Call for Temporary Public Light Art Installations in Scottsdale, Arizona

Scottsdale Public Art seeks proposals for outdoor, light-based temporary public artworks to be featured in and around the Arizona Canal at the Scottsdale Waterfront, Scottsdale, AZ, for Canal Convergence | The Power of Play, Nov. 3-12, 2023.

Eligibility: All local, regional, and international artists, artist teams, architects, designers, and multimedia specialists are invited to submit a proposal. Due to evolving COVID-19 pandemic travel restrictions, international artists who apply must have remote installation as an option for their proposal.

What you get: Scottsdale Public Art is seeking public art proposals with budgets between $5,000 and $35,000 (USD), with a limited number of larger budgets (up to $45,000 USD) being awarded to new commissions and/or major works of a larger physical scale. Artists wishing to provide proposals for larger-scale budgets are required to demonstrate experience successfully producing projects to the scale being proposed. Applicants are encouraged to apply for a budget appropriate to their project and, if proposing a project above the $35,000 (USD) limit, scaling options are a plus. The following will be provided by Canal Convergence, and therefore do not need to be included in the proposal budget.