Opportunities

The Arts Council Wichita Falls opens the 22nd annual Sculpture Garden exhibit at the Kemp Center for the Arts on May 9, 2026.

If you have unpublished poetry, fiction, nonfiction, photographs, or visual art that you'd like the New Croton Review to consider, please email it to Review@CrotonArts.org. The Review is published worldwide on Amazon (full-color paperback and Kindle), and on Google Play and Apple Books (digital e-book).

There are no geographical or age limitations. Click here to read the submission guidelines on our website. If your work is accepted, we'll ask you to grant us the right to publish it, but you retain the copyright and the right to publish it elsewhere.

Many of our submitters include a short bio along with their work. We'll use that as a first draft for the bio we publish with accepted work. You can edit that draft when you grant us the right to publish your work. We encourage visual artists to tell us a little about their work (as per the submission guidelines on our website).

Our website (https://newcrotonreview.com/) has links to the current and past issues, news, events, free digital subscriptions, full contributor search, and more. The Review is published by the Croton Council on the Arts (CCoA) which is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit in Croton-on-Hudson, NY.

Feel free to share this call for submissions with colleagues, friends, students, your writing and arts groups, local librarian, local art schools and art museums. If you'd like to repost this call to your social media, to a blog or bulletin board, or to another online forum, you can copy and paste the following link: https://www.NewCrotonReview.com/26Q1/c1f4379c7054bc79/call

Guidelines
Poetry: No more than 100 lines
Short Fiction and Nonfiction: no more than 4 pages (about 2,000 words).
Artwork and Photos: Any standard digital image format less than 4MB
Limits: 3 poems, 1 story or essay, 3 artworks, 3 photographs.
Dates
There is no deadline to submit work. We publish two issues per year, and accepted work will go into the next issue with available space (or the next issue with a matching emphasis).
Nov 8, 2025 – the 2025 Fall issue will be available
May 9, 2026 – the 2026 Spring issue will be available

The Call for Exhibit Proposals for 2027 Exhibit Season at the Georgetown Art Center is now open!
At the beginning of each year, the Georgetown Art Center opens the annual call for proposals to artists of all mediums to be considered for the next calendar year.

Dates:
The 2027 Exhibition Season Proposals call opens on January 1, 2026, and is open through February 28, 2026. All artists will receive a notification in mid-April 2026.
Timeline:
January 1, 2026 – February 28, 2026 – Proposals Received
March 15, 2026 – Panel completes review of submissions
March 17, 2026 – Recommendations sent to Exhibits Committee
March 31, 2026 – Finalists selected by Exhibits Committee
April 3, 2026 – Artists notified
April 6 - April 24, 2026 – Finalist Interviews
April 30, 2025 – Season artists identified by Exhibits Committee
June 1, 2026 – Artist Agreements Due, along with Artist Bio’s/Exhibit Summary/and 1 Image (these items will be used for 2027 Exhibit Season promotion starting Fall 2026).
Honorarium & Artist Benefits:
Georgetown Art Center will host an opening reception and artist talk for exhibit artists, as well as providing the opportunity for additional artist income from teaching a masterclass during the exhibit period.
Professional exhibit installation services and printed exhibit signage
Printed rack cards and promotional signage, along with inclusion in Art Center Exhibit Season press releases throughout the year and season brochures
Promotion through monthly newsletter, social media posts, and website features
Each accepted exhibit for 2027 is offered a $500 honorarium to help artists with exhibit expenses, travel, and supplies. Artists outside of Texas are eligible for additional travel stipends to be determined by the Georgetown Art Center.
Georgetown Art Center will handle all exhibit sales and retain 30% commission with remaining 70% of sales returned to the artist.

Curators:
Each year, the Art Center will select a panel of curators, artists, gallery owners, and guest judges with considerable experience in the visual arts to review artist proposals. For the 2027 exhibit season, our judges are:
Caroline Walker: https://carolinewalker.com/
Mark Greenwalt: https://www.markgreenwalt.com/
Molly Mansfield: https://www.mollymansfield.com/
The panel recommends finalists to the GAC Exhibits Committee, where final selections are made. The Exhibits Committee is comprised of practicing visual artists, arts educators, and gallerists who must apply to be on the committee.

Eligibility:
Artists who have submitted exhibit proposals recently but were not accepted are encouraged to resubmit a new proposal; artists who have been recently accepted are asked to wait three years before submitting a new proposal.
Submissions are open to artists who reside and create their work in the United States. The majority of work used for your proposal must have been completed within the last 3 years.
Artworks may be in any media, providing the GAC exhibition space can accommodate the work. Installation or other work requiring special accommodations must be approved in writing prior to the exhibition.
The application requires an Artist’s Statement, CV, Images of Artwork, Proposal Statement, and Image List. All submissions are received via Submittable.com and require a $45 submission fee. Incomplete applications or applications which do not follow guidelines are subject to disqualification. Submission fees are not refundable.
The Georgetown Art Center reserves the right to reject entries that contain any form of hate speech, gratuitous violence, or racism at its sole discretion.
Submitting a proposal confirms that the artist is the creator and copyright owner of the work.
Deadline:
All submissions must be received before midnight CST, February 28, 2026.

Do you remember going to the movie theater? The smell of freshly popped popcorn, the funky animation prior to the trailers,
the red velvet cushions that you sink into; it is in that moment you are completely transported away from the real world and into another realm.
That nostalgia for the cinema has driven this collaboration between FLATS and the Houston Cinema Arts Society for 4 years running.
We’re showcasing Texas filmmakers through the lens of the analog. The Irreplicable quality of celluloid is surging in major motion pictures,
and we want to shine a spotlight on the traditional formats that started the magic of movies.
We hope our showcase is just the beginning – and that it continues to grow as the community of Texas artists rediscovers an enthusiasm
for analog film. Join us as this celebration of creative storytelling develops…the old-fashioned way!
Rules & Terms:

1. There is no minimum film length, but submissions should be no longer than 15 minutes.
2. Films must be shot on analog formats; VHS, super 16, super 8, or 35mm. They must also be formatted and submitted digitally.
3. Call is open to artists of all ages.
4. Artists must be based in the State of Texas, or have meaningful ties to Texas.
5. Submissions must be made within the last two (2) years.
6. Call is open to any genre (animation, documentary, experimental, fiction, etc.).
7. Multiple submissions from one filmmaker or production company will not be accepted.
8. The applicant holds the sole responsibility of copyright clearance of any copyrighted material in the film. Films including unauthorized copyrighted material are ineligible.

Call to participate in the Spring Fine Art Festival May 8-10, 2026. Looking for all mediums of fine art.
Please email for prospectus and Early Bird application fee that provides early judges’ decision.
jhoward@organicpastels.com

2026 Virtual Art Residencies Open Call is now live!
We’re excited to announce four virtual residencies for the upcoming year: Ocean, Our Land, Atmos-fear, and Sustainability. Each program invites artists from around the world to explore our planet’s most urgent environmental themes through their own creative lens inspired by the UN Ocean Decade and UNESCO’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Whether your work speaks to the ocean, the land, our climate, or the interconnected systems that sustain life, we’d love to see your vision. One application, four opportunities.

There is no fee to apply, but artists pay for their own participation in the different residencies (fees range from $290 to $450).
Apply now! https://www.mokuartstudio.com/open-call-residency-programs-2026
Let’s imagine a better future together.