Design Team Roster

The Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) in Portland, Oregon invites artists and teams currently living in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Northern California to submit qualifications for the RACC Design Team Roster. Artists selected for the roster will be pre-qualified for a range of public and private public art opportunities in the Portland region over the next 3 to 5 years.

Design team work involves early involvement in the creative process for buildings, transit stations, and landscapes. Design teams typically consist of an artist, architect, landscape architect, engineer, site users, and neighborhood representatives. This work requires willingness to actively participate in a group process, share ideas with other professionals, and demonstrate collaborative problem solving, strong communication skills, and flexibility to accommodate deadlines and timelines. Past projects benefiting from design team artists include Fire Stations, the Southwest Community Center, the Holman Building, Mary Bridge Children's Health Center, Smith & Bybee Lakes, the Hillsboro Cultural Center, Gibbs Street Pedestrian Bridge, Gabriel Park Skatepark, and the Denver Streetscape Improvement Project.

Applications must include: a Statement of Experience/Artist Statement (3000 characters or less), a résumé (maximum 2 pages, with 2-page résumés for all team members and three professional references), exactly 20 images of past work with details, and an image list as a PDF file providing title, location, date completed, media, dimensions, budget, commissioning agency, project partners, and brief project description. Submissions will be reviewed in March 2010 by RACC's Public Art Advisory Committee and selected representatives from Portland's design community. Selection criteria include creative problem solving within a collaborative group setting, strength of past work installed in public settings, ability to read and understand architectural and construction drawings, and ability to communicate and engage in a shared approach to generating ideas. There is no limit to the number of artists who can be selected for the roster.