Mount Sequoyah Center is inviting artists to submit qualifications for an outdoor mural at its new overlook deck.

The mural should be a site-specific, cartographic-style artwork highlighting notable Fayetteville landmarks visible from the deck, as well as historic sites on Mount Sequoyah, according to a request for proposals document.

  
The mural area spans approximately 176 square feet, with work set to begin April 21 and a completion deadline of May 15.

The project carries a $7,500 budget, covering artist fees and materials.

  
Mural at Mount Sequoyah Center.

Overlook Mural Project

Technology is transforming every aspect of our lives, from the way we communicate to how we create and experience art. Advances in AI, digital, and interactive systems are constantly pushing creative boundaries.

**Beyond Interface and Prompt** is a forthcoming juried multimedia art exhibition that explores how technology transcends its role as a mere tool to become a dynamic medium in contemporary art. We invite artists across all disciplines to consider how digital interfaces, AI, interactive systems, and etc. can reshape creative expression and audience perception. The exhibition aims to showcase works that move beyond traditional boundaries — **beyond the screen interface and beyond the simple text prompt** — to create innovative and experimental experiences. In this show, technology is not just about using new tools, but about **rethinking the very fabric of artmaking.**

While we welcome submissions in **all mediums**, works that **integrate technology** in concept or execution will be given **priority in the jury’s selection and up to $500 in creative awards**.

We encourage entries that engage with mediums such as tech-driven installation, interactivity, mixed-reality, AI generative art, 3D printing, audio-visual environments, or any form of artistic experimentation where technology plays a central role.

The exhibition takes place at the non-profit organization – Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, aka WAH Center, a 19th-century landmark that has witnessed the evolution of art and technology across generations. By embracing new media and forward-thinking approaches, the WAH Center merges its historic legacy with art’s innovative future.

Selected artists for the exhibition are eligible for multiple awards celebrating creativity, experimentation, and excellence. Works that innovatively use technology will receive special consideration for awards. The jury seeks outstanding, tech-driven pieces that push boundaries.

All awards will be decided by the jury panel. Winners will be announced at the exhibition opening reception, and all participating artists will benefit from exposure through the exhibition’s publicity and catalog.

Awards include:

* **Excellence in Merging Art & Tech**: Awarded to the submission that best exemplifies innovative use of technology as a medium. The winner will receive a cash prize of **$500** and a feature in the exhibition catalog highlighting their work’s conceptual and technical contributions.
* **Creative Innovation:** Awarded to a work that shows outstanding creativity and risk-taking: Cash prize: **$500**
* **Emerging Talent:** Awarded to an emerging artist (within the first five years of their practice) who demonstrates exceptional promise in integrating technology with art. Cash prize: **$500**
* **Honorable Mentions:** Additional notable works may receive honorable mentions and will be highlighted during the exhibition opening (non-monetary recognition).

  

Beyond Interface and Prompt

**Open Call No. 1: Experience**

  
_To ask for help, to arrive, to beg, to carry, to embrace, to steal, to survive, to care, to scream, to fight, to grieve._

_– Highlights from the unequal nature of our lived experiences._

  
AWC’s Anniversary Issue examines common experiences of commodification, and how identity, race, gender, and class shape our realities, emphasizing acts of resistance, resilience, and imagination in response to systemic oppression, and the harnessing of personal experience as a weapon to use in the so-called culture wars.

  
We welcome submissions that critically engage with personal narratives, social commentaries, and art discourses. We seek works that not only reflect on the specificities of individual experience but also create a link to broader systems – e.g., economic, political, and/or social – that shape the context of experience.

Contributions may be reflective, analytical, or poetic, but they should always be grounded in tangible experience. We are interested in the actions, strategies, and solidarity forms that enable individuals and communities to confront, navigate, and resist oppressive forces that devalue their experiences.

  
**Sample Topics:**

* **Cultural Tokenism and the Instrumentalization of Art:**
* The experience of being selected for projects or positions solely based on one’s cultural identity, without the opportunity to fully express or realize that identity.
* **Censorship and Exclusion:**
* Navigating exclusion or censorship in cultural spaces, workplaces, or social circles based on personal beliefs, identity, or experiences.
* **Precarization and Discrimination:**
* Stories of systemic precarization and discrimination in the workplace, including how race, gender, and class impact job security, wages, and opportunities.
* **Medical Neglect and Discrimination:**
* Reflections on how access to healthcare is shaped by race, gender, class, and ability, and the impacts of healthcare systems that ignore or mistreat people.
* **Structural Barriers in Housing & Education:**
* Experiences of confronting discriminatory legal or bureaucratic systems in accessing basic rights such as housing, education, or citizenship.
* **Survival in Crisis:**
* Personal narratives of survival in the face of social, economic, or political crises – whether local or global.
* **Body, Violence, and Resistance:**
* The body as a site of vulnerability and resilience – stories of bodily autonomy, survival, and healing in contexts of systemic oppression.
* **Transitory Spaces and Perceptions:**
* Experiences of being in-between spaces, whether physical, cultural, or emotional, and how these shape one’s sense of belonging and identity.

