CALL TO ARTISTS Downtown Napa Association and the City of Napa Invite artists to apply for the Downtown Napa Art Wrap Project Request for Qualifications (RFQ) Deadline: Thursday, February 6, 2020, 4:00 p.m. REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ) The Downtown Napa Association and the City of Napa invite artists and artist teams residing in Napa, Sonoma, Lake, Yolo, or Solano County to submit their qualifications for a utility box vinyl wrap project. Artists will be selected based on their past work and paid $500 to create a design that will be transferred to vinyl (by the Downtown Napa Association), and wrapped around a signal utility box located in downtown Napa. PROJECT OVERVIEW The project is a partnership between the City of Napa and the Downtown Napa Association. The mission of the Downtown Napa Association is to foster better business in downtown Napa and to promote the area as the community's center for business, culture and entertainment. In support of that effort, the Association is funding a utility box wrap art project in downtown Napa. The project is similar to programs in other cities throughout the country in which photographs of artworks are transferred to vinyl and wrapped around existing utility boxes. The Association is funding the transformation of up to 13 City of Napa boxes of varying sizes into artworks. The Downtown Napa Association Artwork Wrap Project is consistent with the mission of the City of Napa Public Art program which supports the integration of art into the public realm through a 11.25.19 1 Downtown Napa Association Art Wrap RFQ variety of different programs created to “contribute to a more livable and visually stimulating environment.” The proposed objectives of the artworks are to: • Create a unique experience in downtown • Inspire businesses, residents, and visitors • Support regional artists The images below are an example of an artwork designed by local artist Norma Quintana for a similar wrap project in the Rail Arts District (RAD) Napa. The photograph above shows the layout of an artwork by Norma Quintana before it is transferred to vinyl. To the left is Quintana’s completed signal box. APPLICATION DEADLINE: Thursday, February 6, 4:00 p.m. BUDGET: A budget has been established to pay each selected artist a design fee of $500. The fabrication and installation of the wraps will be managed and paid for by the Downtown Napa Association. 11.25.19 2 Downtown Napa Association Art Wrap RFQ SITES: The artworks will be sited on up to 13 selected City of Napa utility boxes throughout downtown Napa. The map below shows the proposed locations of the utility boxes within the Downtown Napa Associations district. 10 11 12 ATTACHMENT 1 - SITE LOCATIONS 9 8 13 7 6 3 5 1 2 4 ARTIST ELIGIBILITY: The selected artist/artist team must: • live in Napa, Sonoma, Lake, Yolo, or Solano County; and • be available to begin work immediately and complete the project by March 2020. EVAULATION CRITERIA Criteria for selection of artist/artist teams include but are not limited to the following: § Demonstrated successful creative, innovative, and effective approach in comparable projects. § A proven mastery or skill in at least one artistic medium. § Ability, evidenced by past work and experience, to create an artwork that meets the objectives described above. ARTWORK SELECTION AND APPROVAL PROCESS The artwork selection process is as follows: Step 1: An artist selection and design review panel (“Review Panel”) consisting of representatives from the City of Napa Public Art Steering Committee and the Downtown Napa Association, and arts professionals will be established to review artist qualifications. This Review Panel will select up to 13 artist by majority vote based on the quality of the artist’s past work. 11.25.19 3 Downtown Napa Association Art Wrap RFQ Step 2: Selected artists will be placed under contract and paid $500 to create a conceptual design and/or select one or more of their existing artworks to be used on a utility box. Step 3: The Review Panel will approve the conceptual design (or make design recommendations) based on a majority vote. The artwork conceptual designs are recommended by the Review Panel to the City of Napa for approval. Step 4: The City of Napa reviews and approves the Review Panels artwork design recommendations or makes further recommendations before the Downtown Napa Association may proceed with artwork fabrication and installation. Step 5: Artists will then be given a notice-to-proceed to create a final design. Step 6: Final designs are fabricated and installed by Downtown Napa Association. TIMELINE RFQ deadline February 6, 2020 Artists selected February 2020 Artwork designs approved by the City of Napa March 2020 Artwork designs approved by Review Panel March 2020 Artworks installed April 2020 RFQ Application: Please complete the application and mail or submit by email to the address below by the deadline of Thursday, February 6, at 4:00 pm. APPLICATION Downtown Napa Association Utility Box Public Art Project Artist’s Name: __________________________________________________________________ Address: ______________________________________________________________________ E-mail Address: ________________________________ Phone:___________________________ I HAVE ENCLOSED OR ATTACHED THE FOLLOWING: _______ Resume (4 pages maximum) _______ Ten (10) images of past work. Images can be JPEG or in a PowerPoint program presentation format. DO NOT SUBMIT AS A PDF PRESENTATION. 11.25.19 4 Downtown Napa Association Art Wrap RFQ _______ Annotated Image List: A numbered list of corresponding submitted images that includes the artwork title, date, medium, and dimensions. Application Deadline: February 6, 2020, 4:00 pm Email applications to: [email protected] If files are too large for email, go to dropbox.com, create an account (its free!) and share your application with [email protected] Or mail your application to: Public Art RFQ Response Downtown Napa Association 1290 Napa Town Center Napa, California 94559 Questions? Contact Shelly Willis at [email protected] or call: 916-996-0793 11.25.19 5 Downtown Napa Association Art Wrap RFQ
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