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The organisers, the Neue Gesellschaft fuer Bildende Kunst (NGBK) in Berlin, are looking for situation specific and/or participatory ideas, visions,...
The Szpilman Award is awarded to works that exist only for a moment or a short period of time. The work must be realised between 1 Oct 2009 and 30...
Deveron Arts is looking for a dynamic and motivated intern to assist in curating and arts development through the Shadow Curator methodology. They...
This October in New York Independent Curators International (ICI) is organizing The Curatorial Intensive for emerging curators internationally who...
Tenants First Housing Cooperative seeks a part-time Project Manager to ensure the smooth running of their Scottish Arts Council funded Inspiring...
Deveron Arts is offering full-time internships in administration and arts development in the collaborative arts sector for 3 months, from September...
Artists are invited to submit proposals for a meaningful permanent work for Wick Lane Underpass. The Wick Lane Underpass is the major route that...
The Winnipeg Arts Council invites professional artists to submit expressions of interest for a permanent, contemporary artwork using elements of...
Tulca 2010 looks to Galway's coastal location as its starting point for the programme. This year's curator is looking for works that respond to...
As part of the forthcoming Mayo County Council Landmark public art programme, there will be a site visit on Tuesday 27 July at 2pm. Those wishing to...
Lancashire County Council's REMADE team, funded by the Northwest Development Agency, are constructing a new Greenway* as part of their commitment to...
Caerphilly County Borough Council wishes to appoint an artist to work with a design team set up to deliver the Bargoed Town Centre Regeneration...
Fingal County Council and DraÃocht Arts Centre are seeking submissions from emerging curators for its annual recent graduate show. The curator will...
YouTube Play is a collaboration between YouTube and the Guggenheim Museum to unearth and showcase the very best creative video from around the world....
Artists working with interventions, activism and other participatory practices are invited to apply for participation in New Life Cancun. This...
New Life Residency is the world's first non-visual residency program for artists. The residency is organized as part of Manifesta 8, the European...
Submit2gravity offers artists opportunities to exhibit in alternative spaces in addition to conventional venues. Previous exhibitions have given...
Shetland Arts is looking for an established artist to research the feasibility and to develop potential models for a visual artist residency of...
Carlisle City Council now invite tenders from artists for a public art scheme in Carlisle's Historic Quarter to celebrate its 2,000 year history....
Common Ground, founded in 1998 as an arts development agency in the Canal Communities area of Dublin, works with communities and artists to respond...
Mayo County Council invites submissions for a public art programme in Castlebar, Co Mayo. The funding for this project has been provided by the...
Haus der Kulturen der Welt invites up-and-coming curators to enter their proposals for site-specific art projects in public space for Meridian |...
The Board of Management of Banagher College, Colaiste na Sionna, wish to commission a permanent artwork which is to be funded by the Department of...
This October in New York Independent Curators International (ICI) is organizing The Curatorial Intensive for emerging curators internationally who...
Groundwork NI wishes to commission two pieces of public art to re-image an area in North Belfast to create a more welcoming and inclusive image. This...
Switch art project in Nenagh, Co Tipperary is now making an open call to artists working with film, lens based work and moving image to submit work...
Cork County Council invites outline proposals from artists for a series of commissions relating to Fort Camden in County Cork. This site is widely...
Sustrans Cymru are looking to commission a number of innovative site-specific public artworks for new routes of the National Cycle Network across the...
The Fogo Island Arts Corporation is a new contemporary art venue on the east coast of Canada. The Arts Corporation runs two distinct yet...
The Watermill Center is accepting proposals from emerging artists from all over the world as part of its Autumn (2010) and Spring (2011) Residency...
The I-Park Foundation, a not-for-profit international arts community sited within an expansive nature preserve in East Haddam, Connecticut (USA), is...
The Royal Standard invites artists working in all media and at any stage in their career to apply for our 2010 Artist Residency Programme. Two...
Moyle District Council wish to appoint an outstanding artist to design and arrange the production, delivery and installation of one piece of public...
Dance and Public Art is a joint venture between Dublin City Public Art Programme and Dance Ireland. This event is open to all interested dance...
The Olympic Delivery Authority are inviting applications from experienced artists to undertake a 16 month residency at the ODA offices and Olympic...
Book Works is looking for proposals for three new commissions, that suggest a strictly non-representational response to the use of archives, the...
Perth & Kinross Council now welcome applications for a commission in Strathearn Community Campus, Crieff, Scotland. The outcome of the commission...
