Call for Mural Festival Artists

Arts Build Community offers in school artist residencies, after school art programming, panel discussions, artist workshops, guest speaker engagements, community and mural programming. Our classes can run from 1 day long to multi week depending on the programming. Our overarching mission is communicate awareness of social issues through art. Arts Build Community support with curriculum planning, and course design. We will also provide in class assistance if needed at each session. Appropriate for individual artists or teams of artists. Artists will need to pass background check to work with students.

Upcoming Opportunities:

  • Future mural festivals or projects

  • Community projects

  • Teaching artist projects

Mural artist open call from March 10th - April 14th 2025

Artist notified of selection April 28th

Compensation:
Our goal is to compensate artists for their work in addition to covering materials for this community event. Muralists selected for the festival will receive a stipend ranging from $1,500 to $5,000, depending on the scale of the project.

What else is provided:

  • All necessary supplies (brushes, rollers, tape etc)

  • Paint

  • Equipment rental will be provided.

  • Lunches

  • Swag

If travel and lodging accommodations are required, ABC may be able to cover these costs; however, this is contingent on our fundraising efforts.
In prior years we have met our goals to arrange for accommodations, so we are hopeful to provide this once again.
Selected artists will be notified by June 20, 2025, if accommodations can be covered.