Penn State Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library Commission
c/o Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts
P.O. Box 1023
State College, PA 16804 www.arts-festival.com
Introduction
The Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts seeks to commission a unique work of art in any permanent media on behalf of the Pennsylvania State University for the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library in the Stuckeman Family Building on Penn State’s University Park campus. The work will respond to the values embodied in Penn State’s new Stuckeman Family Building for the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture.
The Client
The Pennsylvania State University was chartered in 1855 and became Pennsylvania’s sole land grant institution in 1863 after signing of the Morrill Land-Grant Act by Abraham Lincoln. From modest beginnings, the university has grown enormously. The Penn State system now includes 24 Commonwealth Campuses in addition to the University Park campus, which is located in State College. Over 80,000 full time students are enrolled, with more than 40,000 of these at the University Park campus.
The Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts (CPFA) was founded by the State College Chamber of Commerce and Penn State’s College of Arts and Architecture in 1967. Over the years, the festival has grown to encompass a well regarded Sidewalk Sale and Exhibition, long running fine art and fine craft gallery exhibitions, children’s events, and music, dance and theatrical performances, educational opportunities for young and old. The Festival has worked with government agencies and local committees to promote and commission public art in downtown State College and in the Centre Region.
The Dawn of Magic, by Laurie dill-Kocher, Rochester, NY,
hangs in the lobby area of Pattee and Paterno Libraries.
In 2001 the Festival, commissioned on behalf of Penn State, a large fiber work for the multi-story lobby of the Pattee Library and the Paterno Library on Penn State’s University Park campus. The commission was awarded to Laurie dill-Kocher of Rochester, NY. The piece was unveiled in September 2002.
Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library
Stuckeman Family Building
The Stuckeman Family Building for the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, the first Penn State building designed to meet national criteria for certification as environmentally friendly, sustainable architecture, was dedicated in fall of 2005. The award winning building was designed by Overland Partners Architects of San Antonio and WTW of Pittsburgh with landscape design by La Quatra Bonci of Pittsburgh.
The Stuckeman Family Building, a 111,000 square-foot, $26.5 million facility, has earned a Gold Rating from the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System®. The energy efficient design is projected to reduce the building’s annual energy costs by 35 percent compared to a conventionally designed structure.
The building’s exterior is made of recycled copper, brick and energy-conserving glazed windows with exterior sun-control louvers. Interior sustainable features include lighting controls with automatic daylight and occupancy sensors and windows that automatically open and close with changes in temperature and humidity, reducing the need for heating and cooling mechanically. Open plan design studios, which seat 560 students on two floors, encourage collaboration between the architecture and landscape architecture disciplines. The facility also houses a 4,000 square-foot model shop with outdoor construction yard, two computer classrooms, the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library, the Stuckeman Center for Design Computing and the Hamer Center for Community Design Assistance.
The Site
The interior of the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library will be the site for this project. The Library houses 28,000 volumes on current design practice and the recent history of architecture and landscape architecture. Recommended locations within the Library are the entry vestibule and the main reading area. View layout.
The site can be seen via You Tube below.
Stuckeman Family Building and Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library Gallery
a letter of interest not more than 5000 characters long describing their work, other commissioned work they have completed, and their vision for this piece
no more than to ten digital images of the their work
a current resume
All materials must be submitted online via CaFETM. There is no application fee to use CaFETM online application system. To view the application for this project, www.callforentry.org, register a user name and password, and then navigate to Apply to Calls and search for Penn State Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library, The Pennsylvania State University.
The Selection Process
A selection panel will meet to evaluate the submissions. The panel will be made of library administrators, College of Arts and Architecture faculty, and independent artists/arts administrators who have been engaged by the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts specifically for this project.
Jurors will select a winning entry by the quality of the artist’s work and his or her response to the values of the building's inhabitants, which include:
· Sustainability is a fundamental principal of design and good design is an essential aspect of sustainability.
· Building and landscape are a single, inseparable design problem with both physical and metaphoric manifestations.
· A library, whether paper or electronic, is a source for precedence, self-improvement, and discovery.
The artists’ experience in completing commissions of this scope will be considered.
Three artists will be chosen to produce maquettes, due on October 13, 2008. Each will receive an honorarium of $1,250, (half payable in advance, half upon delivery). Applicants chosen to produce a maquette are strongly encouraged to visit the site. The commission will be awarded after evaluation of the maquettes. The panel reserves the right not to award the commission.
Budget
The commission will be worth $33,000 to the selected artist. The artist will enter into a contract with the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts for the production of the work.
Calendar
Entry Deadline Midnight, MST August 29, 2008
Maquette Due October 13, 2008
Commission Awarded October 20, 2008
For questions about the project, please contact: Rick Bryant, Executive Director
Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts rbryant@arts-festival.com
For questions about CaFETM image management, please contact: cafe@westaf.org
The Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts is partially funded by a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
The Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts is partially funded by a grant from the Pennsylvania Tourism Office, More information about Pennsylvania festivals can be found at www.visitpa.com
The Stuckeman Family Building for the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, the first Penn State building designed to meet national criteria for certification as environmentally friendly, sustainable architecture, was dedicated in fall of 2005. The award winning building was designed by Overland Partners Architects of San Antonio and WTW of Pittsburgh with landscape design by La Quatra Bonci of Pittsburgh. 
The Submission