See below for info about this opportunity... Naomi Strom-Avila Cultural Arts Specialist City of Tacoma 747 Market Street, Room 900 Tacoma, WA 98402 253.591.5191 From: David Francis [mailto:david@cocaseattle.org] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 11:45 AM To: David Francis Subject: Call for Art in Seattle's Urban Forest Dear all: please post if possible, with apologies in advance if your organization does not post calls or if there is a fee involved (CoCA is 100% volunteer-powered). This is a unique outdoor land-art exhibit in a Seattle urban forest viewed by 100,000 during the summer months and offers artists stipends of $300-$500 (funded by Carkeek Park Advisory Council, 4culture, Seattle Arts & Cultural Affairs), catalog publication, and 1-yr membership in CoCA. A pdf of the call is attached. Sincerely, David Curator, Heaven & Earth 206.851.9641 Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA) Rootbound: Heaven & Earth 4 CALL for ART The Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA) is proud to partner again with the Carkeek Park Advisory Council and Seattle Parks and Recreation to bring the fourth exhibition of temporary, outdoor artwork to one of Seattle's premier urban forests from June 23, 2012 - October 31, 2012. Spread throughout Carkeek Park's 200-plus acres in a series of clusters linked by trails, Heaven and Earth affords a prime opportunity to explore a broad range of contemporary interpretations of art and nature, including landscape design, experimental geography, garbology, biomimicry, and other interdisciplinary perspectives. CoCA is currently accepting proposals for a wide variety of media (landscape architecture, sculptural work, performance, multi-media, new media) for placement in a series of pre-selected sites viewable online (http://www.cocaseattle.org/carkeekphotos.htm). Applicants may also propose additional sites. The Call is open to all artists, whether established or emerging and local, regional, national, or international. Additional stipends for artists to travel to Seattle may be available pending further funding. Working in conjunction with its partners, CoCA will select up to 15 artists from the pool of applicants and offer a small stipend of $300 - $500 depending on site selection and proposals. CoCA will also publish a catalog of the exhibition and offer participating artists a 1-year membership in CoCA. All work should eventually leave "no trace" following removal. Interactive artworks featuring wind / solar elements are encouraged, as are proposals that include ephemeral materials (leaves, seeds, plants, bark, soil, sod, branches, straw bales, erosion control fabric, etc.). For 2012, the exhibit is also hoping to attract artworks that display significant change over the four-month display period, such as the effects of weathering and erosion, or of accretion and addition involving repeated site visits (i.e. performance). Grant funding from 4Culture's Site Specific Program in 2012 will be partly dedicated to a cluster of artwork in Piper's Creek Orchard, a historic apple grove in the heart of the park. Carkeek Park visitorship during the display period is estimated at 100,000. Educational outreach to Seattle Public Schools is sponsored by a grant from the Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs. With installation sites in both open and secluded settings, the exhibit is unsecured and "hands-on" for many members of the public, who explore the artworks using a map from the website, at a local kiosk, or with a QR code reader. Deadline is midnight Sunday, May 6, 2012. CoCA offers a sliding-scale application fee: pay what you can from $0 to $10 (suggested) to $20 and up. Apply at: http://www.cocaseattle.org/submission.php (please see details below). Heaven and Earth is one of the region's only venues for site-specific artwork in an urban forest setting where part of the exhibit includes a walking tour of an hour or more. The work will be archived on the Heaven and Earth website (www.heavenandearthexhibition.org<http://www.heavenandearthexhibition.org/>), and the exhibition will also include production of a catalog, a sculpture trail map, and (pending funding) postcards, and print ads. Previous press coverage has included pieces by KOMO TV, Seattle Times, Tacoma News Tribune, Seattle Weekly, City Arts, REI Blog, Art and Science Blog, and 7,000 Articulations (France). CoCA will ask selected artists to attend an orientation session in the park on or about Saturday, June 2, from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. There will be a reception for the artists on Saturday, June 23, from 2 - 5 p.m. at the Environmental Learning Center in Carkeek Park, 950 NW Carkeek Park Rd. Entry and parking are free. SUBMISSION DETAILS Please send submissions to http://www.cocaseattle.org/submission.php. Be sure to select "Heaven and Earth 4" when prompted for what exhibit you are submitting for. PROPOSAL The system will give you a field with up to 500 words to enter your proposal(s). To review sample areas and sites, artists should first browse the interactive map of the park at www.cocaseattle.org/carkeekphotos.htm<http://www.cocaseattle.org/carkeekphotos.htm>. Cluster #2 B will be expanded this year to accommodate up to four artworks that incorporate change; additional funding for these projects is provided by 4Culture. Artists can also propose additional sites, keeping in mind that installations should occur in "human-use" areas where buildings, fields, fence-lines, and other "built features" are in evidence. It is also advisable to place artworks relatively near the access road for easy maintenance checks. Within such areas, patches of invasive vegetation (ivy, blackberry, etc.) offer particularly welcome raw material; otherwise, artworks should avoid permanent impacts to living trees and plants. STATEMENT The system will prompt you to upload a 300 word statement specific to the themes of the show. BIOGRAPHY Please submit a 300 word biography (no resumes please). These texts will accompany your images in the catalog. IMAGES The system will prompt you to upload a maximum of six images. Provide up to six digital images of generally similar previous work, jpg file format, maximum dimension of 800 pixels in either direction. Include a description of the images (artwork title, dimensions, medium, and year of creation). * If a proposed piece already exists, submit a digital image of it as one your six images. * If a piece has not been made yet, provide a digital image of a sketch or maquette of the piece you intend to install as one your six images, and describe it in writing in the PROPOSAL section of your submission. FEE We do not want to discourage participation by setting a fixed fee for submission, so donate what you feel is appropriate using the PayPal button to the left, or send your check payable to CoCA, Heaven & Earth, 6413 Seaview Ave. NW, Seattle, WA 98107. Be sure to indicate Carkeek Park Sculpture Exhibition on your check. The amount of your donation has no bearing on your potential for selection. Entry deadline is May 6, 2012. Proposals are judged by a panel of six, with representatives from CoCA, the local arts community, Carkeek Park Advisory Council, and Seattle Parks and Recreation. In addition to the criteria for the exhibit, proposals are also evaluated for site specific response to Carkeek Park (see http://www.seattle.gov/parks/parkspaces/carkeekpark/history.htm) and feasibility. The panel is thus composed of artists, curators, arts administrators, educators, engineers, and citizens. CoCA will notify 15 finalists by May 19. Install dates in the park are June 19-22. De-install occurs during the first week in November. Please call 206-851-9641<tel:206-851-9641> (David Francis, Curator) for more information. CoCA will ask participating artists to sign a W-9 to receive the stipend, and a liability waiver ("Artist's Loan Agreement") recognizing the inherent risk of exhibiting unsecured art in a public setting and seeking permission to use any images for promotional purposes. View 2009 -- 2011 exhibitions at www.heavenandearthexhibition.org<http://www.heavenandearthexhibition.org/> David Curator of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences 206.851.9641<tel:206.851.9641>