Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Public Monument

This Deadline Expired: Sunday, March 21, 2021

Deadline: March 21, 2021 11:59pm PST
Budget: $250,000
Eligibility: Professional visual artists working in any and all media, who are at least 18 years of age, and who live and work in the United States are eligible to apply.

The City of Fort Wayne, Indiana is seeking one or more professional public artist(s) for the design, fabrication, and installation of a public monument to commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Fort Wayne visit and subsequent speech on June 5, 1963. The selected artist(s) for the commission will conceptualize and develop appropriate designs for the proposed monument. The target date of completion is the 60th anniversary of Dr. King’s visit to Fort Wayne.

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Chris Paxson

I was a choreographer and modern dancer for most of my life. It is the balance between energy and stillness that I carry into my art. I reflect this discord in a gesture and painterly contemporary style. I use a variety of media to create a raw, yet, luminous painting in oil, layering pastels, glazes, pencil, charcoal, and develop painted collages of varying surfaces. I create paintings directly from a model's pose and the subtle nuances of that gesture. I paint in a realistic approach, and yet, abstraction tends to take over. I have had an extensive career teaching art to students of all levels and ages. My teaching is an integral part of my art making process.

Nancy E. F. Halbert

I was a choreographer and modern dancer for most of my life. It is the balance between energy and stillness that I carry…

I was a choreographer and modern dancer for most of my life. It is the balance between energy and stillness that I carry into my art. I reflect this discord in a gesture and painterly contemporary style.…

Denise Philipbar

Denise Philipbar's work is abstract, geometric, dynamic, and colorful. Using both mixed media and oil, she references mathematic…

Denise Philipbar's work is abstract, geometric, dynamic, and colorful. Using both mixed media and oil, she references mathematic and science in her paintings.…

Francis Beaty

Paula Lachman