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REQUIREMENTS: Images: 8 View Site Details REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS FOR A PUBLIC ART PROJECT CHABOT COLLEGE, HAYWARD, CALIFORNIA PROJECT INTENT: Chabot College seeks accomplished artists to create permanent, highly visible public artworks to adorn prominent sites across our campus. Chabot is currently renewing its forty-year-old façade through a tax-funded facilities bond. As we refresh our appearance, we are interested in surrounding our site with original artworks (sculptures, murals, mosaics, etc.) and/or visual enhancements (fountains, decorative benches, ornamental railings, etc.) that make strong aesthetic and educational statements, as well as beautify exterior and interior spaces of our campus. We are interested in artworks and/or visual enhancements that: WELCOME students, faculty, staff, and the community to Chabot College CREATE a public identity or signature for our college OFFER focal points for discussion, appreciation and congregation ABOUT THIS REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS: This Request for Qualifications (RFQ) and its subsequent selection process were developed by the Chabot Public Art Committee, which is comprised of two Chabot faculty, two staff, two students, two administrators, two community representatives, and a Chair. Some members of the committee are artists and/or art experts; some are not. The committee developed this RFQ with two goals in mind: to honor the creative gifts of artists; and to honor the will of the campus. For artists, we have eased restrictions on creativity wherever possible, making recommendations but no demands with respect to artwork themes, installation locations, style, media, or exact budgets. For the campus, we have developed a selection process that actively involves the participation of all campus constituencies. Thus, while the committee intends to seek guidance from one or more art experts from outside Chabot, we will also rely upon the largely non-expert attitudes and opinions of our campus. We have chosen this approach because we believe in shared governance and because we believe a successful public art project at Chabot must rely as much upon “Chabot expertise” as upon “art expertise.” ABOUT CHABOT COLLEGE: Chabot College is one of 110 campuses comprising the California Community College System, the largest system of higher education in the world. Our campus is located in Hayward, California, an urban city of 150,000 residents situated in the heart of the San Francisco “East Bay” region. The city of Hayward is most notable for having been named by the U.S. Census Bureau one of the ten most ethnically diverse cities in the United States. Not surprisingly, Chabot’s 14,000 students, 450 faculty, and 150 staff represent one of the richest multicultural communities to be found anywhere. THEMES: Themes of interest to our college include multiculturalism/diversity, empowerment through education, education as a life-long journey, active and compassionate citizenship, and the place of the individual relative to the larger world. In an effort to encourage artistic freedom, however, other themes will be considered as well. The committee encourages RFQ finalists to learn about our college and engage in dialogue with interested members of our campus community. LOCATIONS: Installation sites under consideration for artworks and/or visual enhancements include the interiors and exteriors of the Community & Student Services Center and Instructional Office Building (both slated for completion in January, 2010), the new “gateway” plazas opening onto busy Hesperian Boulevard, and the soon-to-be renovated Fine Arts Plaza. Other site options also exist. Again, in an effort to encourage artistic freedom, installation sites have not been pre-selected. After touring the campus, finalists will be invited to make suggestions for final installation sites, with the understanding that the availability of certain sites will necessarily be impacted by facilities construction plans and schedules. STYLE: Style of artworks is entirely the purview of the artists. The works we seek may be figurative or nonfigurative, and may be representational, abstract, or non-representational. MEDIUM: The college is open to works in any medium appropriate and sustainable for safe, long-term, low-maintenance public display. Artworks will be sited in indoor and/or outdoor locations, as appropriate to the works. Artworks may be of a duplicable medium as in the case of cast bronze, photographs or limited edition prints, but no work may duplicate or copy an original entirely separate from itself and its own creation, such as in the case of digitally re-mastered images commercially reproduced for widespread sale in the art market. NOTEWORTHY ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES OF THE CHABOT CAMPUS: The Chabot College campus was constructed in 1964 and 1965 by architectural firms based in Oakland and San Francisco. As was common for west coast campuses of that era, Chabot’s overall style is utilitarian-modern. Noteworthy architectural features of Chabot include the oval shape of our campus plan, the large circular library that forms our main focal point, the broad archways that unify rooflines and entryways, the widespread use of exposed aggregate for walkways and plazas, and the unique, rose-colored concrete of the exteriors of our original buildings. Brand new construction and the remodeling of existing buildings under the aforementioned facilities bond will provide Chabot with an updated, contemporary appearance. SELECTION PROCESS: Once RFQ entries have been received, the Public Art Committee, guided by one or more art experts serving in an advisory capacity, will conduct blind elimination rounds (no artist’s names revealed) to identify a pool of fifteen to twenty top applications. Those applications will then be reviewed and scored (again blind) by interested members from all five college constituencies (students, staff, faculty, administrators and community). Aggregate scores will be used to rank applications. Top-scoring applications will undergo a brief technical evaluation to determine basic material feasibility of the artwork types for campus. Once complete, this technical evaluation will result in a list of several (three to five or more) finalists. Finalists’ names will be announced publicly in late April, 2010. Prior to the announcement of the finalists, the identities of applicants will be known only to the project administrator (Diane Zuliani, Chair of the Chabot Public Art Committee), who does not take part in the scoring process. Finalists will be invited to visit Chabot. Applicable travel and accommodation expenses will be compensated by the college. Finalists will be given guided tours of campus, undergo an informal interview with the Public Art Committee, and be invited to submit final, formal proposals of artwork tailored specifically to the campus. Artists’ work from this stage on will be guided by contract, the language of which will derive from the “Annotated Model Public Art Commission Agreement” made available by Americans for the Arts in 2005. Final proposals must include: clear visual representations of the proposed artwork; a written explanation of the concept of the work; and a full description of the size, weight, materials, installation instructions, maintenance guidelines, and budget for the work. Finalists will have from May 15th through August 6th of 2010 to complete their proposals and will be compensated $2,000, which will also cover the cost of a return visit to Chabot. Final proposals will be exhibited in the Chabot Art Gallery in the Fall of 2010. At this time, finalists will return to campus to hold public forums for the campus community. After reviewing the proposals and attending public forums, the campus will be invited to comment on proposed artwork. Campus commentary will be used by the Chabot Public Art Committee to ascertain the will of the campus. A second and more thorough technical evaluation of final proposals will occur at this stage. This evaluation will involve analyses of cost, materials, engineering, feasibility, security and legal issues. Once this technical evaluation is complete, the winning artists will be identified. Winning artists will be awarded contracts. SELECTION PROCESS TIMELINE: 1. Application Due: November 20, 2009, by midnight Mountain Time (one hour later than Pacific time) 2. Evaluation of Applications: November 23, 2009 – April 23, 2010 3. Notification of Finalists: Late April, 2010 4. Finalists Visit Chabot: May 1 – May 14, 2010 5. Final Proposals Due: August 6, 2010 6. Exhibition / Presentation of Final Proposals: Mid-August – Late September, 2010 7. Notification of Winning Artists: Late October, 2010 8. Installation: October 2011 or earlier PROJECT FUNDS AND THEIR USE: Chabot College has a total of $500,000 for all phases and all aspects of this public art project. With this sum, we seek to purchase several (three to five or more) highly visible artworks in a variety of media. The project’s $500,000 sum must cover the purchase price of artworks AS WELL AS all costs related to the search for and selection of these artworks, including: administrative costs; marketing and mailing costs; jury materials costs; outside advisors’ stipends; artists’ travel costs; proposal stipends; and any as-yet-unforeseen costs related to the search for and selection of artworks. NUMBER OF ARTWORKS / ARTWORK BUDGETS: In order to preserve artistic flexibility for our applicants as well as decision-making flexibility for our college, we have not pre-determined the exact number of artworks to be purchased, nor the exact budgets for each artwork. We will consider artworks with a wide range of budgets. We will not consider single artworks with budgets totaling more than $200,000. The lack of pre-determination of number and budgets of artworks to be purchased is not to be taken as a lack of seriousness on the part of Chabot. Rather, we intend to make final decisions only after we understand the nature of our applications and the will of the campus. ARTIST’S RESPONSIBILITIES WITH RESPECT TO ARTWORK COSTS: The purchase price of any artwork must cover the cost of the physical object itself, as well as any costs associated with time, materials, labor, preparatory designs and all other expenses incurred while creating the work. Also, pre-purchase liability insurance, taxes, licensing, artwork transportation, site preparation and artwork installation costs are the responsibility of the winning artists. CHABOT’S RESPONSIBILITY WITH RESPECT TO ARTWORK COSTS: The purchase price of chosen artworks, post-purchase artwork liability insurance, lighting, identifying plaques, maintenance and security will be the responsibility of Chabot College. APPLICANT ELIGIBILITY: The Chabot Public Art Project is open to all artists regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, marital status or physical or mental disability. Individual artists may submit one application only.Artist teams are also eligible to apply. Teams may submit one application only. APPLICATION DEADLINE: The application, images and other required materials (see below) must be submitted electronically by midnight Mountain Time (one hour later than Pacific Time) on FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2009. MATERIALS TO SUBMIT: Artist applicants must submit the following items: 1. A current résumé 2. A total of 8 digital images of successful past artwork with indications of medium, dimensions, title, date and price 3. A 2,000-character (approximately one-page) statement of interest in the project QUESTIONS / FOLLOW-UP Questions about the project may be directed to the Chair of the Chabot Public Art Committee, Diane Zuliani, via email at dzuliani@chabotcollege.edu or telephone at 510-723-6838. Ms Zuliani has ten years of museum experience and teaches a variety of courses in the Chabot College School of the Arts. |
