December Call for Artists Close Out 2021
UPDATED Dec 2, 2021: As of this writing we have 22 call for artists with deadlines remaining in December, 2021. Several of these calls are opportunities for multiple sculptors. Whether you are looking for a site specific commission or to participate in an art on loan venture, or if you want to serve as an art consultant, there is sure to be something to light up your winter!
To allow for planning an overseas trip, we have also included information on a stone symposium in Germany, even though the deadline is not until March.
Be sure to also check out sculpture opportunities with deadlines in November at our previous call for artists.
Downtown Plaza-Signature Art Piece
Ames, Iowa
Summary: The City seeks a public art project that serves as a signature piece in the downtown plaza. This signature piece is expected to be a large central artwork that evokes whimsy and playfulness and offers the opportunity for users to interact with the piece. The piece should provide interest to individuals and families exploring the creative and recreational aspects of the downtown plaza.
Budget: $150,000
Deadline: 12/1/21
How to apply: email or file sharing service, see link below for details
Eligibility Requirements: The City has retained a landscape architecture firm to complete the design of the overall plaza. The artist selected through this Request for Qualifications will be expected to work with that firm to integrate the signature piece into the plaza design and ensure required features are included by the landscape architect, such as pads, footings, lighting, water, stonework, or other required components.
Special Notes: Artists are NOT allowed to apply in teams.
Click here to read more about this call for artists and application instructions
Professorship at the ArtCenter College of Design’s Graduate Art MFA
Pasadena, California
Summary: The Graduate Art Department at ArtCenter College of Design is pleased to invite artists working in any medium to apply for the position of Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor. Graduate Art faculty are expected to hold individual meetings with our thirty-five graduate students on a regular basis, as well as design and teach two cross-disciplinary seminars per year that address current and historical cultural and aesthetic questions relevant to students working in all media. Finally, Graduate Art faculty are expected to maintain their active exhibition schedules, and every reasonable accommodation will be made by the department to make this possible.
Budget: not provided
Deadline: Dec 1, 2021
How to apply: email, see link below
Eligibility Requirements:
- Diploma of Degree from a relevant undergraduate program.
- MFA or equivalent professional activities.
- Teaching experience at the graduate or undergraduate level.
Special Notes: In August 2020, ArtCenter College of Design launched a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Action Plan that articulates 40 initiatives intended to transform the culture of ArtCenter by accelerating our commitment to these values. The initiatives demonstrate our determination to address disparities within our system, strengthen the rich diversity of our community and improve the climate in which we work and learn.
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Eaton Public Library Art Project
Eaton, Colorado
Summary: The Library and the Art Task Force would eagerly consider three-dimensional concepts that incorporate the attributes of a library – the magic of learning, the excitement of exploration, the adventure of reading. The art should be suitable for a broad audience of all ages. All artwork and concepts must be site-appropriate for a residential neighborhood and should be a catalyst to welcome and inspire. The ideal artwork will create visual interest and sense of place. Designs may be representational or abstract but must respond appropriately to the location and setting.
Budget: $30,000
Deadline: 12/1/21
How to apply: CaFÉ™
Eligibility Requirements: This opportunity is open to professional artists who are18 years of age or older and reside in the United States.
Special Notes: The installation can be interactive or contain moving parts, but this is not required. The materials should be of high artistic quality and durable to withstand all types of weather conditions including extreme temperature swings in a short amount of time.
Click here to read more about this call for artists or to apply
Call for Sculpture Concepts
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Summary: The Midtown Greenway Coalition has issued a Call for Sculpture Concepts to select an artist for a proposed Midtown Greenway Light-emitting Sculpture.
The sculpture should be approximately 12 feet wide and will be suspended up in the air about 12 feet above the trail surface. These dimensions are recommendations only and are based on the need for the sculpture to be seen from 17th Avenue South and the main trail down in the below-grade Midtown Greenway, and offer clearance for greenway maintenance vehicles to pass underneath.
