Creating Your First Call for Artists

A call is an open opportunity for artists to submit work to your organization. This guide takes you from an empty form to a call the public can find. It covers the five-step create wizard and publishing, and what it costs.

Start at Admin → Calls and press Create Call.

The five steps

The wizard moves through Basics, Dates, Entry, Fee, and Review. You can go back to any step you have already completed.

Basics

Call Title is required. Description is not: artists read it first on the call page, so it is worth writing, but you can publish without one and add it later.

Call Type is a dropdown. Most of the choices, such as Juried Exhibition, Residency, Commission, or Group Show, simply label the call so artists can find it. A few of them also pre-fill the rest of the form for you: Application, Membership, Scholarship, and Fellowship each set up the entry fee and the questions that kind of intake needs. Those four are explained in Application Calls.

Controlled rollout: Artist Market. The Artist Market call type appears in the dropdown only for organizations enrolled in the pilot, and only when creating a new call. Access varies by organization.

Also on this step: a tagline, a poster image, and a Private Call toggle that keeps the call off the public browse pages.

Dates

Two dates are required, Submissions Open and Submission Deadline. Everything else on the timeline is optional and publishes to the call page as you fill it in: early bird and withdrawal deadlines, jury dates, artist notifications, drop-off and pickup windows, and exhibition dates. All times are in your organization's timezone.

Entry

Max Entries per Artist and Max Images per Entry set the shape of a submission. A submission is one piece; the images are photographs of it. You also choose which fields artists must complete, whether images are required at all, and who is eligible. Full detail is in Configuring Call Requirements and Fees.

Fee

Choose Free or Paid. Most calls are free. If you choose Paid, you pick a fee model and an amount, and decide whether artists pay when they submit or only if they are accepted. See .