Call for Artists: Behavioral Health Resource Center | Portland, Oregon
Call for Artist –
Behavioral Health Resource Center
1st Floor Common Wall
Portland, Oregon
The Regional Arts & Culture Council is seeking artists/artist teams living in Oregon and southern Washington to create a site-specific digital design for a 2-dimensional interior artwork for the common wall on the first floor of Multnomah County’s newly constructed Behavioral Health Resource Center. The budget available for the commissions comes from Multnomah County’s Percent for Art Program and is approximately from $15,000 – $20,000.
Multnomah County’s Behavioral Health Division is renovating a building at the corner of SW Oak & SW Park Ave in downtown Portland. This will be the site for a new comprehensive behavioral health resource center that will offer immediate basic services for people experiencing houselessness, substance use and/or mental health challenges. The artwork will be scaled as a 2-dimensional artwork on the common wall in the first floor’s Day Center. This active space will be open to visitors who will have access to showers, laundry, peer counseling, housing, meal service and additional services. The artwork on the commons wall will be visible to visitors in the front lobby/common area as well as street and pedestrian traffic on SW Park Ave due to the large storefront windows.
Read the full details about this call and the center’s design goals, artist eligibility, and application materials.
Submissions Due: Wednesday, April 20, 2022.
Info sessions for Artists
Thursday, March 31st at noon PDT on Instagram Live. Follow @regionalarts on Instagram to stay informed of this and other upcoming opportunities.
Wednesday, April 6th at 6 p.m. PDT on Zoom, RSVP here.
Questions?
Contact project manager Salvador Mayoral IV with questions or to set up a time for a phone call: smayoral@racc.org