06/09/2018
The University of Alaska Fairbanks is seeking proposals from artists and/or artist teams for the permanent installation of public art for the Engineering Learning and Innovation Facility located on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus, Fairbanks, Alaska.
The Engineering Learning and Innovation Facility is a 120,000 square-foot multi-story engineering research and teaching facility. The building houses multiple large laboratories, student maker-spaces, extreme environmental cold-rooms, and classrooms used in learning and discoveries related to all disciplines of engineering. The facility is home to the College of Engineering and Mines and the Institute of Northern Engineering. Included in the building are programs such as the Space Systems Engineering Lab and the Alaska Center for Energy and Power. The building is located on the far eastern side of campus near the UAF Cornerstone, on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus.
There are four areas in the building that have been selected as locations for new art work incorporated under this request for proposals.
● Location One is a large brow above a transom window and below a window wall in the clerestory opening between Level 3 and 4. The wall is about 40-feet long and 4-feet tall and is currently painted sheetrock.
● Location Two is a series of open spaces contained within the structural steel that frames a wall on the north side of the Usibelli Coal Mine Student Study Atrium. The wall is clad with acoustical panels and features multiple triangular-shaped openings.
● Location Three is located on the east wall of the corridor outside of the Schaible Auditorium. This location is currently a painted sheetrock wall and the area for artwork will be subject to contact due to its height. Any piece mounted there must be durable and appropriate for the location.
● Location Four is located on the south wall outside classroom 301/305. This location is currently a painted sheetrock wall and the area for artwork will be subject to contact due to its height. Any piece mounted there must be durable and appropriate for the location.
The Call for Art can be downloaded from This website
http://facilities.alaska.edu/uaf/fsProps/rfp.cfm
Please disseminate to those artist/artist teams you think would possibly submit a proposal for this opportunity at UAF!!
