If you were unable to check out the first storytellers event last month, here is another opportunity.

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Last week, “Seattle Sketcher” Gabi Campanario was in White Center (see his sketches here and here). Above is a photo by Gabi as he works on his sketch of Darren - thanks Darren for the free leftover Caramelo Frap this morning!

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Above is a screen shot from a recent The Seattle Times article about Damien Jurado, featuring a photo of him taken in White Center.  The article mentions “Beacon Hill” and “Wallingford”, songs that he wrote while in high school. His “White Center” song was released in 2005 - see this previous blog entry about it.

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CLICK HERE TO VIEW PHOTO SLIDESHOW

CLICK HERE TO VIEW WHITE CENTER COMMUNITY SUMMIT VIDEO

Photos by Sincere Born, Video filmed and edited by Jerome Buenaventura

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The White Center CDA is proud of the community effort that enabled the creation of multiple street banners, currently on display in White Center’s business district (north of Roxbury). There are 25 banners total with 5 different designs. The banners incorporate “Growing a Global Village” brand and logo of White Center and the 9 most common languages in White Center. This project contributes to the marketing and promotion work as a part of the White Center Commercial District Revitalization Plan, spearheaded by the White Center CDA. The designs were vetted through community meetings: WC Business District Mixers, WC Chamber of Commerce meetings, a White Center/South Delridge Safety Coalition meeting, and others. The banners were made possible with a grant from the City of Seattle’s Office of Economic Development; the graphic designer is Kathi Wheeler of Noise without Sound, and the manufacturer is SuperGraphics, Inc.

Additional information about the designs: the rat design shows our pride in the pioneer history of White Center, the 16th/Roxbury designs refers to our main intersection, the building design is the façade of the Skate Rink - a WC icon, the fish/chili talks about our destination for delicious global food, the blue sky statues/multi-colored rings refers to our diversity and progress, and the building/circles design refer to the vibrancy and multiculturalism of our business district.

Next step, the White Center CDA has secured funding to install more banners to the south of Roxbury and the rest of the White Center business district. For question regarding this project or volunteer opportunities, please contact the White Center CDA at nhan@wccda.org.

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Strength of Place Village Public Art, White Center Neighborhood, Seattle, WA (Dated January 5, 2011)

Project Budget: $14,250.00

(Budget is inclusive of artist fee, design, fabrication, installation, travel, project contingency & WA State sales tax)

Artist Selection Process: Artists residing within King County are eligible to apply.  Artists residing in the greater White Center and West Seattle neighborhoods are highly desired.

Deadline: February 28, 2011, 5:00pm

Artwork Opportunity

The Strength of Place Village Public Art Steering Committee seeks an artist to provide an outdoor, stand alone public art piece for the project. The qualified applicant will have experience working on public art installations within a community context. The selected artist will be asked to realize a vision for artwork that is compatible with the White Center neighborhood and respectful of its location within a culturally and economically diverse community.

This building is located in the White Center neighborhood three blocks east of White Center’s business district main street (16^th Avenue SW), on the corner of SW 100^th Street and 13^th Avenue SW. It is a new construction of 30 quality, affordable rental housing units in three buildings with one central courtyard space. The project is owned by Strength of Place Village Limited Liability Company, of which three non-profit community development organizations belong: White Center Community Development Association, Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association & Capitol Hill Housing.

Background Facts

• Strength of Place Village project will be a family-oriented building with lots of outdoor recreation space and parking. It will be a safe, clean and convenient place to live near White Center business district shopping, bus lines along 15^th Avenue SW and the Steve Cox Memorial Park. The project is under construction now.
• The project will have 30 apartments for low-income families making less than about $55,000/year. Most of the apartments will be two- and three-bedrooms in order to serve the larger, multi-generational families of the White Center community.
• Six of the total 30 units will provide permanent rental housing for formerly homeless families.
• The project consists of a total of three buildings, surrounding one courtyard area.
• Potential locations for public art at the project are within the courtyard area, on the corner of 13^th Avenue SW & SW 100^th Street or at the SW 100^th Street parking entrance. Please refer to the attached site plan for the project for potential locations.

Research the Project and the Building

More information on the Strength of Place Village project can be found here:

http://www.wccda.org/home/category/housing

Project Partners

White Center Community Development Association, local sponsor of project, www.wccda.org

Capitol Hill Housing, project developer, www.capitolhillhousing.org/

Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association, construction manager, www.dnda.org

Project Location

Corner of SW 100^th Street and 13^th Avenue SW

Artwork Project Schedule

Conceptual Ideas & Design Presentation - by March 31, 2011

Final Design - April 29, 2011

Installation - by September 15, 2011

Artist Selection Process

A selection panel of art and community members will review artist application materials upon submission. Based on the selection criteria below, three finalists will be selected for an interview & design presentation. Each finalist will be given an honorarium of $250.00 to produce a sample of their proposed design concept for this interview & design presentation. The selection panel will then reconvene to select one artist for the installation.

