**About the project**

Interior, public-facing site. The goal of this project is to improve the Convention Center’s 2500 lobby. All semifinalist design proposals must include 2-D art for escalator barrier glass that measures approximately 224’ x 3’ and adjacent walls. Artwork must be created from durable materials to withstand pedestrian interaction.

Convention Center renovations include improving ADA accessibility to restrooms. For more information about the Convention Center, visit **https://kcconvention.com/**.

All artistic elements may be required to comply with applicable building codes, such as but not limited to the Americans with Disabilities Act and the 2018 International Building Code (IBC). The project team may review proposed elements relative to such requirements, including potential safety and/or security considerations.

2-5 semifinalist artists will be asked to advance to the RFP phase and propose 2-D designs. All semifinalist design proposals must be designed to include art for escalator barrier glass that measures approximately 224’ x 3’ and adjacent walls. 

  
**Tentative Schedule**

* Late October 2024: Semifinalists selected and notified
* Early January 2025: Semifinalist artists’ proposal presentations (virtual), finalist selected
* January-February 2025: Artist contract executed
* March 2025: Artist procures materials, begins fabricating art
* Art installation: Spring 2025
* Artwork dedication: Within 1 week of installation, if applicable

Artwork displayed in the Convention Center’s 2500 lobby.

  
The budget available for this project is $60,000, all inclusive. _Budget may include, but is not limited to, artist's fees, travel, engineering, fabrication, supplies, material costs, meeting and administration hours, labor, artist’s legal review fees, approval by a Missouri-licensed engineer, permits, licenses, insurance, lighting, equipment rental, shipping, delivery, documentation, installation._

  
Semifinalists will be paid a design proposal stipend of $1,000..
  
  

Kansas City Convention Center: Public Art Opportunity

The Arts Impact for Individuals grant program provides up to $5,000 for artistic projects in Minnesota led by individuals. Projects must be focused on creating access to the arts for Minnesotans, and/or engaging with Minnesota communities through artistic endeavors. Proposed projects could include:

* Connecting Minnesotans with participation in arts and cultural experiences; and/or
* Integrating artists and/or artistic engagement to accomplish a community’s non-arts goals; and/or
* Providing Minnesotans with opportunities for arts learning and passing along expressive cultural traditions.

Community members, rather than the applicant, must be the primary beneficiary of project activities. At least three Minnesotans other than the applicant must participate in the project. Projects primarily focused on developing the applicant’s own needs and creative interests are not a good fit with this program.

Arts Impact for Individuals

Each year the Lone Tree Arts Commission seeks to beautify the many traffic signal and utility boxes placed within the city through the selection of original designs from area artists. The selected designs will be printed on vinyl and will cover the box. A third-party design fabricator will be used to print the vinyl wraps and will be installed by the same group.

  
Artists are encouraged to steer away from common iconography that is already heavily used in the City of Lone Tree and explore original avenues. View Site Details for current cabinet wraps. Use of bright and vibrant colors are highly encouraged. The design should add to the vibrancy of our cityscape and create a sense of community and connection.

Artwork displayed publicly in Lone Tree. 

$500 will be awarded to each artist/group selected.

2024 Traffic Cabinet Wrap Program

**CALLING FOR ARTISTS!** Plica is organising her first Zine & Print market in Ghent on December 14th & 15th. To make sure our first edition is a blast, we’re counting on you! Are you a **zine- or print maker** and do you want to show your work to the Ghent audience? Then get tippy tapping and fill in our application form.

  
We are aware that TUIG is organising the winterTUIG (also a market for zine and illustration makers, but in Antwerp) the same weekend we’re organising Plica. We’ll be working on our application list together with them, so people can participate in both markets (one day in one location and the next in the other location) if they want to.

  
Ok, enough talk, let’s get to know each other!

Plica Zine & Print market takes place on December 14th and 15th at Edward (close to the Vrijdagmarkt). You can apply for either one of these days or for both days. Setting up shop starts on Saturday at 9h and Sunday at 10h. The market is open Saturday from 10h-18h and Sunday from 11h-18h.

  
Not everyone has enough material to fill a whole table, so to encourage starting zine- and printmakers there are a couple of half tables.

Plica Zine & Print Markt

Groundbreaking design often begins with a prototype.

  
Prototyping is to design an original idea into a form that has the potential to lead to the next step. The KOKUYO DESIGN AWARD 2025 seeks designs pointing the way to the future and serving as a catalyst.

  
Your design will inspire others and become a vector for the future.

  
We look forward to seeing your “prototype” not bound by existing thinking or limited to mockups or ideas.

