Vision Zero Artist-in-Residence RFP
Opens Sep 4 2024 11:00 AM (PDT)
Deadline Oct 8 2024 05:00 PM (PDT)
Description

Please read the full REQUESTS FOR PROPOSAL before completing this application: 

https://lacountyarts.org/sites/default/files/2024-09/VisionZeroRFP_20240903.pdf

INFORMATION AND MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Open Call Number

ARTS-100019

Release Date

09/04/24

  Solicitation Requirements Review (SRR) Request Due by 4:00 P.M. PST

 09/09/24

Written Questions about this RFP Due by 5:00 P.M. PST

09/13/24

  Release of Answers to Questions

09/24/24

Deadline for Submissions by 5:00 P.M. PST

10/08/24

Arts and Culture Contact

Jackie Pimentel
Program Specialist, Cross Sector Initiatives
Email: cross-sector@arts.lacounty.gov

Purpose   

The Los Angeles County (County) Department of Arts and Culture (Arts and Culture) is issuing this Request for Proposals (RFP) to solicit proposals for a contract with an individual artist or artist team to serve as an Artist-in-Residence (AIR) with the Vision Zero Los Angeles County initiative (Vision Zero).

Contractor will serve as the artist/artist team in a two-year artist residency with Vision Zero in the unincorporated County community of Florence-Firestone. Contractor will apply their artistic practice and creative problem-solving skills and work in partnership with staff from Arts and Culture, Public Health/PLACE, and Public Works to strategize, develop, and implement:
  • Arts-based, healing-informed community engagement around strategies for safer streets; and
  • Community-engaged temporary and/or permanent artworks as site interventions to enhance pedestrian safety, visibility, cultural equity, beautification, and spatial justice. 
Programmatic activities may include but are not limited to:
  • Artistic interventions
  • Artist-led and community-informed projects, workshops, and events
  • Community engagement and participation
  • The identification or mapping of cultural and community assets; and
  • Design development, fabrication, and installation of temporary or permanent artworks.

Anticipated Contract Term

December 16, 2024 – December 15, 2026 

Minimum Requirements
  • Be a professional artist or artist team residing or working within Los Angeles County with a minimum of three (3) years of experience within the past seven (7) years creating artwork; arts-based, healing-informed community engagement; and/or arts programming that incorporates public engagement and participation.

  • Be a professional artist or artist team with a minimum of three (3) years of experience within the past seven (7) years creating community-engaged temporary or permanent public artworks for diverse communities, particularly those communities identified as “Precarious LA” in A Portrait of Los Angeles County, based on the American Human Development Index, areas with the greatest need as measured by health, education, and earnings outcomes.
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Vision Zero Artist-in-Residence RFP


Please read the full REQUESTS FOR PROPOSAL before completing this application: 

https://lacountyarts.org/sites/default/files/2024-09/VisionZeroRFP_20240903.pdf

INFORMATION AND MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Open Call Number

ARTS-100019

Release Date

09/04/24

  Solicitation Requirements Review (SRR) Request Due by 4:00 P.M. PST

 09/09/24

Written Questions about this RFP Due by 5:00 P.M. PST

09/13/24

  Release of Answers to Questions

09/24/24

Deadline for Submissions by 5:00 P.M. PST

10/08/24

Arts and Culture Contact

Jackie Pimentel
Program Specialist, Cross Sector Initiatives
Email: cross-sector@arts.lacounty.gov

Purpose   

The Los Angeles County (County) Department of Arts and Culture (Arts and Culture) is issuing this Request for Proposals (RFP) to solicit proposals for a contract with an individual artist or artist team to serve as an Artist-in-Residence (AIR) with the Vision Zero Los Angeles County initiative (Vision Zero).

Contractor will serve as the artist/artist team in a two-year artist residency with Vision Zero in the unincorporated County community of Florence-Firestone. Contractor will apply their artistic practice and creative problem-solving skills and work in partnership with staff from Arts and Culture, Public Health/PLACE, and Public Works to strategize, develop, and implement:
  • Arts-based, healing-informed community engagement around strategies for safer streets; and
  • Community-engaged temporary and/or permanent artworks as site interventions to enhance pedestrian safety, visibility, cultural equity, beautification, and spatial justice. 
Programmatic activities may include but are not limited to:
  • Artistic interventions
  • Artist-led and community-informed projects, workshops, and events
  • Community engagement and participation
  • The identification or mapping of cultural and community assets; and
  • Design development, fabrication, and installation of temporary or permanent artworks.

Anticipated Contract Term

December 16, 2024 – December 15, 2026 

Minimum Requirements
  • Be a professional artist or artist team residing or working within Los Angeles County with a minimum of three (3) years of experience within the past seven (7) years creating artwork; arts-based, healing-informed community engagement; and/or arts programming that incorporates public engagement and participation.

  • Be a professional artist or artist team with a minimum of three (3) years of experience within the past seven (7) years creating community-engaged temporary or permanent public artworks for diverse communities, particularly those communities identified as “Precarious LA” in A Portrait of Los Angeles County, based on the American Human Development Index, areas with the greatest need as measured by health, education, and earnings outcomes.

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Opens
Sep 4 2024 11:00 AM (PDT)
Deadline
Oct 8 2024 05:00 PM (PDT)