Technical or Professional, Non-personal Services
Mount Making Services
This Request for Quote (RFQ) is issued by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center (APAC) for professional, non-personal mount making services to the Smithsonian’s Asian Pacific American Center for the upcoming exhibition How Can You Forget Me: Filipino American Stories.
For those interested in submitting a quote please email Marie Sicola at sicolam@si.edu to receive the full RFQ packet including scope of work, evaluation guidelines, object list, and smithsonian contractual requirements. Due date for quotes has been extended to January 13, 2025.
BACKGROUND AND DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUIRED SERVICES
The Smithsonian’s Asian Pacific American Center is seeking a mount maker to design and produce mounts for the attached list of textile options appearing in appearing in APAC’s upcoming exhibition, How Can You Forget Me: Filipino American Stories, set to open in Fall 2025 (exact date TBD).
The exhibition in NMAH, will showcase the history of the Filipino American community in Stockton, California, covering the years from the 1910s to the present. The exhibition will tell the story of how the first wave of Filipinos, also known as manongs, migrated from the Philippines to work in Hawai’i sugar plantations and later settled in Stockton, California where they labored as farmworkers and established an enclave dubbed “Little Manila.” These stories will be told through the display of three steamer trunks that were left by the manongs and discovered in a basement in a fraternal lodge where the manongs had lived.
Work Hours and Location of Work
Contractor will perform the services offsite, in their own office or home office for mount building. The Contractor will be on site at the Smithsonian and object storage locations (NMAH and MCI) on an as-needed basis to measure objects, assess the exhibition location, and meet with APAC and NMAH staff. Objects will not leave Smithsonian and object storage locations.