The body of the sculpture should emit light or appear to emit light. For example, it could be internally lit and have sheathing made of translucent acrylic material or perforated metal, or lighting could be applied to its surface so it appears to glow, or it could be externally lit so it appears to glow. In addition to a glowing sculpture surface, there will be lights shining down out of the bottom of the sculpture to light up the pavement of the Midtown Greenway entrance ramp below and the sidewalk of 18th Avenue South that intersects with the ramp, and perhaps also part of the roadway at this trail/roadway intersection.
Budget: This design phase budget of up to $8,000 will pay the winning artist to create a detailed sculpture design, participate in discussions with public agency staff persons and the project team regarding approvals to install the sculpture in public space, and likely modify the design to secure public agency permissions. No budget break-down is required for the design phase, but artists should anticipate that the $8,000 will need to include review and approval by a structural engineer and likely also a licensed electrician to create/approve an electrical plan with enough detail for public agency approvals of the wiring, solar panels and batteries that will power the sculpture.
Deadline: 12/03/2021
How to apply: email: see link below
Eligibility Requirements: This call for sculpture concepts is open to all artists or artist teams who are at least 18 years old with no restriction on geographic location.
Special Notes: An Advisory Team composed of neighbors will select three finalists based on visual and emotional impact, qualifications, feasibility, and estimated budget for sculpture construction and installation to inform a larger contract later in 2022. Then people from the adjacent blocks and surrounding neighborhood, and Midtown Greenway trail users will vote for their favorite design from among those three, based largely on the sculpture’s likelihood of making viewers say “Wow!”
Click here to read more about this call for artists and for application instructions
Downtown Arts, Creative Greensboro
Greensboro, North Carolina
Summary: Downtown Arts seeks to provide support for and generate awareness of members of Greensboro’s visual arts community while enhancing the downtown built environment with original works of art. Selected artists will receive compensation and the support of several City of Greensboro led marketing initiatives.
Applicants to this Call for Artists will be considered for one or both of the following opportunities. Both opportunities are available for Greensboro-based artists working in painting, sculpture, drawing, ceramics, glass, photography, digital arts, or fiber arts.
Budget: $
- Art on Downtown Kiosks: a $500 honorarium will be awarded to up to ten artists
- Art in City Hall: a $3,000 commission will be awarded to one artist who will create an original work with dimensions of 36” x 24” (or 36” x 24” x 24” if 3-dimensional) that reflects their creative perspective on Greensboro in 2021.
Deadline: 12/3/21
How to apply: CaFÉ™
Eligibility Requirements: Applicants must be a creative individual with a practice in painting, sculpture, drawing, ceramics, glass, photography, digital arts, or fiber arts and must be full-time residents of Greensboro at least 18 years of age.
Special Notes: (Optional) If you are interested in being considered for the ‘Art in City Hall’ original commission, you must also include a statement of no more than 2,000 characters (including spaces) that describes the ideas/concepts you would like to explore in the commissioned work as you reflect on Greensboro in 2021.
Click here to read more about this call for artists or to apply
The Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County (CAA) RFP for The Underwater Museum of Art (UMA)
South Walton, Florida
Summary: The Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County (CAA) culturalartsalliance.com in partnership with the South Walton Artificial Reef Association (SWARA) swarareefs.org join two of Walton County, Florida’s most cherished resources, the Arts and the Gulf of Mexico, with the Underwater Museum of Art (UMA), the first and only permanent underwater sculpture museum in the United States. Artists are invited to submit proposals for the fourth sculpture installation to be deployed Summer 2022.
There is no one-size-fits-all rule, but artists should keep in mind that bigger/taller/heavier/less detailed sculptures will fare better at 60’ water depths. If a piece is too short or small, it is less likely to be noticeable or sustainable in these waters. Sculptures should not contain any delicate or thin protruding pieces that could easily be broken.
Budget: Each artist or artist team will receive a $6,500 stipend inclusive of design fees, materials, labor, fabrication, construction, packing materials, shipping, and transportation.
