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Call for Mural Artists (Strathcona County)

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Strathcona County is seeking an artist or artist team to design and paint a large-scale exterior mural on a freestanding cinder block skate shack / washroom / concession building located at the centre of Sherwood Heights Multi-Sport Park in Sherwood Park.

DEADLINE: June 4, 2026 - 11:59 pm

Call to Artists: Bridgeport Commercial District Public Art Project

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groundcubed and Qualico Properties are seeking artists/artist teams, residing in Canada, to create two public artworks at Bridgeport Commercial District, a new commercial development in Chestermere, AB.

DEADLINE: April 26, 2026 - 11:59 pm

Call for Artists - Recycle Yard Mural (City of St. Albert)

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An exciting opportunity to celebrate community, creativity and care for the environment exists at The City of St. Albert!

DEADLINE: April 26, 2026 - 11:59 pm

Calling All YouthWrite Alumni

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YouthWrite wants to connect with alumni to celebrate 30 years of camps for kids who love to write... just about anything!

DEADLINE: July 3, 2026 - 5:00 pm

Call for Applications: Strathcona County Annual Art Acquisitions

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Each year, Strathcona County's Art Collection Advisory Committee invites artists to submit their work for purchase.

DEADLINE: April 26, 2026 - 11:30 pm

2026 SAAG Arts Writing Prize Call for Submissions

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The SAAG is seeking submissions for its 15th annual writing prize, celebrating the work of emerging arts writers and critics

DEADLINE: April 7, 2026 - 5:00 pm

Call For Emerging Artist Submissions: The Quenten Doolittle Memorial Gallery

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The Quenten Doolittle Memorial Art Gallery at the Pumphouse Theatre is seeking submission from emerging visual artists!

DEADLINE: March 31, 2026 - 11:59 pm

Call for Poetry Anthology Contribution

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This anthology project, Black Psalms of the Shivering Ones, calls on Afro-Canadian poets to reflect and produce new images of how winter experiences shape Afro-Canadian lifeworlds.

DEADLINE: April 14, 2026 - 5:00 pm

Call for Submissions: ENVIRON

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Alberta Craft invites submissions for ENVIRON, a curated exhibition exploring how craft artists reveal the environments—ecological, industrial, digital, cultural, and lived—that shape their materials, processes, and meaning.

DEADLINE: February 27, 2026 - 5:00 pm

The Common Ground Festival is Looking for Submissions - All Performing Arts Welcome

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The Common Ground Festival is back this year and we're groovier than every. We are looking for submissions for performing arts of all kinds!!! If you've got a thing we've got a stage.

DEADLINE: July 31, 2025 - 11:59 pm