| Free Monthly Online Art Contests for Cash Prizes |  | Compete with other artists and photographers in our free monthly art contests for cash and other great prizes. A Singular Creation provides a free online venue to showcase your art and photography. Your images will be juried by our panel, as well as rated by our visitors. In addition to cash prizes, we will award various prizes donated by our sponsors. Also, all winners will be featured all over our web site. Free to enter.
Still Life | Deadline: September 14
Contest is open to all media and all styles of art in which a still life is the subject matter. A Still life is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural or man-made in an artificial setting. [ Website Here ] | | | National Art Encounter 2012-13 | Wednesday, September 12 |  | The Naples Art Association at The von Liebig Art Center invites all artists residing in the United States to enter one or two original artworks in any media for National Art Encounter 2012-13. The fine art exhibition will be installed in Naples, Florida from Dec. 8, 2012 to Jan. 26, 2013. $2,500 in awards. Size and other restrictions apply. Please see online prospectus for complete details. Prospectus: www.juriedartservices.com/index.php?content=event_info&event_id=550 | | | Mystery Build Art Challenge | Sunday, September 16 |  | Mystery Build is an art contest developed by two artists to inspire creativity. Purchase a Mystery Build Materials Kit. Create a work of art using ONLY the materials in the Kit. Upload photos or videos of your creation. Over $10,000 in cash prizes. Winners are selected by a panel of judges and online public voting. The specific materials in the Kit will be unknown to you at the time of purchase, but you can expect to find some common sculpting materials like wood, metal, clay, and fiber. The Kits are 10" wide and 3.5" deep and contain around 3.5 lbs. of materials. Enter individually or as a team. Enter as many times as you want, using multiple Mystery Build Kits. The contents of multiple Kits may not be combined into a single Entry. You may use one Kit per Entry and create one Entry per Kit. For sale December 2011 through August 2012. Submissions are due by September 16, 2012.
Web site: www.mysterybuild.com | | | 43rd Annual River Road Show | Monday, September 17 |  | The 43rd Annual River Road Show, a national juried exhibition sponsored by the Louisiana Art and Artists' Guild, is receiving entries for the December 3 - January 30 exhibit at the Louisiana State Archives building in Baton Rouge, LA. Deadline for entries is September 17. Entry fee is $40 for first three entries and $5 for each additional submission up to 10. This is a national juried competition with cash & prizes of $4000. All United States artists 18 years and older are invited to submit any original two-dimensional art except photography or digitally-created/enhanced works. The exhibition will be juried and judged by multidisciplinary artist Sam Corso. The Prospectus and pictures of the 2011 exhibit are available online. Direct questions to 43rd RRS at rrs@laag-site.org or PO Box 41115 Baton Rouge, LA 70835. Prospectus: laag-site.org/River_Road_Show.html | | | Motion - Call for Entries | Monday, September 17 |  | Always moving, life does not sit still for us. It all goes by in a blur. Capturing movement in art creates a elusive dynamic. Submit your best art with motion for this future exhibition. All international artists, professional and amateur and all art mediums will be considered in this call for entries from photography, wall sculpture, fabric, mixed media, all paintings and drawings including, oil, acrylic, pastels, ink, graphite, etc. It must be able to be hung on a wall to be considered. Sizes up to 12 feet art acceptable. Accepted entries for this online exhibit will be judged again for our collective live exhibition at our Pasadena Gallery. The artists will be asked if they wish to submit their artwork for the collective exhibition, which is not a requirement to being a part of the online exhibition. Prospectus: www.linusgallery.com/motion/motion-art-exhibition.html | | | Poster Contest for 2013 Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival | Friday, September 21 |  | The Coastal Arts League and Half Moon Bay Beautification Committee Sponsors Of 2012 Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin 2013 Festival Ad Poster Contest. This contest is open to all interested parties, particularly professional artists, graphic designers and art students due to the detailed production specifications required. Cash Award: A $1000 grand prize cash award will be presented to the winning artist plus here will be a $500 award for second place, $250 for third (two). Special awards will be given for the “People's Choice” ($250) and "Most Creative" ($100). Publication Awards: The winning design sets the tone and identity for the festival and is the centerpiece on all promotional material for the prestigious festival held every