Adams County Arena Interior & Exterior Integrated Artwork

Adams County seeks an individual artist or artist team to create fully integrated interior and exterior artworks for a new multi-use arena in Riverdale Regional Park in Brighton, CO. The arena will explore narratives around land, agriculture, and industry in the West. As a member of the design team, the artist(s) will regularly attend meetings and closely collaborate with Adams County Cultural Arts, the architecture firm Populous, and the general contractor's team.

Opportunities include interior and exterior: architectural elements, standing or suspended artworks, entryway and window installations, pavement and floor installations, wall-hanging artworks and wall installations, light-based and digital artworks, interactive installations, and static and kinetic artworks. The arena will host concerts, charreadas, livestock shows, 4-H activities, motorsports, conventions, trade shows and community festivals. The 4,250 seat arena will also host events for the Adams County Fair, which attracts 100,000 visitors yearly. Artists are encouraged to interpret Americana and the West, agrarian lifestyle, and the eastern plains of Colorado through a playful and contemporary lens, celebrating the county's past while looking to the future.

Phase I design budget is $130,000, which includes artist fee, meetings, site visits, site surveys, community engagement, design work, material samples, renderings, maquettes, stamped shop drawings, fabrication and installation plans, consultants' and subcontractors' fees, insurance, travel, and all other costs through permitting and final renderings. The selected artist or artist team will design to a $1,300,000 fabrication and installation budget for Phase II, to be added upon full project approval by the Adams County Board of County Commissioners. Finalists (4-6) will each receive a $2,000 honorarium. Application deadline: December 14, 2023 at 11:59 p.m. MST. Submit 10-15 images, 0-2 videos, resume, statement of interest, and 1-page mood board through the CAFÉ application portal. No application fee.