Active SLED Opportunity · FLORIDA · ALACHUA COUNTY
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Alachua County seeks qualified artists for an outdoor mosaic installation at the State Attorney's Office in Gainesville to celebrate the Historic Pleasant Street Neighborhood. Funded by the Gainesville Community Reinvestment Area, the RFQ emphasizes artistic quality, community engagement, and local residency.
Alachua County Board of County Commissioners (hereinafter, the “County” or “Alachua County”) is seeking proposals from qualified individuals or entities (hereinafter, referred to as "Artist”) for the provision of Mosaic Installation for Pleasant Street in Gainesville an outdoor mosaic installation for the State Attorney’s Office building to celebrate the transition between Downtown and the Historic Pleasant Street Neighborhood.
This project is funded by the Gainesville Community Reinvestment Area.
Location: Alachua County is located in North Central Florida. The County government seat is situated in Gainesville. Gainesville is located 70 miles southwest of Jacksonville, 129 miles southeast of Tallahassee, 140 miles northeast of Tampa - St. Petersburg and 109 miles northwest of Orlando. Alachua County has a population of over 250,000 and a regional airport. The County itself consists of a total area of 969 square miles.
Form of Government: Alachua County is governed by a Board of five (5) elected County Commissioners and operates under the established County Manager Charter form of government. In addition to the five County Commissioners, there are five elected Constitutional Officers: Supervisor of Elections, Sheriff, Clerk of the Court, Tax Collector, and the Property Appraiser. The Alachua County Attorney also reports to the Board.
Alachua County Arts Council: The Arts Council of Alachua County (ACAC) serves as a resource for local artists and arts agencies, including all municipalities, throughout Alachua County. The Arts Council prepares applications for state and federal grants and re-grants eligible grants to local artists and local arts agencies. It prepares applications for eligible state and federal grants to provide enhanced resources for local artists and local arts agencies, and educates and advocates at the state and federal level on issues affecting the arts.
The mission of The Arts Council of Alachua County is “to enhance the quality of the visual environment in Alachua County, thereby adding to the quality of life and the level of citizen awareness of the importance of aesthetic experience in their everyday lives.”
The State Attorney’s Office is charged under Florida law with being the chief prosecuting officer for his judicial circuit and the counties in it. Florida statutes and criminal rules define those duties, which are primarily focused on criminal offenders. The State Attorney, with his appointed Assistants and other staff, appears in the courts to represent the interests of justice and of the people.
The Pleasant Street Historic District is significant as the first and most important black residential neighborhood in Gainesville, Florida. Founded immediately after the Civil War, the area represented a transition in the status of black people in Alachua County from that of slave laborers supporting a rural plantation economy to one of freedmen seeking to establish a new existence of economic independence and cultural self-determination in an urban environment. The district also demonstrates the often-curious ambiguity and contradictory social relationship that existed between black people and southern whites that allowed close physical proximity, since the southern part of the district is a historically white residential area.
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Upload Artist Resume
Upload your Letter of Interest
Describe your proposed community engagement process with the Pleasant Street Historic Society.
(Maximum 500 words)
A total of three (3) digital photos of a finished piece. The photos should be of the same art installation, both close up and distant, showing details, height and different views of the work.
Optional: Upload your Certificate of Insurance
The response must be submitted by an officer of the business who is legally authorized to enter into a contractual relationship in the name of the proposer. An authorized representative who is not an officer may sign the proposal, but may or upon request provide a corporate resolution granting authorization to the representative to execute on behalf of the business. Are you authorized to submit this CTA?
In accordance with §287.087, Florida Statutes
Do you certify that you meet the following:
1. Publish a statement notifying employees that the unlawful manufacture, distribution, dispensing, possession or use of a controlled substance is prohibited in the workplace and specifying the actions that will be taken against employees for violations of such prohibition.
2. Inform employees about the dangers of drug abuse in the workplace, the business's policy of maintaining a drug-free workplace, any available drug counseling, rehabilitation, and employee assistance programs, and the penalties that may be imposed upon employees for drug abuse violations.
3. Give each employee engaged in providing the commodities or contractual services that are under proposal a copy of the statement specified in subsection (1).
4. In the statement specified in subsection (1), notify the employees that, as a condition of working on the commodities or contractual services that are under this proposal, the employee will abide by the terms of the statement and will notify the employer of any conviction of, or plea of guilty or nolo contendere to, any violation of Chapter 1893 or of any controlled substance law of the United States or any state, for a violation occurring in the workplace no later than five (5) days after such conviction.
5. Impose a sanction on, or require the satisfactory participation in a drug abuse assistance or rehabilitation program if such is available in the employee's community, by any employee who is so convicted.
6. Make a good faith effort to continue to maintain a drug-free workplace through implementation of this section.
As the person authorized to sign the statement, I certify that this firm complies fully with the above requirements.
The proposer certifies that to the best of its/his/her knowledge or belief, no elected/appointed official or employee of the County is financially interested, directly or indirectly, in the purchase of the goods or services specified on this proposal.
By confirming below, I attest that any artwork submitted to the County titled is my original creation. I am the sole owner of all components of the artwork, both in its parts and in its entirety. I affirm that I have full authority to submit this artwork and to release and authorize Alachua County to republish it as needed.
I further confirm that no part of this artwork infringes upon the rights of any third party and that I accept full responsibility for its originality and authenticity.
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