  
**Formats:**

* **Personal Narratives:**
* Stories that weave lived experiences with reflections on broader social structures.
* **Interviews or Conversations:**
* Conversations or interviews with individuals or groups who have shared experiences related to systemic oppression.
* **Critical Essays or Reports:**
* Investigative or analytical texts that explore the dynamics of power and oppression within specific contexts.
* **Poetry or Performative Writing:**
* Submissions that experiment with poetic forms to express personal experiences, incorporating elements of performance or theater.
* **Visual Contributions:**
* Photographs or multimedia works that depict personal experiences and struggles within systems of power.

If we know the price of everything and the value of nothing – as Oscar Wilde quipped of economists – what is your currency of choice? What do you attach value to? Whether connected to capital accumulation or spiritual doctrines, value is not fixed. Value shifts in time and can be collectively negotiated. As a street newspaper, we set out from the value we create through knowledge production and distribution in today’s precarious conditions. We see the possibility of interrogating and refining the role of culture as a means to shape a different form of currency in the ongoing fight against scarcity, exploitation, and fascism.

  
In 2025, _Arts of the Working Class (AWC)_ invites you to join us in this inquiry through our editorial program, exploring themes that inspire collective reflection. Through four open calls, we will explore the concepts of **Experience**, **Transfiguration**, **Choreography**, and **Relationships**. Each call serves as a foundation for contributions that engage these themes in diverse and personal ways. We invite you to share your insights and creative responses to these pressing issues.

  
We aim to publish up to 10 submissions per issue and will select additional works for our online editions. Given our underfunded editorial labor, we ask for intellectual solidarity in exchange for exposure and the editorial guidance we offer in the publishing process. Our long-term goal is to ensure full compensation for all contributors, but we currently don’t have the means to achieve this. We are committed to providing feedback for all submissions, acknowledging the time and effort involved.

Open Call #1: EXPERIENCE

The open call is up for the next Alpine Fellowship Visual Art Prize! 

  
We are a charitable foundation that supports, commissions and showcases artists, writers, academics and playwrights. We're committed to discovering emerging talent, to disseminating new ideas and to sharing thoughts about art, literature and philosophy. All of our work is built around our symposium - an annual gathering of artists, philosophers, writers and academics at which we encourage like-minded individuals to share expertise and knowledge with those from a diverse array of creative and intellectual professions.

  
Through our prizes we evaluate thousands of entries by entrants from around the world, and offer financial support in the form of grants, mentoring, performances and exhibitions of the work of talented young artists, writers, academics and playwrights. We also work with partner artistic and academic institutions to commission new works of art and to further the humanities and interdisciplinary study.

The winner and runners-up will receive financial support in the following amounts:

  
* First place: £3,000
* Second place: £1,000
* Third place: £1,000

Alpine Fellowship Visual Arts Prize: Fear

The next issue of Photography+ themed **Photography and Power**, will explore how photography has been used as a tool of power, control, resistance, and influence throughout history and in the present day.

  
We invite community submissions that relate to this topic. Anyone is welcome to apply, wherever you are in the world, and we offer £80 to the selected artist.

Photography+ Open Call: Photography and Power

The **Project Studio Program** is a one year private studio rented to professional fine artists residing within the New York City metropolitan area.

At the conclusion of the studio year, there is a group exhibition of the Project Studio Artists in PS122 Gallery.

The studio term starts Friday, August 1, 2025 and ends Thursday, July 30, 2026.

  
The building is a non-smoking facility with 24 hour access and elevator service. Applicants must have a local address within reasonable commutable distance to lower Manhattan. Subletting or sharing of project studios is not permitted. Former project studio artists are eligible to reapply two years after their residency has ended.

A private studio for 1 year in the New York City metropolitan area.

Group exhibition of the Project Studio Artists in PS122 Gallery.

Project Studio Program 2025

Calling all you Wergle Flomps! **Wergle Flomp is a creation of poet David Taub. Mr. Taub submitted "Flubblebop" to poetry.com's former (and not very selective) contest to see what would happen.**

  
This is a contest for humor poems, not serious poems. Serious poems will not be judged. The poem you submit should be in English. Inspired gibberish is also accepted (example).

  
In general, poems written with the aid of a text-generating AI such as ChatGPT are not eligible. However, if you have employed an AI in a way that gets really funny results, please email us for a ruling on the eligibility of your entry. You must get pre-approval from us before submitting work that employs an AI in any way. We are looking for signs of human ingenuity.

  
First time entering? We prepared a brief video to guide you, available on our website.

**Prizes:**

* First Prize: $2,000 + 2-Year Gift Certificate to Duotrope ($100 value)
* Second Prize: $500
* Third Prize: $250
* Honorable Mentions: 10 awards of $100 each
* Top 13 entries are published on the WW website newsletter (circulation 50K+).

Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest

ITSLIQUID Group, in collaboration with ACIT Venice – Italian-German Cultural Association, is pleased to announce the open call for MORPHOS – TEMPORARY IDENTITIES 2025, a Venice International Art Fair that will take place from April 24 to May 09, 2025, in Venice, at Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello and in other prestigious venues and historical buildings.

  
MORPHOS – TEMPORARY IDENTITIES exhibition explores the transformation of identity in a world that is constantly evolving. The human body becomes a dynamic system of communication, expanding its boundaries and redefining connections between personal and collective identities. At the same time, landscapes and cities turn into open, conceptual spaces, abstract yet deeply connected to human experience.

  
The exhibition envisions a future where identity and environment evolve together. By breaking limits and redefining borders, MORPHOS – TEMPORARY IDENTITIES invites all the artists to immerse themselves in a multisensory exploration of their consciousness and to share their personal artistic research through any kind of media, from painting to sculptures and installation, from photography to video art and live performance.

**Venice International Art Fair**

**April 24 – May 09, 2025**

  
**The participation includes the following services**

– exhibition space managed by art professionals

– assisting with customs formalities, international shipping and local transport

– assisting in finding accommodation

– the design and printing of invitation cards, posters

– the global and local press office, publicity, press, banners, totem, etc.

– the realization of the exhibition website and dedicated press releases

– mounting and dismounting of the exhibition

– exhibitions opening event with drinks and food

MORPHOS – TEMPORARY IDENTITIES 2025

The Keller Public Arts Board is seeking six sculptures that are appropriate for public viewing and support the family-friendly atmosphere of the City of Keller. Sculptures remain under the artist’s ownership and are loaned to the exhibit for a two-year period. All sculptures must be “family appropriate” and pose no risk to public safety; no sexual, bloody or violent content shall be accepted. Sculptures must be made of materials that can withstand the harsh Texas weather and require no maintenance by the City of Keller. Pieces sold while on display may be removed but the artist must replace the sold artwork with a different sculpture, with approval by the Board, within 60 days of removal of the sold piece.

  
**Location:**

The Old Town Keller West area is located on the west side of U. S. Highway 377 near the city’s border with Fort Worth. Please see Exhibit A for sculpture pad locations. The Keller Public Arts Board has sole discretion on site selection for each sculpture.

Exhibition in the City of Keller.

  
A $1,500 honorarium shall be awarded for each piece for the installation, exhibition and removal of the artwork for a two-year period. 

  
One Best in Show winner shall be awarded an additional $500.

2025 Old Town Keller Rotating Sculpture Program

**City of Waterloo is inviting artists to submit a proposal to be part of Lumen, Waterloo’s annual festival of light, art, and technology-based installations. Lumen will take place on September 20, 2025 from 6 -11 p.m. in spaces throughout uptown Waterloo. Installations will be placed in public spaces to animate the uptown core. All work will feature the interplay between light, art, and technology and should include an interactive, collaborative, or participatory component.**

  
The festival will take place in 30 locations in uptown Waterloo over one evening, September 20, 2025 from 6 to 11 p.m. 

Artists are invited to submit proposals for their installation to be placed in one or more locations in uptown Waterloo. Work can be site specific; however, that is not a requirement. 

There are several locations that are available for site specific work. However, some restrictions do apply to meet safety compliance. Staff will work with selected artists to ensure these standards are met. These include, but are not limited to:

* Waterloo Park East
* Memorial Park (parkette on Erb St. between Albert St. and Caroline St.)
* Park behind Manulife Tower
* Visitor Information Centre – South facade
* Visitor Information Centre – covered seating area
* Waterloo Public Library - exterior only
* Waterloo City Hall - interior and exterior

All proposals must meet the following criteria:

* Installations will be inclusive, engaging, and showcase the interplay between light, art, and technology
* Successful applications will include an interactive component that allows participants to engage in discussion or engage directly with the art
* Proposals must consider the limitations of a one day festival including installation and removal of the artwork after the festival (storage is available, but is very limited)
* Outdoor installations must be weather resistant- in the event of bad weather, we will do our best to accommodate all artists, but cannot guarantee indoor spaces unless specified by the artist
* Installations and presented work must comply with safety and accessibility standards
* Artists must consider accessibility features of their artwork
* Artist(s) must be available to set-up, dismantle, or provide clear, concise, and simple instructions for staff to install projects

  
Schedule and Compensation:

* Funds will be dispersed in two installments (July and September)
* Festival showcase: Saturday, September 20, 2025 from 6 – 11 p.m.

  

Exhibition in Lumen 2025\. 

  
Selected artists will receive a fee of $2,000 (inclusive of all artist fees, transportation, supplies, etc) for their participation in the festival. Additional resources such as volunteers or event set-up can be requested. However, these resources cannot be guaranteed.

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