Wow! Since it’s a long weekend coming up, I thought it might be a great idea to pull together another Opportunity List.
I must confess, the last Opportunity List was so good, filled with so many opportunities, I could not pass some of them up for myself. Look for some news about my own shows coming up. (Yes, I sometimes use the list myself.)
In the meantime, here are some opportunities for YOU, for this, the long weekend in the US:
- The HIPA Awards are open for submissions. These are awards from Dubai and you can find entry information on their website.
- The Paula Riff Award was created by the Center of Photographic Art and Lenscratch in 2021 as a way to celebrate and continue the legacy of artist Paula Riff. Paula was an innovator, using lensless photography and historical processes to create objects of remarkable beauty. You can find entry information on the Center’s page here.
- Los Angeles Center of Photography has a call for entry for their upcoming “Summertime Vintage” exhibition. According to their website this theme is, “Inspired by LACP’s location between the Toy District, Little Tokyo and the Arts District in Los Angeles, this call invites submissions for photo-based works that explore vintage and lo-fi aesthetics and technologies from a multitude of perspectives, practices and approaches. You might be shooting with a beloved 1980s Holga, or giving your images a Lomo touch on your computer. Maybe you chronicle the streets of your town with a Polaroid, or you’re capturing playful portraits of people in your community. You might be working with a combination of alternative processes and digital printing, or completely virtual forms of display. We don’t know, but we would love to see them.” You can get your inner vintage on using the entry information here.
- A. Smith Gallery has a call for their upcoming exhibition showcasing “landscapes.” This is for photographers and light based artists and you can enter your work on their page.
- For those photographers out there who don’t fall into the group of LACP’s lo-fi camera enthusiasts, FStoppers has an open competition exploring the idea of “Modern Photos.” For this, they ask you to “justify your gear” and so they are actively looking to highlight recent images made possible with modern gear. You can find more information on their competition page here.
- PH21 Gallery has a call exploring the theme “Motion.” You can find more details along with entry information on their website.
- New Orleans Photo Alliance has a call for work exploring the theme “New Orleans de Nuit.” This is for all those fools (ahem, present company INCLUDED) I mean adventurous souls, who photograph New Orleans at night. For this one, the images must have been taken in New Orleans and must have been taken at night. You can find entry information on their website.
- Blue Koi Gallery has a call for their upcoming exhibit exploring the theme “Still Life: Beyond the Ordinary.” This is an all media show and you can find entry information here.
- The Urban Photo Awards are open for submissions.
- Praxis Gallery has a call for photography exploring the theme “The Found Object.” You can find more information and submit your work here.
- Black Box Gallery has a call for their upcoming show exploring the theme “Grayscale: A Picture Show.” This is for black and white photography and you can find entry information and details on their website here.
- Shots Magazine has a call for their upcoming Portrait issue. If you are a photographer and want submission details, check out their website.
- The Alaska Photographic Center has a call for their upcoming exhibition exploring the theme “Rarefied Light.” The juror for this is a photographer known for ICM photography. You can find more details on their website.
- The Denis Roussel Award are open to submissions. These are awards to honor the legacy of photographer and educator Denis Roussel and to highlight work done by photographers whose work is based on the historical/alternative photographic processes, including silver gelatin. No inkjet prints. For entry information, check out their page.
- The Black and White Photo Awards are open for submissions.
- The L.A. Photo Curator has a call for their upcoming exhibition exploring the theme, “It’s the End of the World as We Know it (and I Feel Fine.)” From their page, “We want to create a show that highlights the range of our go-to and inventive coping mechanisms for the current moment. Artists after all are also humans, and it must be all but impossible to silo what happens in the world from what happens in the studio.
Do you garden, cook, or meditate, protest and organize, doom-scroll or re-read classic books, obsess over true crime podcasts and gallows humor, take up witchcraft or cycling, sink into nostalgia or self-medicating… news junkie or news blackout…? How do these dynamics manifest in your art? What do you think art has to offer to the discourse—provocation and challenge, healing and rest, a tether to history, or something else entirely?
As this theme is quite broad and open to thoughtful interpretation, we anticipate a great mix of beauty and dark humor in the entries. And we feel that as this is basically a universal experience at this moment—no matter what side you identify with any discourse, the world *as we have known it* is ending—a secondary goal is to let people know they aren’t alone with these burdens.” - The Southeast Center for Photography has a call for their upcoming exhibition exploring the theme “The Abandoned Landscape.” You can find more details on their page.
- For those photographers who are not contemplating the end of the world just yet and who have perhaps not (yet) lost their luggage, Photo Place Gallery has a call for their upcoming show entitled, “TRAVEL: People, Places, and Things.” You can claim your exhibition entry information at this baggage carousel.
- And, once you return from your trip, Light Art Space Gallery has a call for alternative process work exploring the theme, “The Spirit of Home.” You can find entry details on their website.
- Art Collide has a free entry all media Open Call exhibition call. You can find information on their website here.
- Boomer Gallery has a call for artists (all media) for their upcoming exhibition exploring the theme “Dreams and Nightmares.” You can find more details about their call here.
- The Maryland Federation of Art has a call for their all media show exploring the theme “The Power of Color.” You can find more details here.
- ArtDoc Magazine has a call for photography for their upcoming “We Are Humanity.” You can find information on their website.
- The San Diego Watercolor Society has a call for entries for their upcoming international show. This is for water based media and you can find entry information here.
- Blue Cat Gallery Studio has a call for entries exploring the theme “Signs of Rural Life.” This is an all media show with prizes and you can find more details here.
Opportunity List (formerly Opportunity Weekend) is a list I gather and publish to help fellow artists and photographers. You can see prior Opportunity List pages here and, as a reminder, I do not charge nor do I accept payment for the list. Also, I do not vet these entries, they are shared in the spirit of helping out the community.
I think this is a record number of opportunities shared for this, a long weekend in the US. I hope the long weekend affords you some time to get your work out there. Best of luck to all!
Until next time…
