The MSU Public Art on Campus Committee and the Department of Art, Art History, and Design in the College of Arts and Letters will be offering a special opportunity for current undergraduate and graduate students to have their artwork permanently displayed on campus. All current MSU students are encouraged to submit regardless of major. The walking bridge linking the MSU Main Library and the MSU Spartan Football Stadium is seeking designs to replace the metal mesh beneath the guardrail with perforated metal panels with a halftone design.
This bridge crosses the Red Cedar (a river so iconic, it is forever immortalized in the first line of the MSU fight song, “Victory for MSU”) at a point that physically and metaphorically bridges the old to the new of campus. As thousands of people use the bridge each week, it serves as a conduit for the flow of information and Spartan energy between two iconic destination points of campus – the MSU Main Library and Spartan Stadium. All designs should make reference to the flow of water, information, people and energy. It should be also noted that designs are able to feature MSU copyrighted slogans, mascots, etc.
This contest offers up to $5,000 in prizes. Prize money will be dispersed depending on the number of designs selected. Submission should have the following information:
Entrant information including first and last name, email address, phone number and student status (undergrad or graduate student) and a 250-word statement describing the design and its connection to the theme of the competition.
Design artwork must be formatted as five panels with a small gap between each panel. The completed fabricated panels are 2'8"' x 5'6" with a 6-inch gap between each panel. Final designs will need to have a 1" border void of design for manufacturing and installation purposes. Final fabricated panels may vary slightly from the original design during the manufacturing phase. Entries should be submitted in two ways: One image including all of the designed panels with a small gap in between them and one with each panel on it's own page separately. The image submitted with all five designed panels should be scaled at 3.2"x 6.6" for each panel with a small gap between each panel. The individual panels should be scaled at 8"x16.5" for the stand-alone images. Images submitted must be black and white and as a halftone design in order to simulate final perforated design.
Deadline for submissions is midnight on Feb. 6. An information session will take place Jan. 18 from 11-11:30 a.m. in the Kresge Art Center, Room 218 or from 2:30-3 p.m. in the Kresge Art Center, Room 116. Email Jacquelynn Sullivan, sulli357@msu.edu, for more information.
