calls for artists

Centrum’s Artist in Residency Program offers a unique opportunity for artists, writers, and creatives across disciplines to focus on their craft in a tranquil, supportive setting. Located at Fort Worden State Park, our residencies provide the time, space, and resources for artists to explore new ideas, develop their work, and connect with a community of […]

The Diversity Advisory Committee of the Friends of the Multnomah County Library (FOL) is seeking an artist to design and paint a permanent mural for Rose City Reads, a gently used bookstore in East Portland. The store was recently ranked the #4 Best Bookstore in Portland by The Oregonian readers. It’s located at 221 NE […]

Deadline: May 31, 2026 The Midnight Garden centers on ideas of cultivation, transformation, and unseen processes of growth, both in nature and within ourselves. Framed as a space of quiet unfolding, the garden becomes a metaphor for creative practice and emotional life, where cycles of blooming, decay, and renewal coexist, and where beauty and tension […]

The City of Auburn, Washington, seeks applications from regional artists to install 3-dimensional or multi-media art installations in two site-specific gallery spaces in downtown Auburn: the Art on Main Gallery and the Vault Gallery. Both spaces provide a $1,000 artist stipend to support the creation of new work and site-specific projects, or the installation of […]

The City of Auburn is seeking artists and/or artist groups working in two-dimensional or small three-dimensional media to exhibit their work at City of Auburn gallery spaces in 2027. Galleries are within City operated buildings including the Auburn Senior Center (Cheryl Sallee Gallery) and the Community & Event Center. Artists and/or artists groups of diverse […]

Artsify is an art-centered support agency for adults with developmental disabilities. One of our community members has started a zine project requiring a variety of art styles to create title page illustrations for individual mythical creatures. Artists of any medium, art style, and artistic level are welcome to apply. There are specific mythical creatures needed […]

The Verdancy Project presents – Memories of Summer: A TVP Zine Swap 2026 You know the ones. Bare feet on warm grass, the smell of a campfire, falling asleep in the backseat on the way home from somewhere. Road trips that took forever, swarms of mosquitoes, swimming until your fingers pruned, eating outside because why […]

Deadline: Friday, June 26, 2026 at 11:59 PM PST Download the Open Call PDF Application Link HERE The Patricia Reser Center for the Arts, in partnership with Beaverton Arts Market, is pleased to announce a call to artists for its fourth annual exhibition and sale. The Curio invites visual artists in Oregon and Washington to apply for consideration of […]