APPLY HERE -- https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_232961.htm -- Are you a young artist from a NATO member country? Would you like to create a mural for the upcoming NATO Summit in The Hague, the Netherlands, in June? Submit your design for a chance to win a unique opportunity to showcase your talent and creativity. NATO is launching its third annual mural competition to mark a NATO summit and highlight the Alliance’s vital role in protecting one billion people across Europe and North America. The first mural was created for the 2023 Vilnius Summit in Lithuania and unveiled in January 2024. A competition was held to select the designer of the mural commemorating NATO’s 75th anniversary summit in Washington, D.C. in 2024. Now, NATO is calling on young artists from across the Alliance to submit their proposals in view of the upcoming 2025 NATO Summit in The Hague. The winner will work with a local street artist to immortalise their mural on a wall in the city. This year’s competition theme is: “Maintaining our Shared Future”. Young artists are asked to submit entries in a 3D street-art style that creates an optical illusion via three-dimensional impressions on a two-dimensional horizontal surface.

FOR CITIES -- APPLY HERE -- https://cip.placemaking-europe.eu/en/open-call/ -- Want to be part of the Cities in Placemaking programme? This programme is a peer-to-peer learning experience for European cities, designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to Placemaking, its application in the context of urban governance, and its implications for long-term systemic change. The goal is to create a collaborative effort that benefits from a wide range of perspectives, through interactive, participatory, and experiential learning, with a practical focus on the importance of Placemaking as a city-level strategy.

APPLY HERE - https://www.thecrystalship.be/en/open-call -- Join The Crystal Ship festival in Ostend and showcase your interpretation of CHANGE on a large public wall! 🌍🎨 🎨Theme: CHANGE — explore societal shifts, personal transformations, environmental issues, or art’s role in change. Deadline: February 16, 2025 Festival Dates: March 31–April 12, 2025 Location: Ostend, Belgium 🌸 What’s Covered: Fee: €2,500 incl. VAT per work. Materials: All provided (paint, cherry pickers, etc.). Hospitality: Free accommodation, meals, bicycles, and shuttles. Travel Reimbursement included. Work featured in a permanent open-air exhibition with festival marketing, social media, and press coverage. 🌸 Eligibility: Experienced street artists with a portfolio of large-scale public works. Submit a concept reflecting CHANGE with a brief text on your vision. Professionalism & cherry picker certification required.

APPLY HERE -- https://www.trencin2026.eu/en/artistic-intervention-for-the-main-underpass/ -- 3 000 € – 1. place 2 400 € – 2. place 1 800 € – 3. place -- ABOUT -- The aim of the competition is to define vision and strategy for the underpass and to transform the underground part of the underpass into a safe, pleasant, illuminated and accessible public space with elements of art and design. The intention, of course, is not to motivate people to spend their free time in the underpass, but to contribute to a change in the perception of the place. Within the framework of the European Capital of Culture Trenčín 2026 project, the Creative Institute Trenčín announces an art-architectural competition. The aim of the competition is to show the potential of the underpass, to improve its overall impression for pedestrians, and at the same time to use this specific public space for the presentation of the activities of Trenčín 2026. Project – design & build, anonymous, public, combined architectural-artistic, one phase competition. This procurement, or the contract award, is not a design competition (according to Section 119 et seq. of the Public Procurement Act and Decree of the Office for Public Procurement No. 157/2016 Coll.), but it is a contract award outside the Public Procurement Act announced according to the Competition Act of the Slovak Chamber of Architects.

APPLY HERE -- https://www.charleville-mezieres.fr/le-parcours-rimbaud -- €4,000-9,000 Since 2015, the City of Charleville-Mézières has commissioned artists to create urban artwork on the city's walls. These creations, which combine text and illustrations, are aimed at the entire population and highlight Rimbaud's work without the barriers of books or museums. The murals created help to fill the gap in reference to Rimbaud's work within the historical tour and, above all, to make the texts of the Caropolitan poet visible to as many people as possible. These works are aimed at all audiences, Rimbaldians but also non-specialists who are initially attracted by the artistic project and who will then be able to go and discover the rest of Rimbaud's works. This "Rimbaud tour" also aims to introduce tourists to little-known areas of the city. The applications must be sent to the following address : Ville de Charleville-Mézières Service musées et archives municipales PARCOURS RIMBAUD Mairie, place du Théâtre CS 40490 08109 Charleville-Mézières Cedex Or by email to: musees@mairie-charlevillemezieres.fr

MORE INFO -- https://www.instagram.com/p/DGqeSjgCaAZ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== -- York’s first street art paste up festival will take place in 2025 showcasing the work of hundreds of artists from around the world…you send it, we’ll stick it✊>>>>Send your paste ups to be featured…details 👇 Quantity: Send as many as you like Size: No bigger than A2 please Paper: Thin is best (newspaper or printer paper thickness) Stickers also welcome Please send work in envelopes instead of tubes Remember to clearly include your name and social media handle Deadline: 4th April 2025 Post to: Paste Up York 39 Maple Avenue, York YO23 2RG