National Opportunities



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Florida

Budget:

$16,000

Medium:

digital files


Location:

Hillsborough County, FL, USA


Deadline:

09.23.2024


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Create electronic files for printing on acoustical panels that will cover an area a maximum of 14 feet high and 15 feet wide on each wall of an octagonal dome in Hillsborough County, Florida. The artist shall also observe the fabrication and installation of the panels.

CO

Budget:

$100,000

Medium:

roundabout sculpture


Location:

Colorado, USA


Deadline:

10.04.2024


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A Call for Art for the Horizon Drive District, Grand Junction, Colorado
The City of Grand Junction is the regional center of Western Colorado because of its location, size, and amenities. The City and County boasts a strong cultural community and rich historical heritage. Horizon Drive is the major access into Grand Junction from Interstate 70, as well as the primary transportation corridor between the Regional Airport, the University, and Downtown. The Horizon Drive District (HDD), a Business Improvement District, and the Grand Junction Commission on Arts and Culture, an advisory board to GJ City Council, seek to commission artwork for the roundabout being constructed at the entrance to the District, the intersection of Horizon Drive and 27 ½ (G) Road. The artwork will be sited within the center island of the roundabout, which has a diameter of approximately 70 feet
Preference may be given to Colorado artists.

NY

Budget:

$6,800

Medium:

mural


Location:

The Rockwell Museum, Cedar Street, Corning, NY, USA


Deadline:

09.27.2024


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The Rockwell Museum, a Smithsonian Affiliate, is seeking to hire an experienced mural artist to work with Rockwell’s Youth and Visitor Engagement Educator and the High School Learning Center (HSLC) students and staff to plan, design and paint a mural in August 2025.

The building façade is 69’ 9” long x 14’ 8 ½” high. The mural design will need to incorporate painting around the window and the door.

NY

Budget:

$750,001

Medium:

monument


Location:

New York City, NY, USA


Deadline:

12.31.2024


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The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs seeks artists to design public monument(s) to honor four women, Katherine Walker, Billie Holiday, Elizabeth Jennings Graham, and Dr. Helen Rodriguez Trias, and women’s history in New York City.

In 2018, She Built NYC was launched to address the underrepresentation of women in the city’s public art collection by commissioning public monuments to honor women and women’s history in New York City. The four projects below were initially announced in March 2019, but stalled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in and never even got to the initial phase of planning. Thanks to the Adams administration, these four remaining projects are now being restarted, and an open call is being launched for artists to design them. She Built NYC will honor Katherine Walker in Staten Island, Billie Holiday in Queens, Elizabeth Jennings Graham in Manhattan, and Dr. Helen Rodriguez Trias in the Bronx. A fifth project honoring Shirley Chisholm in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park is already underway and received unanimous approval from the city’s Public Design Commission last year.

She Built NYC builds on the recommendations of the Mayoral Advisory Commission on City Art, Monuments, and Markers to expand the stories, histories, and narratives currently represented on public property in New York. These representations have historically failed to reflect the trailblazing women and non-binary individuals that have contributed to the City.

Abingdon, VA

Budget:

$3,000

Medium:

$3,000 per selected artist. 6 custom works will be chosen by 2 selected jurors and be displayed on the museum campus for 3 years.


Location:

Abingdon, VA, USA


Deadline:

01.01.2025


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William King Museum of Art located in Abingdon, Virginia is excited to announce Unleashing the Wolf our first triennial outdoor sculpture exhibition. 6 custom works will be chosen by 2 selected jurors and be displayed on the museum campus for 3 years. Abingdon, Virginia (also known as “Wolf Hills”) is not without its share of wolf folklore, hence the theme of our public art sculpture exhibition. All entries must fit the theme of Unleashing the Wolf. Each artwork will be placed on the museum grounds on a designated concrete pad measuring 8’x8’.

All sculptures must be free-standing and resilient to variant temperatures and outdoor elements as it will be displayed outdoors for long-term public display.

CA mural artist pool

Budget:

$100,000

Medium:

mural


Location:

Redondo Beach, CA, USA


Deadline:

11.15.2024


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The City of Redondo Beach, California Public Art Program requests artists and artist teams who are interested in being included in an artist roster which will be used to open a competitive RFP process for a number of mural projects.

NOW Art Mural program

Budget:

$1,000

Medium:

mural


Location:

USA


Deadline:

12.31.2024


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2024 Request for Qualifications: Community Mural Program
NOW Art is actively seeking artists nationwide to design unique and original mural compositions for community-focused programs. These public facing projects are in partnership with corporations. Each mural is delivered as digital compositions or scanned high-resolution traditionally created artwork files. Approved artwork images will be printed on high quality vinyl, enlarged and adhered professionally in site specific locations.

