VIRGINIA BEACH CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS COMMUNITY ARTIST RESIDENCY

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The City of Virginia Beach Cultural Affairs Department, in partnership with Virginia Beach City Public Schools is looking to engage one artist or art team, to participate in a short-term Artist Residency with Bayside 6th Grade Campus and Bayside Middle School, to produce creative public art projects that are reflective of the school and the community.

The public art projects will be displayed at Williams Farm Park, for one or two days at the completion of the Residency. The artist is encouraged to connect with local businesses, community organizations, and neighbors to produce a temporary public work that engages the community and reflects their spirit and collective story. This opportunity is open to any visual, performing or literary artist who can commit to a six-week residency program.

Residency Goals

• This program is to provide an opportunity for the artist and the school to develop projects that have a positive impact on the social and physical connectivity in and around the partnered school.
• To create deep community engagement that results in a collaborative, creative pop-up art project.
• Artist will have six weeks to get to know the school and surrounding community and develop a creative project in response to the short-term residency with the school.
• The residency is not limited to visual artists. The final project should activate the physical space of Williams Farm Park.
• The structure of this residency is intentionally open-ended.​

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RFQ + PROJECT TIMELINE | PROCESS

• Submission deadline: December 11, 2019
• Panel review and Interview Schedule: December 13, 2019
• Final artist notified: Week of December 16th, 2019
• Project completion: Prior to June 2020​
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RUNNYMEDE GALLERY AT PAVILION I

Runnymede is booking artists to host exhibitions in their Gallery at Pavilion I beginning October 2019. If interested in showing with them, please review & complete the below application for review by their committee.

About The Gallery

The Gallery at Pavilion I is a Class-A office building located within the ViBe Creative District, the newest art and cultural hub in Hampton Roads. At just six blocks from the Oceanfront, it is easily within walking distance of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), the Virginia Beach Convention Center, and many retail shops, restaurants, and health and wellness facilities. There are five (5) floors of space available for displaying art, each with a 23ft wall opposite the elevators so the work is seen immediately upon exit of each floor and in the lobby. Art work is available for public viewing from 9am-5:30pm M-F; and Opening Receptions typically attract 50-75 people.

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Specific dates vary per project.

SELECTION COMMITTEE AND CRITERIA
A Public Art Selection Committee will be created by the Office of Cultural Affairs. The committee will consist of a minimum of two City representatives, a Public Art Committee member, an arts professional (who may also be a qualified Public Art Committee member), the project's building and/or landscape architect or engineer (if applicable), and at least one citizen at large who represents the community where the project is located. The Selection Committee members will serve through the completion of assigned public art project. Their duties will include the review and feedback regarding artist selections and concepts based on set criteria and complete applications.

ARTIST SELECTION PROCESS
The artist selection process will be unique to each project. The following are the different types of Calls to Artists.

General Call to Artists, RFP/RFQ
An open call to artists is posted to local and/or national platforms for a set period of time. All applicants are reviewed through selection process.

Request for Qualifications (RFQ)
Invites artists to send their qualifications to be reviewed by the selection committee, but does not require a specific proposal to be submitted. Artists are chosen based on their past and current art and achievements.

Request for Proposals (RFP)
Call for Artists may include a request for brief comment (rather than a full proposal) on the artist's approach to the project.

                 • Promotion of Call to Artists may be through the following:

                          - CaFÉ

        ​​                  - American for the Arts Public Art Network​

                          - TransArtists.org

                          - PublicArtist.org

                          - ArtistTrust.org

                          - ResArtis.org

                          - Social Media, with a specific focus on local / regional artist groups and organizations

                          - Media outlets

                          - Invitational emails to local, regional, national and/or short listed artists

All projects are open to artists who have previous experience in large-scale outdoor design and community-based projects (if applicable). Local and national professional artists or artist-led teams are eligible to apply.

Applicants must:

• Be at least 18 years of age
• Be a U.S. citizen
• Have successfully managed and completed at least one (1) similar commissioned project with a budget equal to or greater than the proposed project budget.
• Provide previous samples of work to illustrate style, qualifications and experiences