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Colorful Creatures 2025, International Art Competition

Submit your color-focused animal and wildlife art.

Vibrancy, color theory, monochrome, gentle hue shifts, ombre effects and dynamic gradients!

Show us abstract expressionist color explosions in the form of animal art!

Wow us with your subtlety or skill with controlling value and tones!

We want to see how you express animal art through color. 

  • All animals and insects are welcome 

  • 2D and 3D artwork, sculpture, original digital art, and photography

  • Any style and genre as long there is an animal in it

  • Show us your skills with color theory or your love of color in general!

  • All entries must be the original artwork of the submitting artist

3rd Annual Animal Portraiture Open

CALL for ART: 3rd Animal Portraiture Open. Deadline: December 20, 2024

$500 in cash awards. See prospectus for details.
Submit your animal portraits: art, sculpture, and photography.

  • Any sort of animal is eligible. We are looking for portraits of animals, wildlife, pets, farm animals, and the like.
  • 2D and 3D artwork and photography desired. All art styles welcome and encouraged.
  • International Online Exhibition. 18+ years old to enter.

Awards for Best in Show, Overall Runner Up, Artivism Award, Overall Honorable Mentions, and Finalist Awards

We love to see various genres and mediums of art!

Entry fee: $15-20 USD

Virtual Exhibition: January 2025

ROAR, the Art of Cats, International Art Call

Submit your cat-themed art and photography! This is one of our most popular virtual art exhibitions. Show us your most cat-like cats, wild and/or domestic!

  • We're specifically looking for cats as the subject matter and focus
  • Wild Cats
  • Domestic Cats
  • 2D and 3D artwork, sculpture, and photography
  • Any style and genre as long it focuses on one o more cats

All entries must feature a cat and must be the original artwork of the submitting artist.

Yosemite Renaissance 40

For over 150 years, artists have played an important role in the establishment of our state and national parks, inspiring people to visit iconic natural sites, and to protect our natural resources. The exhibit is open to visual artists and artisans working in all media including but not limited to: oil & acrylic painting, watercolor, pastel, mixed media, printmaking, photography, digital art, drawing, fiber art, glass, woodworking, jewelry, ceramics, and sculpture. Subject matter must be related to the landscape, environment, wildlife and people of Yosemite National Park and the California Sierra Nevada region. See Prospectus for more details.

WINGS 2024, International Art Competition, Animals and Wildlife

Submit your animal-themed art and photography that has to do with wings or flight: Birds, bats, flying squirrels, sugar gliders, flying fish, insects, and more! If the animal can fly, glide or coast, or if the animal has wings, the artwork can be entered!

  • All animals that are capable of flight are welcome.

  • All animals that have wings are welcome, even if they can't fly.

  • Wild, domesticated, feral, rural animals are all welcome! (Budgies, pigeons, falcons, hawks, chickens, ducks, bats, butterflies, bees, etc)

2D and 3D artwork and photography desired.

All entries must feature an animal and must be the original artwork of the submitting artist.

3rd Annual Wild Art Open, International Art Call

Submit your art and photography of wild animals. Land, sea, and sky! If the animal is generally considered to be a wild animal, we want to see it!

Wild animals, obviously feral animals, and urban wildlife are all welcome. 2D and 3D artwork and photography desired.

We are looking for 2D and 3D artwork and photography that falls into a variety of art style and genre categories: Abstraction, Portraiture, Surrealism, Realism, Pop Art, Expressionism, Assemblage, and more!

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