Leach Botanical Garden Request for Proposal (RFP): Sun and Moon Gate Art Installation
DEADLINE: APRIL 30, 2025, 5:00 PM PST
We’re looking for artists, designers, and architects to submit proposals for a semi-permanent art installation in the Garden’s Far Meadow.
This project seeks to enhance the meadow’s whimsical atmosphere with two symbolic and functional gateways accommodating a 6 foot wide and 7 ½ -foot-tall pathway. Proposals can be submitted for one or both of the gateways.
The maximum budget for the project is $30,000 for two installations or $15,000 for one installation, which must cover all costs, including:
– Design and materials
– Fabrication
– Transportation and installation
TIMELINE:
Site visits: 4/1-4/30
(If you are interested in a site visit, please contact Jami LeBaron at jlebaron@leachgarden.org to schedule.)
Submission Deadline: 4/30/2025 at 5:00pm PST
Selection Announcement: 5/15/2025
Project Completion Deadline: 3/1/2026
Finalist Entries will be judged by Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate Emerita
Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate Emerita, has eight full-length books of poetry, most recently My Kindred from Salmon Poetry of Ireland. Her poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Poetry, The Birmingham Review, Prairie Schooner, Orion, Catamaran, Wilderness Magazine, the Internet’s Poetry Daily, and POETRY IN MOTION, which put poems on Portland, Oregon busses and light rail cars.
A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she’s the recipient of the Holbrook Award from Oregon Literary Arts, and from Willamette Writers both a Distinguished Northwest Writer Award and a Legacy Award.