Calls for Artists
PLEASE NOTE: The opportunities listed below are submitted by external sources and are not affiliated with Arts Mid-Hudson unless explicitly stated otherwise. Please direct any questions or inquiries to the contact provided in the listing.
Have an opportunity we should know about? Email the information to opps@artsmidhudson.org
Click the opportunity for details.
+ ATTN FILMMAKERS: Submit Your Film to the 27th Annual Woodstock Film Festival
Various Deadlines
+ Call for Panelists - Arts Mid-Hudson
Arts Mid-Hudson assembles peer panels to review applications and recommend funding for our grant programs. We administer funding from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) in Dutchess, Orange, and Ulster Counties, with annual competitive grants awarded to artists, schools, community groups, and arts organizations. Arts Mid-Hudson also administers funding through Dutchess County Partners in the Arts, and Ulster County Cultural Services and Promotion Fund.
Arts Mid-Hudson selects a panel composed of individuals with backgrounds in the arts, education, business, as well as the community at large. The panel is charged with the task of formulating funding recommendations based on each program's priorities and goals, evaluation criteria, adherence to set guidelines, and ethical standards.
You can nominate yourself or someone else. We just ask for a short bio, resume, and references through our nomination form.
Important: Anyone applying to a specific program cannot serve as a panelist for that same program.
Click here for more information & to fill out the form.
+ Call for Artists: Upstate Art Weekend x Ellenville
Deadline to Apply: April 6, 2026
The Ellenville Artists Collective (EAC) is inviting regional artists to participate in two major 2026 opportunities designed to bring new energy, visitors, and visibility to the Village of Ellenville.
The first is Open Studios by Upstate, taking place May 16–17, with an application deadline of April 6. The second is the EAC Map x Upstate Art Weekend, which will highlight Village art and retail destinations alongside official UAW venues in a combined printed walking map during Upstate Art Weekend (UAW), June 25–29.
EAC welcomes participation from artists, galleries, businesses, community organizations, property owners, and sponsors interested in being part of Ellenville’s growing creative presence.
For more information and to apply, visit the Ellenville Artists Collective page at COFFE.
Contact: Kelly M O’Brien | m: 301.906.6425 Co-Chair, Ellenville Artists Collective ellenvilleartists@gmail.com
+ Fiber Forward: An Open Call to Women and Non-Binary Artists for Fiber Art
Deadline to Apply: Wednesday, April 8, 2026
The Gallery at Yellow Studio invites women and non-binary artists to submit fiber-based work that challenges conventional perceptions of the medium. We seek innovative approaches that expand fiber art's possibilities—work that complicates boundaries between decoration and concept, tradition and innovation, or material and meaning.
Submission Deadline: Wednesday, April 8, 2026 Exhibition Dates: May 30 – June 28, 2026 Location: The Gallery at Yellow Studio, Cross River, NY
Submission Fee: $35 for non-members ($25 for students, free for Yellow Studio members). Fee waivers available.
Medium: Work must be primarily fiber-based (thread, yarn, fabric, rope, etc.). Mixed media accepted if fiber is the dominant element.
Size Requirements: Maximum 84″H x 60″W, minimum 4″ x 4″
Commission: 40% on sales during exhibition and 30 days following
To Submit: Applications open March 11 via Artwork Archive. Submit 1-3 images with artist statement and bio.
For complete information and submission guidelines, visit: yellowstudiony.com/event/submissions-fiber-forward-an-open-call-to-women-artists-for-fiber-art
+ Call for Art - 2026 Art in the Loft at Millbrook Vineyards & Winery
Deadline: Friday, April 10, 2026
Arts Mid-Hudson (AMH), in partnership with Millbrook Vineyards & Winery, will once again curate an art exhibit in the loft space above the Winery’s main building. This project, known as Art in the Loft, is a good opportunity for members of Arts Mid-Hudson to display and sell their work. Artworks selected for the Art in the Loft exhibit will be entered into the popular Wine Label Competition.
+ Open Call: Hold at the Co-Op and Beehive at Yellow Studio
Deadline to Apply: April 12, 2026
Yellow Studio invites women and non-binary artists to submit three-dimensional work for Hold, a retail exhibition of vessels and objects in The Co-Op and Beehive at Yellow Studio. We are looking for work that physically contains, encloses, or surrounds. Bowls, vases, mugs, urns, and beyond. Forms built to receive something, or to keep it in.
Work in any material is welcome: ceramics, glass, metal, wood, resin, found objects, and combinations. Submitted vessels and objects must be empty.
For full information and submission guidelines, visit: https://yellowstudiony.com/event/submissions-hold-an-exhibition-of-vessels-and-objects-in-the-co-op-at-yellow-studio/
+ Call for Nominations - 2026 County Executive's Arts Awards
Deadline to Apply: Monday, April 20, 2026
Join us for the 40th Annual Dutchess County and 14th Annual Ulster County Executive's Arts Awards, a celebration of the individuals, organizations, and businesses whose outstanding contributions enrich the artistic landscape and cultural vitality of both counties. In collaboration with Dutchess County Executive Sue Serino and Ulster County Executive Jen Metzger, these awards recognize those who have made a lasting impact on our creative community.
