City Seeks Designer & Artist for Congress Square Redesign Project

PORTLAND, Maine – The City of Portland’s Planning & Urban Development Department, in partnership with the Portland Public Art Committee and the Friends of Congress Square Park, is announcing an open call for landscape designers and visual artists to create concepts for the Congress Square Redesign project. The City has released two Requests for Qualifications (RFQ) to hire a design team and an artist to concurrently develop schematic designs for the intersection and a public art commission. Responses to the open call will be collected until January 28, 2016. Applicants will be reviewed by selection committees and finalists will be invited to a site visit, interview, and public forum to present their work. The public forum, to be held in March, 2016, creates an opportunity for the community to learn about the prospective consultants and provide input about the finalists.

The City currently has funds to develop schematic level concepts for the Congress Square