Percent for Art Competition: Aubert Hall, UMO

PERCENT FOR ART COMPETITION PROSPECTUS:

OVERVIEW:

Aubert Hall, University of Maine, Orono

The Maine Arts Commission is making a call to all artists living in New England and New York State to submit proposals to design, create and install artwork at Aubert Hall University of Maine in Orono, Maine, Special consideration will be given to Maine artists. Total project budget is $34,000, submission deadline is December 18, 2009.

The Percent for Art law in Maine reserves one percent of the construction funds for all state-funded building projects to provide art work for the public areas of these buildings and /or their exterior renovations and additions.

BACKGROUND:

A 2007 State bond funded renovations to second and third floor Chemistry labs and a fourth floor Marine Sciences lab. In addition, the original historic core of Aubert Hall, constructed in 1914, underwent facade improvements, including window replacements.

The committee solicits proposals for three-dimensional artwork that would be placed in one of the following two locations:

Between the west facade of the 1914 portion of the building and Munson Road; or

Between the east facade of Aubert Hall (comprising the east sides of the 1940 and 1958 additions) and the campus North Mall.

It should be noted that in the east wing of the 1958 addition (the center third of the east facade) is a Percent for Art work installed in 2007 and funded through state bond-funded renovations to interior spaces that took place in 2001 - 2002. Jazz Composition for Dimitri Mendeleyev is by Jim Hirschfied and Sonya Ishii. The work is configured in a grid inspired by that of the Periodic Table of the Elements made up of historic pictures of the University and its inhabitants over the years. The work can be seen on the Maine Art Commission's Web site: http://mainearts.maine.gov/public/percent/site.asp?ID=385

If you have questions about the architectural elements, the architect representative for this project is Charles Earley who can be contacted at: charles.earley@wbrcae.com The site may be visit by contacting Elaine Clark at: Elaine.clark@umit,maine.edu to set up an appointment. All other questions can be directed to Alison Ferris, Assistant Director of the Maine Arts Commission at: alison.ferris@maine.gov

PROJECT BUDGET

There is approximately $34,000.00 in Percent for Art funds available for this project. These funds will be used to commission work(s) from a single artist or artist team. An artist budget proposal must cover all design, fabrication, transportation, documentation and installation expenses, including any building or site modifications associated with the artwork.

SELECTION PROCESS

A Percent for Art selection committee of five members will jury submissions for the project. The committee will review the materials to determine whom to invite for a second round of evaluation. Artists selected for the second round will receive a $1000 design fee for refining their proposals. Final proposals will include detailed models, drawings, renderings, samples of work and/or materials depending on the nature of the proposal. All finalists will present their final proposals to the committee in person. Please do not submit detailed models, drawings, samples, or final proposals for the first round of the selection process.

WHO IS ELIGIBLE

All professional artists who work in New England and New York State may apply for consideration to this project. Artists who are employees of the University of Maine at Orono are ineligible for Percent for Art projects at the location where they are employed, as are members of the selection committee and their immediate families. The project is open to all artists age 18 and over, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, military status, sexual orientation, marital status, or physical disabilities. Artist teams are eligible to apply, including teams of artists from multiple disciplines. Students are ineligible. Contact Alison Ferris at the Maine Arts Commission with questions at 207/287-2710 or alison.ferris@maine.gov.

DEADLINE

December 18, 2009 at midnight is the deadline for submission of preliminary materials. Materials received after this time may be excluded from consideration. Materials are usually evaluated within a month of the deadline and all applicants are notified shortly thereafter of the committee decisions.

MATERIALS NEEDED IN INITIAL SUBMISSION

-A current concise resume (sent as an email attachment or on a cd).

-A brief written proposal (sent as an email attachment or on a cd) describing your work and what you plan to do to address the potential art area(s). Write approximately one page about what your concept and approach will be in addressing the public art space(s) of the site. Please do not submit detailed models, drawings, samples, or final proposals for this round of the selection process. A simple sketch may be included to clarify your idea if necessary, but it is not encouraged. Emailed documents must be sent as attachments, not embedded in the email.

-A rough budget estimate (sent as an email attachment or on a cd) to give the committee an idea of your general compensation expectations. A precise budget will be requested for those invited to the second round of evaluation.

-Five digital images of your recent work (sent as an email attachment or on a cd) resolution of 96 dpi at a minimum of 5 x 7 inches. Jpg or pdf format no larger than 1.5MB per image. If an artist team or artist organization applies, they may only submit five images for all artists. The optional proposal sketch does not count as an image.

-A list of the submitted images (sent as an email attachment or on a cd) identifying title, artist, medium, size, location, and other pertinent information about the image submissions.

All submissions should be in digital form. Document files should be in pdf or doc formats, image files in pdf or jpg formats. Name each image file with your last name first and name of the document, e.g.: ferris_alison_resume.doc. To have your images viewed in a certain order you can number them, e.g.: ferris_alison_1_Title of the work.jpg. Use underscores to separate words in file name, not punctuation. Please make sure submissions are labeled correctly, that you identify the Percent for Art call you are applying to, and that your name, address and other contact information is in every document.

Do not bundle the documents and images into one file attachment. Submit each document, e.g. the proposal, resume, images, as separate email attachments or separate files on the cd clearly labeling them as described above. Do not include cover sheets with text or images. Do not embed images into any of the text documents. Improperly submitted or incomplete submissions may not be accepted.

HOW TO SUBMIT MATERIALS

Emailed materials should be sent to:

alison.ferris@maine.gov

For email, please write: Aubert Hall Percent for Art in the subject line. Please attach all images and documents to the email, embedded images or documents written in the body of the email will not be accepted. Please send document files as Word docs or pdf's and image files as jpg's or pdf's.

Mailed materials should be addressed to:

Percent for Art Competition: Aubert Hall -UMO

C/o Alison Ferris, Assistant Director

Maine Arts Commission

193 State Street, 25 SHS

Augusta, ME 04333-0025

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