Request for Qualifications: Federal Inspection Services Facility at SD County Regional Airport (San Diego, CA)

SAN DIEGO COUNTY REGIONAL AIRPORT AUTHORITY Federal Inspection Services Facility, Public Art Projects

Summary: The San Diego County Regional Airport Authority seeks statements of qualifications from artists or artist teams to develop and implement their design for the Federal Inspection Services Facility Public Art Opportunities at the San Diego International Airport.

Background & Project Overview: The Airport has experienced rapid growth in international arrivals in recent years as a result of free trade agreements and airline joint ventures.

Further, advances in aircraft technology have broadened San Diego’s opportunities for international air service. In order to respond to the rapid growth in international arrival activities anticipated in 2017 and beyond, SAN will re-conceive a Federal Inspection Services Facility (FIS)

that: adds greater flexibility; increases FIS capacity level; and utilizes the newest processing efficiency introduced by the Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

Public Art Opportunities: The Authority has identified two public art opportunities for the FIS facility. Artists can submit a SOQ on one (1) of the following projects:

1. Glass Partition Wall Artwork: This opportunity is for an Artist or Artist team to design, fabricate and install an art glass treatment within an approximately 270’ long by 13’ high partition wall along the south edge of the baggage claim hall of the FIS facility. The glass artwork must be a functionally-integrated architectural element that brings color and vibrancy to the site while also acting as a translucent screening device. The artwork design may be composed of abstract elements or feature narrative content that unfolds across the width of the wall. The artwork will be visible from both the interior of the baggage claim hall and the exterior curbside area, particularly when illuminated at night.

The imagery that comprises the design should reflect a cohesive theme or approach.

The precise detail and coordination of integrating the art with the CBP requirements will be confirmed through close collaboration with the Authority’s design team.

Glass Partition Wall Artwork Estimated Budget: $900,000

Atrium Suspended Artwork: This is an opportunity for an Artist or Artist team to design, fabricate and install a suspended artwork within the “meeter/greeter” lobby of the FIS facility. The meeter/greeter area is where friends and loved ones await and unite with arriving international passengers. The artwork design should be light and airy, and communicate a sense of welcome and embrace reflective of the function of the site. The selected Artist may consider subtly activating the work with analog kinetic features or including integrated lighting elements. The artwork must be composed of high quality and durable materials that require minimal maintenance in this high traffic area.

Atrium Suspended Artwork Estimated Budget: $250,000

The two (2) Artists selected for these opportunities will collaborate closely with the Authority’s design team throughout the design, construction, and installation process.

To view and apply for this opportunity, applicants must be registered as a vendor. Visit arts.san.org/opportunities for detailed instructions.

For complete guidelines, eligibility, and to apply, visit san.org/business. Deadline to apply is Tuesday, February 7, 2017 at 2 p.m. (PST). 

Request for Qualifications: City of San Diego Public Art Opportunity

Public Art Project
For International artists
City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture

PUBLIC ART PROJECT OPPORTUNITY

EAST FORTUNA STAGING AREA FIELD STATION BUILDING PUBLIC ART PROJECT

Art Budget: Approximately $54,000

Eligibility: Any artist or artist team authorized to work in the U.S.

Application Deadline: Thursday, January 12, 2017, 4:00 PM PST

The City of San Diego is seeking applications from interested qualified artists to provide public art services for the East Fortuna Staging Area Field Station Building Public Art Project. An artist or artist team is sought to design, fabricate and transport permanent, site-specific artwork for East Fortuna Staging Area Field Station Building and consult during installation of artwork at the site by the City.

