The $1000.00 Working Artist Grant / Art Purchase Award
Call for Artists – Submissions Deadline: November 30, 2019

The Working Artist Grant/Art Purchase Award is a meager one-time art award intended to disperse small but vitalizing bursts of funding to support an artist’s ongoing art making process.

This award is available to all artists worldwide, working in all traditional and new visual arts mediums, including but not limited to: conceptual, installation, drawing, painting, prints, sculpture, glass, mixed media, new media, photography and video. We regret that we do not accept submissions for music, performance or dance.

If selected as our winner, we ask that the award recipient be willing to exchange one of their original works or smaller series of original works for inclusion in our collection, in return for our award. Work considered by the artist as of equal value, and available for acquisition can be negotiated upon receipt of the award. We do pay the artist’s shipping costs. Please send us your best work for review.

We wanna make it super simple to submit your work : send us your website, or 5 images (each under 1 mb), along with your name and contact information to: [email protected]. No written proposals or CV’s are required unless the artist would like to include them. There is no application form.

There is a submission review fee of $25.00, payable here.

which helps offset the costs of this effort to fund meaningful work by serious artists.

Participants agree by completing their submission to limited use of their images or other representation of their artwork and general information to be featured on this site and corresponding promotional media. All rights will be retained by the artists.

Submissions for the next deadline of the Working Artist Grant/Art Purchase Award should be submitted by midnight of November 30, 2019. We do notify all participants of results, and are usually around 45 days out from your deadline to select a recipient, so keep an eye on your inbox! Or sign up for our Newsletter or follow us on Facebook and Instagram for process and updates. Thanks to all of you for your support and participation. It’s our pleasure to spend time with your work!

Who We Are

Working Artist Org. (b.2008)(Tacoma, WA) is a privately run and backed charitable project, devoted to the acknowledgement and promotion of great contemporary art and artists.

This February, the AKC Museum of the Dog will be hosting a Members Only pop-up exhibition showcasing the artistic talent within our community called Dog Days of Winter. Anyone currently enrolled in a membership program is encouraged to submit their art for consideration—this includes all membership levels and types. If you’re a non-member and wish to submit your work, never fear! Memberships start at $60 and you can join at any time during the entry period—which runs from October 31st to January 3rd—in order to submit your work.

Application Instructions / Public Contact Information
To submit your work to be considered for Dog Days of Weekend members showcase, you must be a member of the Museum. To become a member, visit our website or contact Molly Marcotte at [email protected].

Applicaton Deadline: January 3, 2020

Guidelines for Juried Artwork Submission:

• Anyone currently enrolled in a membership program will be encouraged to submit their work – this will include ALL membership levels and types.
• Individual Members are allowed one submission.
• Family/Dual Members and all higher levels of Membership are allowed up to 4 submissions.
• Member Libraries who wish to participate will field submissions for their patrons and submit the top 4.
• Any non-members who wish to submit must become a member in order to submit their art.
• 20 submissions will be chosen and featured on our third floor gallery.
• All other submissions that are not selected will be featured on our Community Wall.
• All mediums welcome with a size limitation of 25″ x 30″.
• All artists will be responsible for getting their own pieces to the Museum no later than January 17, 2020.
• Museum will not be responsible for framing any artworks that will be displayed, nor is the Museum responsible for any damage that may occur to a piece.

This exhibition will be juried. Individual Members are allowed one submission. Family/Dual and all higher levels of Membership are allowed up to four submissions.

For complete details, visit the Museum of the Dog website.