Emerging Artist Applications 

Columbus Arts Festival 

Deadline: January 16 

In addition to our artist application, which is open to national and international exhibitors, the Columbus Arts Festival offers a separate application to local artists who are new to exhibiting at art fairs through GCAC’s Emerging Artists program.

The Emerging Artist program is designed specifically for artists who have extremely limited or no experience exhibiting and selling their artwork at arts festivals. Artists who apply in this category must be residents of Franklin, Union, Delaware, Licking, Fairfield, Pickaway, Fayette and Madison counties.

This program has been designed to help promote Central Ohio artists who are new to presenting their work at festivals. In addition to a lower booth fee Emerging Artists also receive assistance from Festival staff on how to best present their work to the public.

Local artists who wish to be considered for the 2014 Columbus Arts Festival’s Emerging Artist program should apply through ZAPPlication™, an online application tool, by submitting four digital images of their work and one image of their booth display. A jury panel, selected by the GCAC staff, conducts a blind jury process, where jurors review the artists’ images and technical statements without any biographical information about the artists. The top scores, allowing for a balanced show across mediums, are invited to participate in the Festival.

For more information visit http://columbusartsfestival.org/apply/emerging-artist/ or download a complete Prospectus

Call for Entries 

Plein Air Festival 

Open for Applications: January 1 

Deadline: March 1 

The 9th Annual Wayne Plein Air Festival is currently accepting entries. This year's juror, Ray Roberts, will select 30 artists to compete in the festival from May 12-16 in Wayne, PA and its historical and pastoral surroundings. There is $10,000 in prize awards. The opening reception will be on Saturday, May 16. Paintings will remain on display and for sale through June 27th. 

Applications must be submitted online only between January 1 and March 1, 2015. 

For more information call 610-688-3553 or email patti@wayneart.org 

You may also visit the website

Visual Artist Applications 

Columbus Arts Festival 

Deadline: January 16 

Each year, artists who wish to be considered for the Columbus Arts Festival apply through ZAPPlication™, an online application tool, by submitting four digital images of their work and one image of their booth display. A jury panel, selected by the CAF Coordinating Committee, conducts a blind jury process, where jurors review the artists’ images and technical statements without any biographical information about the artists. The top scores, allowing for a balanced show across mediums, are invited to participate in the Festival.

For more information visit http://columbusartsfestival.org/apply/artist/ or download a complete Prospectus

Central Ohio's finest glass-working artists will be on hand with jewelry, holiday decorations, and other glass artwork of all forms and sizes next weekend for Glass Axis' Holiday Sale at their new home in Franklinton!

Friday December 12- Noon to 7 pm

Saturday December 13- 10 am to 4 pm

Sunday December 14- 10 am to 4 pm

Thousands of glass pieces will be on display, many at discounted prices, and walk-in workshops will run all weekend! So, create your own unique items or personalized gifts!

The Blown Glass Ornament Workshop is for ages 12 and up. Shape and blow molten glass into a globe-shaped ornament at just $30 a pop!

For merely $15 per bead, visitors 6+ may use smaller torches to heat and form glass into the shape of a candy-shaped bead in the Torchworked Bead Workshop!

All activities are first-come, first-serve as no pre-registration is required. Click here to get all the details on Glass Axis courses offered at other times.

Glass Axis new address is 610 W Town St., Columbus, OH 43215.

The Columbus Public Art Program, in partnership with the Harrison West Society is going to commission a professional artist to design and install a fifth site-specific public artwork in Harrison Park.   

Qualifications are sought from professional visual artists who live or work in the state of Ohio. An Artist Advisory Panel will select three artist finalists to prepare proposals. Artist finalists will each receive a proposal fee of $750 to prepare and present a site specific public art proposal at a community event hosted by the Harrison West Society. The art will be selected through a community voting process. The selected proposal will be forwarded to the Columbus Art Commission for conceptual design and placement approval. The Columbus Recreation and Parks Department will also review the proposal for acceptance into Harrison Park. 

The artist will have a $90,000 all-inclusive budget as well as a 10% contingency set aside. All contracts will be held by the City of Columbus and artists receiving payments will be required to register with city Vendor Services. 

All materials but be received by 4pm, January 15, 2015. 

For more information, forms and requirements see: https://columbus.gov/planning/hpartproject/

During the month of December, the Ohio Art League will host its annual Thumb Box Exhibition of small works at RAW Gallery. The surface may be small, but the work is large! For this intriguing show, member artists entered 2D or 3D works which measure no more than 6”x6”x6” in dimension.

Thumb Box runs December 5, 2014 – January 2, 2015 at RAW Gallery, 112 E Main St, Columbus, OH 43215. 

The gallery is free and open to the public. View this holiday exhibition on Fridays 4-8pm, Saturdays 12-6pm, and Sundays 12-4pm.

The Residency Program at Glacier National Park offers professional artists the opportunity to pursue their artistic discipline while being surrounded by the park's inspiring landscape. The program seeks professional artists whose work is related to the park's interpretative themes and supports the mission of the National Park Service.

Every entry is shown in the eleventh annual Snap to Grid: the UN-Juried Exhibit, and you still have a chance to be a part of this digital art show!

• All entries will be printed (8.5"x11" on heavyweight paper) and shown in the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art gallery arranged in a grid.
  

• Entrants submit JPEG files of original work, and multiple entries are permitted.
  

Snap to Grid will be on display from December 11, 2014 through January 3, 2015.

The Opening Reception is on Thursday, December 11 from 7- 9 pm.


All styles of artwork and photography where digital processes of any kind were integral to the creation of the images are acceptable. Digital video stills and screen shots of web/new media are acceptable. Documentation shots of digital installation and digital sculpture are acceptable.

The Urban Art Space will be hosting the work from Ohio State's Graduating Artists. 

Exhibitions Dates: December 2nd-December 20th 2014 

Closing Reception: Saturday, December 20, 2014, 3–5PM

The Department of Art, Bachelor of Fine Arts Senior Projects Exhibition for the graduating Autumn 2014 class. The exhibition displays the work of graduating art majors from The Ohio State University. The art on display was developed from a range of media and approaches during the students' course of study at Ohio State.

Click the Links for details: Ohio Art League and Urban Art Space.