Request for Proposals

Submission Deadline: March 31, 2010

Applicants must submit their portfolio to us online at: http://intothearts.slideroom.com

An Open Information Session will be held Tuesday, March 2nd, from 5:00-6:00p.m. at the Arts Council Offices at 305 West 4th St. in Winston-Salem for artists who have questions about the RFP or Slideroom.

Background and Location

The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County is renovating and enlarging the historic Sawtooth Building in downtown Winston-Salem. It will offer space for the Sawtooth School for Visual Arts, art exhibitions, receptions, meetings, and offices. With the conversion of an adjacent warehouse into HanesBrands Theater for theatrical, music and dance performances and movies, the entire complex will be renamed as Downtown Center for The Arts. Construction should be complete by late spring 2010.

Call to Local Artists

The Arts Council of Winston-Salem Forsyth County is seeking proposals from artists to transform a series of five inoperable corrugated metal doors, formerly fire doors, hung on the side walls of the new HanesBrands Theatre. The doors will be fixed in place prior to artistic treatment.  Only the face of each door will be exposed. All the walls of the theater are painted a very dark blue.

Artist Eligibility

The Arts Council will consider proposals only from professional artists in Forsyth County and surrounding counties (Yadkin, Stokes, Davidson, Davie, Surry) and from artists who have ties to Winston-Salem.

Budget:

The Arts Council will spend $5,000 for all five doors, or $1,000 per door. The budgeted amount will include artist's fee, materials, labor, and travel expenses.

Descriptions of Doors:

The doors vary in size: one 6'8"x 7'9", three 4'x 7'9", and one 4 ½' x 3'8". The top edge of each door is slightly angled from one side to the other. The vertically corrugated metal on the face of the doors is framed on each edge by a 1 ½ " flat metal band.  The distance between the peak of adjacent crests is 2 ½ ".  The troughs are 1/2" deep.

There are no preconceived themes or limits on style or choice of materials for application to the doors, but structural integrity cannot be altered.

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 Proposal Requirements:

Artists may submit design proposals for any number of the five doors and must submit their proposals online at: http://intothearts.slideroom.com.

Our SlideRoom portal offers instruction for submitting work. For technical assistance, contact support@slideroom.com. SlideRoom charges a $10 fee to process your application after you have submitted your proposal online in SlideRoom.

Your application needs to include the following:

1. A colored image for one to five doors and five examples of past work.  Applicants may upload images (jpg), and PDF documents. For good image quality and fast upload, your image files should be sized around 1024 x 768px @ 72 dpi. Please keep video files under 20MB.

Note: Designs need not reflect any connection with HanesBrands.

2. Description of Work.  After uploading the images in SlideRoom you will be able to label each of your images. Include the medium and size of past work.

3. Artist Resume.   Include your artist resume, no longer than 2 pages.

4. Project Proposal Description.   Describe your interest in this project and your ideas for the proposed project. The statement should be no longer than 200 words.

Selection Process:

The Arts Council Public Art Advisory Panel comprised of representatives from SECCA, Reynolda House, Piedmont Craftsman Inc., Delta Fine Arts, and the Arts Council will evaluate all qualifications and concepts processed through SlideRoom.

The Panel will determine how many artists will be selected for the project. Selection criteria, beyond artistic merit, will include professional qualifications, experience, and ability to work collaboratively in realization of the project.

Finalists may be asked to present proposals to the selection panel in person for further consideration.

Proposed Schedule of Work:

Tuesday, March 2, 2010 from 5:00-6:00pm: Information Session at the Arts Council Offices, 305 West 4^th Street, Winston-Salem

March 4, 2010 from 11:00 am-1:00pm: Staff available at the Downtown Center for the Arts to show artists doors (DCA is located at the intersection of Spruce Street and Second)

March 5, 2010 from 3:00-4:30: Staff available at the Downtown Center for the Arts to show artists doors (DCA is located at the intersection of Spruce Street and Second)

March 31, 2010: Artist Submission Deadline

April 1- 15, 2010: Public Art Advisory Panel selects finalist(s)

                              Finalist(s) contacted for personal presentation if requested by panel

April 30, 2010: Artist(s) selected

May 15, 2010: Contract(s) signed and Artist(s) may begin work

July 15, 2010: Artwork Completed

For more information or questions, contact Rebecca Parker at or Christine Gorelick at . 336.722.2585