Category: Open Calls

Open Call: Fiberart International 2025

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The open call for the Fiberart International 2025 exhibition is now open.

Fiberart International is a series of juried exhibitions held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is open to textile artists worldwide. It seeks to exhibit the best of contemporary art and invites submissions that reflect a wide range of works related to the fibre medium. The exhibition is recognized worldwide as a benchmark that documents trends and innovations in the field. It aims to include innovative work rooted in traditional fibre materials, structure, processes, and history, as well as art that explores unexpected relationships between fibre and other creative disciplines.

The exhibitions will be on view at Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, from May 30 to August 30, 2025, and at Brew House Arts from June 20 to August 30, 2025.

This call is open to artists at any stage of their career, who are located within the United States or abroad. All work must be either fibre in content or executed using a fibre technique.

Deadline: the 30th of June, 2024.

For more information, visit their website – https://contemporarycraft.org/opportunities/artist-opportunities/exhibitions/

Editor’s Note: Fiberart International is triannual – it happens every three years. In previous years, this show has drawn artists from all over the world. There are artists’ interviews and videos of the prior show here – https://fiberartspgh.org/fiberart-international-2022/

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Open Call: Apply to the DCCI Irish Business Design Challenge

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The Design & Crafts Council Ireland (DCCI) launches this year’s Irish Business Design Challenge (IBDC) for micro, small and medium-sized businesses to apply and showcase their commitment to sustainability through innovative design and circular and ethical practices.

In its fourth year, IBDC celebrates businesses that add value, repurpose products, develop eco-friendly processes, enhance efficiency, and tackle societal and environmental challenges through sustainable design.

This year’s challenge has a prize fund of over €50,000.

Examples of Sustainable Design Strategies:

  • Designing for minimal waste.
  • Prioritising durability in design.
  • Utilising safe, renewable, and recycled materials.
  • Championing ethical production practices.
  • Reducing chemical impacts through design.
  • Implementing energy and water-efficient designs.
  • Drawing inspiration from nature’s designs.
  • Dematerialising products and developing sustainable systems and services.

For more information, visit their website – https://www.dcci.ie/ibdc

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Open Call: Summer Art Fair at Mount Juliet Estate – Kilkenny

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This summer, Mount Juliet Estate, in partnership with Butler Gallery, will host a Summer Art Fair in the Ornamental Walled Garden of Mount Juliet Estate on Sunday, July 7th, from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM.

Whether you’re a painter, sculptor, photographer, or mixed-media artist, they welcome all mediums and styles. The Art Fair will showcase the highest-quality Irish art submitted by artists all over Ireland. They have space for 30 Artists who will be selected by the Butler Gallery Selection Committee.

The deadline is soon – the 31st of May.

For more information, visit their website – https://www.butlergallery.ie/whats-on/summer-art-fair-2024-call-for-artists

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Open Call: DCU Visual Artists in Residence in collab with Fire Station Artists’ Studios

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Dublin City College (DCU), in collaboration with Fire Station Artists’ Studios, is offering an artist residency for two professional visual artists. The selected artists will have access to a studio space on DCU’s All Hallows campus in Dromcondra, Dublin for 12 months and additional opportunities to support their career growth and development.

Deadline: 12 PM, Friday 14th of June.

For more information, visit their website – https://www.dcu.ie/dcuartsandculture/open-call-dcu-visual-artists-residence-collaboration-fire-station-artists-studios


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Open Call: Land to the Hand – Galway Wool Coop’s Meitheal

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The Galway Wool Co-op, with Artist-in-Residence Michelle Hickey Legge, is delighted to announce the coming together of art and earth—‘Land to the Hand’. This unique exhibition of art through the medium of Galway Wool will take place this year at the annual Galway Wool Meitheal, Athenry, Galway.

The Coop invites artists on the island of Ireland working in all disciplines, age groups and abilities to engage with themes and concepts that connect the Galway Sheep Breed to the Irish landscape and the rich historical heritage of the Galway fleece. Artists who took part last year are also welcome to apply.

When: The Meithal is Saturday, the 20th of July, 2024, for one morning only.

For expressions of interest, direct message Michelle Hickey Legge via Instagram – @michellehickeyart before midnight, the 31st of May.

For more information about Galway Wool, visit the Coop’s website – https://galwaywool.ie/

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Opportunity: Share at August Craft Month 2024

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The Design and Crafts Council Ireland and Craft NI invite makers and craftspersons to register their events for this year’s August Craft Month.

