Artist Opportunities
Find your next artistic endeavor! Submit a mural proposal or browse calls for art.
Organizations may submit a call for art to be listed on this page. To be featured, please send us an email with pertinent information including name of opportunity, important dates, image, and website with more details.
PROPOSE AN EXHIBITION
The Arts Council of Princeton’s Paul Robeson Center serves as a key resource for contemporary art in central New Jersey. Through thought-provoking exhibitions and related public programs, the Arts Council presents artwork with a broad range of aesthetic, social, cultural, and political themes.
The window for 2027 proposals has closed. Applicants will be informed of their status by December 2025.
Live for Today, Leon Rainbow
PROPOSE A SPRING STREET MURAL
The Arts Council of Princeton (ACP) is looking to collaborate with local and regional artists for our Spring Street temporary mural location. Our community-driven mural-making process supports the Arts Council’s mission of building community through the arts, and is open to everyone.
Spring Street murals are generally on view for 3-4 months. A stipend of $500 is provided for selected artists and some materials are provided by the ACP. The mural space, which is mounted MDF attached to the wall of the building, measures 32×8 feet.
Please submit your interest below. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis; ACP staff will be in touch if your proposal is to move forward.
Questions? Please email Melissa Kuscin.
Area Opportunities
Call for Artists: Propose a Mural Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of The Princeton Environmental Film Festival: Exploring our Relationship with Land and Water
The Arts Council of Princeton (ACP), in partnership with the Princeton Environmental Film Festival and Princeton Public Library, announces an open call for visual artists.
Artists are invited to submit mural proposals inspired by our connection to and relationship with land, water, and/or the underground spring for which Spring Street is named. The selected design will be painted on several panels spanning 32×8′ and installed on the wall.
The mural is scheduled to be completed and installed by February 1, 2026. Due to the winter season, a portion of the work may be completed indoors (off-site). Proposals will be accepted through January 9, 2026, and the application is available now at artscouncilofprinceton.org/artists/artist-opps.
The mural will be on view through March 2026. A stipend of $500 will be awarded to the selected artist, and all paint and supplies will be provided by the ACP.
This installation will become the latest in the series of Arts Council’s Spring Street mural and a continuation of the ACP’s growing public art presence in and around Princeton. Current murals include Continuum by Illia Barger at Terra Momo Bread Company, Journey by Marlon 7oveChild Davila at John Street and Leigh Avenue, asphalt murals at the ACP and Lawrenceville Elementary School, and multiple murals at Princeton Shopping Center.
Claybash: Hunterdon Art Museum Triennial Juried Ceramics Exhibition
The Hunterdon Art Museum is pleased to announce our second Triennial Juried Exhibition of Ceramics, Claybash. We invite artists and makers to submit work that explores clay as both material and idea. The form and content of your submission are entirely up to you. We welcome vibrant, thought-provoking interpretations—whether your work aligns with traditional notions of “functional” or “sculptural,” or ventures into new territory altogether. Surprise us. Challenge us. Show us what clay can be.
Location: Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
Exhibition dates: May 17 – September 6, 2026
Entry Fee: $45 for up to four entries. Entry fees are non-refundable.
Deadline for Entries: February 9, 2026
“On the Grid, Off the Grid” at Drawing Rooms, Jersey City
Call for Entries: “On the Grid, Off the Grid” at Drawing Rooms, Jersey City
Exhibition Dates 2/5/26 – 3/1/26
We invite you to submit work for consideration in our Drawing Rooms exhibit, “On the Grid, Off the Grid”.
Works for this show may engage a literal system of the grid or a distortion or deconstruction of the grid, and may also make reference to the cyber-connected universe we live in or to a departure from it.
Submissions Deadline 1/9/26
Drawing Rooms Solo Project Space
Call for Entries: Drawing Rooms Solo Project Space #4
Exhibition Dates 2/5/26 – 3/1/26
We are looking for an exciting and compelling cohesive body of work or installation on any theme or concept and of any size or media for our Solo Project Space. Multiple solo artists will be chosen by the curator: One artist for Project Space and Up to four artists for additional solo gallery areas.
Submissions Due 1/9/26
18th Annual Wayne Art Center Plein Air Festival
The Wayne Art Center Plein Air Festival and Exhibition are dedicated to enhancing the public’s appreciation of works completed in the plein air method while providing a venue for established and emerging artists to share their work with collectors and the public.
Wayne Art Center’s 18th Annual Plein Air Festival will take place May 3 through May 9, 2026 when 32 juried artists from across the country arrive to paint scenes within a 35-mile radius of Wayne, Pennsylvania including historic Main Line towns, rolling farm country, downtown Philadelphia and the Delaware and Schuylkill riverfronts. The work resulting from the 7-day competition will be exhibited at the Wayne Art Center Collectors’ Preview Party & Sale on May 9 and remains on view through June 20, 2026.
Juror Mark Boedges will choose participating artists from online entries and award cash prizes of $25,000.
