by Carole Epp | Apr 28, 2026 | call for entry
Artwork in image by ceramic artist Julian Miholics (@julianmiholics), featured in Pride in Craft 2025: This Way Forward
Craft Ontario is seeking submissions for an in-person retail feature that will highlight the recent work of 2SLGBTQIAP+ Craft Artists from June 12 – July 12, 2026, as well as a written feature on the Craft Ontario website.
This feature has developed over the past several years from a partnership with the ArQuives, in which Craft Ontario presented craft items from fonds in relation to the work of current craft artists, to last year’s online juried feature of recent works of seven extraordinary trans and queer craft artists in Ontario, to now being a juried feature with access to a wider arts market in the Craft Ontario Shop.
“Craft” typically involves handmade objects with a functional purpose, using the following materials:
- Glass
- Clay
- Textile
- Wood
- Metal
- Paper
- Printmaking
- Stone
- If your material/medium is not listed but you believe your work still fits the “Craft” criteria, please submit!
With the purpose of selling the accepted work, this year’s Pride in Craft offers artists the opportunity to highlight a range of work, including large or one-of-a-kind pieces, and production work in the Craft Ontario Queen Shop – located at 1106 Queen St W, Toronto, ON. All work displayed in the Feature must be for sale and should have the potential to sell in a retail setting.
Accepted applicants will receive the following:
- Artwork displayed in the Craft Ontario Queen Shop for the specified duration
- A complimentary 1-year Maker Membership to Craft Ontario
- A selection of the featured works available on the Online Shop
- Name, biography, and artist statement shared in the Online Shop alongside the work for sale
- Accepted artworks promoted on Craft Ontario social channels
- A written feature in a dedicated blogpost, providing context and an in-depth review of the artwork
Key Dates:
- Application Deadline: May 12, 2026, 11:59 PM EST
- Application response sent to accepted artists, May 15, 2026
- Artwork dropped off at the Craft Ontario Queen Shop, May 28 – June 4, 2026
- Feature on view and works available for purchase, June 12 – July 12, 2026
- Unsold artwork picked up from the Craft Ontario Queen Shop, July 13-19
Please Note:
- There is no charge associated with this application
- You do not have to be a current Craft Ontario Member to apply for this opportunity
If you have any questions regarding applying to Pride in Craft 2026, please email [email protected]
MORE INFO HERE.
by Carole Epp | Apr 28, 2026 | call for entry
We’re excited to share an international opportunity for Canadian ceramicists! The Canadian Crafts Federation (CCF/FCMA) has been invited to identify 5–50 artists to participate in the 2026 Korea–Canada Invitational Ceramic Exhibition, hosted online by Seoul Cyber University.
Exhibition details:
📅 July 1 – December 31, 2026
🖥 Online exhibition of 5–50 Canadian artists alongside 50 Korean artists
This exhibition will be permanently archived online and shared with leading museums and galleries worldwide.
Artists from across the country are invited to submit:
• A short biography
• A portrait photo
• One artwork (with title, dimensions, and year)
🔗 Application form and full details.
📩 Submit your application to: [email protected]
⏳ Deadline: May 28, 2026
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Nous sommes ravis de partager une opportunité internationale pour les céramistes canadiens ! La Fédération canadienne des métiers d’art (CCF/FCMA) a été invitée à sélectionner 5 à 50 artistes pour participer à l’Exposition Céramique Invitationnelle Corée–Canada 2026, organisée en ligne par la Seoul Cyber University.
Détails de l’exposition :
📅 1 juillet – 31 décembre 2026
🖥 Exposition en ligne de 5 à 50 artistes canadiens aux côtés de 50 artistes coréens
Cette exposition sera archivée en ligne de façon permanente et partagée avec les principaux musées et galeries du monde entier.
