Opportunities for Artists, Summer Edition!
This summer, discover more ways to bring your creativity to the world. To help you out, we’ve assembled a collection of hot opportunities with deadlines coming up this summer. Read on to find out more.
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Call for applicants: ArtworksTO: Newcomer Program
Deadline to apply: July 24, 2025
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This program provides newcomer creatives with training, mentorship, and a $5,000 paid work opportunities in media arts or arts education. The ArtWorksTO: Newcomer Program, funded by the TD Ready Challenge is designed to help 25 new Canadians build long-term careers in media arts and arts education. Through strategic partnerships with OCAD University, Work in Culture and industry organizations, participants will receive credentialed education, industry mentorship, and paid work placements to develop practical skills and build professional networks.
Image Description: A photo of seven people and an orange cat from Collective City: House Project, posed against a red background. A large white bird plume is held near the center-right of the group.
Calls for Submissions: Collective City Gallery Project
Deadline: July 31, 2025
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Collective City Arts invites individual artists, artist collectives, and curators to submit a proposal for a 2-week show as part of our inaugural season in 2026. Successful candidates will receive rent-free access to the contemporary exhibition space at Dupont Rail Gallery in midtown Toronto. The Gallery Project will also provide a part-time sitting attendant, and promotional support for the show.
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Call for Submissions: Resistant Fibres Collaborative Textile Installation Project
Deadline: August 4, 2025
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Weave yourself into a larger story in the Âjagemô Exhibition Space. Join makers across Canada to celebrate the power and joy of fibre arts in the Resistant Fibres exhibition! Contribute to the creation of a bold patchwork of textile voices to transform a central column in the Canada Council Âjagemô Exhibition Space.
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Call for Proposals - Culture Days at the Richmond Hill Public Library
Deadline: August 5, 2025
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Applications are currently open for performers, workshop leaders, and cultural organizations interested in participating for Culture Days festivities (Sept. 20) at Richmond Hill Public Library.
It’s a great opportunity to give back to the community and showcase your work. Activities can range from play presentations/readings and artist talks, to demonstrations and workshops or any other creative idea.
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Calls for Proposals: Tangled Art Gallery
Deadline: August 8, 2025
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Tangled Art + Disability is now accepting applications to exhibit your artwork at Tangled Art Gallery. They invite submissions from Deaf, Mad, and Disability-identified artists and curators, as well as arts organizations and other cultural producers who practice Disability Arts and Curation. There are two different spaces you can apply to show your work: the main gallery space or the window vitrines.
Image Description: An photograph of an intricate mural by Chris Perez and Leyland Adams on the side of a building. The mural is of a blue sky and bright red and pink flowers. In expressive cursive, painted text of the mural reads ‘Guildwood”. On the bottom left corner of the mural are the tags of the artists @chrispperez and @leylandadams
Calls for Muralists: StreetARToronto Support Mural Program
Deadline: Rolling deadline
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The StART Support Program helps provide materials for the creation of graffiti art and street art murals on properties with a history of repeated vandalism on walls exposed to city streets. Applications are now open and on a rolling deadline, but projects must be completed by October 31st, 2025
