Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announces a Juried Art Competition for the month of December with the theme “SeaScapes”.  A Group exhibition of the top ten finalists will be held online at the Light Space & Time Art Gallery for the month of January 2012.  The gallery invites all 2D artists to send us your best interpretation of the theme “SeaScapes" by depicting coastal living, ocean activities, seaside vistas and any related seashore subjects. Light Space & Time encourages entries from all 2D artists (including photography) regardless of where they reside and regardless of their experience or education in the art field.  A group exhibition of the top ten finalists, along with Special Recognition awards will also be presented.  The group exhibition will be held online at the Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery during the month of January 2012. The submission process and deadline is December 29, 2011.  There will be extensive worldwide publicity to the winners of this event. For further information and to apply through the website http://www.lightspacetime.com

The 6th International Arte Laguna Prize The 6th International Arte Laguna Prize is dedicated to visual artists from all over the world. The competition is divided into 5 sections: painting, sculpture, photographic art, videoart and performance, virtual art. The awards total amount is 170.000 EUR, including:

5 money Prizes of 7,000 EUR for the winner artists, one for each section.

6 Art Residencies: Loft Miramarmi - Vicenza, Carlo Zauli Museum - Faenza, Glass School Abate Zanetti – Venice, Art Stays - Slovenia, iaab – Basel, Technymon India ARTresidency – Mumbai.

2 Business for Art: STILE Original Design offers a money prize of 8,000 EUR and the development of an art project; another project will be offered by the jewelery company FOPE of Vicenza.

2 International Festivals: participations in Open in Venice and Tina B in Prague.

26 Personal Exhibitions in International Art Galleries: a network of international galleries to introduce the artists to the market of Contemporary Art. Each gallery will select an artist for organizing a solo exhibition.>

Furthermore 110 finalists will be chosen by an international jury to participate to the collective exhibition in Venice, and their artworks will be published in a bilingual catalogue. Jurors are: Igor Zanti - Art Critic; Alessio Antoniolli - Director Gasworks of London; Chiara Barbieri - Publications Director, Peggy Guggenheim Collection; Gabriella Belli - Director MART of Trento and Rovereto; Ilaria Bonacossa – Freelance Curator; Soledad Gutierrez - Curator at MACBA Barcelona; Kanchi Metha - Curator Indian Pavillon Prague Biennale; Ludovico Pratesi - Director Centro Arti Visive Pescheria of Pesaro; Maria Savarese - Freelance Curator ; Ralf Schmitt - Director Preview Berlin; Alma Zevi - Art Critic. The application fees are: 50 EUR for one artwork and 90 EUR for two, but for artists Under-25 are 45 EUR and 80 EUR. There is time until the 30th of November to submit artworks using postal service and until the 6th of December using the application form online.Application form: http://www.artelagunaprize.com/index.php/enrollment-of-the-6-international-art-prize-arte-laguna.html
Info: Arte Laguna Prize, tel. +39 041 5937242 (int.4), info@artelagunaprize.com,
www.artelagunaprize.com

International award for watercolours - Spain
Deadline: 19 March 2012
Various Spanish institutions with the aim of promoting ties between the arts and sport, announce the third edition of the INTERNATIONAL AWARD for watercolours and other paper-based techniques. Sporting theme.
The competition is open to all applicant artists aged over 18 irrespective of their nationality and place of
residence, submitting original pictorial works which have not previously received awards in any other
competition. Any paperbased technique will be accepted, provided it is an original and unique work (and consequently not reproducible by mechanical or digital means). The length of no side may exceed 120 cm nor be less than 50 cm. The weight must be the appropriate to hang in the wall. There are three prizes: a first prize of 2500 (two thousand five hundred) Euros and a diploma, a second prize
of 1800 (one thousand eight hundred) Euros and a diploma, and a third prize of 1200 (one thousand two
hundred) Euros and a diploma. The award-winning works (the top 3 prizes) will become the property of the organizer, to be included within its art collection.
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”

Residence for artists- Germany
Deadline: 31.01.2012
With a focus on contemporary and experimental work, the residence is unique in supporting young and emerging artists.
Duration of the residence: 6 to 8 weeks from June to August upon mutual agreement
Paid by artist:
Selected artists pay their living expenses themselves.
Paid by host:
Free studio and accomodation.
Grant for travel expenses. Moreover, project costs can be supported up to an amount of 1000 Euro after consultation of their manager and upon presentation of respective invoices related to the project to be realized during the residency.
Foreign artists from every field of visual arts and without restriction of age can apply.
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”

IV painting competition - Spain   
Deadline: December 15th 2011   
A Spanish institution announces a painting competition offering a prize of  Euro 1.500. Artists of Spanish nationality or foreigners can participate. The dimensions of the works will have to be minimum of 80x100cm (40F). The introduced works will have to be unique and original. The thematic will have to be "The horseback riding". The technique will be free. Any kind of support and material are admitted. In the back of every work, the title of the same one and the name of the author will have to appear. All the works selected by the jury will be exhibited from the 9th of January (awarding) to the 29th of February 2012.   
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”