Deadline: 12/3/21 11:59 pm CST
How to apply: Submittable
Eligibility Requirements: This opportunity is open to all artists and artist teams. While a demonstrated history of completing large-or small-scale public art projects is ideal, all artist applications will be considered. Artist teams should have a demonstrated history of collaboration.
Special Notes: Artists previously chosen to produce a sculpture for the UMA are eligible for consideration twice in a three-year period.
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Honoring the Military
Des Moines, Iowa
Summary: Group Creatives out of Des Moines, Iowa is looking to commission an artist with a strong connection to the military to design and produce public art that provides a community with a memorial to all branches of the military.
Budget: $25,000
Deadline: 12/4/21
How to apply: CaFE
Eligibility Requirements: All artists are eligible with a strong preference for artists with any meaningful connection to the US military.
Special Notes: From this call, 3 artists will be invited to develop a detailed proposal and compensated with a $1,000 artists fee.
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Meadowbrook Shopping Center – Rotating Sculpture Program
Prairie Village, Kansas
Summary: The southwest edge of Prairie Village, Kansas has undergone a true renaissance in the last 5 years as the former Meadowbrook Country Club and golf course was renovated into the 80-acre Meadowbrook Park, the Meadowbrook Inn, Kessler Residences, Meadowbrook Senior Living, and more. This resurgence of activity has spurred investment in neighboring parcels including the Meadowbrook Shopping Center which will be completely renovated in 2022.
To complete the renovation, the Prairie Village Arts Council (PVAC) and the R.H. Johnson Company (RHJC) are seeking two contemporary public artworks from two separate artists for initial 2-year lease contracts of a new rotating outdoor sculpture program at the renovated Meadowbrook Shopping Center at 95th and Nall in Prairie Village, Kansas.
Budget: The selected artists will each receive a stipend of $3,000 for the two-year lease of their artwork with $1,500 upon installation, and $1,500 upon removal
Deadline: 12/5/21
How to apply: CaFÉ™
Eligibility Requirements: Open to all artists, 18 years of age or older, whose submitted artwork and/or portfolio meet the stated project goals.
Special Notes: Proposals can be new or existing work. If existing, work must have been created within the past 3 years. If new, must be ready for installation per the project schedule.
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The Firehouse
Belmont, California
Summary: MidPen Housing Corporation is hiring an artist or artist team with expertise in one or more of the following areas; ceramics, mosaic and tile, metal fabrication, and/or assemblage. The commission is for the design and installation of an approximately 12 square foot wall piece for the exterior of a new MidPen Housing affordable housing community called The Firehouse.
The public art will be installed and maintained permanently on The Firehouse property for the enjoyment of both The Firehouse residents and passersby. The intent of the new art installation is to honor the historic salvaged materials, provide enjoyment to the new Firehouse residents, and to contribute to the City of Belmont’s mission to increase public art in the Belmont community.
Budget: $18,000
Deadline: 12/5/21
How to apply: CaFÉ™
Eligibility Requirements: Artists living within a 50 mile radius of the site with a connection to the Bay Area are preferred. Artists from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply.
Special Notes: The artist’s unique challenge is to combine salvaged materials from the original structure, primarily hand-made decorative tiles, with new materials and expression, in order to honor the site’s history while observing its renewed purpose as a visual anchor for the current neighborhood
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Town Hall Plaza Sculpture Request for Proposals
Castle Rock, Colorado
Summary: The Town of Castle Rock Public Art Commission seeks proposals for a sculptural art piece to enhance and beautify Town Hall Plaza, the Town’s newest civic gathering space located in the heart of Downtown Castle Rock.
Artists are invited to submit proposals for this exciting opportunity to celebrate and represent the Castle Rock community through a large-scale work of art. The ideal piece could evoke feelings of inspiration or joy, strengthen community pride, encourage fun and play, cultivate community dialogue, foster reflection, promote unity and connectedness or instill a sense of home and place.
