CALLS FOR WORK
We regularly hear from individual artists and non-profit organizations inquiring about calls for work and other artistic opportunities. This is a collection of those opportunities and their deadlines. NOTE: If you have specific questions regarding calls for work outside of Arts Services Inc., please directly contact the organization requesting the artistic work. If you have an art submission deadline, please submit your information to info@asiwny.org and we would be glad to add it to our listing.
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Hosted by the Friends of Chautauqua Visual Arts, Art in the Park is an open art fair with 75+ vendors held twice each summer season in Miller Park. Art in the Park showcases art by members of the Chautauqua community, artists-in-residence from the School of Art, and artisans from the region around Chautauqua Institution. Items for sale include ceramics, paintings, prints, Chautauqua-themed trinkets, pieces made of upcycled materials, homemade soaps, hand-dyed silk clothing, organic cosmetics, embellished handbags, pet treats, and fine jewelry. Art in the Park also offers entertainment featuring local talent. Art in the Park markets are always planned for Sundays when admission to Chautauqua Institution is free. This allows Art in the Park to be accessible for members of the surrounding community and Institution residents alike. Proceeds from the entrance fee paid by artists are used for exhibitions at the Strohl and Fowler-Kellogg Art Centers as well as to fund scholarships for Artists in Residence at the Chautauqua School of Art.
Events will be held on July 7th & August 4th – proposal accepted on a first come, first served basis.
Buffalo Arts Studio is accepting applications for the 2024/2025 exhibition cycle that reflect on the concept of “necropolitics,” as originally defined by Achille Mbembe. This theory describes how political powers relegate select oppressed populations to death by subjecting them to inhospitable living conditions. Also informing this series of exhibitions is Michael Truscello’s Infrastructural Brutalism: Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure, which focuses on governmental violence such as the destruction of towns and villages for the “progress” of building a dam or the constant polluting of a community to support industry.
In support of Buffalo Arts Studio’s curatorial goal of economic and representational justice, we are providing a $1,000 honorarium to solo exhibiting artists for the 2024/25 exhibition calendar with $500-$1,500 in material and installation support is available as well. Additionally, shipping and travel costs, including food and lodging per diem, may be included in project proposals made by artists living and working outside of the WNY region.
Deadline: Proposals are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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Buffalo Art Wall is an online collection of contemporary artists from Western New York. They are currently accepting submissions to be included on their website.
Deadline: Submissions are accepted on an ongoing basis
The Buffalo Bills Art Program seeks to commission a professional visual artist, or artist team, to create exterior public artwork(s) to be placed at the New Highmark Stadium grounds. Selected artist or artist team’s scope will include, but not limited to, imagining, proposing, designing, engineering, fabricating, delivery, and installation of a herd of large-scale American Bison (buffalo). Project meetings and working closely with stakeholders required. This artwork will be thematic, public-facing, and part of the permanent collection at the Stadium. Budget: $5,000,000
Deadline: April 29, 2024
Find your audience at Western New York’s premiere cinematic event – the 18th Annual Buffalo International Film Festival!
Every fall BIFF screens over 100 features and short films from around the world, combining festival favorites with unique discoveries from local, regional, domestic and international makers. Now in its 18th year, the festival features films, episodic content, performances, panels, art installations, and special programs including Racial Justice in View! With a commitment to inclusion and amplifying diverse voices in narrative, documentary and experimental film; BIFF encourages works that push the boundaries of genre and form.
BIFF is proudly curated from our open call, with approximately 75% of our line-up programmed from submissions each year.
Over the past 10 years BIFF has had the honor of hosting the Western New York premieres of Catch the Fair One, The Lost King, A Rising Fury, Marshall, The True Adventures of Wolf Boy, Crown Vic, St. Louis Superman, Thunder Road, Tower, Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present, Endless Poetry, A Woman’s Work: The NLF’s Cheerleader’s Problem, Recorder: The Marion Stokes Story, The Last Out and many more. Please visit our website buffalofilm.org to explore an archive of our recent programming.
- Regular Deadline – May 10, 2024
- Late Deadline – June 7, 2024
- Extended Deadline – July 12, 2024
- Notification Date – August 21, 2024
Calling all young film and video makers! Share your voice and vision this October 10-14 at the Buffalo Int’l Film Festival! BIFF and Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center are partnering to showcase film, video, and single channel media artworks made by students from across the nation. All video and filmmakers under 18 are invited to submit any moving image work between 10 seconds and 10 minutes long that they created.