New Technological Art Award - Belgium
Deadline: 31st of March 2012
In the past, the artist had few ways to help him express his emotions, his commitment and his values. New forms have emerged: architecture, music, choreography, photography, cinematography, broadcasting, multimedia. Today new sciences are used such as electronics, telecommunications, biology and genetics, as well as new materials such as steel, glass, plastics and fluids.
The organization situates the new technological art in these domains. This implies the use of new technologies, processes or materials but only as part of an artistic creation that does not neglect the aesthetics and artistic expression.The New Technological Art Award aims to reward young living artists for a work in the area defined above that was created in the past two years. The prize goes to a specific work that is submitted and not to different realizations of an artist.All living artists, regardless of their origin, can present their candidacy for art works less than two years old, but which may already have been exhibited. Each artist may submit only one work. The contest is international and uses English as main language. An international jury will select 20 projects from all candidates. The 20 projects will be exhibited at three selected locations: about 10 at Zebrastraat in Ghent, about 5 at iMAL (Center for Digital Cultures and Technology) in Brussels, and about five at La Cambre, also in Brussels. These latter works will be exhibited in the open air. Between September 1st and September 14, 2012, the works will be built on the sites. The prize is associated with a work and its creator and amounts to 5.000 Euro. There is also a prize from the public linked to the contest. This entitles the winner to a presentation after the contest in a European museum.
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”

Call for an exhibition - Germany
Deadline: 15th of January 2012
Being under stress, reaching one’s limits, feeling empty and exhausted: Burnout is a phenomenon of our times that omits hardly any professional group. Artists and creatives are regarded as cultural entrepreneurs, as forerunners and models of flexibilised and deregulated worlds of work. It is  necessary a departure from the dilemma of self-exploitation that is conducive to burnout!
The organization would like to provoke a different view of the burnout phenomenon. For an exhibition in Berlin, the organization therefore invite artists, artists’ groups, activists and interdisciplinary pro-jects to cast a view from the future back to the present and create complex perspectives on burnout – not only as an individual but above all as a social symptom. The organization is looking for disturbing, contrary, illogical, associative positions and strategies that evade appropriation and victim discourses and instead describe a utopian and fictitious future. Will we still be familiar with burnout in the year 2062, and how will the exhausted society of 2012 be remembered? An interdisciplinary jury will select a total of up to 10 positions from the submissions. The selected artists will receive up to 1,400 euros incl. VAT (fee and material) to realise their work.
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”

Contemporary art forum – Canada
Deadline: 30 of December 2012
The organization produces an international biennial exhibition of contemporary art projects in the public spaces of the Waterloo Region. CAFKA wants to hear what artists are thinking about and what drives their practice. The theme of the Spring 2013 biennial exhibition will therefore be determined by the topics and content identified within the proposals. Further, CAFKA seeks artists who are able to respond to the specific features of the local urban landscape and culture as sites of critique and reflection from a global perspective.
CAFKA is inviting proposals for new or existing works that engage the public and a diverse audience. Works in all media will be considered including sculpture, performance, video, audio, installation, photography, painting, drawing, and digital media.
Artist Fees paid for Visual and Media Art Projects: $2,000 CAD, plus travel expenses. Wherever possible CAFKA will work with artists to source the donation of materials to help offset production costs. Video and one-time performance fees are paid in accordance with CARFAC (Canadian Artists Representation/le Front des Artistes Canadiens).
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”

Interdisciplinary Art and Science Prize - Germany
Deadline: 1st of March 2012
This competition aims to give artists (fine art, media, architecture, design, music, theatre, visual communication etc.) and/or scientists the impetus and opportunity to work on content in the field of tension between the arts or between the arts and sciences.
The prize will be awarded on a biennial basis and is endowed with 7,500 Euros. It can be divided among a max. of 3 artists/scientists or groups. The prize-winner(s) are obliged to attend the award ceremony in Berlin. The prize-winner’s travel costs will be refunded up to a sum of 1,000 Euros.
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”

Ibero-American design prize - Spain   
Deadline: December 30th 2011   
A Municipality in Spain announces its sixth edition of the Ibero-American Prize of Design. Enterprises and designers or teams of designer that have domicile in Ibero America can participate to the prize the. The works will have to be original and not to have been winning in other contests. The thematic will turn around the liberty. The contest is divided in three categories: Industrial Design, Graphic Design and Fashion Design.    
There is a prize of 4000 Euro for every formality. 
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”

Residence for artist – Australia
Deadline: 16 of December 2011
A City in Australia is calling for artists to express interest in conducting a 4-6 week residency for 2012.
The artist is expected to design their residency to anticipate the following outcomes:
Engagement by the artist with a significant variety of the town’s community members. This would include the artist making him or herself available for community interaction through such activities as open studio sessions, talks, workshops and artistic collaborations.
The creation of a tangible artistic product e.g. a performance, exhibition, a piece of writing or art object/s. If appropriate, the artist is to adopt the role of mentor towards younger local artists.
A portion of the work made during the residency is to become the property of the City.
The City has a budget of $25,000 to pay the artist. The payment is expected to cover the artist’s fees and all of the artist’s expenses including travel, accommodation, studio, materials, exhibition costs and food.
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”

