The Arts & Business Council of Greater Nashville, Urban Green Lab & Nashville Farmers Market are thrilled to announce a **Request for Qualifications** (RFQ) for an artist to paint a dynamic mural for Urban Green Lab’s Waste Less Mural Project, a mural series across Nashville dedicated to raising visibility about the issue of food waste. 

**About the Nashville Farmer's Market**

The Nashville Farmers' Market accommodates locals and tourists alike representing the best of Nashville's food system and boasting a rich history of equity among Nashvillians. Additionally, it doubles as a great place for Nashville to show off its hospitality! Through its vendors and patrons, this unique venue, adjacent to historic North Nashville and Germantown neighborhoods, balances international and local flavors alike. Learn more about the market's history.

**About the Mural**

The fourth mural in the Waste Less Mural Project will be installed on the exterior wall of the walk-in cooler in Farm Shed 1 at the Nashville Farmers Market. It will declare “Food is our Past, Present, and Future. Waste Less.” to inspire shoppers, visitors, and neighbors to reduce food waste. The theme honors the market's long and storied history while celebrating its current identity as a diverse community food hub, reflecting the backgrounds of its vendors and patrons. The future is twofold. A nod to the possibilities of what the market will become and a reminder of the opportunities it offers as a public food system hub where equity flourishes.

  
**Mural Installation**

* **Timeframe:** The selected artist will have from May 5 to June 13, 2025, to complete the mural. The deadline is not flexible due to grant funding restrictions.
* **Mural size:** 8 feet x 20 feet (160 sq. ft.)
* **Surface:** Off-white, light gray metal facade
* **Theme:** Food is our Past, Present, and Future. Waste Less. (This text must be prominently included in the final mural design as well as the founding date of the market: 1801\. )
* **Location:** On the exterior wall of the walk-in cooler in Farm Shed 1 at the Nashville Farmers' Market, 900 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville.
* **Rights & Licenses:** The artist maintains all rights and grants a perpetual, limited license to the Arts & Business Council of Greater Nashville, Urban Green Lab, Nashville Farmers' Market, and their subsidiaries and agents to reproduce the mural, and use any photographs containing the mural, for non-commercial purposes related to promoting, educating, and informing the public about the Nashville Food Waste Initiative (NFWI), the Waste Less Mural Project, and other programs of Urban Green Lab, the Arts & Business Council, or the Nashville Farmers' Market.

  

Mural at Nashville Farmers' Market.

Stipend of $4,800 + $1,000 for supplies

Application finalists will be awarded a stipend of $250

2025 Urban Green Lab Waste Less Mural Project RFQ

Walking Together: Investing in Folklife in Communities of Color

  
**About Walking Together**

Walking Together: Investing in Folklife in Communities of Color supports folklife and traditional arts rooted in communities by investing in artists/practitioners and the community organizations that care for them.

Often called the “art of everyday life,” folklife includes traditional art forms and other creative expressions that reflect the aesthetics, practices, values, and beliefs of community groups. All traditions are connected to the history of the communities that practice them, but they are not just art forms of the past. Instead, they are “living traditions” that adapt to remain relevant in a changing world, including new and emerging traditions. Individuals and communities use traditional arts to build collective power, engage in healing, and strengthen their identity. Walking Together serves traditional artists/practitioners and organizations that show a deep commitment to sustaining folklife rooted in communities of color. 

**Walking Together offers:**

* $15,000 grants for traditional artists, practitioners, and keepers of traditional knowledge rooted in communities of color

  

Walking Together

_We are delighted to announce the open call for our Spring/Summer Online Residency Program, inviting eco, social, and political artists worldwide to participate in a six-week online program from_**April 7th till May 16th**

  
This **6-week online residency program** aims to create an atmosphere of collaboration and connection, where international eco artists can come together and grow their practice in the areas of sustainability and expand their art practice through feedback and mutual support.

