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.
+ 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 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 Hudson Valley Region Artists & RFQ
Deadline to Apply: April 24, 2026
Please remit your interest & inspiration to participate in this year’s MaArCo Apple Parade.
To apply, click this link for the submission form. https://www.maarco.org/apple-parade
The public art presentation will be installed mostly within Marlborough Township in the first week of July and will stay up until the middle of October. This year’s apples are 2D from the template form and can be as dimensional or kinetic as you design. For Painters, this project offers two related fields (front & back, roughly 2’ in diameter) to present your conceptual or signature designs upon. If you’d like to push the boundaries of 2D, we can help expand your ideas in the art fabrication process, (for example: adding a stained-glass interior surface, welding an interior metal form, adding an epoxy collage to the interior plain). Photographers are welcome to present their digital images on these 2D surfaces.
You will be asked to email sketches or digital images of your ideas along with your CV, Bio, or Artist Statement on the form or if you have trouble there, to maarcomail@gmail.com .
The entry deadline is April 24th at 11:59pm. You can submit a response earlier and we will respond to your ideas and qualifications or any questions. You may be notified of ability to participate prior to the deadline.
Any questions can be answered via email through maarcomail@gmail.com prior to the deadline date of April 24th.
If you have trouble with our website form, an additional link to the RFQ Application Form is located here on Google: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeVUwFyT6s1UvGTX2pQVbAusBuVzI7nP4YbN qu12WbdKgJAhQ/viewform?usp=header
+ Call for Makers: Celebrate Global Traditions at the Ulster Youth International Soccer Tournament and Market
Deadline to Apply: Friday, May 1, 2026
Click here for full information.
+ CALL FOR ARTISTS – SHERMAN ARTFEST 2026
Deadline to Apply: May 3, 2026
The Sherman Artists Association invites you to be part of one of the most exciting creative weekends in our region—Sherman ARTFEST 2026! Held in the heart of Sherman, this annual event transforms the Town Green and Charter Hall into a vibrant, high-energy showcase of art and community. In past years, over 30 artists have filled the space with paintings, photography, woodworking, pottery, jewelry, textiles, glass and more—creating an inspiring experience for both artists and attendees. Deadline for Submission is May 3, 2026. For more info: www.shermanartists.org.
+ Call for Artists ~ Milton Library Summer Art Exhibit~ Entries Due MAY 8
Rotating Art Exhibit at the Sarah Hull Hallock Free Library in Milton, NY Exhibit Theme “The Hudson River” Opening Reception Sunday, June 14, 2026, 2:00-4:00 pm
Submissions due by May 8, 2026 Acceptance notification week of May 18, 2026
To enter your work, please fill out this online form: https://forms.gle/xUR9K4tqZUuehfau6
For more information, contact Raven Fonfa, Library Director, ravenfonfa@miltonlib.org
+ Roost Arts Hudson Valley seeks artists for If Not in the World, Then in Each Other, part of Upstate Art Weekend 2026
Deadline to Apply: May 10, 2026
Roost Arts Hudson Valley seeks artists whose lives and work are shaped by displacement, exclusion, or precarity, who are speaking from lived experience in today’s America. The works gathered here reflect the ongoing search for refuge within systems that often deny safety, stability, and belonging.
Rather than presenting refuge as something guaranteed by institutions or borders, this exhibition understands it as relational. It is found in community, memory, care, and resistance. These works do not ask for permission to exist, nor do they translate experience for comfort or consumption.
We are committed to making this exhibition accessible to artists and audiences. If you have access needs, questions about the submission process, or would like to discuss a proposal before applying, please contact Chelsea Herzig at chelseahrzg@gmail.com or 315-663-8553.
Apply Here: https://forms.gle/1fmntfp9HXP2Xwmc6
+ 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
+ BAU Gallery invites you to apply to DRIFT 2026 annual Juried Open + Awards Exhibition
Deadline to Apply: June 20, 2026
For full info & to apply: https://www.jotform.com/build/260484642580157
+ Ulster County 6th Annual I Voted Sticker Contest
Deadline to Apply: June 30, 2026
For full info & to apply: https://elections.ulstercountyny.gov/
+ 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.