Fallen Tree Exhibitions Combined List of Artist Opportunities with upcoming deadlines, provided by various credible sources, including our own curated list of artist calls, residencies, grants, and more. Good luck!

Updated 05/15/2025
In the near future this page will be the launching point for a comprehensive and efficient reference data base. This will include, resources for artists, art students, art educators, and art organizations.
The Directory will include the following reference links and more: call for artists, art grants, art scholarships, artist residencies, fellowships, jobs, art schools and programs, college galleries, and other various art educational resources. We will also include everything from California based museums, galleries, art centers, to smaller non-profits, and art services. Currently, with a Bay Area emphasis, in the long term this will extend throughout California. This page will also include very specific national and international resources.
We've done a great deal of research to create a specialized data base that will provide much needed mobility for art students, and important references for artists and art professionals. We hope to begin publishing soon!
For now, enjoy our curated monthly lists, along with additional select opportunities in 2025!


Resources for Los Angeles artists affected by the fires

• The LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund: Individuals may apply only once for up to $10,000. Funds are unrestricted and can be used in any way that alleviates financial hardship. The LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund (the “Fund”) is a pooled fund led by the J. Paul Getty Trust with support from a coalition of major arts organizations and philanthropists. Deadline: 02/18/2025

• LA County Department of Arts and Culture – Info & Resources

• Americans for the Arts – Statement & Resources for California Wildfires

• Creative Capital – List of Wild Life Relief Resources For Artists

• Shoebox Arts – List of LA fire resources


Select websites with updated monthly Lists of opportunities
•  Americans For The Arts: Public Art Opportunities
• Art Deadlines List: Opportunities for artists of all disciplines,  art students, & art teachers
• Artwork Archive: Artists opportunities - > May List < & > June List <
• Bomb Magazine: Fellowships & Residencies
• California Association of Museums funding opportunities
• California Association of Museums (Job Directory, updated every Wednesday)
• Californians for the Arts: Funding Opportunities
• Collective, the California Arts Council’s statewide opportunities resource
• College Art Association: Jobs & Opportunities
• Colossal: Opportunities, Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists
• Creative Capital: Artist Opportunities
• Fractured Atlas: Upcoming Artist Grants and Opportunities - > May List < & > June List <
• Hyperallergic: opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers
• Res Artis: international residencies with deadlines
• Sculpture Digest: call for artists



Artist Call Websites

•  ArtCall.org
• ArtConnect.com
• ArtDeadlines.com
• ArtJobs.com
• ArtRabbit.com
• Artshow.com
• The Art Guide
• The Art List (Art & Photo Calls for Visual Artists)
• CaFE Call For Entry
• Call for Entry (Open calls with a management system for applying)
• e-Art Now (Jobs, Grants, Competitions, Open Calls, Exhibitions, Residencies)
• EntryThingy.com
• Foundation Center (One Grant Library for Research Online)
• SmarterEntry.com


Fallen Tree Exhibitions Curated List of Opportunities for Artists
Ongoing Opportunities & Rolling Deadlines

• National Endowment for the Arts Grants for Arts Projects and Challenge America
Guidelines for the National Endowment for the Arts Grants for Arts Projects and Challenge America are now live! Visit the link below for information on how to apply for funding in a variety of disciplines for projects taking place in 2026.

• The California Department of Parks and Recreation (State Parks) Artist Directory > Join as an Artist or Organization
State Parks invites California based artists that are interested in creating public art in California State and/or local parks to join the Arts in California Parks directory. The directory is a resource available to all State and local California Parks staff, as well as the general public, to be used to search for artists based on location, art medium, or other considerations, in order to explore opportunities for collaboration.
Artists working in a variety of mediums, styles, and techniques, as well as artists from diverse abilities, backgrounds, and cultures, and with a range of experiences, creative visions, aesthetics, and approaches are encouraged to join the directory.

• Center for Cultural Innovation Quick Grant – for artists and arts organizations' financial resilience through professional development support. The Quick Grant program awards up to $600 to California artists, creatives, cultural practitioners, cultural producers, and San Francisco/San Jose nonprofit arts administrators to participate in professional development activities that build administrative capacity, hone business skills, and strengthen the financial resilience of the grantee’s practice, area of cultural production, or arts organization.