Please visit the following link for more information: Request for Qualifications

Deadline: 01-12-2017
City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture
San Diego, CA

Contact: John Mendivil
email: jmendivil@sandiego.gov
Phone: 619.533.3638
Website: http://www.sandiego.gov/arts-culture/publicart/artistopps.shtml

Request for Qualifications: Festival/Cultural & Performing Arts Producers (Los Angeles, CA)

RFQ for Festival/Cultural & Performing Arts Producers

The Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) Arts Development Fee Program and new Performing Arts Division, believe that the performing arts can play an important role in reshaping attitudes, countering cultural stereotypes, preserving and teaching the appreciation of different cultures, fostering community pride and affirming the artistic contributions of the City’s diverse communities.
To this end, the Department of Cultural Affairs is seeking to establish a pre-qualified list of experienced and talented festival, cultural and performing arts event producers/programmers. This Request for Qualifications (RFQ) is open to professional festival, cultural and performing arts producers, presenters and arts and community-based organizations who possess the knowledge, creative and technical expertise, and administrative capacity to oversee small to large-scale events. The Department is interested in working with both emerging and established individuals, organizations, teams, and collectives to realize and produce festivals, cultural and performing arts events throughout the City of Los Angeles.
CRITERIA
The successful festival, cultural and performing arts event producers/programmers must demonstrate their experience with developing and producing festivals, or presenting a variety of world-class performing arts events including, music, dance, theater, and interdisciplinary projects; or working with diverse community partners on  cultural event planning, logistics, and implementation including: creating a process for enlisting community participation and support when appropriate; securing all relevant city permits; coordinating logistics for vendors; coordinating festival and/or event install and de-install needs such as ticketing, security, booths, tents, fencing, generators, toilets, trash, signage, inspections, parking and audience logistics/ flow, and any other required logistics.
The festival, cultural, or performing arts event producer/programmer will also be responsible for marketing and outreach of the event in collaboration with DCA’s Marketing Division and respective Council Office when appropriate. The selected producers must be available to attend planning and coordination meetings with City agencies and relevant parties as required.  Producer/Programmers should have experience in working within traditional performing arts venues, along public streets, parks, and other non-traditional public locations.
BUDGET
Budgets will vary, based on the event, and must be inclusive of all costs associated with the production of the event. Funding for the project may be through the Arts Development Fee Trust Fund and/or other art programs administered by the Department of Cultural Affairs in conjunction with another department of Council Office.
ELIGIBILITY
This RFQ is open to professional and experienced festival, cultural event and performing arts event producers/programmers that operate in the County of Los Angeles. Employees of the City of Los Angeles are ineligible to apply.
SELECTION PROCESS
A selection committee, comprised of, but not limited to, independent arts professionals and representatives of the Department of Cultural Affairs will convene to review the applications received in response to this RFQ. Upon review of all submissions, the committee will select producers/programmers to comprise the 2017 pre-qualified list, which will remain active for two (2) years from the date of the selection panel. Once selected, pre-qualified producers will be eligible for consideration of a project as individual projects are initiated by DCA.
HOW TO APPLY
All applications must be submitted electronically via Slide Room. The deadline to apply is Friday, December 30, 2016 at 11:59 PM. Incomplete and late applications will be deemed ineligible and not be considered.
A complete application must include:

CONTACT INFORMATION Including name, business name (if applicable), physical address, mailing address, telephone and email.  Please identify one person to be DCA’s primary contact, and include the direct contact information for them.  
STATEMENT OF INTEREST (PDF or DOC format only, 2 pages max) for producing a festival, cultural or performing arts event including your organizational capacity.
CURRICULUM VITAE (PDF or DOC format only, 4 pages max); Please submit a CV for each staff person on the team.  
TEN (10) IMAGES (JPG format only, 72 DPI min + 5 MB max per file)  of a festival, cultural or performing arts event that you have produced before; image files must be labeled sequentially (i.e. 01, 02, 03…) and include information such as the name of the event, year, approximate attendance, the client, budget and location. Please do not submit more than 10 images total.  