October in the World Pumpkin Capital of Half Moon Bay. Gallery Exhibition: October 5 to 31 at The Coastal Arts League, 300 Main Street, Half Moon Bay, CA Entry Form & Prospectus: Contest winners from past years, details, guidelines and entry forms are available online at www.coastalartsleague.com | | | 12 12 Gallery International Juried Photography Exhibition 2012 | Monday, September 24 | | | Artists around the world age 18+, working in any photographic process, may submit up to 3 images for consideration. Additional images may be submitted at an additional cost for up to a total of 5 works. Work previously exhibited at 12 12 Gallery is not eligible. Cash and prizes up to $1000 will be awarded solely at the discretion of the exhibition juror. Recognition of work by Professor Widiapradja may also be designated to the extent he deems appropriate. These designations may not include a cash prize. Also, 12 12 Gallery Director, Martin McFadden, will award a Director’s Choice Award. ALL artists will be notified of selection status by e-mail. Entries will not be returned without SASE and adequate postage. Entry forms may be photocopied. Images of accepted work may be retained for publicity purposes and will be returned after the exhibition closes. Selected work must be sent ready for installation. Shipping guidelines and requirements will be sent to selected artists. 12 12 Gallery reserves the right not to exhibit work that it deems unsuitable for exhibition. More Info: www.1212richmond.com | | | 14th Annual Abstraction Juried Online International Art Exhibition | Monday, September 24 |  | The Upstream People Gallery presents an exhibition with 12 month's gallery representation, October 1, 2012 through September 30, 2013, with approximately one million hits each month. Open to all artists worldwide with two- and three-dimensional semi-abstract, non-objective to pure abstract works in all media. Cash Awards of Excellence and Special Recognitions will be given at the juror's discretion; the amounts and number of which is determined by the entries and their quality. Specially recognized artists will be reviewed in the juror's statement published worldwide and sent in a press release to the artist's local newspaper(s). Artists get a discounted entry fee if submitted by our early deadline of September 8. The final deadline is September 24. Prospectus: www.upstreampeoplegallery.com/schedule/prospectus.asp?XD=10/1/2012 | | | LACDA 2012 International Juried Competition | Monday, September 24 |  | Enter our juried competition for digital art and photography. Entrants submit three JPEG files of original work. All styles of artwork and photography where digital processes of any kind were integral to the creation of the images are acceptable. The competition is international, open to all geographical locations. The selected winner receives 10 prints up to 44x60 inches on canvas or museum quality paper (approximately a $2,500-$3,000 value) to be shown in a solo exhibition in our main gallery from September 8-30, 2011. The show will be widely promoted and will include a reception for the artist. Ten second place winners will receive one print of their work up to 24x36 inches ($150-$200 in value) to be included in upcoming group exhibits. The ten second place winners will be scheduled into a group shows within twelve months of announcement of winners. Consideration is given to placing these works in shows appropriate to their style, genre and/or content. These shows will be widely promoted and will include a reception for the artists. Special consideration will be given to all entrants for inclusion in future shows at LACDA. Many entrants from past competitions have already been included in our exhibits. Prospectus: lacda.com/juried/juriedshow.html | | | The Naked Truth | Tuesday, September 25 |  | The truth of a naked body will always reveal itself. Show us incredible artwork of the human form to be in this show. If it's like the last nude art show, it will probably be its own exhibition. All international artists, professional and amateur and all art mediums will be considered in this call for entries from photography, wall sculpture, fabric, mixed media, all paintings and drawings including, oil, acrylic, pastels, ink, graphite, etc. It must be able to be hung on the wall to be considered. Sizes up to 12 feet art acceptable. Accepted entries for this online exhibition will be judged again for our collective live exhibition at our Pasadena Gallery. The artists will be asked if they wish to submit their artwork for the live collective exhibition, which is not a requirement to being a part of the online exhibition. Prospectus: linusgallery.com/nude-art/urban-art-exhbition.html | | | Call for Art - 2nd Annual Open Online Art Competition | Wednesday, September 26 |  | Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announces a call for entries for the gallery’s 2nd Annual "Open" online art competition for the month of September 2012. The gallery would like