Commerce City, CO - Pioneer Park Public Art Commission

The City of Commerce City and the Commerce City Cultural Council seek to commission public art for Pioneer Park, located at 5950 Holly Street. This 37-acre community park is the city's largest and most feature-filled park, including state-of-the-art aquatics facilities, baseball/softball fields, and a skate park. The Art Selection Committee is interested in one or a series of sculptures to be situated along the meandering path on the north side of the park along East 60th Avenue between Monaco Street to the east and Holly Street to the west, and in the grassy areas to the south of the path and north of the ball fields. The art may be interactive and/or kinetic, encouraging people to approach and engage with the work.

The public art budget is $74,500 and is inclusive of all costs associated with the project, including artist design fee, structural engineering, insurance, materials, fabrication, transportation, installation, site modifications, travel, per diem expenses, project documentation, and contingency. All applicants must be legal residents of the United States and reside full-time in Colorado. Artists or artist teams must have skills and experience commensurate with successfully completing a public art installation. All applicants are expected to consider long-term preservation and maintenance of public art. Public art projects should be fabricated of highly durable, low-maintenance materials.

Applications must be submitted through CaFÉ (www.callforentry.org) and include six digital images of previously completed artworks, a current résumé, a statement of interest of 250 words or less, and responses to eligibility questions. Artists wishing to submit kinetic work may submit video content (up to one video). Semi-finalists will be paid an honorarium of $1,000 for design and presentation of the proposal. Those residing outside a 100-mile radius of Commerce City will be offered up to $300 for travel reimbursement. Questions must be submitted by email to [email protected] no later than November 13, 2015, 11:59 p.m. MST.