Listed below are Calls for Art within North Carolina. For national listings, subscribe to the public art network listserv. All opportunities below are paid and are open to Orange County residents. Location designates where the art will be presented or featured (during Covid-19, however, presentations may be online). Have a North Carolina arts call you’d like to add to our list? Send us an email.
| Deadline | Organization | Call Description | Location | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6 | Arts Everywhere and UNC Galapagos Center | Seeking design proposals for sculptures in honor of the 10th anniversary of the center’s creation | Chapel Hill | Link |
| May 15 | Present Day On Main | Seeking artists for outdoor mural and painting event | Carrboro | Link |
| May 15 | Center for Documentary Studies at Duke | Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize for fieldwork documentary | Durham | Link |
| May 26 | Orange County Arts Commission and Hillsborough Tourism Development Authority | RFQ: News of Orange Mural Project | Hillsborough | Link |
| May 31 | FRANK Gallery | Call for Provisional Members | Chapel Hill | Link |
| May 31 | Watercolor Society of North Carolina | Submit your painting to WSNC Online Annual Juried Exhibition | Raleigh | Link |
| June 6 | Yadkin Arts Council | Invites artists from all over North Carolina to submit 2D and 3D work for its tenth annual juried exhibition | Yadkinville | Link |
| June 14 | Arts and Health at Duke | Seeking artists for Winterfest 2021, an exhibit supporting and highlighting the talents of North Carolina artisans | Durham | Link |
| June 25 | North Carolina Botanical Garden | Seeking submissions of outdoor sculpture to be a part of 33rd annual sculpture in the garden show | Chapel Hill | Link |
| June 30 | Asheville Writers Workshop | Submit a humorous story (fiction or non-fiction) of 5,000 words or less. Use of witty, dry humor is encouraged. | Asheville | Link |
| July 12 | Artsplosure | Apply to share art at Artsplosure’s Spring Arts Festival (rescheduled for October 9 & 10) | Raleigh | Link |
| August 2 | North Carolina Botanical Garden | Seeking exhibit proposals of 2D botanical or nature-themed art for 2022 DeBerry Gallery for Botanical Art & Illustration exhibit season | Chapel Hill | Link |
| September 14 | UNC Wilmington’s Palaver Journal | Seeks creative and academic submissions that defy the confines of a single discipline | Wilmington | Link |
| Rolling / December 31 | 311 Gallery | Your Call – Solo Exhibition Opportunity | Raleigh | Link |
| Rolling / December 31 | Wilma W. Daniels Gallery | Seeking exhibition proposals for the 2022 exhibition year | Wilmington | Link |
| Rolling | Arts North Carolina | Silver Linings online column | Raleigh, Digital | Link |
| Rolling | The ArtsCenter | Course proposals and instructors | Carrboro | Link |
| Rolling | Duke University | Duke Campus Center Art Gallery seeks submissions | Durham | Link |
| Rolling | Caldwell Arts | Submissions open to Tucker Gallery (sculpture) | Lenoir | Link |