Photography award 2012
Deadline: 4th January 2012
Submit your best work for the chance to become the next Professional Photographer of the Year and win the most coveted prize along with prize money of $25,000. The Professional Competition has 15 diverse categories spread across 3 genres of photography: Fine Art, Commercial, Photojournalism & Documentary. Submissions must be based on a body of work.
Each photographer may submit a minimum of 3 images and a maximum of 10 images in to each Professional category.
Images entered in to the Professional Competition must have been completed or first published in 2011.
First published in 2011, means that the photographs entered may have been taken before 2011 but due to having been commissioned by a client to be published in 2011, have not been publicly exhibited or published in any online or print media before 2011.
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”

Summer art experience - Ohio
Deadline: 16th of January 2011
The organization is committed to producing ambitious works of contemporary art by linking young people aged 14 – 18 from throughout the local community with professional artists from around the world to pursue projects proposed by the artists. Your project must be achievable in eight-weeks. Each project has a $1,000 budget (not including final presentation expenses.) Artists may supplement with personal funds or other grants. Blue Sky Project pays a stipend of $7,000 for 9 weeks.
Artists Arrival: Tuesday, June 5 2012. Departure: Monday, August 8 2012
Previous projects have included: sculptural sound installation, video installation, performance, musical composition, dance installation, 2D visual-art and photography, self-published magazines, and site-specific interventions. 5 artists will be selected to be part of the program.
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”

Photography competition and exhibition – USA
Deadline: 20th of January 2012
Residents of all countries are eligible to register to the 2012 International Photography Competition and Exhibition.  Interested artists will have to submit a series of 3 photos, any style, any subject.
All work in the Exhibition will be offered for sale. The organization retains a 40% commission on sold works.
1st Place $3,000
2nd Place $2,000
3rd Place $1,000
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”

XXIII Painting Competition - Spain   
Deadline: January 27th 2012   
Every author can introduce a maximum of two works to this XXIII Painting Competition. Works wont’ have to be awarded  in other contests and they won't have to be inferior to 81x100 cm. neither superior to 200x180 cm. Works will have to be introduced framed with minimum a wood bar and not signed. Theme and technique are free. An exhibition with the selected works will be organized from the 4th to the 28th  of February 2012.   
First prize of Euro 4.500 / Second prize of Euro 2.500 
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”

Arts in the nature event – France
Deadline: 19th of December 2011
This Arts in Nature event will take place from the16th June till 16th September 2012 in a comunitary area of France.
The call for projects involves the creation of 11 works of art.
This event is first and foremost a site specific project which likes to think of itself as long lasting and which involves all the local authorities and players in the tourist trade concerned.
No specific theme has been given to the event so as to leave the artists free to express their artistic temperament. However, a guideline is taking shape around the notions of "the environment", "territory" and "creation, "Art and ecology" are themes that we embrace as well.
A grant totalling Euro 8,000 will be given to each artist selected. It must cover the following services:
- Producing and installing the work
- The artist’s trips;
- Food and accommodation for the artist in the area when visiting sites and creating the work (a list of accommodation will be given to the artists selected); The artist’s presence during the installation of the work is mandatory-; The artist’s presence at the preview is mandatory;
- The production of a explanatory text presenting his/her work and his/her artistic approach. It can be written by the artist or a contemporary art specialist
- A possible visit to the sites in the Sancy Massif scheduled by the organiser for all the chosen artists.
- The artist has to ensure the maintenance of the work for the duration of the event
- The dismantling of the work ;
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”

V painting prize - Spain   
Deadline: 30th of November of 2011   
Every artist can compete with only one work to this V Painting prize. The theme, as the technique are of free choice. The introduced work will have to be unpublished and of recent creation and it must be adequately signed. The work will have to have minimum dimensions of 81x81 cm. and maximum of 130x130 cm. The works must be framed with a wood bar and not protected by glass.   
First prize of Euro 2.000.
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”

Video and Photo Contest - Italy 
Deadline: 31st of January 2011 
Various Italian institutions and companies announce the photographic contest "Objective Earth". The theme of the exhibition that will take place from the 5th of April to the 7th of October 2012 in a city of the Netherland is "to belong to the nature,  approaching the quality of life". An invitation to live the nature not as spectators, but as protagonists. Works in contest: Photography and video 
The procedure of selection will be effected on the base of digital files. 
For the photos: 
Single photos, but also photo projects are accepted (both in digital that in film, colour and black and white). 
With the purpose to guarantee a more accurate evaluation, images should be at 72 dpi, the long side of 2.500 pixels, on CD or DVD support. Printed photo or other supports won't be accepted. 
The original photos (raw digital file or film) will have to be available. 
The work can also consist in an articulated but unitary project, composed by more images and elements (the maximum number of photo allowed is of 8).  
The video will have to be sent in .avi or. mpg format on CD or DVD support. The maximum duration is of 5 minutes. 
The first prize consists in: 
a A/R ticket in economy class and the lodging for 4 days near the Expo in The Netherlands. 
The works of the 5 finalists will participate in the exhibition that will be prepared at the Italian Tent of the Expo. 
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”

