Deadline for Submission:
September 30, 2011

Requested by:
Riverfront Wilmington Sculpture Committee

The City of Wilmington, in conjunction with the Riverfront Development Corporation of Delaware and Riverfront Wilmington Sculpture Selection Committee, is seeking artists or artist teams to participate in a competitive design process for the creation of a public sculpture. This sculpture will serve as a focal point for Tubman-Garrett Riverfront Park a public space and special events venue on Wilmington, Delaware’s riverfront.

The goal of the open selection and design process is to identify an artist or team with the skills, experience, resources, and vision to create and install a high quality piece of public art. The available budget (provided by both public and private funds) for the sculpture is up to $220,000 inclusive of all artist/designer expenses, insurance, research, design, travel, fabrication, construction, transportation, materials, fees, and installation costs. Interested artists or artist teams are invited to submit their qualifications, as described in Section 4, to the selection committee no later than September 30, 2011. Three to four qualified artists will be identified through this process and will be asked to submit formal proposals as described in Section 6 of this document. Artists selected to submit formal proposals will be notified in writing and provided with additional information regarding the proposals, review of proposals, and final commission.

Please download this PDF document which describes in detail the submission of Request For Qualifications (RFQ), artist selection criteria, submission of Request For Proposals (RFP), a history and context of the site, brief history of the Underground Railroad, and the design requirements for the sculpture.

Follow these instructions to submit RFQ's:

• Step 1. Log onto https://www.callforentry.org to create your artist page.
• Step 2. Submit all RFQ’s to City of Wilmington:Tubman-Garrett Riverfront Park Sculpture.
• Step 3. After the application is complete, go through ‘Check Out’ to submit your application.