The best design will be awarded with **2,000,000 Japanese yen** — about $12,800\. Three Merit awards of **500,000 Japanese yen each**, will also be announced and special prizes may as well be awarded. Up to 10 winners will also be announced for the New Generation Award and will each be awarded with **30,000 Japanese yen**.

  
The contest organizer will pay expenses incurred by participants for travel and lodging (up to two individuals for group entries).

Kokuyo Design Award 2025: Prototype

The Penland Core Fellowship Program is a two-year work-study fellowship for early career artists looking to expand technical skills and material fluency while working to support the day-to-day operations of a craft school. Artists of all backgrounds who want to advance their educational goals and explore their capacity to contribute to a thriving creative community are encouraged to apply. The goal of the program is to shape the future of contemporary craft by creating opportunity, connection, and immersive education for early career artists who bring a range of perspectives and goals to the school.

Penland core fellows fully engage with Penland by taking several workshops each year in familiar or new media, and performing integral jobs for the school. Penland’s ever-changing learning environment allows core fellows to study with world-class teaching artists from all over the US and abroad; this is a unique opportunity to create an educational path that responds to individual goals. The program can serve as preparation for careers in creative, non-profit, educational, and entrepreneurial sectors. A measure of the program’s success is the number of core fellows who have gone on to make a life in craft. To date over 200 people have participated in the program, and about 80% are practicing artists or professional contributors to the field of craft today.

The work that core fellows do for the school—jobs such as weekend cook, and entertainment coordinator—places them at the heart of Penland’s daily operations and gives them an opportunity to develop leadership skills and connect with artists from all over by working cooperatively towards a common goal. Core fellows are often a bridge between the staff and the studios and serve a unique role in helping others have a meaningful experience at Penland.

Core fellows live and work together and often learn as much from each other as they do from their instructors and mentors. In the process, they have a chance to form close friendships and often become part of each other’s lifelong creative and professional networks.

  
RESPONSIBILITIES

Core fellows work an average of 20-25 hours/week in various service positions. In addition to fulfilling their work responsibility to the school, they are considered fully participating students and are expected to be engaged, productive members of each class they take. Work responsibilities begin each year in late February and end just before Thanksgiving. There is no regular work obligation from late November until late February, so most core fellows take advantage of this time to dive deeply into studio work.

Penland provides housing throughout the year, tuition for classes, and meals while the school is in session (approximately 8 months of the year). Core fellows receive a stipend of $500 every two weeks. They are responsible for all personal expenses, studio fees, and art materials.

  

Penland Core Fellowship Program

The City of Regina is requesting mid-career or established artists to apply for an artist in residency at the Neil Balkwill Civic Arts Centre to transform the tree trunk from “Regina’s Oldest Tree” into an artwork(s) to be accessioned into the Civic Art Collection. In addition, this residency includes an opportunity to mentor an emerging artist to further the legacy of art, craft and woodworking at the Neil Balkwill Civic Arts Centre.

  
**Project Background**

Regina was first established in 1882 on a treeless grass prairie; today there are over 500,000 hand-planted trees throughout the City. Regina is one of nine Canadian cities to be recognized as a Tree City of the World by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Arbour Day Foundation. Regina’s Oldest Tree was an American Elm that saw 123 years of history in Regina unfold. The tree lived in Victoria Park where it observed the City of Regina incorporated in 1903, survived the Regina Cyclone in 1912, witnessed the Regina Riots in 1935, was present for the birth of Medicare in 1962, and stood tall as Victoria Park was designated a Heritage Conservation District in 1996\. Unfortunately, the tree had been slowly dying since 2020 and was ultimately felled in August 2023 as it had become a hazard to public safety and posed a risk of becoming a breeding ground for the insect vector of Dutch Elm Disease. 

  
This project will write a new chapter in the life story of this beloved tree, which has shared in so much of our City’s history. The branches have been donated to local Elders for Indigenous ceremonial uses and now the City looks to the artistic community to help repurpose the tree trunk into an artwork to live on for future generations to enjoy.

  
**The Artwork**

The City of Regina invites practicing artists to submit a proposal for the creation of an artwork using the tree trunk from Regina’s Oldest Tree. The winning proposal will honour the life of the tree and the century of history it witnessed, while expanding awareness of Regina’s Urban Forest and promoting discourse on woodworking and craftsmanship in fine art.

