Category: Open Calls

Open Call: OXO 2026- Outset Gallery – Co Galway

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Graphic for Outset Gallery featuring various blue and purple shapes, with repeated text stating 'OPEN CALL' prominently displayed.

The Outset Gallery has announced the return of its annual open call and large-scale group exhibition, OXO 2026 – the 5th edition of the Outset Xmas Open.

Returning this November, OXO will once again bring together a diverse selection of emerging and established artists from across Ireland and abroad, transforming their newly designed gallery into a large-scale exhibition running throughout the Christmas period and into the new year.

Application deadline: 27th of September.

For more information, see here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfXzl0w9R45HX3w9v2XKbv2KnKzAr-LoTMm500m8BG5pPM9IQ/viewform

Their Instagram: @outset_gallery

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Open Call: Visual and Literary Artists – Global Bioeconomy Summit 2026

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Homepage of the Global Bioeconomy Summit 2026, announcing a call for visual and literary artists.

The Global Bioeconomy Summit 2026 (GBS2026) invites visual and literary artists to contribute creative perspectives to one of the world’s leading bioeconomy events, taking place in Dublin on 20-21 October 2026 at the Convention Centre.

They invite submissions exploring how bio-based innovation, natural resources, and circular systems can help shape a more sustainable future.

This is an opportunity to contribute a creative perspective to a global event bringing together leaders from science, policy, industry and civil society to discuss the role of the bioeconomy in addressing climate and sustainability challenges.

Applications close on Monday, the 28th of September 2026.

For more information, visit their website: https://gbs2026.org/news-resources/call-visual-and-literary-artists-open-global-bioeconomy-summit-2026

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Open Call: Wool4Health Awards – Create Sensory Hand Comforters

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A web page promoting the Wool4Health Awards, inviting participation in creating sensory hand comforters from 100% natural wool fibres. The page outlines the benefits of these comforters for individuals with dementia, autism, and those in care, alongside an image of colourful, crocheted hand comforters.

The Wool4Health Awards were launched at the European Wool Day 2026 Conference in Tralee earlier this year. They aim to celebrate the therapeutic and well-being benefits of fibre crafts using natural fibres like wool.

Tactile hand comforters provide soothing sensory stimulation through touch and repetitive movement, helping to support wellbeing, focus and emotional regulation. They can be particularly beneficial for people living with dementia or Alzheimer’s, individuals with autism, hospitalised patients, and older people in nursing homes.


The closing date for mailing sensory hand comforters to Spain is Friday, 25 September 2026.

For more information, visit their website: https://ewe.network/wool4health-awards-2026/

Their Instagram: @ewe_foundation__

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Open Call: Loewe Foundation Craft Prize 2027

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This year’s annual international Loewe Foundation Craft Prize is now accepting applications.

The Loewe Foundation Craft Prize celebrates “excellence, artistic merit and newness in modern craftsmanship.” From a shortlist of 30 artists, the panel of experts will select the winning entry, and the artist will receive a €50,000 prize. All finalist works will be presented in an exhibition in Europe, opening in spring 2027.

Even if you are not interested in applying, please do check out ‘The Room’, an archive of the previous winner and shortlisters of this fine craft award; there are over 3,200 pieces, and their work is inspiring.

One can limit the Category to ‘textiles’ in the advanced search section or to ‘Ireland’ in the Country section.

Submissions are open until the 15th of October, 2026.

For more information, visit their website –https://craftprize.loewe.com/en/craftprize2027

Their Instagram: @loewefoundation


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Open Call: Submissions of photos of the ‘Studio on the Move’ for Vessel Magazine

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The editors of Vessel Magazine invite submissions exploring the notion of the studio in motion for publication in the upcoming edition of The Vessel.

They are specifically looking for craft practices that exist in shifting contexts, where making adapts to movement, embraces constraints, or unfolds across changing locations. They hope to feature submissions in the form of triptychs that evoke dialogue among the images, and collectively articulate the diverse, portable, and evolving nature of dispersed studio practices.

Craftspeople are invited to submit a set of three photographs, along with contextual information, that captures how their studio operates beyond a fixed site, revealing the tools, processes, and conditions that shape their work in motion. The editors will select 5-10 submissions for an article to be featured in the 12th edition of The Vessel, to be published in Autumn 2026.

If a submission is selected, a paid honorarium will be provided.

Deadline: the 1st of September

For more information, visit their website: https://vessel-magazine.no/open-call

Their Instagram: @thevesselmag @norwegiancrafts

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Open Call: The Colour of Everyday – Bernat Klein Symposium- Call for Abstracts

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The Bernat Klein Foundation Symposium, supported by Future Island–Island, Belfast School of Art, and Creative Scotland, seeks abstracts for ‘The Colour of Everyday’, to be held in November. It is a symposium exploring colour, craft, sustainability and cultural heritage inspired by the legacy of textile designer and colourist Bernat Klein.

