2025 ARTBOX Projects RFQ
Location: MN — Twin Cities Metro
Type: RFP / RFQs
Categories:
Public Art
Deadline: 03/03/2025
No entry fee required
Open to artists statewide
Paid opportunity ($2,000-$6,000)
The City of Bloomington’s Creative Placemaking Commission invite experienced public artists to submit qualifications for design and installation services to transform utility boxes in the South Loop District into creative, exciting, and captivating objects of art that celebrate Bloomington while enhancing the district’s character and vitality. For the 2025 round of the ARTBOX Project, three locations have been selected. Two of the locations have single utility boxes to be hand painted. The third location is a cluster of utility boxes with two to be hand painted, four to be vinyl wrapped.
Eligibility: This Request for Qualifications (RFQ) is open to experienced public artists/teams that have completed at least one outdoor artwork or mural in the past ten years, who are at least 18 years or older, and residents of Minnesota. Priority consideration will be given to Bloomington residents. Previously accepted ARTBOX artists will not be considered to provide others an opportunity to display work.
Budget: Each selected applicant will receive a $2,000 budget for a single painted utility box. For the cluster of painted and wrapped utility boxes, one selected applicant will receive a $6,000 budget.
Applications are due: Monday, March 3, 2025 by 11:00 PM CST
All inquiries, questions, or clarifications specific to this RFQ must be submitted by email no later than Monday, February 24, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. Please direct questions to: Kathryn Murray, Creative Placemaking Specialist: placemaking@bloomingtonmn.gov. (Please place “ARTBOXES” in the subject line.)
Visit blm.mn/2025ARTBOXES for more information and to apply.