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Dear Briana,
On behalf of Houston Public Works (HPW), the City of Houston Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs (MOCA) invite artists or artist teams to submit qualifications
for an incredible opportunity!
Read
the Submission Guidelines Here
Project: Design, fabricate, and install a a permanent,
site-specific work of public art along the banks of the Buffalo Bayou.
Purpose: Create a memorial honoring those City of Houston employees who have lost their lives in the line of duty.
Details:
- The memorial is intended to highlight these thirty workers, celebrate their strength, and honor their lives through
a vibrant and relevant permanent work of public art.
- Location: within Buffalo Bayou Park, a 2.3-mile-long municipal park located on the banks of the Buffalo Bayou,
west of Downtown, Houston
- The artwork should be:
- Created for the designated location in Buffalo Bayou Park.
- Void of electrical or water features
- Developed with the consideration of the flooding nature of the Buffalo Bayou
The artwork will reside at
Buffalo
Bayou Park, which is operated and maintained by
Buffalo
Bayou Partnership. It is important for any applying artist/artist team to develop a proposal that considers and response to conditions which may develop
at the park location in the case of natural disasters or emergencies (flooding, high winds, extreme heat or freezing).
While the selected site is located at the top of a hill with a high elevation (+/-30.0), materials, durability, engineering, installation, maintenance, etc. should be kept in mind due to the inevitable extreme weather fluctuations historically prevalent to
this area of Houston. Buffalo Bayou Park was designed to flood, and what is installed along the world class parkland area should also be designed to withstand slow-draining flooding.
Budget:
The budget of
$165,000.00 is inclusive of all work including, but not limited to, final design, artists’ fees, design, engineering, permitting, insurance costs for each year of the project, permanent
lighting, software, studio and project administration, travel, fabrication, all materials, installation, and required deliverables.
Deadline: Monday,
February 5, 2024, 5:00 PM CST
The commissioned work will become part of the City of Houston’s Civic Art Collection.
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THE FOLLOWING ARE ELIGIBLE TO APPLY:
Open to all Houston area artists and artist-teams over 18 years of age to work at the required scale and have availability to accomplish by the deadline. “Houston
Area Artist” is defined by the following:
- Currently residing within in the Greater Houston Area: Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris,
Liberty, Montgomery, or Waller counties
- Artist/Artist Team must be able to complete the memorial by early 2025.
- FOR GALLERIES INTERESTED IN APPLYING ON BEHALF OF ARTISTS:
- Galleries submitting applications for more than one artist must submit individual applications for each applicant.
- If multiple artists are included on the same application, the submission will be marked as ineligible
THE FOLLOWING ARE
NOT ELIGIBLE TO APPLY:
- Artists currently under contract for a City of Houston Civic Art project.
- City of Houston employees.
- Elected City Officials, Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs Staff, and their immediate family.
- Houston Arts Alliance employees, Board members, Advisory Board members, and their immediate family.
Applications not meeting all eligibility criteria or application requirements will be withdrawn from consideration.
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1. Artist(s)
resume or CV, relevant information for any other key team members (3 pages maximum per artist or team member)
2. Artist(s)
Biography (250 words maximum or under 2 minutes.
3.
Statement of Intent (1,000 words maximum or under 5 minutes)
Statement of Intent - A Statement of Intent (SOI) is a declaration of your plans and your ideas for a specific project. The SOI should communicate your personality,
professionalism, qualifications, and enthusiasm for the project.
4.
Artist Statement (500 words maximum or under 3 minutes)
Artist Statement - An artist statement is a description of your work that helps the audience access or understand your artistic work. The purpose of the artist
statement is to inform, add context, and present process and conceptual ideas to the viewer, which may include sources, ideas, and materials in your current practice.
5.
Digital images of completed artworks. Applicants should submit up to ten (10) images in JPEG format.
Each image should be no larger than 2 MB. Each image should include information about artist, title, year completed, dimensions, material, commissioning entity,
and budget or price (as applicable) for each image provided.
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All dates are subject to change.
**HAA will host two (2) artist information sessions about the open call.
Artist Info Session # 1** Thursday, January 11, 2024, via
ZOOM
Artist Info Session # 2** Wednesday, January 24, 2024 via
ZOOM
Deadline for questions: Thursday, January 18, 2024
RFQ submission deadline: Monday, February 5, 2024
RFQ notification: Friday, March 1, 2024
The following section only applies to artists who advance to the RFP phase:
RFP released to finalists: Friday, March 1, 2024
RFP deadline: Monday, April 1, 2024
Artist proposal presentations: April 8 – 12, 2024
Selected artist notified by HAA: May/June 2024
Contract released to artist: May/June 2024
Contract executed: May/June 2024
Project completion: Early 2025
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A panel of three art professionals will review qualified submissions and select a short list of up to three individual artists or
artist teams who will develop concept proposals for the opportunity.
Review of artist qualifications will be subject to the following criteria:
- The artist’s work demonstrates a unique voice, perspective, or aesthetic.
- The artist’s submission demonstrates their ability to create site-specific artwork that responds to the history,
culture, and identity of the surrounding community.
- The artist’s work demonstrates an artistic voice, perspective, or aesthetic that is not substantially represented
in the current civic art collection.
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For questions or more information, please do not contact the City of Houston Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs (MOCA). Direct all
inquiries to the Houston Arts Alliance - Civic Art + Design Department at:
civi...@haatxhelp.zendesk.com
Subject Line: HPW Civilian Employee Memorial. Questions will be answered as they are received and no later than
Thursday, January 18th, 2024.
All answers to questions received by the question due date will be posted publicly to the
Houston
Arts Alliance FAQ for this project in the
Public
Art Opportunities page of our website on Friday, January 19th, 2024
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