for all 2D artists, regardless of where they reside to apply to this competition by submitting their best representational and non-representational art (no theme), for inclusion into the gallery’s October 2012 online Group Art Exhibition. The winning artists of the "Open" Art Exhibition will receive extensive worldwide publicity in the form of email marketing, 70+ press release announcements, 75+ event announcement posts, extensive social media distribution, marketing and promotion, in order to make the art world aware of the art exhibition and in particular, the artist’s accomplishments. There will also be links back to the artist’s website included as part of this award package. Apply Online Here: www.lightspacetime.com | | | Call To Visual Artists - Art Buzz, The 2013 Collection | Sunday, September 30 |  | Art Buzz, The 2013 Collection, is now accepting entries for inclusion into the premier visual arts showcase, hardcover publication. The fine art search and juried competition for exposure and recognition is open to visual artists, worldwide, who work in any visual art media (must be 18 or older). Art Buzz, the book, is a full color, large format, hardcover fine art "coffee table" publication that is scheduled for release in late January 2013, with a vigorous distribution and marketing plan. The pages of Art Buzz, The 2013 Collection, are open to all high quality, emerging and mid-career visual artists including artists that have yet to venture out for public scrutiny. Art Buzz, founder, Tony Blue, knows how important "Exposure" is and all serious visual artists are encouraged to enter the juried competition to be included in the volume, Art Buzz, The 2013 Collection. The Art Buzz selection process is fair, unbiased and based solely on each individual artist's submitted work. Each year an Art Buzz Collection volume is sent to art dealers in New York (inc. NYC) - California (inc. LA & San Francisco) - Sarasota, Naples & Miami, Florida - Atlanta, Georgia area -Santa Fe, New Mexico - New Orleans, Louisiana - Washington DC - Pennsylvania - The Netherlands - United Kingdom (inc. London) - Paris, France - and more contacts each year! For more information regarding the competition, awards, fee and entry forms, www.artbuzz.org/competition.html | | | | | | Richeson 75 International Art Competition - Animals, Birds, Wildlife 2012 | Monday, October 1 |  | Best In Show - $2,500 cash. First Place will receive a $1,000 certificate for art materials from Jack Richeson & Co., Inc. Second Place Award will receive a $750 certificate for art materials from Jack Richeson & Co. Inc. 3rd Place Award will receive a $500 certificate for art materials from Jack Richeson & Co., Inc. Two Honor Awards will receive a $250 certificate for art materials from Jack Richeson & Co., Inc. For this competition, entries will be 2-dimensional paintings and drawings in water media, oils, oil pastels, acrylics, pastel, hand-pulled printmaking, encaustic, collage etc. are accepted. Entries incorporating photography and/or digitally produced or enhanced art are NOT eligible. This competition is open to all artists over age 18. All work entered must be original in concept/execution and have been created since January 1, 2011. The Jack Richeson Company is a leading supplier of high quality art materials. As part of our mission to support the arts community we sponsor five international, juried art exhibitions a year. The purpose of our show is to offer a venue for both established and emerging artists to show their latest work to a wide and appreciative audience. Each show is physically presented in the Richeson Art Gallery and virtually presented at the Richeson 75 web site. We also extend our reach through an interactive newsletter, the Richeson Virtual Art Salon, to thousands of galleries, collectors and artists around the world. Website: www.richeson75.com/callforentries.html | | | Sacred Time | Sacred Space | Monday, October 1 |  | The sacred manifests itself in time and space. Feasts, festivals, ceremonies, and rituals mark a return to sacred time, a separation from ordinary time, a time generally filled with excitement, significance, and transition. Temples, churches, shrines, and special areas in the natural world are sacred spaces, removed from our ordinary everyday environment, thus allowing us to focus on spirit, that which gives meaning to our lives. This exhibition explores the many expressions of Sacred Time and Sacred Space. Open to artists 18 years of age or older from around the world who submit artwork in any medium except video and wearable art. Submissions must be the creation of the artist. Reproductions of original artwork, such as glicee prints of original paintings, will not be accepted. Prospectus: www.stillpointartgallery.com/index.php?action=prospects | | | Shadows - Call for Entries | Monday, October 1 |  | As Joni Mitchell said, "Every picture has it's shadows, And it has some source of light. Blindness, blindness and sight." Some see light