Ten Moir Gallery’s Blu Sky Artist Award — August 2026 Edition is accepting entries through August 15, 2026, an international open call split across two distinct award tracks rather than a single pooled competition.
Two tracks, two winners
The award splits its $500 cash prizes across Traditional/Mixed Media and Photography/Digital — meaning entrants aren’t competing head-to-head against work in a fundamentally different medium for the same single prize. Beyond the two winners, additional finalists are selected for feature opportunities, giving the call a second tier of recognition beyond the top prize in each track — useful for artists whose work doesn’t win outright but still gets real visibility out of entering.
What’s eligible
The call is open worldwide to artists 18 and older, accepts both 2D and 3D media, and allows up to 10 image submissions per entry — a generous submission cap that lets an artist show range or a fuller body of work rather than betting everything on one image. There’s a flat $28 entry fee, and the award package for winners and select finalists includes an artist interview, press-release distribution, inclusion in a collector-focused catalogue, and permanent website placement.
Why the two-track structure is worth noting
A lot of small-to-mid-size art awards default to a single pooled prize across all media, which structurally advantages whichever medium the judging panel happens to respond to most that cycle — a photography-heavy entrant pool competing against sculpture or mixed-media work under one rubric rarely produces a clean comparison. Splitting Traditional/Mixed Media from Photography/Digital into separate tracks with separate winners is a small structural choice that meaningfully changes who has a realistic shot, without requiring a bigger prize budget to do it.
Deadline: August 15, 2026.