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Leimert Phone Co.
The Leimert Phone Company (LPC) is a collaborative design project between USC and Kaos Network comprised of students and artists in Leimert Park, that started in early 2013. The project's goal is to repurpose public payphones to encourage civic engagement and interaction, cultural and neighborhood awareness, promote financial wealth and ownership, and highlight artists of any discipline within the neighborhood.

CALL FOR ARTISTS

LPC will be presenting its inaugural repurposed public payphone very soon, and is seeking artists to create a wall and Pay Phone design for the grand opening event. Successful artists must demonstrate the vision, experience and professional qualifications required to create public art on walls and in this case, incorporating or relating to the classic Pay Phone, in the design. This process includes execution of artwork in the public realm, enhancing the visual aspect of new technology, producing engaging/positive/progressive art that is durable and will withstand the Elements for 3-6 months without touch-ups, and illustrates the spirit of community. Team applications should demonstrate the qualifications of its individual team members, as well as their qualifications to work together on projects.

ELIGIBILITY
This RFP (Request for Proposals) is open to professional artists and artists living and working within the Leimert Park and surrounding communities. Eligible artists include those that work with paint, 3D, photography, graffiti, and sculptor.

PROJECT BUDGETS
All of LPC's employees are currently working with no monetary payment. LPC needs to produce work on this new PayPhone technology to create interest and funding for the project. Therefore, artists must be able to produce art in exchange for the following:
• Producing the inaugural artwork for the Leimert Phone Co.
• Public exhibition of work for 3-6 months (artist may alter work after the 3-month period)
• Featured artist for the "grand opening" of the Leimert Phone Co. (which includes media coverage)
• Your own street "gallery space" for 3-6 months that can be used for resume-building, collector inquiries, etc.

SELECTION PROCESS
Artist will be selected by an LPC panel. Upon selection, and throughout all phases of the project, each commissioned artist will be required to comply with all City codes dealing with safety, accessibility, seismic and/or other issues as appropriate for each project. Artists will be notified by October 21, 2013. Artists will begin work on project no later than October 25, 2013; and work must be completed by December 2, 2013.

HOW TO APPLY
All application materials must be emailed to: lpcvisualteam@gmail.com by 11: 59 pm on Wednesday, October 16, 2013. Incomplete and late applications will be deemed ineligible.

Complete applications must include:

ARTIST'S CONTACT INFORMATION including name, business name (if applicable), physical address, mailing address, telephone and email. Teams must identify one artist to be LPC's primary contact, as well as contact information for each artist on the team.

STATEMENT OF INTEREST (PDF or DOC format only, 2 pages max) in creating public art for Leimert Phone Company which includes basic concept/project description with supporting visual aid(s).

CURRICULUM VITAE (PDF or DOC format only, 4 pages max). Please note that teams must submit a CV/Resume for each artist on the team.

TEN (10) IMAGES (JPG format only, 72 DPI min and 2 MB max per file) of completed artwork. Image files must be labeled with artist name and title of work. Teams may submit no more than 10 images total.

IMAGE LIST (PDF or DOC format only) must include image name that corresponds to image name on image file. Please provide the year, size, materials and a 3-5 sentence description of artwork for each image. For any commissioned project(s), also include the client, budget and location.

RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Leimert Phone Company reserves the right to decline all applications to this RFP, and/or cancel this RFP at any time.

For more information about the Leimert Phone Co., please go to www.leimertphonecompany.net. If you have any questions or comments, please contact us via: lpcvisualteam@gmail.com.

Thanks for your time and have a prosperous day!

from LA Culture Net