Prairie Center for the Arts residency

The Prairie Center of the Arts is an Artist-in-Residence program providing artists from around the world the resources and uninterrupted time to think and create.  Award includes room, use of kitchen(s), and studio space. We do not fund travel, food, computer, materials or supplies. The residential facility is wheel chair accessible.  Preference is given for … Continue reading

OPTIONS 2011

OPTIONS 2011 is the fifteenth WPA biennial exhibition of emerging and unrepresented artists from the Mid-Atlantic region. OPTIONS presents visitors with a glimpse into the breadth and diversity of contemporary art practice in the area and showcases work in any medium by artists without gallery representation. WPA began the OPTIONS biennial series in 1981 with … Continue reading

Repositioning the Gaze in an Age of Voyeurism

Throughout the history of art, theorists and philosophers have tried to negotiate the visual and conceptual relationship that exists between a work of art and the viewer’s gaze. What has fueled much of this debate is the argument that because the gaze inherently signifies possession, and can therefore be tied to certain power structures, it … Continue reading

City of Denver: West Denver Library

Arts & Venues Denver (formerly the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs [DOCA]) seeks to commission an artist or team of artists to create site-specific artwork for the West Denver Branch Library, a new facility being built at Colfax Avenue and Irving Street in Denver, Colorado. The funding currently designated for public art at the site … Continue reading

Northglenn Colorado: Skate Park Art Project

Northglenn Arts and Humanities Foundation (NAHF) invites proposals from artists (individual or teams) to design, fabricate, and install artwork for the new Don Animas Memorial Skate Park in E. B Rains Jr. Memorial Park in Northglenn to be built in summer 2011. Designed by nationally-known skate park designers, Team Pain, the Skate Park will include … Continue reading

Redline 2011 Application for Artists-in-Residence Program

Denver, Colorado Entry Fee: $30.00 Entry Deadline: 7/5/11 RedLine is excited to announce our 2011 Artists-in-Residence call for entry. Artists working in all mediums are welcome, which includes but is not limited to writers, filmmakers, actors, visual artists, dancers. RedLine seeks to represent all creative mediums within our 19 resident artist studio spaces. RedLine engages … Continue reading

City of Seattle: 2011 Civic Square Fencing

The Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the Department of Finance and Administrative Services and Triad Development, seeks up to eight emerging artists to develop temporary large-scale, colorful panels from existing artwork in any two-dimensional medium. The panels will be attached to the fence surrounding the Civic Square construction site between … Continue reading

St. Charles Borromeo Parish: Sanctuary Art Design Competition

Seeking design only for a religious mural to eventually be used in the sanctuary of our church. We are preparing to build a landmark American Gothic church on 25-acres in the Village of Hampshire. This $10,000,000 landmark building will be traditional in style and will include a 50’by 40’ wall in the sanctuary behind the … Continue reading

Boston Edgar Allan Poe inspired art

Seeking artists, artisans and/or designers to develop public artwork(s) celebrating Poe and his creative work. The site is the Edgar Allan Poe Square, located in Boston, MA, and is a roughly triangular brick paved plaza of 1,700 square feet. Up to three artist/designer teams will be paid an honorarium of $1,000 to develop and present … Continue reading