The Louisiana Percent for Art Program is seeking artists or artist teams to design and implement three thematically related exterior, site-specific sculptures or installations of original design for the Music & Dramatic Arts Building, Band Hall, and Cypress Residential Hall at Louisiana State University (one artist or artist team will be chosen to execute ALL THREE). The artwork should actively engage students, faculty, and visitors in creative interactive experiences that emphasize the meaning and value of music. This commission is open nationally to professional artists 18 and over.

Louisiana State University seeks to connect these three sites through thematically related permanent installations that highlight the importance of music and dramatic arts as a discipline, a vital form of creative expression, and a way to bring people together. This project is open to a wide variety of artistic styles and approaches. 

Call for Artists: Sculptures for Arts building 

Public Art Opportunity: Request for Expressions of Interest Royal Botanical Gardens, Hendrie Gardens, Oak Allée 4 Commissions Available

The Dan Lawrie International Sculpture Collection (DLISC) invites professional artists to submit Expressions of Interest to create a permanent public artwork to be installed in the Oak Allée located in the Royal Botanical Gardens’ (RBG) Hendrie Garden.

Artwork Location 
Royal Botanical Gardens is located at the western tip of Lake Ontario. Four distinct formal gardens are contained with 1,100 hectares of nature reserve, nestled into the slopes of Niagara Escarpment World Biosphere Reserve. The ever-changing seasons, blooms, and natural phenomenon make each visit a new experience. Explore and enjoy the many historical outdoor plant collections, the indoor Mediterranean Garden, and 27 km of nature trails. 

Hendrie Park features a variety of interesting landscape features including the newly renovated Medicinal Garden and the revamped SesquiCentennial Rose Garden, which features superior-genetics cold hardy hybrid tea roses, a wide array of perennial companion plants, and the history of roses interpreted walk. In the center of the Rose Garden are a pair a reflecting-pools that provide a beautiful canvass for hardy and tropical water lilies. 

The Oak Allée is the primary entry point to Hendrie Park. This 250-foot artery breaks off into multiple pathways that lead visitors to the distinct gardens within Hendrie, the central reflecting pools, rose garden and tea house. As RBG explores its Master Plan, it envisions substantive change to current gardens that will become a compendium known as Showcase Gardens. This concept will carry through the current Oak Allée to become a more open central plaza incorporating water features, gathering and seating space, and places to reflect. 

Oak Allée Artwork Commissions 
DLISC is seeking 4 artworks that will be mounted on above-grade plinths. Each plinth will be approximately 30” x 30” x 30”, consisting of a concrete block, painted steel shell and mount. This display method will allow the works to be moved throughout the gardens during events, renovation periods, and to accommodate the organically changing nature of the RBG grounds. 

Public Art Opportunity - 4 Commissions

he Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture requests qualifications from professional artists to work with an engineering design team, City departments, community groups and stakeholders to design, fabricate and install integrated public art and other enhancements along the Grand Canal corridor between 47th and 75th Avenues in Maryvale. The selected artist will be expected to work with the community and city to create enhancements that bolster the visual identity of the area and enliven the pedestrian experience. This is an opportunity for artists specializing in three-dimensional artwork and collaborative design teams. The engineering team will be selected through a separate RFP process by the Phoenix Street Transportation Department. Salt River Project (SRP) operates the canal system and is collaborating with the City of Phoenix on this exciting new project.

The Grand Canal area between 47th and 75th Avenues can accommodate pedestrian and bicycle use, so an improved canalscape project will be a welcome recreation or commuting alternative to navigating nearby roads. Improvements will be made along the north bank of the canal. SRP uses the south bank for operations and maintenance. 

The project will incorporate public art, landscaping and neighborhood access points to the path to provide better visibility, access and, ultimately, appreciation of the canal system in the Phoenix area. Grand Canalscape Phase 3 will link neighborhoods with multiple schools, transit routes, churches, employers and entertainment venues like American Family Fields of Phoenix (formerly Maryvale Baseball Park).

The overall project team will be expected to develop concepts and designs for improving the aesthetics, safety, function and visibility of the canal corridor at sites including the arterial crossing at 51st Avenue and on the north side of the canal between 55th and 57th Avenues. The selected artist will also be expected to participate in community presentations as part of the project. Artwork will be created through a collaboration with the project design team including the City Streets department, engineering consultants, landscape architects and the Office of Arts and Culture. The ideal artist should have experience creating three-dimensional outdoor artwork, designing multiple public art enhancements, and collaborating on design concepts with fabricators, community and design teams. Public art opportunities may include, but are not limited to, vertical shade features, seating, walkways, crossings, landmarks and landscape enhancements that improve canal visibility and community access and links to the canal trail. The selected artist will be expected to work with various city departments to integrate their concepts into the overall goals of these projects.  

