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Submit a proposal for a community-rooted public art intervention addressing repair, hope, and beauty within your own community.
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Get matched →TED and POSCA are launching a globally distributed artist residency with no single location or central studio. Selected artists work within their own communities on public art interventions united by a shared creative constraint around repair, hope, and beauty. Community participation is key, and process matters as much as outcome.
This year's theme explores repair as a creative and civic act, inspired by Kintsugi—the Japanese practice of repairing broken ceramics with gold. Artists are invited to investigate how wounds, ruptures, and imperfections can become sites of transformation, and to make these processes visible through public interventions that spark reflection, dialogue, and collective imagination.
We welcome applications from artists around the world whose practices engage directly with people, communities, public space, participation, storytelling, or collective experience, including visual artists, muralists, interdisciplinary artists, designers, community-based practitioners, collectives, architects/spatial practitioners, and creatives working across disciplines.
Projects may take many forms, including public installations, participatory interventions, collaborative processes, performances, temporary activations, workshops, story-based works, or hybrid approaches.
Proposals should be rooted in a specific local context, participatory or community-engaged, conceptually strong but logistically achievable, visually and emotionally compelling, and open to documentation and storytelling collaboration.
Each selected artist will receive a total of USD $15,000 to cover artist fees, production costs/community activation, and documentation. Selected artists also receive creative direction & storytelling support and access to TED and Fine Acts' global platforms for visibility.
Every listing links to the organizer's official page. Always confirm deadlines, fees, and entry rules there before you apply.
While the term of the residency is one year, this initiative will run for multiple years, expanding the cohort year by year (2027, 2028, and 2029) while building an evolving global archive of civic artistic interventions.