The 8th Annual Dragon Parade Lunar New Year Festival, celebrating the Year of the Pig, is Sunday, February 17. The parade begins at 11am followed by the Lunar Festival from noon until 5pm. The parade will travel on Thornton Avenue between Lake Highland and Colonial Drive and the Lunar Festival will take place in the parking lot at 728 N. Thornton. This is a free community event!
Mills 50, in conjunction with the City of Orlando, desires to create a Public Art Project that is all encompassing and seeks entries for a public exhibition in Orlando with a juried selection process to choose the artists. The purpose of the project is to create an environment which depicts the community’s diversity, creativity, commerce and
neighborhoods. This project will enhance the aesthetic of our community for all to enjoy.
Phase I of this project has been completed with (9) City of Orlando transportation engineering metal utility boxes, located in Mills 50, being transformed into “Art Boxes”. Four (4) cabinets were painted in Phase II. Six (6) utility cabinets will be transformed in Phase III.
Dimensions of the larger boxes: 56″ high x 28.125″ deep x 40.25″ wide; smaller boxes: 49” high x 17” deep x 30” wide. Artwork must include all five (5) surfaces (four sides & top) of the utility box. All artwork must be oil based paint to protect from the sun and heat exposure as a result of the Central FL environment.
Entries are open to all two dimensional artists living in Orange county. The characters shall appear within all submittals. “Mills 50” A five (5) point system based on overall aesthetics and design will be employed. One (1) point will be deducted if “Mills 50” is omitted from the submission. One (1) bonus point will be awarded for local
artists, i.e, a business within the District boundaries or a resident living within three (3) miles of the intersection of Mills and 50. The judging panel will determine which selected artist paints which cabinet. Each artist may paint only a single box but may make more than one submission.
Sketches and/or slides must be submitted mailed to:
Mills 50, 1200 Weber Street, Orlando, FL 32803
or e-mailed to: director@mills50.org
no later than Friday, May 4, 2012. Please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope if
sketches and/or slides are to be returned.
Mills 50 will provide paint & materials, up to $100, plus a $100 gift certificate for each of the selected artists. Artist may exceed the paint & materials cost, but will not be reimbursed by Mills 50 for any costs exceeding $100.00.
Proposed timeline:
Nine transportation engineering utility cabinets in the Mills 50 District have been transformed into “art boxes”.
The artists & their locations are: Danny Rodriguez – Colonial & Mills; Lauren Galant – Colonial & Hyer; Michael Fajardo – Mills & Lake Highland; Lee Vandergrift – Colonial & Ferncreek; Harry Glotfelty – Colonial & Shine and Mills & Marks; Genevieve Bernard – Mills & Virginia. The box at Colonial & Summerlin was painted by ESE students from Edgewater High School.
The judging panel was composed of Frank Holt, former Public Art Manager for the City and now Executive Director of the Mennello Museum; Sarah Kelly, former Chair of the DDB and member of the Public Art Advisory Board; Curtis Carswell, owner of the Great Escape Frame and Art Shop; Diane Martens and Janet Walker, artists and Jeff Thompson, senior landscape architect for Walt Disney World and chair of the Mills 50 Design committee.