What is your ideal public work, where would it be in the city, and why? The history of sited artwork commissioned through the percent-for-art ordinance in Chicago has produced some of the city’s most recognizable icons. For 99/1 CIADC asks artists and designers to draft plans for new works designed outside of the restrictions that have determined public art in Chicago to date – commemorating histories and locations in the city not typically recognized in municipal and corporate installations, unbound from the budgetary restraint that allocates a fraction of our overall resources to creative work.

 

Each submission should include a primary image of the proposed artwork, a location/site within the city of Chicago that the work was designed for, and a work statement. Images will be printed on 8.5 by 11 inch (215.9 mm x 279.4 mm) letter paper in black and white on a LaserJet printer, and displayed in the gallery space along with selected original drawings, models, and 3D renderings.