Grand Canal Public Art Open Call

Sofia Alexandridou

Artists and small collectives (up to 3 people) committed to sustainable development and with practices around climate change are invited to submit a project, new or existing, on the theme of air travel that explores its impact and alternatives to it. The project is part of Transport and Environment's Travel Smart campaign .

Costs covered  will be detailed in the contract

Artistic project open call-travel

Introduction 
After years of austerity, welfare reform, a global pandemic and now a cost of living crisis communities like County Durham have been hit hard. However, one of the things that defines our former mining communities is the radical acts of joy and kindness that bring our community together despite this. County Durham has a tradition of rallying together in solidarity, compassion and support, particularly in dark times.  East Durham Creates in partnership with their Community would like to commission an artist, creative practitioner or organisation to work with people from County Durham on a project inspired by the phrase ‘Radical Acts of Joy’. By radical, we mean acts of social change, of resilience and resistance in the face of challenging times but the acts may be as small as a hot meal or cuppa or as big as changing somebodies living circumstances for the better. This commission is all about shining a positive light on the acts that bring joy and make life better for people in our communities, as well as the people who make them happen. 

About East Durham Creates 
East Durham Creates is one of 39 Creative People and Places National Portfolio programme funded by Arts Council England. Established in 2014, the programme is managed by a consortium that includes Beamish Museum, Believe Housing, East Durham Trust, Durham County Council’s Culture, Sport and Tourism and East Durham Area Action Partnership. In 2018 East Durham Trust became the host organisation and a process of ‘artification’ of a non-arts organisation began, utilising the traditional crisis interventions and established community networks of the Trust to embed cultural provision locally.  Having previously been focussed on working solely in the East, the programme has begun to look at working across County Durham. Since it launched, EDC has engaged more than 120,000 local people in creating and leading cultural experience by, for and with the local community. 

 The Commission 
We are looking to engage a creative practitioner, artist or organisation to work with people from County Durham on a project inspired by the phrase ‘radical acts of joy’ – a commission to co-create, explore and share small acts of kindness and joy that challenge the current dark times. The Community Panel are particularly interested in commissioning work that focusses on the positive stories and actions that happen in our place and shining a celebratory light upon them and the people behind them.  The commission can use any art form but must culminate in an event/s that bring people together in a celebration of joy that includes feeding local people and access to a warm space.  In light of the current cost of living crisis applicants are required to include food costs and access to warm spaces for any workshop based activity as well as a contribution to hire of all community spaces. East Durham Creates can advise applicants on appropriate levels of budgeting for this if required and this all depends on the scale and amount of delivery that utilises community spaces.  The East Durham Creates team will work with the successful artist / organisation and support them throughout the commission. The contract and payments will be done through East Durham Creates’ lead body – East Durham Trust.

Let’s Create: Radical Acts of Joy 

More Art’s Engaging Artists Commission* is an opportunity for early career artists focused on the incubation and commissioning of a public art project and carries an $8000 award to realize the project, plus curatorial, conceptual, budgetary, and logistical mentorship. The selected project must culminate in a public art installation, event, series, collaboration, or engagement between September and December 2023.

In addition, More Art collaborates with the selected artist or collective to facilitate community engagement, strategic project management, budgeting, curatorial vision, modes of presentation and circulation, PR and press outreach, identification and vetting of sites within the Parks system, application for permits, and the curation of final installations, performances, and educational programs. The selected artist will be working directly with More Art staff including the Chief Curator, Associate Curator, Director of Operations and Strategy, and Communications and Programs Assistant, as well as representatives from the public spaces with whom we collaborate.  

Artists are also invited to participate in workshops, artist talks, and peer network support with the EA Fellows. Click this link for more information on the Fellowship program.

We welcome artists who are looking to develop a new project or build on a current project in its early stages. The Commission is an opportunity for artists to collaborate deeply with More Art on all aspects of the artwork—as such, we are seeking projects that would benefit from mentorship and artists who are flexible to change and exchange. We are unlikely to support projects that have been presented elsewhere. 

