The Minnesota Landscape Arboretum is proud to present Powerhouse Plants, opening June 5, 2010, featuring designs that explore the energizing links between plants and people. As an artist, performance artist, scientist, designer, architect, landscape architect, horticulturist, educator, environmental organization or other interested party, you're invited to submit a design proposal. Designs may consider plants as living power stations that process sunlight. They may explore the remarkable ways human life is energized by plants, in foods we eat, fuel we burn, burgeoning efforts to gasify and ferment plants for bioenergy, or other artistic visions powered by or created from plants. Installations will be sited among the Arboretum's highly visible Walking Area Gardens.

Powerhouse Plants will also feature new Arboretum exhibits on growing, converting and using bioenergy from plants, and on the incredible, edible powerhouse from our Minnesota-grown bounty of fresh vegetables, fruits, herbs and grains.

Monday October 12, 2009, 3 - 5 pm
MANDATORY PRE-PROPOSAL MEETING
Anyone interested in submitting a design must attend this mandatory pre-proposal meeting at the Arboretum's MacMillan Auditorium. Please RSVP by noon Friday October 9 to Sandy Tanck at 952 443-1451 or tanck001@umn.edu. Walking tours of potential installation sites will be offered.

Friday November 20, 2009
DESIGN SUBMISSIONS DUE
Only those who attend the pre-proposal meeting may enter. Proposals must include:
• Title and narrative description of design
• Visual rendering of design (e.g. photographs, perspective sketches, models, digital renderings)
• Application form

Monday December 7, 2009
WINNERS ANNOUNCED
Five awards will be announced, each receiving a $3,000 stipend. Winners will be featured in Arboretum promotional materials, and may list their work for sale through the Arboretum Gift Store.

Click Here to download and print the Powerhouse Plants postcard.