The City of Kansas City, Missouri One Percent for Art program seeks to commission a professional visual artist or artist team based in the Kansas City area to design, fabricate, and install a permanent sculpture within an exterior green space that measures approximately 24’ x 9’ x 6’, for the renovation of the lion viewing area at the Kansas City Zoo. Artwork should address themes such as, but not limited to, lions, Africa, and conservation. For more information and to submit your qualifications and portfolio, visit https://artist.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=13960.
The submission deadline is 11:59 p.m., Monday, September 30, 2024. The budget available for this project is $105,000, all inclusive.
Questions related to this project for the KCMO Public Art Administrator should be emailed to the Public Art Administrator at james.martin@kcmo.org by Monday, September 2, 2024, 5:00 p.m. Central. Questions received by this deadline will be answered in writing through an addendum on the CaFÉ Call for Artists after the Artist Q&A videoconference sessions described below. Answers to written questions also may be answered during the Q&A sessions below if time allows.
Virtual Q&A sessions with the public art administrator will be held on the following days:
- 5:30 p.m. Central Tuesday, September 3 Join the meeting now
- 5:30 p.m. Central Wednesday, September 4 Join the meeting now
