Ragdale Temporary, Outdoor Performance Venue

 

Sponsor: Ragdale Artists’ Residency
Location: Lake Forest, Illinois
Type: open to architects and designers
Fee: none
Process:
A jury of architects, artists, and architectural historians will select a single project to realize at full scale on Ragdale’s grounds. The winning designers will receive a $15,000 production grant to fund the project as well as a three-week design-build residency for a team of up to ten individuals. The residency will include a large studio, housing and three meals per day in May and June 2018.

Timetable:
8 March 2019 – Deadline for proposal
27 May – 12 June 2019 – Residency
Design Challenge:
To design, build, and exhibit the 2019 Ragdale Ring, a temporary theatre to house summer concerts, performances, and events. We are seeking inventive, site-responsive, large-scale submissions that explore intersections of architecture, sculpture, landscape, public art, and performance disciplines. Proposals that consider contemporary, fanciful, and functional interpretations of the original Ragdale Ring, designed by architect Howard Van Doren Shaw in 1912 as an outdoor garden theatre, are encouraged

For more information, go to:
http://ragdale.org/residency/ragdale-ring-2018/