Crazy Massive Art Pieces Coming to SF

Got an idea for a crazy, massive art project you think would look just terrible awesome in some super prominent public plaza in SF? If you act quickly, you might be able to get up to $50,000 to make your insane art dream come true.

There may no longer be any empty public spaces in San Francisco this spring. The art community is massively taking over by hitting up these currently wide-open areas with their own fresh takes on what San Francisco likes to deem “art.”

Actually, these installations (ranging from 12 to 40 feet tall) will get some major facetime, and have to go through an application process, so they are pretty legit. In 2016, the artists who will be featured across the city this year must be residents of one of the nine San Francisco counties (in the past artists haven’t had to be local).

Can you do better than a massive “free” stamp that got commissioned in Cleveland?

And while San Fran is mostly known for its more random street art and walls splattered with graffiti, (or human pee) the SF Arts Commission has decided to grace the rest of the city with these artist-made large-scale sculptures.

The submissions must be made by 11:59 pm on January 11, 2016 and will be on display in the city beginning in April for six to eight weeks.

This is a pretty amazing opportunity for local artists to exhibit some of their best large-scale works, and the commission will even reimburse expenses to the artist up to $50,000.

Some freaky trunk touching at a “Fancy Animal Carnival” from 2015.

We don’t know quite yet where these sculptures will be, but it might be fun to have a scavenger hunt throughout the city’s prominent plazas to find them. They may end up wacky like last year’s installation, or serious and blend in with the city’s landscape. But who knows, it’s all in the hands of these creators.

Read about the application process on the SF Arts Commission‘s website.