Open Calls for Art

 
 
 
 
 
 

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS CREATES
Call for Artists: Lowbrow / High Art

Steamboat Creates, located in Steamboat Springs, is now accepting submissions for a curated exhibition exploring Lowbrow and Pop Surrealism.

This exhibition is rooted in a simple idea: this kind of work doesn’t often appear in our mountain town galleries—but it should.

Selected artists will exhibit at the Art Depot, a historic 1908 railway station turned contemporary gallery along the Yampa River. As a certified Colorado Creative District, Steamboat Creates offers a unique platform where Western heritage intersects with a vibrant, evolving art scene.

Exhibition Details:

  • Up to 15 artists will be selected

  • Exhibition Dates: August 2026

  • Opening Reception: August 7, 2026

Submission Guidelines:

  • Submit 3–5 works for consideration

  • Include image size, medium, and price

  • DEADLINE: May 1, 2026

Submit work to curator Garret Bock at garretbock@gmail.com

 

warm cookies of the revolution
call for artists: DREAMSCAPES LOUNGE- FUTURE TOWN 2045 

Warm Cookies of the Revolution is putting out a BIG Call for Artists, in collaboration with many program partners in Alamosa, Colorado and the broader San Luis Valley. This call is open to all artists who live in or have deep roots in Colorado or New Mexico. This exhibition explores many creative forms, styles, media, mediums, and disciplines. This is not your average artist call. It is wide open like the western skies–experimental and abstract by design. 

We will open exhibitions in four unique sites in downtown Alamosa on June 20th, 2026 (Summer Solstice). Additional exhibition sites will pop up late summer and early fall. Installations and programming will continue through the Winter Solstice in December.

There is a wide range of futurist themes at play, including humanity, technology, sustainability, culture, identity, land, water, nature, healing, infrastructure, and design. We will make the process for getting your art to Alamosa cost free and easy.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: May 4, 2026

Learn more & submit here
 

denver art museum
Opportunity for Artists, Artisans & Makers: Colorado Day Art Market

The Colorado Day Art Market is a one-day fine art and craft market on the plaza of the Denver Art Museum campus for Colorado artists and artisans to showcase and sell their wares. We welcome original work by Colorado artists and artisans in the following categories: Ceramics & Glass; Fiber Art; Jewelry; Metal, Wood & Mixed Media; Painting, Drawing, Photography & Printmaking; Sculpture; Emerging Artists. Artists will be selected through a blind jury process.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: May 6, 2026

Learn more & Submit here
 

women’s caucus for art colorado
call for entries: (un)altered books

Un)Altered Books: Unheard Voices invites artists to reclaim banned books and overlooked, erased, or silenced histories through visual book-based art forms. Using books as object, structure, or metaphor, artists will transform research, archives, and lived experience into powerful acts of storytelling and restoration that tell the full story of us.

This project blends art-making, research, archives, and community engagement, offering artists guided access to historical resources, bookmaking techniques, and a supportive creative cohort. This project is in partnership with the Women’s Caucus for Art – Colorado, University of Denver Libraries and the Blair Caldwell Library.

All visual media welcome, including altered books, mixed media, sculpture, painting, photography, and interdisciplinary work. The exhibition invites 2D and 3D artists.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: August 16th, 2026

Learn more & Apply here