Percent for Art Competition: Brewer (ME) Pre K-8 School

Deadline: March 30, 2009 (POSTMARK)

Percent for Art Competition
Brewer Pre K-8 School
Brewer, ME
For: Artists
Disciplines: Design Arts, Media Arts, Visual Arts/Crafts


The Maine Arts Commission is making a call to artists who live in Maine to submit proposals to design, create, and install artwork at the Brewer Pre K - 8 School, Percent for Art site in Brewer Maine. Total project budget is $45,000, submissions deadline is March 30, 2009.

The Percent for Art law in Maine reserves one percent of the construction funds for all state-funded building projects to provide artwork for the public areas of these buildings.


Background

The new Brewer Pre K - 8 School is a LEED registered building anticipated to open in 2011. The school will consolidate the middle school and all elementary schools in Brewer in a facility enrolling over 1000 students. The school is nestled in a residential area in Brewer.

The committee is looking to commission one or more artists to address the interior of the building with sculptural elements. Areas to be addressed include the two-story portions of the Main Entrance lobby, Media Center/ Library, and Performing Arts Center lobby, all with 18ft ceilings. However, any proposal that addresses any predominantly public area of the school will be considered. The committee is interested in work that is imaginative, engaging, and interesting that will foster a positive sense of place and help to make a large building feel more welcoming to students.


The committee has assessed the site and has chosen any or all of the following potential areas to be addressed, or other public areas of the facility:

Interior of the Main Entrance lobby of the school
Interior of the Media Center/ Library
Interior of the Performing Arts lobby


If you have specific questions about architectural elements, the architect representative for this project is Jill Simpson, who can be contacted at jill.simpson@wbrcae.com. Other questions can be directed to Kerstin Gilg at the Maine Arts Commission kerstin.gilg@maine.gov.

Project Budget

There is approximately $45, 000 in Percent for Art funds available for this project. These funds will be used to commission work(s) from one or many artists. An artist?s budget proposal must cover all design, fabrication, transportation, documentation and installation expenses, including any building or site modification associated with the artwork.

Who is Eligible

All professional artists who live in Maine may apply for consideration to this project. Artists who are employees of the Brewer Schools or Brewer School Department are ineligible for Percent for Art projects at the location where they are employed as are members of the art selection committee and their immediate families. The project is open to all artists age 18 and over, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, military status, sexual orientation, marital status, or physical or mental disability. Artist teams are eligible to apply, including teams of artists from multiple disciplines. Contact Kerstin Gilg, public art associate, with questions at 207/287-6719, kerstin.gilg@maine.gov.

Deadline

Deadline for submission of preliminary materials is a postmarked date of March 30, 2009. Materials are usually evaluated within a month of the deadline and artists are notified shortly after this time frame.

Selection Process

A Percent for Art selection committee of five members will jury submissions for the project. The committee will review the materials to determine whom to invite for a second round of evaluation. Artists selected for the second round will receive a design fee for refining their proposals. Final proposals will include detailed models, drawings, renderings, samples of work and/or other materials depending on the nature of the proposal. All finalists will present their final proposals to the committee. Please do not submit detailed models, drawings, samples, or final proposals for the first-round of the selection process.


Materials may mailed or emailed.

Contact:

Percent for Art Competition: Brewer School
c/o Kerstin Gilg
Maine Arts Commission
25 State House Station
Augusta, Maine 04333-0025
Phone: 207/287-6719
Email: kerstin.gilg@maine.gov

Complete details available on the website: mainearts.maine.gov