Colorado State University, Fort Collins - Diagnostic Medicine Center Public Art Commission

The Colorado Council on the Arts and Colorado State University-Fort Collins seek an artist and/or artist team for an early integration public art project for the new Diagnostic Medicine Center (DMC). This facility is the outreach arm of the university to the community, the state, the region, and the world, receiving over 400,000 specimens annually from around the world. Their clients include anyone who owns an animal of any size. The staff looks forward to having artwork that will greet and interact with clients in this new facility, as people are often traumatized when they come to the DMC.

The Diagnostic Medicine Center is organized around three major components: laboratories, offices, and necropsy. The building is 100,000 square feet with an atrium that is 50 feet high, 160 feet long, and 20-35 feet wide with 15-16 feet between floors. Daylight will wash the interior. Artwork can be integrated into the columns, open spaces, floor, blinds, seating, walls, latticework, or grow out of the structure. The materials are translucent and transparent, and the size of the space lends itself to monumental work. The committee would like an element of surprise, with the possibility of a teaser outside that brings people inside to see more.

The total art budget is $220,000 for all related expenses including early integration design fees, artist fees, fabrication, insurance, shipping, travel, installation, and documentation. The goal for the artwork is to make people stop, think, and appreciate. Entry deadline: July 24, 2007.