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CURRENT:LA WATER
CALL FOR PUBLIC PROGRAM PROVIDERS
LOS ANGELES LAUNCHES INAUGURAL PUBLIC ART BIENNIAL
SUMMER 2016
CITY of LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT of CULTURAL AFFAIRS
REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ)
DUE MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2015

http://bit.ly/rfqprogramscurrentla_art_2016

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 to support
temporary public art projects that celebrate creativity, enhance urban
identity, encourage public-private partnerships and drive economic
development. LA’s winning project, CURRENT:LA Water, will establish
the City’s first Public Art Biennial for Los Angeles.

Developed by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs
(DCA) Public Art Division, CURRENT:LA is an ongoing, biannual
temporary public art initiative that aims to establish a new paradigm
for public art in Los Angeles, one that is transformative and
contributes to the creation of social capital and public discourse on
shared issues locally, nationally, and globally. CURRENT:LA seeks to
maximize the potential for public art to create dialogue and help
change how we understand and respond to those issues. The inaugural
presentation will respond to the issue of water and take place for one
month in late summer 2016. Led by DCA’s Public Art Division, the
initiative will utilize public sites throughout LA to present
temporary public artworks and public programming to generate civic
discourse on the issue of water and allied topics such as
infrastructure, drought, ecology, and conservation, among others.

DESCRIPTION OF OPPORTUNITY
Through this Request for Qualifications (RFQ), DCA is seeking
submissions from nonprofit organizations, individual artists and
artist teams interested in developing and executing free public
programs that will offer LA’s diverse residents and visitors a range
of unique opportunities for engagement with water-related issue(s)
and/or the temporary public art projects commissioned from other
artists/teams as part of CURRENT:LA Water. Each public program
selected to receive a funding award as a result of this RFQ will be
presented at a site located within the City of Los Angeles for a
maximum duration/time-frame of one (1) month. The public programs
selected for CURRENT:LA Water may include a variety of pop-up
programming approaches such as workshops, discussions, film/video
screenings, mobile activities, performances, readings, speakers and/or
symposia.

ELIGIBILITY
This RFQ is open to nonprofit organizations in any field, individual
artists, and artist teams based in the County of Los Angeles.
Respondents selected through this RFQ will be eligible to receive, but
are not guaranteed, funding awards for public programs to be presented
as part of CURRENT:LA Water. Artist team members and project team
member(s) for a nonprofit organization may not change prior to the
execution of a commissioned public program. Nonprofit organizations,
artists and artist teams pre-qualified for other DCA-administered
public art opportunities, or active DCA grantees, are not prevented
from responding to this RFQ. Employees of the City of Los Angeles are
ineligible.

For details and to apply, please refer to the full RFQ document
available online:
http://bit.ly/rfqprogramscurrentla_art_2016