What a maker chooses to share is up to them.

Here are some ideas:

  • Craft Talks and Trails
  • Open Studios and Exhibitions
  • Workshops and Demos
  • Meet the Maker Events

August Craft Month 2024 is for makers, communities, families, collectors, and enthusiasts across the island of Ireland. Event applications are welcome from the following:

  • Individual craft makers
  • Guilds and networks
  • Galleries, retailers and museums
  • Councils and arts centres, cultural venues
  • Further and higher education institutions and crafts educators
  • Heritage organisations

The deadline for registering your event is Friday, June 14th.

For more information and to register, please visit their website – https://www.dcci.ie/whats-on/dcci-august-craft-month/

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Open Call: Earth Rising 2024 – IMMA

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Now in its third year, IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art) EARTH RISING is open for applications from artists, collectives and community groups.

EARTH RISING is a festival of free events and experiences aimed at addressing the climate crisis and inspiring collective action towards a sustainable and hopeful future, taking place from the 20-22 September 2024,

Your proposal can be a new or existing work/project. Please note that this is primarily an outdoor event, where most works will be presented outdoors.

Proposals will be accepted for the following categories:

  • Performance
  • Moving image work
  • Workshops for Children and Adults
  • Outdoor artwork
  • Our Earth Rising Salon series – introducing work in progress in the Study (1hour Sessions)

The deadline is soon – 5pm, 12 April 2024.

For more information, visit their website – https://imma.ie/whats-on/earth-rising-2024/

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Open Call: Cruinniú na nÓg 2024 – Dún Laoghaire Rathdown

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The Dún Laoghaire Rathdown (DLR) County Council is calling for proposals from children and young people, artists/creative practitioners, cultural organisations, and neighbourhood communities/organisations to participate in Creative Ireland’s Cruinniú na nÓg 2024.

Cruinniú na nÓg is the national day of free creativity for children and young people and will take place on Saturday, 15th June 2024 across Ireland. It aims to celebrate and encourage children and young people’s (aged 0 – 18) participation in culture and creativity by providing free, accessible, activity-based creative action in their own locality. The emphasis of Cruinniú na nÓg is on doing, making, and creating.

Applications can include any medium or a mix of creative activities and art forms (examples include but are not limited to performance, street art, fashion, photography, digital arts, literature, architecture, coding, biodiversity, folk life, heritage, archaeology, and landscape).

Deadline for submission: Monday, 8th April 2024, at 5 PM.

For more information, visit their website – https://dlrcoco.submit.com//show/267

Editor’s note: Other county councils may have similar applications available. According to Creative Ireland, over 31 local authorities are involved. Unfortunately, the applications are not in one central location.

Here is the link to the application of the South Dublin County Council – https://www.sdcc.ie/en/services/sport-and-recreation/arts/cruinniu-na-nog/

Donegal County’s can be found here – http://www.wainfest.ie/

Or try emailing creativeireland@tcagsm.gov.ie

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Open Call: RHA Annual Exhibition

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Applications to the RHA (Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts) annual exhibition are now open.

The show is Ireland’s largest open submission exhibition, with a prize fund of over €50,000 across disciplines. It runs from Monday, the 20th of May, until Sunday, the 4th of August, 2024, at the RHA Gallery.

Submissions of work are invited from visual artists working in paint, photography, sculpture, architecture, print, drawing and mixed media. Works outside these categories are not accepted.

Editor’s note: we don’t know whether felted artwork or textiles are considered sculpture or mixed media by the organisation. You may want to email them.

The deadline is soon: 25 February 2024, 11:59 PM.

For more information, visit their website – https://rhagallery.ie/news/applications-now-open-194th-rha-annual-exhibition/

Opportunity: Home Faber Fellowship

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The Homo Faber Fellowship is a yearly seven-month sponsored professional integration programme designed for collaborative duos of master artisans and craft graduates. Participants will develop business and marketing knowledge, as well as design and hands-on practical skills through transmission from one generation to the next.

The Homo Faber Fellowship is presented by Design & Crafts Council Ireland in partnership with the Michelangelo Foundation, powered by the Young Craft Booster and co-funded by European Union.

Application deadline: 8th of March 2024

For more information, visit the DCCI’s website – https://www.dcci.ie/homo-faber-fellowship-2/