Artist Opportunities

RFQ: Esperanza Health Center Parking Garage: 2023-24 Fall - Spring 

Application deadline: October 6th, 2023 11:59 p.m.
Timeline: October 2023 to April 2023
Pay: $14,000 ($2000 per month)

Contact:
Emily Crane, Porch Light Project Manager
emily.crane@muralarts.org

Submissions will be accepted through this link

Mural Arts’ Color Me Back (CMB) program is seeking artists to apply for a project to take place over the Fall-Spring 2023-24, October to April 2023.

The goal of this position is to engage the CMB program staff and participants in the creation of a new public art project at the Esperanza Health Center Parking Garage (860 E. Westmoreland Street). For this project, we want to encourage artists who think outside of the box. The location is prone to regular graffiti and a frequent site for other neighborhood challenges. Our goal is to transform the space and add something beautiful to the neighborhood while also increasing feelings of safety and belonging when arriving at the site for services. The artwork could be a mural, but is not limited to that medium.

As part of the application, artists should write a short statement of no more than 500 words about their interest in this project. While applicants are welcome to use this section to suggest possible projects, it is not required. Applicants are encouraged to discuss why this project is of interest to them, and how it may fit with their work.

The project will take place for about seven months and will be based at the CMB Kensington Studio.

Waterway Arts Initiative  

Philadelphia Mural Arts, Philadelphia Water Department, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University

Released 8/21/2023
Due 9/21/2023

Contact
Ryan Strand Greenberg
ryanstrandgreenberg@gmail.com

Submission link

The Waterway Arts Initiative is a new project emerging from a long standing partnership between the Philadelphia Water Department and Mural Arts, focused on nurturing connections between residents and local waterways. Organizers Phoebe Bachman and Ryan Strand Greenberg will work with a project team and partnering institutions to develop a creative project that draws on the power of multi-disciplinary storytelling and research to raise awareness of key flooding issues in the Philadelphia region. This year’s initiative is focused on Philadelphia’s Germantown neighborhood, consistently among the most impacted areas for topographic and infrastructure-related flooding over the last several decades.

Signature Project RFP: Equity 

Signature Project RFP: Equity

Application deadline: September 15, 2023

Pay rate/model: $15,000 artist fee / $80,000 project budget

Selection criteria: Local/Regional

Department: Porch Light

The Porch Light Department at Mural Arts Philadelphia is seeking an artist or artist collective to lead a year-long public art project that addresses equity. The work will unfold within a series of “signature” projects inspired by the City of Philadelphia’s Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services’ (DBHIDS) TEC Comprehensive Plan. TEC stands for addressing trauma, achieving equity, and engaging community. DBHIDS’ definition guide to achieving equity is, “transform systems to reduce behavioral health disparities and promote racial equity among Racial/Ethnic/Linguistic Minorities (RELM), including individuals with Limited English Proficiency (LEP), by intentionally addressing structural and systemic racism,” Currently, there is an active project at Mural Arts focused on trauma, and there will be a future project centering community.

Artists who are interested in submitting their qualifications are encouraged to contact Mural Arts with any questions about the project, its scope and requirements, or how to complete an application. Please contact Paige Phillips at paige.phillips@muralarts.org

For full description, follow this link.

RFP:Waterway Arts Initiative 

RFP:Waterway Arts Initiative

Application deadline: September 21, 2023

Pay rate/model: $8,000 artist fee

Selection criteria: Local/Regional

Department: Special Projects

The Waterway Arts Initiative is a new project emerging from a long standing partnership between the Philadelphia Water Department and Mural Arts, focused on nurturing connections between residents and local waterways. The Initiative will bring together a team of community leaders, scholars, and artists, to engage in participatory research with Germantown residents. Together they will co-create a multi-faceted series of community events, performances, lectures, and temporary artistic interventions focused on flooding and the emotional toll that this takes on residents, bringing the infrastructure and stories “above ground”.

The artist will be part of a small creative team that includes one data scientist focused on stormwater identified by the Academy of Natural Sciences, and one community advocate from Germantown’s Flood Task Force identified by the Philadelphia Water Department. The creative team will be responsible for engaging Germantown residents in participatory workshops in fall 2023 and creating a public project in spring 2024.

Artists who are interested in submitting their qualifications are encouraged to contact Mural Arts with any questions about the project, its scope and requirements, or how to complete an application. Please contact Ryan Strand Greenberg ryanstrandgreenberg@gmail.com

For full description, follow this link.