Public art call – Las Vegas Veterans Memorial – deadline Oct 29, 2009
The deadline for the Las Vegas Veterans’ Memorial is October 29, 2009:
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CALL FOR ARTISTS: LAS VEGAS VETERANS’ MEMORIAL, LAS VEGAS, NV
Description
The City of Las Vegas (City) hereby invites individual artist’s or an
artist team (Offerors) to submit written Statements Of Qualifications
(SOQ’s) to create a profound and lasting work of art in honor of
America’s service men and women. The Veterans’ Memorial is being funded
by Las Vegas Veteran’s Memorial, a 501 (c)(3) non-profit corporation.
The Las Vegas Arts Commission and an evaluation committee will select a
finalist that will work with the Las Vegas Veteran’s Memorial in
preparing a design. The design will need to integrate an expandable
commemorative component, such as a brick walkway, commemorative wall, or
digital reader, where donors can pay tribute to family members or others
who proudly served in the armed forces. The successful offerors and
finalist will also be asked to submit a design for perimeter fencing to
surround the entire park. All design proposals will need to be
pedestrian friendly, ADA compliant, and vandal resistant to the extent
feasible.The finalist will be required to provide any structural and electrical
engineering plans for the memorial, submit the plans for review and
approval by the city of Las Vegas, fabricate the memorial, and install
the memorial at Huntridge Circle Park. Each Successful Offeror will need
to prepare a budget which will include all costs associated with the
fabrication, installation, and maintenance for the work of art. The
Finalist will be responsible to deliver the artwork complete and fully
installed. All design intellectual property rights, fabrication, labor,
materials, transportation, installation, insurance, engineering,
landscaping, permitting, and contingency and every other related cost is
the sole responsibility of the Las Vegas Veteran’s Memorial which the
Finalist will contract through.Deadline for Submission: October 29, 2009, 1:30pm Pacific Standard Time
(PST)Budget: $800,000
Eligibility: Open to all artists or design groups. No geographic
requirements.Process: Four successful offerors (a.k.a semi-finalists) will be invited
to submit design proposals. Each will be required to visit Vegas twice -
one time to view the site and another to present their proposal. Each
will receive a $5,000 honorarium to encompass all costs associated with
the visits and the proposal.Anticipated Award Date: April 2010
Anticipated Installation Date: April 2011
Web Site: http://www.lasvegasnevada.gov/information/11935.htm – click on
‘request for statements’