IX International Prize of plastic arts - Spain   
Deadline: 30th  of November 2011   
This IX International Prize of Plastic Arts this year is about the Painting and the Engraving.   
PAINTING: oil, acrylic, water colour, sketch or mixed technique, on cloth, paper, cardboard or wood. With or without frame. Also paintings on cloth sent rolled in pipes will be admitted. They will be without loom or rigid support. Minimum format: 100x100 cm. Maximum: 150x150 cm.   
ENGRAVING: in any of the techniques, except digital printings, net-art or photocopies. On whatever usual support for the engravings. With or without frame. They will have to be of First Printing.   
First prize for the painting of Euro 1.250 / first prize for the engraving of Euro 250   
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”

Contest for a public installation – Italy 
Deadline: December 31st 2011 
A Municipality in Italy announce a contest for the realization of a permanent artistic installation. Every participating artist will have to get inspiration, for the planning of the work, to the historical-artistic and social-economic context of the city. 
Departing from the study of the places and the relative historical and social -economic testimonies, the work can take inspirations from movie’s suggestions and impressions. The proposal shouldn’t be therefore an element of urban furnish, but more a piece of environmental art, in relationship to the space, interacting and conversing with the specificity of the place. The principal industry of the city, for long time, has produced material for the cinema. Euro 5.000,00 will be given to the winner of the competition for the idea and the realization of the work, if the administration will decide to proceed to the execution of the work. Contrarily the winner will receive only his/her honorarium for the idea of Euro 2.000,00.
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”

One minute video – Brazil
Deadline: 30th of November 2011
This video Festival was created in 1991. It is today the biggest video festival in Latin America, having inspired minute festivals in several countries around the globe.
There are 4 contests this year:
Melancholia
Make a video for the theme Melancholia:
1. The condition of feeling unhappy or sad for no obvious reason.
2. Film of the director Lars Von Trier (2011).
Submit your 1 minute-video and you can win a US$ 500 award.
Laziness
Make a video for the theme Laziness:
1. Averse or disinclined to work, activity, or exertion; indolent.
2. Causing idleness or indolence: a hot, lazy afternoon.
3. Slow-moving; sluggish: a lazy stream.
Submit your 1 minute-video and you can win a US$ 500 award.
Autobiography
One Minute Festival wants to know your history, what do you have to tell about yourself.
The best autobiographical video will win a US$ 500 award.
Nano Minute
The challenge is make a nano minute (ten seconds video)!
The best video wins US$ 250 + minute trophy!
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”

Residence for artists – Spain
Deadline: 31st of December 2011
The organization is inviting submissions in water-based medium on or with paper. The competition has an environmental agenda requesting submissions to reference the contrary character of climate change. For example, increased desertification and the escalating effects of weather events such as flooding and soil erosion.
The work should be based on observation, experience and invention.
Prize:
A two week residency at Andalucía, Spain including travel costs within Europe (not accommodation while in transit). Winners from outside of Europe can have their travel expenses paid once they are within the EU.
The winners will have sole use of a thirty square meter studio and 20 hectares of land for the period. Accommodation and meals are included as is collection and return to the nearest public transport system.
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”

Call for an exhibition and award – United Kingdom
Deadline: 5th of December 2011
A Gallery in UK  is seeking submissions from artists working in any medium. This includes: performance, time-based, sound, digital, installation, painting, sculpture, print, photography and moving image. The exhibition will show at the Gallery from 28 April - 27 June 2012.
1st Prize £1500 + solo exhibition
1st Student Prize £750 + solo exhibition.
People’s Choice Prize £250
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”

International biennial of ceramics - Balearic Islands   
Deadline: 2nd of December of 2011   
Individual artists and groups can participate to this International Biennial Exhibition of Ceramics. Artists can be resident in any country. The introduced works, maximum two, have to be unique works - not series neither ceramic design -, they have to be original, to not have participated to other contests, to be realized with ceramic material and to be cooked over the 960 ºCs. Works that exceeds the 2 meters in the bigger dimension and those inferior to the 0,25 meters won't be admitted.  
Prizes: 
First prize: 6.000 Euro   
Second prize: 4.000 Euro
All the winning works will remain ownership of the organization. 
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”

Call for a residence of production in 2012 - France
Deadline: December 16th, 2011
A Contemporary Art Centre established in Marseilles is a centre for research, development and production, endowed with successful equipment for the work of glass, allowing the creation of unique works or prototypes. Created in 1983, it welcomes artists, designers and architects, willing to work with glass for innovative projects.
By launching this call for a residence, the organization wishes to enlarge its mission of production centre dedicated to the international contemporary creation. It thus contributes to support the artists in all the phases of their work, from research to exhibition. For the realization of his researches and production, the artist works with a team of four glassworkers and a workshop co-ordinator.
Conditions of reception:
- The period of the stay is to be determined according to the project and the contingencies bound to the phases of research.
- The residence can be split into several stays according to the project.
- Accommodation: a private studio apartment is at the artist's disposal.
- Expenses for glass production paid by the organization.
- Travelling costs (round trips from home) paid by the organization for each period of residence, on presentation of invoices.
- Expenses of food to be paid by the artist.
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”

