You’re an emerging artist with something to say — and you want to get noticed? That’s what drives us at ArtConnect. We make it our mission to showcase exceptional contemporary art by up-and-coming artists so that you can take your work to the next level. Because we believe fresh artistic voices like yours deserve a chance to be heard.

Artists to Watch - Winter '22

see-zeen team

see-zeen is now accepting submissions for issue #7.
The theme is open.
see-zeen is open to any kind of photographic expression.
Submit a series of 5-12 images.
Deadline: December 18, 2022
Anyone from anywhere can submit.

Open Call for Photographers

Entrants should submit a collection of poems. Manuscripts must be previously unpublished. Some or all of the poems in the collection may have appeared in periodicals, chapbooks, or anthologies, but these must be identified.  Prizes : The winner receives a cash prize of US$2,000 and book publication.

The Tampa Review Prize for Poetry

Green River College fosters an in-depth preparation for the study and creation of art. At Green River you will undertake a program of study which helps each individual student find a balance between aesthetics and technique in your creative process and expression. Through the development of strong problem solving skills, you will learn to discuss the theoretical and practical meaning of your work. At Green River you can develop your ideas, build strong techniques, and create a competitive portfolio.

The AA degree is built into the AFA degree. Students who graduate with an AFA can receive BOTH an AA and AFA degrees simultaneously. You only need to apply for both degrees at the time of graduation. The AA degree provides for a direct transfer.  The AFA gives students a focused practice in art in a two-year degree. The AFA degree helps students develop a strong competitive portfolio necessary for application to art schools and universities. The AFA indicates to employers a specific focus or field of study in art at the AA level.  Students have the option to specialize in a particular art media within the AFA/AA degree--Ceramics, Design, Photography, and Studio. These Concentrations give students the opportunity to focus on a particular media and develop a portfolio specific to it.  

apply for our AA & AFA degree

Helen S. Smith Gallery on the Green River College Campus is currently requesting exhibition proposals for our 2023-2024 exhibition cycle. Artists will be selected by invitation and from submissions. Emerging and established Northwest artists are encouraged to apply. Deadline to apply is January 16, 2023.

What we are looking for: As a gallery on an academic campus, we are interested in hosting solo and group curated exhibitions that contribute to or engage social, cultural or conceptual dialogue in line with the college mission, vision and values. Helen S. Smith Gallery accepts only work by artists local to the Northwest. The Visual Arts Program at the college features painting, drawing, ceramics, photography and design. Though we favor exhibitions which highlight media being taught on campus, we are open to proposals that employ wider experimentation which thematically connects with the college mission.

Project Description: In a cover letter, please introduce yourself and your artistic background. Please include a brief artist’s statement. Address content as well as media. Further, please also indicate if the work samples submitted are new work being created for the exhibition or if they are past work examples of your direction. Name your cover letter Last Name, Cover Letter.pdf.  Work Samples: Please submit up to 10 high quality JPGs (no larger than 2MB). Label files as 01, Last Name, title.jpg, 02, Last Name, title.jpg, etc.  Image List: Upload one Image List as a pdf. (Please label the file: Last Name, Image List.pdf.) Include artist name, title, media, size and year for each image. List the images in order according to the corresponding image file numbers as outlined in the file naming process above.  CV: Please include a CV/resume as a pdf labeled Last Name, CV.pdf. 

Call for Artists

Explore and Create  The Visual Arts Program at CBC offers countless opportunities to explore not only the history and appreciation of the arts, but also your own potential to create something meaningful. You can capture the perfect moment through a camera, or bring it to life through painting or sculpture. Learn the in-depth technical expertise you need to develop as a professional artist, and take advantage of on-campus clubs, venues and events to showcase your creations to the world.  

As a community college, we offer an affordable alternative towards art education.  

CBC Visual Arts Program Applications Open

The Esvelt Gallery is a non-profit exhibition space located in Pasco, WA on the Columbia Basin College Campus. 

Each academic year we feature 5 emerging or established artists exhibiting high artistic quality and practice, that corresponds with our guiding principles: 
 Act as an instructional tool to support educational growth through awareness, appreciation and interpretation of art. 
Promote academic excellence through exhibitions dedicated to professional development, multidimensional thinking, diversity, cultural awareness, and the college’s educational curriculum. 
Support interdisciplinary instruction by creating opportunities to introduce a diverse range of contemporary artists to the Columbia Basin College community and the Inland Northwest region through art receptions, workshops, and artist lectures. 
 Enhance the CBC campus through the presentation, collection and preservation of contemporary art through art acquisition and displays. Create an environment in which art is part of everyday life. 

 Exhibition applications should include the following as file uploads to the google form: Contact Info: Artist Name, Address, Phone, Email Resume or CV Exhibition Proposal: Outlining the focus and scope of the exhibition you plan to show in the gallery. Portfolio: 10-15 high quality digital images of your work that reflects your exhibition proposal and corresponding image information (title, media, dimensions, date). Calls for Artists are on-going with, first considerations for the upcoming academic year considered for those who submit by December 31.