*Additional material included that is not requested by DCA will not be reviewed.
RIGHTS + RESPONSIBILITIES
DCA reserves the right to decline all applications to this RFQ, and/or cancel this RFQ, or any roster of pre-qualified artists, at any time. This RFQ is subject to the City’s Campaign Finance, Contractor Responsibility, Equal Benefits, Equal Opportunity, Living Wage, Minority / Women Business Enterprise and Slavery Disclosure Ordinances, as well as any other ordinances in effect in the City of Los Angeles.  

About DCA

The Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) manages the City of Los Angeles Public Art and Performing Arts Programs. DCA supports the creativity of local artists by funding and partnering with the City’s arts and cultural communities. The City demonstrates an ongoing commitment to arts and culture through DCA’s ongoing activities, including community arts programming, cultural grants, marketing, public art, and youth arts and education programs, to stimulate and foster the creation of arts and cultural experiences throughout the diverse neighborhoods of LA.

Questions
Please contact Tania Picasso, Arts Manager, at 213 202-5525 or Ben Johnson, Director of Performing Arts, at 213-202-550

Request for Qualifications: Texas Tech University System is looking for an outdoor sculpture (Odessa, TX)

TTUHSC Permian Basin Academic Facility

The Texas Tech University System seeks to commission a professional artist to create site-specific exterior sculpture(s) to be placed outside the new Permian Basin Academic Facility, located at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Permian Basin campus, located in Odessa. TX. Construction of the new facility will be completed by June 2018.

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center at Permian Basin is part of a seven campus regional system that serves the greater Permian Basin area with three schools located on campus providing higher medical education in Health Professions, medicine and nursing. The Permian Basin Academic Facility will include academic space for lecture halls and classrooms, research laboratories, faculty/researcher and staff offices, an education and conference center, and specialized instructional space and associated support spaces. Art in this area should help to “activate” the area by creating an element to draw people in and keep them seated in this area for studying, socializing, etc.

Safety is imperative; durable, low-maintenance materials are recommended to withstand daily foot-traffic of faculty, staff, students, and visitors to the Facility. Ideal submissions may be linear or designed to make the maximum impact in a linear space. This piece should be outdoors and available to the community. More modern and vibrant art is desired. Water features are highly discouraged, but the selected artist will have an opportunity to collaborate with landscape architects for the project.

Among relevant concepts to consider are the heritage of the Permian Basin area, including the ranching and oil history, and also the vastness of the landscape, topography and strata of the area, and the beauty in a flat space. This is a bold part of Texas with big ideas and a land full of color. Any concepts that may be considered polemic or political should be avoided. Also subjects that are considered a Texas stereotype should be avoided. Artists should attempt to create a design that speaks to the diversity that a university such as the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center at Permian Basin brings to the community.

In order to be considered, submissions must comply with the requirements outlined in this document. Objects that are mass-produced or of standard manufacture are not eligible for consideration.

Location: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Permian Basin, Odessa, TX

Budget: $214,000

Deadline: December 14, 2016 at 3 p.m. (central)

See full RFQ here: http://esbd.cpa.state.tx.us/bid_show.cfm?bidid=129126

Apply online here

Request For Qualifications: Mural Artists (Los Angeles, CA)

INTRODUCTION
DCA is seeking artists, artist teams, and/or arts organizations interested in creating mural projects, as part of the Arts Development Fee Program, throughout the fifteen (15) Council Districts in the City of Los Angeles. In some instances, a specific mural opportunity and location may be identified in advance and artists will be directed to develop a site-specific work at that location.

CRITERIA
Artists working in any mural medium, style or technique — i.e. aerosol, mosaics, ceramics, paints, stencils, stickers, wheat paste — may apply. Successful applicants must demonstrate the professional capacity to oversee the design, implementation and production of a mural project for the City of Los Angeles — a process that includes making presentations to the public, overseeing all aspects of mural production, executing a project in a public space, registering the mural through either the City Mural Registration process or the Cultural Affairs Commission review process. Successful applicants must also demonstrate the technical knowledge related to best practices for wall preparation techniques and safety requirements for working on scaffolding, lifts, and ladders.
Artists may apply individually or as a team. Artists’ teams may not change over the life of the project. Artists who apply as a team must demonstrate both the qualifications of individual team members, as well as the team’s qualifications to work together on projects. Commissioned artists and/or artist teams must attend multiple meetings with City agencies, Council Offices, the public, and others as required.

