work for consideration in an exclusive exhibition at TPA. The call for entries is open from February 5 through May 5, 2024

The International Photography Competition, a longstanding tradition spanning over two decades, underscores FMoPA’s commitment to elevating photographic art in daily life and culture. The competition beckons photographers worldwide to share their unique perspectives and artistic visions.

Following a record number of submissions in 2023 with over 2300 entries from 57 countries, FMoPA anticipates continued enthusiasm for the competition. Entries will undergo review by a distinguished international panel of judges, using evaluating criteria such as originality, technical excellence, composition, overall impact, and artistic merit. Three winners will be selected from each category, with an overall “Best In Competition” winner chosen from all submissions.

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OPEN THEME

Send us your best work!

After a hiatus last year, we are excited to bring back our much-anticipated annual juried call and exhibition. This is one of our favorite exhibitions of the year as it brings together talented artists from all backgrounds.

Professional, mid-career, and emerging lens-based artists from all communities are encouraged to submit work on any theme. Those that are selected will have their work exhibited in the PCNW gallery from June 27 – August 11, 2024.

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Juror: Gail Gibson, art dealer and owner of G. Gibson Projects

OPEN THEME Send us your best work!

After a hiatus last year, we are excited to bring back our much-anticipated annual juried call and exhibition. This is one of our favorite exhibitions of the year as it brings together talented artists from all backgrounds.

Professional, mid-career, and emerging lens-based artists from all communities are encouraged to submit work on any theme. Those that are selected will have their work exhibited in the PCNW gallery from June 27 – August 11, 2024.

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There are various natural, artificial, and even staged scenes that seize the attention of photographers, compelling and inspiring them to pause, observe, and create an image to convey a personal interpretation of what they see. These types of photographs are known by a variety of names: landscapes, cityscapes, streetscapes, seascapes, waterscapes, cloudscapes, or even desertscapes, treescapes, bodyscapes, and so forth. Among these photographs, the most successful ones go well beyond the mere recording of the visual qualities of a place; they bear the marks of the interpretive insights of the photographer, prompting us to contemplate a scene as meaningful and significant. Merely re-presenting is never challenging; it requires a novel conception of the scene to engage us, viewers, through the keen eyes and creative mind of the photographer.

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The Atlanta Photography Group (APG) invites photographers worldwide to enter images using any photographic process for our upcoming, juried exhibition, Portfolio 2024. This exhibition features strong, cohesive bodies of work (8 or more images as a series).

Conor Moynihan, is the Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the RISD Museum. Mr. Moynihan will select photographic works from up to eight artists whose work will be exhibited. Established in 1877 as part of a vibrant creative community, the RISD Museum stewards works of art representing diverse cultures from ancient times to the present and is located in Providence, Rhode Island. The museum houses over 100,000 works.

The 8 exhibiting artists will be eligible for the 2024 APG/ Museum Purchase Award of $3000, which is slated for placement into the High Museum’s permanent collection.

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Black Box Gallery is excited to announce a color photography juried group photo show. Contemporary color photography has a big range of dynamic colors being used for landscape, portraiture, architecture, fashion, street, abstract, documentary, still life, narrative, conceptual projects, nature and night photography. How do photographers use color to think about, compose, stylize and captivate and present contemporary photography?

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The human eye can perceive millions of different colors. Now more than ever color is playing a central role in everyday communication, for cultural expression and social / personal communications. Color has it’s own language and colors are symbolic, carrying meaning to helps us to understand or express ourselves thru our imagery, whether bright, bold colors expressing joy, or dark, subdued tones expressing fragility or somberness.

For this CFE we аre interested in the ways we, as photographers, make meaning in our increasingly “Technicolor” world. Show us your best color images!

Thirty images will be selected and installed as unframed prints in our Maloof Gallery.

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The Chelsea International Fine Art Competition is an exciting opportunity to show new and innovative work while gaining exposure to an extensive international audience. A distinguished panel of jurors will be awarding more than $70,000 in valuable prizes.

The Competition is open to visual artists from around the world at any stage of their career working in painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, mixed media, and print.

Art submitted to the competition will be reviewed by a rotating panel of expert jurors, each representing a different field in the art world, ensuring a fair and balanced selection process.

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The Hopper Prize is now accepting entries for our Spring 2024 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.

Submissions will be juried by
— Lauren Rosati, Associate Curator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
— Maya Brooks, Assistant Curator, North Carolina Museum of Art

Our open call provides you with a direct path to get your work in front of these forward-thinking exhibition makers. 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 115k.

This is an international open call available to artists around the world. All visual art media is eligible.

