APPLY HERE -- https://arttopublic.net/cmlc-act-rfq_2025 -- Budget: $1.32 million CND -- CMLC seeks an artist or artist team to create an artwork(s) for the ACT Expansion through this unencumbered call. CMLC encourages all locally, nationally and internationally qualified artists to apply. The public art design will beautify, activate, and enliven the Arts Commons campus. The successful artist/artist team will work with CMLC, Arts Commons, the design team KPMB Architects, Hindle Architects, and TAWAW Architecture Collective, and the Construction Manager Ellis Don to coordinate design, fabrication, and installation. The Arts Commons Transformation and Olympic Plaza Transformation comprise of a $660 million program of projects consisting of a new performing arts centre building (ACT Expansion), modernization and augmentation of existing facilities (ACT Modernization), and the renewal of Olympic Plaza (Olympic Plaza Transformation (OPT)). Together, these make up the largest artsfocused infrastructure project currently underway in Canada. In December of 2024, after four years of extensive community consultation and planning, CMLC, the City of Calgary, and Arts Commons broke ground for the ACT Expansion. As a result of the placement of the ACT Expansion within the Arts Commons campus, the building’s north edge is located immediately adjacent to the public realm and is highly visible from the passing Calgary Transit (CTrain) light rail cars and by pedestrians. The design of the Expansion limits windows along the north edge, leaving a solid, rather long and tall façade bordering an important part of the public realm. As a result, CMLC and its partners are launching the ACT Expansion Public Art RFQ that will play an essential role in connecting the Arts Commons Campus with its urban context.