Public Art Commissions
Utah Public Art Program Opportunities
(click on the project name for the full project description and specifics for submitting qualifications)
- There are no open projects through Utah's Public Art Program at this time. Keep checking back for news on upcoming projects for the Utah Museum of Natural History, the Department of Motor Vehicles and Univeristy of Utah School of Nursing. Scroll down for other opportunities in Utah and nationally.
The Utah State Legislature Capital Facilities and Administrative Services Appropriations
Subcommittee reviews all capital projects for the State and approves or cuts public art funding for
those projects. If you would like to contact those legislators on the committee to express your views
on art in public places. The committee membership is listed on the Utah State Legislature web site at: http://www.le.state.ut.us/asp/interim/Commit.asp?Year=2008&Com=APPCFG
This web site also provides schedule and contact information for the committee.
Projects in Process:
Other Utah Public Art Opportunities
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Salt Lake Community College (SLCC) seeks proposals from sculptors that are current or former residents of Utah, or the Four Corners region (Four Corners of Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona), to sculpt a Bruin Bear out of Moenkopi sandstone. The work of art will be located at the north entrance of the Student Center, Taylorsville Redwood Campus, 4600 South Redwood Road, Salt Lake City, Utah. SLCC invites interested Utah and Four Corners sculptors to respond to this Request for Proposal (RFP) by submitting proposals for this commissioned original sculpture project. Information: http://www.slcc.edu/purchasing/currentSolicitations.asp For project-specific questions contact Gordon Wilson, Director of Auxiliary Services,
(801) 957-4205 or gordon.wilson@slcc.edu - For procurement process-related questions contact Lois Wiesemann, SLCC Purchasing Services, (801) 957-4255, lois.wiesemann@slcc.edu
Budget:$35,000 - Deadline: January 22, 2009, 3 p.m.
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Park City Municipal Corporation - Bus Shelters
Request for Proposals from qualified professional artists to design, produce, and install art on three (3) bus shelters in Park City. The requested services include design, plan, create, fabricate, and install public art at a specific bus shelter.
A non-mandatory pre-submittal meeting will be held on December 10, 2008 from 5:300pm to 6:30 pm at Miner’s Hospital, 1354 Park Avenue, Park City, UT 84060. Information: Sharon Bauman at (435) 615-5184,or bauman@parkcity.org or by visiting www.parkcity.org
Total project budget is $30,000 (maximum $10,000 per shelter) Proposals Due: January 30, 2009 no later than 4:00 pm
National & International Public Art Opportunities
- The City of Glendale / Glendale Arts Commission, Arizona, announces a public art opportunity for a qualified artist or artist team to design, fabricate and install artwork for the new Courthouse, which will open in downtown Glendale in 2010. Information: Sandra Keely 623-930-3526 or
skeely@glendaleaz.com or http://www.glendaleaz.com/arts/ArtistOpportunities.cfm
Budget: $200,000 - Deadline: January 5, 2009
- The City of Glendale / Glendale Arts Commission, Arizona, announces a public art opportunity for a qualified artist or artist team to design, fabricate and install artwork for the new West Branch Library. Information: Sandra Keely at 623-930-3526 or
skeely@glendaleaz.com or
http://www.glendaleaz.com/arts/ArtistOpportunities.cfm
Budget: $200,000 - Deadline: January 5, 2009
- Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT), Dow Hall Center for Health
Professionals -
Klamath Falls, Oregon
The Art Selection Committee for the Oregon Institute of Technology
(OIT) Dow
Hall seeks public artwork that draws inspiration from the various
academic
disciplines housed in this state-of-the-art facility as well as the
distinctive
geographic location and cultural landscape of the Klamath Basin. Complete project and application guidelines:
http://www.oregonartscommission.org/OIT_rfp.pdf For more information contact Meagan Atiyeh, Visual Arts Coordinator:
meagan.atiyeh@state.or.us
Budget: $219,000 - Deadline: 5pm on Friday, January 9, 2009.
- The Regional Arts & Culture Council (Portland, OR) invites artists/teams
residing in the United States to submit qualifications for the York
Recognition public art project for Lewis & Clark College. This project
seeks to acknowledge the significance of York, an African American slave
who played an important role in Lewis & Clark's Corps of Discovery. All materials must be submitted online via
CaFE at www.callforentry.org. RFQ and site information (both indoor &
outdoor) can be downloaded at www.racc.org.
