Call for Mural Artists: Liberty Plaza

The City of Ann Arbor Parks and Recreation and the Ann Arbor Downtown Development Authority are collaborating to fund a mural installation in Liberty Plaza to enhance the downtown experience for all people. They seek to commission an artist or artist team to design and paint the concrete walls in Liberty Plaza.
The three-tiered sunken plaza creates a unique urban canvas for artists to design a mural. This project’s design should be colorful, fun, and non-representational in subject.

The Golden Triangle Business Improvement District (BID) is excited to announce a new RFQ for public art: “Art at the Intersection” project – a two-year temporary public art installation at the prominent intersection of Connecticut Avenue and K Streets, NW in downtown Washington, D.C. The artwork will be installed in the summer of 2026.

The selected artist should bring a new creative vision to this location while contributing to the neighborhood’s ongoing reputation as a landmark for public art. To ensure visibility from multiple vantage points, the artwork must include elements of height and scale, enhancing the experience during the day and at night for all passersby

Bristol Community College and its Holocaust & Genocide Center in Fall River, Massachusetts, invite artists and artist teams to submit proposals for a public artwork that incorporates Bristol’s collection of 1.5 million buttons, each representing a child murdered in the Holocaust. The buttons will be provided to you. Preference will be given to proposals that utilize the entire 1.5 million button collection. This project aims to honor the memory of these children and raise awareness about the atrocities of the Holocaust, fostering reflection and education among the community.

The State of Kansas is seeking proposals to commission qualified artists or artist teams to design, fabricate, and install large-scale works of public art for the newly reconstructed State of Kansas Docking Building in Topeka, Kansas.

This RFQ is comprised of two separate projects: Project A, a sculptural interpretation of the state animal, the American bison, and Project B, an aerial installation representing the Kansas skies.
The selected artwork will be displayed in highly visible locations on the grounds of the Docking State Office Building within the state capitol complex. Each work of art should reflect the unique character and spirit of Kansas while engaging viewers with its creativity, innovation, and artistic excellence

WHO CAN SUBMIT: Submissions are open to the first 100 artists. Submissions are open to all artists. Only one submission per artist will be accepted. This form is only open to original art.

SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS: Banners will be 3 1/2 ft x 11 1/2 ft, so submissions should have a 3:11 ratio. Images will be cropped if they are outside of the suggested ratio. Submit only high-resolution images. So that voting can be anonymous, we ask that artists do not sign work at this time.

WHAT SUBMISSIONS WILL BE DISQUALIFIED: Images with glares, reflections, etc. will not be counted. AI-generated images are not permitted. Images that are replicas of famous works or violate another artist’s copyright will be disqualified. The additional submission will be deleted if an artist submits more than once.

HOW WILL ART FOR THE BANNERS BE SELECTED? When all 100 submissions have been collected and reviewed by staff, the Members of Sacramento Fine Arts Center will be able to vote for their favorites. Tie-breakers will be decided by the Sac Arts Board of Directors. A member who submits art will NOT be allowed to vote for their own art.

HOW LONG WILL BANNERS BE DISPLAYED: The approximate life span of the banners is 5-7 years. Artists’ names will be displayed on or near banners.

Apply Now
info@sacfinearts.org

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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