FY 2010 Grant Awards: Mayors' Institute on City Design 25th Anniversary Initiative
Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior
Endowment approval.
The amount of the awards is pending Congressional approval of the NEA's FY 2011 budget.
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Action Greensboro
Greensboro, NC
Up to $100,000
To support public art installations as part of the planned renovation of an abandoned railroad underpass. The art installations will provide inviting links and pathways to the city center by way of a downtown greenway.
Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County
Winston-Salem, NC
Up to $200,000
To support the Winston-Salem Creative Corridor Project. A nationally renowned team of artists and urban designers will create a master plan to incorporate art and a high level of design into the highway infrastructure projects built through downtown Winston-Salem.
ArtsQuest
Bethlehem, PA
Up to $200,000
To support the development of an arts and culture campus on a section of the former Bethlehem Steel plant. A site-specific sculpture will be created and installed within a new town square at the base of the historic industrial blast furnaces.
City of Chicago, Illinois/Department of Cultural Affairs
Chicago, IL
Up to $250,000
To support the planning, design, and development for theCermak Creative Industries District. Historic industrial buildings will be converted into an arts district, providing affordable and sustainable spaces for creative businesses and work spaces for the arts.
City of Dallas, Texas
Dallas, TX
Up to $100,000
To support Dallas CityDesign Studio’s Connecting the City. Through community-based efforts, the project will utilize design to overcome historical neglect and physical barriers separating Dallas’s communities.
City of Kent, Washington
Kent, WA
Up to $25,000
To support the EarthworksTour and Public Engagement Campaign. Focusing on the Herbert Bayer and Robert Morris Earthworks and Lorna Jordan’s Waterworks Gardens, the project will develop cultural tourism and use digital media to engage the public.
City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs
Los Angeles, CA
Up to $100,000
To support planning and pre-development activities for the Broadway Arts Center. The project will study the development of a mixed-use affordable artists housing, performance and exhibition space, educational facility, and creative commercial center.
City of Madison, Wisconsin
Madison, WI
Up to $50,000
To support the integration of Lorna Jordan’s environmental art into the development of a new Central Park in Madison, Wisconsin. The city will hire an engineering, landscape, and environmental public art design team to design and build Central Park.
City of Memphis
Memphis, TN
Up to $225,000
To support the pre-development work for an artist live/work site in the city’s South Main Arts District. Project partner Artspace will lead a two-day pre-feasibility study and survey of artists and arts organizations in the Memphis region.
City of Oakland/Cultural Arts & Marketing Division
Oakland, CA
Up to $200,000
To support the creation of the Uptown Arts District Park in Oakland’s Uptown, a historic and reemerging arts and entertainment district. Development of the park will transform a vacant lot into an outdoor cultural space for at least four years.
City of Phoenix, Arizona (aka Phoenix Arts Commission)
Phoenix, AZ
Up to $25,000
To support design improvements to a key thoroughfare fronting the new Downtown Phoenix Public Market. An artist-led team will redesign a city block of Pierce Street, reducing car lanes, widening sidewalks, and integrating combinations of built and living shade to transform a hot stretch of concrete and asphalt into a place for people.
City of Rochester
Rochester, NY
Up to $250,000
To support ARTWalk, an urban art trail through the city’s Neighborhood of the Arts. An interconnected series of landscaped public art spaces and public sculpture will be created, connected by artful, interactive sidewalks.
Cultural Alliance of Greater Milwaukee, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
Up to $50,000
To support Creativity Works! Milwaukee Regional Creative Economy Project: Phase II. The project will establish a regional creative economy in a seven-county region in southeast Wisconsin.
Horace Bushnell Memorial Hall Corporation
(aka The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts)
Hartford, CT
Up to $250,000
To support the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts’ iQuilt project. The project is an arts-based economic development plan capitalizing on Hartford’s unique downtown area.
Hudson Yards Development Corporation
New York, NY
Up to $100,000
To support the second design phase of the Culture Shed, a cultural facility that is a central component of a major development plan for the Hudson Yards district of New York City. An example of innovative design, the Culture Shedwill transform a static building on a 22,000-square-foot site to an exhibition hall with more than 55,000-square-feet of contiguous net floor area.
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Indianapolis, IN
Up to $200,000
To support FLOW (Can You See the River). With a series of collaborative installations along a stretch of the White River and Central Canal in Indianapolis, artist Mary Miss aims to enhance residents’ awareness of the White River, river-related issues, and existing efforts to keep the city’s primary water source healthy.
Lafayette College
Easton, PA
Up to $200,000
To support the Art of Urban Environment Festival. Held during a six-month period in Easton’s West Ward, the festival will showcase a group of as many as 16 outdoor art installations and performances by emerging artists.
New Jersey Community Development Corporation
Paterson, NJ
10-923459
Up to $100,000
To support a series of collaborative community arts events and forums. The public events will maximize the impact and connectivity of Paterson, New Jersey’s designation as home to the newest national park, the Great Falls National Historical Park.
Public Corporation for the Arts of the City of Long Beach
(aka Arts Council for Long Beach)
Long Beach, CA
Up to $25,000
To support the commissioning of a design for a portable, flexible, and architecturally significant venue. The portable venue will be used by arts presenting organizations for city festivals and special events.
San Francisco Arts Commission
San Francisco, CA
Up to $250,000
To support the development of the Mid-Market Cultural District. The comprehensive community development strategy has four components including a lighting design competition, an arts market, activation of vacant storefronts and sidewalks, and installation of art in storefronts.
Shreveport Regional Arts Council
Shreveport, LA
Up to $100,000
To support the revitalization of a historic district in Shreveport, Louisiana. A master plan will be developed for the seven-block core surrounding the Central Fire Station (tentatively called Shreveport Common) which is rich in cultural history and community heritage.
Total Awards: 21
Total Dollars Awarded: $3,000,000
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