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& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
18 August 2021
Canada
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
The Strong People, Strong Communities mural-painting festival highlights positive Indigenous stories. The project paired 11 young artists with 11 elders in six teams, each of which painted a mural with a distinct them...
17 May 2021
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
Street murals and innovative safety features have transformed a dangerous intersection. The Kansas City project not only improved the aesthetic, it also decreased noise pollution, pedestrian crossing distances, and ve...
19 March 2021
Bangladesh
Text
1500-3000 Words
Artolution provides art education and supplies to Rohingya Survivors in Bangladesh refugee camps, all of whom experienced severe trauma, to create life-affirming and informative murals. Topics range from safe hygiene ...
15 February 2021
Austin, Texas, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Arts From The Streets gives artists living with homelessness a path to economic mobility and housing stability by offering ways to make and sell their art. An annual show can bring in $100,000 in sales, 95% of which g...
3 February 2021
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Through its Creative CityMaking program, the city of Minneapolis pays artists to use their skills to promote healing and community-building in projects they design on their own. The program had existed for seven years...
Next City
Lyndsay Knecht
27 January 2021
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
When the Public Iconographies project asked people in St. Louis "how would you map the monuments of St. Louis?", it got 750 hand-drawn maps telling stories of often-overlooked sites throughout the city. By letting peo...
23 December 2020
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Solitary Gardens is an art project that protests prisons' solitary confinement conditions. Incarcerated people connect with volunteers on the outside who plant flowers, vegetables, or herbs in beds matching the tiny d...
2 December 2020
Richmond, Virginia, United States
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800-1500 Words
Richmond’s Robert E. Lee statue has become an example of American protest art as protesters have covered it in graffiti demanding racial justice and surrounded it with basketball hoops, gardens, tents, lawn chairs, an...
10 October 2020
New York, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
Interactive museums and venues are shifting their exhibits during the coronavirus pandemic to better attract patrons while still abiding by safety precautions. Although it has been a struggle in some cases, and all ve...
NYC Reopens
Eli Rallo
25 September 2020
New York, New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In New York, restaurateurs who have struggled to stay open amid the coronavirus pandemic are partnering with drag performers who have lost work due to the pandemic to offer patrons a new dining experience while also t...
23 August 2020
Portland, Oregon, United States
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1500-3000 Words
A burst of creativity is helping Portland confront its racist histories. From murals appearing on boarded-up buildings, protest art on exhibit at art centers, and artists gathering downtown to display their work depic...
21 August 2020
Ashland, Ohio, United States
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800-1500 Words
As a way to raise funds and awareness for stormwater education, some cities are turning rain barrels into an art exhibit. Rain barrels catch water as it runs off rooftops, which can be used later for watering plants. ...
3 August 2020
France
Text
1500-3000 Words
There are 29 Resistance to Advertising Aggression (RAP) groups working in France to ban outdoor advertising such as billboards. The groups worked with the mayor in the city of Grenoble to cancel a contract for 326 out...
23 June 2020
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Photojournalism
1500-3000 Words
A “rapid response” mural project transformed shuttered storefronts with vibrant messages of pride, perseverance, anger, justice, and unity. The project was funded by Arts in Public Places Looking Forward, a new organi...
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
Text
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
Text
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
Text
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
Text
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
Text
800-1500 Words
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
Text
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
Text
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
Text
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., ...
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