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CNN
Ashley Vaughan
23 June 2020
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Multi-Media
Under 800 Words
University Rebuild brings together theater members in Minneapolis who are not working due to Covid-19 to use their skills in support of the Black Lives Matters movement by helping communities clean up, make repairs, a...
23 May 2020
United States
Text
Under 800 Words
Artist and activist Warren Neidich organized drive-by art exhibits in two cities to help unemployed artists and communities feeling isolated during the Covid-19 related shutdown. Inspired by drive-by birthday, graduat...
13 May 2020
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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800-1500 Words
In Philadelphia, a project called Fill the Walls With Hope has come together, pairing public art with hyper-local information. The initiative, which has collaborated with various local organizations, came together as ...
8 May 2020
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
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800-1500 Words
The City of Las Vegas Redevelopment Agency is providing funding for businesses closed by COVID-19 to board up their windows with public art. Offering up to $2,000 per business, its purpose is to help support local art...
28 April 2020
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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800-1500 Words
The Downtown Greenway in Greensboro was already underway when the coronavirus hit and it has turned out to be quite the respite and economic boon. The Greenway draws visitors in with trails, greenways, public art, loc...
21 January 2020
Newnan, Georgia, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
The small Southern city of Newnan, GA considered themselves to be a fairly open and accepting place. This attitude was shattered when 17 huge portraits of ordinary people who make up Newnan were hung across the city a...
19 November 2019
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
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800-1500 Words
Bringing the community into conversations about commemoration opens new ways to present public history. The Paper Monuments project in New Orleans asked residents to draw monuments that they would like to see replace ...
15 November 2019
Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
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The Brazilian city of Recife is tackling violence prevention by focusing on early-childhood education through a program called Urban95. In addition to painting the streets and buildings bright colors, Urban95 offers a...
1 November 2019
Hilliard, Ohio, United States
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800-1500 Words
Involving a community can bring value to public art. Following protracted discussions, the Hilliard Public Arts Commission succeeded in drawing up guidelines with the approval of the city as well as securing a small p...
30 October 2019
Mansfield, Ohio, United States
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800-1500 Words
Cities enhanced by public art improve the quality of life for their residents. Across the midwest—from Bucyrus, Ohio, to Chicago, Illinois—cities are investing in public art and murals as a way to revitalize their com...
29 October 2019
Mansfield, Ohio, United States
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800-1500 Words
Public art adds value to communities that have experienced decline in recent decades. In towns like Mansfield and Marietta, Ohio, public art plays a positive role. Murals created by groups like Mansfield Murals Inc., ...
10 September 2019
Hammana, Lebanon
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800-1500 Words
Amplifying local culture, history, and food through the arts increases tourism and can revitalize areas struggling with depopulation. The Hammana Artist House, a collaboration between a philanthropist and Collectif Ka...
23 July 2019
London, England, United Kingdom
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Under 800 Words
Environments designed with soundscapes and visual art help to reduce anxiety and pain. In London, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital has noted a marked improvement in patient experience, including decreased pain and eve...
17 July 2019
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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800-1500 Words
In Boston, many groups are working to public spaces, large and small, as they face upheaval and change in the face of rapid development. In one example, the Asian Community Development Corporation creates projects for...
18 June 2019
Beirut, Lebanon
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800-1500 Words
Building community around storytelling preserves cultural heritage. Across Lebanon, individuals and institutions like the Lebanese Ministry of Culture and the Theatre Monnot in Beirut are working to preserve oral cult...
15 May 2019
Memphis, Tennessee, United States
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800-1500 Words
Creating and deploying exhibitions in response to real-time events can allow museums to play a larger role in community engagement and education. By developing so-called rapid-response exhibits, museums can respond mo...
9 May 2019
Helena, Montana, United States
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Earlier this year, Helena, Montana became the first city in the United States to both remove and replace a confederate monument. A group called the Equity Fountain Project will replace the old monument with a public a...
The Boston Globe
Matt Rocheleau
22 April 2019
Medford, Massachusetts, United States
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Under 800 Words
In an effort to promote safe driving, a local artist painted a three-dimensional crosswalk near an elementary school. The idea came from school-aged children, noticing the intersection needed improvements, who brought...
Next City
Gregory Scruggs
25 March 2019
Seattle, Washington, United States
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800-1500 Words
Publicly-owned galleries can provide an open, inclusive space for both artists and the community. In Seattle, the Office of Arts and Culture renovated the disused third floor of the King Street Station, turning it int...
CityLab
Tanvi Misra
12 March 2019
Medellín, Colombia
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Under 800 Words
City planners and governments often overlook culture when trying to rebuild cities blighted by war, disasters, or other types of urban distress. But not Medellín, Colombia. After the drug trade made Medellín a violent...
5 March 2019
Medellin, Colombia
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
In one of Colombia’s most violent neighborhoods, Comuna 13, lives Agro Arte, a garden and community outreach center. The center works with local residents to turn places of violence into green spaces, dedicating new p...
28 February 2019
Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico
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800-1500 Words
Artistic collaboration transcends political barriers and can foster a transnational identity. On the US-Mexico border, initiatives like the Dreams Across Borders project, initiated by the Mexican Consulate, and the Bo...
12 February 2019
San Diego, California, United States
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Under 800 Words
San Diego residents may be seeing more placemaking projects, like murals or pedestrian plazas, because of a more streamlined permitting process. The city, notorious for making such projects difficult and expense to in...
30 November 2018
Oakland, California, United States
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800-1500 Words
Installed throughout Oakland, Rosten Woo’s sculptures consist of bells that chime at quicker frequency the more particulate is present in the air. Through this means, Woo make air quality data visible and pushes for e...
27 November 2018
Detroit, Michigan, United States
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Under 800 Words
The Ghana ThinkTank connects planners in the so-called “first world” to planners in the so-called “third world” to challenge notions of development and spread ideas from overlooked sources. For a recent project, plann...
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