The North Carolina Arts Council is pleased to share this list of opportunities for artists. This is a free listing service where the entries are compiled via submissions from the field and updated weekly. If you have questions about a specific opportunity, please reach out to the organization listed directly.

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  • South Arts
    South Arts is a nonprofit regional arts organization empowering artists, organizations, and communities, and increasing access to arts and culture. 
  • NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources
    The Department of Natural and Cultural Resources awards grants to individuals and organizations to foster historical, cultural, recreational, and environmental pursuits.
  • Local Arts Councils
    Check with your local arts council for regional artist opportunities and grants. 

  • ARTS North Carolina
    Publicizes job and internship opportunities through its membership listserv. Arts North Carolina will not post job listings that do not provide a salary range or that request candidates provide a salary history. Members may submit unlimited listings at no charge. Non-members pay $100 per listing.
  • Jobs in North Carolina Government
    Jobs openings are listed for all agencies within the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, including the N.C. Arts Council.

  • Americans for the Arts
    A service for both job seekers and arts employers. Job seekers can post their resumes and use the searchable database of nonprofit and for-profit arts management positions at organizations across the United States. For a moderate fee, employers can post a job opening and use the searchable database of online resumes to find qualified professional candidates.
  • New York Foundation for the Arts
    Job seekers can access listings for free and arts organizations are charged a moderate fee to post a job opening or artist opportunity.

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Visual Art Future? | Juried AI Art Exhibition

UPWARD Gallery excited to introduce the Future? juried AI art exhibition. All artists 18 and older are encouraged to submit their work in any medium, style, and genre created using AI.
The exhibition is open to artists who use artificial intelligence (AI) to create their work. The work can be created using AI generators either fully or partially.

Fees or awards
Fee: $15 for entry, $12 (2-4 entries), $10 (5 or more entries). Awards: Interview and other publications in our print edition of UPWARD's magazine and on the website, digital certificate, personal artist page on the gallery website.

Tuesday, November 05, 2024
Visual Art Road | Juried Online Exhibition

UPWARD Gallery invites artists to submit artwork for our juried online exhibition, Road.
The road is one of the most popular motifs in art. A road can symbolize a journey, a process of transformation, a connecting artery between two points or states. In this exhibition, we invite artists to share their vision of the road, both in the physical and metaphorical sense.
All media is welcome, including: painting, drawing, digital painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, mixed media, etc.

Fees or awards
Fee: $15 for entry, $12 (2-4 entries), $10 (5 or more entries).

Thursday, November 07, 2024
Multidisciplinary Artist's Choice Art Competition

Artist Space Gallery is pleased to announce our first Artist's Choice online Art Competition for the month of November 2024. This is an open-theme competition, inviting artists from around the globe to submit their work. All artistic styles and mediums are welcome for consideration. In addition to the selected artists, the jury will select award winners in the following art categories: painting, photography, sculpture.


Fees or awards
$20

Thursday, November 07, 2024
Visual Art Grey Cube Gallery

Grey Cube Gallery proudly presents the fourth "Blue" online art contest for the month of November 2024. Contest is open to all artists worldwide over 18 years of age. The theme may include any work with depiction of the color blue or shades of blue (pale blue of a daytime sky, ultramarine blue, deep ocean blue). All visual art mediums (except video and sound) are allowed. Best of Show artwork will be on the poster of the show.


Fees or awards
$20

Thursday, November 07, 2024
Visual Art Oxide Gallery - FUSION 2025 Judged Art Competition

Fusion Competition Show – Exhibition: January 2-25, 2025, with a First Saturday Opening Reception on January 4, 2025 from 4-7PM.

Fusion 2025, a mixed-media art competition featuring 2D and 3D artwork in any style, with a minimum of two different mediums combined. The work should highlight the fusion of these mediums as the primary theme. The Gallery will accept up to three (3) entries per artist.

Fees or awards
$30 flat fee up to three entries, cash awards for Best of Show, 1st, and 2nd Place, and award ribbons

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday, November 09, 2024
Visual Art Warimono Gallery

Warimono invites visual artists to submit their works for our upcoming exhibition, Limbo. This exhibition explores the tension between stasis and movement, balancing on the edge of being neither here nor there. We seek artworks that delve into themes of suspension, balance, and the in-between. The exhibition will run on our website from December 1, 2024 to January 10, 2025. No fee to apply. Artists retain 100% of sales.

 

Sunday, November 10, 2024
Public Art City of Mount Holly-Bee Art Project

The City of Mount Holly has an open RFQ for the expansion of our bee art project that was completed earlier this year. The City will pay $250.00 per mural, and are looking to have six mini murals added from S Alexander Street down E Catawba to S Main Street. The murals will be installed on the sidewalk along the route and will be between two and four square feet. Responses to the RFQ are due by Nov. 11th. The artists will be selected on Nov 13th-with works completed by the end of Feb 2025.


Fees or awards
$250.00 per mural

Monday, November 11, 2024
Public Art RFQ: Brown School Lofts Shade Structure

The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Public Art Commission is seeking an artist or artist team to design, fabricate, and install a shade structure for the courtyard at the Brown School Lofts at Legacy Heights. The Brown School Lofts are a newly constructed mixed income housing complex, built as part of the Choice Neighborhoods Program.

For more information, read the full RFQ on our website: cityofws.org/publicart

Fees or awards
$100,000
 

 

Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Visual Art Amie Potsic Art Advisory, LLC

The Kite Prize for Contemporary Art Award, an international visual art award, was established to recognize innovative visual artists and creatives who demonstrate exceptional commitment to their work. The award is juried by Amie Potsic Art Advisory, LLC choosing a winning artist based on artistic excellence, creative accomplishment, and cultural significance. There will be three Kite Prize Awardees and Artists Selected for the Virtual Merit Exhibition in addition to the chosen Grand Prize Winner

Fees or awards
$25/$45 Submission Fee | $1000 Award

Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Performing Arts Next Jazz Legacy

Next Jazz Legacy is a partnership between New Music USA and the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice with major funding from the Mellon Foundation.

This national program is focused on increasing opportunities for diverse improvisers in jazz who have been underrepresented in the art form, with the intersection of gender and race as a guiding principle. Next Jazz Legacy seeks to address inequalities in jazz by supporting early-career-stage artists whose access to resources has been limited. By offering creative and professional experience through apprenticeships, financial support and promotional opportunities, Next Jazz Legacy aims to inspire change that will benefit everyone in the jazz community. GRAMMY-winning artist and NEA Jazz Master Terri Lyne Carrington is the program’s Artistic Director.

The fourth cycle (2024-2025) of the Next Jazz Legacy program will support seven artists chosen by an esteemed panel of musicians, chaired by NJL Artistic Director Terri Lyne Carrington, with racial and gender justice as guiding principles.

 

Tuesday, November 12, 2024