Request for Qualifications Mexican-American Cultural Center- Phase 1A AIPP Project
Budget: $51,000 Deadline: midnight, Monday, April 19, 2010 Artist Information Meeting: Tuesday, March 23rd, 4:00 p.m. at the MACC, 600 River Street
The City of Austin Art in Public Places (AIPP) program of the Cultural Arts Division, Economic Growth & Redevelopment Services Office invites artists to submit qualifications and support materials to be considered for the commission to design, execute and install a community-based project for the Mexican-American Cultural Center (MACC) reception and registration vestibule, to be constructed as part of the current MACC Phase 1A building project. The permanent artwork is intended to visually and artistically enhance the vestibule area, and invite visitors to deepen their understanding of the facility’s cultural mission and the educational environment of the Phase 1A building.
The City of Austin requests qualifications, a letter of interest and statement of community participation from visual arts professionals, age 18 and over, residing or working in Texas. Up to three finalists may be selected from the submissions to be interviewed by the Selection Panel. One visual arts professional and one alternate will be selected for the project. The total public art budget is $51,000. Submission deadline is midnight, Monday, April 19, 2010. Read the complete Call to Artists.
Please note: To be considered for the project, applicants must be registered with the Application System for Art in Public Places (ASAPP!) and submit qualifications for the MACC 1A AIPP Project.
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Request for Qualifications Seaholm Electrical Substation Wall AIPP Project
Design Budget: $144,000 Deadline for Submission: 5:00 pm, Tuesday, April 27, 2010
The City of Austin Art in Public Places (AIPP) program seeks to commission a professional artist-led consultant team made up of a lead visual artist/designer, engineering professionals and other subconsultants as determined necessary by the City and/or lead artist to design a work of art that will serve as infrastructure in the form of a wall enclosing the City’s downtown electrical substation located in the Seaholm District.
The City of Austin requests qualifications from artist-led design/engineering teams who live and work in the U.S. (Note: professional engineers must be licensed in the State of Texas). Lead artists must demonstrate successful completion of a public art project with a construction budget of $500,000 or more. Up to three finalists will be invited for interviews and to present conceptual approaches to the project. One artist-led team and one alternate will be recommended for the project. The selected artist will be awarded a design contract.
The total budget available for design, construction documents and construction oversight services for this public art project is $144,000. Fabrication/installation/construction services for this project will be bid separately by the City of Austin with construction oversight involvement by artist-led consultant team. The total budget available for construction is $720,000.
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People's Gallery Exhibition 2010
Location: Austin City Hall
Come see Austin's creative talent! The 2010 People's Gallery exhibition is up and features over 100 artworks from Austin area artists, galleries, museums, and art organizations.
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AIPP's Web-Based Application System and Registry
The Application System for Art in Public Places (ASAPP!) is AIPP's resource for the commissioning of public art projects for the City of Austin. Click the ASAPP! logo to access this online Artist Registry and Application System.
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Deuce Gates at the Austin Tennis Center
Opening Celebration and Public Art Dedication
POSTPONED DUE TO WEATHER: STAY TUNED FOR NEW DATE!
Austin Tennis Center (7800 Johnny Morris Road in NE Austin)
The City of Austin’s Art in Public Places (AIPP) Program commissioned artist, Martha Gannon, to design and create artwork for the newly constructed Austin Tennis Center in NE Austin.
Gannon’s work, Deuce Gates, consists of two steel gate panels featuring abstracted tennis players, which greet visitors, users and staff at the entrance to the facility. The artist will be on hand during the dedication to discuss her work. The dedication will also feature guest speakers and a first-hand introduction to the programs and features of the new 12-court facility. Read the Press Release.
We hope you use these maps and guides to discover Austin’s Public Art Collection firsthand.
In Austin, you can discover art in the most unusual places: libraries, parks and even hazardous waste facilities. Thanks to the Art in Public Places Program (AIPP), Austinites have been encountering sculptures, murals and surprising creations in public spaces since 1985.
REICHER RANCH: AIPP welcomes the endangered Golden-Cheeked Warbler back to Austin this March with two new public artworks for the City’s permanent AIPP Collection. Golden-Cheeked Warbler and Jollyville Plateau Salamander are large-scale paintings by Austin artist Jules Buck Jones that call attention to two local, treasured but endangered species studied and protected in the Central Texas region. The artwork is located at Austin Water Utility’s recently renovated Wildland Conservation Division at Reicher Ranch located at 3635 RR 620 South, Austin, TX 78738. Read More!
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AUSTIN-BERGSTROM INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT: AIPP announces the Spaceship Austin Downtown Cruisers, a pair of sculptural works by artist Young-Min Kang. The two spaceships are identical, except one represents a day version and the other night. They are located on the mezzanine walls near Gates 7 and 13 at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. The works are the newest additions to the City’s public art collection. Read More!
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NORTH VILLAGE BRANCH LIBRARY: AIPP unveiled two artworks by renowned Austin glass artist, Kathleen Ash on Saturday, May 30, 2009, as part of the Grand Opening of the new North Village Branch Library, located at 2505 Steck Avenue. In the main browsing area, Ash created Sea of Knowledge as a window wall, using colorful laminated glass to depict children sailing on open books over an ocean of letters heading towards an island of discovery. In the library’s "living room" her creation Read More Books is a mobile of large laminated glass letters suspended by cables. These letters, comprised of translucent white glass which emulates parchment, are inscribed with quotes from literature. Read the Press Release.
