Art Show Opportunities

Listings are placed chronologically by date of entry. If your art organization would like to list their upcoming open show here please contact the Web Administrator by clicking here.

NCSFA Juried Open Exhibit coming April to the POWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS. $1025 in Prizes! Deadline to Submit: March 9th. Digital Entries only. Click here for the prospectus and entry form. Accepted artists posted at the NCSFA website on March 20. Show Dates: Load-in: Friday March 30, 2012 from 8:00am – 10:00am. Reception: Saturday April 21, 2012 from 12 noon – 2:00pm. Load-out: Tuesday, May 1, 2012 from 8:00am – 10am. 15498 Espola Rd, Poway at Titan Way. Members help us get the word out: please print flyers Click here for downloadable flyer

Chronological Listings (by deadlines):

Southwestern Artists' Association 11th Annual Juried "Top 100" (includes a One Foot Show). Open to all San Diego County Artists. For prospectus/entry form go to "Juried Show" located on our website: www.SWArtists.com  Juror:  Elaine Harvey.  Acceptable Media:  All wall-hung, two dimensional work: oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, gouache, collage, drawing, mixed media, photography, digital art, etc. Show Dates: March 3 - 17. 
Deadline: Postmarked on or before Wed, Feb 1. 

3rd Annual Art in the Pines Spring Art Festival and Sale, Sat May 5 (10am - 5pm) & Sun May 6 (10am - 4pm).  Location: By the Visitors’ Center atop the Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve in San Diego. Three Options:
1.  Enter the plein air or photography contest and submit your work for cash prizes and for sale during the days of the event.
2.  Rent a 10’ x 10’ foot booth space from which you sell your own nature-based artwork. This may include paintings, photography, pottery, sculpture, and more.
3.  Rent a 2’ x 6’ foot grid to exhibit in the Open Air Gallery and have the Torrey Pines docent volunteers do all the work. They will hang your work and sell it for you. A commission is taken for this service. Applications for booth rental, grid rental, and for the plein air and photography contest will be available on-line in December at torreypines.org and torreypine.org.  Deadline:  February 17th.  Questions? Please click here

St Marks's United Methodist Church "49th Annual Religious Art Festival". Show dates: February 26th - April 8th, 2012. Entry Take in: Feb 24th - 25th. Click here for prospectus. Juror: Jeanne Dunn.

Poway Woman’s Club hopes that you will participate in our 21st “Celebrate Women” Art Exhibit during March 2012. Poway Center for Perfonrming Arts, Espola Rd. Show dates: March 1st to March 24th. Deadline: Wed, February 29th beginning at 9:00 AM. Click here for Prospectus.

San Diego Art Institute. "Southern California Regional Juried Award Exhibition". Deadline March 1-23rd. Show dates: March 31-May 13. Click here for entry forms and prospectus.

The Kenneth A. Picerne Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2012 Artist Outreach Project. The Foundation will award up to 20 artists $12,000 each for a one-year grant to provide educational, mentoring, and/or therapeutic arts experiences for people of any age group who lack opportunities to engage in meaningful arts programs. For the application, artists are asked to outline a plan to provide arts programming for the underserved group they would like to serve at a nonprofit they intend to collaborate with. Visual, literary, and performing artists 55 years old and older who live in North San Diego County or Orange County are eligible to apply. Interested artists can find out more and download an application on the new Foundation website at www.picernefoundation.org.  Contact Victor Nelson at vnelson@picernefoundation.org Deadline: March 30.

Ongoing:

Art Show Booth and some A-Frames. Terry Albert has an art show booth and some a-frames to sell or donate to the NCSFA: Five A-frames: price $10 each. One easily assembled booth: 3 panels with shelves in the middle. $50 for this unit is a bargain, which is why it is listed under opportunities.

City of San Marcos Hearth Gallery. San Marcos Community Center, 3 Civic Center Drive, San Marcos, 92069. 65 feet of gallery space. North County Artists wishing to exhibit work up to 60 days please click here for details.

Professional Artist: new opportunities posted regularly. Click here for link.

The UBS Financial Services, Inc., 17140 Bernardo Center Dr. in Rancho Bernardo (in Excellence Bldg. to right of library) is having monthly exhibits of local art. This community outreach program was started by three financial advisors with UBS, namely, Sharon Ford, Virginia Kuwahara and Juleane Spittler. They were inspired to do this by the free concert program at the library and planned the visual arts reception to take place on same day as the library’s concerts. In addition, those attending the art reception, if they wish, will receive a free portfolio review or a financial plan.
click here for more information

The Find at the Fallbrook Art Center: Our gallery store located in front of The Janice Griffiths Gallery
fronting on Main Street The Find will be open daily, even when the Fallbrook Art Center is closed during show set-upStore Hours:  Mon-Sat 10am-4pm | Sun 12-3pm  We are specifically looking for:Functional Art Pieces - ceramic, wood, glass, fiber, Wearable Art - jewelry, scarves, hand crafted greeting cards, journals & Photo AlbumsTo receive details on showing: thefind@fallbrookartcenter.org

NCSFA Members only--One man and group traveling shows at Poway Library and Bernardo Heights Community Center for up to four months.  Art work is exchanged in 2 month intervals.  If you are an NCSFA member contact Janet Perkin at janetperkin@yahoo.com for this exhibit opportunity.

Gallery/Studio Space: Distinction Gallery & Artist Studios, 317 E Grand Ave, Escondido, CA 92025. (760) 781-5779. distinctionart.com. Hours Thurs-Fri 12-5, Sat 10-5 & by appointment.

Escondido needs your large scale art to fill the interiors of buildings on Grand Ave.  Email low-resolution images of your artwork to the Escondido Municipal Gallery for consideration.

La Jolla Art Association ongoing: Whether you are a LJAA member or not, you can apply for a solo or a group show at the LJAA gallery, subject to availability. All the necessary information and application forms can be found here

On-going: City of San Marcos and San Marcos Art Association invite artists to exhibit at the Hearth Gallery, San Marcos Community Center, 3 Civic Dr. San Marcos 92069. Work displayed at 2 month intervals. Click here for more information.

Access Arts' Art Deadline.com ongoing: click on ArtDeadline.com for income and exhibition opportunities for artisits, including local and national juried artist competitions, grants, call for submissions, art jobs, art festivals, residencies, fellowships.

Local Art Links
Please contact Web Administrator to link your local non-profit gallery or art association website to ours

Useful tool: for figure studies check out www.posemaniacs

Rancho Bernardo Art Association click here.

San Diego Watercolor Society click here

Artists wanted for membership: art gallery in La Jolla . For more information email arthurball@aol.com

San Diego Visual Arts Network website and mailing list for opportunities: Click Here to add your name. They request a $5 donation. Check out their website

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