Art Pollination: Building Food Justice through Creativity

The City of Orlando invites artists to participate in "Art Pollination: Building Food Justice through Creativity," a collaborative public art project addressing food insecurity, nature's pollinators, and labor concerns within diverse communities. This project is part of a Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge grant awarded to Orlando in October 2023.

The selected artist will work alongside lead artist Juan William Chávez and community partners including Black Bee Honey, 4Roots, Hebni Nutrition Consultants, Ideas for Us-Fleet Farming, Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida, and UF/IFAS Orange County. The artist will conduct workshops, community gatherings, and cultural happenings to create new public art works raising awareness about food insecurity. Projects must be temporary and address food insecurity directly or indirectly, with potential topics including nature's pollinators, food and the economy, gardens and ecosystems, and farming and distribution.

Public art installations will include pollinator plantings, urban trail and billboard projects, interactive heritage food signage, Augmented Reality activations, and mobile kitchen preservation sessions at public transportation stops, bike paths, parks, and green networks. Work will be displayed along the Urban Trail, at Community Centers, Food Event Sites, in Urban Billboards, and in two exhibitions at the Downtown Arts District and Terrace Gallery at City Hall. Artists across all disciplines are eligible; work must be temporary in nature. Submission requirements: 2-5 images, 0-2 audio files, 0-2 video files. Entry deadline: September 3, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. MDT.