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Selig, Colin - RFQ SubmissionColin Selig Sculpture + Site Furnishings www.colinselig.com +1.925.457.5060 info@colinselig.com 1547 Palos Verdes #315 Walnut Creek, California 94597 Introduction letter of interest Dear City of La Quinta Art in Public Places Program, I’m excited by your request for qualification for public art that will help shape The City’s visual identity, enhance the quality of life of its residents, attract visitors and support economic growth of its businesses. My seating and sculpture has been used in this way in dozens of installations across the US in streetscapes, parks and plazas, municipal buildings, healthcare facilities and commercial properties. My work has been honored with national and international awards for its sustainable and technical qualities including the ‘Most Interesting Products Award’ from the American Society of Landscape Architects and the ‘Exhibitor’s Choice Gold Award’ at the Smithsonian Craft Show. I was also recently named by CODAworx as one of 2021 top 25 “Creative Revolutionaries” leading changes forward in the arts. My eco-friendly process is to repurpose regionally sourced scrap steel propane tanks by carefully dissecting and reassembling the pieces, with no additional reshaping of the material, a method with a minimal carbon footprint that produces durable objects which contain 99% post-consumer reused content. My hope is that my work inspires others to consider new possibilities for reusing materials. Thank you for considering my qualifications! Best, -Colin Selig Colin Selig Sculpture + Site Furnishings www.colinselig.com +1.925.457.5060 info@colinselig.com 1547 Palos Verdes #315 Walnut Creek, California 94597 Forms insurance & non collusion Colin Selig Sculpture + Site Furnishings www.colinselig.com +1.925.457.5060 info@colinselig.com 1547 Palos Verdes #315 Walnut Creek, California 94597 Dublin park sculpture Arachnicat is a whimsical, climbable biomorphic sculpture commissioned in 2020 for Clover Park, in Dublin, California. Combining an insect’s body, feline ears and a scorpion's tail this artwork has three seating surfaces which also serve as steps for kids who want to climb higher. Dimensions: 10’ x 12’ x 6’ Budget: $36K Colin Selig Sculpture + Site Furnishings www.colinselig.com +1.925.457.5060 info@colinselig.com 1547 Palos Verdes #315 Walnut Creek, California 94597 Palo Alto streetscape In 2016 The City of Palo Alto purchased five seats for their public art collection and installed them at prominent sites along the commercial section of University Avenue, at the intersections of Emerson, Bryant and Waverly. Dimensions: 8’ x 3’ x 3’ Budget: $21K Colin Selig Sculpture + Site Furnishings www.colinselig.com +1.925.457.5060 info@colinselig.com 1547 Palos Verdes #315 Walnut Creek, California 94597 Napa Squirrel Poised to jump into the intersection, Squirrel is a whimsical, biomorphic sculpture which was installed at First and Franklin streets in downtown Napa, California as part of a two year art walk exhibition in 2017. Dimensions: 5’ x 3’ x 4’ Value: $8K Colin Selig Sculpture + Site Furnishings www.colinselig.com +1.925.457.5060 info@colinselig.com 1547 Palos Verdes #315 Walnut Creek, California 94597 Newport Beach Scorpion Scorpion overlooks the Newport Beach Civic Center in a two year sculpture exhibition in 2021, sponsored by the Newport Beach Arts Foundation. Dimensions: 7’ x 5’ x 6’ Value: $17K Colin Selig Sculpture + Site Furnishings www.colinselig.com +1.925.457.5060 info@colinselig.com 1547 Palos Verdes #315 Walnut Creek, California 94597 Key West pedestrian mall In 2019 The City of Key West, Florida, transformed a block of Duvall Street, at the southern most point in the US, from parking spaces into a pedestrian mall featuring five of Colin Selig's benches. Dimensions: 10’ x 3’ x 3’ Budget: $26K Colin Selig Sculpture + Site Furnishings www.colinselig.com +1.925.457.5060 info@colinselig.com 1547 Palos Verdes #315 Walnut Creek, California 94597 Lindsay Wildlife Experience spider Installed in the front planting bed, the spider-like shape of Pentarachnid appears to be crawling down the hillside, injecting an anticipatory energy for both children and adults as they approach the main entrance to the Lindsay Wildlife Museum in Walnut Creek, California, whose mission is to connect people with wildlife. After this exhibition it was sold in 2018 to The City of Malden, MA, and installed along a bike path. Dimensions: 8’ x 6’ x 5’ Value: $12K Colin Selig Sculpture + Site Furnishings www.colinselig.com +1.925.457.5060 info@colinselig.com 1547 Palos Verdes #315 Walnut Creek, California 94597 Public Art Commissions