The February 12th deadline for the Open Call for Proposals for ACP’s 2012 Public Art Project is rapidly approaching.

Each year, Atlanta Celebrates Photography commissions a temporary public art project as part of its annual, October photography festival. Our public art program has been featured in the Public Art Review and artists have gone on to show their past ACP projects in international galleries, art fairs, and publications. We are looking for your great idea to expand the way audiences consider, perceive and experience photography and lens-based or light-based media this October. The budget is $9000.

It’s FREE to apply and all applicants must apply through Call For Entry (free to register).

Our Open Call for Proposals for ACP 2012 Public Art is now accepting your creative ideas. We look forward to your proposals exploring the intersection of photography and public art in Atlanta for this year’s Festival!

Our 2012 Public Art Project has a $9,000 budget, and it’s free to apply. It is a requirement that your project involve lens-based or photographic media as an integral part of the piece (this includes images and/or video captured by a lens, or media in which light sensitivity is a primary element of the material, or reimagining the uses of photography, or possibilities of imagery made with light).

We encourage you to think widely and to explore this concept without restraint!

Take a look at ACP Public Art Projects from past years including work from Monica Cook, Karen Brummund, Beth Lilly, McCallum/Tarry, Jason Fulford, Matt Haffner, Amy Landesberg & Peter Bahouth.

This year, you can learn more and submit your proposal via callforentry.org. The application deadline is February 12th. We look forward to seeing your ideas for ACP Public Art!

ACP Public Art Project Call for Entries 2012

Atlanta Celebrates Photography is pleased to announce that the recipient of its annual Public Art Commission is Monica Cook of Brooklyn, NY (monicacookart.com). Please view the press release below:

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UPDATE: DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 7th

Here’s a quick reminder that proposals for ACP Public Art 2011 are due on February 28th March 7th at 11:59pm, EST.

Download the pdf and submit your proposal today!

ACP 12 Public Art – Karen Brummund from Atlanta Celebrates Photography on Vimeo.

ACP 12 Public Art – Karen Brummund from Atlanta Celebrates Photography on Vimeo.

Two videos from Karen Brummund documenting last year’s ACP Public Art installation on Huff Road. Submit your proposal for ACP Public Art 2011!

We’ve put out an open call today for proposals for ACP’s 2011 Public Art project. Here are the details (pdf), and while you’re at it, check out ACP’s recent history of public art projects.

Entries are due Feburary 28th, and as always, there’s no age limit or entry fee.

Check out this quick interview with Karen Brummund from this morning at the site of “Before 1190 Huff Road” her installation for ACP 12 Public Art. The project opens on Saturday, Oct. 2nd, at 6pm. More details: ACP 12 Public Art – Festival Guide Listing.

If you can’t see the sign-up form below, please sign-up here.

We’re pleased to learn that 2008 ACP Public Artists McCallum/Tarry have a retrospective opening May 4th in Baltimore at Maryland Art Place. The video they created for their ACP installation in the water tower in the Old Fourth Ward, “Within Our Gates“, will be part of the exhibition.

From the new issue of The Atlantan, where Atlantans were asked for ideas for the new Mayor, Kasim Reed.

Susan Bridges, Whitespace Gallery

“I recently went to Toronto to attend Nuit Blanche, an all-night art show. People stood in line at 3 a.m. to get into venues held in vacant buildings, grocery stores, and on tops of buildings. Everything was free and the entire city was into it. This “art show” draws about 1 million people into the streets. Atlanta has so many open spaces and so many amazing artists who want and need to have a more active and supportive community. How can we make our great city a cultural center as well? Through education and public art.”

ACP announces a request for proposals for 2010 Public Art. There’s no entry fee, a $12,000 budget, and proposals are due on January 15th, 2010.
Download ACP 12 Public Art RFP: (.doc / .pdf)

“As one component of our month-long, city-wide celebration of photography each October, ACP produces a Public Art Project. ACP’s acclaimed program of public art has featured temporary projects in a variety of diverse locations throughout Atlanta. The program is significant in its ability to reach beyond the audience of traditional art venues and expand the way its audience considers and perceives photography and “lens-based” media. We are looking for project ideas that take advantage of public art’s ability to reach new audiences. It is also important that audiences understand that they are experiencing public art. “

2010 ACP Public Art Project RFP

Check out the interview with Beth Lilly on Burnaway about ACP’s Public Art Project “Gifted”.

