APPLY HERE -- https://www.ithacamurals.com/thriving-futures-2025.html -- Smart Energy Choices and Ithaca Murals are excited to announce $56,000 available for16 mural projects across the Southern Tier of NYS! For community members to paint murals in areas of the Southern Tier where they live or work. We will be funding 1-3 murals in each of the 8 counties in the Southern Tier: Steuben, Schuyler, Chemung, Tompkins, Tioga, Broome, Chenango, Delaware -- FUNDING -- $2,000 Awards For 8 medium-sized projects! (Opportunity open to 1st time muralists) ​$5,000 Awards for 8 large-sized projects! (Opportunity for experienced muralists) -- TIMELINE -- March 21, 2025, 11:59 pm: Applications due (International Day of Elimination of Racial Discrimination) April 7, 2025: Winning artists contacted and announced (World Health Day) April - June 2025: Artists and organizing team monthly meetings (1st meeting in person in Ithaca, other 2 meetings will be Zoom) May - July 2025: Mural projects painted

APPLY HERE: https://forgeproject.submittable.com/submit -- Forge Project is pleased to announce its open call for applications for its 2025 funded fellowship program for Indigenous artists, scholars, organizers, cultural workers, researchers, and educators. The application is live and applications are due Saturday, February 15, 2025, by 11:59 PM ET Forge Project is a Native-led non-profit organization whose mandate is to cultivate and advance Indigenous leadership in arts and culture. Located on the ancestral homelands of the Moh-He-Con-Nuck people, Forge is situated on a 38-acre campus in the Mahicannituck (Hudson River) valley. A change-making model for Native cultural self-determination and leadership, Forge fuses traditional and contemporary knowledge and practices to build community, public education, and collective action.

APPLY HERE -- https://form.jotform.com/243544690862161 -- In 2025, the Bonafiglia Family Foundation will collaborate with their partners to facilitate the installation of murals in downtown Seneca Falls, NY. Each mural will align with the Advance Seneca Falls 2024 Comprehensive Plan and reflect the objectives of the community. The goals and purpose of this type of artwork implementation include: - Highlighting community assets - Embracing the value of public art investment - Bringing visitors to the community - Encouraging economic growth - Improving quality of place The Bonafiglia Family Foundation is seeking qualified artists to install a mural project in Seneca Falls, NY. -- 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 application. 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 Seneca Falls, NY in 2025. Mural site: 37 Fall Street, Seneca Falls, NY -- MURAL THEME -- The mural will highlight Seneca Falls as the Birthplace of Women’s Rights, and it will depict the significant impact of this history on the community’s current identity & culture. The goal is to provide a creative installation that will resonate with Seneca Falls, NY. A creative brief is being developed by Bonafiglia Family Foundation. This document will be shared with Phase II finalists to aid them in designing their proposal concept. Phase II muralists are asked to use this reference material to develop their design.

We are working on a grant for a 3-year grant application that will fund murals in a small, rural town in Tioga County, PA. We have building owners with walls willing to work with us and our county development office in coordination. We will update the budget and the walls available as we progress. The anticipated budget is much higher than described, but we will keep it low until we secure funding.

APPLY HERE -- https://artist.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=15033 -- The Peekskill Arts Alliance (PAA) and HV MOCA, with funding from the Peekskill Downtown Revitalization Initiative (DRI), seek proposals from professional artists or artist collectives interested in creating a design for a site-specific art installation as part of the Enlighten Peekskill Public Art Project. The artwork will serve as a welcoming introduction to Peekskill as residents and visitors move from the Hudson River Waterfront area to Downtown. The project will be installed on a series of 10 arches located at the intersection of South Water Street and Central Ave. The art work will be printed on vinyl banners, fitted to the arches that support the Rt. 9 Overpass. Artists should produce works that are interconnected by theme or imagery across the span of the 9 individual arches, each 23' h x 16' w. The 10th arch will be reserved for informational signage. We ask artists to be mindful that the arches location is a major site, large and prominent, visible from the passing trains, cars and passerby. Art work should be warm, welcoming, and appealing to the general public. It should grab the viewer’s attention – “stop them in their tracks”. This Request for Proposal (RFP) seeks to add to and enhance the public art in Peekskill by replacing the beautiful but worn artwork, “Life,” created and installed by Peter Bynum a decade ago. The existing art features 9 large panels depicting abstract shapes that evoke (depending on the viewer microscopic cellular activity, undersea coral, vascular pathways or algae, plus a panel with information about the mural. “Life” was part of the Peekskill Project 6 exhibition organized by Hudson Valley MOCA (then called Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Arts) in 2015. The call for new art in this location should include a series of nine (9) designs that relate to each other, welcome visitors to Peekskill and celebrate the many unique characteristics of the city. Visitors will admire the creative public art presentations as natural extensions of what Peekskill is and will be.

APPLY VIA LINK ----- https://artist.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=15468 ----- Lackawanna Station is a playfully apt glimpse of what’s to come on a major redevelopment site in the heart of downtown Montclair, NJ. Rather than let the property sit vacant for the years leading up to development, bdp holdings would create a space where entrepreneurs of all shapes and sizes could flourish and establish a footing in a unique setting. Small and micro businesses will populate the former tenant spaces. Montclair Flea is doing giant markets in the former grocery store space, artists of many disciplines are adorning our common area walls and corners with murals, sculpture, music and dance, and local food systems are taking root. The space is open 7 days a week to the public from 10am to 8pm and sees up to 5,000 people per weekend market day. Details: ● No Theme – Artists have creative freedom ● Murals to be painted in Fall 2025 ● Artists will receive a $1,500 honorarium (this covers all costs, including materials) ● A jury panel selected by Studio Montclair in accordance with public art best practices, will review and choose the final artists ● Murals will be featured for a term of six (6) months. ● Mural size is 17 feet wide by 8 feet high. (See photos below.) Don’t miss this chance to leave your mark on Montclair’s evolving arts district! For questions, contact Phoebe Pollinger, Studio Montclair, pmpartinc@aol.com – Include “Lackawanna Murals” in the subject.