West Side Skate Park Public Art Commission

The City of Kansas City, Missouri One Percent for Art program seeks qualifications for a professional visual artist or artist team to design, fabricate, and install permanent public art integrated into the Skate Park currently being designed on the west side of Kansas City's downtown. Art for this project may include, but is not limited to, mosaics, cast concrete, sculpture and murals. The budget available for this project is $200,000, all inclusive, covering artist's fees, travel, fabrication, supplies, material costs, meeting and administration hours, labor, artist's legal review fees, permits, licenses, insurance, lighting, equipment rental, shipping, delivery, documentation, and installation.

Applications must include up to ten images and six videos of original completed commissions demonstrating qualifications for the project. Each work sample must include title, medium, dimensions, project budget or price, year completed and location. Artist resume and letter of interest are also required. Eligibility is limited to professional visual artists or artist teams at least 18 years of age based in the United States. Artists previously contracted for a City of Kansas City, Missouri One Percent for Art commission within two years of their past project's contract execution date are not eligible. Full-time, permanent City of Kansas City, Missouri employees, General Services Department and Public Works Department project consultants and their employees and sub-consultants are ineligible. Collaborators and teams are eligible to apply.

The selection panel will consider artist's resumes, portfolios and letters of interest to select 2-5 semifinalists, who will be paid a design proposal stipend of $3,000. Semifinalists will advance to the RFP phase and propose designs. The selection panel will interview semifinalists, review their proposals and budgets, and select the finalist and one alternate. Evaluation criteria include excellence, relevant prior experience with similar scale and budget projects, appropriateness to the site and project, and durability of materials and processes. The finalist artist's proposal will be presented to the Municipal Art Commission for approval prior to developing a contract. Completion is targeted for Spring 2026.