Budget: $50,000
Deadline: 12/6/21
How to apply: CaFÉ™
Eligibility Requirements: This is a national call
Special Notes: The committee will choose up to three semi-finalists who will be asked to continue in the process by presenting to the selection committee. Each will receive a stipend of $500 for concept proposals, which may include models, maquettes, fully executed cartoons, digital simulations, etc. Finalists must be available to present their concepts in person to the review panel.
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Bowie State University MLK Jr. Communications Arts & Humanities building Call for Public Art (RFQ)
Baltimore, Maryland
Summary: Bowie State University, a member institution of the University System of Maryland, is building the new Martin Luther King Jr. Communication Arts & Humanities building (CAH). This building is being designed by Perkins and Will and is expected to open in Fall 2024.
Through this Request for Qualifications (RFQ) process, managed by the Maryland State Arts Council’s Public Art Across Maryland program, artists (or artist teams) will be invited to develop concept proposals for a new and original public artwork to be featured prominently at the new building.
Budget: $515,000
Deadline: 3 p.m. 12/08/2021
How to apply: PublicArtist
Eligibility Requirements: All professional artists or artist teams living in the United States may apply.
Special Notes: Please check out a recorded webinar here originally from a live “How to Apply: Bowie State University” webinar on November 10th, 12 p.m.
Click here to read more about this call for artists or to apply
St. Mary’s College of Maryland New Academic Building & Auditorium, Call for Public Art (RFQ)
Baltimore, Maryland
Summary: This Request for Qualifications seeks to identify a qualified individual artist or artist team who will be commissioned to develop a new site-specific and responsive work of public art for the New Academic Building & Auditorium Project at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. The selected artist or team will be tasked with designing, fabricating, and installing an artwork that functions as a public landmark and entry point while responding to the unique setting, history, and relationship to the environment present throughout St. Mary’s College of Maryland campus. Up to four qualified semi-finalists will be selected from the respondents to this RFQ. Selected semi-finalists will be provided stipends to develop site-specific concept proposals for artwork.
Budget: $250,000
Deadline: 12/08/2021, 3 p.m.
How to apply: PublicArtist
Eligibility Requirements: All professional artists or artist teams living in the United States may apply.
Special Notes: A live “How to Apply: St. Mary’s College of Maryland ” webinar, will be held on November 16th, 5 -6 p.m. You can register for the info session here. A recording of the webinar will be available following the event.
Click here to read more about this call for artists or to apply
Skyline Park in Easton Park
Austin, Texas
Summary: Brookfield Residential is seeking to commission a unique permanent artwork installation that will serve as a signature artistic or sculptural element welcoming visitors within Skyline Park, a significant community park located in the Easton Park neighborhood, a vibrant new and growing housing community just twelve miles east of downtown Austin.
Budget: $250,000
Deadline: 12/9/21, 5pm Central
How to apply: PublicArtist
Eligibility Requirements: This request for qualifications is open to any professional artist or artist team.
Special Notes: Artwork will be designed, fabricated and installed by November, 2022.
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Art in Public Buildings RFQ: Casper College Visual Arts Building
Casper, Wyoming
Summary: The committee is interested in exterior, site specific work. There are several locations in the south plaza that could accommodate large sculptural work. Artists may consider one or more of these locations. Work in this area would be highly visible when approaching campus, and would be visible from inside the building from the second floor. There is also the possibility for work on the northeast corner of the site in front of the large metal paneling that surrounds the outdoor kiln yard.
The committee would like to see artwork that connects to the college and the Visual Art Department’s emphasis on teaching foundations, and/or offers a conceptual approach to the landscape, environment, and sense of place. The committee would like to see work that appreciates the clean and simple design approach of the building and utilizes it as a backdrop, work that is colorful and unique, and contemporary. The committee is not interested in representational work.
The committee is primarily interested in commissioning work that is site specific, but will consider purchasing existing work if it fits with the scope of the project.
Budget: $51,750
Deadline: 12/10/21
How to apply: CaFÉ™
Eligibility Requirements: Applicant must be a U.S. citizen or legal resident and a minimum of 18 years of age.
