Utah Public Art Program: Utah State University Eastern Central Instruction Building

Utah Arts & Museums Public Art Program requests artist qualifications for the USU Eastern Central Instruction Building in Price, Utah. The new Central Instruction Building is uniquely located where the heart of campus and the community intersect, creating enhanced connections to the historic Geary Theater and Reeves classroom building. The facility consists of interior and exterior gathering spaces intended to serve the community, students, and faculty alike.

The building program includes the Music, Theater, Visual and Fine Arts, Communications, and Criminal Justice departments, as well as general and distance learning classrooms, gathering spaces, study spaces, faculty offices and support spaces. The design celebrates the natural beauty of Utah and the region's history and culture of mining and related industrial enterprises through architectural references including weathered steel, board-formed concrete, and industrial textures and colors. A public sculpture gallery is centrally located at level one, engaging with the choral room and featuring a skylight that creates a two-story canyon-like space. The Committee will be open to artist-suggested sites for this public art project and reserves the right to commission more than one artist.

$148,000 is available for all related expenses of the public art commission(s) including artist fees, fabrication, insurance, shipping, travel, installation, documentation, and other costs. Resident American or legal resident artists and artist teams are encouraged to apply. Submissions must include up to six (6) images maximum of previous site-specific public work and a letter of interest of not more than two typewritten pages describing the artist's reasons for interest in this project and how their work and/or experience relates to it. Applications may be submitted online via www.callforentry.org or by PC-compatible CD/DVD. The deadline for materials is November 14, 2014.