Call for artists/artists teams residing in WA, OR, and British Columbia. Please share this opportunity. Thanks!

South County Recycling and Transfer Station

Budget: $500,000 OR $540,000
Two budget options are available for this opportunity with specific application requirements:

• Non-mentorship option for individual artists and artist teams: $500,000 (Budget is inclusive of artist fee, fabrication and installation of artwork(s), applicable taxes and travel)
• Mentorship option for artists applying as mentor and mentee artist(s): $540,000 (Budget is inclusive of artist fees for both the mentor and mentee artist(s), fabrication and installation of artwork(s), applicable taxes and travel. $40,000 will be held aside to pay the mentee artist(s) directly. If there are multiple mentee artists, that amount will be divided evenly between them.)

Eligibility: open to professional artists and artist-led teams residing in the Washington, Oregon or British Columbia. Artists whose work is focused on sustainability and the environment, reuse of materials, and/or naturally-sourced materials are strongly encouraged to apply. Applicants with cultural connections to The Muckleshoot Tribe of Indians and those who identify as Indigenous or underrepresented as well as artists who have an interest or history in education or mentorship of emerging artists are also strongly encouraged to apply.

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

Deadline: Monday, March 16, 2020 by 4:00 pm PST

Opportunity

4Culture and King County’s Solid Waste Division (SWD) seek an artist or artist-led team to create site-specific or site-integrated artwork for the new South County Recycling & Transfer Station (SCRTS). Artworks can respond but are not limited to the following site-factors, considerations and typologies:

• Habitat/Ecologies
• We stand on Indigenous Land
• Mentorship
• Community-based practice

Full call: https://www.4culture.org/grants/scrts/

Andy Le
4CULTURE | Public Art

TEL 206 263.1587 WEB 4culture.org
101 Prefontaine Pl S  Seattle, WA   98104