Public Art for Downtown Festival Block
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Deadline: December 5th, 2018 at 1pm. Mountain Standard Time
Opportunity:
Boise City invites public artists to apply for an opportunity to design and fabricate public artwork(s) to be integrated into the streetscape on a new downtown festival block. Up to three artists may be selected from this Request for Qualifications as finalists who will be invited to participate in an interview process. Finalist artists will be invited to visit Boise, the site, and the project team, receive more information about the project opportunity and be interviewed by members of the project team and selection panel. Finalist artists will be compensated for travel to Boise for the interview and site visit. The artist(s) selected through the interview process will be placed on a design contract and be asked to collaborate with the project team to develop design options to present to the selection panel. The selected artist(s) will be provided a combined project total of $60,000 to develop and formalize the design, fabricate, and transport the work to the site. Installation of the work will be coordinated with a contractor who has an Idaho State Public Works License and will be paid for separately by the City of Boise.
The City intends to award the contract to one artist; however, the City reserves the right to award to more than one applicant.
HOW To APPLY?
Please mail or hand deliver the application by December 5th, 2018 by 1 pm to:
The Department of Arts & History
Boise City Hall 150 N. Capitol Blvd.
Boise, ID 83702
On the Boards is a leader in the civic and global dialogue around contemporary art and performance. Starting with the 18/19 Season a new lecture series brings curators from around the world to Seattle. While here these arts leaders will each do 5-8 studio visits with artists based in the greater Seattle area and deliver a public lecture about contemporary performance and their own practice. This series provides national and international curators an opportunity to gain greater insight into the work being done in our region while simultaneously fostering connections with voices from outside the Pacific Northwest.
WINTER 2018:
Fusebox is an annual art and contemporary performance festival based in Austin, Texas. Created over 14 years ago, the festival has become a city-wide celebration featuring artists from around the world.
Anna Gallagher-Ross is a curator at Fusebox. Most recently, Anna was an editor of a CCeSsions online journal of curatorial studies, curatorial fellow at the Walker Arts Center, curatorial fellow for the Live Arts Bard Biennial We’re Watching (Fisher Center for Performing Arts), and curator of the exhibition and performance Whispers in the Grass: The Living Theatre and The Brig (Hessel Museum of Art). She was Curator and Managing Editor for the arts and literacy program Sister Writes from 2013–2017. Anna holds an MA in Curatorial Studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, and an MA in English and BA in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Toronto. Anna’s writing and interviews have appeared in C Magazine, the Walker Art Center Reader, Theater Magazine, Written & Spoken, and other places.
Betelhem Makonnen is a curator at Fusebox. She has a background in visual arts curation and programming with independent artist-run spaces and community arts events. She is also a practicing conceptual artist who exhibits work both nationally and internationally at galleries, museums and cultural centers. A native of Ethiopia, she received her undergraduate education from the University of Texas in Austin and the School of Visual Arts of Parque Lage in Rio de Janeiro, and is currently an MFA candidate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
More Information: https://ontheboards.submittable.com/submit/123868/lectures-studio-visit-series
Deadline: November 30th, 2018
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