Special Notes: The committee is particularly interested in artists who are willing to work with students during the fabrication or installation processes, or be willing to provide public art talks or lectures.
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Public Art Planning Consultant
Chicago, Illinois
Summary: The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE), in collaboration with the Department of Planning and Development (DPD) and the Department of Transportation (CDOT), seeks professional artists, arts consultants, urban designers and planners with public art and infrastructure experience to serve as consultants who will lead a community engagement process to scope and identify priorities for new public art and infrastructure investments, prioritizing INVEST South/West (ISW) neighborhood corridors
Deadline: 12/15/21 5pm Eastern
Budget: The budget per each INVEST South/West neighborhood will be $50,000, which includes all costs associated with delivery of the community engagement process and public art plan including, but not limited to artist and design fees, translation and other accessibility services, insurances and implementation costs.
Deadline: 12/12/21, 11:59 pm Central
How to apply: CaFÉ™
Eligibility Requirements: This project is open to professional artists, arts consultants, urban designers and planners with experience in public art and infrastructure and community engagement, who live and work in the United States of America
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Library Sculpture Installation
Cape Canaveral, Florida
Summary: In a continued effort to introduce varied elements of public art into the Cape Canaveral landscape, the City of Cape Canaveral has created a program that will invite an individual artist to exhibit work as a biennial installation at the entrance of the Cape Canaveral Public Library. This program reinforces the City’s commitment to art and culture and fosters marketable opportunities for working artists in our community. Based on the success and community feedback on this inaugural installation, the program will expand to include additional sculpture installations throughout the City.
Budget: Honorarium: $2,000.00
How to apply: online form
Eligibility Requirements: no restrictions noted
Special Notes: Must fit within the dimensions of 7’ (wide) by 10’ (tall)
Click here to read more about this call for artists including application instructions
Soul Walk: Gateways, Sculpture and Wayfinding
Tampa, Florida
Summary: The City of Tampa is seeking to commission multiple artworks for sites and transportation corridors. These commissions are part of a larger initiative to connect existing artworks, historic sites, and community spaces to form a cohesive cultural heritage trail that recognizes the significant value and contributions of Tampa’s African American community. Creating this network of sites with our partners will increase community engagement and outreach, provide must-see destinations, and develop a source of community pride.
Budget: $5,000 – $600,000
Deadline: 12/17/21
How to apply: CaFÉ™
Eligibility Requirements: These opportunities are open to professional artists with experience executing their ideas from concept to completion, meeting a specified budget and timeframe, working in the public real with public agencies.
Special Notes: Do not submit a proposal for a concept with your application. Artist who submit proposals will be disqualified and their submission will not be reviewed. Proposals are defined as a physical description of an artwork for the site and/or a visual illustration of an artwork for the site.
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Fire Station No. 11
Columbia, Missouri
Summary: The City of Columbia, Missouri, invites Missouri artists, to apply for a public art project at the planned Fire Station No. 11. The City seeks an artist or artist team to create new site-specific, original, public artwork(s) for the exterior of the new fire station. Works in a variety of durable media and forms will be considered.
Budget: $17,000
Deadline: 12/17/2021
How to apply: online, see link below
Eligibility Requirements: The project is open to all artists and artist teams, 18 years and older, who are legal residents of the United States residing in Missouri (will also consider artists across statelines in Kansas City and St. Louis metro areas).
Special Notes: All finalists will be invited to interview with the project selection panel and will receive an honorarium for doing so. Finalists will not be asked to develop design proposals for the interviews, but should be prepared to discuss how they might approach the project as well as present a survey of their past work and answer questions from the panel.
Sculpture Walk Peoria
Peoria, Illinois
Summary: Sculpture Walk Peoria is currently accepting submissions for an outdoor sculpture exhibition running 2022-2024.
Sculpture Walk Peoria is a biennial, juried, outdoor exhibit offering local, regional, national and international sculptors opportunities to showcase and sell their creations, while enhancing the cultural environment of Peoria and providing opportunities to educate the public. All sculptures are to be for sale. Since its inception, Sculpture Walk Peoria has sold 11 sculptures.
