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Comic Book for Emergency Preparedness Artist
Deadline to apply: December 7, 2025, by 11:59 p.m.
The City of Raleigh seeks to hire an artist to create a comic book/zine/graphic novel to educate teens and the general public about emergency preparedness topics. The selected artist will use the Ready Raleigh guide for disaster preparedness as a starting point for creating the comic book and work with the Raleigh Fire Department's Division of Emergency Management. The artist will receive a $20,000 budget to write and illustrate the comic book and the City will hold a non-exclusive license to print and re-print the resulting book.
Wake BRT: Southern Corridor Transit Corridor Artist
Deadline to apply: December 21, 2025, by 11:59 p.m.
The City of Raleigh is looking for an artist to create up to three public art elements along the Wake BRT: Southern Corridor (Raleigh to Garner). Artwork could be freestanding or integrated into the existing landscape and should engage both pedestrian and vehicular traffic. The selected artist will receive $160,000 to design and fabricate up to three installations along the corridor. They will work with the planning and design teams to integrate artwork into the landscape and built elements of the site.
Wake BRT: Southern Corridor Station Artists - Windscreens and Railings
Deadline to apply: December 21, 2025, by 11:59 p.m.
The City of Raleigh is looking for nine artists to create artwork designs for windscreens and cut metal railings at BRT stations as part of the planned Southern Corridor. Artist designs should be unique and aesthetically pleasing, and speak to the community character, stories, and/or histories associated with each station. The Artist fee for the project is $6,000 for one shelter design or $10,000 for two shelter designs. Artists will provide vector files, and the Artwork fabrication and installation will be managed by the City of Raleigh. The Artist Selection Panel is responsible for station assignments, and which artists are assigned one or two shelters.
SEEK Raleigh
"VITAL Health", Michael S.Williams and Stacey L. Kirby, performance for SEEK Raleigh, 2020. Photo by Caroline Cockrell.
SEEK Raleigh is an experimental public art program by Raleigh Arts that engages the community through public art in City of Raleigh Parks, greenways, and/or community spaces. Propose a public art project that you would like to create. This annual call is juried in late Spring.
Learn more about the SEEK Raleigh artist call
Deadline: Applications accepted year-round
Raleigh Art's Block2 Gallery is an outdoor visual platform for video, digital, and new media artists. Viewed after dark, the changing videos aim to expand a viewer's notion of visual art and introduce the community to new artists, ideas, and experimental mediums.
If you're interested in applying, please email Stacy Bloom Rexrode, Curator of Exhibitions and Collections.
