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Looking for calls for artists and arts events happening in your city?
Every month, we round up the top arts opportunities from organizations, galleries, and municipalities across the country and list them here. Below are some of the resources and current opportunities on our radar, from British Columbia to Atlantic Canada. The links will open in a new tab on your browser.
STEPS opportunities
- Call for Ontario-based Indigenous Artists, Century Gardens Youth Hub Public Art Competition with the City of Brampton (Extended Deadline: April 30, 2025 at 11:59 PM ET)
- Call for Manitoba Artists, Railside at the Forks Public Art Competition (Deadline: May 4, 2025 at 11:59 PM CT)
External public art opportunities
- Call for Applications, Laneway Co-Labs, Laneway Projects, Toronto, Ontario (Deadline: April 20, 2025)
- Call for Applications, Cedar Ridge Summer Artist Residency, Cedar Ridge Creative Centre, City of Toronto (Deadline: April 27, 2025)
- Call for Applications, Tsuut’ina Curatorial Mentorship in Public Art, City of Calgary (Deadline: April 18, 2025)
- Call for Proposals, Indigenous Public Art Spotlight BWG, Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library and Cultural Centre, Ontario (Deadline: April 21, 2025)
- Call for Selection Committee Members, Scotia Place Public Art Program, LeuWebb Projects, Calgary, Alberta (Deadline: April 23, 2025)
- Call for Indigenous Writers, Confluence, Forge Projects, Mahicannituck (Hudson River) Valley, USA (Deadline: April 25, 2025)
- Call for Mural Artists, OCAD and Toronto Downtown West BIA (Deadline: April 28, 2025)
- Call for Artists, Culture Days 2025, Town of Oakville (Deadline: May 1, 2025)
- Call for Applications, Art & Science Residency at Bonne Bay Aquarium and Research Station, Grenfell Art Gallery, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Norris Point, NL (Deadline: May 1, 2025)
- Call for Artists, Perspectives, Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport, Toronto (Deadline: May 1, 2025)
- Request for Expressions of Interest, Outdoor Wall Vinyl Artwork at the Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts, Town of Oakville (Deadline: May 1, 2025)
- Call for Artists, Canadian Young Caregivers Conference, Hamilton, Ontario (Deadline: May 1, 2025)
- Call for Applications, PHI Montréal Residency, Quebec (Deadline: May 2, 2025)
- Call for Artists, Joseph Plaskett Postgraduate Award in Painting (Deadline: May 4, 2025)
- Call for Indigenous Artists, Visual Arts Residency, Banff Centre (Deadline: May 7, 2025)
- Request for Qualifications, Element Park Mosaic Project, City of St. Albert, Alberta (Deadline: May 8, 2025)
- Call for Artist-Researchers, AGO and RBC Emerging Artists (Deadline: May 9, 2025)
- Call for Curators, Bureau des regroupements des artists de l’Ontario (BRAVO) (Deadline: May 9, 2025)
- Call for Indigenous Mural Artists, East End Arts and End United Regional Ministry (Deadline: May 9, 2025)
- Call for Artists, Art in the Park, Visual Arts Mississauga (Deadline: May 12, 2025)
- Call for Artists, Brampton BOXED Traffic Art Box Program (Deadline: May 15, 2025)
- Call for Submissions, 401 Career Launcher Prize 2025, Toronto, Ontario (May 15, 2025)
- Call for Applications, Curator-in-Residence in Social and Environmental Justice in the Arts, Western University, London, Ontario (Deadline: May 15, 2025)
- Call for Artists, Nuit Blanche East Danforth, East End Arts and The Danforth BIA (Deadline: May 16, 2025)
- Request for Qualifications, Strathcona County Footbridge Public Art Project, Edmonton, Alberta (Deadline: May 21, 2025)
- Call for Artists, Youth Centre Mural Project, Iroquois Ridge Community Centre, Town of Oakville (Deadline: May 25, 2025)
- Call for Applications, City of Toronto Artist in Residence (AiR) Program 2025-2026 (Deadline: May 28, 2025)
- Call for Submissions – Sound Culture, New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA), South River, Ontario (Deadline: May 31, 2025)
- Call for Artists, Barbara Spohr Memorial Award for Photography and Residency (Deadline: June 18, 2025)
- Funding Opportunity, Creative Communities Projects, Toronto Arts Council (Deadline: August 5, 2025)
- StreetARToronto Support Mural Program (Rolling Deadline)