The Board of the George Melly Sculpture Appeal wish to appoint an artist to design and create a work of art to celebrate the life of the renowned...
Arts organisations/curators/producers are sought to programme, manage and deliver artist-led temporary commissions and participatory projects.These...
HomeBase is an International, community based, site-specific public art project exploring notions of Home. HomeBase's objectives are to seek out...
Leading digital arts agency folly and Lanternhouse are delighted to announce a new call for artists' residency proposals as part of their successful...
Sheffield City Council are seeking artists for three commissions as part of a programme of sixteen artworks which are being commissioned within the...
Scoil Diarmada National School, Castledermot, Co.Kildare under the Department of Education & Science Per Cent for Art Scheme wish to commission a...
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council in collaboration with Airfield invite applicants for 6 month residency, commencing Summer/Autumn 2010. The...
Leitrim Sculpture Centre and Leitrim County Council are offering 5 residencies to visual artists in 2010/11. Each residency is based at the Sculpture...
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, Gwynedd Council and Safle invite applications from artists to work on an ambitious artist-in-residence...
The Festival of Regions has been taking place since 1993 at changing locations in the Austrian federal state of Upper Austria (Capital: Linz) and,...
Offaly Local Authorities (Offaly County Council, Tullamore, Birr and Edenderry Town Councils) now invites visual artists, musicians, writers,...
Chester Performs is seeking to commission a professional filmmaker/ film artist to create a new short film which focuses on the themes of equality...
Commonplaces is a challenging, but open brief for an artist/designer/maker to research and develop proposals for public space in Shaftesbury, with...
As part of the Dublin City Public Art Programme, The Arts Office, Poetry Ireland and Children’s Books Ireland are collaborating to present a...
Public Art Norway (KORO) are inviting artists to a pre-qualification stage relating to two commissions for indoor art projects for the Norwegian...
ArtTrail Festival 2010: Multiple Endings, is inviting proposals for this years festival. ArtTrail is an annual festival of contemporary artistic...
Southern Exposure is proud to announce a new opportunity for local, national and international artists to develop and present a new public art...
Limerick School of Art and Design (LSAD), has launched its new MA in Art and Design, which focuses on Social Practice and the Creative Environment...
The Board of Management of Gallen Community School Ferbane, Co.Offaly, wishes to commission a permanent outdoor sculpture which is to be funded by...
The Merchant City Initiative wishes to appoint a researcher/writer/photographer to map, the often hidden or uncelebrated public art within Glasgow's...
Kerry County Council invite tenders for a Public Art Advisor to administer Per Cent for Art Schemes on their behalf starting in 2010 for eighteen to...
Wexford Borough Council invites submissions from sculptors for the creation of a piece of sculpture to commemorate County Wexford's renowned hurling...
Hotel Mariakapel is an artist-run residency and project space in Hoorn, a 16th century town by the IJsselmeer, just 40 km north of Amsterdam. In the...
In conjunction with Mayo County Council and the Aras Inis Glauire in Bellmullet, County Mayo- artist James Hayes is seeking donations of either...
The Métamatic Research Initiative, a project by art collectors Allard and Natascha Jakobs is launching a call for entries to commission six...
Applications are invited from suitably qualified and experienced artists for inclusion on a shortlist to design, manufacture and install public realm...
Gorey Educate Together, Co. Wexford, wishes to invite submissions from an artist for a temporary or permanent work of Visual Art, to be sited in...
This 2-week residency programme for up to 5 visual artists encourages the creative and imaginative use of stone, together with access to the...
ArtTrail Festival 2010: Multiple Endings, is inviting proposals for this years festival. ArtTrail is an annual festival of contemporary artistic...
Ginkgo Projects is working for Brookfield Construction, in collaboration with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, to develop and deliver an arts strategy...
Sligo Library Service is in the process of fitting out new premises in Ballymote Town, Co. Sligo to become the new Ballymote Community Library. As...
This commission is for an artist to work in collaboration with Chrysalis Arts to create a new piece of work: a prototype transportable public art...
The Secret festival in Sweden are seeking musicians from five different countries to travel to the Island of Öland to participate in a unique...
Expressions of interest are sought from creative people who can demonstrate the ability and confidence to deliver an earthwork of significant scale...
This festival of workshops is focused on the relation between theatre and public space. The participants will have a chance not only to try different...