Deadline: February 17, 2026 at 11:59pm
Application: https://waynepleinair.org/call-for-entries/
gesamtkunstwerk Juried Exhibition
Midwest Nice Art is excited to announce our winter call for art for Gesamtkunstwerk, or a total work of art, a virtual exhibition.
At Midwest Nice Art, we have an appreciation (some may say an obsession) for art history. When thinking about art at its core, and particularly genres, harmony and unity bring everything together — form, concept, material. With this in mind, we invite artists to submit work for Gesamtkunstwerk, or a total work of art, a group exhibition exploring artwork that considers the whole. This idea is rooted in the early twentieth century, with artistic movements working as a reaction to industrialism and modernism — in Arts and Crafts Movement’s handmade décor, Bauhaus’ form and function, Art Nouveau’s organic unification, and Dada’s nonsense installations. These practices evolved with installation, new aesthetics, and performances. With this inspiration, we seek work that considers the total work, or turns this on its head.
The exhibition will examine these ideas through a variety of mediums in art. Any mediums are welcome, including but not limited to sculpture, painting, collage, photography, digital art, video art, installation, ceramics, performance art — anything you can think of! You may submit up to three artworks for a $5 fee, due November 20, 2025. Artists will receive a notification a week after the deadline. Students may submit for free with the code STUDENT25 (to use this, please use your school email when applying). The exhibition will go live December 2025.
This exhibition will be juried by Danielle Krysa, aka “The Jealous Curator.” Danielle (Canada) has a BFA in Visual Arts and a post-grad in Graphic Design. She is the writer behind the contemporary art site The Jealous Curator (est. 2009) and has curated art shows all over North America. Danielle is also an artist herself, and her mixed media work is held in private collections worldwide. She is the author of several art books, including Creative Block, Your Inner Critic Is a Big Jerk, A Big Important Art Book — Now with Women, and two children’s books: How to Spot an Artist and Art and Joy. Danielle has had the great pleasure of speaking at TEDx, Pixar, and Creative Mornings, and was interviewed in a series of video segments on Oprah.com about breaking through creative blocks and self-doubt.
For more information: https://www.midwestnice.art/opencalls/gesamtkunstwerk
The Big Small Show 2025 at Drawing Rooms
CALL FOR ENTRIES
The Big Small Show 2025,
at Drawing Rooms
We invite you to submit work for consideration in this year’s The Big Small Show 2025, our year-end fundraiser exhibit. The Big Small Show 2025 will be a review of works made in the past 2 years.
Now in its tenth year at Drawing Rooms, The Big Small Show will include multiple pieces by each artist in our expanded gallery space which includes The Terrarium Gallery, The Alcove Gallery and Gallery One at Drawing Rooms. Our goal is to gather together a large array of innovative and exceptional new works to produce an exciting survey show.
Submission Deadline: 10/31/25
Opening Weekend: December 12th – December 14th, 2025
Point Pleasant Publishing: Artist Feature Catalogue
Quality Writing:
Besides the prestige of being published amongst some of the finest established artists in the world and gaining recognition with notable galleries and institutions, the main reason artists apply is because of the quality of our writing. Point Pleasant critical essays discuss the accomplishments, interpretations, process, and unique attributes by individual artists featured in the catalogue. The writing by Point Pleasant Publishing is 100% human-created content, absolutely no artificial intelligence used.
Eligibility Criteria:
Point Pleasant Publishing accepts experimental and alternative forms of visual art including photography, performance, video, film, installation, assemblage, collage, fiber, printmaking, light design, jewelry, fashion, & costume design, and analogue digital (no AI).
Artists are selected based on a variety of factors including their accomplishments, originality, conceptual impact, overall cohesiveness of portfolio, and aesthetic qualities of the art.
We especially encourage alternative / experimental artists to apply.
THE ADOLPH & ESTHER GOTTLIEB EMERGENCY GRANT
The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant program is intended to provide interim financial assistance to qualified painters, printmakers, and sculptors whose needs are the result of an unforeseen, catastrophic incident, and who lack the resources to meet that situation. Each grant is given as one-time assistance for a specific emergency, examples of which are fire, flood, or emergency medical need.
To be eligible for this program, an artist must be able to demonstrate a minimum involvement of ten years in a mature phase of his or her work. Artists must work in the disciplines of painting, sculpture or printmaking. Each application will be reviewed by the Directors, who will exercise their discretion in considering it, and will determine the amount of each award. Applicants should note there is a set amount appropriated for these grants each fiscal year; once this budgetary limit has been reached, the Foundation will not be able to judge any additional requests on their merits.
NO DEADLINE.
MID ATLANTIC ARTS FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMS
Administered by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, state fellowship programs provide funding for individual artists residing in Delaware and New Jersey to encourage and sustain these artists’ pursuit of artistic excellence.
Individual NJ-based artists must apply following the process outlined in the guidelines for New Jersey. At the annual deadline for these programs, a limited number of disciplines are accepted. All applications to these competitive programs are evaluated through a peer panel review process.
DEADLINE: Vary upon opportunity