Everything OpenCall does
One tool, one job: the business side of an art practice should take as little of your life as possible. Here is each piece of that, and where it lives.
A fit score on every listing
Tell OpenCall your medium and where you are based, and every listing in the feed gets a 0 to 100 score against your profile: your kind of work, your location, your budget for entry fees, and practical limits like size. The reasoning is shown with the score, so you can see why something is worth your time instead of taking our word for it.
Scores exist to answer the too-many-tabs problem: instead of scrolling everything that is open, you read your shortlist first and let the long tail stay unread.
Never promise the same piece to two shows
Applying at volume has a failure mode nobody warns you about: everything gets accepted. Two juried shows say yes, their exhibition windows overlap, and the painting they both juried in can only hang in one of them. Now you are withdrawing from a show that accepted you, which is the reputation cost this field never forgets.
So OpenCall watches for it while you are still deciding where to apply. Track the calls you enter, and every pair of exhibition windows on your list is compared: overlapping windows are a hard conflict, and windows with less than about a week between one show closing and the next opening are flagged as tight, because pickup, transport, and re-delivery need real days. The warnings appear on the listing page, on your Saved list, and across your tracked feed, before you commit a piece.
The check is deliberately conservative, so you never learn to ignore it: online and virtual shows never raise a hard conflict (the same piece can hang in a gallery and appear online at once), a listing with no stated dates is surfaced as missing rather than guessed at, and duplicates of the same show are never flagged against each other. It also goes one level deeper than the calendar: your piece library records which artwork went to which show, so if one specific piece is submitted to two overlapping shows, that piece itself is flagged.
Check a call before you commit
Got an unexpected invitation from a gallery, fair, or residency? Send it over and get a private, researched report: who actually runs it, whether artists are the ones paying, what other artists say publicly, and what to ask before you commit. Every finding is cited so you can check the work.
Deadlines that stop slipping past
Every call you track carries its deadline, and OpenCall reminds you by email before it passes. After you apply, decision-check nudges follow up when the notification date goes by, so an application never quietly disappears into a spreadsheet. A weekly digest rounds up your top new matches.
All of it is free. Anything whose only cost is keeping a record and sending an email stays free on every tier, permanently.
Application drafting in your own voice
When a grant is worth applying to, the writer drafts answers to that grant's own application questions, grounded in your saved statement, bio, and past applications. It writes in your voice because it is built from your materials, and you review every line before anything leaves your hands. Nothing is ever submitted for you.
An Artist Kit that keeps you ready
The Artist Kit holds the materials applications keep asking for: statements, bios, a CV built from structured exhibition history, and your piece library. Point it at your website and it proposes a first draft of all of it, which you edit once and reuse everywhere, so the right call showing up on a Tuesday does not mean rewriting your bio on a Tuesday night.
Capture any call from anywhere
Found a call somewhere else? The Chrome extension captures it into your tracked list from any opportunity page, so the deadline reminders and conflict checks cover everything you are juggling, not just what you found here.
Questions
Which of these features are free?
Browsing, search, fit scores, saving and tracking calls, conflict checks, deadline reminders, and the weekly digest are free, with no account needed to browse. Paid plans add higher allowances for the features that cost real money to run each time: application drafting, researched opportunity checks, and Artist Kit rebuilds.
What counts as an exhibition-window conflict?
Two shows you are tracking whose exhibition windows overlap on the calendar. A physical piece cannot hang in two places at once, so an overlap is a hard conflict. Shows that leave less than about a week between one closing and the next opening are flagged as tight, because pickup, transport, and delivery need real days. Online shows never raise a hard conflict, and a listing with no stated dates is skipped rather than guessed at.
Does the drafting write my application for me?
It drafts answers to the organizer's own questions, grounded in your saved statement, bio, and past applications, in your voice. You review and edit every line, and nothing is ever submitted for you.
Where do I start?
Take the 60-second match quiz. It asks for your medium and where you work, and from then on every listing in the feed carries a fit score against your profile.
Start with the score, free.
Take the 60-second quiz and every listing in the feed gets a fit score against your work.