Roger Leege

Unique solo-format print and online journal features one artist's portfolio, commentaries, and in-depth interview in print and online monthly.

Open call for Photography

The South Asian Women’s Creative Collective (SAWCC) is pleased to announce a call for submissions for our upcoming visual arts exhibition, Social Memory: Sites of Remembrance, curated by Shilpi Chandra and presented at Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Blackburn 20|20 Gallery from March 16 – April 9th, 2023 with an opening reception on Thursday, March 16. 

Curatorial Proposition
How does a group share, convey and sustain memories? What are the amorphous ideas and emotions that bind it together and pull it apart? SAWCC has had a long and vibrant history as an arts collective, while continuing to evolve and grow in new directions. SAWCC’s upcoming visual arts exhibition seeks to investigate the idea of social memory and explore the connection between social identity, collective knowledge, and historical memory.

Our experience of the present is inexorably informed by the past; meanwhile, social memory emphasizes the contexts in which individuals shape their personal and group identities. While collective memories can often be a place of contestation, artists are uniquely positioned to resurrect and reformulate meaning, opening up new modes of collectivity and opportunities for sharing and passing on knowledge. 

Artists are encouraged to think about the role of memory, identity, and belonging in their submissions.

The South Asian Women's Creative Collective (SAWCC) is a nonprofit arts organization dedicated to the advancement, visibility, and development of emerging and established South Asian and Indo-Caribbean womxn artists and creative professionals by providing a physical and virtual space to profile their creative and intellectual work across disciplines. 

SAWCC Visual Arts Exhibition 2023

In 2023, the Wave Farm Residency Program will emphasize “feral frequencies,” prioritizing proposals that employ and/or activate less commonly used frequencies within the radio spectrum and the electromagnetic spectrum at large. Applicants are invited to propose visual and sonic projects that fall within the Transmission Arts genre. Projects that prioritize frequencies other than FM and AM allocations will be most competitive. New in 2023, a team of consulting artist engineers will participate in the application review process both for evaluation of feasibility, as well as to identify areas where tool development will assist the proposed projects and inform a growing inventory of resources for future transmission artists.

A sub-genre of the media arts, transmission art is defined as works where the electromagnetic spectrum is an intentional actor (either formally or conceptually) in the work. The electromagnetic spectrum is vast including seven primary types of waves: Radio Waves, Microwaves, Infrared Waves, Visible Light Rays, Ultraviolet Waves, X-rays, and Gamma Rays. Naturally occurring radio waves are emitted by lightning and astronomical objects. Radio-related projects, either conventional radio art works (audio made explicitly for radio broadcast) or do-it-yourself radio-based installation and performance where artists might build their own transmission and receiving devices are common manifestations of transmission art in action. Another common trajectory of the genre is making the ethereal tangible, for example works that demonstrate a physical delineation of space through sonic or visual representation: the architecture of transmission and reception.

Transmission art encompasses works in which the act of transmitting or receiving is not only significant, but the fulcrum for the artist’s intention. The genre involves a multiplicity of practices that often engage aural and visual broadcast media, where in some instances works for traditional broadcast are created, and at other times artists harness preexisting broadcast signals as source material manipulated in live performance; installation; and public interactive networks and tools. Similarly interested in the synaesthetic possibilities of radio, much of contemporary transmission art values interplay with waves, informed by historical and emergent wireless technologies. These works often challenge a conventional one-to-many definition of transmitter (or artist) and receiver (or audience) in ways that celebrate Brechtian aspirations for more multi-nodal wireless interactions.

The Residency Program hosts one artist-in-residence at a time, which on occasion is two individuals working as a collaborative duo. Artists are housed in the Wave Farm Study Center. Accommodations in the Study Center include two bedrooms (one full-sized bed each), studio workspace, kitchenette, lavatory, shower, as well as the Study Center library, WGXC 90.7-FM Acra broadcast studio, and Wave Farm offices. WiFi, electrical, and audio hook-ups are available throughout the bulk of the Wave Farm 29-acre property. Please note: day visitors are welcome. Overnight guests (including family members) and pets are not permitted.

an additional $1,500 will be awarded to a single resident

Wave Farm Residency Program

2023 MAXmachina lab program. We are looking for projects that expand live performance by using science and technology to explore the promise and the peril of our rapidly changing world. 

In addition to pairing projects with advisors and collaborators when needed, MAX provides residents with development strategies and active production support. MAXmachina projects are chosen for their artistic potential, ability to instill wonder, qualities of aural and visual fascination, diversity of perspective, and emotional and philosophic potency.

Works developed in MAXmachina will be presented at our next MAXlive festival.
Building on MAXlive 2021: The Neuroverse, our 2023 programming will continue to traverse the boundaries between intelligences: natural and artificial, human and more than human. We are excited to bring creators and audiences together again to examine our role in an increasingly unstable planet. 

APPLY BY January 15, 2023 11:59PM EST | Grantees announced April 2023