Clark County Parks and Recreation Department’s Public Arts Office is seeking artists who are interested in public art but have never worked in the field before, to participate in a professional development and mentorship program, and receive a $3,000 stipend to create public art.
Selected artists will create a concept and proposal for the project, lesson plan, and will meet with County staff to discuss classroom and installation logistics. The goal is to create a professional and thoughtful traveling temporary public art installation with elements created by the children enrolled in the program. In return, the artist develops skills in workshop facilitation, community building, public art creation, collaboration, project management, and learns how to maintain artistic creativity and vision while attending to the demands of the public process.
Artists will be selected through a competitive process and will participate in training with the guidance of public art staff. In these trainings, the artists will learn how to create a lesson plan, lead workshops for children, develop three-dimensional sculptural installations, and collaborate on designs that fulfill the needs of the program. After the training, artists will be tasked with administering their developed project through leading workshops to youth at various locations and creating a temporary 3-dimensional public art project that will travel to various sites assigned to the artist. Artists will be required to transport, install, and deinstall artwork.
For questions email Laurence Reese, Youth Public Arts Coordinator at ccpublicart@clarkcountynv.gov