  
Residency Theme:

This residency program is not just about artistic growth; it's about building networks and a community of artists through active dialogue, ideas exchange, and critical thinking. By joining this program, you'll be able to work on specific projects, connect with fellow artists, and work together to create a new stratosphere of creativity and inspiration.

  
In an effort to create a more intimate space for collaboration and growth, the program only accepts a range of 4 to 10 participants. This way we ensure all perspectives are heard and everyone has the opportunity to take part in discussions and collaboration.

  
Program Details:

* Residency Duration: Six weeks
* Time Frame: **April 7th till May 16th**

  
What We Offer:

* Full program for the entire residency
* Weekly 1/ 2 hours group meetings with fellow artists focused on your work- discussion and exchange, helping you to better conceptualise your art projects moderated by IOAEA team.
* Weekly individual curatorial support with curator Joana Alarcão via video call, to discuss work progress, dissemination etc.
* Weekly 1/ 2 hours lectures focusing on ecological art and artists, to help you frame your practice within the ecological international art community and gain new knowledge on how fellow artists are innovating and creating within this field.
* Becoming part of the international IOAEA community; getting access to our network space and exclusive opportunities.
* Diffusion and promotion
* Residency profile on IOAEA website
* Personal interview on the IOAEA website
* Exhibit your project in an immersive virtual group show in our online gallery at the end of the residency program

  
Program Commitment and Flexibility:

Participants are expected to commit to the program for the entire six-week duration. Although we understand that unforeseen circumstances may arise therefore if an artist is unable to attend some meetings we are flexible to find alternative arrangements or record sections.

  
Application Process:

The online program is open to emerging and mid-career visual artists, multidisciplinary artists, curators, and art researchers from all around the world whose works focus on ecological practices.

​The selection of candidates for the online residency is made by Joana Alarcão, the curator and founder of IOAEA. Candidates are chosen based on the quality of their work and their motivation to participate in this online residency.

  
Please write to us at insightsofayoungecoartist@gmail.com if you are interested.

Email us your bio, portfolio and artist statement, why you wish to participate in this Online Residency and if you need the scholarship opportunity.

Please email your material with the Subject: “RESIDENCY PROGRAM”

Fee:

Artists can send their **submissions for free** and selected artists will be informed via email about the next steps.

  
**Only selected artists** will incur a participation fee of €250 for our six-week program. 

  
While we are currently unable to offer personal funding, we are thrilled to provide a fully funded opportunity for one artist in each group, with priority given to emerging artists.

  
If you require a scholarship, please indicate this in your application; otherwise, we will not be able to consider you for the scholarship.

  
_Please note that this is an organisation built by artists for artists therefore our residency fee supports our efforts as an artist-run organization, independently built and maintained by working artists. This contribution enables us to continue offering free initiatives and scholarships for artists seeking opportunities to gain exposure, connect with peers, and advance their careers in the arts._

  

Sustainable Practices, Online Residency Program

ArtTable’s Fellowship Program began in 2000 to address the marked lack of diversity in arts employment. This impactful program provides quality real work experiences and mentorship to emerging professionals in the visual arts field. During the paid, five-to-eight-week summer program, the fellows will work closely with established leaders in the field to gain exposure to various professional activities at leading museums and art organizations. Fellows also receive one-on-one mentoring from leading professionals who are ArtTable members and are specialized in their areas of interest.

  
**2025 Host Organizations**

* Betye Saar Catalogue Raisonne Project | Los Angeles, CA
* The Bronx Museum | Bronx, NY
* Center for the Study of Political Graphics | Los Angeles, CA
* The Chrysler Museum of Art | Norfolk, VA
* Creative Time | New York, NY
* Friends of the Bass Museum, Inc. (The Bass) | Miami Beach, FL
* Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University | Auburn, AL
* Lower Manhattan Cultural Council | New York, NY
* More Art | New York, NY
* The Print Center | Philadelphia, PA
* Public Art Fund | New York, NY
* Vera List Center for Art and Politics, The New School | New York, NY

  

ArtTable Fellowship Highlights:

● Professional career development.

