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The City of Calgary Public Art Program - Open Call to Artist

CALGARY.- The City of Calgary Public Art Program is seeking
Expressions of Interest from experienced artist-led
interdisciplinary teams to create a unified, iconographic or
symbolic language that will map and identify infrastructure.

The Visual Language Project is the cornerstone of the UEP Public Art
Plan, in that it should provide a cohesive and elegant visual
language for identifying, mapping and codifying the watershed
systems. Through close collaboration with UEP staff and other
stakeholders, the Visual Language Project team will provide a
conceptual framework for UEP infrastructure, education, and all
public art projects to follow.

Total budget for the public art project is $200,000.00CDN. This will
include the creation of a visual language, an action plan for
implementation, and a prototype design with proposed budget for a
site-specific public art work (the Outfall Project).

Submissions must be received no later than 4:30 p.m. on Friday,
August 10, 2007.

For more information and to submit a proposal, interested artists
must access and download Expression of Interest document #07-025 The
Visual Language Project: Understanding Our Place Within the
Watershed from the Alberta Purchasing Connection at
www.purchasingconnection.ca.

All submission-related inquiries to Donna Chaytors, Senior Buyer,
City of Calgary at (403) 268-5559 or donna.chaytors@calgary.ca.

This Call for Artists is also posted at www.calgary.ca/publicart >
Opportunities for Artists > The Visual Language Project.

The Visual Language Project is the third project to be initiated as
a result of the UEP Public Art Plan. This Plan, launched in January
2007, was created to guide the expenditure of the public art funds
made possible through The City's Utilities and Environmental
Protection (UEP) department.

Believed to be the first of its kind in North America , the UEP
Public Art Plan is founded on the principle that public art, in
collaboration with other disciplines, can create remarkable places
that encourage sustainability and stewardship of the environment.
The Plan, which represents a key component of the overall Public Art
Master Plan being developed by the Public Art Program, takes a
leading step in North America through its innovative and forward-
thinking approach of integrating public art into utilities and
environmental systems. The Plan also capitalizes on The City's
excellent environmental record as a steward of the Bow River , and
ensures that all upcoming UEP public art projects both enhance and
preserve this legacy.

This was posted on the Art4Development Yahoo! Groups listserv.