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: In With the Old asks for artwork that considers the necessity of slow transformation, what to do with what we inherit, natural cycles, and the act of revisiting the same questions as different people, in different conditions, and yielding something new each time. Themes could include but are not limited to material transformation, slow alchemy, biological process, interconnectedness, organic material, tradition, ritual, and art-making techniques from the past. Artists, both emerging and established, are invited to interpret this prompt from any angle and through any medium. Applicants must reside in San Diego County.
Deadline: 11/13/26
Location: Chula Vista Brewery, Chula Vista
Exhibition Dates: December 2026 through February 2027
Mediums: All
Entry Fee: $22 for up to two pieces and $35 for up to four pieces

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: This annual show celebrates the artist’s creative vision, journey, and process throughout the year and features some of the finest works of art produced by San Diego regional artists.
Deadline: 11/21/26
Location: Escondido Arts Partnership, Escondido
Exhibition Dates: 12/12/26 - 12/31/26
Mediums: All
Entry Fee: Members: $20 for one, additional $5 for each piece. Public: $30 for one, additional $5 for each piece

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: Local, national, and international artists are invited to participate in the "Best of The Beach" Exhibit, presented by the Gallery of Hermosa and Easy Reader News at the Gallery of Hermosa space in Hermosa Beach, CA. This call is seeking high-quality artwork that interprets "Best of the Beach" through your unique artistic lens and experiences. What does "Best of the Beach" look like to you? This is not necessarily a Beach-themed show.
Deadline: 11/22/26
Location: Gallery of Hermosa, Hermosa Beach
Exhibition Dates: 12/12/26 - 1/10/27
Mediums: All
Entry Fee: $36

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

Summary: TAG's LA Open 2027 celebrates the visual art of emerging and established artists of Los Angeles County. This call is open to broad interpretation with a variety of mediums accepted.
Deadline: 12/2/26
Location: TAG, The Artists Gallery, Los Angeles
Exhibition Dates: 1/6/27 - 1/22/27
Mediums: Painting, Drawing, Photography, Printmaking, Mixed Media, Sculpture, Digital, and Video art. No AI accepted.
Entry Fee: $40

Summary: The City of Rancho Cucamonga is seeking original photography by local community members. RC50: A City in Focus is a citywide photography exhibition celebrating the City of Rancho Cucamonga’s 50th Anniversary by showcasing the people, places, and stories that define the community. Through a public call for photography submissions, residents, local photographers, and community members will have the opportunity to share their unique perspectives of Rancho Cucamonga. Selected artists will be paid a $200 stipend. 
Deadline: 12/3/26
Location: Selected photographs may be displayed both in person at various community locations and events throughout the anniversary year and digitally.
Exhibition Dates: Various dates throughout the year.
Mediums: Photography
Entry Fee: No fee

Summary: MAS ATTACK (Mutual Appreciation Society), hosted by Torrance Art Museum, is a giant open-studio visit and social practice event bringing Southern California artists together to share their work, meet peers, make connections, and build creative community.
Deadline: Email an image of the artwork you plan to bring to TorranceArtMuseum@TorranceCA.Gov. Artwork drop off is 12/1-12/4.
Location: Torrance Art Museum, Torrance
Exhibition Dates: 12/5/26
Mediums: All
Entry Fee: No fee