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This project started as a fictional marketing campaign for the historic streetcar line that connected El Paso with Juarez, Mexico. The project attracted so much community interest that city funds have been raised to rebuild the streetcar.
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Through performance, The Telling Project puts veterans and military family members in front of their communities to share their stories. The program gives veterans and military family members the opportunity to speak, and gives their communities the
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SAY Sí strives to have each student artist become a productive and thoughtful citizen by enhancing their social, academic, cognitive, and vocational competencies and improving their self-esteem and self-identity.
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The Alliance is dedicated to preserve and promote African-American arts and heritage; sharing information and resources; increasing artistic and economic self-sufficiency; and advocating increased community support for the arts.
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Metro Arts recently developed the THRIVE program, which uses an obscure municipal regulation to award contracts of up to $4,000 to individual artists and small arts groups ineligible for the Commission’s larger general operating support grants. Two-thirds
Read MoreLed by Conexión Américas, this is a comprehensive creative placemaking process to help transform bus shelters, roads, and parks in a diverse neighborhood.
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Musicians On Call believes that patients, families, and caregivers should benefit from the healing power of music. In addition to live performances, it offers the Music Pharmacy, which gives each patient access to a tablet loaded with Pandora and
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The mural located in Whittier—a working-class neighborhood of Native Americas as well as settlers from across the globe—shows the neighborhood working together to care for its natural beauty, the education of its youth, and the welfare of its residents.
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CRYP is an authentic grassroots initiative that intersects culture, history, heritage, and service. It is designed to meet the specific needs of the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation through innovative youth programming, vital family services, and
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Seeing Spartanburg is a public art project that uses light installations in nine neighborhoods to improve safety and community pride. It is a collaboration between an installation artist, community groups, city government, and a wide range of residents.
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