Request for Qualifications - New Mobile, Artist-Created Tool
West Central Initiative and Springboard for the Arts seek one artist, or artist team, to create a mobile tool to prompt interaction about livability in West Central Minnesota. This opportunity is for one commission of $10,000. Artists living in the 9-county region of West Central Minnesota (Becker, Clay, Douglas, Grant, Otter Tail, Pope, Stevens, Traverse and Wilkin counties) are eligible to apply.
Springboard for the Arts, based in St. Paul and Fergus Falls, is a nonprofit economic and community development organization serving individual artists in the Upper Midwest and beyond. Springboard’s Community Development Program supports, organizes and empowers artists to build reciprocal relationships with their communities, resulting in vibrant, creative, and equitable places. For more information about Springboard for the Arts, please visit www.springboardforthearts.org
West Central Initiative (WCI) is a regional community foundation serving nine counties in west central Minnesota: Becker, Clay, Douglas, Grant, Otter Tail, Pope, Stevens, Traverse and Wilkin. Its number-one goal is to strengthen the economy of the region so that its families, communities and businesses thrive now and for generations to come. WCI does this using the tools of economic development, community development and by promoting philanthropy. For more information about WCI, visit wcif.org.
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To submit an application, visit https://springboardforthearts.org/west-central-initiative-rfq/
To register for "Ready? Go! Make Your Art Mobile" workshop on October 20 in Fergus Falls, visit: https://springboardforthearts.