Artist Information Meeting For 2009 Texas Biennial April 30, 2008

The Texas Biennial, Austin and The City of Austin, Cultural Arts Division announces:

ARTIST INFORMATION MEETING FOR 2009 TEXAS BIENNIAL
Meeting Time: Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 at 7PM
301 W. 2nd Street, Austin, TX 78701
Boards and Commissions Room of City Hall

AUSTIN, Texas, April 21, 2008 — The City of Austin’s Art in Public Places (AIPP) program is partnering with the Texas Biennial to select several professional visual artists in Texas for commission of temporary public art projects in Austin’s downtown green spaces.

An artist information meeting about this new component of the Texas Biennial will be held on Wednesday, April 30, 2008, at 7 pm, in the Boards and Commissions Room of City Hall (301 W. 2nd Street; Austin, TX 78701). Free parking validation will be available for the City Hall Garage.

The artist information meeting will include brief presentations by the City of Austin Art in Public Places program staff and organizers of the Texas Biennial, who will focus on the overall structure of the exhibition, including the available sites for outdoor temporary artwork, budget guidelines, timelines, proposal requirements and the procedures for applying online to the Call to Artists. A question and answer period will also be included.

The chosen works and the awarding of funds for the Art in Public Places temporary outdoor projects will be a shared review process between Risa Puleo, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Blanton Museum of Art and Art in Public Places Panel Vice-Chair, and Michael Duncan, Los Angeles-based independent arts curator and writer. Potential sites for the temporary outdoor projects include Auditorium Shores, the Mexican American Cultural Center grounds, Fiesta Gardens, and Butler Park (formerly Town Lake Park).

The individual public art project budgets will range from $3,000 - $10,000, depending on the scope of the artwork proposed, with a total of $40,000 for the entire temporary outdoor component of the Texas Biennial. The exhibition will open March 6, 2009, with the option for temporary artwork to remain installed, if appropriate, through December 31, 2009.

All applicants must submit their proposals for temporary public art through the Texas Biennial website, available at www.texasbiennial.com. The deadline for submissions is Saturday, May 31, 2008.

For further information please contact, Meghan Turner, Art in Public Places Coordinator at Meghan Turner, Art in Public Places Coordinator at 512.974.9314 or Meghan.Turner@ci.austin.tx.us.

Official Website: http://texasbiennial.com/