  
**Project Information**

* Since it’s felling in 2023, the tree has been debarked and stored within a temperature-controlled building. Due to the trunk of the tree still being intact, we are unable to determine the state of the interior of the wood.
* A viewing of the tree will be held at 1430 4th Avenue on Wednesday September 11 from 2:00 – 4:30 for all interested artists to view the tree.
* The artist will be provided with the raw material (trunk) from the Oldest Tree. The artist’s dominant material must be wood.
* The delivery deadline for this work is April 2025\. Installation (if applicable) is between May and June 2025.
* The artist will be required to dedicate 150 hours over four months
* The artist will be required to get insurance as part of the agreement.
* The selected artist will determine the terms and execution of the mentorship program including how they will select their mentee and the involvement of the mentee with the project, this can include but not limited to; being an artist assistant with the opportunity to create their own piece.
* Mentorship must meet the following criteria:
1. The mentor must set a budget for mentee material costs from the greater residency material budget.
2. The mentor and mentee must meet at least three times during the residency.
3. The mentor and mentee must set established goals at the beginning of mentorship.
* The selected artist will facilitate one public engagement session along with an artist talk near the end of the residency to showcase their work. Public engagement opportunities may include but are not limited to facilitating workshop(s), artist talk(s) or open studio hours.
* Reproductions of artwork may be used in City promotional material as part of the residency.
* As part of the residency, the City will be documenting the process and project in a video through third party production company including footage of the artist.
* This residency is to help facilitate the production of artwork(s) that will be accessioned into the Civic Art Collection at the end of the residency.

The proposed budget for this project is $15,000, which includes $10,000 for artist fees and $5,000 for all materials, artwork design, mentee material cost and insurance.

2025 Artist in Residency: Regina’s Oldest Tree

Based in Europe, Drappo Culture offers a flexible environment with opportunities for remote work. Selected artists will have the chance to showcase their work in our portfolio for consideration in future freelance projects with a wide array of clients. Additionally, we encourage artists to propose their own projects for potential production or exhibition at our dedicated art festivals and events. This is a unique opportunity to collaborate with a dynamic, newly born platform that values innovation and creativity in all its forms.

  
Drappo Culture is a newly born yet platform and creative production dedicated to exploring the intersection of art, fashion, and entertainment. Based in Europe, Drappo Culture operates both locally and globally, fostering a diverse community of artists and creatives. Our platform connects emerging and established artists with audiences through exhibitions, festivals, and unique collaborations, creating opportunities for meaningful engagement with contemporary culture. At Drappo Culture, we believe in the transformative power of art and its ability to inspire, challenge, and shape the world around us. 

**Salary**: £40k-£50k

**Hours**: Full time

**Employment Type**: Contract

**Location**: Remote

Artist in the entertainment / fashion industries

Denk-und Produktionsort Libken grants five two-month residency scholarships to artists from Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland who live and work in the countryside or mainly engage with rural environments in their artistic practice. The residency will take place from 1 March to 30 April 2025 in Libken, on the outskirts of the 80-inhabitant village of Böckenberg, around 100 km north-east of Berlin.

  
The aim of the residency programme is to engage in an exchange between artists with different disciplines, cultural backgrounds and artistic practices, to deepen one’s own work and to reflect on its specific conditions.

  
The two-month program ‘into the fields’ is accompanied and framed by a kick-off weekend, as well as by four group work meetings, moderated inputs and studio visits spread over the residency period. Next to supporting the individual working projects, the programme encourages the artists to use the international group as a space of resonance and a performative resource. In this way, the focus shifts to practicing forms of communal living, collaboration and sharing as a means to participation, indispensable in a time of political shift to the right and of economic uncertainty.

The residency program «into the fields» is supported by Culture Moves Europe, the permanent mobility scheme funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union and implemented by the Goethe-Institut.

  
The residency provides a fee of 25 EUR/day per artist (1,550 EUR in total), **costs for travelling to and from Libken (350 EUR–700 EUR, air travel is not covered)**, top-ups (for family support and disability support), accommodation, and studio space.

‘Into the Fields’ Residency

AI HOKUSAI is an ArtTech Research Project, inspired by the methodology of Japanese artist and educator Katsushika Hokusai, which invites artists from all over the world to experiment with artificial intelligence.

  
The project takes place online in the form of a two-month residency (from mid-October until mid-December) which combines an intensive program of applied workshops with an open public program including discussions and masterclasses.

  
While the artists explore generative AI tools to create artworks for a final exhibition, the organizers will conduct a research study by observing and analyzing the process from cultural, technological, anthropological and philosophical points of view.

  
The results will be published in a paper that brings together the experience of artists, experts and organizers to produce a deeper understanding of the role of artificial intelligence in the context of art, culture, and human heritage.

During two months (from mid-October to mid-December), it will combine an intensive educational program of applied workshops with the preparation of individual and collective artworks for the final virtual exhibition.

  
The organizing committee will provide a stipend of $2,000 for each resident. The first payment will be 10% upon completion of the orientation meeting and 90% after the transfer of artworks produced for the final exhibition.

  
Residents will be provided with subscriptions to various AI tools used during the lab (Midjourney, Exactly.ai). Additional tools can be purchased independently, using their own fund.

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