Call for Artists: Exelon/Constellation Baltimore Lobby Art

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Exelon/Constellation Baltimore Headquarter’s General Entrance Main Lobby Art Project  

DUE: March 23, 2015

Exelon Corporation is the nation’s leading competitive energy provider, with approximately $23.5 billion in annual revenues. The Exelon family of companies participates in every stage of the energy business, from generation to competitive energy sales to transmission to delivery.

Headquartered in Chicago, Exelon has operations and business activities in 47 states, the District of Columbia and Canada. The company is one of the largest competitive U.S. power generators, with approximately 34,700 megawatts of owned capacity comprising one of the nation’s cleanest and lowest-cost power generation fleets. Its Constellation business unit provides energy products and services to approximately 100,000 business and public sector customers and approximately 1 million residential customers. Exelon’s utilities deliver electricity and natural gas to more than 6.6 million customers in central Maryland (BGE), northern Illinois (ComEd) and southeastern Pennsylvania (PECO).

As a recipient of this Call, Exelon invites you to prepare and submit your proposal for qualifications. Exelon Corporation seeks to commission an artwork or artworks for their Constellation business unit headquarters which will be located in a newly constructed building at Harbor Point in Baltimore, Maryland.  The artwork(s) will be sited in a prominent location(s) in the general lobby of the building’s main entrance floor. The primary audience will be comprised of: Exelon employees and contractors; Exelon executive leadership; prospective Exelon employees; visitors, customers, and other Exelon stakeholders; the general public.

Neither this Call nor your response to it shall constitute a binding agreement, and Exelon reserves the right to terminate the Project or modify the Project’s objectives, schedule, or activities at any time during the Project.

Apply here: https://www.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=2491&sortby=fair_name&apply=yes.

Call for Artists: Emerging Artist Residency (Iowa)

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GRIN CITY COLLECTIVE’S EMERGING ARTIST RESIDENCY

The only subsidized artist residency program specifically designed for undergraduate artists.

Summer Session: 6/15/15 – 7/11/15 | Applications Due: March 10, 2015

· Open to writers, visual and performance artists
· Individual studio + bedroom + $200 stipend
· Culminating gallery show, performance & reading at Stewart Art Gallery

During the summer, Grin City invites eight college level writers, visual or performance artists for a special, subsidized 4-week residency. Artists accepted into the Emerging Artist Residency receive individual housing and studio space. The residency ends in a final group show and reading in the downtown Stewart Art Gallery.

Ideal candidates for the Emerging Artist Residency have a strong portfolio and are serious about pursuing a career in their field for which they are applying, but do not need to have majored in it. They embrace artistic and work-based collaboration and feel they match Grin City’s creative mission. Those eligible for the Emerging Artist Residency are juniors or seniors in college at the time of application and must be 21 or older on or before June 15 (please do not email asking about age exceptions).

Grinnell College students are strongly urged to apply. Sponsored by Grinnell College, Grin City Collective will select one eligible Grinnell College student of exceptional quality for its 2015 EAR residency.

If you are interested in applying to the Emerging Artist Residency please read our Residency Guidelines to make sure Grin City is right for you. RESIDENCY GUIDELINES

Application Fee: $25.00

APPLY NOW

Phone: 641-236-3203
Email: info@grincitycollective.org

Physical and mailing address:
Grin City Collective, 3633 Highway 146, Grinnell, IA 50112

Call for Artists: Torpedo Art Center

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Target Gallery / Torpedo Factory Art Center
Deadline: March 9, 2015

This is an Open Call for proposals for a solo exhibition in the summer of 2015. This call is open to all artists from North America working in all visual media. Proposals for exhibitions by both individuals and groups will be considered. The individual or group associated with the chosen proposal will receive a solo exhibition at the Target Gallery from July 25 – August 30, 2015. The artist(s) will also receive a stipend and an exhibition catalog. A panel of independent arts professionals will review submissions and select the final proposal. Our jurors this year are John James Anderson, Amy Boone-McCreesh, and Alex Goldstein.

