Denver Public Art Pre-Application Meeting: La Raza Park

Denver Public Art is hosting a virtual pre-application meeting for interested applicants on September 30^th, 2026, at 5:30 p.m. The meeting will cover project background and goals, and the application process for this Request for Qualifications (RFQ). Attendees will also receive information on CallForEntry.org through which artists may apply. This event will be hosted on Zoom. Interested applicants are asked to register to receive information on how to join prior to the event. If you cannot attend, a recording will be available on the Denver Arts & Venues YouTube channel.

REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS
Public Art Project: La Raza Park
Budget: Approximately $136,000.00 USD
Eligibility: Artists or Artist Teams residing in the United States
Pre-Application Meeting: September 30^th, 2026, at 5:30 p.m. (register)
DEADLINE: October 15^th, 2026, 11:59 P.M. MST

Goals

• Create a sculptural artwork that is meaningfully rooted in the people, stories, cultural heritage, and lived experiences of Northside Denver. The work should convey a clear sense of local identity and contribute to community pride.
• Interpret the park’s history and the broader heritage of Northside Denver while also offering a hopeful and forward-looking vision. Artwork should create a meaningful connection between the community’s past and its evolving future.
• Establish a memorable visual and cultural focal point within the park—one that invites people to gather, linger, reflect, interact, and return. The artwork should contribute to the park’s role as a shared “third space” for the community.
• Develop an artwork that encourages curiosity, storytelling, learning, and dialogue about the park and the surrounding community. The work should provide opportunities for people of different ages and backgrounds to find personal or cultural connections to the site.
• The artwork should communicate its connection to the community and place in a way that is visually engaging and readily accessible to a broad public audience. While artists are encouraged to bring their own creative perspective, the work should avoid being so abstract or ambiguous that its relationship to the site is lost.
• The completed artwork should be visually compelling, warm, engaging, and inspiring. It should have the potential to become a recognizable feature of the park and a place where community members want to gather, take photographs, and share their experience.
  The artwork should be appropriate to the park’s physical and social context, durable within a public outdoor environment, and capable of remaining meaningful to the community over time.
• The artwork should be complimentary to and in conversation with existing artworks within the park.

Artists from Denver with strong ties to the Northside are strongly encouraged to apply.

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