Budget: Honorarium is $2,500 dollars, payable $1,000 following the exhibit opening on May 20, 2022; $1,000 May 2023, and $500 at pickup of the sculpture. There will be an additional $1,000 People’s Choice Award given to one artist in October 2022.
Deadline: 12/19/21
How to apply: CaFÉ™
Eligibility Requirements: no restrictions noted
Special Notes: Event Dates: 5/21/22 – 4/20/24; (Entry Fee): $25.00; The sculpture must be for sale and the artist must price the work. The Sculpture Walk Peoria program will receive a commission of 25% of the sales price for any sculpture sold during the exhibition.
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Cabarrus County Courthouse Expansion
Concord, North Carolina
Summary: Cabarrus County, North Carolina is seeking artists or artist collaborations to create innovative, original, and site-specific artwork for the Cabarrus County Courthouse Expansion that is currently under construction in downtown Concord, NC.
The Art Selection Committee for this project is seeking an artist or artist team who can understand and express, in a suspended, permanently-installed, large scale piece, the Courthouse’s role in providing sound and fair justice. The location of the art will be in the main public lobby, where high windows afford views of the artwork from outside the building on three sides, as well as inside.
Budget: $350,000
Deadline: 12/20/21 3:00 p.m. Eastern
How to apply: online. Applications must be by electronic submission only, via upload & submission form on the Submission website
Eligibility Requirements: Open to all U.S. artists who meet qualifications.
Special Notes: One (1) to three (3) finalists will each receive a $2,500 stipend to cover design costs for their proposal and travel/ presentation.
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Exterior Sculpture Fabrication and Installation, Adams County Roundabout Project
Brighton, Colorado
Summary: Riverdale Regional Park in Brighton, Colorado, is a destination for outdoor recreation and the largest park and open space in unincorporated Adams County. The County is constructing a new Park Gateway and Roundabout to enhance the destination experience and seeks services for the fabrication and installation for a complete sculpture system, designed by DHM Design, to be the main focal point for the new gateway entrance.
The Sculpture elements are part of the Roundabout Project, managed and implemented by Adams County Public Works, with other elements including civil engineering, decorative concrete and gabion baskets. Coordination from the selected Sculpture Firm is required to ensure all components are completed on time and within budget.
Budget: $175,000
Deadline: 12/20/21
How to apply: CaFE
Eligibility Requirements: no restrictions noted
Special Notes: Timeline for Sculpture Installation will be coordinated with the General Contractor, NIC
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Updated-Art in Public Buildings RFQ: CWC Agriculture and Animal Science Center, Wyoming
Cheyenne, Wyoming
Summary: The committee is interested in functional work for the exterior of the building that creates a communal gathering space for students. They are interested in work that is functional and sculptural, for example lighting, seating, or bike racks. The committee is open to multiple pieces or cohesive elements that work together to create a space that encourages collaboration and community.
Budget: $82,594.00
Deadline: 12/29/21
How to apply: CaFE
Eligibility Requirements: Applicant must be a U.S. citizen or legal resident and a minimum of 18 years of age.
Special Notes: For more information about Central Wyoming College, visit their website. For site plans, possible artwork locations, and additional information about the project, visit the Arts Council website.
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Nashville Tree Project
Nashville, Tennessee
Summary: Nashville Tree Foundation (NTF), in collaboration with Metro Parks and Metro Arts, is seeking experienced artists and artist teams to give ash trees in Nashville parks a new life. Ash trees comprise approximately 10% of Nashville’s total tree canopy and are under threat from the emerald ash borer, an invasive beetle. The sculpture project will help raise awareness to the pending loss of these trees.
This RFP seeks an experienced artist (or artist team) to turn the tree into a sculpture: beautiful, original, unique works of art that will become a distinguishing feature in the neighborhood. The approach can be additive and/or subtractive. The trees will be approximately 10-25 ft. tall and may include main side branches.