B-Side is offering a number of commissions to create new site based work to be showcased, alongside other events and activities, as part of a...
As part of this years National Drawing Day, Fingal County Council arts office wishes to invite artists to submit workshop ideas around the theme of...
North Down Borough Council wish to commission a strong, site-specific artwork, which should be inspired by its location between the restored...
The Storefront Residencies for Social Innovation invites the radical re-imagining of the possibilities for economic stimulus and process-driven...
Newbuildings Community and Environmental Association are seeking to appoint an artist to deliver a Re-Imaging Communities project within the...
The new journal Art & the Public Sphere provides a new platform for academics, artists, curators, commissioners, art historians and theorists, whose...
Gorey Educate Together, Co. Wexford, wishes to invite submissions from an artist for a temporary or permanent work of Visual Art, to be sited in...
Artist Chris Doris, is seeking five poets to join in his latest public artwork utilizing sustained silence as a medium of shared public inquiry. 10...
The Arts Participation Project Award supports initiatives in the field of Arts Participation. The purpose of the award is to support proposals from...
Art@Work is a residential programme organised by Roscommon County Council Arts Office where artists, financed by Roscommon County Arts Office and the...
Emo National School under the Department of Education & Science Per Cent for Art Scheme wish to commission a permanent visual artwork for their new...
Waterford Healing Arts Trust invites artists to apply for its Artist-in-Residence programme beginning in April 2010. The successful artist will...
The Stiwdio Safle programme supports creative experimentation and risk taking by artists, collectives and organisations in the public...
Ginkgo Projects is working with the City of Bristol College to commission a designer / architect / artist to design a site specific green house...
Moyle District Council wish to appoint an artist to design and arrange the production, delivery and installation of one piece of public art at...
Loreto Primary School, Gorey, wishes to invite submissions from an artist or artists for a work of visual art, funded through the Per Cent for Art...
On 9 November 2007, the German parliament, the Bundestag, decided that the Federal Republic of Germany will erect a Memorial to Freedom and Unity in...
Newcastle West Community Council, Co. Limerick, wish to commission a sculptural work that will honour the memory and literary legacy of the poet...
Belfast Health and Social Care Trust invite submissions for six creative opportunities arising from the Shankill and Beech Hall Wellbeing and...
The Health Service Executive invites submissions under the Per Cent for Art Scheme for an artwork for the new Cardiac Renal Centre at Cork University...
This award, administered by the Royal Hibernian Academy, has been set up by the Thomas Dammann Junior Memorial Trust to honour the late Thomas...
The Wirksworth Festival 2010 (10-26 September) are now seeking proposals for site-specific and site-responsive artworks responding to, intervening...
The Manchester Modernist Society wish to commission an artist to produce a new film, video, photographic, sound, digital media or installation to be...
Version festival, Chicago is now looking for submissions for their 10th annual programme entitled Infrastructures and Territories, taking place from...
Arts of Place is an innovative multi-disciplinary approach to place-making that combines the arts, learning and public engagement, and places the...
Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site was once the most famous and expensive prisons in the world, but stands today in ruin. Abandoned in 1971, it...
Through this pre-qualification, the Art Committee is seeking candidates to take part in a limited competition for a significant indoor art project,...
The children, principal, staff and Board of Management of Gaelscoil Eoghain UÃ Thuairisc, Carlow wish to engage an artist(s) to make a permanent...
Bury Council is seeking to commission an artist to create a public artwork in Whitefield Park, Bury, a small urban local community park located next...
Lucan East Educate Together National School is calling for applications from suitably qualified and experienced artist(s) to commission a permanent...
Cheng Long Wetlands is in rural Yunlin County on the southwestern coast of Taiwan. For this project The Cheng Long Elementary School students will...
Twice yearly, the Arts Council offers grants to enable artists and communities of place/or interest to work together on projects. The aim of the...
The City and County of Swansea and the Welsh Assembly Government wish to appoint a lighting artist, or team of artists, to design a public space and...
Opportunity: Expressions of interest sought for public art commission at entertainment venue, Surrey
Guildford Borough Council is seeking expressions of interest from artists, designers and teams for the development of a public art scheme for a new...
Opportunity for 4 artists and 2 curators, whose work is socially engaged, to develop their practice and a project proposal with the international...
DraÃocht in association with Fingal County Council's Arts Office is pleased to announce a new artist in residency programme. There are two strands to...
Situated on the North Kent Coast in the Thames Gateway, The Isle of Sheppey has been identified as a 'locus' for contemporary art in the public...