Budget:
$125,000 - Deadline: January 12, 2009
- Mesa State College campus in Grand Junction,
Colorado - Qualifications are requested from an artist and/or artist teams
interested in creating site specific public artworks(s) for the new
classroom building. For more information please visit
http://www.coloarts.org/programs/public/calls/ and the call is posted on CaFE www.callforentry.com
Budget:: $93,000 - Deadline: January 22, 2009, 11:59 pm (MST)
- Art Spaces, Inc. - Wabash Valley Outdoor Sculpture Collection is issuing a request for qualifications for a site-specific sculpture to be located in the city of Terre Haute, Indiana in the new HuxCancerCenter at UnionHospital. The sculpture will be located inside the front entrance of the HuxCancerCenter http://www.unionhospitalhealthgroup.org/union/huxcancer located at 6 ½ and Beech Street on the north side of UnionHospital. It will be adjacent to the main staircase and just outside of the Radiation Oncology Waiting Room. More information including submission requirements, images and dimensions of the site are available on the Art Spaces website at www.wabashvalleyartspaces.com
or 812-244-4216
Budget: $42,000- Deadline: Friday, January 23, 2009
- Linus Pauling Science Center, Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon
The Art Selection Committee for Oregon State University’s (OSU) Linus
Pauling Science Center (LPSC) seeks individual artists/teams with proven
capacity to work collaboratively with a variety of professionals to
generate a site-specific design solution for this new research facility.
Complete project and application guidelines:
http://www.oregonartscommission.org/LinusPauling_rfp.pdf For more information contact Meagan Atiyeh, Visual Arts Coordinator:
meagan.atiyeh@state.or.us
Budget: $350,000 - Deadline:5pm on Friday, January 23, 2009.
- Public Safety Memorial, Richmond, VA
The Public Safety Memorial Commission was charged by Governor Timothy Kaine, to establish an appropriate memorial for the Commonwealth of Virginia to commemorate the courage and sacrifice of Virginia's Public Safety personnel who have lost their lives in the line of duty. For more information and proposal submission guidelines, please go to this web site: http://www.publicsafety.virginia.gov/Initiatives/MemorialCommission/ Questions or concerns, please contact Erin C. Bryant, Assistant Secretary of Public Safety, at (804) 786 - 5351
Budget: $2,000,000 - Deadline:February 1, 2009
- Clackamas County Arts Alliance (Clackamas County, Oregon) and the Clackamas
County Development Agency are seeking qualifications from artists for an
iconic outdoor public artwork. Project goal is to improve the pedestrian
environment and enhance the visual character of the streetscape along
Monterey Avenue in Clackamas, Oregon between 82nd Avenue and I-205. *The full RFQ can be downloaded at:
http://www.clackamasculturalcoalition.org/artsalliance/FinalMontereyRFQ12-17-08B.pdf All materials must be submitted through CaFÉ
http://www.callforentry.org
Budget is $54,000 - Deadline: 2/2/09, 11:59 MST
- Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism - Qualifications are requested from artists interested in creating a
site-specific public artwork(s) for E.C. Goodwin Technical High School
in New Britain, Connecticut.
Artists interested in this project should submit their registration form
and images to the Art in Public Spaces Image Bank by February 6, 2008.
For questions contact Tamara Dimitri at (860) 256-2720 or by
email tamara.dimitri@ct.gov or go to the ARTS division page of
www.cultureandtourism.org and click
on public art.
Budget: $350,000.00 - Deadline: February 6, 2009
- The Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs in partnership with the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) seeks an artist or artist team to develop permanent artwork in conjunction with the widening of the South Spokane Street Viaduct in Seattle’s SoDo (South Downtown) neighborhood. Information:
www.seattle.gov/arts For more information about the Spokane Street Viaduct public art opportunity, contact Vaughn Bell, SDOT arts project manager, vaughn.bell@seattle.gov or (206) 733-9960. To learn more about the Spokane Street project, visit the SDOT Web site at: http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/spokanestreet.htm.
Budget: $400,000 - Deadline: February 17, 2009 11 p.m.
- The City of Walnut Creek, California is currently accepting qualifications from artists
for individual artworks for the new downtown Walnut Creek Library.
Individual works of art will be purchased or commissioned to fill the
library’s common areas in the buildings’ lobbies, reading rooms, community
gallery, children’s library, and children’s garden, as well as outside in
adjacent plazas. http://www.bedfordgallery.org/Public%20Art/RFQ_FINAL.pdf
For more information: http://www.bedfordgallery.org/public_art.htm
or contact:
Robyn Burror at
burror@walnut-creek.org or
925-295-1447
Budget: $80,000 - Deadline: February 27, 2008
- The Los Angeles County Arts Commission Civic Art Program is establishing a high-caliber Resource List of Pre-Qualified Artists which will be used to select artists for the majority of new County projects.
The Arts Commission's Civic Art Program, which began in 2005, is currently implementing over 40 civic art projects for a diverse variety of County facilities including libraries, courts, fire stations, parks, jails, and health clinics. Projects range in size from $30,000 to $300,000+ and are managed by a skilled staff dedicated to facilitating innovative projects which add meaning and beauty to County facilities, and deepen the pride of the surrounding neighborhoods. The Arts Commission anticipates that at least 15 new civic art projects will be initiated each year.
Applications must be submitted through the Call for Entry (CAFÉ) online application system www.callforentry.org Once you have created a personal account, go to "CAFE Listings" and click the "Los Angeles County: Resource List of Pre-Qualified Artists" Call.
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