and some see shadow. Some see contrasts. Some see the darkness. What exists in the shadows? What do you see? Submit your best art with shadows for this future exhibition. All international artists, professional and amateur and all art mediums will be considered in this call for entries from photography, wall sculpture, fabric, mixed media, all paintings and drawings including, oil, acrylic, pastels, ink, graphite, etc. It must be able to be hung on a wall to be considered. Sizes up to 12 feet are acceptable. Accepted entries for this online exhibit will be judged again for our collective live exhibition at one of our art galleries. The artists will be asked if they wish to submit their artwork for the collective exhibition, which is not a requirement to being a part of the online exhibition. For more information or to submit, please visit: linusgallery.com/shadows/shadows-art-exhibition.html | | | WCW Magazine's First Annual Art Contest | Monday, October 1 |  | Wisdom Crieth Without is proud to sponsor its first annual art contest, in keeping with our continued mission to promote quality work from around the world. This contest serves as yet a further celebration of traditional art, and the rewards are quite rich indeed! First Prize: $500 cash prize, featured placement in the following issue of Wisdom Crieth Without, interview with the staff of Wisdom Crieth Without to appear in the magazine, five print contributor's copies of the issue the art appears in, cover placement in the year-end poetry/art anthology, and one contributor's copy of the year-end anthology. Second Prize: $300 cash prize, placement in the following issue of Wisdom Crieth Without, three print contributor's copies of the issue the art appears in, and placement in the year-end poetry/art anthology. Third Prize: $200 cash prize, placement in the following issue of Wisdom Crieth Without, two print contributor's copies of the issue the art appears in, and placement in the year-end poetry/art anthology. Each piece must be made with purely traditional means. No digital manipulation, with the exception of minor color adjustments, are allowed. Photography, sketches, paintings, etchings, watercolors, inking, and such work are what is desired. One entry per person, with up to three images per entry. All art must be in line with WCW Magazine's standards. No nudity, lewd imagery, gratuitous violence, and other such uncouth behavior will be permitted. Each entry must be solely owned by the artist submitting it. Previously published art is allowed, as long as all rights of republication reside solely with the artist. All artists retain the copyright and intellectual ownership to their pieces. $5 entry fee goes toward the funding of the contest and the operation of Wisdom Crieth Without. Prospectus: www.wisdomcriethwithout.com/announcing-wisdom-crieth-withouts-first-annual-art-contest | | | Call for Entry - Street View | Friday, October 5 | | | Colorado Photographic Arts Center present "Street View". All lens-based media are eligible, including but not limited to images made by film or video camera, scanner, screen-capture, digital camera, and any means of mobile photography. Entry is open to members and non-members of CPAC. Members receive a discount on entry fees plus additional benefits, which can be found on our website. A $300 purchase award will be given for Best of Show, chosen by the juror. Three honorable mention awards will also be made. Selections for the exhibitions will be announced no later than the week of October 9th. Exhibition dates are November 2 - December 15, 2012. Reception is Friday, November 2, 6-9 pm. In the event of sales, CPAC will charge a 40% commission. See our website for more information: www.cpacphoto.org/2012/08/street-view-juried-exhibition | | | Hit the Road - Call for Entries | Monday, October 15 |  | The road ahead, the road behind, the open road; simply the road. Always the metaphor for life, always the subject of art, the road is what we want to see or all things related. Submit your best road art for this future exhibition. All international artists, professional and amateur and all art mediums will be considered in this call for entries. Media ranging from photography, wall sculpture, fabric, mixed media, all paintings and drawings including, oil, acrylic, pastels, ink, graphite, etc. It must be able to be hung on a wall to be considered. Sizes up to 12 feet are acceptable. Accepted entries for this online exhibit will be judged again for our collective live exhibition at one of our art galleries. The artists will be asked if they wish to submit their artwork for the collective exhibition, which is not a requirement to being a part of the online exhibition. For more information or to submit, please visit: www.linusgallery.com/travel/the-road-art-exhibition.html | | | 14th Painting, Drawing, Photography & Print Juried Online International Art Exhibition | Wednesday, October 24 |  | The Upstream People Gallery presents an exhibition with 12 