Call for projects - Usa
Deadline: 31st of December 2011
Calling all Engineers, Architects, Designers, Sculptors, Builders, Chefs, Agriculturists, Videographers, Technologists, Artists and Makers of all kinds. The organization seeks proposals for 2012 Projects. Artists supplies the plan and vision. The organization will supply more than 100 energetic campers and staff and more than 700 acres of forest, mountain and lakes as studio, canvas and workshop. Every year the organization commissions unique large-scale collaborative projects that serve as centerpieces of each session. The  Project Management Team work with the Project Masters to “translate” the Project blueprint into the camp context. Campers and Staff work together to make the Project happen. Projects can range from the conceptual to the structural.
The Camp is a 8-week summer program comprised of two sessions for kids aged 7-17 in Strafford, New Hampshire. The Campers cultivate hands-on skills while exploring innovative thinking, design and the creative process. They transform ideas into artifacts and personal achievement into community success. Teams of campers work on different aspects of the Project each morning. Each camp session is 24 days long. Projects should therefore be of a scale large enough to busy 108 campers supervised by 20+ adults for approximately fifty hours. Project Ideas should be big and result in a finished, spectacular product. Artist should be able to tell the organization exactly how a group of adults would execute the kind of idea you propose. The idea should take advantage of Beam’s outdoor space and rural location, but it need not be about camp or children or nature. $10,000 for Project-specific materials including prototyping costs. For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”

Residence for artists and writers – Brazil 
Deadline: 14th of November 2011 and 16th of January 2012
There are two upcoming Fellowship/bursary programs to the Institute Sacatar in Brazil.
Both provide airfare, studio, room and board for eight-week residency sessions:
1) three bursaries to be awarded, in visual arts, creative writing (in any language) and music composition, for artists between the ages of 25 and 35, born and living in Africa, Asia, Russia, the former Soviet Republics, the Middle East, Australia, New Zealand and/or the Pacific Islands. There is no application fee. The deadline for submissions is 14 November 2011.
2) approximately twenty Fellowships to be awarded, to artists of all ages, all nationalities and in all creative disciplines. There is an application fee of USD$35.00, payable at the time of submission. The deadline for submissions is 16 January 2012.
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”

Program of residency – United Kingdom
Deadline: 06/1/2012
The organization is inviting visual artists to apply for twelve-month residencies in a rural area in United Kingdom.
The organization is hoping to appoint two artists from applications submitted; one artist to hold the residency starting October 2012 and another artist to hold the residency starting September 2013.
The organization is looking for:
Artists who feel that 12 months spent living in an isolated rural location will significantly benefit their practice.
Artists who want to be part of a community and who enjoy contact with people
In addition to work in the community the artist will produce a body of work for an end of year exhibition to be held at Highgreen .
There is a 498 sq ft studio for the sole use of the artist, as well as fully-furnished one-bedroomed living accommodation.
Financial Package
£9,000 per annum artist's fee and materials.
Materials and expenses for community projects will be paid.
A catalogue will be produced.
Reasonable costs associated with the exhibition (transport, presentation of work) will be paid
Accommodation (flat and studio) worth £6,000 per annum.
The studio is equipped with basic tools and furniture.
Artists working in two or three dimensions in any medium/material as well as those working in new media, land art, installation work etc are welcome to apply.
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”

Contest for graphic proposals - Italy 
Deadline: November 30th 2011 
The Contest has as finality the acquisition of a graphic proposal for the realization of three panels (that will be inserted in three niches) and they will have maximum dimensions of m. 4,00 x 1,70). The panels will have to represent in an unitary way the past, present and future of the economy of Trieste. Artists of any nationality and students of the high schools, individually or in group as classes, and students of Italian and foreign Universities can participate to the contest.
1° Classified and Winner:  Euro 5.000,00  
2° Classified: Euro 3.000,00  
Special Prize Category young: Euro 1.000,00 
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”

Residence for artists – Usa
Application Deadline: February 28, 2012
The Center in Usa provides Artists-in-Residence with the gift of time, space and support.
3 months of uninterrupted, self-directed work time.
The Center is housed in two urban warehouses totaling 110,000 square feet. Each artist is provided with a generously sized live/work studio with a private bathroom and 24 hour access to facilities including a wood shop, installation spaces, dark room and a large sculpture fabrication facility.
$750 monthly stipend.
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”

International photo contest - Spain    
Deadline: 1st  of December 2011   
All photographers can participate to this contest
CATEGORIES:   
A / Mountain’s Landscape - B / Mountaineering C / climbing D / Man in the mountain E / animal World F / vegetable World G / Biodiversity H / natural Landscapes I / Mountain and Nature in abstract J / The wood and its ecosystem   
Prizes: The prize of the absolute winner is of 3.000 Euro. The Prize of the winner of each category: 300 Euro.   
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”

Residence for artists - Australia
Deadline: 31st of October 2011
An Art Centre invites applications from experienced craft practitioners to the  Artist-in-Residence program. Residencies occur in the disciplines of ceramics, jewellery, textiles, wood, photography and writing. Four to six residencies occur each year. The organization encourages small scale production and individually designed work which may be promoted through the Gallery.
Residents are required to:
-Develop and make a body of work for promotion and sale at the Gallery
-Be resident for three months
-Pay for own materials and firings
-Develop and make a work for inclusion in the centre’s permanent collection
Residents in this category will receive:
-A stipend of AUD$2000 plus $500 material expenses
-Studio space in the relevant studio including equipment pertinent to that studio
-Accommodation provided to be allocated one room and may share the kitchen and living room with another Resident
-Promotional assistance and opportunities for retail exposure at the centre’s Gallery.
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”

