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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Golden Key Prints (Scott Holford)

What elevates his work from mere craftsmanship is his visionary outlook. Rearranging objects and incorporating an iconography of myths, fairy tales, and personal idiosyncrasies, Warren Muller exudes an envious agility. Motion, change and improvisation are implied like a glimpse of chaos captured and frozen for a split-second.

Warren Muller

What elevates his work from mere craftsmanship is his visionary outlook. Rearranging objects and incorporating an iconography…

What elevates his work from mere craftsmanship is his visionary outlook. Rearranging objects and incorporating an iconography of myths, fairy tales, and personal idiosyncrasies, Warren Muller exudes an…

Colorful, minimalist still-life paintings created with a palette knife, which leaves a distinctive texture. Incisions and scrapings, along with pencil and oil pastel marks, trace the creation of the work over time. Light and shadow are key elements in these abstracted scenes of everyday life. Working over multiple sessions result in traces of previous versions and iterations which allow the viewer to engage in the work on multiple levels.

Melissa Husted-Sherman

Colorful, minimalist still-life paintings created with a palette knife, which leaves a distinctive texture. Incisions and…

Colorful, minimalist still-life paintings created with a palette knife, which leaves a distinctive texture. Incisions and scrapings, along with pencil and oil pastel marks, trace the creation of the…

What’s interesting for me is a spectrum of abstraction and realism that evokes both stillness and vitality.

Bettina Clowney

What’s interesting for me is a spectrum of abstraction and realism that evokes both stillness and vitality. …

My art spans many disciplines and areas. Being a self taught, learning and experimenting has become an ingrained part of my practice and as such there is a diverse range of subject matter and on some occasions style. Majority of my works are oil paintings, created in series, in a representational style,. Some of note are “Buddhas on Handmade Paper”, “Bicycles in Snow” “#Savetheelephants”. The common thread in my diverse art is the feeling of serenity and tranquility, with the ultimate objective in every painting to capture the harmonious existence of different elements in nature, that evidences life is strong, calm and beautiful.

Bhavisha Patel

My art spans many disciplines and areas. Being a self taught, learning and experimenting has become an ingrained part of…

My art spans many disciplines and areas. Being a self taught, learning and experimenting has become an ingrained part of my practice and as such there is a diverse range of subject matter and on some occasions…