ELIGIBILITY
This Request for Qualifications (RFQ) is open to professional artists, artist teams and/or arts organizations who live and work in the County of Los Angeles. Artists or artist teams pre-qualified for other DCA-administered public art opportunities are eligible to apply to this RFQ. Applicants selected through this RFQ will be included on DCA’s 2016 Pre-Qualified Roster of Mural Artists and eligible to propose for individual project opportunities as they arise, but will not be guaranteed a public art commission. In order to remain eligible for public art project commissions, artists and artist teams must retain the same members as stated in its original application to this RFQ. Employees of the City of Los Angeles are ineligible to apply.

PROJECT BUDGETS
Budgets for mural projects will range from $10,000 – $60,000. Each budget will be all-inclusive, and must cover all expenses associated with the design, fabrication and installation of the commissioned mural project, including design development, production and execution, as well as any required presentations, approvals, engineering services and/or City permits. This project is funded through the Arts Development Fee program and/or other art programs funded by the Department of Cultural Affairs.

SELECTION PROCESS
An artist selection panel will convene to review all applications received in response to this RFQ, and establish a 2016 Pre-Qualified Roster of Mural Artists, which will remain active for two (2) years from the date of the selection panel. Once selected, pre-qualified artists and artist teams will be eligible to develop proposals as individual projects are initiated by DCA. Separate selection panels will convene for such projects, in order to review mural project proposals, interview proposing artists, and select artists to receive the mural commissions. All selection panels will be comprised of artists, arts professionals, City representatives, and/or community members, and administered by DCA. Upon receiving a mural project commission and throughout all project phases, each commissioned artist and artist team will be required to comply with City codes dealing with safety, accessibility, seismic and/or other issues, as appropriate for the commissioned project.
HOW TO APPLY
All applications must be submitted electronically via Slide Room. Deadline to apply is Tuesday, November 22, 2016 at 11:59 p.m. Incomplete and late applications will be deemed ineligible and not be considered.
A complete application must include:

ARTIST’S CONTACT INFORMATION including name, business name (if applicable), physical address, mailing address, telephone, and email. Teams must identify one artist to be DCA’s primary contact for the team, as well as contact information for each artist on the team.
STATEMENT OF INTEREST (PDF or DOC format only, 2 pages max) for creating public art murals for City walls.
CURRICULUM VITAE (PDF or DOC format only, 4 pages max); teams must submit a CV for each artist on the team.
TEN (10) IMAGES (JPG format only, 72 DPI min + 5 MB max per file) of completed artwork; image files must be named sequentially (i.e. 01, 02, 03…); teams may submit no more than ten images total. Each of the image files must include the title of the image, year, size, materials, and brief description. For any commissioned project(s), also include the client, budget, and location.

*Additional material included that is not requested by DCA will not be reviewed.

QUESTIONS
Please contact Jasmine Regala, Arts Associate, at 213-202-5544 or via email.

Request for Qualifications: Artist teams for the Rancho Cienega Sports Complex (Los Angeles, CA)

Rancho Cienega Sports Complex
CALL FOR PUBLIC PROGRAM PROVIDERS
CITY of LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT of CULTURAL AFFAIRS
REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ)