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The César E. Chávez Memorial Project: AIPP dedicated Rayo de Esperanza – A Beacon of Hope: Sculpture, Community Information Kiosk and Benches, by Connie Arismendi and Laura Garanzuay, for the César E. Chávez Memorial Project at the Terrazas Branch Public Library 1105 E. César Chávez Street)on Tuesday, May 12, 2009. Arismendi and Garanzuay were commissioned to create permanent public art to commemorate the civil rights and labor leader at the Terrazas Library, which is to be the repository of Austin’s largest collection of books and videos regarding the life and work of Chávez.
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SPARKY PARK: The City of Austin, in collaboration with the North University Neighborhood Association (NUNA), dedicated Grotto Wall at Sparky Parka new public art wall by Berthold Haas, during the opening ceremony for the new pocket park at 3701 Grooms Street, on Saturday, March 28, 2009. Berthold Haas was commissioned to create permanent public art for the site of a former Austin Energy substation that was recently decommissioned and converted to a pocket park for the neighborhood. The Grotto Wall is a masonry "art wall" that transforms an existing cinderblock wall into a sculptural landscape of trees and curiosities. Berthold worked closely with the neighborhood throughout the making of Grotto Wall. Objects contributed by residents and sections of the old substation’s energy towers are playfully embedded in the wall, along with harvested and donated stone from a ranch in the Hill Country. Arches extend from the wall to define passageways for discovery. Berthold’s mélange of materials shape a whimsical totem to the history of the parkland and the community who made it happen. Read More!
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TRAIL OF TEJANO LEGENDS: The dedication of three artworks by artist, Connie Arismendi, honoring the cultural contributions of Austin Tejano music legends, took place on March 14, 2009. Read More and download a Map of the trail!
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES CAMPUS: The dedication for Letterscape, 2007, by Jimmy Luu, an earthwork commissioned by AIPP for the Health and Human Services Administrative Campus, took place on Friday May 9th, 2008 from 4-6 pm. This artwork is comprised of steel letters planted with wildflowers which together spell out the word "Onward". The artist also planted native grasses in arcs across the campus. The size of each arc is proportional to the population of Austin by decade since 1903 - the first year official birth records were kept in the Office of Vital records.
The Health and Human Services campus is located at 601 Airport Boulevard by Levander Loop.
GUS GARCIA REC CENTER: Saturday April 26th, at 11 am, the grand opening of the new Gus Garcia Recreation Center, located at 1201 E. Rundberg Lane, took place. The recreation center is 19,200 square feet in size and houses a gymnasium, a weight room, an aerobics classroom, arts and crafts area, a computer room, and a tiny tots' room.
Artist Lars Stanley was commissioned by AIPP to create Tribute to Gus Garcia, a forged steel and stone desk surround for the lobby.
*AIPP hosted “Art and Sustainability” with Jack Becker, on Tuesday, March 16, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m., at the Austin Museum of Art (823 Congress Ave.). Jack is an artist, founder and executive director of Forecast Public Art foundation, and editor of Public Art Review magazine, the world's leading journal devoted exclusively to the field of contemporary public art. Becker specializes in projects that connect the ideas and energies of artists with the needs and opportunities of communities and has organized over 70 exhibitions, 50 publications and numerous special events nationwide. Read the Press Release
*KUT Radio featured a story on Austin's Art in Public Places program and interview with Jill Bedgood, the artist recently commissioned for the Northwest Recreation Center AIPP Project.
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View a short video of the opening reception for the 2008 People’s Gallery Exhibition. It includes interviews of artists Hank Waddell, Bob Wade and Cultural Arts Program Manager, Vincent Kitch.
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* AIPP is honored with 2 of Top 40 Public Art Projects of 2008
The Public Art Network, the national affiliate of Americans for the Arts, recognized two Austin public artworks among the nation’s top 40 public art projects in 2008 as part of their annual “Year in Review.” Commissioned through AIPP, Letterscape by Jimmy Luu (Austin, TX) for the Health & Human Services Campus and Grotto Wall at Sparky Park by Berthold Haas (Austin, TX) for Sparky Park were both selected from a pool of hundreds of public artworks submitted for review from across the country. Read More!
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*AIPP's 2009 summer workshops concluded with Public Art On Its Head: a day-long Discovery and Dialogue of Public Art on Saturday, September 12th. Read More!
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* The People’s Gallery was recognized in The Austin Chronicle’s "Best of Austin" 2007 issue. The Reader’s Poll selected City Hall as the Best Indoor Public Space, saying “within City Hall’s limestone walls and among the shimmer of her 66,000 square feet of copper, you’ll find a great indoor space, including the People’s Gallery, which showcases visual art.”
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*AIPP presented Temporary Public Art: Talk and Tunes, a panel discussion with the artists who created temporary public artwork through Art in Public Places and the Texas Biennial, on Friday, April 24th at 8 pm, at the Mexican-American Cultural Center (600 River Street). Risa Puleo, Art in Public Places Panelist and Assistant Curator of American and Contemporary Art for the Blanton Museum, served as the discussion moderator. An after-party, featuring a live performance by Rodeo HoHo, fronted by San Antonio artist, Ken Little (creator of "Homeland Security" near Butler Park, and pictured below), capped off the night. Read more!
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*AIPP presented Public Art "Round Robin" February 25, 2009, a workshop that invited local artists and businesses, to connect, one-on-one, to explore new materials, tools, technology and collaborations for the creation of public art in the City of Austin. Read More!
* AIPP presented AUSTIN'S PUBLIC ART WORKSHOPS 2008, July-October for artists and arts audiences. Click the banner for more information
* First piece of public art installed at the new Mexican-American Cultural Center, Benito Huerta's "SnakePath (Mexican Milk Snake)." Read More
* The Create Austin Community Cultural Plan was presented to City Council on June 5, 2008. Click the logo to learn more.
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Mexican-American Cultural Center- Phase 1A AIPP Project
Location: Austin City Hall
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