• Torrance Art Museum (TAM) accepts proposals for Projects and “GROUP” exhibitions
Eligibility: International
Individual artists are welcome to share their work and/or practice through an online portfolio, website, or in cases of video/film work, links to a reel or selections of their works. Physical portfolio submissions are also accepted by mail only. All submissions will be accepted for consideration and review for potential inclusion in future programming. TAM is located in Southern California, in the South Bay area of Los Angeles.
TAM does not accept proposals to host exhibitions for juried shows, non-art special interest groups, amateur artists or non-curated/ non-themed exhibitions.
May Deadlines
•  The Pence Gallery’s 13th annual “Slice” exhibit in Davis, CA
Deadline: 05/16/25
Eligibility: Open to all California artists (any medium except video and sound)
Fee: $35 non-members, $30 members
Event Dates: 7/11/25 - 8/17/25
This is an ‘open theme’ juried exhibit, which showcases art that is conceptually thoughtful, technically skilled, and representative of contemporary trends in art. This year’s juror is Susie Kantor, Associate Curator & Exhibition Department Head at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis. Prizes of $200-400 will be awarded by the juror during the reception.


• How is the weather? Art and Climate Change @ Orange County Center for Contemporary Art – Juried by Shana Nys Dambrot
Deadline: 05/30/25
Eligibility: International
Fee: $45
Not just beautiful sunsets and devastatingly frightening floods, but show us your high tides, big waves, atmospheric rivers, and storm cells.  We have melting icebergs and glaciers falling into the ocean. Heat waves and dust blanketing large portions of the country. Tornadoes, hail, and lightning delivered by Cumulonimbus clouds.  Show us all the extremes and kick up a storm.
June Deadlines
• OCCCA Open Call for Curatorial Proposals 2026 - No Fees
Deadline: Proposals are evaluated in January and June annually.
- Eligibility: International
- 6,300 square feet exhibition space in the Santa Ana Artists Village.
- Curator honorarium of $500. Applications for grants to augment honorarium are encouraged.
- Support with installation, de-installation, signage, publicity, marketing, programing, gallery supervision,
and opening reception during Santa Ana’s monthly First Saturday ArtWalk.
- Three-week exhibition run plus a five-day installation period; One-day de-installation period.
OCCCA is seeking exhibition proposals from emerging and established curators and artists.
Successful proposals will promote curatorial perspectives fostering critical dialogue and artistic
exploration through local and/or global engagement.

• Larch Creative Fund Grants - call for project proposals (No Fees)
Deadline: 06/01/2025
The Larch Creative Fund, in conjunction with the Spruill Center for the Arts, is seeking project proposals for innovative projects that encourage creative and critical thinking through the arts, with a focus on having fun and encouraging community participation and related activities. Grant funding amounts will be awarded commensurate with the project scope and impact, in amounts determined at the discretion of the jury committee. A total funding amount of $50,000 in grants will be awarded and distributed amongst the funded artists or organizations.
Individual artists, collaborations, and nonprofit organizations are encouraged to apply. Preference will be given to projects that:
- Engage or involve the broader public and encourage social engagement
- Are free and accessible to a diverse audience
- Are new projects to the artist or organization submitting the proposal.
These funds are intended to support innovative ideas, creative projects, community outreach, and creative thinking. Proposals for projects must be arts based and are eligible for funding for the project to take place in the state of Georgia.

• Durden and Ray’s second Open Call "SPOTLIGHT 25" Los Angeles
Deadline: 06/10/2025
Submission Processing Fee: $30
Eligibility: Regional, National, and International Artists working in any medium
- Must be able to deliver work to our Los Angeles gallery and pick-up work. (Durden and Ray does not provide Art Courier Transportation)
- Must be able to attend the exhibition reception and all related activities.
Two artists will be selected by a jury to each receive a solo show at Durden and Ray's gallery space.
This special exhibition will run from August 16 - September 7, 2025. Durden and Ray will install exhibitions and our curatorial & PR teams will work with each artist to maximize impact of exhibitions.
Opening Reception: 8/16/25 from 7pm to 10pm
Delivery of Work: 8/4 to 8/9
Install: 8/10 to 8/15
Gallery Address: 1206 Maple Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90015, Bendix Building
[email protected]


July Deadlines
• Samaritan Healthcare – Moses Lake Facility Art Collection
Deadline: 07/18/25
Eligibility: National (note: the site description says “local artists”, but an administrator has clarified this as National.)
All styles and media will be considered for purchase. Some artwork will be commissioned.
Samaritan Healthcare – Moses Lake is actively seeking local artists working in all styles and media, including paintings on paper and canvas, dimensional work, murals, drawings, photography, sculpture, basketry, pottery, carvings, and weavings. Artwork will be chosen by the Artwork Committee, who are charged with selecting works of high quality and diversity of expression for the new hospital. This collection will emphasize works that evoke the essence of nature, encompassing themes of water, earth, and sky. These elements are intended to offer a distinctive perspective on the artistic experience within a therapeutic environment.