Engaging Artists Commission

Craig Corpora

The San Francisco Arts Commission invites artists and artist teams residing in the United States to submit qualifications for the Pier 27 Cruise Terminal Project. Proposals for this project may range from a single, large sculpture to a series of smaller sculptures located within the cruise terminal plaza adjacent to the Embarcadero pedestrian entrance near Lombard Street.

The goals for this art opportunity are that the artwork should be positioned to invite visitors, but not impede paths of circulation; be visible from points north and south on the Embarcadero; embrace and highlight its visual connection to the Bay and consider geographic, cultural, and/or historic relationships to the site and surrounding areas; be universally accessible, accommodating, and appropriately scaled to the site; be fabricated with consideration of sustainable materials and constructed as permanent and maintainable within an urban and marine environment.

The budget for artwork is $136,000 inclusive of all artist's fees, as well as associated expenses for design, fabrication, insurance, transportation and consulting during installation. There will be a $50,000 allocation for installation, which will be administered under a separate contract with the City.  

Project Description:
Built in 2014, the Port of San Francisco’s James R. Herman Cruise Terminal at Pier 27 hosts over 100 cruise ship calls and more than 400,000 passengers every year, and doubles as an indoor/outdoor event center on non-cruise days. The Terminal is located on the northern waterfront of the Embarcadero between Chestnut and Lombard streets, and is accessible by transit, vehicle, and on foot.



Pier 27 Cruise Terminal

The Calvin T. Ryan Library is an essential hub of the campus and the Library interacts with every other department on campus in some way. It is a space that strives for accessibility or democratization of education. 

The Library is a place to exchange and gain information and academic resources; a place to interact with knowledge, various collections of books, and study groups. It also houses several University departments and programs, including the UNK Learning Commons and the Honor’s Program. There are three site options for the Library. Each submitting artist should review the sites and note which site they prefer in the artist’s statement. 

Only one artist will be selected for the full budget listed, and will receive the full budget for the site they select. Artists can choose the the East Entrance Vestibule, the East façade, and/or the West Entrance. Artists can select multiple sites. In particular, the Committee is interested in proposals that carry a concept from the East Entrance Vestibule or the East Façade to the West entrace. However, artists will not necessarily gain preference for proposing multiple sites. Artists must consider longevity of materials and maintenance methodology, especially for an exterior piece or for any work that is physically interactive.

Request for Qualifications - Public Artists!

Tooele Technical College in partnership with the Utah DFCM and the Utah Arts & Museums’ Public Art Program requests qualifications from artists and/or artist teams interested in creating site specific artwork(s) for the new Tooele Technical College Expansion. In development of work for this project, artists may consider the specific training offered at Tooele Technical College and/or the union between educational training and economic development – a significant responsibility of the college. This project is open to artists/artist teams residing in the Southwestern United States, to include: Utah, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Nevada.

It is the intent of the Art Selection Committee to commission a public artwork that will reflect the interests of the diverse, innovative community in Tooele County. In development of work for this project, artists may consider the specific training offered at Tooele Technical College and/or the union between educational training and economic development – a significant responsibility of the college. The artist may also consider, through the use of color and material, an inclusive theme that speaks to the celebration of diversity and inclusion. Other considerations should reflect already established themes within the building that are meaningful to Tooele County, such as topography, local resources, innovations, and culture of our community. 

 The Selection Committee invites artists to consider the role of technical education, trades, and innovation while interpreting the functionality and purpose of this new addition. With this in mind, the Committee recommends the following areas as potential sites for an artist’s integration:
 1. Outdoor entry of new Trades Building, with an emphasis on functional art or outdoor seating 2. Outdoor landscape path along new Diesel Expansion 

Call for College Expansion Public Art 

Alex Irrera

This open call is in collaboration with the City of Austin Art in Public Places program (AIPP) of the Cultural Arts Division, Economic Development Department (EDD). AIPP seeks to commission one team of professional visual artists to create site-specific artwork that reflects the mission of the Mexic-Arte Museum. The Museum is located at 419 Congress Avenue at the corner of 5th Street.

The vision of this opportunity includes selecting one team of artists to create iconic artwork(s) that will transform the site at Congress and 5th Streets. The selected team of artists will be expected to work collaboratively with Museum stakeholders and the immediate community to propose and ultimately design, fabricate and install one or more artworks that are interactive or programmable and contribute to the site as a placekeeping icon for downtown Austin. 

The artworks should endow respect while celebrating and honoring the cultural contributions of Hispanic, Latino and Mexican-American heritage. 

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