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CURRENT:LA Water
LOS ANGELES’ FIRST PUBLIC ART BIENNIAL

Call for L.A.-Based Artists - REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

CURRENT:LA Water will establish the city’s first Public Art Biennial for Los Angeles. Led by the City of
Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) Public Art Division, the initiative will utilize public sites throughout L.A. neighborhoods for temporary art projects that aim to generate civic discourse on the issue
of water and allied topics such as infrastructure, drought, ecology, and conservation, among others.

BACKGROUND

In June 2015, the City of Los Angeles was selected as one of four cities to receive up to $1 million as part of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge, a new program aimed at supporting temporary public art projects that celebrate creativity, enhance urban identity, encourage public-private partnerships, and drive economic development.

L.A.’s winning project, CURRENT:LA Water, will take place late Summer of 2016, from mid-July to
mid-August, and will consist of multidisciplinary temporary outdoor art exhibitions and public programs that will be free and open to the public.

CRITERIA

DCA is seeking to award up to 10 temporary public art project commissions to L.A.-based artists.
Artists may apply individually or as a team; artist teams may not change over the life of the project.
Each artist/team may submit only one (1) project proposal in response to the Request for Proposals (RFP). Artist/team proposal submissions should demonstrate the professional capacity to oversee the design, fabrication, installation, and de-installation of temporary artworks in outdoor public space, and experience working in consultation with curators, project teams, city staff, technical professionals, governmental committees, and the public. Successful proposals will demonstrate artistic merit, conceptual strength,
and inventive strategies for public engagement before, and/or during, the one-month presentation of
CURRENT:LA Water.

ELIGIBILITY

The RFP is open to professional artists/teams living and working in the County of Los Angeles only. Artists and artist teams pre-qualified for other DCA-administered public art opportunities are not prevented
from applying to the RFP. Employees of the City of Los Angeles are ineligible to apply.

PROJECT BUDGET

The maximum budget for each project proposal is $20,000. The preliminary/itemized budget included in each proposal submission must cover all expenses required to execute the proposed project, inclusive of all costs
for design, fabrication, installation, de-installation, insurance, and public engagement. CURRENT:LA Water
is funded by DCA and Bloomberg Philanthropies through its Public Art Challenge initiative.

SELECTION PROCESS

A curatorial committee of Los Angeles-based professional curators will review the proposals
submitted in response to the RFP. The committee will assess all submitted proposals and select up
to ten (10) artists/teams to be awarded a CURRENT:LA Water public art commission.

DEADLINE

Proposal submissions are due by 5:00 p.m. on Monday, November 16, 2015. Incomplete or late
submissions will not be reviewed.

SUBMISSIONS AND HOW TO APPLY

Proposals must be submitted via SlideRoom: https://culturela.slideroom.com/#/permalink/program/28233 https://culturela.slideroom.com/#/permalink/program/28233.
A complete submission must include all of the requested elements specified in the full RFP, available at: http://bit.ly/1GjPSoG http://bit.ly/1GjPSoG.

QUESTIONS

For questions about the RFP, please contact the DCA Public Art Division: Paul Pescador at paul.pescador@lacity.org mailto:paul.pescador@lacity.org, or by calling 213.202.5544. Save the date for a Twitter Q+A on
Monday, October 19, 2015 from 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. for additional details; register at
this link to participate: http://bit.ly/currentlachat1019 http://bit.ly/currentlachat1019.

SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS

Twitter: @CURRENT_LA https://twitter.com/Current_LA

Facebook: facebook.com/CurrentLABiennial https://www.facebook.com/CurrentLABiennial?_rdr=p

Instagram: @CURRENT_LA https://instagram.com/current_la/