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May 2026 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists
Source Colossal Every month, we share opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. Make sure you never miss out by joining our monthly Opportunities Newsletter. Scenerium 2026 Art Award: Exhibition, Publication, Sales, and Global PromotionFeaturedWhere will your art take us? From landscapes and seascapes to cityscapes and imagined worlds, Scenerium 2026…
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Linocuts by Eduardo Robledo Celebrate Mexican Heritage and Community
Source Colossal In the richly detailed linocuts of Eduardo Robledo, festive ceremonies, spiritual motifs, and dream-like interactions unfurl. The Mexico City-based artist was born and raised in the southern borough of Xochimilco, which is famous for its canals—vestiges of a huge Aztec water transport system still used today for bringing goods into the city. This…
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Dramatic Aerials, Eternal Spring Cliffs and The Cinematic Landscapes Of Portuguese Photographer Vítor Esteves
Source Design You Trust Vítor Esteves is a Portuguese photographer specializing in aerial and travel photography. Esteves captures dramatic landscapes, urban aerials, and architectural geometry with a high-contrast, cinematic aesthetic. His work emphasizes Madeira’s rugged cliffs (“Island of Eternal Spring”), Hong Kong’s neon density, and Croatia’s heart-shaped islands. He documents 9-5 corporate life alongside 5-9…
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Future Objects And Technical Aesthetics: The Experimental Prototypes Of Maya Prokhorova
Source Design You Trust Maya Prokhorova is the founder of Mayaprodesign, an authorial industrial design studio operating from Paris. A graduate of Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design (Saint Petersburg), she has won 9 Red Dot Awards, iF Design Awards, and CES Innovation Honors. Prokhorova designs “objects for future functions” through experimental prototypes like…
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Nightmarish Symmetrical Beasts From Terra Hypnagogica: The Surreal Gothic World Of Daniel Vega
Source Design You Trust Daniel Vega, known as THE CODEX NOIRMATIC, is a Chilean illustrator and worldbuilder specializing in surreal, gothic fantasy. Vega creates the TERRA HYPNAGOGICA universe—a nightmarish, symmetrical realm of grotesque entities, many-eyed beasts, decaying landscapes, and otherworldly architecture. His bold-outlined, limited-palette illustrations evoke Lovecraftian horror with metallic silver, bone textures, and black…
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Spell Your Name with NASA’s Earthly Alphabet of Aerial Images
Source Colossal From rivers and oxbow lakes to crop-field patchworks and mineral sediments, Landsat has seen it all. A program of NASA and USGS, the satellite initiative has documented the Earth’s surface since 1972, making it the longest continuous record of our planet’s ever-evolving landscapes. And to mark Earth Day 2026, the organizations launched a…
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Call for Artists, Spring 2026
Source Artsy Shark Submissions are now being accepted from artists in all mediums to appear as future featured artists. Deadline is May 7, 2026. The post Call for Artists, Spring 2026 appeared first on Artsy Shark.
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Lina Lapelytė Fills Hamburger Bahnhof with 400,000 Wood Blocks for Communal Building
Source Colossal Inside the cavernous former train station that now houses Hamburger Bahnhof, 400,000 wooden cubes stack and topple into piles. Conceived by Lithuanian artist Lina Lapelytė and commissioned by Chanel, “We Make Years Out of Hours” is a large-scale installation that invites the public to remake structures from these 10-centimeter blocks made of pine…
