Gold County Fair

Gold Country Fair Grounds & Event Center

Whether you're a painter, photographer, sculptor, or mixed-media creator, we want to showcase your talent at the 2025 Gold Country Fair!

Now’s your chance to share your creativity with the community and compete for ribbons, recognition, and bragging rights in the Still Exhibits Department.

Open to all ages and skill levels!

Submit your entries today and jointhe fair to celebrate local art in all its forms September 4-7, 2025

Deadline to apply: Aug 1, 2025

Tahoe Literary Festival

Call for submissions is open for programming, workshops and author readings. The Tahoe Literary Festival is a grassroots community event that fosters creativity, cultivates community, supports artists, and inspires anyone passionate about the literary arts in whatever form they gravitate toward. The event features generative workshops, craft talks, readings, and panels. The Literary Festival’s goal is to inspire writers, aspiring writers, book lovers, and those interested in exploring and dipping their toes in the literary waters.

The festival offers free and ticketed events, along with free author-led readings, a book fair, Literary Open Mic hosted by Scott Green of the Tahoe Poetry Collective, daylong programming with publishing and author panels, workshops, and author readings and discussions. Songwriters’ Showcase hosted by Will Richardson of Tahoe Institute of Natural Science.

Deadline to apply: July 31, 2025, 11:59 p.m.

Birds & Benches

City of Sacramento

The City of Sacramento’s Art in Public Places program invites qualified professional artists to apply for three position opportunities as part of a new artist designed benches project in North Natomas Regional Park.

Read more about the opportunities and award amounts in the RFQ background materials on Submittable.

Deadline to apply: July 28, 2025, 11:59 p.m.

Creative Crosswalks

City of Sacramento - District 3

Artists and art instructors - An opportunity for artists is opening in South Natomas for a Creative Crosswalks project in partnership with the Twin Rivers Unified School District.

Seeking two Teaching Artists and two Design Artists to help install the very first creative crosswalks in the City of Sacramento since city policy on Creative Crosswalks was published in 2021. This is a unique opportunity to impact the safety of your community in a creative way! 

Register for the Information Session 

August 6, 2025, from 5:30-6:30 p.m.

Deadline to apply: August 18, 2025, 11:59 p.m.

Walking in Our Moccs

Maidu Museum & Historic Site

Sierra Native Alliance, in partnership with the Maidu Museum & Historic Site (MMHS), invite Native artists to share their unique perspectives of ‘walking in two worlds’ – highlighting the deep connections between modern Indigenous identity, social justice, and equity.

Deadline to submit: August 11, 2025

Best of Show 2024: Artwork by Linda Galusha

Bold Expressions 2025

Northern California Arts, Inc.

70th International Open Juried Art Exhibit.

Open to fine artists everywhere. Sacramento Fine Arts Center invites you to submit your original artwork. Not accepted for this show are

photography, giclees, video, computer generated art, or craft. Juror is

Linda Galusha. www.lindagalusha.com

Best of show $1,000 plus other

awards.

Exhibit: September 30-October 25, 2025.

Bold Expressions 2025 info contact

Paul Dessau at paul@nccn.net or

530-346-6078

Deadline to apply: August 19, 2025, 12 midnight.

National Mother Lode Art Exhibition

MAAC

59th annual show, November 6-22, 2025, at the Mills Station Arts and Culture Center (MACC) gallery in Rancho Cordova, CA. This juried show is open to all artists in the United States. Work accepted may include all media except sound and video, there is no limitation on theme.

Over $4,000 in awards, including $700 for Best of Show!

Deadline: Sept 19 at 10:59 p.m. PST

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