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ScrapEden SF: Request for Proposals Deadline
*The Black Rock Arts Foundation(BRAF)*, in partnership with the *San Francisco Department of the Environment* is seeking artists to develop another public art project for ScrapEdenSF, an ongoing program pairing artists with community groups to create artworks that are designed to inspire and motivate residents to recycle and compost more effectively. *BRAF* is currently requesting proposals from San Francisco Bay Area artists for the Composting Contraption.com⋅post [kɒmpɒst] is a combination of various decaying organic substances that are being decomposed largely through aerobic
decomposition into a rich black soil.
con⋅trap⋅tion [kuhn-trap-shuhn] - a mechanical contrivance; gadget; device. Imagine inventor Rube Goldberg meeting up with biodynamic farming pioneer Rudolf Steiner. The Composting Contraption will be a human-powered, interactive, kinetic artwork designed to inspire, motivate and educate San Francisco residents to increase the practice of composting at home and to take better advantage of the City’s green bin organics collection programs serving the residential, commercial, and institutional sectors.
This new work of art will travel to local festivals, street fairs, farmers markets and schools to increase awareness of composting (and recycling to some extent) and change the composting behavior of San Francisco artists and residents to divert recoverable resources from being disposed of as solid waste, in keeping with the City’s zero waste goals. The artist is not expected to bring the contraption all around town, but will work with a local community group to train them on its use so they can tour it around in an educational campaign.
Materials used for this new mobile sculpture MUST primarily be made of reclaimed, recycled or reused materials diverted from local landfills.
This artwork must educate the public about the process of composting in a dynamic and whimsical way, while referencing the variety of ways that the public can (and now by SF law MUST) participate in composting, from backyard to curbside pickup.
After selection, artists will be contracted to provide:
* A public art piece delivered on time.
* A signed commitment to work towards the ScrapEdenSF goals.
* A plan for involving the community group in the creation and implementation of the project.
Company/Organization: The Black Rock Arts Foundation(BRAF)
3450 Third Street, Suite 2A, San Francisco, CA 94124
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Monday, March 15, 2010
http://www.blackrockarts.org/scrapeden/scrapeden-2010
