RFQ 23/24-09

Project Overview: 

Lane Community College and the Health Professions Building Art Selection Committee are seeking an artist(s) to create site-specific artwork for the HPB, located on Lane’s main campus at 4000 East 30th Ave, Eugene, Oregon. This opportunity is open to established artists working locally and throughout the United States.  

Deadline to Apply: 11:59pm,  June 3, 2024

Budget: 

The budget to complete the artwork is $110,000. This budget is inclusive of all costs of creating the artwork including but not limited to labor, materials, equipment, insurance, travel and required documentation. 

Project Description 

Upon its completion, the new HPB will co-locate several Health Professions programs (Medical Assistant, Emergency Medical Technician, Dental Assisting, and Dental Hygiene). The design for the building is rooted in a deep commitment to strengthen, support, and empower the community it will serve. The design celebrates Lane Community College’s role in supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive community through education and employment. 

Nestled in the Willamette Valley, between the Cascade Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, Lane Community College serves more than 25,000 students per year through transfer, career technical, and personal enrichment programs. Home to more than 228,000 people, the Eugene/Springfield area is the second largest population center in the state, and Lane serves a 4,600 square mile area.

Lane’s Mission:

Lane is the community’s college: we provide comprehensive, accessible, quality, learning-centered educational opportunities that promote student success.

The HPB will be a campus gateway and an important navigational and wayfinding tool. Viewed from E. 30th Avenue, it will be an immediately recognizable landmark. The addition of exterior murals—central to the architectural team’s vision for the building—will signal this landmark status from afar. 

Artwork Goals 

The design should:

-Be comprehensive and provide a sense of unity to the building.

-Encourage movement through the building by providing a sense of flow from the north face to the building's interior to the south face.

-Provide a sense of welcome as a gateway to the campus.

-Represent the diversity of the institution and address the principles of diversity equity and inclusion.

-Be visible from a distance.  

-Read well from a distance as well as up close- provide for discovery and visual conversation.

Installation Site Details: 

Committee priorities to be addressed: North Elevation Mural, South Elevation Mural, Interior Mural. 

Additional walls available as funding allows: East Elevation Mural panels, West Elevation Mural

The images in the Site Details(below) illustrate various wall surfaces available for potential murals, at both exterior and interior locations of the building. The exterior walls intended for the murals are cement plaster with an integral acrylic finish. The interior walls are primed gypsum wallboard. The exterior locations at the north and south entrance porticos are illuminated at night. The combination of the north elevation mural, interior murals at the first and second floors, and the south elevation murals trace the circulation path through the building and present the potential for a singular, integrated piece of art.                                                   

Application Requirements

Artists interested in submitting a qualifications for this project must prepare and submit  the following via email, or create a single PDF or link to a website that provides all of the following information: 

-Letter of Interest - Maximum 1 page as a PDF file named with “artist’s last name, first initial, cover” (doejcover.pdf) addressing:

-     Your interest in this project

-     Your past experience with large-scale installations

-     Your familiarity/interest in educational environments 

-     Your availability to meet the schedule

-Artist Resume - as a PDF file named with “artist’s last name, first initial, resume” (doejresume.pdf). Please limit to 2 pages per person and include a daytime telephone number, email and address. 

-Work Samples: 

Images - Up to 10 JPEG images of recent work. 

Images must be no larger than 1024 x 1024 pixels, and 72 dpi, Maximum 1MB each.

Each image filename must be named as follows: artist’s last name, first initial and number corresponding to the number on the image list (doej01.jpg).

 -Corresponding Image Identification List - as a PDF file named with “artist’s last name, first initial, image list” (doejimagelist.pdf). Include:

-        Commissioning agency

-        Brief project description

-        Title of work

-        Date of completion 

-        Materials 

-        Budget 

Materials must be received no later than 11:59pm on June 2, 2024 

Delivery is the sole responsibility of the applicant.  Applications not received by the specified time and date will not be considered.

Lane Community College reserves the right to repost the call if a selection is not made.

Additional Information: 

If you have any questions or need additional information, please contact Public Art Project Coordinator Lee Imonen at callforart@lanecc.edu (and) contractprocurement@lanecc.edu

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility 

Local and national artists are encouraged to apply.

Lane Community College is inviting artists to submit their qualifications  in response to this RFQ. Responding artists must provide samples of their portfolios. Proposals will be reviewed by the HPB Art Selection Committee and recommendations  for finalists will be made.
 

Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

The College is committed to taking active steps toward increasing and promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion values across procurement processes for minority, women, emerging small, and service-disabled veteran owned businesses by reducing barriers to compete for and be awarded state contracts. All interested businesses are encouraged to submit proposals for this contracting opportunity.