Calling all artists! Submit your qualifications for the Floresta Drive roundabout

The City of Port St. Lucie is seeking an artist or artist team to design, fabricate, and install a large-scale, dynamic, site-specific artwork for a future roundabout on Floresta Drive.

A new roundabout, adjacent to Floresta Elementary School, is being constructed. The artwork should create a landmark on Floresta Drive and connect to the Floresta Elementary School's dolphin mascot. Work must be suitable to the space and its function.

The artist(s) selected for the commission will conceptualize and identify appropriate aesthetic treatments for proposed project elements. The artist(s) must be able to work in collaboration with a Project Team made up of representatives from the City of Port St. Lucie, the project designer, the departments responsible for the site, city leadership, and the community.

Selection Criteria

The artist or artist team will be selected by demonstrating:

• Artistic Excellence: The aesthetic significance and quality of the artwork, including the artwork's transformative and distinctive qualities.
• Context: Artwork's appropriateness to the surrounding architecture, topography, local history, and community attitudes and concerns of both the residents of the City of Port St. Lucie and the surrounding community.
• Community Engagement: the ability to lead community engagement sessions during the design process to introduce the artwork.
• Durability, Safety and Permanence: The artwork is resistant to weathering and high vehicular traffic as well as structural sustainable. The artwork must be examined for unsafe conditions, materials, or factors, as well as the potential for excessive maintenance.
• Technical Feasibility: The artist must provide convincing evidence of his or her ability to complete the artwork as proposed.
• Past Performance: The Selections Committee will consider the artist's performance under previous contracts including success in meeting established timelines and budgets.

Once selected, the artist must design and create artwork that:

• is of high artistic quality
• is appropriate to the project site
• is of durable design and uses durable materials
• requires minimal maintenance
• provides maximum resistance to vandalism
• reflects one or more of the project goals identified in the request for qualifications

All materials must be converted into a PDF file and emailed to Josh Lapp with Designing Local at [email protected], by Nov. 6, at 5 p.m. EST. Large PDFs may be sent via file sharing (Dropbox, Google Drive, etc). There is no submission fee.

For questions, contact Josh Lapp with Designing Local at 614-607-1557 or Planner III Bethany Grubbs with the City of Port St. Lucie at [email protected], 772-344-4362.

Learn more about the Public Art Master Plan at www.CityofPSL.com/Art.

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