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Abandoned is an exhibition exploring abandoned and rediscovered objects, spaces, and structures. A popular genre in the photographic world is the trend of urban exploration (“urbex”) — the exploration of abandoned or forgotten places to document the narrative of those who lived or worked there. Through the captured image, we can glimpse the ephemeral nature and memory of ourselves and our surroundings and preserve them before being lost to time and place. What do these structures and objects convey about society as we leave them to decay? What is the essence of time and place, and what-or whom-are we abandoning?

Abandoned is an international open call for photographers ages 18 and older. All forms of two-dimensional images, traditional and non-conventional media, and conventional or alternative processes with a subjective analog or digital photographic base are welcome for submission.

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F-Stop Magazine: submit up to 12 photographs.

Issue #125 will have an expected publication date of June 1, 2024.

Only one submission per person for an issue.

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nice;02 is the second iteration of our annual juried exhibition at Midwest Nice Art! We are so excited to be able to bring this opportunity to our community again. This exhibition will be juried by Midwest Nice Art co-founders Tim Rickett + Epiphany Knedler. The exhibition will be displayed at JFAC Gallery on the Northern State University campus in Aberdeen, South Dakota Summer 2024. This exhibition is open to all artists 18+ in the United States. Artists may submit two works for consideration. The entry fee is $20. Students can submit for $10 with a student code (please email us for the code!). This exhibition is open theme.

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This year’s Photo Review International Photography Competition will be juried by Joel Smith, the Richard L. Menschel Curator and Department Head in Photography at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York. The Photo Review Competition enables thousands of people across the country and the world to see the accepted work in our 2024 competition issue and on our website. Also, the prize-winning photographers will be chosen for an exhibition at the prestigious Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia.

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We are seeking photography of any genre in a square format. Whether you specialize in portraits, landscapes, documentary, architecture, or conceptual photography, we’d love to see submissions that embrace the creative possibilities within a square frame.

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The New York Center for Photographic Art (NYC4PA) invites photographers world-wide to submit images using any photographic process (print, image transfer, emulsion transfer, encaustic, black and white, etc.). Winners will receive $4,000 in cash awards, be featured on the NYC4PA Online Gallery and in the winners’ catalog. The Grand Prize-winning image will be posted on the NYC4PA home page.

Portals is one of our favorite themes. It allows for so much creativity capturing things that are all around wherever we may be.

Doors and windows and arches and frames and tunnels are so much a part of our lives. There are so many ways to think about them. We can look at them, or through them. We can poke our hand out the window to test the weather, or just see a wonderful scene a little differently when framed by an arch or array of tree limbs in a park.

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The theme, “Invisibility: Existing on the Periphery”, seeks to explore the experience of invisibility, a condition often imposed by societal norms and at times, embraced as a form of self-preservation. This call for art aims to explore the subject of invisibility as a state of being and as a social condition that affects various groups and individuals who are systematically overlooked – the homeless, migrants, the disabled, the elderly, certain racial and worker groups. ALL accepted works with statements will be viewable online. Juror: Anne-Marie Kovacs: artist, entrepreneur and WMG board member.

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PH21 Gallery invites photographers to submit their work for a solo exhibition opportunity. Please submit a coherent portfolio suitable for a solo exhibition, an artist statement, and a short bio. The portfolio should consist of a minimum of 15 and a maximum of 35 images. The submission may include one or two series, provided that the two series are suitable for a joint presentation in a single exhibition. There are no generic, stylistic, or thematic constraints; photographers working in all photographic areas, genres, and styles are welcome to submit their work.

The winner of this competition will be awarded a solo exhibition from July 27 to August 20, 2024.

PH21 Gallery will cover all printing and installation costs for the solo exhibition. In addition to the brick-and-mortar solo exhibition, the winner’s work will also be presented on a dedicated page of our website. The web page will include the artist statement and the photographer’s bio, along with critical reviews by the curators.

Up to 10 other photographers will have the opportunity to present a mini-series of three photographs from their portfolio in the “Photographic Visions” group exhibition. Photographic Visions is a biannual exhibition at PH21 Gallery that showcases mini-series of works by selected artists who submitted their portfolios for our solo exhibition competition. The Photographic Visions exhibition will also be presented on a dedicated page on our website.

We will publish a catalogue for the solo exhibition. The exhibition catalogue will be available through Blurb Books.

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This is an Open Call for an exhibition about connecting to oneself, to others and to one’s surroundings. The exhibition will comprise visual material, tactile and sound explorations, dance, poetry, moving image, and more, through the prism of how we establish and maintain our connections on multiple levels. Juror Anke Loh is a designer, artist, and educator who works at the intersection of fashion, art, and technology.