Manufactured in California from regionally sourced scrap steel propane tanks, each seat is hand made and signed by the artist. These seats contains 99% post-consumer reused content. The seam welded quarter inch thick curved steel parts form a very rigid structure with a 100 year plus service life. Each seat has unique surface texture due to the use of reused materials. Pricing includes zinc rich epoxy primer and architectural grade powder coating in choice of RAL color. Listed dimensions are approximate. Applicable US patents: US 9,901,178 B2, US D 721,237, US D 716,572, US D 683,146, US D 683,147, US D 683,148. Colin Selig © 2010-2021, All Rights Reserved 2022 ArtX Hotel exterior public seating Client: HXH Property LLC, Palo Alto, CA 2022 Lonnie Green park biomorphic bench Client: City of Sugar Land, TX 2022 Residential complex plaza sculpture Client: Monday Properties, Alexandria, VA 2022 Fayette Park biomorphic sculptures Client: City of Mountain View, CA 2021 Newport Beach Civic Center Sculpture Exhibition Client: City of Newport Beach, CA 2021 Placemaking streetscape seating Client: City of Limon, CO 2020 Clover Park climbable biomorphic sculpture Client: City of Dublin, CA 2020 Regions Hospital Birth Center patio seating Client: HealthPartners Inc., St. Paul, MN 2020 Bike trail seating Client: City of North Liberty, IA 2019 Key West pedestrian mall seating Client: City of Key West, FL 2019 Interstate 244 Tulsa pedestrian overlook seating Client: Vicki Scuri Siteworks , DOT Oklahoma 2019 ARTLine bike trail sculpture and seating Client: City of Malden, MA 2019 Dunne Park climbable seating Client: City of Hollister, CA 2019 Miller Avenue streetscape seating Client: City of Mill Valley, CA 2019 Lincoln Square shopping center seating Client: Terramar Retail Centers, Oakland, CA 2018 Wildlife museum sculpture and seating Client: Lindsay Wildlife Experience, Walnut Creek, CA 2018 Gastro pub entrance seating Client: City of Grand Prairie, TX 2017 Teen Center sculpture and seating Client: County of Los Alamos, NM 2017 Children’s hospital entry seating Client: Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, Memphis, TN 2017 Napa Art Walk sculpture Client: City of Napa, CA 2016 University Avenue streetscape seating Client: City of Palo Alto, CA 2016 Marathon Courthouse courtyard seating Client: Monroe County, FL 2016 Rural state highway 62 streetscape seating Client: Town of Ridgway, CO 2016 Public Library entrance seating Client: City of Moraga, CA 2015 Theatre Square streetscape & Community Center seating Client: City of Orinda, CA 2014 Pop-Up Park seating Client: City of Morgan Hill, CA 2012-14 Neiman Marcus furnishings, 14 store locations including: Beverly Hills, White Plains, San Diego, Dallas, & Bal Harbour 2012 City Hall lobby seating Client: City of Walnut Creek, CA Nov 2021 Colin Selig Sculpture + Site Furnishings www.colinselig.com +1.925.457.5060 info@colinselig.com 1547 Palos Verdes #315 Walnut Creek, California 94597 About the Artist Patents 2018 US 9,901,178 B2 Utility patent: Methods for making seating from pressure vessels. 2015 US D 721,237 Design patent: Propane tank club chair 2014 US D 716,572 Design patent: Propane tank asymmetric backless bench 2013 US D 683,146 Design patent: Propane tank bench 2013 US D 683,147 Design patent: Propane tank chaise bench 2013 US D 683,148 Design patent: Propane tank lips bench Awards / Honors American Society of Landscape Architects Most Interesting Products Award Smithsonian Craft Show Exhibitors’ Choice Gold Award CODAWorx “Creative Revolutionaries” List of top 25 for 2021 Core77 Design Awards Runner Up, DIY category Spark Design Awards Concept Finalist Eco Arts Awards Second Place: Repurposed Materials in Art & Design juried by Lloyd Herman founder Smithsonian Renwick Gallery Statement My sculpting practice is focused on creating climate conscious site elements for public and commercial spaces. My bench designs include contemporary riffs on furniture from Victorian and Mid Century eras. My biomorphic sculptures are whimsical and designed for human interaction. Committed to sustainable design practices, I work exclusively with used materials and have developed a method of repurposing salvage propane tanks, a readily available source of pre-curved steel. The large tanks are carefully dissected and the pieces reassembled, with no additional reshaping of the material, an eco-friendly process with a minimal carbon footprint that produces objects which contain 99% post-consumer reused content. I have been granted a series of design and utility patents to protect the originality of my work. I have completed numerous commissions across the US for public and commercial locations