Wyoming Arts Council

New Design Competition for World War One Memorial

Featured News | May 7, 2015

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From a press release:

On May 21st, 2015, the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission will open a design competition for a National World War I Memorial in Washington, DC.

A formal kickoff press event will take place at the National Press Club in Washington DC on Thursday, May 21st, at 2:00 pm.  The press event will be followed by a walking tour of the proposed memorial site at nearby Pershing Park, located on Pennsylvania Avenue between 14th and 15th Streets NW.

The competition manual will be posted at the Commission’s website  www.worldwar1centennial.org by May 21.

The competition will be a two-stage design competition, and is an open, international competition, open to any professionals, university-level students, or any other interested participants.

In the first stage, participants will submit narrative and graphic descriptions of a design concept responding to the competition’s design goals.

Three to five submissions from Stage I will be selected as finalists, and those entries will be further refined and developed in Stage II.

Both stages of the competition will be evaluated by a jury of individuals representing the worlds of government, the military, the arts, and the citizens of Washington DC.  The jurors were selected by the Commission, and the Commission will have final decision on the selected design, based on the recommendation of the jury.

The deadline for Stage I submissions is July 21, 2015, and Stage II finalists will be announced August 4, 2015.  The Commission expects to announce its selected design in January 2016.

Following is a link to a presentation on the memorial site and objectives given by Edwin Fountain, the Vice Chair of the World War I Centennial Commission, in August 2014, which sets forth in broad outline the Commission’s objectives in establishing a World War I memorial in the nation’s capital: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZrAwxlJh94

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