Prize of painting, digital art and photography - Italy
Deadline: 15th of Ferbuary 2012
An Italian Cultural Association announces the opening of the first edition of this Prize; a competition aimed at promoting modern and contemporary Art, developing an international community of artistic talent and discovering brand new artists. The prize has an extremely FREE THEME and subject. It is divided into three sections: Painting, Digital Art and Video. The Prize is open to all artists of visual arts without any boundaries of age, sex, nationality or qualification. Each artist can participate with one work only, to one sections.
PAINTING Category: There is total technical and stylistic freedom (oil, tempera, acrylic, ink, vinyl, watercolor, graphite, pencil, collage, litography etc.) on whichever support (canvas, paper, wood, plastics, iron, etc ).
The max dimensions allowed per each works are 200x200 cm, frame included and 25 kg of weight
PHOTOGRAPHY and DIGITAL ART Category: There is total technical and stylistic freedom, color and black/white, analogical photos, digital photos, polaroid, mobile photos etc. The image can also be totally made by computer or taken from other sources; like a painting, a photograph, collages, litography etc. Or from a digital drawing made by software using a mouse or a graphic tablet.
The max dimensions allowed per piece are 180X180 cm.
VIDEO INSTALLATION Category: Any technique is allowed for film making, animation, video making etc. And you may choose any form of digital support. For online video subscription there is a blank space in the application form to write the link to your
video (URL). That's the easiest way! Maximum length is 10 minutes.
The Prize is divided in three section:
Painting category, 5000 euros
Photography Digital art category, 5000 euros
Video category, 5000 euros
One winner of each category will get a free accomodation in a four star hotel in Milan (Italy), for the awarding ceremony and exhibition. At the end of the competition, the jury will select 150 finalists, 50 each category, they will be invited to display their work in one of the galleries of the circuit in the period comprised between April and July 2012 in the cities of Milan, London, New York, Shanghai and Sao Paulo.
The works remain property of the artist. Personal exhibitions will be comprehensive of arrangement, opening and press releases. The organization will take care of the arrangement, organisation and advertisement on the exhibitions. Each artist will take care of the round-trip transportation costs and of any insurance to the assigned gallery.
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”

Contest for paper works - Italy 
Deadline: December 1st 2011 
An Italian cultural association announces the 2012 Contest for the planning of paper works. The Contest is finalized to the realization of projects in paper or similar. Purpose of the contest is the promotion of the paper as first material for the artists. The Contest foresees the elaboration of works and projects in paper and other products derived by the recycle (undulated cardboard, cardboard, pipes, structures, material of recycle, fabric not fabric, etc.). The projects will have to foresee the predominant use of papery materials. Artists are advised to respect the maximum dimensions of 4 x 4 x 4mt. Projects of bigger dimensions will be however valued. The project has to respect the general theme proposed by the organization that, for 2012, is "Crisis and Rebirth."  
The selected artists will be guests of the organization in Lucca, Italy and their lodging and trip will be paid. They will realize the structure according to the schedule foreseen by their executive project in a place furnished by the organization. 
The organization will offer besides:  
-1 (one) assistant for 4 (four) days - (3 for the assemblage, 1 for the dismantlement) 
-3 (three) transports - with van Iveco daily / one of which of dismantlement. 
- Material of hardware and wood for a maximum of 400 Euro. 
- Tools for a maximum of 200 Euro.  
- Paper and cardboard without limitations 
The installations will be exhibited at open air for one month, on July 2012. Among the installations, a solo project will be pronounced winning of the prize, after vote and reunion of the technical jury. A prize of  Euro 2.000,00 will be assigned to the winner.  
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”

International programme of artists in residence - Quebec
Deadline: 1st of February 2012
As part of its 2011-12 programming, this centre in Quebec is offering to all artists, the chance to present his or her work in its main gallery following an in-house production residency.
The residency is designed for artists who require the use of the wood and/or metal shops for the entire three-months period in order to realize an installation or sculptural or multidisciplinary work that incorporates materials and techniques that can only be handled in the shops. The artist chosen for the residency will be provided with accommodations and a per diem for the entire period: from October 2012 to January 2013. The exhibition that follows the three-months residency will be part of the centre’s programming for its main gallery. The exhibition will take place in January 2013.
While developing the project, the artist will have access to all the equipment contained in the wood and metal shops : a vast common space where many artists from the Québec City region work under the guidance of professional technicians.
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”

Prize of artistic creation – Spain
Deadline: 30th of December 2011
A Municipality in Italy, announces the sixth edition of the Ibero-American Prize of Contemporary Artistic Creation. Artists of any nationality can compete to the prize, with a maximum of two works.   
The works will have to be original and not been winning in other contests. So much the theme as the style of every work is free. There are not limitations of dimensions or duration, in the case of videoarte.   
The introduced works can belong to any artistic discipline: painting, sculpture, installation, graphics, photography, videoarte, sketch, etc.  
It is established a prize of Euro 12.000 (fiscal retentions will be applied). The jury can divide the prize among different works in case this is esteemed opportune. The winning work/s will be considered as a donation to the municipality.   
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”