● Work with established leaders in museums and other arts organizations.

● One-on-one mentoring with an ArtTable member.

● Access to ArtTable’s dynamic professional network.

● Five - Eight-week commitment between June 2 and August 29, 2025 (date range is specific to each project).

● $4,000 stipend.

● Up to $500 reimbursement for travel or moving costs incurred for the Fellowship.

ArtTable Fellowship Program 2025

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Open call for residents at L'Éclair

**The Meta Space Spring Show is an annual spring edition of the Material publication and exhibition, which showcases artists' works in both high-quality publication forms (of which you will receive a copy!). There is no general theme for this edition and any work is acceptable (as long as it doesn't violate our guidelines).**

£25 for up to 2 artworks. £6.50 for every artwork afterwards.

You will be apart of the VR exhibition and online exhibition in the Meta Space Spring Show and be apart of its consequent publication.

Meta Space Spring Show

The **ODD Gallery** is a contemporary exhibition space housed in Dënäkär Zho / the Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC), on Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in territory in Dawson City, Yukon.

The ODD Gallery’s year-round programming features solo and group exhibitions (selected and curated by a committee) by regional, national, and international visual artists. The gallery also presents a wide array of outreach programming including artist talks, openings, lectures, screenings, youth programs, and other special events. Gallery programming fosters professionalism and appreciation of regional visual arts practice and provides the community with exposure and access to a diverse range of national and international contemporary visual arts practices and theories.

**Proposal Guidelines:**

All media will be considered within current space and equipment limitations. Gallery facilities consist of 700 sq feet with 90 ft of running wall space at a height of 9 ft 6 inches, plywood lined walls, LED track lighting, basic installation hardware and tools, electrical outlets placed low on the walls, electrical outlets in the ceiling, monitors, DVD or media player (subject to availability), HD projector, plinths.

Exhibition at **ODD Gallery.**

  
The ODD Gallery will pay a solo exhibition fee of $2,574 and provide one-way shipping assistance up to $500\. Artist talk fees of $541 will be paid to visiting artists for a presentation on or around the exhibition opening. In addition, the Gallery will commission a short text, if it is provided with the exhibition, and cover the production of promotional and dissemination materials such as invitations and exhibition brochures. The ODD Gallery provides food and beverages for all our exhibition openings.

  
While the Gallery will assist with installation and will cover basic production expenses, the artist will be responsible for installation logistics and all other expenses such as transportation, travel, framing, specialized equipment, and major painting/repairs. All work exhibited in the gallery will be insured up to a total value of $25,000 for the course of the exhibition including time in transit.

Call for Exhibitions

**The International Tapestry City in Aubusson, with the support of Haltra Communities, is launching a call for projects on the theme:**

  
**The Echo Chamber 1925 – 2025, woven space: Woven objects fair, decorative arts paradise or contemporary Period room?**

  
For the past twelve years, the Cité internationale de la tapisserie in Aubusson has been pursuing a policy of creation, promoting this expertise, which is classified as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO, and at the same time enriching the contemporary collection of the museum.

Eva Nielsen, Clément Cogitore, Mathieu Mercier, Marie Sirgue, El Seed, Raphaël Barontini, Amélie Bertrand, Thomas Bayrle, in particular, winners of the various calls for projects have created textile works whose scale, deployment and diversity salute tapestry as a contemporary artistic medium.

With the same energy, the creation of two large hangings around the works of JRR Tolkien and Hayao Miyazaki extends the history of textile imaginations in tapestries of monumental proportions. A current public artistic commission "Hommage à George Sand", entrusted to Françoise Pétrovitch, will project the tapestry medium into the world of monumental installation.

The Cité de la tapisserie, in a logic of research and development, continues to enthusiastically explore the artistic writing of its textile identity and deploys the tapestry medium again and elsewhere. As the Cité is currently doing with Gaspar Willmann and his work woven in jacquard, a pictorial homage to a historical figure of the territories of New Aquitaine.

