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2023 Peggy Doole National Small Works Competition and Exhibition

Juror: LuLen Walker-Art Curator at Georgetown University, where she oversees the University’s fine art holdings and collaborates with University’s fine art holdings and collaborates with faculty in teaching various subjects across the curriculum.

Hand-pulled prints, screen prints, digital prints, photographs, and three-dimensional work with print components.

• Original, editioned, and archivally printed and framed. (We accept editions of one,

that is, 1/1, of monoprints, etc.)

• For two-dimensional work, image may be NO LARGER THAN 120 square inches, with

framed size NO LARGER THAN 250 square inches. Three-dimensional work may be no

more than 250 cubic inches needing no frame.

Submitted on Mon, 04/10/2023 - 16:39

Merge: Nation's Best Emerging Artists with Disabilities

This call invites artists to consider the intersections and combinations of their creative process and disability identity. In art, the juxtaposition of ideas can blur distinctions or reveal something new. This year’s theme, Merge, explores uniting paths and asks what we can learn when it all comes together. 

About the VSA Emerging Young Artists Program
Our programs for artists with disabilities shape the future of the arts. The VSA Emerging Young Artists Program, a Jean Kennedy Smith Arts and Disability Program, amplifies the voices of emerging artists with career development and professional empowerment. The competition seeks excellent work from emerging artists with disabilities residing in the United States. 

Submitted on Wed, 04/14/2021 - 17:45

Merge: Nation's Best Emerging Young Artists with Disabilities

The VSA Emerging Young Artists Program amplifies the voices of visual artists with disabilities through career development and professional empowerment. The competition seeks excellent work from emerging artists with disabilities, ages 16-25, residing in the United States.

Fifteen winning artists are selected by jury. Grand Prize is $20,000, First Prize is $10,000, Second Prize is $6,000, and the remaining Awards of Excellence are $2,000 each. For winning artists, one of the submitted artworks will be selected for a national exhibition. Artists participate in professional development activities provided by the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

Submitted on Fri, 12/04/2020 - 19:00

VSA Playwright Discovery Competition

The 2021 VSA Playwright Discovery Award Program is now accepting 2021 applications.  High school students are invited to explore the disability experience through the art of writing for performance. Young writers with disabilities and collaborative groups that include students with disabilities are encouraged to submit short works written to be performed: plays, spoken word poetry (for single performer or a group), or music theater.

Writers must have a disability

U.S. writers must be grades 6-12 (or equivalents)

Non-U.S. writers age 11-18

Scripts may be for theater scripts, musicals, multimedia, video, film, or TV scripts, non-linear scripts or other writing for performance

Submitted on Fri, 12/04/2020 - 18:54

VSA International Young Soloists Competition

Calling all musicians with disabilities, ages 14-25! 

Each year outstanding young musicians with disabilities from around the world receive the VSA International Young Soloists Award, $2,000, and the opportunity to perform and participate in professional development and music coaching activities provided by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.  

This program is open to soloists and ensembles of any instrument or genre!

Submitted on Fri, 12/04/2020 - 18:49

The 2019 Christenberry Scholarship

The late William Christenberry was best known for his evocative photographs, collages, assemblages, paintings, drawings, and sculptures of his birthplace, Hale County, Alabama, and for his haunting vision of the American South.  As a teacher and mentor to hundreds of students at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, DC he was a guiding force for aspiring artists.

Submitted on Mon, 03/11/2019 - 20:53
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