From May 2010 Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain will host project room @ aquarium, a new artist-in-residence programme based in the...
SARC research collective invites expressions of interest in the participation in a canal-based travelling exhibition on the theme of Slow...
Leeds City Council invites expressions of interest for a city centre commission. The commission forms part of the city's ambitious public realm...
The City as Studio project is primarily a method of generating a new public profile for creative work in the city, a scanning of the horizon of...
The European Prize for Urban Public Space is a biennial competition organized by six European institutions with the aim to recognize and encourage...
Since Autumn 2008, the local authorities from Torbay, Dorset and Swindon have been working in partnership with Arts Council England SW and Audiences...
Belfast City Council has a number of upcoming opportunities for artists to work on public art projects across Belfast. These will be on a variety of...
The National Cancer Screening Service are inviting submissions for one or more art projects associated with the new BreastCheck facilities located at...
The Rea Garden, an outdoor artist project space based in the centre of industrial Digbeth, Birmingham seeks artists to produce and exhibit new site...
Armagh City and District Council is calling for expressions of interest for a new public artwork from experienced and suitably qualified artists or...
Sticky Fingers, Ireland's leading arts organisation for the early years age group are currently inviting expressions of interest from visual artists...
Situations, a commissioning and research programme at the University of the West of England, Bristol have 2 vacancies for a part-time Associate...
As part of the council’s Creative Legacies programme, ten projects, bringing together arts and community groups from across the city, have been...
Two commissions to create temporary public works, one each in Banff and Macduff, to be opened at Coast Festival, May 2010.
Stream, a creative production agency based in the London Borough of Greenwich are seeking an artist working in site specific collaborative practice,...
In the very heart of England, Sutton Scarsdale Hall is to become the Pavilion of Postcontemporary Curating, a new international art facility set in...
Artlink in partnership with Buncrana Tidy Towns Committee invite submissions from artists, craftspeople and designers for What Else?, a national...
Belfast Harbour are inviting visual artists working in all genres inclusive of new and traditional media to submit proposals for a landmark public...
Donegal County Council Public Art programme wishes to commission an interactive, participatory, performance or time-based arts event for children...
Opportunity: Irish Architectural Foundation seeks curator for the Venice Architectural Biennale 2010
Applications are now being invited for the role of Curator of Ireland’s entry in the 12th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2010.
A PhD studentship is available to research the impacts of public art, in particular "The Angel of the North", on local and regional community life.
Artists are invited to propose the presentation of a pre-existing work in the environment that surrounds The Good Hatchery, Co. Offaly.
From the 24th of September until the 11th of October 2009, the iconic Liberty Hall building in Dublin’s city centre will be transformed into a giant...
Reminder: Clare county council public art commission approaching
Open call to artists working with film, lens based work and the moving image to submit work relating to playfulness.
The Health Services Executive and The Royal Hospital Donnybrook would like to invite submissions from artists to create a site specific sculpture to...
The Committee for Bergen Bybane Art Program invites Norwegian and international artists to express their interest in a closed competition for a water...
The Irish Architectural Foundation are currently looking for volunteers who would be interested in joining their passionate team during the Open...
ArtTrail invites artists of all disciplines, individuals or groups,
curators, organisations, and venues, to propose projects, performances,
events,...
Opportunity: film competition, make a short film on democracy & dialogue.
Open call to artists: M7 Limerick Nenagh & N7 Limerick Tunnel Art commission
Collective recitations - Curator Jason E Bowman has an open call for instigators to develop opportunities for Anniversary – an act of memory by Monica...
Scarriff Public Library, Co Clare call for artists for a new public art commission
The commission, with a total budget of E15,000, is for the creation of a permanent public indoor visual arts display at Mountmellick Library and Art...
Draíocht Arts Centre are seeking submissions from emerging visual art critics for their Criticism Prize 2009.
Call for submissions: TULCA festival of visual arts, 6-21 November 2009
Lead Artist opportunity
Public Engagement Programme, Junction 3 project, Bristol
Open competition tender: Mullingar Town Park sculpture commission – permanent public outdoor visual arts sculpture display. Total budget €62,000
Call for New Public Art Panel in Co Mayo - Deadline August 2009
Event: Sligo United Trades Club Revival - Seamus Nolan - 10-19 September. A collaboration to devise a living monument to the club, its history and its importance as a space of self organization and sustainability.
