| 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.
Solitude | Deadline: January 14
Contest is open to all media and all styles of art. Your image should represent a person, place or thing that is alone. [ Website Here ] | | | 12 12 Gallery International Juried Portrait Photography Exhibition 2013 | Tuesday, January 15 |  | 12 12 GALLERY announces an open call to all artists working with any photographic process to submit portrait images for its International Juried Portrait Photography Exhibition 2013. The exhibition juror, Stephen Perloff, Founder and Editor of The Photo Review, will award up to $1000 in cash prizes. All work must be for sale. 12 12 Gallery will receive a 35% commission on the sale of any work. Open to artists around the world age 18+, working in any photographic process, creating images that are portraits or portraiture, which is defined as "photography of a person or group of people that displays the expression, personality, and mood of the subject. Like other types of portraiture, the focus of the photograph is usually the person's face, although the entire body and the background or context may be included (Wikipedia 2012)." Work previously exhibited at 12 12 Gallery is not eligible. More Info: www.1212richmond.com | | | 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 | | | Foreign Images | Monday, January 21 |  | Being away from home can be an inspiring experience. It can produce perspectives, ideas and emotions that are new to the artist and his or her medium. For this exhibition, we’re looking for the artist’s interpretation of landscapes or cityscapes he or she considers to be exotic and foreign. 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. Work must be able to be hung on a wall to be considered. Sizes up to 12 feet are acceptable. Accepted entries for this online exhibition will be judged again for a 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. More Info: linusgallery.com/call-for-entries/foreign-images-call-for-entries | | | Art Call - 2nd Annual "All Women" Online Art Competition | Sunday, January 27 |  | Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announces their 2nd Annual “All Women” Juried Art Competition for the month of January 2013. The gallery urges all 2D (women only) artists to submit their best art for inclusion into the gallery’s February 2013 online group exhibition. The gallery would like to be able to exhibit only the best art that is submitted by women artists only. Women can submit any 2D media, in any style and about any subject matter for this competition. Light Space & Time encourages entries from all women 2D artists regardless of where they reside and regardless of their experience or education in the art field. A group exhibition of the top ten finalists will be held online at the Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery during the month of February 2013. The submission process and the deadline will end on January 27, 2013. Winning artists of the “All Women” Art Exhibition will receive extensive worldwide publicity and promotion. For further information and to apply online at www.lightspacetime.com | | | Artists Wanted: A Special Invitation | Tuesday, January 29 |  | To the artists, sculptors, designers, illustrators, painters, and creators: you are invited to celebrate your creative passion with an international community of over half a million members on See.Me. To inaugurate our global launch, we're offering over $125,000 in awards to inspired creators like you. More Info: www.see.me/art?f=sm01_asc2 | | | Art Quench International Juried Art Competition | Thursday, January 31 |  | Art Quench Gallery offers artists a great opportunity to be represented by one of finest on-line galleries that exist today. Art Quench Gallery offers artist: A visual showcasing of the artists work - Publication of artists work - Gallery representation. Each month Art Quench Gallery holds a themed International Juried Art Competition. The Winner of the competition receives one year of representation with AQ Gallery and publication in both Art Quench Magazine and On Purpose Magazine. This month of January the competition is titled "Whimsical Expression." More Info: artquenchgallery.com | | | 4x6/6x4 Postcard Sized Art | Monday, February 4 |  | We invite artists from around the world to participate by sending artwork that is sized at 4x6 or 6x4 inches, unframed and light enough to be hung with T-pins (gallery walls are carpeted). All artwork submitted must be available for the duration of the show, for sale at the price of $20 each, and will be the property of the Colorado Mesa University Art Department if unsold at the close of the exhibition. All proceeds benefit the Art Department Endowment Fund at Colorado Mesa University to help provide educational opportunities for Art Department students. More Info: www.coloradomesa.edu/art/legacy_exhibit.html | | | Richeson 75 International Art Competition - Still Life and Floral Online 2013 | Monday, February 4 |  | Awards: 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. 2 Honor Awards will receive a $250 certificate for art materials from Jack Richeson & Co., Inc. The categories for entry are: 1) Oils, Oil Pastels and Acrylic - 2) Other Media (Soft Pastels, Drawing/Dry Media, Watercolor, Gouache, Casein, Printmaking, etc.). Competition is open to all artists over age 18. Theme of the artwork submitted must relate to Still Life and/or Floral. 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 | | | Fork And Knife | Monday, February 11 |  | Food is one of many satisfying things people produce. It communicates to four out of our five senses. Not only is it a delight for our sense of taste and smell, but it can be a delicious treat for our sense of sight as well. Preparation produces an exciting experience for our sense of touch. For this exhibition, we’re looking for art that evokes the many emotions and experiences related to or that are sparked by food. Textures, colors, shapes, and even scents can be represented in artwork and can create an intriguing palette. 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. Work must be able to be hung on a wall to be considered. Sizes up to 12 feet are acceptable. Accepted entries for this online exhibition will be judged again for a 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.
