City of Loveland: 37th Street Roundabout

The City of Loveland is seeking professional artists or artist teams with demonstrated experience in creating large-scale public artwork for a sculpture installation at a 110-foot diameter roundabout located at the intersection of Monroe Street and 37th Street in northeast Loveland. The roundabout was completed in fall 2019 and will be available for sculpture installation by late spring 2020.

Artists should submit qualifications and professional samples of past public artworks through the CAFÉ website. Applications must include: a preliminary statement of approach demonstrating experience with similar scope and scale projects; 5-10 images of fabricated and installed public artwork completed within the past five years (no more than 2 images per project, and no unexecuted proposals); a professional resume highlighting public artwork commissions and sculpture installations; and 3 professional references. Up to three finalists will be selected to present design concepts and will receive an honorarium for developing and presenting their artwork design concepts.

The City's Visual Arts Commission seeks artwork design concepts for outdoor installation that reflect the animals and plant life of the northern Colorado plains (design does not have to be representational), work "in the round," make use of silhouetted or negative space, are easily identifiable from a distance, and are suitable for general public viewing. The sculpture should not be construed as traffic or wayfinding signals. A maximum of $25,000 has been allocated for the roundabout sculpture to include design, fabrication, insurance, installation, travel, contingency and incidental costs. The selected artist or artist team will be required to carry general liability insurance of $1 million and execute the design as presented, with stamped, engineered drawings required prior to acceptance and installation.