Salt Lake City Public Art Program

Foothills Trailheads: Bike Rack Murals

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Salt Lake City’s Public Lands Department is taking steps to improve the Bonneville Boulevard and Popperton Park Trailheads. These locations represent major confluences and urban interfaces of the Foothills trails, natural area, and trail system with the Avenues neighborhood, the Utah State Capitol, downtown Salt Lake City, and the University of Utah.

Improvements to the Bonneville Boulevard and Popperton Park Trailheads call for a paved parking lot with rope and timber fencing, landscaping, and a welcome entry plaza. Current designs also include waste receptacles, dog waste bag dispensers, marked parking, wayfinding, regulation, and interpretive signage, picnic tables and benches, bike racks, invasive weed cleaning station and bike repair stations, and some will include site lighting.

The public art opportunity for Foothills Trailheads: Bike Rack Murals will feature ten distinct acrylic murals painted on the surface of galvanized steel bike racks. A total of ten (10) bike racks will be placed amongst the two sites: six (6) bike racks will be placed at Bonneville Boulevard Trailhead and four (4) bike racks will be placed at Popperton Park Trailhead. Salt Lake City will be responsible for the fabrication and final installation of the bike racks. The Salt Lake City Public Art Program has developed this project as an effort to provide a learning experience and professional development opportunity for emerging artists and/or those without previous public art experience

ELIGIBILITY: This Call for Artists is open to all artists and artist-led teams currently residing in the greater Salt Lake City Metropolitan area. Emerging artists and/or artists without previous public art experience are highly encouraged to apply.

COMMISSION: $3,500 per commission; 10 available commissions (limit of one commission per artist or artist-led team)

INFORMATION SESSION: The recording of the applicant information session can be viewed here:

https://youtu.be/AfEv6VwZlgY

QUESTIONS: All questions regarding this RFQ are to be directed to the Salt Lake City Public Art Program by email at publicartprogram@slcgov.com. Please review the complete RFQ prior to emailing any questions.

DEADLINE: Submissions are due on Thursday March 23rd, 2023 by 5:00 PM (MT). (note that this application closes BEFORE midnight)

Submittable direct link to application: https://slcartscouncil.submittable.com/submit/253573/foothills-trailheads-bike-rack-murals-request-for-qualifications 

View the full Request for Qualifications here.

Questions & Answers

The Bike Stops Here: Artist Designed Bicycle Racks

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THE BIKE STOPS HERE: BIKE ARTIST DESIGNED BICYCLE RACKS
Submission Deadline: PASSED
Seeing the rapid growth of bicycling in Salt Lake City and the desire to encourage more people to choose cycling as a transportation option, there is an essential need and desire for safe and secure bicycle parking. To that end, and in the ongoing effort to weave art into the fabric of our urban infrastructure, the Salt Lake Art Design Board is seeking proposals from Utah artists to design and fabricate bicycle racks that are identifiable, functional, and imaginative.
• COMMISSION: $3,000 PER BIKE RACK (ARTISTS MAY SUBMIT 2 DESIGNS FOR CONSIDERATION)

For complete Request for Proposals please click here.

Prequalified Public Artist Pool

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Submission Deadline: PASSED
Salt Lake City’s Public Art Program seeks Utah artists for potential inclusion in the Pre-Qualified Public Artist Pool (PPAP), a roster of pre-qualified artists to be considered for upcoming opportunities to create new public artwork for various projects in parks, plazas, streetscapes, and facilities throughout the City in conjunction with City-funded capital improvements. Selected artists shall remain active for a two-year period. This opportunity is open to all practicing, professional artists working in any media and who reside in Utah.

 

For complete Call for Artists please click here.

Flying Objects 4.0

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FLYING OBJECTS 4.0
Submission Deadline: PASSED
The Salt Lake Art Design Board announces a Call for Artists for the fourth series of Flying Objects, a temporary public art project installed in downtown Salt Lake City. The Flying Objects project has been very successful in staging a series of artistic sculptures which add color, shape, interest, and vitality to the downtown streetscape in a range of styles and materials. Each artist selected for Flying Objects 4.0 is paid a $5,000 honorarium for the loan of their artwork for the two-year project period. The artworks are returned to the artists at the end of the project period.

The project is funded by the Redevelopment Agency of Salt Lake City and managed by the Salt Lake City Arts Council.
• HONORARIUM: $5,000

For complete Call for Artists please click here.

Marmalade Branch Library Public Art Opportunity

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Submission deadline: PASSED
The Salt Lake Art Design Board announces a call for UTAH artists who are interested in submitting proposals for a public art commission at the Marmalade Branch Library.

The local architecture firm of Blalock & Partners was hired by Salt Lake City Public Library to design the Marmalade Branch Library which will be built on a 4-acre site at 500 North 300 West. Located in an urban redevelopment area, the 20,000 square foot, two-story building will seek to transform and activate the currently vacant property. The Library will serve as the anchor for future development including town homes and mixed use – retail & commercial – spaces.
• COMMISSION BUDGET: $90,000

 

For the complete Call for Artists please click here.

Glendale Branch Library

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Submission deadline: PASSED

The artist team Michael Moonbird & Victoria Lyons were selected for the exterior public art commission. The team proposed “a glazed tile mural that will artistically reflect the history, vitality, and cultural diversity relevant to the aspirations of the Glendale neighborhood.” They will also create two benches which will be placed in areas to compliment the mural.

The Design Board also selected Kathryn Stedham who proposed a series of 5 paintings, approximately 60 x 48 inches, painted onto an aluminum “floated” substrate. She envisions “creating active, textured, organic spaces of the ‘roads and rivers’ as well as intermittent flat planes of color that will compliment the interior and exterior feel of the library, while allowing each piece to be informed by the varios cultures and places represented within the Glendale community.

• COMMISSION BUDGET: $160,000

For the complete Call for Artists please click here.