Thursday, June 20, 2013

City of El Paso: Call to Artists - Request for Proposals - Downtown Arts District Mural


http://epdowntownarts.com/

City of El Paso: Call to Artists - Request for Proposals - Downtown Arts District Mural
400 W. San Antonio Ave.
Suite A
El Paso, Texas
79901


Event Dates: 5/6/13 - 9/1/13
Entry Deadline: 6/21/13
Days remaining to deadline: 7

REQUIREMENTS:

Media Images: 2

The City of El Paso Museums and Cultural Affairs Department will commission an annual mural competition for the Downtown Arts District. The mural will be located on W. Missouri Avenue, along the north facing façade of the El Paso Museum of History. The mural will be outdoors along Missouri Avenue and viewable to pedestrians and passing traffic. The mural is intended to serve as a lively and inviting visual landmark for the Downtown Arts District. The theme must focus on the arts, be representative of the local art scene, local heritage, and promote the Downtown Arts District.

Eligibility Requirements:
This project is open to artists/ artist teams living within 200 miles of El Paso, Texas.
Artists applying for this project must be over the age of eighteen years old.
Students are eligible to apply only as part of an artist team, that is supervised at all times by a lead artist over the age of eighteen years old.
Recipient must be able to receive payment from the City of El Paso as a legal vendor.
Artist and/or artist teams whom are awarded the commission are ineligible to reapply for two years following last commission.
Submission Requirements:
Letter of Interest: briefly describe your interest and qualifications for this project.
Current Resume: outline your experience as an artist. Artist teams must submit a resume for each member with a one page maximum.
1 image of a past completed mural artwork. Including: title of work, dimensions, medium, year of completion, and a three (3) sentence description. If applying as a team, only one (1) JPEG image can be submitted to CAFÉ.
Prepare verbal, written and visual presentation to show schematic and final artwork proposal. Presentation should include:
One (1) JPEG image of the proposed artwork in the form of a to-scale drawing or depiction that serves as a preliminary depiction submitted on Café.
Image must be sized to the following dimensions (as required by the CAFÉ online application system)
Dimensions: 1920 pixels horizontal or vertical
File Format: Baseline JPEG (do not use progressive JPEG format)
Compression: Please size each image to be no more than 1.8 MB in file size. On average, each image will be roughly 1.2. MB. Larger is not necessarily better. JPEG images cannot be saved as progressive JPEG files. Progressive JPEG files will appear on the CAFÉ web site, but will not display properly during the jury process.
Media: Internet submissions only
File Name: CAFÉ will automatically rename files
A narrative description of the sources and methodology used to develop the proposal, plus information about the scale, location, context, materials, maintenance requirements, and fabrication and installation methods
Preliminary budget

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