Call To Artists Released for Aquatic Center

The City of Miami Springs Art in Public Places Committee requests qualifications from professional artists residing in South Florida to design site-specific exterior art work for the new Miami Springs Aquatic Center. Appointed by the City Council, this ad hoc citizen’s advisory board will review all artists’ work responding to the request and recommend one or more artists for commission by the City. The deadline for submissions of qualifications is Thursday, September 24, 2015 at 2:30 p.m. A detailed Call To Artists is attached below in pdf form  and is also available at the Information window in City Hall, 201 Westward Drive.

Designed by Carty Architecture and Alleguez Architecture, the new Aquatic Center will offer a community-oriented pool with water activities, cabanas, a large activity room, concession stand, modern support facilities with lockers, conventional and family restrooms, showers, administrative and equipment spaces and a consolidated parking lot. The facility layout showcases simplicity and efficiency and echoes the modern renditions of the Pueblo - Mission Revival design elements of the existing Community Center, with which it shares a campus. The new Aquatic Center is scheduled to be open to the public in summer, 2016.

Art In Public Places is part of one of the first public art programs in the country, whereby 1.5% of the construction cost for all governmental buildings in every Miami-Dade County municipality is set aside by County Ordinance for the purchase or commission and maintenance of site-specific artwork.

For additional information, applicants may call 305.805.5054.