“You had to physically place yourself in front of someone and declare very quickly, ‘We’re doing a public art project—giving prints for FREE to the public.’ Over the 12 days, I had the patter down. I experimented with what words would quickly get the idea across fast enough for them to stop and listen. But then I found you had to be sincere and real every time—anything else smacked of sales and advertising and wouldn’t work. Like once, I held up prints and spontaneously shouted, ‘This is what public art looks like!’ That stopped about five people in their tracks who came over to see what it was about. I did that again later and no one even looked at me. People can tell when your words are sincere and when it’s just some tag line.”

Check out today’s email newsletter for details about the launch of ACP’s 2009 Public Art Project Gifted, and sign-up to have ACP news in your inbox!

ACP’s public art project this year (curated by Beth Lilly) is going to be amazing, and there are only a few days left to submit. For more info, and details on submitting, see: Curating 12 Local Photographers. And check out other Opportunites and Call to Artists!

We announced this week that Beth Lilly will be curating “Gifted”, ACP’s Public Art project for 2009. She will be including the work of 12 photographers in her project, and local photographers have been asking how to submit work for possible inclusion in the project. Here’s how!

“Georgia residents within the Atlanta Metro Area who are interested in having their work considered can email Beth Lilly at atlgifted@gmail.com. Please include your name, address and phone number in the body of the email and attach examples of your work and a resume.

1.  Send no more than 5 images to review.  Files should be 72 dpi, 14″ on the longest dimension and saved as jpegs.  Any files that do not meet this criteria will not be reviewed.

2.  A current resume/CV that details you work as an artist/photographer should be saved as a Word Document. Please make sure the file type is “.doc” not “.dox””

ACP is pleased to announce that Beth Lilly‘s project “Gifted” has been selected for the ACP 11 Public Art project. Here’s our email announcement outlining the project. Beth’s project was selected by a distinguished panel of jurors, and we thank all of you who applied. We’re looking forward to bringing Atlanta another fantastic public art project for October ’09.

Writer Jeremy Abernathy reminded me this weekend of the review he wrote for ArtVoices Magazine of the ACP 10 Public Art Project “Within Our Gates”. Have a look!

Two great notices for ACP in year-end wrap-ups. One from the AJC, the other from Creative Loafing:

“ATLANTA CELEBRATES PHOTOGRAPHY has offered the city significant commissioned public art for a decade. This year, ACP turned up the heat with Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry’s “Within Our Gates” (Oct. 5-25). Installed in the Irwin Street water tower in the Old Fourth Ward, the work was a trenchant homage to Atlanta’s history of civil rights and protest from the people. Multimedia projections, atmospheric graffiti and a circulating tide pool all served as fitting metaphors for change burbling up from below. When it came to dissecting Atlanta’s fractured history, McCallum and Tarry demonstrated that sometimes outsiders have the best insight.” — Cinqué Hicks [freshloaf]

“Public art: “Within Our Gates” in the Old Fourth Ward. Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry’s multisensory evocation of the civil rights era in an old water tower was a resonant matching of subject and site. Curated by Lisa Kurzner, it was sponsored by Atlanta Celebrates Photography, which continues to expand its contributions to Atlanta’s cultural life.” – Catherine Fox [ajc]

Following the success of “Within Our Gates“, and our last few years of Public Art projects, we’ve decided to create an Open Call for Proposals for next year’s ACP 11 Public Art Project. Entries are due January 5th, 2009.

Here’s a downloadable Word doc with all the proposal guidelines, or an html version of the same. We look forward to your entry!

ACP is looking for a few great volunteers to sign-up for 2hr shifts at the ACP 10 Public Art installation “Within Our Gates” at the Water Tower @ Auburn and Irwin.

Please click this link to sign-up for a 2-hr slot!
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pS76Fm-bRmomyp2Yb23bDMA

Thanks for your support! (Don’t forget to click SUBMIT!)