August Deadlines
Coming soon!
September Deadlines
• MCASB Satellite at Riviera Beach House Call for Entries Exhibition Program
Deadline 09/06/2025
$100 application fee per artist.
$50 application fee per artist, discounted for artists living and working in Santa Barbara County only.
Eligibility: Artists over the age of 18 living and working in California between and including the greater LA area through the SF Bay area
Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB) announces the launch of the storied Call For Entries exhibition program established by the Contemporary Arts Forum, the precursor to the museum. This call will program the MCASB Satellite at Riviera Beach House with two exhibitions over the course of one year.
MCASB Satellite at Riviera Beach House, is a two story gallery exhibition space that is free and open to the public daily from 9:00 am to 9:00 pm. Occupying the lower and upper lobbies of the hotel located in the heart of Santa Barbara’s Funk Zone Arts District.

Bay Area Specific (art calls & opportunities)
Ongoing Opportunities & Rolling Deadlines
• ARTogether’s Mini-Grants for Bay Area refugee and immigrant artists awards $500 to artists for work on a current or ongoing art project. Applications are received on an ongoing basis.

• Healdsburg Center for the Arts: Sponsored Emerging Artists (no fee to apply)
Applications are accepted year round.
The artist sponsorship is a free opportunity for emerging artists to not only exhibit and sell their work at HCA, but also to learn about the business of art at a nonprofit arts organization and develop their artist resumes.

* Vacant to Vibrant Program San Francisco (no fees)
Vacant to Vibrant is a program by SF New Deal and the City of San Francisco. They help small businesses collaborate with local property owners to create engaging pop-up experiences and community spaces in downtown San Francisco. handles everything from managing pop-up permitting to securing city funding so it’s easy for locals to participate in turning vacant storefronts into vibrant gathering places — and help re-energize the neighborhood.

May Deadlines
• LAND/scape Public Art Initiative
Deadline: 05/16/25
The selected artist/team will receive $5,500
Occidental Community Council invites proposals from artists and creative teams to lead the development and implementation of the LAND/scape public art initiative.  The goal of this project is to celebrate our community identity, strengthen community connections, and enliven the downtown corridor in Occidental. The project consists of a Participatory Mural composed of community-submitted photographs that are integrated into a cohesive design by the selected artist, Flag Installation on approximately 20 lampposts, and Community Activations with location businesses.

June Deadlines
• 2025 San Francisco Bay Area Artadia Awards
Deadline: 06/01/2025
Eligibility: Live and work within Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma Counties for at least two years.
Awards: Three artists to receive awards of $15,000 each
Artadia is now accepting applications for the 2025 San Francisco Bay Area Awards from all visual artists who have lived and worked in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma Counties for a minimum of two years. Individual artists and collaboratives working in all visual media and at any stage in their career are strongly encouraged to apply. Awardees will be selected through a two-tier jury in the spring of 2025.

• Greater Bay Area Open 2025: Breaking Through at the NUMU New Museum Los Gatos
Deadline: 06/13/2025
Entry Fee: $45, & $15 each additional (max 5 entries)
Eligibility: This competition is open to all artists, 18 years of age or older, including emerging artists*, who are residents
of the greater Bay Area, which includes the following counties: Sonoma, Napa, Solano, Marin, Contra
Costa, San Francisco, Alameda, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Monterey, San Benito.
Exhibition Dates: Fri, Aug 1, 2025 through Sat, Oct 4, 2025
The Greater Bay Area Open (GBAO) is a fine art only competition and exhibition presented by the Los Gatos
Art Association (LGAA), designed to promote fine art and artists from the greater Bay Area. Starting in
2015 and held biennially, the GBAO is now in its sixth showing and has moved to even numbered years.
This exhibit brings an exciting and dynamic association between the LGAA and NUMU, New Museum Los
Gatos, host to this collaboration.


July Deadlines
• Landscape Shapes Mindscape’s Tiny Art Gallery in Sonoma County (No Fees)
Deadline: 08/01/2025
Eligibility: Open to artists over 15 (Sonoma County residents will be prioritized)
Prompts: How does the landscape shape your mindscape?  What does home mean to you?
This summer, July 2025, a new face sculpture will become a temporary art gallery in Sonoma County. The gallery will showcase up to 100 pieces of tiny art for the opening event Saturday, July 19th and displayed for one month.