They are interested in hearing from designers, researchers, makers, educators and community practitioners working across:

  • Colour in education
  • Sustainable design + material innovation
  • Heritage, memory and place
  • Regenerative making and ecological craft

Abstract deadline: Friday, the 4th of September 2026

The Symposium is on Saturday, the 28th of November 2026

For more information, visit this page on the Future Island Island website: https://www.futureisland-island.org/updates/bernat-klein-foundation-symposium/

Their Instagram @futureislandisland

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Of Interest: Dublin Maker Open Call for Fashion Show

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This year, Dublin Maker will have an Open Fashion Show. Whether you’ve crafted an elaborate outfit or made a cute patch on your jeans, you are invited to enter.

On the day, fill out a card with some information about your make. The cards will be given to the emcee, who will call designers/makers up one by one.

There will be four slots:

  • Saturday, the 22nd of August at 12:45 and 14:45, and
  • Sunday, the 23rd of August at 11:15 and 14:30

Sign up for whichever ones work best for you. Please arrive a few minutes early to fill out your card if you are entering.

Where: Leopardstown Racecourse, Foxrock, Dublin 18, D18 C9V6

If you’re not ready to participate, come along to support the makers and get inspired for next year!

Sign up in advance with Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/open-fashion-show-dublin-maker-tickets-1996822790720

The event will be accessible to people with limited mobility, but if you have questions, you can also check the Dublin Maker’s Accessibility Guide: https://dublinmaker.ie/accessibility-at-dublin-maker-festival/

Or reach out on their contact page: https://dublinmaker.ie/contact/

For more information or to reserve your free tickets, visit the Dublin Maker website: https://dublinmaker.ie/

Their Instagram: @dublinmaker

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Open Call: Craft & Sustainability Festival – Barcelona 2026 – In person and online

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Craftwork Festival 2026 invites European practitioners to Barcelona for three days of exhibition, exchange, and reflection on how craft can shape more sustainable, circular, and environmentally responsible practice.

There are two participation tracks: one in person and the other online.

When: 2nd-4th of December, 2026

Where: ESPRONCEDA, Institute of Art and Culture, Carrer d’Espronceda, 326, Naves 5 & 10, Sant Andreu, 08027 Barcelona, Spain

For more information and to apply, visit this website: https://bit.ly/CW4ABCN

Their Instagram: @craftwork4all

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Of Interest: ReStyle Ireland – Galway Sustainable Fashion Expo – Open Call

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Restyle Ireland is hosting an Open Call for all designers, makers, artists, educators, and changemakers.

Are you helping people rethink fashion through creativity, repair, reuse or traditional skills?

They’re looking for:

  • Designers
  • Artists
  • Craftspeople & Makers
  • Social Entrepreneurs
  • Workshop Facilitators & Instructors
  • Traditional Skills Practitioners
  • & More

Whether you’d like to run a workshop, give a demonstration, exhibit your work, or share your skills, they are interested in hearing from you.

Join in creating an event that celebrates circular fashion, creativity, and real alternatives to fast fashion and throwaway culture.

A recap of Restyle Dublin that was on the 4th of July, in Dún Laoghaire, can be seen on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/Dah6JBxIxsl/

Expression of Interest forms can be found here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1heSqgZDxHKwLtc2pE1XfW4lxikg_LQZ_fdSnO2S93D4

Their @restyle.ireland @theenvforum

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Open Calls: 2 Exhibitions Seeking Artwork – Esker Arts, Co Offaly & Market Gallery, Co Cork

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Esker Arts invites artists from or based in Offaly, Galway, Roscommon, Tipperary, Laois, Westmeath, Kildare, and Meath to submit one existing artwork for a group exhibition curated by Rachel Botha, taking place October–December 2026.

This year’s Open Call explores the idea of ‘the good neighbour’. It can be interpreted from the perspective of a community defined by place, identity, or commonality; understood beyond borders through shared causes or struggles; or viewed through our relationship with the natural environment.

Submissions in any medium and from artists at all stages of their careers are welcomed.

Deadline: Wednesday 26 August, 5:30 PM

There is no submission fee, and they’re seeking existing works. Selected artists will receive a small participation fee.

Esker Arts, High St, Tullamore, Co. Offaly, R35 NY50

To apply: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScxhn9pMKRzX_1uH5ekMMuLclCoqzpZML7-yaawu-xvNQK3Qw/viewform

@eskerarts

The Market Gallery Cork is seeking artwork in any medium for an exhibition titled “Layers of the Land.” Suitable artworks could include landscapes or artworks about the land on which we live and our relationship to it.

Email submissions to marketgallery@douglasvillage.ie by midnight on Sunday 13th September.

Market Gallery, Douglas Village Shopping Centre, Douglas, Co Cork, T12 E39C

More information: https://www.marketgallerydouglas.com/open-call

@market_gallery_cork

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