Current Opportunities & News
Current Public Art Opportunities
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Oregon College of Art & Craft Drawing, Painting, Photography Building. RACC invites all Oregon College of Art & Craft alumnae, previous artists-in-residence at the college, current and past faculty and instructors for OCAC programs to submit qualifications for four public art opportunities for a new 15,000 sq ft Drawing Painting and Photography Building at the Oregon College of Art and Craft. Download the Request for Qualifications and PDF documents related to the site here. Deadline: 7/15/09, 5pm.
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Funding for Public Art Murals. RACC's Mural Program provides funding for murals in the City of Portland that reflect a diversity in style and media and encourages artists from diverse backgrounds and range of experience to apply. The Public Art Murals Program is a City of Portland program administered by the RACC as part of its Public Art Program. For more information and Guidelines.Deadline: 8/5/09.
Helpful Links:
Public Art emailing list: All public art opportunities managed
by RACC are posted on the RACC website homepage (www.racc.org) and emailed to an electronic mailing
list. If access to a computer is difficult for you, contact RACC for a printed
version at 503.823.5111. To subscribe to the RACC Public Art Email list: go
to http://www.racc.org/subscribe/pa.
For other links for Public Art Opportunities, click
here.
More Public Art Opportunities: For a listing of other public
art opportunities not sponsored by RACC - both local and national - please see
RACC's newsletter, Art
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Competitions.
Public Art News
6/24/09 Original Art Murals Public Hearing. On Wednesday, June 24 the Portland City Council will hold a public hearing to receive and consider testimony on the Planning Commission’s recommended draft Original Art Murals Project. 2pm at the Council Chambers at City Hall, 1221 SW 4th Avenue, Portland. See more information.
6/8-7/3 RACC presents World United Home and Garden Federation Showroom, an installation by Portland artists Cyrus Smith and Sarah Roach. The artists will install a mock showroom of home security systems in response to the recent expansion of security on the main floor of the Portland Building. The Portland Building Installation Space, 1120 SW 5th Avenue, is open to the public from 7am - 6pm, Monday through Friday.
5/29 Zoobomb Public Art Unveiling. Zoobomb held an event to dedicate the new home for their “Pyle” of mini-bikes. The Zoobombers worked with Mayor Sam Adams (then Commissioner of Transportation), the Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC) and the Bureau of Transportation through RACC’s Art on the Streets program. RACC’s Zoobomb Public Art Panel selected local artists Brian Borrello and Vanessa Renwick to collaborate with Zoobomb to create a sculpture that will include the mini-bikes. Entitled “People’s Bike Library of Portland” the sculpture will also provide a storage location for helmets and lights. For more information about Zoobomb, go to www.zoobomb.net .
Upcoming Meetings about New Mural Policy. The City of Portland has been working on developing an alternative process for creating murals within city limits. This spring and summer the public is invited to meetings concerning this new policy. See details of upcoming meetings.
(4/22/09) New Visual Chronicle Selections. The Visual Chronicle of Portland Selection Committee recommended 13 artworks for purchase from 8 local artists: Justine Avera, David Chelsea, Kevin Farrell, Jason Greene, Bruce Hall, Alex Lilly, Francis Rosica, and Jake Shivery. Once the artwork is matted and framed, it will be sited in publicly accessible areas in city and county offices. The Visual Chronicle of Portland is a city-owned collection of works on paper – prints, photographs, paintings and drawings – that focuses on artists’ views of Portland’s social and urban landscapes. The intent of the collection is to capture the spirit of the times as Portland evolves and changes. Currently there are 272 works by 160 artists. Current selection committee members are Michael Brophy, Tiffany Lee Brown, Sally Cleveland, Paul Fujita, Motoya Nakamura, David Oates, and Prudence Roberts. To see all of the artworks in this collection, go to www.racc.org/visualchronicle.
1/14 - August 2009 Work from Pacific Northwest Sculptors at PDX. RACC and the Port of Portland present a new exhibition in the artOBJECTS case at Portland International Airport. The show will feature a selection of work from Pacific Northwest Sculptors, and will showcase sculpture in a variety of media by 12 regional artists. The exhibit, juried by RACC and the Port of Portland, will run for six months and is open to all ticketed passengers on Concourse E.
Second Chance screened at Young People's Film & Video Festival. In the spring and summer of 2007, the Northwest Film Center's Young Filmmakers Program partnered with the Multnomah County Department of Community Justice, Juvenile Services Division, Worksystems, Inc., and the Regional Arts & Culture Council to enable teenagers involved in the juvenile justice system to make a film about a career exposure program for Portland area at-risk youth created and operated in partnership with local employers. Funding was provided by the Multnomah County Percent for Art Program administered by the Regional Arts & Culture Council, Northwest Film Center, Oregon Youth Authority, Multnomah County Department of Community Justice, and Worksystems, Inc., through a grant from the US Department of Labor. To view Second Chance click here.
August 2008-June 2009. New exhibition of the Portland Grid Project, is currently on display at the “Where We Live” exhibit in Concourse A (open to ticketed passengers only) at Portland International Airport. This photographic essay of the Portland area was started by local photographer, Christopher Rauschenberg, in October of 1995. At that time, Mr. Rauschenberg took a pair of scissors to a standard AAA map of Portland and cut it into 98 pieces (grids) and then recruited 11 of the city’s most talented photographers to take pictures of one randomly picked square (grid) each month, using a variety of films and formats. It took nine years for the group (which grew to 15 photographers) to finish taking pictures in all 98 grid sections of the city. Read more.
Oregon Percent for Art Digital Collection. This is a free, online collection of images and documents representing thousands of artworks provided for under the Oregon Percent for Art statute. Covering a 30-year period, the database offers access to over 5,200 items. Over 647 individual artists are represented, encompassing 184 individual building projects throughout Oregon. The collection offers glimpses of 1,545 unique artwork creations, visual narratives of the creative process, and documentation that speaks to the inspiration and beliefs that empower each creation. You may search by artist name, artwork medium, building site where the art is located. The collection creation is representative of a collaboration between the Oregon Arts Commission and the University of Oregon Libraries.
 New Edition of Public Art Walking Tour Brochure Available (pdf) Made possible through a partnership with the Portland Oregon Visitors Association (POVA), the brochure provides a walking tour map and listing of locations of nearly 100 publicly accessible artworks from the Lloyd District to the University District and parts in-between. Featured on the cover is Harrell Fletcher’s, Everyday Sunshine, an interactive public art installation at 15 locations along the Streetcar line – illuminating nearby objects, hidden details of your environment. Brochures are available at Pioneer Courthouse Square, Pioneer Place, the Public Art Gallery in the Portland Building, the Oregon Convention Center, Central Library and at RACC, or can be downloaded at link above.
Public Art Fabricator List can downloaded at Fabricators List April 2009 (pdf).
For recent national articles on Public Art, click
here.
RACC Staff to Contact:
Kristin Law Calhoun
Public Art Manager
503.823.5401
kcalhoun@racc.org
Peggy Kendellen
Public Art Manager
503.823.4196
pkendellen@racc.org
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