Opportunities

LandEscape turns 20 — and we're marking it with something big.
We're inviting artists across all fine arts disciplines — painting, photography, video, installation, performance, mixed media, and public art — to join one of the most open platforms in contemporary art, to be part of a defining moment in art publishing.
THE THEME: Landscape as Concept

Natural. Urban. Imagined. Psychological.
How do your surroundings shape what you make? Bold interpretations welcome. Unexpected perspectives encouraged. Authenticity required.

WHAT SELECTED ARTISTS GET

• Publication in the official Biennial Edition of LandEscape Art Review
• Critical editorial coverage by our international curatorial team
• 5 months exhibition
• Sustained visibility across our network of collectors, curators, and institutions worldwide

THIS ISN'T A COMPETITION.

There are no winners and losers here. This is a dialogue — between your work and a global audience that's ready for it.

For 20 years, LandEscape has existed for one reason: to connect serious artistic voices with the recognition they deserve.

Closing Date: 05/19/25

Location: Austin, TX

Website: https://landescapeart.yolasite.com

For a limited time, Sunspot Lit is calling for single works of novella-length fiction or nonfiction in any category, including memoir, literary, genre, and historical. Open April 1 through April 30. See guidelines and submission form, along with the journal’s other open calls (including art), here: https://sunspotlit.submittable.com/submit.

Closing Date: 04/30/26

Location: Online

Website: http://www.SunspotLit.com

3rd Annual Texas Fine Craft Show – slated to become the South's Premier Fine Craft Event. Join us at the stunning Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel in the heart of The Woodlands for a one-of-a-kind Fine Craft event. The Texas Fine Craft Show promises to be an unforgettable experience, drawing in audiences from Greater Houston and beyond.

Produced by The Woodlands Arts Council, the award-winning organization behind the acclaimed Woodlands Waterway Arts Festival. The festival has been dazzling art enthusiasts for nearly two decades. With top-ranked artist sales (up to $2M per show) and a discerning audience that finds joy in art, the Texas Fine Craft Show has become The Woodlands Arts Council’s next great success.

GENERAL INFORMATION:
Dates: September 25, 26 & 27, 2026
(Fri. 5pm-9pm, Sat. 10am-5pm & Sun. 12pm-5pm)
Location: The Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel
1601 Lake Robbins Dr., The Woodlands, TX 77380
Apply NOW through May 3, 2026
2026 Important Dates:
May 3: Application deadline at midnight (CST)
May 24: Artist Image Jury
June 5: Artist Notification of jury results via email in ZAPPlication
July 1: Invited Artist Payment deadline
July 13: The refund (less $75) deadline (Marketing Campaign kicks off)
September 25: Artist Load-In

Closing Date: 05/04/26

Location: The Woodlands, TX

Website: https://www.zapplication.org/event-info.php?ID=13893

In honor of the United States’ 250th anniversary, ARTS invites artists to reflect on the people, places, history, and ideals that have shaped our nation. America the Beautiful seeks work that celebrates the diversity, complexity, and evolving story of the American experience—from its founding to the present day.

Artists are encouraged to interpret the theme broadly. Submissions may explore historical events, cultural traditions, iconic landscapes, everyday life, national symbols, or personal narratives that speak to the spirit of America.

Selected works will be featured in a juried exhibition at the ARTS Ross Gallery in Fayetteville, Texas, offering a collective portrait of a nation 250 years in the making. Over $6,000 in awards will be presented in recognition of artistic excellence.

Closing Date: 05/02/26

Location: Fayetteville, TX

Website: https://www.artsforruraltexas.org/america

The Festival brings together a highly engaged crowd of woodworkers, cabinet makers, influencers and wood enthusiasts who are excited to see tools, techniques and products they can use in their own shop. It’s a fun, hands-on, conversation-driven event, not your traditional trade show. The event will be held in downtown Austin on September 25th-27th, 2026 at the Palmer Events Center.

Exhibitors love it because they can demo products, talk directly with real buyers, eat a delicious taco and build long-term brand awareness within the woodworking community.

If you’re interested, you can apply here.
https://texaswoodworkingfestival.com/vendor-exhibitor-application/

Closing Date: 08/10/26

Location: Austin, TX

Website: https://texaswoodworkingfestival.com/vendor-exhibitor-application/

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

Closing Date: 05/08/26

Location: Online

Website: https://newcrotonreview.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.

Closing Date: 08/01/26

Location: Online

Website: https://www.mokuartstudio.com/open-call-residency-programs-2026