Call For Squamish Artists: Broadway Subway Project
- June 30, 2022
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JULY 29, 2022
The Broadway Subway Project is an approximately 5.7 km extension of the SkyTrain Millennium Line from VCC-Clark Station to a new terminus at Broadway and Arbutus Street, with six new underground stations. Project construction commenced in Fall 2020 with the new extension going into service in late 2025.
Station art is a key component at many stations and/or station plazas along the SkyTrain system and at all existing Millennium Line stations. This call for public art is an opportunity to acknowledge and showcase Squamish Nation culture, and will be a legacy project for commuters to see. Two artist calls are currently open.
Squamish Nation artists are invited to develop and submit a concept for glass art.
The total contract value is $125,000 and the deadline for submissions is Friday, July 29, 2022.
For more information, including application requirements, please download the Information Package below or contact Elizabeth_Ross@squamish.net
Squamish Nation artists are invited to develop and submit a concept for wall tile art.
The total contract value is $41,000 and the deadline for submissions is Friday, July 29, 2022.
For more information, including application requirements, please download the Information Package below or contact Elizabeth_Ross@squamish.net
Please note: these dates apply to both the glass art and wall tile art call for artists.
July 4, 2022 - announcement of artist call
July 22, 2022 - deadline to submit clarification questions to Elizabeth_Ross@squamish.net
July 29, 2022 - deadline for submissions to Elizabeth_Ross@squamish.net
Early August 2022 - shortlisted artists or artist teams to attend a project orientation meeting
September 8, 2022 - deadline for concept proposal submissions
Mid September 2022 - shortlisted artists presentations
Late September 2022 - selected artist or artist team notified
Please note: these guidelines apply to both the glass art and wall tile art call for artists.
Design Guidelines
- Celebrate, recognize, and give space to the Squamish Nation on whose traditional territory the artwork is to be located.
- Spark awareness to the community of traditional Coast Salish territory and culture.
- Reflect Squamish Nation Coast Salish design and imagery.
- Consider the ways the artwork is experienced - from fleeting glimpses to sustained examination and engagement over time.
- Safety and security of the artwork, with consideration for the need to maintain uninterrupted transit circulation and sightlines.
- Potential impacts to the station interior design including level of lighting.
- Durability of art application and fabrication methods, colour fastness and installation requirements, including the need for maintenance and operation.
Public art should also meet the following technical criteria:
- The artwork should be robust and durable. Artwork and its associated components, systems and attachment shall be able to withstand the test of time, the elements, and potential interaction of a large number of transit users.
- The artwork should not require ongoing readjustments or extraordinary maintenance (see Life Expectancy of Artwork).
- The artwork should meet public safety, security and maintenance standards.
- The artwork should not create negative interactions with persons with disabilities, including people with visual impairments. Detailed design parameters and technical criteria will be provided to the artists during the concept design stage to ensure design proposals meet safety, operation and maintenance standards.
Artists interested in either of these projects should prepare and submit an electronic application by email to Elizabeth Ross, Cultural and Technical Manager, Ta na wa Yúus ta Stitúyntsam̓ (Rights & Title).
Email: Elizabeth_Ross@squamish.net
Deadline: Friday July 29, 2022
Please include the following:
- Letter of interest (one to two pages) - describing the artist's conceptual approach to this public art opportunity.
- Current resume - if applying as an artist team, please provide one for each artist.
- Sample of previous work (up to 10 images) - please include the title of the artwork, medium(s), brief description, date of completion, dimensions, artwork location and commissioning body.
- Name and contact information of two reference persons - these should be people with whom the artist has worked in the past and are familiar with the artist works and practice.
- The artist's or artist team's contact information.