There is no submission fee.
Deadline: July 15, 2024
Buffalo Latino Village is looking to establish a Latino art gallery and is in search of images to exhibit. Images contributed or donated will be:
- Displayed on their online website with headshot and bio
- Listed with places where the work is currently exhibited
- Linked to where people can purchase your work
- Published (one time per year)
Buffalo Theatre Workshop is accepting original scripts of all lengths on an ongoing basis. These should be works in progress that are intended for production. For more information, email buffalotheatreworkshop@gmail.com.
August 17-18, 10am-4pm
The Carnegie Art Spree! Festival is an event organized by the Board of the Carnegie Art Center and will take place on both sides of the Tonawandas: Webster Street, the Renaissance Bridge, and Canal Street. These streets will be closed but free parking is available in the Manhattan Street Parking Lot, behind Canal Street, or there is ample street parking within the surrounding areas. Food trucks will be on-site and there are also a variety of cafés and restaurant options within the surrounding downtown district. The Gateway Harbor stage will feature light, live music to enjoy and is located near picnic tables and seating. Public restrooms are available in the Harbor Master building on Sweeney Street or at the HUB facility behind Canal Street. Admission to the event is free for visitors.
Deadline: July 15, 2024
Cereal City Sticker Co. seeks artists to feature in local artist sticker vending machines. Artist Emma Brittain-Hardy has received funding from Awesome Buffalo to start a local artist sticker vending machine.
Looking to feature 3 artists per . Selected artists will be paid $200 for 3 sticker designs – designs submitted will be printed in a limited run (300 per design) followed by the next series of 3 artists.
Email EmmaBrittainArt@Gmail.com with questions
Deadline: Rolling – artists will be notified upon acceptance
The goal of this public artwork is to create a photo-worthy destination point representative of the Jefferson Avenue section of Buffalo.
The City of Buffalo is seeking qualifications from artists that can produce artwork that:
- Is culturally appropriate.
- Represents the pride and heritage of the neighborhoods along Jefferson Avenue.
Artists should be advised that art representing or associated with the May 14 tragedy is being coordinated under a separate process by the Governor and Mayor’s 5/14 commission.
The City of Buffalo will supply a stipend to the two or three artists whose qualifications match the project to complete an art installation proposal as a submission for selection.
Timeline:
- Submit Questions: May 17, 2024
- Submission of Qualifications: May 24, 2024
- Request for Proposals (to 2 or 3 selected Artists): July 2024
- Proposals Due from Selected Artists: August 2024
- Artists Selected: September 2024
The COMMA is seeking works for its upcoming show, CONVERGE, CONTRAST, ILLUDE, that suggest/contemplate visual intersections, perspectives, vanishing point, and form arising from the intersection of negative and positive space.
Other foci include concepts of counterpoints, crossroads, illusions, differing or converging points of view and linear interplay. We invite works that go beyond the literal interpretation of the theme.
- On view: May 31, 2024 – June 21, 2024
- Submissions Open: April 14 – May 12
- Art drop off: May 26
- Art pick up: Close of Show June 21+22
Deadline: May 12, 2024
The Gallery @ 700 Main Street in East Aurora Curator is looking for artists to exhibit in 2024. Paulette Krakowski will be happy to view your high resolution JPEG’s by emailing them to 675paul@gmail.com for consideration. She will answer any questions you may have about your 7 week exhibit, whether a solo exhibit, an exhibit of two or three artists, or a group exhibit such as the East Aurora Art Society.
The Jamestown Arts Center’s Exterior Initiatives committee seeks proposals for exhibition on their sculpture pad. The pad enhances the JAC’s ability to host 3-dimensional artwork, and places art outside where it is freely accessible and visible to all. Artworks that are suitable for all audiences in this family-friendly space are encouraged.
Applications will be reviewed and selected by the Exterior Initiatives committee. Rhode Island residents, emerging artists, BIPOC, women, LGBTQIA+ community members and people with differing physical abilities are highly encouraged to apply.
Honorarium for loan of artwork: $500
Rolling deadline
Built in 2020 in response to bringing art outdoors in the pandemic, our new outdoor mural wall is 10’ x 10’ square. We are seeking proposals featuring artwork that is bold, colorful, engaging, and/or experimental and suitable for all audiences in this family-friendly space. Ideally, artwork proposals will relate to one of the gallery exhibitions during the season.
