Open Calls for Art
DAG 2025 Members’ Showcase: Applications are now closed - Thanks members!!
Email Dara@durhamartguild.org to inquire about late submissions.
Deadline EXTENDED - 6.2
Outside Opportunities
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illuminate Festivals is coming to Durham on October 5, 2025, showcasing artisans, spa products, energy and body work practitioners and more! Visit illuminatefestivals.com for more info.
Eligibility: Open to all artists 18 years of age and older. Applications are subject to approval prior to exhibiting during the market. Click the link below to apply for a booth.
Application fee: $6.50
Approved booth fee: 88.00
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The Sertoma Arts Center is seeking artists to display their work in this unique community-based arts facility! The facility has the ability to display both 2-D and 3-D works. Both emerging and established artists are encouraged to apply.
Deadline: June 30, 2025
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Art in the Arboretum Festival will have several opportunities for artists to display their work this year. From your traditional style 10' x 10' tent spaces throughout the gorgeous gardens to our non-tent spaces outside that are 5' x 10' under-awning, we are excited about all the possibilities these spaces create for the artists. Our show will again be a three-day event, on October 10 th opening from 5:30-7:30 pm for our “Sip, Savor, & Shop” event. Then on Saturday, October 11 th and Sunday, October 12 th we will be open from 10 am -4 pm. Read the Prospectus, please note the important calendar dates, show details, and guidelines.
Fees: $35 or $45 (late submissions)
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Raleigh Art's Block2 Gallery is an outdoor visual platform for video, digital, and new media artists. Viewed after dark, the changing videos aim to expand a viewer's notion of visual art and introduce the community to new artists, ideas, and experimental mediums.
Deadline: Applications accepted year-round
If you're interested in applying, please email Stacy Bloom Rexrode, Curator of Exhibitions and Collections.
Artist Opportunities Throughout the Year
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Artist Opportunities Throughout the Year -
Our annual member show is an opportunity for all our DAG Artist Members to exhibit in our Truist Gallery in a beautiful and highly anticipated group exhibition. This is a non-juried exhibition and each member will be allowed one (1) piece of work to automatically be entered into the showcase.
Applications will open in May 2025.
Annual Members’ Showcase
We’re excited to have brought back the annual artist market! This is an opportunity for any of our members to sign up to be a vendor (for free!) for our market held in the fall.
The 2024 Market was held on October 25 at Uhill Apartments, Durham.
Applications for 2026 will open next Fall.
Artist Market Fall 2025
This is one of the largest exhibitions of work shown all year in the Truist Gallery. Artists from anywhere, member or non-member, are invited to submit work to be juried into this historic exhibition. Applications will open in the late Summer/early Fall each year.
Annual Juried Exhibition Winter 2025
Our DAG members are tapped to submit work for themed exhibitions in various locations in downtown Durham. These exhibitions run 1-2 months and include receptions during Third-Friday art-walks. Any open calls for this space will be posted above.
Pop-Up Exhibitions 2025
DAG partners with local businesses and spaces around the Triangle to install artwork leased from local and regional artists. Art is selected on a rolling basis throughout the year, based on demand from partners. Any member artist can submit an application HERE to be considered for this program and artists already in the system should reach out regularly to update their application with their most recent work. Contact Dara at dara@durhamartguild.org for more information.
Art@Work 2025
Want to exhibit solo or with a group in our Truist Gallery or Golden Belt Gallery? A call is pushed out to our members in the early fall every year to submit proposals to be considered.
2025 applications are closed. The 2026 submission portal will open in the Fall of 2025.
DAG Gallery Shows
CMP mentors are artistic practitioners who serve as advisors and guides for each student’s creative journey during this program. Mentors also serve as compassionate adult figures and role models for the students with whom they are paired. While the students select the media they would like to work with, mentors help students solve creative problems, provide feedback on their projects, and, when appropriate, provide technical and professional advice and assistance. Mentors work with the students to create and manage a program budget and oversee the project timeline to ensure the project will be finished by the exhibition date.
Contact Anthony Patterson at anthony@durhamartguild.org if you have any questions or need further assistance.
2025 applications are closed. Applications for 2026 will open in late Fall of 2025.
CMP Mentors
The Durham Art Guild seeks artwork donations annually from our valued network of talented members and other community artists for our annual fundraising event. This year's Swing into Spring artwork donations will be on view in DAG’s Truist Gallery March 23 – April 5 leading up to and during the online auction. People are welcome to come see the items in person before bidding online.
All donating artists have the option to receive: a free ticket to the in-person fundraiser upon delivery of the donation AND/OR receive 25% commission on work that sells.
Swing into Spring 2025
Artist in Residence
The Artist in Residence Program provides 6 months’ of free, professional studio space at the Golden Belt Campus or Durham Bottling Co. in Durham for three local artist(s) each year. Resident Artists also receive a $1,500 stipend, regular support from local professional artists, access to DAG’s professional resources and networks, and an exhibition in the DAG Gallery at Golden Belt at the end of the residency.
Next call for applications will be Spring 2025.