4Culture and King County’s Wastewater Treatment Division (WTD) will commission two artists or artist-led teams to create intrigue and stimulate curiosity, raise awareness, and foster an emotional connection to the largely invisible Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) system.
Donor Name: 4Culture
State: Washington
County: King County (WA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/08/2022
Size of the Grant: $40,000
Details:
This exciting opportunity is connected to a new project site, the West Duwamish Wet Weather Storage Facility located in West Seattle. The artists selected for this project will have the opportunity to create meaningful artwork that engages issues of social, economic, and environmental relevance. They encourage collaboration with communities in the area throughout the project duration.
Budget
$40,000 each ($8,000 fee, up to $32,000 for implementation). Budgets are inclusive of artist fee, and implementation. Washington State Sales/Use Tax may apply depending on the artist work.
Eligibility Criteria
- This project is open to artists working in a range of disciplines who reside in King County, WA.
- Artistic disciplines may include, performing, literary, visual, time-based media, and social practice. The artistic outcome may include a performance, publication, film or video, event, installation, as well as temporary interventions or artist-initiated actions.
- 4Culture and Wastewater Treatment Division (WTD) employees, selection panel members, PAAC members, project personnel including design consultants, and immediate family members of all the above are not eligible to apply.
Selection Criteria
Finalists will be selected on the basis of the following criteria:
- Quality and strength of past work as demonstrated in submitted application materials.
- Ability to realize innovative, artist-initiated, community-based artwork that engages the public.
- Specificity of Statement of Interest, which should include the applicants desire to explore the CSO-themed topic, End of the Line.
- Interest to create a work that addresses the project duration; defined as short term, as it relates to the applicant’s body of work.
- Expressed interest to engage in issues of social, economic and/or environmental relevance.
- The desire to work with 4Culture and WTD on the commissioned project.
For more information, visit West Duwamish Wet Weather Storage Facility Grant.