We invite you to submit nominations for deserving individuals, organizations, or businesses residing in Dutchess or Ulster, making a difference in the arts. Let’s recognize and celebrate the talent and creativity that enrich the Dutchess and Ulster Counties!
AWARDS CEREMONIES – The Ulster County Executive's Arts Awards will be held in July and the Dutchess County Executive's Arts Awards will be held in October.
+ Call for Art - Fairy Tales – 2026 Juried Summer Group Show
Deadline to Apply: Monday, May 11, 2026
The Olive Free Library Association will be presenting its 9th annual summer group show, Fairy Tales, this year juried by Jaime Ransome, a Hudson Valley-based curator, consultant, and educator specializing in immersive, community-driven exhibitions. The exhibition will open on Saturday, July 11, 3 – 5 pm and will run through September 5, 2026. All Hudson Valley artists are invited and all genres of art are considered.
https://www.olivefreelibrary.org/call-for-art
+ 2026 FAR & WIDE: Cityscapes Unseen (Juried) - Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, (WAAM)
Deadline to Apply: April 24, 2026
Far & Wide: Cityscapes Unseen is a juried exhibition highlighting the unique, overlooked, or reimagined elements of urban environments. From real to surreal, literal to abstract— interpretation is wide open, as long as the city is central to the story. Submissions are welcome in any medium—painting, photography, sculpture, video and mixed media.
Questions may be addressed to: suzy@woodstockart.org Exhibition Policy: For full details, refer to our WAAM Exhibition Policy located under the open
calls page of our website: https://www.woodstockart.org/wp- content/uploads/2024/06/WAAM-Exhibition-Policy-2024-.pdf
Link to Submittable application:
https://woodstockartistsassociationmuseum.submittable.com/submit/349687/2026-far-wide- cityscapes-unseen-juried
+ Call for Artists - Banned Books Trading Card Project
Deadline to Apply: May 31, 2026
The Valley Cottage Library is celebrating Banned Books Week by creating a deck of trading cards featuring the juried artwork of local artists. Artists are asked to depict their reimagining of a banned or challenged book cover. All artists accepted to participate will receive a trading card deck containing the art from all participants after our Art Reception event on Saturday, September 12, 2026 at 1PM.
Fill out and submit the application below by the May 31st deadline.
Chosen artists will have a deadline of July 15th up to 8:00pm to drop off their original artwork.
To apply, and for more information, visit https://www.valleycottagelibrary.org/banned-books-week
+ Call for Art - BITS AND PIECES
Deadline to Apply: June 1, 2026
In connection with the symposium “Making Meaning”, planned for July 22-24, 2026 at Vassar College, Gallery 40 is seeking submissions of collage work from young and/or emerging artists. Collage is an art form in which individual elements — pieces of paper, fabric, photographs, found paper and the like — are assembled into new, autonomous artworks. Assemblage and sculpture with collage elements are also welcome. Both collage and assemblage fundamentally depend on bringing together two or more existing elements in a way that makes us consider these elements both in new ways as individual items and taken together as a new whole.
All the symposium attendees will be invited to visit local galleries exhibiting different forms of collage. The symposium will explore new perspectives on collage’s history and current approaches to cutting, publishing, and making through presentations, panels, workshops, publications and exhibitions. The symposium is organized by Andrea Burgay and Monica Church.
Location: Hallway Art Space, 40 Cannon Street, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
Show Dates: July 1 through July 31, 2026 Submission Deadline: June 1, 2026 11:00pm EST Entries received after this date will not be accepted. Artwork should be submitted digitally via Google form with all required and pertinent information included. Acceptance Notification: Saturday June 6 via email
Details and application: https://www.gallery40pok.com/artist-opportunity
+ M&T Bank Clothesline Art Festival Artist Applications
Deadline to Apply: August 16, 2026
The M&T Bank Clothesline Art Festival Call for Artists is now available, and we hope to have it posted on your site. The dates for the festival this year are August 29 & 30, 2026, 10:00 am–5:00 pm. All details can be found at https://mag.rochester.edu/clothesline/, including artist applications for 2026. The M&T Bank Clothesline Art Festival has been MAG’s largest annual fundraiser and biggest celebration of the arts for almost 70 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.
Deadline to Apply: August 16, 2026
+ Call for Artists - The Voice of Art's Fine Art Festival 2026
Deadline to Apply: Rolling
https://www.thevoiceofart.org/call-for-fine-art-festival
+ The Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center - 2027 Exhibits
Deadline to Apply: December 12, 2026
The Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center has begun accepting artists to exhibit with us in 2027. We have three beautiful galleries to fill, and this is a wonderful opportunity for artists to show their work in either solo or group exhibitions. The Artists in our galleries are promoted via our press releases, our website, our newsletters, and through our printed brochures. Please be aware that we are able to exhibit wall-hung art only. Interested artists should contact Carol Padron at CHACexhibits@gmail.com. Please include some introductory information about yourself as well as some images of your work. The Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center is a non-profit organization located at 9 & 12 Vassar Street, Poughkeepsie, NY. Visit us on the web at cunneen-hackett.org.