month's gallery representation, November 1, 2012 through October 31, 2013, with approximately one million hits each month. Open to all artists worldwide with original paintings, drawings, photography and prints in all creative processes and forms. Cash Awards of Excellence and Special Recognitions will be given at the juror's discretion; the amounts and number of which is determined by the entries and their quality. Specially recognized artists will be reviewed in the juror's statement published worldwide and sent in a press release to the artist's local newspaper(s). Artists get a discounted entry fee if submitted by our early deadline of October 8. The final deadline is October 24. Prospectus: www.upstreampeoplegallery.com/schedule/prospectus.asp?XD=11/1/2012 | | | Call to Artists - SCOPE Miami 2012 | Tuesday, October 30 |  | SCOPE Art Show, Artists Wanted and See // Exhibition invite you to join the 3rd annual Art Takes Miami 2012, an international search for creative talent, skill and vision that will present one visionary in an exclusive, featured booth at SCOPE Art Show during the hottest art event of the year. With over 45 art fairs spanning more than a decade, SCOPE has solidified its position as the premier showcase for international emerging contemporary art. Renowned for presenting the most innovative galleries, artists and curators, SCOPE Art Shows in Miami, Basel, New York, London and the Hamptons have garnered extensive critical acclaim, with sales of over $200 million and attendance of over 425,000 visitors. Prizes include: A feature spot at SCOPE Miami 2012, $10,000 total cash, which includes a $5,000 production allowance for your SCOPE Miami exhibition and a $5,000 cash prize, Press and publicity to hundreds of thousands of viewers promoting your exhibition at SCOPE Art Show, Luxury Accommodations at the Delano Hotel in the center of the action on South Beach during Art Basel, and an online feature promoting your work internationally. More Info: www.see.me/arttakesmiami/awards.php?f=atm2012_asc1 | | | Call For Artists - MFA Annual | Wednesday, October 31 |  | New American Paintings is a museum-quality, soft-cover art periodical, published bimonthly by The Open Studios Press. Each 184 page volume is a regional exhibition-in-print, selling for $20 at 1,500 bookstores, museum shops and art supply stores nationwide. The books have become periodical resources for collectors and art world professionals. All styles and media are welcome, as long as the work is singular and two-dimensional. The competition’s 40 winners will appear in an upcoming edition of New American Paintings and will retain all rights to their images. This competition is open to current master of fine arts candidates and current year graduates. Prospectus: www.newamericanpaintings.com | | | Picture This: What We Photograph | Sunday, November 4 |  | This Call for Entry is unique to Mpls Photo Center as it has no specific theme like previous ones. That is exactly what we’re looking for in your images submitted for “Picture This”. The concept is to showcase broad mix of genres and processes, which we believe, will create one of our most compelling exhibits to date. We want to see what you photograph and how you process those images. Portraits, documentary, landscapes, architecture, nature, wildlife, modernist and traditional trends and processes. Digital, film, alternative process, pinhole, iPhone, multi-media (as long as it’s a photograph), anything goes. We suggest you submit a variety of subject matter, rather then a series of the same. It’ll benefit you and offer a greater chance of your images selected for the exhibit. More Details: www.mplsphotocenter.com/Exhibits/Exhibit-Competitions.php | | | Yosemite Renaissance XXVIII | Saturday, November 10 | | | Yosemite Renaissance XXVIII Call for Entries. All media, juried fine art competition & exhibition on the theme of Yosemite and the environment of the Sierra Nevada. Open to all living artists. $4,000 in awards. Entry is by digital files only. $15 per entry. Exhibit begins at the Yosemite Museum Gallery, February 22, 2013. Subject matter is limited to recent works on the landscape, environment, wildlife and people of Yosemite or the environment of the Sierra. Both representational and non-representational submissions are accepted. Original artwork may be in any medium including the following: Painting (any medium); Photography/Digital; and Other (All other two- and three-dimensional media, including drawings, pastels, printmaking, textiles, and all 3-dimensional works). Size is limited to works that can be shipped in containers not exceeding maximum U.P.S. dimensions of 130 inches, length and girth combined (girth is the distance around the package). Each artist is limited to eight entries. No more than two entries from any artist will be included in the exhibit. For prospectus and entry form visit: yosemiterenaissance.org/yr28prospectus.html | | | 2013 Collector's Choice at Sylvia White Gallery | Thursday, November 15 |  | Start the year off right! For this exhibition, Sylvia White has invited 15 of the gallery’s best collectors to review the artist submissions and select their favorite work. Each collector may select one or more pieces by artists that are not currently represented in their private collection. Selected artists will participate in 2013 Collector’s Choice January 2-February 9, at Sylvia White Gallery. Collectors names will be kept anonymous until the opening reception. This is an exceptional opportunity to get your work in front of real art collectors. Open to all US/International resident artists at least 18 years of age. To apply, go to: www.