Calls For Art 5/4/25

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Brittany Taylor
May 04, 2025

This week's issue of SoCal Art Opportunities is sponsored by Willow Pond SLO, a 14-acre creative retreat on the Central Coast of California. Willow Pond offers workshops across multiple disciplines, from Fiber Arts to Plein Air painting, Figurative Drawing to Abstraction, Professional Arts Development courses, and more.

Make sure to check out the upcoming Japanese Paper-making & Bookbinding Intensive with Anne Covell. This workshop is designed to give students the unique opportunity to learn four distinct Japanese crafts: Nagashizuki hand paper-making, natural dyeing and cover decoration, hand bookbinding, and portfolio box-making. 

For more info and to register, click HERE.

Here’s the latest SoCal Art Open Calls

  • Summary: “We invite local LGBT+ artists to submit their work for our Pride Month art show! This event is a celebration of the creativity, talent, and contributions of queer artists in our community. We welcome all mediums and can be any theme as long as it’s family friendly.”

  • Deadline: 5/30/25

  • Location: Carter Sexton Artists Materials, North Hollywood

  • Exhibition Dates: 6/7/25 - TBA

  • Mediums: All

  • Entry Fee: $15

  • Summary: “Participate in Oceanside's Plein Air Festival in a bigger way and get exclusive opportunities as a Select Artist. 10 artists will be selected based on the merits of their portfolio. Work they create during the Festival will be included in an exhibition at the museum through November, and they will be eligible for the Best In Show prize.”

  • Deadline: 6/2/25

  • Location: Oceanside Museum of Art

  • Exhibition Dates: 9/13/25 - 11/30/25

  • Mediums: Plein air artwork

  • Entry Fee: $65

  • Summary: “TAG and The Joey Feldman Gallery are proud to present Made in the USA: Comics to Counterculture. This is an artists’ call for a juried art exhibition celebrating the artists 18 years and older who bring imagination to life through sci-fi, fantasy, surreal illustration, dark art, manga, comic book art, and beyond. Juried by Joey Feldman, this exhibition bridges the gap between the traditional fine art world and the vibrant, expressive realm of illustrative and genre-based art.”

  • Deadline: 6/13/25

  • Location: The Artists Gallery (TAG), Los Angeles

  • Exhibition Dates: 7/16/25 - 8/1/25

  • Mediums: Paintings, drawings, photography, printmaking, mixed media, 3D and sculpture, and digital art

  • Entry Fee: $40

  • Summary: “Held in partnership with LA Artcore and Textile Arts LA, this small-group exhibition will feature bodies of work by selected artists in a gallery exhibition at LA Artcore, Los Angeles, California. Selected works will build on the theme of Crafting Tomorrow and be juried by Fafnir Adamites. This opportunity is open to all artists working in fiber and textile-based materials and techniques. Crafting Tomorrow invites submissions from artists whose work explores what our lives, communities, and environment could look like in many possible futures.”

  • Deadline: 6/16/25

  • Location: LA Artcore, Los Angeles

  • Exhibition Dates: 10/10/25 - 11/2/25

  • Mediums: Fiber art

  • Entry Fee: $30 SDA & Textile Arts LA members, $45 non-members

  • Summary: “Artists may enter up to three different works for juror consideration for this exhibition, which will open July 26. Our juror this year is art historian and curator Malcolm Warner.”

  • Deadline: 6/20/25

  • Location: Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, San Diego

  • Exhibition Dates: 7/26/25 - 10/18/25

  • Mediums: 2-D and 3-D media (no functional or craft art), or video

  • Entry Fee: $15 for Athenaeum members; $20 for nonmembers

To view previously listed calls that are still open head to socal-art.com

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Upcoming SoCal Art Events

Allied Artists of the Santa Monica Mountains and Seashore 12th Annual Art Show and Sale
5/4/25 | 10:00AM - 4:00PM | King Gillette Ranch Visitor Center

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