Thank you to everyone who has sent wonderful messages of support and gratitude to me. I was in tears reading how much this little site has helped so many of you in your artistic ventures. I had no idea… Some asked if I could list favorite resource sites I would consistently go to and check out calls. Staff would also send me calls they had seen or heard of to screen and check out as well but a majority of the time was good old fashioned digging through calls from some favorite sites. I would still check the fees (free was best but if it was too expensive, it didn’t get listed—unless the jur ..read more

Dear Bay Area Art Grind Subscribers, Followers, and Friends, October 15th marks exactly 11 years since my first post on the SJSU Art Blog website, a site for artists by artists, while in graduate school. Post-grad school and into the throes of the realities of balancing an art career and real life, the name was changed to the Bay Area Art Grind. My desire in creating this free site had always been to help fellow artists navigate the waters to find opportunities to help their own careers. It is now time to take a new road. Over 7500 posts later consisting of calls for artists, jobs ..read more

Job- University of Minnesota, Tenure-Track, Full Time Assistant Professor of Art – Ceramics Application Deadline: January 1st, 2020, 11:59pm EST The University of Minnesota’s Department of Art in the College of Liberal Arts seeks an artist with contemporary ceramic arts expertise to join our renowned Sculpture and Ceramics practice area. We welcome artists whose cross-disciplinary skills will offer students a dynamic learning environment and a significant depth of competencies in traditional and non-traditional approaches to ceramic arts. Required: • MFA in Art or equivalency** • A ..read more

Root Division (CA), Call for San Francisco Bay Area Artists: Reflections on Exile Deadline: October 14th, 2019 at 11:59pm PST Root Division invites Bay Area artists responding to themes of diaspora and exile to submit work for an exhibition entitled Reflections on Exile curated by Jeanette Alanis. The exhibition will be presented in January – February 2020 at Root Division. Highlighting challenging elements between human and land separation, Reflections on Exile examines displacement, restrictive or forced movement, and the after effects of war and persecution from the lens of ..read more

International Call for Submissions: Tokyo Anime Award Festival 2020 Deadlines: October 31st, 2019 for Short Animation November 10th, 2019 for Feature Animation The Tokyo Anime Award Festival 2020, animation award has been recently opened for entries, calling for unique animation works with high potential and strong messages, both feature and short animation, from all over the world. Tokyo Anime Award Festival 2020 now is opened for entries, seeking for unique animation works with high potential and strong messages, both feature and short animation, from all over the wo ..read more

Mosesian Center for the Arts (MA), International Call for Artists: We the People Deadline: October 1st, 2019 The Mosesian Center for the Arts (MCA) seeks artwork for its upcoming fall exhibition called We The People. Much like the Constitution that this preamble originates from, We The People aims to find unity in the commonalities between people and establish a narrative surrounding what it means to be an artist in America today. This phrase implies a shared understanding we all have that an inclusive embrace of our differences often makes a stronger bond between individuals and cr ..read more

Bunnell Street Arts Center (AK), International Call for Applicants, Alaska AIR: 2020 Bunnell Artist in Residence, with stipend Deadline: October 31st, 2019 Bunnell Street Arts Center presents an Artist-in-Residence program for international, US and Alaska artists to create artwork that promotes community engagement and creative placemaking strategies. Bunnell seeks artists to strengthen the social, physical and economic fabric of Homer through the arts by addressing pertinent themes. These may include accessibility, inclusion, decolonization, sustainability, skills sharing and ex ..read more

The Grind’s weekly Monday post called Sublime/Transcendent features an Artist of the Week of the staff’s choice. The artists featured will range from emerging to the established. The work will span a wide range of ideas, processes, and media. This week’s Sublime/Transcendent Artist is Carrie Ann Plank Vestige (Reaction Growth/Rain), 2016, Kiln glass, 10″ x 20″ (diptych) https://carrieannplank.com ..read more

NARS Foundation, Open Call: Exhibitions 2020 Deadline: October 14th, 2019, 11:59pm EST NARS is pleased to invite exhibition proposals for solo and group curated exhibitions for 2020. Exhibition proposals from both artists and curators will be considered for solo or group exhibitions for our Main Gallery space and the Project Space, designed for smaller and more dynamic programming. In line with our mission, NARS exhibitions present compelling and innovative ideas and work being produced on a local, national, and international level by under-represented and emerging artists and cultu ..read more

The Darkroom Gallery (VT), International Call for Photography Submissions: This Land Deadline: October 23rd, 2019, 11:59pm EST From their call:For This Land we’re looking for photos that express the connectivity of the individual, the photographer, to the world around. What do you see when you’re hiking in the mountains or taking a walk in a city park?  How do you see it – through the scope of a wide angle lens or through details selectively framed? We’d like to see your expression of your connection to the land as well as your vision of your personal landscape. This will be deepl ..read more