Application deadline: March 30, 2021
Created and owned by the City of Calgary, the Calgary Municipal Land Corporation is the master developer behind the dramatic transformation of East Village—a 49-acre brownfield site on the edge of Calgary’s downtown core within the Rivers District. Since 2007, CMLC has been helping achieve the City’s objectives for urban densification and community renewal, infrastructure investment and place making.
The Calgary Stampede is a world-class, year-round gathering place in the heart of Calgary. As a not-for-profit community organization that preserves and celebrates western heritage, culture and community spirit, they are driven by the core values of western hospitality, integrity, pride of place and commitment to the community.
In May 2019, CMLC and the Calgary Stampede announced the 500 million CAD expansion of the BMO Convention Centre located in Stampede Park at the southern end of the Rivers District.
CMLC seeks an artist or artists’ team to create an artwork or artworks for the new BMO Convention Centre in Calgary, Alberta. CMLC encourages all locally, nationally and internationally qualified artists and artists’ teams to apply. This is an unencumbered call open to all qualified artists. The public art design will beautify, activate and enliven the BMO Convention Centre. The successful artist/artists’ team will work with CMLC, CS and the design firm Stantec/Populous/S2 Architecture (SPS) to determine the best location(s) for public art at the convention centre complex.
Budget: 2.50 million CAD
Exterior: 2.25 million CAD
Interior: 250,000.00 CAD
Closing date for request for qualifications: March 30, 2021, 5pm MST
Project budget
The total project budget is 2.5 million CAD. The budget is inclusive of all artist and artists’ team fees, and any associated expenses for design, fabrication, shipping, insurance, site preparation, and installation cost.
Required submission materials for the request for qualifications:
–A statement about your interest in public art and how it should engage or respond to its environment and the viewer.
–Annotated image list—12 images with: date, title, media and dimensions of past work including current work. If the images reflect public work include the location of the project and the commissioning agency. Multimedia items (videos or sound clips that describe your work may be included as part of the annotated image list but not exclusively so. Links to web-based portfolios are encouraged.
–A selected biography (CV) including current contact information.
–If working as part of a team, brief resumes of each team member and a description of past experiences working together.
–Two to three reviews or news articles about past projects (optional).
–Two professional letters of reference.
Format and address
All documents in your submission must be PDF only and contained in a folder titled with name of artist or artists’ team. Documents may contain support material i.e. links to videos and websites. Please keep submissions to 50 MB. One submission per artist or artists’ team only; multiple submissions will not be considered.
CMLC public art request for qualifications
C/O Art to Public at: info@arttopublic.net
Please click here to upload submissions.
Deadline
Proposals will be accepted until March 30, 2021 at 5pm MST. Reponses that do not fully meet the criteria above will not be considered at the sole discretion of the CMLC. Late submissions will not be accepted. Submissions will not be returned.
It is the respondent’s responsibility to request clarification of any item that is unclear or uncertain within the context of the RFQ package by contacting:
Art to Public/CMLC Public Art Manager: info@arttopublic.net / T +587 318 0601
Please click here to review the entire request for qualifications.