Art exhibition and sculpture symposium – Germany
Deadline: 31st of January 2012
Various German institutions organises an annual international exhibition of visual arts from June to the beginning of October. The art exhibited is selected by a jury and features all visual art media. The exhibition in summer 2011 displayed the work of 250 artists from 55 countries, selected from 1200 applications from 72 countries.
Prize: 10.000 Euro awarded to one deserving artist. The visitors can vote for their favourite artist. The 1st Award chosen by the public is worth 1000 Euros. Each year the exhibition is preceded by the highly respected international Symposium, bringing together different generations of artists to share experiences and make art. Approximately 10 artists are invited to attend the symposium and create large works for the exhibition. The participants at the symposium enjoy free materials, a workplace and accommodation at the exhibition site itself. The work created remains the property of the artist and will be exhibited for at least 2 years – with the exception of works, which are sold. For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”

International Sculpture Symposium – Argentina
Deadline: 30 November 2011
This international sculpture symposium will take place from the 21st to the 28th of July 2012 in a town of Argentina. Art works should comply with the following conditions:
a) Theme: The Prophecy
b) The sculpture to be exhibited should be original and unprecedented.
c) Sculptures will be sculpted on a block of Travertine marble of 100cm. x 60 cm. x 60 cm.
Artists will be provided with 220 v electric power in order to use electrical tools and compressed air for pneumatic tools (which must be provided by Sculptor).
e) Artists will be provided with 2 (two) pneumatic hammers of up to 50 mm, which will be available 1 hour per day for each Sculptor.
Sculptors should bring their own tools, including grinding machine.
12 (twelve) artists will be selected to participate:
Those Artists residing in South and Central America will receive U$S 2,000.00 (Two thousand Dollars), a medal and a certificate; those artists residing in North America, Europe and Africa: U$S 2,500.00 (Two thousand and five hundred Dollars), medal and certificate, and artists residing in Asia and Oceania: U$S 3,500.00 (Three thousand and five hundred Dollars), medal and certificate.
The organization will offer food and accommodation to the selected artists.
Awards will be the following:
- First Award US$ 7,000.00 (Seven thousand Dollars) and plaque.
- Second Award US$ 5,000.00 (Five thousand Dollars) and plaque.
- Third Award US$ 3,000.00 (Three thousand Dollars) and plaque.
- Award of the Public US$ 1,000.00 (One thousand Dollars) and plaque.
- Sculptors' Award US$ 1,000.00 (One thousand Dollars) and plaque.
- Children's Award US$ 1,000.00 (One thousand Dollars) and plaque.
The realized sculptures will be exhibited during a term of 60 (sixty) days, after which will be sited in the city as Cultural Heritage of Resistencia / Chaco – the city of sculptures.
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”

Art Contest - Italy 
Deadline: November 30th 2011 
Artists of any nationality, between 18 and 36 years old can participate to this contest titled. Object of this contest are the various different forms of the communication: journalistic and of imagination, radio, video (report and investigation, docu-fiction, documentary, productions with videophone, short films) photography, literary works, fictions, prose and poetry, dramaturgy, graphic novel. The contest is devoted to the figure of Marco Formigoni. Please read first his biography and take a look to the work of  Marco to understand better the themes he faced.  
And then you can face your story. A text of imagination, a video, a recorded chronicle, a written or photographic report, look around as Marco would have made.
The jury will assign three prizes in money of 5000, 3000, 2000 Euros respectively for the first, the second and the third classified. The proclamation of the winners and the awarding will take place in Milan on March 26th 2012. 
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”

International Sculpture Symposium – Czech  Republic
Deadline: 30th of April 2012
This International Sculpture Symposium will take place from July 19th to August 2nd 2012 in a town of Czech Republic. Sculptures will be made in National House exteriors and in the adjacent town park. The material will be oak, ash, poplar. Accommodation, food, and material is guaranteed and funded by organizers and producers. Accommodation will be in a hotel, single room with shower and toilet, 200 meters from the workplace. Food will be ensured three times a day, 50 meters from the workplace
each participant must have their personal tools and saw. High-lift track, pallets, jacks, saw sharpening and tools are ensured by the organization. Each participant covers their own transportation costs.
Each participant will be awarded by 10 000 CZK after the sculpture is finished.
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”

VIII Prize of Visual Arts - Spain    
Deadline: December 03 th 2011   
A private spanish Foundation announces the VIII Prize of Visual Arts with the objective to contribute, through the Arts to divulge the reality of the people of gay and lesbian sexual orientation with the purpose to sensitize the society on the necessity to eradicate whatever form of discrimination against them.   
The admitted categories are: Painting and Photography.   
The original works will have to have necessarily the following characteristics:    
- The theme and the technique used will be free in all the formalities.   
- The formats will be the following:   
Painting: The pictures must adequately be introduced framed and prepared to be suspended, and their external dimensions won't have to overcome one meter in any side.  
Photography: The photos can be in colour, black and white, variations etc.... And they will have a maximum format of 1 meter for each of the sides, and they must be introduced on a rigid support. Every photography must be introduced framed, protected by glass or other material and prepared to be suspended.   
The exhibition of the selected works will be opened on December 2011 and it will be closed on January 2012.   
It is established a first and only prize in every formality and category whose amount is the following:   
Painting: 3.000 Euro   
Photography: 3.000 Euro   
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”

