Open Calls for Art

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Call for Native Artists: Public Art Commission at the Plains Conservation Center

The City of Aurora Art in Public Places Program is inviting qualifications from Native American artists for the first of five planned public art commissions at the Plains Conservation Center, a 1,100-acre protected shortgrass prairie in Aurora, Colorado. This free-to-apply opportunity offers a $67,500 commission to design, fabricate, and install a permanent three-dimensional artwork near an active eagle nesting area that reflects the ecological, cultural, and historical significance of the landscape.

Artists are encouraged to explore themes of Indigenous knowledge, stewardship, the relationship between people and the land, the interconnectedness of all living things, and the enduring importance of the prairie ecosystem. The selected artwork will serve as a welcoming landmark while honoring the site's natural beauty and the generations of Indigenous peoples who have cared for these lands.

This opportunity is open to artists who are members of one of the 51 federally recognized Tribal Nations associated with Colorado, as well as artists from Tribal communities whose members were displaced or relocated to the Denver Metro area through the Indian Relocation Act of 1956.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: JULY 22, 2026 AT 11:59PM

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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 16, 2026