Utility Box Wrap Project - City of Auburn, WA

The City of Auburn seeks applications for artwork designs to be reproduced as vinyl wraps and applied to up to 16 utility boxes throughout Auburn. This opportunity is open to visual artists, illustrators, designers, and creative community members residing in Auburn or the surrounding King and Pierce Counties, working in any medium, as long as the final artwork can be translated and digitally reproduced on a 2-dimensional vinyl wrap.

Applicants must live within King or Pierce Counties and cannot be members of the Auburn Arts Commission or City of Auburn employees. Selected artists will be paid $500 for an approved final design and licensing rights enabling the City to reproduce the design on one or multiple utility boxes. The design's theme and medium are open to the artist's vision but must be suitable for the public realm and integrate the front, back, sides, and top of the box. Designs cannot include political or religious content, intellectual property breaches, trademarks, images of illegal activity, advertisements, logos, signage, promotion of any business or product, or involve attachment of objects to the boxes.

Artist designs will be selected based on artistic quality, appropriateness of artwork in scale and imagery for public utility boxes, ability to translate original artwork to a digital file for a 2-dimensional surface, and ability to relate to multiple types of viewers (pedestrians, motorists, cyclists). All artists must submit initial design proposals for review by the City's Arts Program staff and may be requested to provide revisions. The final artwork must be submitted as a high-quality digital file to exact specifications provided by the Arts Program. The City will be responsible for printing and installation. Wraps are intended to last at least 5 years but may be removed at any time at the City's discretion. Submission deadline: April 5, 2019, at 11:59 p.m. MDT. Contact Allison Hyde, Arts Coordinator, at [email protected] or 253-804-5043.