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.

SUBMIT THROUGH THIS LINK >> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf5z-OP1Lr2MPO-u1Ah1u-PHJVc3Hg4Pi6GZGgedXhDp9EBxg/viewform -- Let It Shine! Public Art Partnership is seeking an experienced artist to paint a 30-foot by 40-foot mural in downtown Pittsfield at 7 North Street in Summer/Fall 2025. Let It Shine is ready to inspire the community with another dynamic, large scale mural. We aim infuse the community with an expertly crafted artistic vision by working in partnership with an established muralist. The goal of this mural is to contribute positivity to Pittsfield's visual landscape, through a vibrant and inclusive lens. Let It Shine has acquired public art through a variety of methods including a commissioned mural by Sylvia Lopez Chavez, open calls to artists, and community mentoring programs. Once selected by the Mural Selection Committee, the artist must submit a to scale, color concept sketch by an agreed upon date. Community members and property owner will be available for consult during sketch and ideation phase. The design must be approved by a panel of 15 community members. Some sketch revisions based on feedback should be expected. Designs must be family friendly. The mural is to be completed by October 31, 2025 (a Spring 2026 timeline may be considered). The artist stipend for this mural is $18,000. Lifts will be provided, the wall will be prepped. Artist must supply their own paint, sealant, and materials and organize their own lodging and travel accommodations. This mural will be painted on brick. DEADLINE TO APPLY: June 20, 2025 at 5 pm.

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://artist.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=14751 -- The late Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed were students of Hans Hofmann who studied with him in both New York and Provincetown. They were active at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) as artist members, instructors in the summer school, and they served on a variety of committees throughout their 50 years on Cape Cod. Lillian, in particular, was sensitive to the challenges artists face, especially those working against the mainstream or outside of popular schools of art. Her desire to provide financial support to mature artists through this generous endowment gift speaks to her passionate commitment to art created regardless of the demands and whims of the marketplace. Grants are offered to American painters aged 45 or older who demonstrate financial need. The primary emphasis is to promote public awareness and a commitment to American art, as well as encouraging interest in painters who lack adequate recognition. A jury made up of three art historians, artists, curators, and critics will review the applications in the late spring. Applicants will be notified no later than July 1, 2025.

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 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