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2024-2025 Calls for Entry

Fiber Art Now invites you to show us your most innovative art in one of our Calls for Entry. Selected artworks will appear in Fiber Art Now and are eligible for onsite exhibits at our world-class partner venues.

All exhibitions include cash awards. Calls for Entry are discounted for Fiber Art Now subscribers. The links to the Calls for Entry will open on the first day of the Call.

Upcoming Calls

Contemporary Fiber: Botanicals

Call for Entry: November 1-December 6, 2024

Flowers, plants, trees . . . Nature’s bounty. Show us how they help bring your art to life. Be inspired by your surroundings. Be creative; be colorful (or not); be innovative. Artwork must include fiber or fiber-related techniques. The exhibition will be juried by the Fiber Art Now creative team and will be featured in the Spring 2025 issue of Fiber Art Now. Selections from the exhibition in print will be eligible for the onsite exhibition at the Denver Botanic Gardens, May 18 through September 28, 2025.

Fiber Reimagined III

Call for Entry: February 1-March 15, 2025

This popular exhibition returns for its third year. Enter your innovative contemporary art created from fiber and recycled and repurposed mixed media. All submissions must include a fiber material or textile technique. The exhibition will be juried by the Fiber Art Now creative team and will be featured in the Summer 2025 issue of Fiber Art Now. Selections from the print exhibition will be eligible for the on-site exhibition at the Guilford Art Center, in Guilford, Connecticut, the 2025 dates TBD.

Paper Made II

Call for Entry: June 1–30, 2025

Enter your made-from-paper 2D or 3D artwork during the month of June 2025. The artwork for Paper Made II must be made primarily from paper or a paper product or created using a paper-making process. Juried selections will be featured in the fall 2025 issue of Fiber Art Now and will be eligible for the on-site exhibition at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in Fort Wayne, Indiana, November 8, 2025 through February 1, 2026.

Excellence in Fibers X

NOW CLOSED

Call for Entry: August 1-September 6, 2024

This Excellence In Fibers is our 10th anniversary exhibition, bringing the best of current international fiber and textiles to a growing global fiber art community. Artists are encouraged to push the boundaries in the areas of installations, sculpture, vessels, wall/floor works, and wearable art. The exhibition will be featured in the winter 2024–2025 issue of Fiber Art Now to be released in early January 2025. Selected artwork will be eligible for the onsite exhibition at the Schack Art Center in Everett, Washington, January 15 through February 14, 2026. 

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