Guide to the Best Artist Grants and Opportunities in the Southeastern U.S.
The Artwork Archive team set out to find the best art opportunities, artist grants, and calls for entry for visual artists in the Southeastern United States.
Below you will find a list of the top artist residencies, international open calls, artist grants, exhibition opportunities and art competitions that we believe will benefit artists, specifically in the Southeast.
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We will be updating this list throughout the year, so make sure to bookmark the page, check back often, and let us know if there is an opportunity that should be listed!
MORE COMING SOON: Our team is currently hard at work searching for opportunities in this region!
May 15, 2024 7 days left
10th Annual Harford Plein Air Festival 2024
Competition
- Submission Deadline: May 15, 2024
- Event Dates: September 12, 2024 - September 15, 2024
- Entry Fee: $25
- Award Info: $10,000 in prizes
- Eligibility: Local
- Categories: Painting
- Location: Bel Air, MD 21014, United States
The Maryland Center for the Arts invites plein air painters to apply for one of 30 spots in its 10th Annual Harford Plein Air Festival. The Harford Plein Air Festival attracts painters from across the U.S. looking for new scenes to paint in hopes of winning over $10,000 in prizes and sales commissions. Harford County offers colonial and contemporary architecture, railroad bridges and covered bridges, quiet fishing streams and boulder strewn waterfalls, bucolic farm scenes and bustling small-town streets. This year's Entry Juror is Dr. Jacalyn Beam.
We encourage juried artists to produce their best work by allowing them to work at their own pace, from July 1 to September 12, verifying their work by submitting gps- and time-stamped photos or with traditional pre-stamped canvases. On Sept. 12, juried artists are invited to join Awards Judge John Hulsey of the Artist's Road at Ladew Gardens for painting. A group dinner follows. Three days of gallery sales and exhibits begin with an opening reception and awards ceremony celebrating 'Arts Across Harford,' a popular countrywide festival of visual and performing arts, which brings visitors from around the MidAtlantic region. Online sales continue from Sept. 20 to Oct. 31. Competition rules are available at www.mdcfa.org.
Total of 5 (Five) paintings for awards judging on September 13, 2024, at the Bel Air Armory. All work must be original and painted en plein air during the Harford Plein Air Painting Festival, between July 1, 2024, and September 12, 2024, without the use of photographs.
Paintings must be hung by the artist or the artist’s representative between the hours of 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. on Friday, September 13, 2024, at the Bel Air Armory, 37 N. Main St., Bel Air, MD 21014 A maximum of FIVE paintings from the Festival may be displayed at any one time on the gallery panel (ie, if a painting is sold, it may be replaced by one other painting). Only ONE painting of the five may be displayed on an easel, per artist, next to the provided artist’s gallery panel.
July 1, 2024 54 days left
Embracing Our Differences Outdoor Exhibit
Competition
- Organization: Embracing Our Differences Out Door Exhibition
- Submission Deadline: July 1, 2024
- Event Dates: January 19, 2025 - April 13, 2025
- Award Info: . Adult winners each receive $2,000; students receive $2,000 with $1,000 to be directed to the student and $1,000 to their school’s art program, if they worked under the direction of an educator.
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Photography, Drawing, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting
- Location: Sarasota, Fl
Embracing Our Differences is seeking submissions for an outdoor juried art exhibit featuring 50 billboard size images created by local, national and international artists. The display reflects the artists' interpretations of the theme "enriching lives through diversity and inclusion." The exhibit will be on display January 19 through April 13, 2025 in two locations in Sarasota and St. Petersburg Florida. The winning artworks combine a deep understanding of both medium and message. Awards are given for "Best-in-Show Adult," "Best-in-Show Student," and "People's Choice" categories, with the last chosen by exhibit visitors to each location. Adult winners each receive $2,000; students receive $2,000 with $1,000 to be directed to the student and $1,000 to their school’s art program, if they worked under the direction of an educator.
Bayfront dates: January 19 – April 13, 2025
St. Pete dates: March 2025
July 1, 2024 54 days left
32nd Annual Emerald Coast National Juried Art Exhibition
Competition
- Organization: Mattie Kelly Arts Center Galleries at Northwest Florida State College
- Submission Deadline: July 1, 2024
- Event Dates: September 5, 2024 - December 12, 2024
- Entry Fee: $30
- Award Info: $1750 total in awards
- Eligibility: International
- Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture
- Location: Niceville, FL 32578, United States
The Emerald Coast National (ECN) is a juried exhibition held annually at Mattie Kelly Art Center Galleries, Northwest Florida State College. What began as a regional show has evolved into far-reaching, exciting programming of a range of media styles by emerging to established artists reflecting what they are doing in the world today. ECN is a show that people travel to see and a program that locals look forward to all year! We leave the theme open and publicize the call on known artist platforms. We invite all art styles, materials, mediums, etc.—including sound art, kinetic art, sculpture, photography, video, design, craft, and even performance if you can provide documentation for the application. We typically see a couple hundred applications from working artists across the US and some non-US who work in contemporary, experimental, and classical mediums, styles, and techniques. Best in Show wins a cash award of 1000.00 and a solo curated by MKAC, typically exhibited during the next season's ECN show. This year's ECN will be guest juried by accomplished professor and artist Sarah Knobel.