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Neighborhood Street Banners
RFQ

The Arts Council for Long Beach and the Long Beach Redevelopment Agency announce a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to select artists/ artist teams and/ or graphic designers for the creation of street banners in redevelopment areas with the City of Long Beach.

Program Description
Artists/ artist teams and graphic designers will be commissioned to design street banners to be installed on light poles in targeted neighborhoods throughout Long Beach. Artist/ artist teams and/ or graphic designers may incorporate drawings, paintings, photographs, and/ or text to merge art, culture and the community.

Scope of Work
The Arts Council will create a pre-qualified pool of artist/ artist teams and graphic designers to design street banners for targeted neighborhoods. The commissioned artist/ artist team or graphic designer will be assigned a corridor. The design of the street banners should celebrate that community’s unique identity through the incorporation of relevant historical or contemporary themes. Design proposals should include a series of related, or complementary designs, rather than a single, repetitive design.

Budget
The budget for the design of the street banners is $2500. This includes all artist design fees; related project materials and expenses, research, photography, rights and permissions, and documentation. The budget does not include the cost of fabrication or installation. This will be handled by others.

Artists Eligibility
This is an open call to interest professional artists/ artist teams and graphic designers who reside or occupy permanent studio or office space in the Los Angeles area. Artists or graphic designers applying as a team must have worked together on previous projects.

Deadline: January 7, 2011

To download the full RFQ, visit www.artslb.org

For more information contact:

Erin Harkey
Associate Director of Public Art & Design
562.570.3811 or visit www.artslb.org

from LA Culture Net