Deadline: 12 Midnight, Eastern Standard Time on Sunday, March 2nd, 2025.

Summary & Overview:   The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (M-NCPPC), Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR), Prince George’s County (PGC) is inviting artists and artist-teams with interest and professional experience in creating site-specific public art commissions, to submit their name and qualifications to an Artist Resource Listing, for outdoor public artworks to be created for a variety of historic sites throughout Prince George’s County. At designated intervals of the program, artist or artist-teams will be selected from the Listing, invited to participate and paid a fee to submit a competitive proposal for a specific site. The artist or artist-team chosen to move forward with the project will be contracted to design, fabricate, and install artwork for that designated historical site in Prince George’s County. The anticipated public art commission for each site will range from $15,000 to $150,000. Invited artists or artist-teams that are not selected for the specific project will be returned to the pool for potential invitations for other program sites.

Each participating site varies in its needs, goals, and specifications. Please reference the Project Scope Details for a brief description of each site’s background, themes, and distinctive characteristics. Although site-specific requirements may differ, this opportunity is part of a broader effort in Prince George’s County to incorporate Black and Indigenous voices into the fabric of historic interpretation, a theme that will be emphasized across all site locations.

Artist or artist-team candidates entering the final selection will develop a concept proposal for the requested site, presenting it to a committee comprising of members of the historic site staff and selected members representing the Department of Parks and Recreation, Prince George’s County. Once the finalist is chosen, the artist or artist-team will enter into a contract with M-NCPPC to work closely with the historic site’s project committee members to design, fabricate, and install the artwork.