Call to Artists: 2026 Discovery Gallery Exhibition Proposals
Applications accepted until: Monday, September 1, 2025 at 11:59 pm MT
Alberta Craft is calling for exhibition proposals for the 2026 line-up at the Alberta Craft Discovery Gallery in Edmonton.
Phase-one Digital Application Deadline: Tuesday, July 8, 11:59 PM, MST
The Gallery Shop retail spaces in both Edmonton and Calgary generate sales for artists, provide valuable career mentorship, product feedback, learning opportunities for the public, and revenue for the Alberta Craft Council to deliver additional programming.
Who is this call for? We encourage all levels from emerging to established artists working in craft specific media to apply if they are looking for a retail venue to develop their career. Applicants must be Alberta-based artists.
This two-week immersive residency offers individual dancers the opportunity to explore and embody the unique choreographic languages of three internationally acclaimed dance artists - Kirsten Wicklund, Marie Gyselbrecht, and Cyril Baldy.
Participants will rotate through choreographic labs with each faculty artist, taking part in daily technique and improvisation classes that support embodied exploration.
We at Art and Creative Skills Collective have an exciting opportunity for youth (ages 14–27) across Canada to share their lived experiences on their anti-racism podcast, Children of Immigration. This podcast amplifies the voices of young people who have faced racism or microaggressions, providing them with a platform to share their stories and perspectives.
Application Deadline September 10, 2025
Program Dates Feb 23, 2026 - Mar 27, 2026
The Media and Production: Professional Training Program (PTP) combines mentorship and formal instruction to help emerging practitioners refine their technical expertise while contributing to innovative digital storytelling in a collaborative professional environment.
Application Deadline September 10, 2025
Program Dates Mar 02, 2026 - Mar 27, 2026
The Digital Constellations Residency offers Indigenous digital media artists, filmmakers, and animators dedicated time and a supportive environment to advance the video and audio production and post-production aspects of their projects. With guidance from faculty and support from our Media Production team, participants will refine their work, create high-quality samples, and further develop their projects throughout the program.
Application Deadline August 20, 2025
Program Dates Feb 02, 2026 - Feb 28, 2026
“Toga da wôhnagabi” (Stories for the future) is a four-week hybrid Indigenous music residency that brings worldviews together from all four corners of Mother Earth. Watched over by Buffalo Spirit, the residency provides musicians and songwriters a transformative space to actively listen and learn from each other in story and song.
The Next Generation Indie Book Awards, currently in its nineteenth year, is the largest international awards program for indie authors and independent publishers. The Indie Book Awards is now accepting entries from independent publishers and authors worldwide who have a book written in English and released in 2024, 2025, 2026 or with 2024, 2025, or 2026 copyright date. For the 2026 awards program, the Indie Book Awards offers 80+ categories.
The Next Generation Short Story Awards is a not-for-profit awards program open to authors writing original unpublished short stories (5,000 words or less per story) in English. Brought to you by the Next Generation Indie Book Awards (NGIBA) and Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group (IBPPG), the 2026 Next Generation Short Story Awards offers 30+ categories, and is open to all authors, even first-time authors, in the U.S., Canada or internationally.
