Calls for Artists
Artists, fight extinction through your creativity. Find your next activist art opportunity with Northwest Artists Against Extinction below. Unless otherwise specified, the calls are open to all artists. Thank you for applying your talents to inspire a more sustainable world.
Past Calls for Artists
Call for Art: Sending Love to Tahlequah
NWAAE is looking for visual art, poetry, and/or short prose created to honor Tahlequah.
Artwork and Story/Poetry submission deadline has passed.
Copyright ©Britt FredaYou may have seen the heartbreaking news recently. Tahlequah J35, the Southern Resident orca, tragically lost another newborn and again spent weeks sacrificing precious energy to carry her deceased calf in a display of grief.
Southern Resident orcas face immense challenges, and chinook salmon are vital to their survival. As much as 80% of the Southern Residents’ diet is chinook salmon and one of the largest historical sources of these salmon at a critical time of the year – winter – has been the Snake River. Restoring a free-flowing lower Snake River is essential to recover critical salmon runs and help feed struggling Southern Residents.
Open call for: Wild Blues Artist-in-Residence Program 2025
Open until January 15, 2025.
*for artists with a connection to the Blue Mountains Region
Location: Good Bear Ranch Mountain Retreat, Baker City, OR
Time: 10 day residency
Residency Dates: Flexible-preferred time frame is between April 1st - May 31, 2025
Stipend: $2,000
Applying artists should send examples of past work that best demonstrates an expression of our “Refugia” theme.
A selection committee will review the applications and choose an artist with whom we will work. Selection will be based on the artists’ work quality, artistic relevance to GHCC’s mission, and availability for engagement during the calendar year. Artists will be notified of acceptance, or otherwise by February 1, 2025.
For application instructions and additional information about the program visit the Greater Hells Canyon Council Wild Blues Artist in Residence page:
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Call for Artists: Join the R.U.N. Art Show
December 17-18, 2024
Location: Three Rivers Convention Center, Kennewick, WA
Cost: Free to exhibit and to vend!
Artists may choose to participate on one or both days.
Submission Deadline: EXTENDED - December 13, 2024
We’re thrilled to announce an incredible opportunity for artists to participate in a two-day juried art show as part of the second annual Rise Up Northwest in Unity Convening (R.U.N.), happening December 17-18, 2024, at the Three Rivers Convention Center in Kennewick, WA.
While the convening focuses on cultivating solutions together for safeguarding the Northwest’s precious life sources—water, orcas, and salmon -we’re creating a vibrant artist marketplace to celebrate creativity, foster connections, and inspire solutions for our environment.
NWAAE Poster Competition 2024
April 22nd through June 2024
Inspire change through art! Northwest Artists Against Extinction and Save Our wild Salmon Coalition announce the opening of the 2024 Poster Competition.
Open to all artist and all mediums (digital image submission). Create something stunning and get it to us by Earth Day (April 22), 2024. Share the opportunity widely.
Winning designs for the NW Artists Against Extinction will receive cash prizes and SOS/NWAAE amplification of artists and artwork.
Honor: People and Salmon
March 6th - April 15th, 2024
Northwest Artists Against Extinction and Save Our wild Salmon Coalition will present Honor: People and Salmon, an exhibit of works by artists and advocates who create to evoke support in the fight against the extinction of keystone species, specifically wild salmon and resident orcas, and of all people who rely on these species.
This exhibit is at the Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound.
Artwork Submission: Notecards 2022
September 2022
NWAAE and Save Our wild Salmon are creating printed 5'x7" notecards as a thank you gift to supporters of SOS and NWAAE. We are asking artists to submit artwork to be printed on these cards.