including streetscapes, parks and plazas, municipal buildings, healthcare facilities, museums and retail properties. My work has been honored with national awards for its innovative and technical qualities including the ‘Most Interesting Products Award’ from the American Society of Landscape Architects and the ‘Exhibitor’s Choice Gold Award’ at the Smithsonian Craft Show. I was also recently named by CODAworx as one of 2021’s top 25 international “Creative Revolutionaries” leading changes forward in the arts. I have considerable experience making benches for public settings that are comfortable, safe and sturdy. The combination of curved seat and curved backrest provides good lumbar support for a wide range of body sizes, an ergonomic advantage over traditional outdoor benches with flat seats. My work’s durability and sustainable design make it ideal for the public realm.  As an artist my hope is to inspire others to consider new possibilities for reusing materials. A brief video about my work can be found here. Bio Raised in an ecologically conscious household I learned the importance of conserving our planet’s resources from an early age, although my parents had mixed emotions when I took their message to heart and searched through our neighbors’ garbage on my way home from elementary school retrieving appliances and furniture to repair.  I studied metal sculpting at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston while earning a degree in Philosophy from Tufts University in 1987.  My education from that time included apprenticeships with a machinist, a race car fabricator, and a public art sculptor.  In the next couple of decades I continued to master my craft, restoring a variety of antique vehicles and farm equipment before focusing on sculpting.  I reside and have my studio within an intentional community in the San Francisco Bay Area where a supportive group and bucolic environment provide not only the context for my creativity to flourish but a model for a sustainable ecological, economic and social existence. Sept 2021 Colin Selig Sculpture + Site Furnishings www.colinselig.com +1.925.457.5060 info@colinselig.com 1547 Palos Verdes #315 Walnut Creek, California 94597 Sustainable source material: Regionally sourced scrap steel propane tanks are abundant due to strict regulations limiting their service life. Repurposed: The tanks are carefully dissected and the parts reassembled with no additional reshaping of the material, a process with a minimal carbon footprint. Comfortable: The combination of curved seat and curved backrest provides good lumbar support for a wide range of body sizes, an ergonomic improvement over traditional metal benches with flat seats and tilted backrests. Climate Conscious: These eco-friendly objects contain 99% post-consumer reused content. Durable: Made from curved steel with a wall thickness of 1/4 inch (6.5mm), a very sturdy structure is created when the parts are seam welded together. A quality powder coating seals the structure from the elements. Materials & Process Colin Selig Sculpture + Site Furnishings www.colinselig.com +1.925.457.5060 info@colinselig.com 1547 Palos Verdes #315 Walnut Creek, California 94597 References Elise DeMarzo Public Art Program Director The City of Palo Alto PO Box 10250 Palo Alto, CA 94303 650-617-3517 Elise.DeMarzo@CityofPaloAlto.org In 2016 The City of Palo Alto’s Public Art Program, in partnership with the Dept. of Public Works and the Downtown Business Assoc., leased and then purchased five seats for three sites along University Avenue, at the intersections of Emerson, Bryant and Waverly. Budget: $21,000 Liz Young Exec Director Florida Keys Council of the Arts 1100 Simonton St. Key West, FL 33040 305-295-4369 director@keysarts.com In 2019 The City of Key West, FL, transformed the 1400 block of Duvall Street, located at the southern most point in the US, from parking spaces into a pedestrian mall featuring five of Colin Selig's benches. Liz Young also worked with Colin on a previous commission for benches for a courthouse courtyard in Marathon, FL. Budget: $26,000 Shaun Chilkotowsky Heritage and Cultural Arts Manager Parks & Community Services Department City of Dublin 100 Civic Plaza, Dublin, CA 94568 (925) 556-4565 | (925) 833-6651 FAX shaun.chilkotowsky@dublin.ca.gov | www.dublin.ca.gov Arachnicat is a whimsical biomorphic sculpture commissioned in 2020 for newly developed Clover Park, in Dublin, California. She has an insect’s body and legs with feline ears and a scorpion's tail. Incorporated between her legs are three seating surfaces inviting park visitors to sit or use them as steps to climb higher. Dimensions: 10’ x 12’ x 6’ Budget: $36,000