Deadline: 01/30/2025
Budget for all projects combined: $4,700,000
The City of Austin Art in Public Places program (AIPP) of the Cultural Arts Division, Economic Development Department (EDD) and AUS Arts of Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS) invites Texas-based artists and artist-led teams to submit qualifications to be considered for collaboration, design, fabrication, and installation of multiple opportunities located in the new Concourse B, the Arrivals and Departures Hall (A/D Hall), and connecting curbsides and pedestrian crossings of AUS.
This application is for up to eight (8) Art in Public Places (AIPP) commissions located at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS). For estimated budgets per project, see the “Project Description” section.
Eligibility
ELIGIBILITY: Call to TEXAS Artists
Phase II Opportunities are open to Artists and artist-led teams based in the state of Texas. Artists/artist-led teams must demonstrate experience creating integrated artwork with strong design aesthetics and spatial sensibilities. Additionally, artists must exemplify technical skill, authenticity, and inventiveness. Members of an artist-led team could include (but are not limited to) visual artists, sculptors (in any media), digital programmers, and lighting designers.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
– Professional artists based in Texas over the age of 18.
– Professional Artists. The City of Austin AIPP and AUS Arts define Artist as an individual recognized by critics and peers as a professional practitioner of serious intent and substantial ability in the visual, performing, or literary arts.
– The City of Austin AIPP and AUS Arts programs strive to commission a broad range of artworks that contribute to the current dialogue in the field of visual art by broadly awarding commissions among local, state, and national artists.
– Applicants not meeting the minimum qualifications will not be considered.
INELIGIBILITY:
Design professionals, including architects who do not have a consistent visual art practice, are ineligible to apply as team leads, but can be a part of an artist-led team.
The following are ineligible:
1. Artists who currently have permanent artwork sited at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport
2. Artists with more than three artworks in the City of Austin’s Art in Public Places public art collection
3. Artists who currently are under contract with the City of Austin for a permanent AIPP project
4. Artists who have completed an AIPP project within the past year (from the date of application)
5. City of Austin employees
6. Architects, other designers, and other contractors currently working with the City of Austin or with AUS
Elected and appointed City officials such as City Council and members of City Boards and Commissions
Application Requirements
Resume: 2 page(s) maximum
Work examples: 1 – 10
References: 3
Artists are allowed to apply in teams.
Artists applying as a team must split the allotted number of work examples between themselves.
SELECTION PROCESS:
A seven-member selection panel comprised of visual arts and design professionals with advisory members from AUS will review all eligible submissions.
Up to 24 Artists or artist-led teams may be shortlisted and invited to interview. Conceptual proposals may or may not be requested as a part of the interview process. In the event shortlisted Artists/artist-led teams are invited to interview and requested to prepare preliminary conceptual proposals, each Artist/artist-led team will be compensated with an honorarium of $2,000. All interviews will be virtual.
Timeline*
TIMELINE (subject to change)
Solicitation Opens – January 3, 2025
Pre-Submittal Meeting (virtual) – Week of January 13, 2025
Submission deadline – January 30, 2025, 3PM CT
Short-listed artists notified – February 28, 2025
Interviews/Recommended Artists Selected – March 17-21, 2025
Panel/Arts Commission Approvals – April 7 & 21, 2025
Selected Artists under contract – July 2025
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