Project Overview

SETTING

Bozeman Creek as it flows through Bogert Park forms a blue and green waterway, drawing people to it. The annual Summer SLAM Festival showcases the amazing talent Montana has to offer. This event features an artists' market, artist demonstrations, live music and performances, a culinary delights food court, Montana made libations garden, silent auction, and family activities.

GOALS

The selection panel is interested in commissioning an artwork that has a strong visual impact as seen by festival participants, and artists are encouraged to consider the diversity and intergenerational nature of the Summer SLAM Festival. Banner art/designs shall inspire a fresh look at water as it flows through Bogert Park and on towards downtown Bozeman.

A principle goal is to create beautiful and engaging imagery that will inspire appreciation, engagement, and dialogue.

Project Details

ARTWORK SITE

The five Banners will be hung from supports and placed in a north/south line adjacent to Bozeman Creek on the west side of Bogert Park. See attached site plan and Banner elevation view.

ARTWORK MATERIAL

The selection panel is open to artwork in all media and materials that is suitable for accurate digital reproduction and printing.

MATERIAL SPECIFICATIONS

Finished Banner Size: 80” High X 53.5” Wide

Final digital files for selected images must be 300 ppi at full size.

Images will be printed with eco-friendly inks onto 18 oz. UV cured exterior vinyl.

Who May Apply

This project is open to artists residing in Montana. Applicants may apply as a single artist or multi-person collaborative team. If applying as a team, please submit one résumé for the team, with no more than one page per team member.

Mountain Time Arts (MTA) and Summer SLAM Festival is committed to a selection process that reaches out to a broad diversity of artists and encourages applicants from historically marginalized and underrepresented communities, people with disabilities, and members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersexual, and asexual communities. MTA and SLAM also encourage applicants at various stages in their career and applicants practicing a variety of artistic disciplines.

PROGRAM GUIDELINES

Art is a catalyst for change and this project will bridge diverse cultures, emphasizing the importance of seeing and living sensitively with nature.

Artists are encouraged to consider the deep history of the creek and urban development in developing their proposal. Artists should also consider how their work will inspire community engagement, and relate Bozeman Creek with the SLAM Festival. Below are several potential thematic approaches, however; artists are welcome to work from their own conceptual framework as well.

PROMPTS/ INSPIRATION POINTS:

• What story can the creek tell ?

• Changing Communities and Landscapes

• Inspire a fresh look at water as it flows through Bogert Park and Downtown Bozeman

• Celebrate the confluence of art and water

• Inspire connection to and stewardship of the Gallatin Watershed

• Create a vision of a vital and healthy riparian waterway

• Reveal Bozeman Creek’s past history and illuminate its future aspirations

• Reveal the cultural history of water in the Gallatin Valley

• Invite a sense of play and interaction with Bozeman Creek

Application Process

Please submit the following by the deadline:

Digital image(s) of your original artwork (PDF or JPEG / sized to display well on computer)

Statement of Interest (1/2 page max.)

Description of Concept/Inspiration (1/2 page max.)

Bio/Resumé

Website/Instagram (optional)

Submit to: info@mountaintimearts.org

Submit any questions: info@mountaintimearts.org

Selection Process

The five (5) member selection panel will be made up of a Mountain Time Arts Board member, a SLAM Board member, two artists from the community, and a downtown community representative. The panel will review the proposals and select the five (5) artists or artist teams based on the following criteria:

1.) Originality and Creativity of Design (15 points max)

2.) Strength of Image to Communicate Concept/Inspiration (20 points max)

3.) Design’s relevance to Bozeman Creek Past, Present, and/or Future (15 points max)

PAYMENT OF THE AWARDS

Payment to each artist/artist team will occur after their digital image, at 300 ppi at full size, has been received and accepted by the printer of the banners.

INSTALLATION OF BANNERS

Mountain Time Arts will oversee the printing of the five (5) banners and will install and de-install the banners in Bogert Park for the Summer SLAM Festival. Each banner will have a sleeve at the top and hang from steel support frames. [see support diagram above]

Artist names and banner titles will be displayed adjacent to each banner.

Timeline

May 1, 4:30-5:30 MDT Information Session on Zoom

May 31, 2024 Proposal due: 5 p.m. MDT

June 15, 2024 Notification of selected artists

July 15, 2024 Deadline for Print Ready Digital File Submissions

August 3, 2024 Summer SLAM Festival Opens

August 4, 2024 Summer SLAM Festival Closes

ARTIST AWARDS

The five (5) selected artists will each be awarded $1,000. for the rights to reproduce their image

onto the banners. Artists will retain the copyright and Mountain Time Arts will own the banners and retain the right to display them in Bozeman City Parks and at other venues related to Bozeman Creek, without restriction, in the future.

Information Session

Mountain Time Arts is hosting a virtual pre-application meeting on Wednesday, May 1, 4:30-5:30 p.m. MDT; for interested applicants. The meeting will cover project background and goals, and the application process for this Request for Proposals (RFP). This event will be hosted on Zoom:

Topic: SeeBozemanCreek Information Session

Time: May 1, 2024 04:30 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)

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Site Overview / Art Banner Supports

LAND ACKOWLEDGEMENT

Montana is the traditional homeland and common hunting grounds of several tribes, including the Assiniboine, Blackfeet, Chippewa Cree, Crow, Gros Ventre, Kootenai, Little Shell, Northern Cheyenne, Pend d’Oreille, Plains Cree, Salish, Sioux, Hidatas, Mandan, and Arikara. Today this land is home to twelve sovereign tribes with over 67,000 enrolled members. These are not the only indigenous peoples to have inhabited the Montana region and we acknowledge those peoples.