Skills and Qualifications
Artists should be skilled in Photoshop, Illustrator, Procreate, or other software that uses a variety of brushes, filters, and effects or able to generate scanned digital files of work that are color corrected and clean to enlarge at scale.
Artists will be required to provide a high-resolution file at a minimum of 500-720 dpi. Exact dimensions will be provided once an artist is engaged in a project. Selected works will be significantly enlarged, so attention to detail is key.
Turnaround time per project is approximately 7 – 14 days, so efficiency is key.

NY

Budget:

$750,000

Medium:

public monuments


Location:

New York, NY, USA


Deadline:

12.31.2024


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The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs seeks artists to design public monument(s) to honor four women, Katherine Walker, Billie Holiday, Elizabeth Jennings Graham, and Dr. Helen Rodriguez Trias, and women’s history in New York City.

This Request for Qualifications (RFQ) is to solicit artists or artist teams who are interested in being considered to design a permanent public monument to the selected woman, group of women, or event in women’s history that significantly impacted New York City. The City will match the selected woman, group of women, or event from the shortlist to one public site, and the artist chosen to design a monument will be determined through the City’s Percent for Art commissioning process.

PROJECT BUDGET
The project budgets will range from $250K up to $750K and must include all project costs, including but not limited to the following: artist’s fees, design services, community engagement, site preparation, engineering, fabrication, travel, transportation of the work to the site, insurance, permits, installation, documentation of the artwork, and contingency.

WHO MAY APPLY
Professional visual artists or artist teams, working in any and all media, legally authorized to work in the U.S., and who are at least 18 years of age, are eligible to apply. Employees of the City of New York, Committee members (as defined in the following section) and their family members are not eligible to apply. If applying as an artist team, please identify the team member who will serve as the lead artist.
By applying, artists or artist teams could be considered for any of the upcoming 4 new memorials.

WA Exhibition Proposals

Budget:

$0

Medium:

any


Location:

Washington County Arts Council, South Potomac Street, Hagerstown, MD, USA


Deadline:

12.31.2024


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The Washington County Arts Council is currently accepting show proposals for 2025.
Deadline: Rolling – Must live within a 50 Mile Radius

There are options for the Main Gallery (Estimate of 50 works) and the Hall Gallery (Estimate of 30 works– suggested small group or solo show.). There is no submission fee.

30% commission on all sold work.

Stitching Together History: 250 Quilts Commemorating the Commonwealth of Virginia

Budget:

$-1

Medium:

No awards. This is an opportunity for your work to be exhibited. Entry fee is $40.


Location:

Virginia Quilt Museum, South Main Street, Harrisonburg, VA, USA


Deadline:

09.30.2024


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This project asks artists to commemorate a person, place, event, thing, or idea from Virginia or West Virginia’s history. The project will be divided into four themes that artists should consider when making their pieces: Unfinished Revolutions, Power of Place, We the People, and Virginia Experiments.
Quilt Requirements:
20 inch square quilt (20 inches wide by 20 inches high)
2-dimensional works only
4 inch hanging sleeve attached to the back, along the top of the quilt
Sleeve should be 1 inch from the top of the quilt and should end 1 inch from each side of the quilt
Must include an identification label on the lower-left corner of the back of the quilt that includes:
Artist’s name
Year made
Artist contact information
Title of the quilt
Must meet the definition of a quilt put forth by the Studio Art Quilt Associates: “a creative visual work that is layered and stitched or that references this form of stitched layered structure.”
Must be an original design, no adaptions or copyrighted patterns, and must not violate any copyright laws
No work with glitter will be accepted
Embellishments should not protrude from the quilt more than 1 inch in any direction
No sharp or pointed embellishments
No highly fragile work

Note artists must agree:
I agree to loan my artwork to Virginia Quilt Museum, Inc. I understand the costs of insuring my work for the duration of the project and shipping my artwork to and from the museum in Virginia are my responsibility. I further agree to permit the images or detail images and/or all or part of my artist statement to be used in the exhibition catalog, articles, ads, promotions, books, websites, blogs, CDs, current event news coverage, television productions, and/or multi-media productions for and about the exhibition or for and about the shows at which the exhibition may be seen. I confirm the artwork entered is original and does not violate any copyright or trademark laws.

Virginia Museum employment opportunities

Budget:

$0

Medium:

any


Location:

Virginia, USA


Deadline:

12.31.2024


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Visit the Virginia Association of Museum’s for museum employment in Virginia.

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