Applications will be reviewed and selected by the Exterior Initiatives committee. Emerging artists, BIPOC, women, gender-nonconforming persons, LGBTQIA+ community members and people with differing physical abilities are highly encouraged to apply. Artists living across Rhode Island are highly encouraged to apply.
Stipend for creation of work: $500
Rolling deadline
SlowArt Productions presents the group exhibition, Digital Art, Assemblage and Hand Cut Paper Collage II. This exhibition will focus on the various forms of digital art and the relationship between digital and traditional paper collage. 3D assemblage will be represented as sculptural collage. The exhibition will be held at the Limner Gallery from June 20 – July 13, 2024. All digital art forms, hand cut paper collage and assemblages will be reviewed and considered.
Deadline: April 30, 2024
The M&T Bank Clothesline Art Festival has been Memorial Art Gallery’s largest annual fundraiser and biggest celebration of the arts for more than 60 years. Over 300 artists from across the country offer their work for purchase at this juried, two-day festival that takes place on the beautiful grounds of the Memorial Art Gallery. Clothesline is also the place to experience all-day live entertainment, sample food from some of Rochester’s favorite food trucks and vendors, enjoy free family art activities, and visit the museum.
Event Information: September 7 & 8, 2024 | 10 am-5 pm (Special MAG Member shopping begins at 9:30 on both days)
Deadline: April 30, 2024
Music is Art is dedicated to creating opportunities that fuel the unifying power of music in our region.
Music is Art is a not-for-profit, federal 501c3 organization founded in 2003 by Goo Goo Dolls bassist and Buffalo resident, Robby Takac. Music is Art operates through a board of directors, staff, sponsors, and volunteers, as well as collaborations with several partner organizations.
Music is Art is proud to enrich our community with access to music. It is our hope that we encourage people to find their musical voice, think about how music touches their lives, and most importantly think about the fact that… music is art.
Deadline: June 3, 2024
NewFest seeks narrative, documentary, experimental, and animated films (both features and shorts) inclusive of–and of interest to–the LGBTQ+ community. Festival submission fees for Black filmmakers with LGBTQ+ stories centering Black characters and perspectives will be waived.
Deadline: May 15, 2024
The Niagara Arts and Cultural Center (NACC) seeks compelling artists, projects, exhibits, and performances across a range of disciplines and styles for its 2024 calendar year and beyond. As an incubator/maker space in Niagara County, we aim to support arts and cultural projects for any and all types of audiences. Ideas that creatively utilize our home in the old Niagara Falls High School – big, small, traditional, obscure, media, theatre, music, and the practices that defy disciplines – are encouraged and appreciated.
We seek dynamic ideas for all of our venues:
- Townsend Gallery: One of the largest, uninterrupted gallery spaces in Western New York. Open3,200 square foot (78 x 41 feet) gallery; brightly lit space that is handicap accessible.
- Woodbox Theatre: Stage space (in 72-seat proscenium setting): 25 ft wide x 26 ft deep; 8 rows of 9 seats. Total room dimensions: 25 feet wide by 57 feet deep.
- Grand Theatre: Proscenium theatre with 500 seats on the main floor and an additional 400+ in the balcony. 44 foot proscenium arch; 32 feet from the drip line to the back wall; 9 foot apron.
- The Gym: 3,840 feet of uninterrupted space (80 x 48 feet) with 26 foot ceilings.
- The Pool: 2,560 total square feet in the pool area (80 x 32 feet) with 14 foot ceilings (additional 200 seat bleacher seating area). 60 foot long pool; depth of pool: 4 feet to 7 feet.
- Hallways throughout: The NACC features wide, 10-14 foot hallways and 12 foot ceilings.
Deadline: Rolling throughout 2024, click below for details.
The Niagara County committee charged with organizing local events around America’s 250th birthday that will take place in 2026, is asking municipal officials, heritage organizations and county residents to begin thinking about what their local community may do to recognize the occasion. The Niagara USA 250 Committee is also asking communities to keep the committee informed as their plans evolve so there can be countywide coordination and cross-promotion.
The Niagara County Legislature created the Niagara USA 250 Committee in June 2023. The twenty-five member group is made up of representatives from historical and cultural organizations, community leaders, tourism officials, educators, elected officials and community volunteers.
