APPLY HERE -- https://form.jotform.com/alexandra.hall.artist/WallsBetweenWatersMuralFestival_RFQ -- About Essex County Land Bank: At the Essex County Land Bank, we are committed to revitalizing and transforming vacant, abandoned, and underutilized properties into valuable community assets. As an land bank administered by North Country Rural Development Coalition, our mission is to foster sustainable development, promote economic growth, and enhance the quality of life for residents throughout Essex County. In 2025 The Essex County Land Bank, in partnership with the North Country Rural Development Coalition (NRDC), will work with the community to program a mural festival in the Town of Ticonderoga. Walls Between Waters aims to transform spaces near blighted, vacant, and abandoned properties through public art installations. This new public art will foster community pride and encourage economic revitalization. The project will focus on the creation of five murals in the downtown corridor, accompanied by a community festival. Essex County Land Bank and NRDC are seeking qualified artists for five large-scale mural projects. Walls Between Waters will be held in downtown Ticonderoga in the first week of June 2025. Project Overview: During the Request for Qualifications, RFQ Phase, PHASE I, a review panel will evaluate initial responses according to the criteria outlined in the RFQ applicaiton. Artists or artist teams whose proposed qualifications demonstrate, in the review panel’s sole opinion, the qualifications that best fulfill the purposes of this RFQ will move to the finalist selection phase, PHASE II. In PHASE II artists will be hired to create proposal concepts based on specific themes. Those proposals will undergo a community jury review. The selected artist in PHASE II will be contracted to implement their mural concept in Ticonderoga in June of 2025.