Hi All,

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Opportunity: King County and the Seattle region are experiencing unprecedented population growth. To meet the ever-increasing demand for high quality transit service, a massive expansion of the RapidRide system, King County Metro’s arterial bus rapid transit service, is underway. Six new lines will launch between 2021 and 2025. The lines will serve historically disadvantaged communities, geographies with high ridership potential, and balance transit investment throughout King County, WA. The planning and deployment of these new lines presents an exciting opportunity for artistic impact across the County.

4Culture, which commissions artwork for shared public space, and King County Metro seek a planning artist and/or curator to develop a master plan for artistic impact across the system of six new bus rapid transit lines.

The planning artist or team will:

• Analyze opportunities and constraints to articulate art opportunities across the RapidRide system and on a line-by-line basis. Visit and research the neighborhoods where the new lines will travel, informed by Metro’s Equity Impact Reviews, which assess equity and social justice impacts and opportunities.
• Work closely with Metro and 4Culture staff to determine a conceptual framework for system-wide and community-specific art integration and intervention.
• Work with 4Culture staff to analyze the public art budget available for implementation and present recommendations for individual commissions and allocation of resources within the system, lines, and neighborhoods.
• Document guidelines that are broad enough to allow other artists to generate ideas, approaches, and projects and specific enough to give a strong conceptual framework for artwork development.
• Deliver a ready-to-use art master plan as a digital file.

Budget: $50,000 [Budget is inclusive of artist fee, travel, and applicable taxes. A separate contingency fund has been established for the development of the master plan documentation.]

Eligibility: open to artists and curators, working independently or as a team, who reside in the United States or British Columbia and have experience doing large-scale, arts-related planning work with a focus on equity and social justice.

Application: submission of an online application is required for this opportunity.

Deadline: 4:00 PM PDT on Monday, September 16, 2019.

Full Call: https://www.4culture.org/grants/rapidride-expansion-masterplan/

Thanks!

Andy Le
4CULTURE | Public Art

T 206 263.1587  
101 Prefontaine Pl S  Seattle, WA   98104
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