Art Contest - Italy 
Deadline: November 30th 2011 
Artists of any nationality, between 18 and 36 years old can participate to this contest titled. Object of this contest are the various different forms of the communication: journalistic and of imagination, radio, video (report and investigation, docu-fiction, documentary, productions with videophone, short films) photography, literary works, fictions, prose and poetry, dramaturgy, graphic novel. The contest is devoted to the figure of Marco Formigoni. Please read first his biography and take a look to the work of  Marco to understand better the themes he faced.  
And then you can face your story. A text of imagination, a video, a recorded chronicle, a written or photographic report, look around as Marco would have made.
The jury will assign three prizes in money of 5000, 3000, 2000 Euros respectively for the first, the second and the third classified. The proclamation of the winners and the awarding will take place in Milan on March 26th 2012. 
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”

International Sculpture Symposium – Czech  Republic
Deadline: 30th of April 2012
This International Sculpture Symposium will take place from July 19th to August 2nd 2012 in a town of Czech Republic. Sculptures will be made in National House exteriors and in the adjacent town park. The material will be oak, ash, poplar. Accommodation, food, and material is guaranteed and funded by organizers and producers. Accommodation will be in a hotel, single room with shower and toilet, 200 meters from the workplace. Food will be ensured three times a day, 50 meters from the workplace
each participant must have their personal tools and saw. High-lift track, pallets, jacks, saw sharpening and tools are ensured by the organization. Each participant covers their own transportation costs.
Each participant will be awarded by 10 000 CZK after the sculpture is finished.
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”

Art Contest - Italy  
Deadline: July 15th 2012 
This artistic competition this year is devoted to the theme: ENERGIES! Forms of the energy. The event will take place on Saturday 16th  and Sunday 17th  July 2011 - on Saturday from the hours 16.00 to 24.00, on Sunday from the hours 10.00 to 23.00 o'clock. The participation to the event and the contest is open to everybody; The various forms of visual art are admitted (painting, graphic art, sculpture, photo, etc.) realized with any technique; 
Artists can participate in the event with how many works they want, considering the availability of a space for the exhibition of around 6 linear meters. Three works selected by the jury will receive a cash prize as it follows: 
- Euro 1000,00 - to the first classified 
- Euro   700,00 - to the second classified
- Euro   300,00 - to the third classified 
There is also a special prize assigned by the public. 
The winning works will remain ownership of the author, the organization can use only its image.  
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”

VIII Prize of Visual Arts - Spain    
Deadline: December 03 th 2011   
A private spanish Foundation announces the VIII Prize of Visual Arts with the objective to contribute, through the Arts to divulge the reality of the people of gay and lesbian sexual orientation with the purpose to sensitize the society on the necessity to eradicate whatever form of discrimination against them.   
The admitted categories are: Painting and Photography.   
The original works will have to have necessarily the following characteristics:    
- The theme and the technique used will be free in all the formalities.   
- The formats will be the following:   
Painting: The pictures must adequately be introduced framed and prepared to be suspended, and their external dimensions won't have to overcome one meter in any side.  
Photography: The photos can be in colour, black and white, variations etc.... And they will have a maximum format of 1 meter for each of the sides, and they must be introduced on a rigid support. Every photography must be introduced framed, protected by glass or other material and prepared to be suspended.   
The exhibition of the selected works will be opened on December 2011 and it will be closed on January 2012.   
It is established a first and only prize in every formality and category whose amount is the following:   
Painting: 3.000 Euro   
Photography: 3.000 Euro   
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”

Design Contest in wood - Italy  
Deadline for the registrations: December 31 st 2011 
An italian firm for the harvest, the recovery and the recycling of the wood packings, announces the third edition of this design contest. This International contest intends to stimulate the young designers and the industry of the furniture to the planning and production of objects in recovered or recycled wood. The theme of this third edition, is “Contain a game”, to be intended as a stimulus to conceive and to plan whatever object fit to contain, freely interpreting the concept of playfulness, with the only tie to use recovered or recycled wood. The participation to the contest is free and open to students and  Italian and foreigner designers, younger than 35° years of age at the date 31.12.2010. 
Prizes: 
The first classified will receive a prize of Euro 10.000; the  second classified will receive Euro 5.000; The third classified Euro 3.000. The jury can signal further projects held deserving.  
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”

CALL FOR AN ART WORK FOR A BOOK COVER
Deadline: 31st of December 2011
Artists of all the nationality are invited to participate in an open competition to provide the book cover art for the re-publication a novel.  The winner of this competition will be awarded The Icon Prize, will receive $1500 in prize money, and will have his or  her artwork appear on the book cover.  The artist  retains ownership of the original work, and is free to sell the  original work as he/she wishes. The  winner of The Icon Prize will be announced no earlier than June 1,  2011 and no later than December 31, 2011.
For detailed information on how to participate ( integral announcement with required documentation and contact address), please visit the web site: www.callforart.com   at the section "Opportunities”