Request for Qualifications:
Artwork Wanted for Vaccination Confidence PSA Campaign
The Arts Council of Indianapolis, in partnership with the city of Indianapolis, seeks the existing work of visual artists to be used in conjunction with public service messaging encouraging residents to be vaccinated. Images will be merged with text and messaging and shared in multiple public locations in neighborhoods including, but not limited to billboards, buses, posters, stickers, buttons, and more.
Applications Due: Monday, June 28, 2021 11:59 p.m.
Who: Marion County Visual Artists
Compensation: $500
Project Description
The Arts Council and City of Indianapolis are partnering on a city/county-wide Vaccine Confidence campaign that will share the benefits of getting vaccinated. When more residents get vaccinated, we all benefit. For individuals, getting vaccinated enables them to fully enjoy more of the things they have missed over the past year, things like seeing family and friends, arts events, live music, and travel. Having more of our community get fully vaccinated also contributes to the social, cultural, and economic recovery of the city at large as we get closer and closer to being able to fully open all businesses, offices, and especially arts and culture events.
There is no conceptual theme for this project. The artwork submitted does not need to relate to the pandemic or vaccination in any way. Although there is no specific theme, we hope to receive images that are vibrant, positive, dynamic, and energetic. They may be figurative or non-objective. All styles and media are welcome. Note: If selected, your artwork will be featured in a PSA campaign to promote vaccination confidence and may have logos or text overlayed on top of the artwork. The artwork will work with the message.
Eligibility
Timeline
Copyrights
Full copyright to the artwork will be retained by the artist at all times. The artist will be required to license the Arts Council to produce and reproduce images of the artwork for promotional use, and to maintain archival documentation of the project.
The Arts Council is not responsible for any third-party infringement of the artist’s copyright or for protecting the intellectual property rights of participating artists. To learn more about how to protect yourself and your public artworks, visit the Arts Council’s Artist Resource Directory.
Compensation
Each selected artist will receive $500 ($250 for participating plus $250 as a licensing fee for the use of the image as part of the project.)
Selection Process
Staff members from the Arts Council, the Marion County Health Department, and city of Indianapolis will identify up to 8 artworks to be included in this program.
Should the Arts Council receive an insufficient number of entries, we reserve the right to change the process to an invitation process.
Submission Considerations and Instructions
For your work to be considered for the project, follow these instructions:
Please email up to five images of existing visual work to artistservices@indyarts.org. JPG/JPEG images are preferred, but TIFF and PNG formats are also accepted.
Tips for submitting images:
- There is no theme or topic for this project.
- Work may be figurative or non-objective/pure abstraction.
- Do not put your name, signature, or website address on the image itself. All artists will be credited with each instance of use.
After Selection
If you are selected for the project, you will be asked to submit high-resolution files within one week, by July 16, 2021.
Please do not submit unless you have the ability to meet the aggressive timeline and image resolution requirements. Note: There is no additional compensation offered to re-photograph your artwork at the increased resolutions requested below.
NOTE: If selected, the artist(s) will need to provide hi-res images scaled for printing. Details will be shared with selected artists.
The deadline for submission is Monday, June 28 at 11:59 p.m.
QUESTIONS? We are here to help! Contact Artist Services at artistservices@indyarts.org.