Call for Submissions – Àrokò Anthology No.1: Folklore from Africa & The Diaspora

Deadline: 31 December 2025 Àrokò Cooperative is a multidisciplinary community of designers, artists, technologists, and strategists committed to divesting from systems of harm and building toward collective liberation through design. More at: aroko.coop THEMEWe invite fiction that breathes new life into folklore from Africa and the African Diaspora. Send us stories that draw from folktales, myths, fables, […]
Call for Submissions – Radical Love: Where Spirit Transcends Law (Human Rights Hub)
Deadline: 26 October 2025 at 5pm WAT Radical Love: Where Spirit Transcends Law, is an immersive exhibition that journeys through reclaiming queer existence beyond criminalization. Artistic work confronts the different dimensions of repression – law, censorship, silence, erasure – while opening portals into resistance, memory, and radical futures beyond the state’s imagination. At its heart, […]
Call for Designers – TIERs Reimagined Logo

Deadline: Monday, 28th July 2025 by 23:59 WAT At TIERs, we believe that community is more than something we serve; it’s something we build with. From the work we do on the ground to the stories we tell and the spaces we fight to protect, our mission has always been rooted in shared values, lived […]
Call for Applications – Artists in Residence (Foundry)

Deadline: 20 July 2025 11:59 pm ET The Foundry’s Molding and Casting Artist Residencies offers artists the space, time, and resources to creatively delve into their current medium or explore a new one. Designed for artists working with traditional and experimental techniques, this residency fosters creative growth in a supportive environment. Residents engage deeply with the year’s […]
Call for Applications – Writing Retreat for Feminist Activists

Deadline: 12 July 2025 Urgent Action Fund, Asia & Pacific is organizing a writing retreat for 20 women, trans, and non-binary feminist activists from the Pacific and Asia. We wish to offer a reflective, caring and joyful space to honour and hold witness to all those who are a part of feminist movements that resist patriarchy, […]
Call for Applications – Echoes of In*dependence

Deadline: July 4 2025In 2025, we will mark significant milestones in the history of decolonisation. Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique, and Suriname will celebrate fifty years of independence. The Democratic Republic of Congo gained political independence in1960, the same year Ghana became an independent republic. This autumn, The Black Archives will open the exhibition Echoes of […]
Call for Applications – Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists

Deadline: July 2, 2025 The Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists, a $10,000 grant, supports visual artists who are Black trans women. This grant is made possible entirely through support provided by visual artist Mariette Pathy Allen, whose body of photographic work over the last forty years has been squarely focused on expanding […]
Open call for Black trans filmmakers – QUEER|ART

Deadline for entries: May 28, 2025 QUEER|ART is a non-profit arts organization serving a diverse and vibrant community of LGBTQ+ artists across generations and disciplines. Queer|Art was born out of the recognition of a generation of artists and audiences lost to the ongoing AIDS Crisis, and in a profound understanding that one of the many repercussions […]
Call for Applications – Obodo Artist Fund (OAF)

Deadline: 30th May 2025 Notification of Results: 30th June 2025 The Obodo Artist Fund (OAF) is a year-long funding and capacity-building initiative supporting artists and cultural producers interrogating issues of class, visibility, access, and power within African art ecosystems through a queer lens. Rooted in expansive and decolonial artistic practice, OAF encourages bold, radical ways […]
Call for Submissions – The Creative Legacy Project by We The Diaspora x All Black Creatives

Deadline: 31 May 2025 Behind every creative is a story shaped by the people, places, and moments that make us who we are. The Creative Legacy Project invites Black creatives to share a photo from their past, a snapshot of childhood, a treasured family moment, or a place of deep meaning, alongside a reflection on […]