Caforthearts is hiring: 2024 India Basin Artist In Residence → in San Francisco

The San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) Galleries is pleased to announce an Artist in Residence (AIR) opportunity in partnership with the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department (RPD). Launched in 2015, the SFAC Artist in Residence Program builds partnerships with City Departments to provide unique artist residencies that strengthen the value of artists participating in and responding to the advancement of civic dialogue.

The purpose of this RFQ is to identify two San Francisco-based artists to research and engage with the India Basin Waterfront Park Project (900 Innes Avenue) and India Basin Shoreline Park (Hunters Point Blvd & Hawes Street, 950 Galvez Avenue) and communities in the Bayview-Hunters Point (BVHP) neighborhood of San Francisco and then use that research to develop new work(s).

Project Description

In 2014, the Recreation and Park Department acquired 900 Innes at India Basin in San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood. The park plan combines the existing India Basin Shoreline Park area and the 900 Innes property into the India Basin Waterfront Park, a grand 10-acre waterfront park development that closes a critical gap in the San Francisco Bay Trail. RPD, in partnership with the BVHP community, the Trust for Public Land, the San Francisco Parks Alliance, and A. Philip Randolph Institute, will transform the sites into a 21st-century park in a historic waterfront context, emphasizing habitat and wetland restoration and enhancement, public access, resiliency to sea level rise, social equity, and waterfront recreation.

In 2019, an equitable development planning process was initiated to preserve the rich culture, identity, and pride within the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood and to ensure that the India Basin Waterfront Park project uplifts the community beyond its park boundaries. The Equitable Development Plan (EDP) serves as a roadmap to maximize the benefits of the project for the BVHP community and seeks to build a park that reflects the history of India Basin and diverse generations of BVHP residents and their untold stories.

The EDP identifies six community-driven areas of focus: Arts, Culture and Identity; Workforce and Business Development; Connectivity, Transit, Access and Safety; Healthy Communities and Ecology; Youth Opportunities; and Housing Security. The Artist in Residence opportunity falls under the Arts, Culture and Identity area of focus, which states that park programming is equitable and responsive to community needs and desires and preserves and celebrates Black culture and the neighborhood’s cultural diversity.

PROJECT GOALS

• Support the development and presentation of arts and cultural experiences and programs at and near the park sites.
• Develop and present experiences and programs in partnership with project partners and the BVHP community.
• Ensure that all work produced during the residency is tied to the India Basin Waterfront Park Project Equitable Development Plan (EDP).
• Preserve and celebrate Black culture and the neighborhood’s cultural diversity.

RESIDENCY TERMS

• The selected Artists will be contracted for 16 hours per week for 12 months and will spend at least one day per week onsite conducting research around the project sites and the BVHP neighborhood.
• The Artists will work directly with the AIR Curator during their time in residence and on the development of their final project.
• Each residency will culminate in the creation of a new project that is responsive to the artist’s experience and research at the RPD project sites and BVHP neighborhood. Final project location will be determined based on proposal needs and availability of location.
• The total honorarium for each Artist is $40,000. Payment will be issued in multiple stages based on set deliverables outlined in the contract.
• The production budget for each Artist is $15,000.

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS

• Applicants must reside in San Francisco.
• We are accepting applications from individual artists only.
• This is a call for qualifications, not a call for proposals. Any applications proposing a specific project will be disqualified.
• Application must be completed and submitted by the application deadline. Late submissions will NOT be considered. Incomplete applications or applications that do not follow the guidelines will be disqualified.

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