The Piedmont Triad Airport Authority, the group that runs the airport, is looking for artists – either starving ones or well-fed ones – who think they have something great to put on display for flyers.
The airport has opened its 2024 search for artists who make two-dimensional paintings, photographs, mixed media and small sculptures or large outdoor ones.
The competition is open to all artists who live in North Carolina or in southern Virginia counties that border the Piedmont Triad – that is, Grayson, Carroll, Patrick, Henry, Pittsylvania and Halifax counties.
Also, this year, the Airport Authority is opening up the call for large-scale sculptors to those who live in South Carolina, Georgia, Virginia and Tennessee.
A stipend of $2,000 will be given for each large sculpture to cover delivery, pick-up and transportation costs.
If you visit https://flyfrompti.com/2024-call-to-artists/ you’ll find a complete list of exactly what airport officials are seeking.
The exhibition sites include a wall on the lower level in a baggage claim area as well as one at the bottom of the central escalator. There are also pedestals for artwork in the meet and greet areas of the departure level, and the ticketing areas – as well as eight outdoor sculpture platforms and one site where the sculpture will rest on the ground.
If your artwork is selected, you’ll have to deliver it and pick it up. The work will be installed by a professional that the Airport Authority will provide.
The artwork will be on loan to the airport for one year and artists will get $100 as a small thanks for loaning it out. But the best payback will be the recognition and potential sales. Your name and contact information will be on each label for the work and, if someone wants to buy your masterpiece, they can make you an offer. If you do sell it, you can trade out the work that’s sold for another similar work.
The deadline for submissions is Friday, April 19, and the first selection panel will make its choices in April or May.
To see some artwork used before, visit: https://flyfrompti.com/art-walking-tour/
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What an insult and a crap deal for the artists.
“Hey, we’ll allow you to put up your work on our hallowed walls… If you bring it to us, and take it away when we’re done with it. And we’ll give you… a whole hundred bucks!”
Is PTI so cheap it can’t even buy some art to hang on its walls? Just pay for some art to cover the bare walls, you cheesy sods.
And why is Mr Yost a perennial cheerleader for all things PTI? Is he an unpaid salesman?
I agree, Mr. Morris. An artist puts hours into their work and deserves at least $15/hour for the time they spend creating the artwork, as well as payment for the materials they put into the work. PTI has lost passengers, freight, and vendors because they’re cheap. They should offer these artists at least $1200 for their work to be lent for a year, that’s less than they’d rent art from a decorator. Also, make sure that there’s a way for people to bid on the sale of the artwork with small mailbox-type contraptions near each piece so the artists have a chance to sell their work. Don’t slam people who are interested in “recognition and potential sales” by cheapening their efforts.
Too true, Deborah !
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PS
Hunter Biden did a lot better than $15/hour. Strange that, isn’t it?