Les artistes de tout le pays sont invités à soumettre :
• Une courte biographie
• Une photo portrait
• Une œuvre (avec titre, dimensions et année)
🔗 Formulaire de candidature et tous les détails via le lien en bio
📩 Envoyez votre candidature à : [email protected]
⏳ Date limite : le 28 mai 2026
by Carole Epp | Apr 28, 2026 | call for entry
Juried by Ching Yuan Chang @chingyuan.chang . “Baltimore Clayworks Clay Biennial” is a national juried exhibition presented in conjunction with the 61st Conference of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA), that celebrates the vitality, diversity, and evolving language of contemporary ceramics. Open to ceramic artists working in all styles, techniques, and conceptual approaches, the exhibition seeks work that reflects both technical excellence and compelling artistic vision. Functional, sculptural, installation-based, and experimental works are all welcome.
Exhibition Dates: January 9 – March 13, 2027
Application Deadline: September 25, 2026
Learn more and apply by clicking the link in our bio or visit baltimoreclayworks.org/exhibitions/calls-for-entry
by Carole Epp | Apr 22, 2026 | call for entry, exhibition
Calling all ceramic artists and lovers of clay creations! This exhibition will honor the deep legacy of ceramic art in Santa Cruz County and the broader Northern California, while celebrating the new community of ceramists producing amazing work.
Accepting artist submissions, through May 1.
The Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH) is the cultural hub of Santa Cruz County—a place where people come together to celebrate art and history, discover themselves, and connect with one another through experiences and exhibitions that resonate locally and globally.
Learn more: https://www.santacruzmah.org/exhibitions/silica-northern-california-ceramics
Submit: https://artist.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=16928
by Carole Epp | Apr 22, 2026 | call for entry
Entries are now invited for the International Ceramics Competition Mino.
The competition is the main event of the International Ceramics Festival Mino, Japan. With the aim of contributing to the development of the ceramics industry and the promotion of culture through international exchange of ceramics design and culture, this year marks the 14th edition of the Festival.
The 2025 competition saw nearly 4,000 entries from over 70 countries and regions.
‘Now that we are in the 21st century, we face an age of mass production, mass consumption, new materials, and new technologies. And we question ourselves. In which direction will the strong waves of our times sweep the spirit and existence of ceramics? Will creative powers be lost before the onslaught of technological achievement? Will we come to deny the warm humanity that connects and looks gently over people living everyday lives? The International Ceramics Exhibition Mino, Japan, offers a glimpse into a future blessed with creativity, backed by the ultimate in technical sophistication, and with the unlimited potential of humanity.’
Application Deadline: 29 January 2027
Exhibition: 8 October – 7 November 2027
Find all the details to apply HERE.
by Carole Epp | Apr 20, 2026 | call for entry
What forces are at play, shaping and defining the world we experience? What impulses do we contain that form or override these forces?
Play is integral to the human experience and fundamental to the creative process. There is a tension inherent in play that is exhilarating yet risky, competitive yet collaborative. Through play we can put down the weight of a loaded past, imagine radical futures, and yet remain truly present. Play provides not only refuge, but resistance.
Play allows us a sense of joy, moving lightly between structure and chaos without fear of failure. It exists at the threshold of uncertainty – where systems can be questioned, patterns broken, conventions overturned. Play offers us the freedom to pivot, adapt and shape-shift, opening up space for thinking otherwise—about material, making, and consequently about the world we are part of.
In this third edition of the Indian Ceramics Triennale, we see the exhibition as an incubator of possibilities. We invite artists to hold this undefined and unknown moment filled with potential, to dare to play through inventiveness, provocation, humour, satire, meaning, absurdity, performance and colour. To use play as an institution of and for disruption, dreaming into existence the unexpected and unacknowledged. To question, through play, the forces at play.
The open call is open to professional and emerging artists over the age of 18, working in ceramics or exploring clay in interdisciplinary practices. While the Indian Ceramics Triennale focuses on clay based practices, we welcome proposals from artists working across disciplines who engage with clay conceptually, materially, or contextually.
Applications must be submitted online through the google form Indian Ceramics Triennale 2027. Please read the guidelines and FAQs carefully before submitting your application.
The deadline is May 15, 2026. Late submissions will not be considered.
Please email us at [email protected] with “Open Call Query” in the subject line. We will also conduct a live Q and A sessions online and will announce the dates on Instagram and on the websi