The 16th Annual North American Science Fiction Convention will be held in Buffalo, NY at the Hyatt Regency Buffalo, July 18th-24. Convention opportunities includes; Dealers’ Room, Artist Alley, Art Show, and Fan Tables available to display artwork of all mediums, artisan works, nonprofit memberships, and filk music. Inquiries can be sent to: exhibits@buffalonasfic2024.org.
Deadlines:
- For Vendors: May 1, 2024
- For Artists & Fan Tables: June 15, 2024
This one-day event transforms Oliver Street into a bustling hub where art enthusiasts, collectors, artists, musicians, and community members converge to revel in creativity. This year’s event is scheduled for August 3, 2024.
The Oliver Street Art Festival is proudly hosted by Project 308 Gallery, a commercial art gallery established in 2012, situated on Oliver Street. Our mission is to nurture emerging artists and spotlight the extensive creative talent of Western New York. As a founding member of the Oliver Street Merchants Association, we have deep community ties, collaborating with local businesses and nonprofits to ensure Oliver Street’s continued vibrancy.
Participation Fee: $50 per vendor
Deadline: First come, first served (event on August 3, 2024)
The 14th Annual PleinAir Salon is an online art competition with 12 monthly cycles, and is open to a variety of mediums and styles. It’s not just for plein air painters! We invite a variety of top master artists, museum directors and gallery owners to judge each month. All monthly winners are automatically included in the Annual Competition where the Grand Prize winner receives $15,000 and has their painting featured on the cover of PleinAir Magazine, the #1 representational art magazine at Barnes & Noble.
In addition to a total of $50,000 in ALL Cash Prizes, winners receive exposure and recognition through our various magazines, websites, newsletters and social media platforms.
Prize summary: $15,000 Grand prize, Over $33,000 cash prizes given away each year
Deadline: April 30, 2024
Our gallery is located on the lobby level of Seneca One in downtown Buffalo. It is curated by Greg Moyer, owner of local company, Leftern (@lefternco on IG) in collaboration with Sean Heidinger of Seneca One.
The idea with this space is to keep a rotating monthly residence of local artists to showcase and sell their work inside the gallery. We will be asking for $0 in commission fees for pieces sold on site. In fact, we will be granting artists a budget to work with for a reception event each month. We aim to make it a destination for people outside of the building to visit the work, as well as a stop-by for the 1k+ commercial and residential tenants and guests of Seneca One each week. It will be open to the public for viewing Monday-Saturday from 8am until 8PM. We’ll also be consistently spreading information on the artists & gallery via multiple social channels and newsletters that we use.
Once a month, we’ll be asking the featured artist to create an opening reception to kick off the residency that we help facilitate and execute smoothly. During this event, they will be allowed to take over the entire gallery, lobby, bar, speaker system, and theater space if wanted- creating a completely immersive experience- a step into their world, if you will; to expand the exhibit beyond just the art on the gallery walls.
Deadline: Rolling
Submission are open for the virtual RestFest film festival. At least one director, screenwriter, cinematographer, and/or producer of your film must identify as Disabled, d/Deaf, chronically ill, neurodivergent, mentally ill, and/or mad. No proof will be required.
Deadline: April 25, 2024
Buffalo Shorts is now accepting submissions of films up to 15 minutes in duration. All films will be accepted and notified upon verification of compliance to submission rules on a rolling basis. Films will be uploaded on a first-come-first-serve basis.
In short, films made by WNY creators need to be seen. There’s a lot of great work being done in our community. Whether you’re a professional, a student, or a hobbyist, we want to help get some eyes on your work.
Unless your film or video includes content of sexually explicit, hateful, discriminatory, overly political, illegal or explicit nature, or it is of exceptionally poor technical quality, it will screen.
Deadline: June 21, 2024
The Bridge Art Gallery of the University of Rochester Medical Center’s Office of Mental Health Promotion is currently holding an open call for art for its upcoming show, “Growth in Tough Times.” We invite artists to respond to our call for art exploring resilience and overcoming challenges. Exhibition runs late May 2024 – October 2024.
Deadline: May 3, 2024
Please note, this is a continuous opportunity, exhibition themes change annually.
Walmart Community Mural Program is a celebration of communities across America and an important part of a new or newly transformed facility. Inspired by the community and together with every store manager, each mural reflects the local diversity and cultural references. Every mural is a unique, original artwork. Walmart works with NOW Art, a public art agency, to curate and engage artists across the country.
Pay is $800 for selected artists. Check them out at @community_mural_program.
Last updated: April 15, 2024