Open to painters world wide over 18 years of age. In addition to monthly and year-end cash prizes, the Grand Prize winner will also be offered the opportunity for a 2 week residency in Sedona, Arizona through the Sedona Arts Center (to be completed in 2018).

The award is granted biennially to an emerging or early career photographer who demonstrates artistic promise. The competition is open to photographers who are residents of the United States, working in all photographic media and styles.

Desert Artisans' Gallery, Tucson's longest running artists' cooperative, is currently looking for local artists with emphasis on abstract art, metal, fiber art, blown glass and modern, unusual pottery.

The Matador Review is an online literature and art quarterly based in Chicago, Illinois, publishing poetry, fiction, flash fiction and creative non-fiction. Inviting all unpublished literature written in the English language (and translations that are accompanied by the original text) as well as many forms of visual art.

NYC4PA invites photographers world-wide to submit images using any photographic process (print, image transfer, emulsion transfer, encaustic, black and white, color etc.). Winners will receive $4,000 in cash awards and be featured in the NYC4PA Online Gallery. The Grand Prize winning image will be posted on the NYC4PA home page.

Art Olympia is an open art competition held as a biennial event with the goal of discovering talented artists around the world and supporting their activities. It aims to promote exchanges of the world's various cultures through arts. Artworks of approximately 180 pieces (80 pieces from Japan and 100 pieces outside of Japan) will be selected and undergo a final review in Tokyo by a panel of great judges invited from around the world.

The Japan U.S. Friendship Commission offers leading contemporary and traditional artists from the United States the opportunity to spend three to five months in Japan through the U.S.-Japan Creative Artists Program.