Historically, tapestry carries the program of a story, of an assumed figuration that develops in the interior, domestic space, a subject represented and given to read. The place and decorative function of woven objects are central in the distribution of living spaces. Finally, tapestry, as a living medium of creation, has taken a liking to updating its writing over the course of new models of reality: an echo chamber of images and thoughts of the world. In view of the 100th anniversary, in 2025, of the great international exhibition of decorative arts in Paris, that of 1925, the 2025 call for projects invites artists to think of images woven in constellation on the surfaces of a space.

**Candidates will have to choose one of the following three approaches:**

* Woven Objects Exhibition (a perspective on the author's writing, declined and applied to the surface of a plurality of objects, with the spirit of a unity or a coordinate as we can hear it in textile creation)
* Decorative arts paradise (in a logic of assembly, coordinate know-how and the diversity of materials to build the room of an art of the arts of living)
* Period room of the future (in a prospective dimension of the scenario and fiction – design fiction – which accompanies the decorative ensemble.)

_For all three subjects, particular attention will be paid to the way in which contemporary images and imaginations will be used by candidates in their proposals._

**The first three creators ranked by the Jury will receive respectively:** 

  
* 1st prize €15,000 VAT
* 2nd Winner €10,000 incl. VAT
* 3rd winner €6,000 incl. VAT

International Tapestry City Award

The Galveston Artist Residency is pleased to announce an Open Call for applications for the 2025 - 2026 Residency Year.

  
**We will be awarding 3 residency grants for the time period of October 1, 2025 through August 1, 2026.**

  
The residency is intended as a gift of time for the development of your practice. We are looking for visual artists that are at a point in their life where they need to focus on their work and will benefit from a period of intense studio time.

  
GAR is located in Galveston TX, a barrier island about one hour away from Houston, on the east Texas coast. Galveston is an eclectic mixture of tourism & industry with a rich history.

Artists in residence will receive a studio, an apartment, a monthly stipend of $1,100 per month, and a $500 travel stipend to be granted upon arrival and departure. Residents will take part in a group exhibition.

Artist-in-Residence Fellowships

**Soaring Gardens Artists Retreat in Laceyville, PA, offers visual artists, writers, and composers, and instrumentalists a quiet country setting for residencies to focus on their creative endeavors. Spaces are available from mid-May to mid-September. Soaring Gardens has no fees, makes no demands, and there are no intrusions from the administration—only the studios, gardens, deer, other creatures, and time.** 

  
The residency is located in a farmhouse with an adjacent studio building and in a small nearby church. At any time, there are only a few artists in residence, usually four or five residents at the farmhouse and one at the church. Since residents share the living spaces, we encourage artists to apply as a group (a combination of artistic disciplines is fine), although applications from individuals are also welcome.

Residents are encouraged to have a car to get to Soaring Gardens. There is no public transportation close by. However, transportation will be provided to and from nearby cities for arrival and departure at Soaring Gardens, and to help run some errands during their stay as needed. With the exception of a weekly communal dinner, artists are expected to shop, cook, and clean up after themselves; a gardener maintains the grounds. As the purpose of the residency is to provide time for undisturbed work, no children, pets, or overnight visitors are permitted.

  
Soaring Gardens offers two locations to stay during your residency. The church provides a more intimate, private experience, with no more than two residents staying there at a time. The farmhouse offers a more communal atmosphere, with four to five residents typically staying there and utilizing the studio building next door.

  
**The residency sessions for the 2025 season are as follows:**

4/22 - 5/9: Session I

5/25 - 6/13: Session II

6/15 - 7/4: Session III

7/6 - 7/25: Session IV

7/27 - 8/15: Session V

8/17 - 9/5: Session VI

9/7 - 9/26: Session VII (Church) - single resident 

9/28 - 10/17: Session VIII (Church) - single resident

10/19 - 10/31: Session IX (Church) - single resident

A limited number of $250 or $500 need-based grants are available.

  
Residencies are cost free.

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