Call For Artists
You’re here because a community you’re part of invited artists to participate.
We’re building collections of prints, posters, cards, and other products rooted in real places, by real artists, and for real community groups. When products using your work sell, you earn royalties—and a portion of each sale supports the community that helped share it.
This is also a way to contribute to something ongoing. Your work can be part of evolving ideas, collaborations, and projects that grow out of the community over time.
Note: Register for a WithCommunity account first. You’ll need to log in to access the artist application.
How We Collaborate With Artists
You keep ownership of your work—we handle production and sales, and share the revenue, with clear terms for how your work is used.
What We Handle
WithCommunity manages:
- Product setup
- Production and fulfillment
- Storefront and checkout
- Customer support
- Tracking and reporting
How Your Work Is Used
You retain ownership of your original artwork.
If your work is selected for products, we receive a time-bound exclusive merchandise license for that use.
Your work may be cropped, formatted, adapted, or combined with other elements for products, promotion, or online presentation.
How Net Sales Are Shared
When accepted work is used in products and those products sell, net sales are generally shared:
- About one-third to the artist
- About one-third to the participating community partner to support its ongoing outreach efforts
- About one-third to WithCommunity
Details are defined in our Artist Submission and Royalty Agreement.
Getting Started
- Create a WithCommunity account and fill out the Call For Artist form. Register to participate. Log into your WithCommunity dashboard and fill out the Call For Artist form. If approved as an artist, you’ll sign artist agreements on the dashboard.
- Submit Your Art: If approved, we will grant you artist rights. Use our online form to upload your artwork and basic details. We don’t want high resolution print files, just good enough to review.
- We Review For Fit: We look at how your work might fit current or future collections. We are always bringing in new community partners and collections, so we will be evaluating a wide range of styles.
Accepted work may be:
- Included in WithCommunity online stores
- Adapted into products such as prints, posters, cards, calendars, and similar formats
- Used in posts or campaign materials
- Combined with other creative elements where appropriate
- Upload High Resolution Files: If accepted, we will request the high resolution files for you to upload.
- We Turn Selected Work Into Products: When we move forward with a piece, we:
- Prepare files and layouts
- Create product listings
- Handle printing, shipping, and customer service
- Track which artists and community partners are connected to each sale
You’re not running a store. You’re creating art and getting paid when products using your work sell.
What Art Can You Submit?
You may submit any artwork that is original and fully owned by you, including:
- Paintings
- Drawings
- Illustrations
- Digital art
- Photography
- Mixed media
It can be new work or existing work, as long as you created it and hold the rights needed for us to turn it into products.
Before You Submit
- Make sure the artwork is your original work and you have the rights to submit it for merchandise.
- Understand that this is a royalty-based program: you are paid when products using your art sell.
- For full details on rights, exclusivity, and royalty calculations, please review the Artist Submission & Royalty Agreement.
Exclusivity and Evaluation
There are two pieces to know: a short evaluation window and a longer merchandise exclusivity period. Below is an overview. You can find the artist royalty terms here.
60-day Evaluation Window
For 60 days after you submit a piece, you agree not to put that same artwork on other merchandise that would compete with this program.
That short window gives us space to evaluate your work and plan collections without confusion about where the art is going.
3-year Exclusive Merchandise License
If we launch a product that uses your artwork:
- You grant Openhill an exclusive license to sell merchandise using that artwork for three (3) years.
- During those three years, we are the only ones selling that specific image (or a very similar version of it) on merchandise.
- You still own your underlying art and can display it in your portfolio, shows, and social feeds or sell the original art yourself — the exclusivity is about merchandise, not about showing or selling your original work.
After the three-year exclusive period:
- We may continue selling the existing and related products using your artwork on a non-exclusive basis.
- You are free to license that artwork for other merchandise elsewhere.
- You continue to earn royalties from us on sales of products that still use your art, at the standard (post-exclusivity) rates described above.
Artwork can be sold as art prints or printed on products.
How The Money Flows
When a product that uses your artwork sells:
- The customer’s payment first covers things like taxes, printing, shipping, and payment processing.
- A portion goes to the Community Partner (for example, the social media group or online community that helped share the collection), so their outreach work is supported when their people buy.
- What remains after those pieces is then split 50/50:
- Half goes to Openhill to run the program.
- Half is set aside as the Artist Share.
Your royalty is a defined percentage of that Artist Share, depending on how your art is used:
- Tier 1 – Solo Use (when your art is ready to go and is the main image)
- During an exclusive period, you receive 100% of the Artist Share for that product.
- After that period, your share is reduced to 50% of the Artist Share (25% of the amount that remains).
- Tier 2 – Co-Created Use (your art plus substantial added design)
- If you submit art that needs significant polishing that requires us to bring in other artists, during an exclusive period, you receive 50% of the Artist Share.
- After that period, your share is 25% of the Artist Share (12.5% of the amount that remains).
- Tier 3 – Compilation Use (calendars, books, multi-artist products)
- The same 50% Artist Share is pooled and divided among all contributing artists and creative contributors for that product using a reasonable method.
The full formulas and timing are spelled out in the Artist Submission & Royalty Agreement, but this is the basic shape.
Who Runs This
This art program is managed by Openhill LLC. Openhill runs the production, store infrastructure, tracking, and royalty system for a network of participating sites. One of the first sites in that network is WithCommunity, which works with social media group admins and other Community Partners to feature art that sparks conversation and supports their work.
When you participate:
- Your contract and royalties are handled centrally through Openhill.
- Your art may be shown and sold on WithCommunity and other Openhill-affiliated channels.
- You do not have to manage separate deals with each individual site or community.