Video installations will only be displayed online. More Info: linusgallery.com/call-for-entries/fork-and-knife-call-for-submissions | | | Call for Artists and Writers - 2013 Summer Art Exhibition and Literary Showcase | Friday, February 15 | | | Call for Artists and Writers - 2013 Summer Art Exhibition and Literary Showcase. The theme of is The River. Artists and writers are invited to submit works that respond to this theme. Selected art and writing will appear on the Stone Voices website from May 25, 2013 through September 31, 2013. Top art and writing selections will appear in the Summer 2013 issue of Stone Voices magazine. Open to artists 18 years of age or older from around the world who submit artwork in any medium except video and wearable art. Open to writers 18 years of age or older from around the world who submit works of prose (essay, short story, fiction, non-fiction) or poetry in English. More Info: www.stone-voices.com/prospectus.htm | | | 15th Annual Faces Juried Online International Art Exhibition | Sunday, February 24 |  | The Upstream People Gallery presents an exhibition with 12 month's gallery representation, March 1, 2013 through February 28, 2014, with approximately one million hits each month. Open to all artists worldwide whose artwork is involved with the subject matter of faces of all kinds. Two-dimensional and three-dimensional works including ceramics, sculpture, paintings, drawings, photography, prints and mixed media 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 February 8. The final deadline is February 24. Prospectus: www.upstreampeoplegallery.com/schedule/prospectus.asp?XD=3/1/2013 | | | Art Biologic - Call for Entries | Thursday, February 28 |  | A thematic exhibition based on art inspired by the biologic and natural world. Entry is limited to biologic and nature based artwork and is open to all interpretations of theme as it applies to landscape, fruits, vegetables, flowers and fauna; and to human figuration as part of the biological world. The exhibition will be held at the Limner Gallery, May 18 - June 15, 2013. Entry is open to all artists working in any media. National magazine publication awards. Email any questions to slowart@aol.com, or to Limner Gallery, 123 Warren Street, Hudson, NY 12534. On-line entry information and instructions at: www.slowart.com/prospectus/bio.htm | | | Call For Artists - Midwestern Region | Thursday, February 28 |  | 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. Now accepting entries from: IL, IN, IA, WI, MI, MN, MO, OH. Prospectus: www.newamericanpaintings.com/competitions.html | | | 2013 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Awards | Monday, March 18 | | | Each year the International Sculpture Center presents an award competition to its member colleges and universities as a means of supporting, encouraging, and recognizing the work of young sculptors and their supporting schools’ faculty and art program. The Student Award winners participate in an exhibition at Grounds For Sculpture, as well as a traveling exhibition hosted by arts organizations across the country. Winners’ work is also featured in Sculpture magazine. Each winner receives a one-year membership at the ISC and all winners are eligible to apply for a full sponsored residency to study in Switzerland. To nominate students for this competition, the nominees’ university must first be an ISC University level member. University Membership costs $200 for universities in the USA, Canada and Mexico, or $220 for international universities, and includes a number of benefits. More Info: www.sculpture.org/StudentAwards/2013 | | | Direct Art Magazine, Volume 20 | Sunday, March 31 |  | The Annual International Competition for $26,000 in publication awards in Volume 20 of Direct Art Magazine, Fall/Winter 2013 issue. Direct Art has both print and online editions. The print edition has several distributors, including COMAG Marketing Group, the distributors of Art News and Art in America. Direct Art can be found in bookstores across the USA, including Barnes and Noble. The competition is open to all artists working in any media. The twenty two awards include the covers of magazine, feature articles and full page displays. Email any questions to slowart@aol.com, or to SlowArt Productions, 123 Warren Street, Hudson, NY 12534. Entry information and instructions are online at: www.slowart.com/prospectus/spring.htm | | | Pastel Society of the West Coast Pastels USA 2013 | Friday, April 12 | | | 27th Annual International Open Exhibit at Marin Society of Artists Gallery in Ross, CA, June 9 to June 29, 2013. Open to all artists over the age of 18. There are no geographic limitations. Digital entry by CD only. Dry pastels only. More than $10,000 in awards - $1,500 Best of Show. A 28 page full color catalog will be published for the exhibition. All accepted art work will be shown in the catalogue. A complimentary
copy of the catalogue will be available to all participating artists during the exhibition. Download prospectus at www.pswc.ws | | | Call for Art - Infinite Earth | Sunday, June 9 | | | In/finite Earth asks emerging artists (ages 16-25, with disabilities) to showcase work that illuminates innovative viewpoints at the intersection of environmentalism, creativity, and disability. Regardless of continent, country, or culture, over six billion people draw sustenance from the shared resources of our planet, repercussions for which are still unfolding. In/finite Earth is a call to artists to engage in the physical, emotional, and creative ties we share across our planet, and present their artistic perspectives regarding the natural world, sustainability, and our collective future. Fifteen artists will be selected for an exhibition in Washington D.C. and will share $60,000 in cash awards. For more info or to apply, go to tinyurl.com/infiniteearth | | | 2013 Art Kudos International Juried Competition & Online Exhibition | Sunday, June 30 |  | All artists worldwide are invited to enter the 2013 Art Kudos Competition. Selected finalists will appear in a year-long online exhibition www.artkudos.com. $4,000 in cash awards: Best of Show - $1,000; Second Place - $800; Third Place - $650; Founder's Award of Distinction - $500; (3) Merit Awards - $250 each; (3) Honorable Mentions - $100 each. Open to all artists 18 or older. More Info: www.artkudos.com/prospectus.html | | | Mystery Build Art Contest - What Can You Make With This? | Sunday, October 20 |  | Call for artists and creators. $15,000 in cash awards and nationwide exposure - Winning entries will be displayed on Mystery Build websites and promotions. The Challenge: Create a work of art (creative object, construction, experiment, presentation or other concept) using only the materials provided in a Mystery Build Kit. The twist: You don't know what's inside! Mystery Build is offering $15,000 in cash awards to participants who can create something amazing using only the materials in a Mystery Build Kit, without knowing what they will have to work with. You can expect to find some common sculpting materials like wood, clay, metal, fiber, and a few surprises. The kits are 12" x 9" x 3" and contain 5 lbs. of materials. All 2013 Mystery Build Kits are identical. Contest open only to U.S. residents. You can enter individually or as a team, and you can enter as many times as you want. More Info: www.mysterybuild.com | | | | | |
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