CREATIVE OPPORTUNITIES
A short list of creative opportunities that we think are cool.
Residencies, Calls for Artists, Public Art Opps, Awards and funding sources for the creative sector.
open calls
Deadline: Nov. 18
Request for Qualifications
Salt Lake City
The Salt Lake City Arts Council’s Public Art Program, in collaboration with the Salt Lake City Community Reinvestment Agency (CRA), Salt Lake City Public Lands, West Side residents, and other stakeholders, seeks to commission an artist or artist-led team to create a community-informed public art installation for the west side of the 9-Line Trail. Learn more here.
Deadline: Rolling
Casting
Park City
Park City Opera is now casting for its 2025–2026 programming. Mainstage opera productions include David Conte’s The Gift of the Magi in December 2025 and one or more operas in Summer 2026 (titles and dates to be announced). The mainstage casting call is open to both local and nonlocal singers. Learn more here.
QUILTED TOGETHER: RAIL TRAIL
Deadline: Dec. 3
Call to Artists
Coalville
The theme “Quilted Together” will guide the Arts & Culture implementation plan along the Rail Trail Corridor, referencing the strong culture of craft and quilting in the North and South Summit communities, and supports the long-range vision to connect the Rail Trail and the rural communities. Artists and/or Artist teams may submit concepts, and the project budget is up to $13,000. Learn more here.
MOAB DARK SKY MURAL
Deadline: Nov. 16
Request for Designs
Moab
This call includes requests for designs for a Dark Sky Mural to be installed in the City of Moab; the location for this mural is TBD.
Funding for all projects, including the Dark Sky Mural, of up to $15,000, is available. Public art project proposals accepted include but are not limited to murals, performances, mosaics, socially engaged art, and sculpture. Learn more here.
SALT LAKE CITY ARTS COUNCIL
Deadline: Oct. 31
Call to Artists
Salt Lake City
The Salt Lake City Arts Council’s Public Art Program invites artists and artist-led teams residing in Utah to submit qualifications for potential inclusion in the 2026 – 2028 Pre-Qualified Artist Pool for upcoming public art opportunities located in Salt Lake City, Utah. Learn more here.
DEVELOPED. BY WOMEN.
Deadline: Nov. 3
Request for Qualifications
Moab
A women-led development group, is seeking proposals from artists for the integration of culturally resonant, nature-inspired, and community-rooted artwork into Amasa Apartments, an all-affordable, sustainable multifamily housing project in Moab, Utah. Learn more here.
UMOCA PROJECTS GALLERY
Deadline: Rolling
Call for Applications
Dedicated solely to exhibitions by contemporary artists living in Utah, this gallery will provide a professional exhibition experience for the artist(s). Learn how to apply here.
Deadline: Nov. 17
Grant
Folk Arts Apprenticeships enable qualified individuals to study with traditional mentors of Utah’s ethnic, Native, rural, and occupational communities who demonstrate a commitment to passing on cultural knowledge. Funding assists accomplished mentors in sharing their skills with one or two apprentices of the same cultural community. Maximum request is $5,000. Learn more here.
POETRY OUT LOUD
Deadline: Rolling
Call for Participants
The National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation have partnered with the Utah Arts & Museums Arts Education Program to support Poetry Out Loud, which encourages Utah’s youth to learn about great poetry through memorization and performance. Learn more here.
Residencies
Deadline: Rolling
SkopArt, an American owned and operated artist studio located on the gorgeous Greek island of Skopelos is offering artists residencies for 2023. The studio is equipped for ceramists, mixed-media artists, painters, printmakers and sculptors. The length of the residency is 2-4 weeks long and applications can be found at www.skopartfoundation.org. For more information, please contact Jill Somer at info@skopart.org.
Deadline: Rolling
The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft is a nonprofit arts organization founded to advance education about the process, product, and history of craft. HCCC is inviting applications for its Artist Residency Program. The program supports emerging, mid-career, and established artists working in clay, fiber, glass, metal, wood, and mixed media. Through the residency, artists receive an opportunity to gain exposure, make connections with the community in Houston, and help educate the public about craft. Up to ten residencies — which include a 200-sq.-ft. studio, a $1K monthly stipend & a small, quarterly housing/materials allowance — will be awarded. More here.
Deadline: Ongoing Basis
As part of its ongoing mission, Annex:art works with international artists to coordinate self-funded and sponsored artist residency, as well as interim studio programs. These programs are designed to enable the artist an opportunity to complete a project or specific body of work in one of our participating annex locations. Learn more and apply here.
“Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.”
public art opportunities
Summit County Public Art - celebrates and unites Summit County residents through public art and oversees the County's public art collection.
Utah Public Art - provides, maintains, and conserves public art all over Utah for people of all ages to enjoy. Public art is most commonly associated with a sculpture or painting in areas accessible or visible to the public, but it can and does go well beyond those media.
Park City Public Art Advisory Board & Historic Preservation Board - curate and solicit public art for Park City. The Park City Public Art Advisory Board oversees the City's public art collection. The Park City Historic Preservation Board preserves and encourages design preferences that reflect Park City's mining heritage and hosts and annual call for a piece to honor the Historic Preservation award-winning building.