State of LA Public Art Workshop
May 11, 2019 @ 9:00AM — 3:00PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
The Percent for Art Workshop will provide artists with critical tools necessary to successfully navigate the competitive proposal process, and offer guidance on best practices for engineering and fabricating projects that meet and exceed stakeholder expectations.
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ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
The Percent for Art Workshop will provide artists with critical tools necessary to successfully navigate the competitive proposal process, and offer guidance on best practices for engineering and fabricating projects that meet and exceed stakeholder expectations.
Across the state, three sites will be selected for all-day sessions in lecture halls or classrooms
following this format
A. Proposal Process 9:00 – 11:00 AM,
* Professionalism
* Realistic Expectations
* Beginning of a Career
* Benefiting from the a site
* RFQ versus RFP and slide registries
* Documentation and Public Relations of a completed project
Lunch and informal discussion 11:00 – 1:00PM
B. Materials/Processes 1:00 – 3:00PM.
* Longevity
* Vandalism
* Interior versus Exterior
* Prototypes/Problem solving
* Engineering
* Fabricators
Site Visit/Fabricators (2 days)
Following these lecture and discussion workshop sessions, two all-day site visit field trips will
introduce attendees to fabricators, engineers, and visits nearby examples of public art/fabrication.
Based upon their specific interests attendees can select which site visits are most relevant to their
own practice. (Lafayette/New Orleans)
C. Site Visits
* Local Public Art
* Fabricators
* Collaborators/Communities
* Public Partners