Budget: $3,500 all inclusive
Deadline: 12/31/21
How to apply: CaFÉ™
Eligibility Requirements: For this RFP, each artist should submit qualifications that address projects of similar scale. We are looking for evidence that the artist is comfortable working with the appropriate equipment and at heights required for this project. Selected artists must follow safety criteria and are encouraged to complete a scaffolding safety course. Liability insurance must also be in place while working on the project.
Special Notes: NTF will provide the tree/site scaffold and a fence around the site during construction for a two week period (artists may apply for an extension). Due to the condemned nature of the tree, Metro Parks and NTF reserve the right to remove it at their discretion. The sculptures will be regularly inspected for structural integrity and will be removed when deemed unsafe. The hope is that sculptures will remain in place for at least 18 months.
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Sculpture on Sample/ArtWalk
Coral Springs, Florida
Summary: The City of Coral Springs Public Art Program will temporary display up to nine (9) artworks. The City will then purchase one or more sculptures for the continued expansion of public art within the City. The purchased sculpture(s) will be chosen from the existing temporary display sculptures chosen for the Sculpture on Sample/ArtWalk Program.
The City of Coral Springs theme for this year’s “Sculpture on Sample/ArtWalk” program is to promote the City’s mission statement: “The nation’s premier community in which to live, work and raise a family” along with its branding, “Everything Under the Sun.”
Budget: Up to $49,000.00 for final purchase of artwork(s); each artist selected for loan will receive $2,000.00. up to 9 artworks may be selected for temporary display.
Deadline: 12/31/21
How to apply: CaFE
Eligibility Requirements: The project is open to any professional visual artist with experience implementing their ideas and work in the public realm
Special Notes: Artists should submit pre-existing artworks for purchase. The City of Coral Springs will only rent and purchase unique works of art, unless the series itself has a conceptual basis.
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LaunchPAD (Public Art Duo) Program
Austin, Texas
Summary: The LaunchPAD Program (PAD = Public Art Duo) provides an opportunity for local artists to gain technical and administrative expertise needed to compete within the field of public art while providing services benefiting a public art project. This program is meant to be a professional development opportunity for local artists interested in a career in public art.
It is a goal for each project with a budget over $200,000 to include a LaunchPAD Artist, as determined feasible by Art in Public Places (AIPP) staff and approved by the AIPP Panel and Arts Commission
Budget: The LaunchPAD artist will be paid a flat fee of $15,000 per project
Deadline: Dec 31, 2021
How to apply: PublicArtist
Eligibility Requirements: Mid-career and emerging professional visual artists who have resided in the Austin metro area, including Williamson, Travis, Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Burnet and Blanco counties, for a minimum of one (1) year, and who have a strong interest in gaining expertise in the public art process are encouraged to apply. Artist must be at least 18 years old.
Special Notes: LaunchPAD (Public Art Duo) Program Policy (PDF)
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ADVANCED NOTICE FOR SYMPOSIUM
27th International Sculptors‘ Symposium “Art in Stone”
Wunsiedel, Germany
Summary: This symposium is open to 6 international stone sculptors. The symposium is intended to draw the public’s attention to the stonemason and stone sculptor trade and the Steinzentrum Wunsiedel and promote natural stone.
* The costs for meals and accommodation during the symposium will be covered;
* travel costs have to be paid by the participants;
* upon completion of the work, the artists will be paid an allowance which was €700 in the past years;
* The resulting artwork will be displayed at the training center or other suitable public space, e.g. exhibited in the town of Wunsiedel. This is done without any liability. After one year, the object can be purchased by the artist against material cost reimbursement. If the option to purchase the work is not exercised, the ownership rights will be transferred to the European Training Center after this year.
When: July 13 – 20, 2022
Budget: TBD: upon completion of the work, the artists will be paid an allowance which was €700 in the past years;
Deadline: March 31, 2022
How to apply: online, see link below
Eligibility Requirements: no restrictions noted
Special Notes: Stone material and tools are provided – but can also be brought along
Click here to read more about this call for artists, to download the full RFQ