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Are you an under 35 Photographer? Submit your best free themed photo for free to URBAN Photo Arena 2024 and take part in an international photo contest. Experience the challenge from a juror perspective: other than competing with your shots, you’ll get to vote your opponent’s ones! Passing the first phase means you’ll make it to phase 2: your submissions will be voted by a jury of big international photographers! Visit our webpage to discover the special prizes up to grab for the first photographers ranked. There will also be prizes for the best juror!

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The Italian cultural association dotART, based in Trieste, is launching the 15th edition of URBAN Photo Awards. The contest is open to everybody worldwide and it is organized into 4 sections: Single Photos (divided in 4 themes: Streets, People, Spaces and Creative), Projects & Portfolios, URBAN Book & Zine Award and URBAN Photo Arena.

Three good reasons to enter the contest now:
– Special EARLY BIRDS prices until 30 April 2024
– 1 free photo upload until 31 May 2024
= URBAN Photo Arena, the Under35 special section is free

Contestants can participate in more than one section at the same time. The general theme of the contest is Urban Life and Urban Photography. The theme delves into modernity through all kinds of photography set in the fabric of the city. At the heart of the contest is the city, the urban environment and the humanity living there: the everyday life of big cities and small towns, the contrasts and the contradictions between the city and the countryside, the aesthetic views, the architectural geometries, fragments of color breaking up the grayness of the city. Real, immediate images, able to recount the city and its stories.

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The Cleveland Photo Fest invites your participation in an exhibition of Women’s Self Portraits.

The exhibition will consist of 40 self-portraits of Women. A self-portrait is defined as a self-taken-portrait, or portrait of self. You get the idea. Any photographic medium is acceptable.

ALL photographs must be framed with wire, no d-rings or sawtooth hangers.

Minimum frame size is 11 x 14.

Maximum frame size is 16 x 20.

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BOOST YOUR PHOTOGRAPHIC CAREER WITH A DISTINCTIVE OPPORTUNITY TAILORED FOR YOU. IN OUR MISSION TO DRIVE INNOVATION AND ACHIEVE EXCELLENCE, WE ARE LOOKING FOR SIX EXTRAORDINARY PHOTOGRAPHERS, CHARACTERIZED BY THEIR CREATIVE PERSPECTIVE AND A DISTINCTIVE AND UNIQUEPHOTOGRAPHIC VISION.

Our commitment is to elevate your photographic work by transcending traditional barriers. We offer you the platform to showcase your projects to directors of the most prestigious galleries, at world-renowned festivals, and through leading agencies in the industry. If you’re ready to expand your horizons and join an exclusive group of artists making a difference in the world of photography, we invite you to send us your projects. Discover how your talent can reach a global audience. Contact us today and begin your journey towards international recognition.

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As artists, we know that our creations can be born from the unexpected, where accidents and errors are transformed into elements of beauty. It’s the unexpected aesthetic that emerges when we embrace the imperfections of the creative process. Join us in celebrating the imperfect in art, where every flaw has a story to tell, each imperfection adds character, and every mistake is a tribute to the unpredictable beauty of the creative journey. Show us BEYOND THE SCARS from your perspective.

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“What does a portrait look like in the 21st Century? Today everyone with a smartphone is a photographer, and many young people are taking hundreds of selfies a week, and more people seem interested in analog photography and alternative processes dating back to the 1800’s. Portrait photographers James Payne (American Portraits) and Michael Rababy (American Bachelor) would like to see your creative version of the modern portrait (shot after 2000)”.

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The 21st Annual Juried Exhibition Celebrating Photography of the Rural South

We don’t want to miss you in 2024! SlowE has always been a “be there” experience. It’s a weekend filled with incredible photography, one-of-a-kind, serendipitous meetings and conversations that can inspire you–and propel your art forward. We are fond of channeling famous hockey player Wayne Gretzky when he said: “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” Take your shot.

Your entry will be seen by our esteemed jurors Anna Walker Skillman and Brian Taylor. Juried-in, or not-this-time, your entry is your invitation to join us as honored guests at the private Soiree on Friday night at Split Oak Farm where conversation, contacts, and collaborations happen every year. The selections for the Main Exhibition will highlight a weekend of over a dozen satellite shows, portfolio reviews, seminars, and career-changing networking opportunities. Your entry in the “Big Show” will also mean a discount on the entry fee for the PopUp Tour–that Call will be released in the coming month.

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Art Fluent’s grant cycle is now open to individual artists through an international open call. The Evolution Grant will provide unrestricted funding to an individual artist with recognized artistic excellence in fine art media and a demonstrated commitment to their art. $1,000 to one visual artist each grant cycle. Unrestricted funds applied toward any expense to enhance the artist’s ability to create work.

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The Denis Roussel Award was started in 2018 to honor the legacy of photographer and educator Denis Roussel and to highlight work done by photographers whose work is based on the historical/alternative photographic processes, including silver gelatin.