PROJECT BACKGROUND
The Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) is seeking artists and artist teams interested in creating a public art project for the new Rancho Cienega Sports Complex located at 5001 Rodeo Road, Los Angeles 90016, in the City’s 10th Council District, Councilmember Herb J. Wesson, Jr. The Rancho Cienega Sports Complex is being designed by the City’s Bureau of Engineering, Architectural Division, in conjunction with SPF:a Architects. The construction project includes
the replacement of the facility’s existing gym and pool structures, as well as upgrades to its infrastructure, parking lots, athletic elds, and landscaping. The architectural design was selected through a competition process, and incorporates simple modern and contemporary facades in a bar building arrangement that will aid in retaining the park’s landmark status in this region.
DESCRIPTION OF OPPORTUNITY
Located on roughly 28 acres in South LA, the majority of the Rancho Cienega Sports Complex is comprised of outdoor space almost exclusively dedicated to a range of competitive sports including baseball, basketball, football, handball, soccer, tennis, and track. Similarly, the site’s new indoor facilities—the replacement gym and pool structures—will be dedicated to basketball and swimming.
Through this RFQ, DCA’s Public Percent for Art program will commission an artist or artist team to transform a limited outdoor area within the Rancho Cienega Sports Complex into a flexible space for arts and cultural activities. 
SELECTION PROCESS
An artist selection committee comprised of, but not limited to, independent arts professionals and representatives of the Department of Recreation and Parks, adjacent communities, and architectural design team will convene to review the applications submitted in response to this RFQ. Upon review of all submissions, the committee will select up to five (5) artists to develop proposals and interview for the public art opportunity.
The artists/teams selected to develop project proposals for the Rancho Cienega Sports Complex may be required to attend a briefing meeting with the design team at the outset of the proposal development phase. Based upon proposal reviews and interviews, the artist selection committee will award one artist/team the site-specific public art commission. The commissioned proposal will need to be presented to the community and appropriate City agencies for review and approvals. The commissioned project will also be required to comply with all applicable City codes, such as those dealing with safety, accessibility, and seismic concerns.
ELIGIBILITY
This RFQ is open to professional artists and artist teams residing in the City of Los Angeles. Artists working in any media may apply, individually or as an artist team; artist teams may not change over the duration of the project. Artists residing in the neighborhoods directly served by the Rancho Cienega Sports Complex, including Leimert Park, Crenshaw District, West Adams, Exposition Park, Baldwin Hills, View Park, and Ladera Heights, are strongly encouraged to apply. Employees of the City of Los Angeles are ineligible to apply.
CRITERIA
Successful applicants will demonstrate the professional capacity to design and fabricate innovative permanent projects in coordination with City staff, engineers, general contractors, fabricators, and installers as needed. Applicants must also be available for multiple project meetings with the design team and/or principals of the project, the client department, the public, and other City agencies as required.
BUDGET
The maximum budget available for public art at the new Rancho Cienega Sports Complex is $185,320. This budget must cover all costs associated with the design, fabrication, and installation of the commissioned public art project including engineering and City permits as required, as well as any public programming associated with the artwork. The Rancho Cienega Sports Complex project is funded by the L.A. for Kids - Proposition K Program (Prop K), Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), Capital Expenditure Improvement Program (CIEP), and the Municipal Improvement Corporation of Los Angeles (MICLA).
 

DEADLINE
Applications must be submitted by Tuesday, November 1, 2016. Late submissions are not accepted and incomplete applications will not be reviewed.

HOW TO APPLY
Applications must be submitted via SlideRoom <culturela.slideroom.com> and a complete application must include all of the following:
1. CONTACT INFORMATION for artist(s); teams must provide contact information for each artist on the team, and one artist must be identi ed as the lead contact for the team.
2. STATEMENT OF INTEREST in creating a public art project for the new Rancho Cienega Sports Complex.
3. RÉSUMÉ/CV [PDF upload] for the artist; teams must submit a résumé/CV for each artist on the team.
4. PAST WORK [max 15 file uploads] may include images, video, and/or audio of of completed art projects, and information on project title, year, scale/dimensions, media/materials, and project concept must be provided for each as well as client, budget, and location, if applicable; artist teams are encouraged to include projects completed by the team.

QUESTIONS?
Contact DCA’s Public Art Division: email Martica Stork <martica.stork@lacity.org> or call
213 202-5544.