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 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

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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!

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

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.”

“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

“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.”

“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””