For complete prospectus and online application visit:http://torpedofactory.org/opportunities/call-for-entries/

Call for Artists: The Fred

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The Fred Lazarus IV Artscape Prize (“The Fred”) is a competitive program that seeks to recognize and encourage artistic talent in Baltimore City.  Rising high school seniors apply for the prize which awards $1,000 to a Baltimore City school student artist.  The selected artist also receives a stipend to produce a solo exhibition in conjunction with the annual festival, with mentorship from the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts.  The prize is named in honor of the Maryland Institute College of Arts’ long-serving president.

Applications due March 31, 2015.

Apply here: https://boparegistrations.wufoo.com/forms/2015-fred-lazarus-iv-artscape-prize/

Call for Artists: Creative Baltimore Fund

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The Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts is now accepting grant applications for the 2015 Creative Baltimore Fund.  The grant program provides nearly $250,000 in funding to local individual artists and established non-profit cultural organizations.  Applications and guidelines are available at www.promotionandarts.org/grants.  The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, March 31, 2015.  The Creative Baltimore Fund is a program of the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts.

The Creative Baltimore Fund provides support to artists and organizations through two grants.  Individual artists are invited to apply for the Mayor’s Individual Artist Award which provides project support for programs promoting public access and encouraging the breadth of arts and/or cultural programming in Baltimore City.  Additionally, theGeneral Operating Support grant provides core support for established arts or cultural organizations that benefit the public and are artistically or culturally vibrant.  Individual artists can receive up to $5,000 for project support; organizations can receive up to $10,000 for general operating support.  Grant awards will be announced in May 2015.

Dates/Deadlines

Grant Application Due:        Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Application Review Period:   Monday, April 13 through Friday, April 17, 2015

Grant Awards Announced:    May 2015

Grant Period:                     Wednesday, July 1, 2015 through Thursday, June 30, 2016

The Creative Baltimore Fund is made possible through the support of Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and the Baltimore City Council and helps art programs and projects come to fruition and continue to enhance the City of Baltimore.  The program is administered by the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts which is the arts council for Baltimore City.  In addition, an independent panel reviews applications and selects grant recipients.

For more information on the Creative Baltimore Fund, call 410-752-8632 or visit www.promotionandarts.org.

Call for Artists: Public Art Project, Orlando FL

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Orange County is seeking qualifications and images from artists interested in providing public art for a new Community Center in Holden Heights. After looking at images of current and past work, the selection panel will ask three or four artists to make a site-specific proposal for art that they would provide. An honorarium of $500 is given to each finalist for making a proposal. One artist will be commissioned based on their proposal. The final artist selected will be paid nearly $50,000 to create and install the work they proposed. Deadline, March 9. Email Michael.Osowski@ocfl.net for full details.

Call for Artists: Public Art Projects, Prince George’s County, MD

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The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, Prince George’s Department of Parks and Recreation invites individual artists and artist teams with interest in and/or professional experience in creating public art and site specific commissions, to submit proposals for the William Beanes Community Center. Project 1 will consist of an exterior artwork on the facade of the facility adjacent to the main entrance. Project 2 will consist of an interior artwork located on the wall above the control desk near the main entrance.

Artists and artist teams may apply for both, but no one artist or artist team will be awarded both commissions. The selected artist/team will design, fabricate, and install a work of art in the form of a painted mural, metal, mosaic or glass installation for the interior; and a metal, mosaic or glass installation for the exterior.

The project budget, including materials, fabrication, installation, travel and expenses, is $50,000.00 for Project 1 and $15,000.00 for Project 2.

PROPOSALS AND QUALIFICATIONS CAN BE SUBMITTED TO THE MARYLAND-NATIONAL CAPITAL PARK AND PLANNING COMMISSION AT:

Attention: William Beanes Public Art
Arts & Cultural Heritage Division
7833 Walker Drive, Suite 430
Greenbelt, MD 20770

UNTIL 5:00 P.M. EST ON MARCH 27, 2015.