YOUTH ARTS EDUCATION TEMPORARY PUBLIC ART PROJECTS
FOR INTERESTED ARTISTS: 

The Youth Arts Education & Temporary Public Art project puts a call out in the late summer for artist applications. Stay tuned via our newsletter to be informed when the call for 2025 projects is published.

Selected artists will create a concept and proposal for the project, lesson plan, and will meet with County staff to discuss classroom and installation logistics. The goal is to create a professional and thoughtful traveling temporary public art installation with elements created by the children enrolled in the program. In return, the artist develops skills in workshop facilitation, community building, public art creation, collaboration, project management, and learns how to maintain artistic creativity and vision while attending to the demands of the public process.

Artists will be selected through a competitive process and will participate in training with the guidance of public art staff.  In these trainings, the artists will learn how to create a lesson plan, lead workshops for children, develop three-dimensional sculptural installations, and collaborate on designs that fulfill the needs of the program.  After the training, artists will be tasked with administering their developed project through leading workshops to youth at various locations and create a temporary 3-dimensional public art project that will travel to various sites assigned to the artist. Artists will be required to transport, install and deinstall artwork.

GOALS

1. Create a professional and thoughtful traveling temporary public art installation with elements created by the children enrolled in the program
2. Develop artist’s skills for engaging in public art and teaching
3. Work that is responsive and sensitive to the community it is located in.
4. Produce and promote work by Clark County artists, develop skills for teaching, engaging community, and producing public art.

See the call for 2024 artists here.