Summary: The Los Angeles Makery is accepting art that celebrates feminine power, rebellion, rage, humor, magic, sensuality, and the beautifully unapologetic art of giving a damn.
Deadline: 10/18/26
Location: Los Angeles Makery, Los Angeles
Exhibition Dates: 11/3/26 - 11/27/26
Mediums: All
Entry Fee: $25

Summary: Covet Art Gallery invites artists working in all mediums and styles to submit work that speaks to the joy of collecting art — whether someone is buying a gift for someone they love, treating themselves, or discovering the piece they simply can’t leave without.
Deadline: 10/18/26
Location: Covet Art Gallery, Oceanside
Exhibition Dates: 11/7/26 - 12/12/26
Mediums: All
Entry Fee: $25

Summary: The City of Santa Clarita is inviting artists to submit artwork for consideration in the upcoming “Winter Expressions” juried exhibition, which will be on view at the Newhall Community Center from November 4, 2026, through February 24, 2027. This exhibition explores the winter season through artwork inspired by nature, tradition, and memory. From quiet winter landscapes and seasonal gatherings to cultural traditions, personal memories and imaginative interpretations, “Winter Expressions” invites artists to reflect on the colors, emotions and experiences that make the season unique.
Deadline: 10/19/26
Location: Newhall Community Center, Newhall
Exhibition Dates: 11/4/26 - 2/24/27
Mediums: Painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, photography, textiles, and mixed-media
Entry Fee: No fee

Summary: A Stitch in Time: Threads of Connection invites artists to explore the visible and invisible threads that connect us to one another, to our histories, and to the world around us. This show seeks fiber-based works that examine memory, tradition, resilience, identity, and the relationships that bridge past, present, and future.
Deadline: 10/20/26
Location: Front Porch Studio, Carlsbad
Exhibition Dates: 11/10/26 - 1/29/27
Mediums: All fiber and textile-based media
Entry Fee: No fee

Summary: The San Diego Art Directory, in collaboration with Hera Hub Carlsbad, invites artists to submit work for Her Wild Becoming, an exhibition exploring transformation, identity, instinct, and the forces within us that refuse to remain still.
Deadline: 10/26/26
Location: Hera Hub Carlsbad, Carlsbad
Exhibition Dates: November 2026 – June 2027
Mediums: All mediums are welcome but only wall-hanging artwork is accepted.
Entry Fee: $22 for up to two pieces

Summary: California Creative Arts is accepting submissions for their upcoming show “What a Year! at The Colony Theatre. This exhibit coincides with the Troubadour’s production of “Eflton”
Deadline: 10/27/26
Location: The Colony Theatre Gallery, Burbank
Exhibition Dates: 11/3/26 - 1/19/27
Mediums: All
Entry Fee: This is a California Creative Arts hosted show. Members receive priority. Non-members, if accepted, must become a member or pay a one-time participation fee of $40. You can become a member for $50. Membership fees are tax deductible and members keep 100% of sales.

Summary: Carter Sexton Artists Materials is accepting submissions from LA artists for its upcoming November show. This call looks for covers, characters, or specific scenes from your favorite book.
Deadline: 10/30/26
Location: Carter Sexton Artists Materials, Valley Village
Exhibition Dates: November 2026
Mediums: All
Entry Fee: $15 per accepted piece

Summary: Not ShockBoxx is looking for original artwork that is thoughtful, strange, beautiful, funny, heartfelt, wonderfully unnecessary, or simply too damn good to come from a big-box store. “Because this is a gift-focused exhibition, every piece must be available for purchase and priced at $200 or less. Small works, prints, editions, fiber art, sculpture, photography, ceramics, mixed media, and other giftable creations are welcome.”
Deadline: 10/31/26
Location: Not ShockBoxx, Hermosa Beach
Exhibition Dates: 11/20/26 - 11/29/26
Mediums: All
Entry Fee: $20

Summary: What We Grow invites artists to consider cultivation in its many forms — botanical, cultural, intellectual, and relational. This exhibition explores plant life not only as subject matter, but as material, collaborator, and system — and as a participant in rituals of care, nourishment, and gathering. Presented at the CSUN West Gallery, the exhibition will be activated through live tea demonstrations in collaboration with Tea Haven at CSUN, featuring teas grown in the campus garden. These demonstrations foreground the ritual dimensions of plant life — preparation, steeping, sharing — transforming the gallery into a site of attention, exchange, and collective study. This exhibition is open to artists 18 years and older residing in Los Angeles and Ventura County.
Deadline: 11/1/26
Location: CSUN Art Galleries, Northridge
Exhibition Dates: 1/25/27 - 2/18/27
Mediums: All
Entry Fee: No fee

Summary: The Los Angeles Makery is seeking art made with metal for their upcoming Metal Mania exhibition which will include three floors of metal themed shows in each of their galleries. Whether it’s forged, welded, cast, hammered, fabricated, found or transformed — bring your metal!
Deadline: 11/12/26
Location: Los Angeles Makery, Los Angeles
Exhibition Dates: 12/3/26 - 12/27/26
Mediums: Metal art
Entry Fee: $25

Summary: Game Changer celebrates artists whose work challenges expectations, inspires new perspectives, and creates meaningful conversations. Artists are invited to submit original artwork that explores transformation, innovation, change, resilience, or the ideas that have the power to shift the way we see the world.
Deadline: 11/14/26
Location: Woodward Contemporary, San Diego
Exhibition Dates: 12/5/26 - 1/2/27
Mediums: All except digital art, workshop/class art, or reproductions
Entry Fee: $40

Summary: The Cerritos College Art Gallery is looking for seven local artists interested in preparing and executing a temporary project/exhibition within the unique exterior-facing display gallery attached to the outside of the Fine Arts Building on the campus of Cerritos College. All work must be suitable for public display. Each mini solo project/exhibition will run for just two weeks, with all installations taking place on Sundays and deinstallations on Saturdays.
Deadline: 11/20/26
Location: Cerritos College, Norwalk
Exhibition Dates: Various 2 week periods between January and April 2027
Mediums: All
Entry Fee: No fee

Summary: North Coastal Art Gallery is accepting work for their Small Image show. 2D submissions must be (17"x17") or smaller, 3D wall hanging sculptures may be up to a 20" diagonally, and 3D Floor-standing sculpture may not exceed 72"H.
Deadline: 11/22/26
Location: North Coastal Art Gallery, Carlsbad
Exhibition Dates: 11/29/26 - 1/3/27
Mediums: Oil, Acrylics, Watermedia, Other Media includes: Pastels/ Drawing/Printmaking/Alcohol ink, Mixed Media/Collage, Photography, Digital Art, 3D Sculpture\Wall hanging Sculpture, and Textiles. Giclée’s are accepted but not judged. AI art is not accepted.
Entry Fee: Members: 2 entries $30, Non-Members: 2 entries $40

Summary: The BruHaus is accepting work that explores the human emotion. “From the simplicity of a smiley face to the complexity of a beautiful realist portrait, and everything in between.”
Deadline: 11/23/26
Location: Birdhouse Estates, Los Angeles
Exhibition Dates: 12/5/26 - 12/11/26
Mediums: All
Entry Fee: $35