Every year we are pleased and humbled to see the portfolios of work that come in from across the country and internationally. This year we are honored to have author and educator Christopher James return as our juror.

A special thank you to Rachel Roussel-Diamond and family for your encouragement and support. Thank you Josephine Sacabo for your ongoing support of the Denis Roussel Award.

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The Midwest Open is an annual exhibition at WMG that highlights the achievements of women and nonbinary artists living in the American Midwest. WMG is looking for work unique to the vision of each artist, work that needs the world to complete it, or work that sings a song from the heart(land). Juror Pamela Callahan is an artist and poet who lives and works in Wisconsin. Supporter of Woman Made Gallery since 1993, she has juried exhibitions, curated literary programs and advised and advocated for WMG since 1993.

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Atlanta Photography Group (APG) is pleased to offer our members the opportunity for a solo exhibition.

Through our Solo Exhibition Series, artists of all experience levels have the opportunity to collaborate with APG’s staff to organize and present polished, curated exhibitions. The solo exhibitions will alternate with group exhibitions in APG’s Maloof Gallery. Each one showing for 4 weeks.

Artists will be selected from proposals submitted to our program. Once a proposal has been submitted, there is no need to submit again, unless your exhibition idea changes. Please note that submitting a proposal does not guarantee an exhibition.

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The Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists is an annual $10,000 grant awarded to provide critical support to Black trans women whose work has often been under-recognized in the visual art field. Now in its 5th year, the Illuminations Grant was developed and named in partnership with Mariette Pathy Allen, Aaryn Lang, and Serena Jara. Winning artists and finalists will receive additional professional development resources and further guidance to bolster their creative development in the field.

“The Illuminations Grant not only highlights the lacking representation of Black trans women in the visual arts,” says Lang, “but also seeks to confront the systemic barriers that deny them artistic opportunities and a sustainable craft. By supporting this grant, Mariette Pathy Allen challenges herself and the art industry to see Black trans women as more than mere subjects, while forging a new pathway for visual artists within this community to thrive.”

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Queer|Art’s first international grant provides an award of $10,000 for the winner and $1,250 for distinguished finalists, to support the creation of new work by emerging LGBTQ+ photographers. Named in honor of photographer Robert Giard (1939-2002), a portrait, landscape, and figure photographer whose work focused on LGBTQ+ lives and issues, the grant focuses on supporting emerging LGBTQ+ photographers whose projects address issues of sexuality, gender, or LGBTQ+ identity.

The grant was organized in partnership with The Robert Giard Foundation from 2020 until 2022 when the Foundation ceased operations. The Robert Giard Grant for Emerging LGBTQ+ Photographers supports and promotes self-taught, early career or otherwise emerging LGBTQ+ artists, awarded on a yearly basis. This support is vital for emerging artists, who may lack the financial resources or institutional support available to more established artists. The 2024 Robert Giard Grant for Emerging LGBTQ+ Photographers is made possible with the generous support of Joan Cadden, Glenn Stancroff, and the Robert Giard Foundation. After five years, 2024 will be Queer|Art’s final year hosting the Robert Giard Grant.

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The landscape, with its ocean waves sculpting cliffs and the earth’s crust shaping mountains, is a testament to the planet’s breathtaking beauty. This diversity of landscapes provides unlimited inspiration for artistic expression, offering so much to explore and countless ways to get creative. We’re captivated by nature’s endless beauty and invite you to share your perspective of THIS LAND.

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The Award is open to all printmaking disciplines, admitting digital printed artwork and monotype as well.

The general theme is The Sea and the Lighthouses, but this does not imply that the artwork must be figurative. All kinds of aesthetic languages are admitted.

The image and the paper must not exceed 20 x 20 cm. (7,8” x 7,8”)

There is no minimum image or paper size.

Artwork/s must be without mat, frame or glass.

You can submit up to 3 artworks paying only one participation fee.

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art as storytelling is our Fall 2024 online juried exhibition hosted here. art as storytelling seeks artworks that explore narrative in visual art. We invite artists to explore the ways we share our stories visually. From creating a bedtime story to our histories and mythologies to an Instagram story, narratives inhabit our daily lives. Consider the ways you create and tell stories through your art.

The exhibition will examine these ideas through a variety of mediums in art. Any mediums are welcome, including but not limited to photography, sculpture, painting, collage, digital design, video art, installation, ceramics, performance art…anything you can think of, include it! You may submit up to 3 artworks for a $5 fee, due September 20, 2024. Artists will receive a notification a week after the deadline. The exhibition will go live on October 1, 2024.

This exhibition will be juried by Aline Smithson.

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