Selection Criteria

The artist will be selected on the following criteria:

• Quality and strength of past work as demonstrated in the submitted application materials;
• Ability to create an exterior artwork that is appropriate in concept, materials and scale for the identified location;
• Previous experience working collaboratively with diverse community stakeholders to complete public art projects;
• Strength of the design concept and its compatibility with the neighborhood;
• Ability to begin design work in April 2011;
• Proposals from artist teams will be considered;
• Opportunities for integrated art will be considered on a case by case basis.

Eligibility

Artists residing within King County are eligible to apply.  Artists residing in the greater White Center and West Seattle neighborhoods are highly desired.

Application Materials

Artists applying for this project MUST submit the following materials:

One-page letter of interest - This explains why the artist is interested in the project, provides an opportunity for the artist to describe current or past experiences and/or connection to the White Center neighborhood, how the artist’s work is appropriate for this project, and relevant past experience.

Samples of work - Up to twenty (20) Digital Images on a CD-R (in required format). Please label the CD-R with the applicant’s name, contact information and number of images. Do not embed images into PowerPoint or submit moving image or audio files. Artists are encouraged to submit images of past work that best illustrate their qualifications for the project. Large transparencies and prints will not be considered. No bulky materials or original works of art should be submitted.

• File Format- Submit only “High” quality JPGs (do not use GIFs, TIFFs or other formats)
• Image Size - Images must be 1920 pixels on the longest side.
• File Size - Files must be less than 5 MB
• File Labeling - Files must be titled with the artist’s last name_first initial followed by a number indicating the viewing order. The numbers must correspond to the accompanying Annotated Image List. Use “0″ in front of single digit numbers. Do not use more than 30 characters, and use only letters, numbers and underscores.

Example: Smith_A_01; Smith_A_02.

If using Mac OS 8 or 9 include a “.jpg” extension at the end of each image title. Example: 01_Smith.jpg

Annotated Image List - a printed sheet of information with artist’s name and telephone number, title of artwork, medium, date of artwork, size and the corresponding slide number. Artists are encouraged to include a brief description of integrated artwork, design team collaborative work or installations.

Two-page Artist’s Resume - Written application materials will be photocopied for the panelists. Please do not staple or bind application materials. Please submit written materials on plain white 8½” X 11″ paper. To help process your application, please write Strength of Place Village Project on the outside of your application envelope. The Steering Committee will make every effort to protect submitted materials; however, it will not be responsible for any loss or damage.

DEADLINE: REQUIRED MATERIALS MUST BE RECEIVED NO LATER THAN 5:00 P.M. ON FEBRUARY 28, 2011. APPLICATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY THE DEADLINE, NO POSTMARKS.

NOTICE OF TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE WORKSHOP AVAILABLE

4Culture, the cultural services agency for King County, Washington providing programs, financial support and services in the arts, public art, heritage and historic preservation for all residents and visitors in King County (www.4culture.org), will be conducting a free technical assistance workshop for the Strength of Place Village Public Art Project to all interested artists on Thursday, January 27, 5:30-7:30pm at the YWCA at Greenbridge at 9720 8th Ave SW, Seattle, WA 98106. 4Culture will be providing technical assistance on the application materials for this project due February 28, 2011.

MAIL APPLICATIONS TO:

Strength of Place Village Public Art Project

c/o White Center Community Development Association

Attn: Patricia Julio

1615 SW Cambridge Street

Seattle, WA 98106

QUESTIONS?

Please contact:

Patricia Julio, White Center Community Development Association

patricia@wccda.org

206-694-1082 ext. 162

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Here’s a preview of some photos take at the 2010 Summit. We’ll post the rest of the photos in our Media section soon. Photos courtesy of Sincere Born, not to be used without consent of the CDA.

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Dear White Center Community: THANK YOU from all of us at the White Center CDA for making last Saturday’s White Center Community Summit a success! Hundreds were able to access dozens of resources connected to Housing, Health, Employment and Education. In addition, participants attended community discussions (some in their own native language) to talk about these topics and how issues have effected them in the neighborhood. Food and Entertainment representing many countries were presented in the afternoon, and 14 different workshops rounded out the day in what was a great day to celebrate White Center. Our event artist Carol Tagawa (who also works at Cascade Middle School) created this drawing for the event:

To see more photos via Twitter, please click here. We’ll have more photos and a Community Summit video to post in the next couple of weeks. Thank you to the many community partner organizations and White Center residents who made this event possible. See you at the next White Center Community Summit - Saturday, December 3, 2011!

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