Institut Ramon Llull
Catalonia, Spain
2 openDeadline: 29 Oct 20264 calls in totalGrants
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Public bodies
Public bodies running open calls for artists
Public bodies that run open calls for artists: 460 in all, 213 accepting applications now, in Albania, Andorra, Angola, Argentina and more.
460 organisations · 213 accepting applications
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City of Cape Town
The municipal government of Cape Town, South Africa, whose website carries city news and public art calls.
1 openDeadline: 30 Oct 20261 call in totalOther
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Flemish Department of Culture, Youth and Media
Belgium
1 openDeadline: 31 Oct 20261 call in totalGrants
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Kiruna 2029 European Capital of Culture
Sweden
1 openDeadline: 31 Oct 20261 call in totalGrants
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Lithuanian Council for Culture
Lithuania
1 openDeadline: 31 Oct 20262 calls in totalGrants
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Thionville Fensch Agglomération
France
Thionville Fensch Agglomération is an intermunicipal authority in Moselle, France, created on 1 January 2026 from two basins, with 23 communes and 160,000 inhabitants.
1 openDeadline: 31 Oct 20261 call in totalResidencies
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Communauté de communes Seille et Grand Couronné (with DRAC Grand Est)
France
1 openDeadline: 1 Nov 20261 call in totalResidencies
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Risør kommune
Norway
Municipality of Risør, Norway, which gives project grants to visual artists, musicians and writers based there.
1 openDeadline: 1 Nov 20261 call in totalGrants
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London Borough of Merton — Merton Libraries
United Kingdom
Local authority in London whose library service runs the Artists Work in Libraries commission, part of Merton's Culture and Creativity Programme funded through Arts Council England.
1 openDeadline: 6 Nov 20261 call in totalOther
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Galeria Sztuki Wozownia
Poland
The longest-running contemporary art gallery in Toruń, Poland, housed in a former Prussian artillery carriage house from the 1820s in the Old Town.
1 openDeadline: 8 Nov 20261 call in totalCompetitions
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Albuquerque Public Art Program
United States
1 openDeadline: 13 Nov 20262 calls in totalOther
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City of Peterborough
Canada
The municipal government of Peterborough, Ontario, which commissions public art.
1 openDeadline: 13 Nov 20261 call in totalOther
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Ville de Neuchâtel
Switzerland
1 openDeadline: 14 Nov 20261 call in totalResidencies
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DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
United States
Independent agency of the District of Columbia government, established in 1968, that funds arts and humanities programmes, including the Public Art Building Communities programme.
1 openDeadline: 16 Nov 20262 calls in totalCompetitions
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Cultural Endowment of Estonia
Estonia
1 openDeadline: 20 Nov 20261 call in totalGrants
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Jelgavas valstspilsētas pašvaldības iestāde Kultūra
Latvia
1 openDeadline: 20 Nov 20261 call in totalCompetitions
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Kerry County Council
Ireland
Local government body of County Kerry in south-west Ireland, providing a range of services, including arts grants.
1 openDeadline: 20 Nov 20261 call in totalGrants
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City of Albany
Australia
Local government of Albany, Western Australia. Its Arts & Culture office runs the City of Albany Artist in Residence Program.
1 openDeadline: 30 Nov 20261 call in totalResidencies
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Every foundation, residency, festival, museum, gallery and arts council whose open calls are in our catalogue — including those between calls, with the calls they ran before.
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