Law Enforcement Memorial Garden

The City of Kansas City, Missouri One Percent for Art program seeks to commission a professional visual artist or artist team to design art for the new Kansas City Regional Law Enforcement Memorial Garden. The total budget available for this project is $20,000. The deadline for submissions is 11:59 p.m. Mountain Time Zone, Friday, April 24, 2020.

Professional visual artists or artist teams at least 18 years of age are eligible. There is a preference for artists who live or work in the Missouri counties of Cass, Clay, Jackson, Platte, and Ray County, or the Kansas counties of Johnson and Wyandotte. Demonstrated experience working with diverse community stakeholders is desired. Full-time, permanent City of Kansas City, Missouri employees, project consultants and their employees and sub-consultants are ineligible to apply.

The Regional Law Enforcement Memorial Garden honors and celebrates the men and women who have laid down their lives in the line of duty. Located at the Regional Police Academy, the garden is envisioned as a sequence of ever-changing spaces that tell the stories of those who made the ultimate sacrifice. The individual spaces in the garden create experiences that change through the seasons and over time, ranging from quiet contemplation and intimate scales to grand and celebratory spaces, woven into the natural settings of the site: from the high bluff overlooking the Academy, to the forest grove, through the native prairie. The memorial will be constructed behind the Kansas City Regional Police Academy and the Shoal Creek Patrol Station to honor lives lost in Clay, Platte, Jackson and Cass Counties, as well as state, federal, railroad and conservation officers.

The selected artist(s) will work closely with key stakeholders to design and implement a public artwork for an open area of the Memorial Garden known as "The Meadow." The artist(s) will develop a budget to include all aspects of design, fabrication, transportation, installation and lighting, and may include fees such as permitting, approval by a licensed structural engineer, travel expenses, general liability insurance, commercial auto insurance, and registering with the Secretary of State to conduct business in the state of Missouri. Payment of municipal revenue tax to the City of Kansas City, Missouri must be current.

Up to three semi-finalists will be selected and paid a $1,200 design fee to develop a proposal to present to the selection panel. The selection panel will review the semi-finalist proposals and qualifications and select one artist or artist team and one alternate. The selected artist/artist team's proposal will be presented to the Municipal Art Commission for approval prior to execution of a contract. Work sample requirements: 0-10 images, 0-5 audio files, 0-5 video files, with a minimum of 1 and maximum of 20 total samples.