{"id":32407,"date":"2023-01-13T15:48:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T15:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/?p=32407"},"modified":"2023-01-13T15:48:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T15:48:34","slug":"hamilton-seeks-artists-for-new-electric-city-public-art-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/hamilton\/hamilton-seeks-artists-for-new-electric-city-public-art-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton seeks artists for new Electric City public art project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The City of Hamilton is on the hunt for local visual artists to be commissioned for an exciting new public art project.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamilton.ca\/things-do\/arts-music\/public-art\/hamilton-electric-city-public-art-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Electric City Public Art Project<\/a> will be a permanent project brought to life at Confederation Beach Park, intended to honour the impact of AC electric power on Hamilton throughout its history.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Call for artists! Submit your proposals for a permanent Public Art piece on the impact of AC electric power in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HamOnt?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#HamOnt<\/a>. Artists will be selected by a citizen jury with a chance to be awarded $1500 or $185,000. For more information, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BF7Gyc0bwv\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/BF7Gyc0bwv<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CbSYdND99a\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/CbSYdND99a<\/a><\/p>&mdash; City of Hamilton (@cityofhamilton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cityofhamilton\/status\/1612470260703150080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 9, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Artists and artist-led teams are invited to submit their Stage One proposals for the project, which will first be reviewed by a citizen jury to create a shortlist that will then be revealed to the public for further consultation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The award for the public art project is $184,000, which will contribute to the selected art piece\u2019s design, fabrication, and delivery to the site. Additionally, artists invited to create a Stage Two submission will receive a $1,500 honorarium.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Submissions to the Electric City Public Art Project are due on Thursday, January 19th at 3 pm. Submission requirements and further details about the project can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamilton.ca\/things-do\/arts-music\/public-art\/hamilton-electric-city-public-art-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">city website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Lead image courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cityofhamilton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@cityofhamilton<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of Hamilton is on the hunt for local visual artists to be commissioned for an exciting new public art project.\u00a0 The Electric City Public Art Project will be a permanent project brought to li...","protected":false},"author":258,"featured_media":32409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8065],"tags":[322,178,146,5634,833,8197,4255,19,20,619,4165],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/electric.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/258"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32410,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32407\/revisions\/32410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}