The City of Casa Grande is seeking application for its Utility Box Art Program to enhance the Casa Grande community by adding works of art to the streetscapes on surfaces that are often targeted by graffiti.
Donor Name: City of Casa Grande
State: Arizona
City: Casa Grande
Type of Grant: Program
Deadline: 03/03/2023
Size of the Grant: $500
Details:
The Arts and Humanities Commission has partnered with the CG Mosaic Creative Communities Team on the Arizona Public Service (APS) Utility Box Art Program. This program is designed to enhance the Casa Grande community by adding works of art to the streetscapes on surfaces that are often targeted by graffiti. Artwork on utility boxes functions as a form of communication to a moving audience with the goal of creating a safe, inclusive, and interesting environment.
Specifications
- Successful proposals will foster community pride and convey a sense of the City of Casa Grande’s culture, history, business, and amazing outdoors and open spaces.
- When designing the artwork, artists should recognize the vitality of the downtown area, diverse neighborhoods, and how these areas contribute to the city through arts, music, community events, outdoors, history, culture, and special attractions.
- Artwork must be in good taste.
- The Commission has identified Seven (7) utility boxes. Do your homework. If interested in a specific box location, do a site visit to get a feel for the local architecture, neighborhood, and history of the area.
Funding Information
- Selected artists will be given $500.00 to paint a large utility box and $250.00 to paint a small utility box
- After all the utility boxes have been painted, the Arts and Humanities Commission and CG Mosaic Creative Communities Team will select one winner who will be awarded $500.00.
Criteria for Design and Painting of Artwork for Utility Boxes
- Designs must include all sides of the Utility box
- Design must reflect positivity
- No offensive designs, or designs that contain advertising, religious art, sexual or illegal drug content, negative imagery or convey political partisanship
- For safety reasons, designs cannot contain any representation of traffic lights, signs or signals or mimic the same colors of a traffic signal or sign
- Design cannot cover any utility box identification numbers, codes, keyholes, meters, or handles
- Designs may not include any breach of intellectual property, copyrights, trademarks, brands, images of illegal activity or involve the attachment of any object(s) to the box
Material to be used:
Paint must be outdoor latex paint and coated with UV protection sealant.
For more information, visit City of Casa Grande.
