The Mayor’s Office invites student artists to submit designs for a decorative acoustic panel. The Boston Art Commission, in collaboration with Boston Public Schools, is looking for a BPS student to create the design for the acoustic panel to go in the School Committee Room in the new Dudley Municipal Center!
Award: $3,000 Deadline: Monday, Jan. 20, 2014
This public art commission is open to all Boston Public School students or teams of students!
Find the application here!
The artist (or team) is requested to develop a design for a decorative fabric acoustic panel to hang in the School Committee Room of the Dudley Square Municipal Office Center. Visible from Washington Street, the work will be developed in collaboration with project architects Sasaki Associates and the acoustic fabric panel fabricator, to ensure that the art is fully integrated into the space. The contemporary building design incorporates the façades of three pre-existing historic buildings. The artwork design must complement the historic, cultural, and collaborative environment; address the dynamic and multifaceted nature of Roxbury; and enliven the School Committee Room with an innovative and fresh design. The submitted work will ultimately be implemented by the acoustic panel fabricator in order to maintain the technical criteria set forth in the Architectural project documentation.
This piece will be incorporated into a wall-mounted acoustic panel in the School Committee Room. This room will be the future home of school committee meetings as well as other public events. The panel will be approximately
81’ wide by 11’6” tall and constructed in sections as illustrated in the attached figure (Acoustic Panel Shape reference). The space is intended to hold 200 people. It is expected that this piece will be visible from the street when facing the building along Washington Street.
Find the application here! For artwork submission questions please contact: Karin Goodfellow, Director of the Boston Art Commission at [email protected]
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