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Thu. July 5, 2007, 11:29am PDT
Call for "D" Street overpass art
Want a chance to make your mark on the new "D" Street Overpass without resorting to graffiti? The City of Tacoma wants artists to apply for the job of helping create "interpretive displays" for the bridge. Received via email:
Attached is the Call to Artists for the East D Street Overpass Interpretive Panels. This is an opportunity for designers, design firms, artists, or artist teams to develop a series of four permanent interpretive signs to be installed at select vantage points on the East D Street Overpass in Tacoma. $20,000 budget.
Application deadline is July 27, 2007.
Sounds like they need input for creating four "enameled metal interpretive panels" viewable by pedestrians using the bridge. From the PDF:
As a component of the project, the City of Tacoma will install a series of enameled metal interpretive panels at four predetermined vantage points, which will provide an interpretive element to pedestrians using the overpass. The objective of the installation is to communicate the developmental and use history of the area, to demonstrate the changes that have occurred through time, and to tell the stories of the Native American, early settler, and industrial users of the area, using visual and narrative elements.
Sounds like a fun project. Anyone out there in Tacoma-land plan on submitting?
Comments (4) | To Top
7/5/2007 @ 11:38am
Hmmmm. I think there is a large purple building there with some art on it. Is that the Genre they are looking for?
by Erik B.
7/5/2007 @ 5:18pm
What's wrong with graffitti art? What, too "urban?"
by Broadweezy
7/6/2007 @ 12:41am
Don't worry, Broadweezy, give it time and those genuinely-artistically rendered panels will inherit a layer of graffiti "art". Everyone wins.
by The Mushroom
7/6/2007 @ 6:31am
Broadweezy: Reading through the PDF I actually don't see any prohibition on this project utilizing graffiti art. Submit some to the project and see what happens!
by KevinFreitas