Downtown Arts, 2024

Downtown Arts is a program that provides support for and generates awareness about members of Greensboro's visual arts community while enhancing the downtown built environment with original works of art. Selected artists will receive compensation and promotion through several City-led initiatives.

Applicants can choose to be considered for one or both of the following opportunities: Art on Downtown Kiosks offers a $500 honorarium to up to ten artists whose work is selected for digital display on City maintained property, including 11 digital kiosks located throughout downtown from February 2024 through January 2025. Each selected artist's image will be displayed in a rotating slideshow for 10 weeks in squared dimensions (minimum 980 x 980 pixels and minimum 72 dpi). Art in City Hall awards a $3,000 commission to one artist who will create an original work no larger than 36" x 24" (or 36" x 24" x 24" if three-dimensional) reflecting their creative perspective on Greensboro in 2023. The original work will be placed in the City's permanent collection and displayed periodically in public facilities. The work will be photographed or scanned, enlarged to 10' x 20', reproduced on vinyl, framed, and installed on the council chamber wall inside the Plaza Entrance to the Melvin Municipal Office Building from June 2024 through June 2025.

Both opportunities are available for Greensboro-based artists working in painting, sculpture, drawing, ceramics, glass, photography, digital arts, or fiber arts. Applicants must be full-time residents of Greensboro and at least 18 years of age. City of Greensboro employees and their immediate family members are not eligible. Each submitting artist must provide a resume, headshot, artist statement (no more than 2,000 characters), and 5-10 images of work made within the past 5 years. Work samples must be original work submitted as high-resolution image files and should not include logos, commercial speech or advertising, religious or political messages, explicit sexual imagery, nudity, or graphic depictions of violence. Artists interested in the Art in City Hall commission must also include an optional statement of no more than 2,000 characters describing ideas and concepts they would like to explore in the commissioned work.