Project Summary and Overview:
The City of Wilsonville (“City”) and the Arts, Culture, and Heritage Commission (ACHC) are pleased to invite artists to participate in the City’s Pilot Program ‘Wilsonville Wrapped,’ a Utility Box Public Art Program. The program will add artwork to the City that contributes to the vitality and attractiveness of the streetscape and community, foster civic pride and community identity, and bring accessible art to unexpected places. Utility Box Art programs are popular throughout the country as a cost-effective way to successfully bring public art to City Streets by using blank traffic signal control boxes, an existing piece of City infrastructure, as canvases to become art. Boxes are approximately 80″ x 24″ x 30″.
The Pilot Program will consist of up to 7 boxes. The theme for the pilot program is “Celebrating the Arts & Creativity.”
Artwork will be reproduced as a vinyl wrap and applied by a contractor to boxes throughout the City. Artists are NOT expected to do any work on-site.
This program is open to all visual artists of any medium, graphic designers, illustrators, photographers and student artists 16 and older.
Project Stipend is $500 per Box.
Applications can only be accepted through Call for Entry.