****PROJECT POSTPONED****
CALL FOR ARTISTS
GET YOUR NAME AND ART
ON BROADWAY
**DUE TO THE UNPRECEDENTED CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK, WE ARE DELAYING THIS PROJECT UNTIL DATE TBD TO USE MONIES FOR BUSINESS MITIGATION.
On Broadway, there are eleven signal boxes owned by SDOT. In the past, community groups have commissioned artists or design firms to paint these signal boxes. The Broadway BIA wants to bring this back and feels strongly that having these signal boxes as works of art contributes to the overall vitality of Broadway and creates a tangible public benefit.
Project Goals:
The Broadway BIA is looking to team up with local artist(s) in order to beautify Broadway with artwork on the signal boxes featuring LGBTQ + community, 10-12 local & national queer and/or trans historic leaders. For example: Featuring a portrait of Cal Anderson, the first openly gay State Senator (who lived on Capitol Hill) and on a separate box one of Marsha P. Johnson, one of the activists who started the Stonewall riots. Decisions about which people to feature will be made through a separate process working with local LGBTQ+ non-profit organizations to get community input.
Award and Benefits:
Artists who are selected will be given a $350 honorarium per signal box design for up to $4,200 total! Your art and name could be featured for the next year or longer on Broadway contributing to your community and further spreading awareness LGBTQ.
Eligibility: Must live in the Greater Seattle Area. No age restrictions.
More about Broadway Business Improvement Area (BBIA)
The Broadway BIA was formed by city ordinance to maintain a clean, safe, beautiful and prosperous business corridor on Broadway on Capitol Hill in Seattle. We are supported by assessments from local small businesses, the heart of our community.
To Enter:
Follow these instructions
Email contact@broadwaybia.org your design entry with the subject line “Signal Box Art” and include digital images of your portrait, street name art sample, and pullquote sample. Multiple samples or multiple concepts by the same artist may be submitted (and the Broadway BIA may choose one concept or another if artist is selected)
Your submission should be high enough resolution for jurying but does not have to be “print ready”. Note: the winner’s final art will be digitized and printed on a wrap to go on the signal box, so digital-only artists are welcome, too.
You may also include with your entry up to 4 detail images of your work, if there are aspects you wish to highlight. If your images do not fit attached to a single email, you may attach them to a separate one using the same naming convention (as described below.)
Please name your file using your last name. For detail images, include the word detail after your last name in the file name.
Examples:
Smith.jpg
Smithdetail.jpg
Smithdetail2.jpg
Smithdetail3.jpg
2. Please include the following information in the e-mail:
- Name
- Phone Number
- Address (where you live)
- Brief Bio
- Brief Description of why you would like to be selected (or what makes you qualified for selection)
Timeline:
Deadline for entries is April 2 2020
Notifications will be emailed on April 15 2020
Artwork to be completed by June 1 2020 (final art will be printed on a wrap for the signal boxes)
IMPORTANT—Criteria for Selection:
Artist submissions should include the style of portrait you would do for the selected LGBTQ+ leaders. It does not need to feature one of these leaders. You should also provide a text treatment for a street name (like Denny, or Roy, for example) as a sample for your submission as well as a text treatment for a quote (to go on the back of the signal box). If selected, artists will create the final portraits and street names in the style of their submission.
Public art like this should have broad appeal given the nature of its display.
Originality of concept
LGBTQ+ artists and those deeply tied to the local queer and trans community will have preference in selection
We will be considering the work of artists of all ages and skill levels
Selection:
The jury will be composed of Broadway BIA board members and small business rate payers.
Legal:
Copyright Artist represents and warrants that the Artist is the author, creator or sole copyright holder of the material submitted to this call for entries and that said material does not and will not infringe upon the proprietary or any intellectual property rights of any other persons or entities. The Artist retains all rights provided through the Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. Section 101 et seq. to the Public Artwork.
The Artist also grants to the Broadway BIA (dba The BIA Association) and the City of Seattle and their assigns an irrevocable license to post digital images captured of the art to be used for information and other purposes, such as in brochures, media, publicity and catalogs or other similar non-profit purposes. Artist grants the Broadway BIA and SDOT the sole discretion to destroy the representation of the artwork design at the end of their lifespan, when the piece is in disrepair, or when the utility box needs to be replaced or for any other reasons.
All images used by the Broadway BIA and City of Seattle and their assigns will credit the Artist and project name. Artists shall indemnify the City and its assigns against any and all claims related to consideration, ownership or use of the digital images.