Texas Tech Maddox Engineering Research Center - Public Art RFQ
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The Texas Tech University System seeks to commission a professional artist(s) to create site-specific exterior sculpture(s) to be placed outside of Maddox Engineering Research Center. The building is scheduled to be complete by summer 2016.
The Maddox Engineering Research Center will be the lead building for research in the Whitacre College of Engineering, especially for areas regarding energy and sustainability. The project will renovate the 73,649 square-foot former Mass Communication building, which includes a basement laboratory and first and second floors for research space, as well as faculty and graduate student offices, meeting and conference rooms, a lecture hall and classroom spaces.
Safety is imperative; durable, low-maintenance materials are recommended to withstand West Texas' intense weather conditions. Ideal submissions may be linear or designed to make the maximum impact in a linear space. Submitting artists should consider lighting and other elements that will draw attention to the sculpture at various times throughout the day. Water features are highly discouraged, but the selected artist may have an opportunity to collaborate with landscape architects for the project.
This art project should primarily be designed to honor the two brothers in whose memory the major gift in support of the Project was provided by the J. F Maddox Foundation: Jack Maddox, Texas Tech Class ' 29, and Donovan Maddox, Texas Tech Class '34. The humble backgrounds of these two distinguished graduates of Texas Tech and the successes they achieved following the education each of them received at Texas Tech is detailed in the Maddox Family History Appendix to this RFQ. It will be important that their backgrounds and achievements will be apparent to one viewing this art project.
Additional possible concepts to consider are renewable energy, engineering, sustainability, and research. Artists should keep in mind that this will be a premier research facility for Texas Tech and will provide a place where researchers and their teams will make the next generation of engineering discoveries. Any concepts that may be considered polemic or political should be avoided.
Location: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Abilene, Texas
Budget: $243,000
Deadline: September 3, 2015, 3 p.m. (Central)
See full RFQ here: http://esbd.cpa.state.tx.us/bid_show.cfm?bidid=119070
Apply here: http://www.publicartist.org/artist/call.cfm?id=751