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=1105&sortby=fair_name&apply=yes | | | 10th Annual Color: Bold/Subtle Juried Online International Art Exhibition | Saturday, November 24 |  | The Upstream People Gallery presents an exhibition with 12 month's gallery representation, December 1, 2012 through November 30, 2013, with approximately one million hits each month. Open to all artists worldwide who use color in either bold and/or subtle ways in original two-dimensional and three-dimensional works including ceramics, sculpture, paintings, drawings, photography, prints, installations, mixed media and other in all creative processes and forms. Cash Awards of Excellence and Special Recognitions will be given at the juror's discretion; the amounts and number of which is determined by the entries and their quality. Specially recognized artists will be reviewed in the juror's statement published worldwide and sent in a press release to the artist's local newspaper(s). Artists get a discounted entry fee if submitted by our early deadline of November 8. The final deadline is November 24. Prospectus: www.upstreampeoplegallery.com/schedule/prospectus.asp?XD=12/1/2012 | | | Call for Entries - 2013 Hunting Art Prize | Friday, November 30 |  | The Hunting Art Prize announces the call for entries for its 2013 competition, giving artists in Texas an opportunity to vie for a $50,000 prize. The competition is open to artists who are legal residents of Texas and at least 18 years of age or older by August 1, 2012. Artwork submitted for consideration must be a single two-dimensional painting or drawing not exceeding 72 inches on any side (including frame, if any). Artists must sign up using the electronic form and upload one digital file representing their selected artwork. The digital file must be in JPEG format, no less than 1 MB and no greater than 2 MB in size. Artwork must be uploaded at the time the artist signs up for the competition. For questions, email info@huntingartprize.com. For further details on submission criteria, terms, and conditions, visit www.huntingartprize.com. | | | Emerging Artists 2013 | Friday, November 30 |  | SlowArt Productions presents Emerging Artists 2013, the 21st annual competition for group exhibition and awards. Open to all artists working in any media. $1000 cash award and $2400 in publication awards. This exhibition is devoted to the discovery, introduction and promotion of emerging artists. The exhibition will be held in April 2013 at the Limner Gallery and is open to all artists working in any media. Prospectus: www.slowart.com/prospectus/ea2013.htm | | | Call to Artists - Cash Award - Juried Exhibit | Monday, January 7 |  | Embracing Our Differences is accepting submissions for its 10th annual outdoor art exhibit celebrating diversity to be displayed during April - May 2013 in Sarasota, FL USA. Submissions must be postmarked no later than January 7, 2013. National and international submissions are encouraged. 38 artists will be selected for the exhibit. Since 2004, the exhibit has been viewed by more than 1,300,000 visitors. Final selections will be made by a 3-judge panel of art professionals. A total of $3,000 (US) in awards will be presented. There is no submission fee nor limit on the number of entries. More Info: embracingourdifferences.org | | | Eco Arts Awards - Call for Entries | Tuesday, January 15 |  | Eco Arts Awards is an annual arts competition in 6 creative categories: Fine Art, Literature, Photography, Short Videos, Repurposed Materials in Art & Design, and Songwriting. Ecology is the theme. We seek to promote the multitude of interpretations of that theme via the arts, as we know that it is artists who can lift awareness above any political or scientific debate. We have an expert panel of jurors for each of our featured categories. You can see who they are on our website. We offer a total of $12,500 usd cash to three winners in all six categories. We will announce all winners on January 31st via our newsletter, so be sure to sign up to receive it on our home page. It is also a good idea to "like us" on facebook for more current update's and interesting information regarding the art of ecology! Now go hug a tree and express yourself! More Info: www.ecoartsawards.com | | | | | |
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