| Bloomberg Philanthropies
Asphalt Art Initiative Grants
Application Deadline: June 12, 2023
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“Bloomberg Philanthropies is inviting cities of any size in Canada, Mexico, and the United States to apply for a chance to receive $25,000 grants through the Asphalt Art Initiative. The Asphalt Art Initiative supports arts-driven street redesign projects that improve safety, revitalize public spaces, and engage local communities. Data shows asphalt art to be a creative, low-cost way to make streets safer, including a 50% drop in the rate of crashes involving pedestrians or cyclists after projects are installed. Three previous rounds of Asphalt Art Initiative grants have supported 64 projects across the U.S. and Europe.”
SMU DataArts
Local Arts Agencies Funding and Arts Vibrancy
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A new study released by SMU DataArts presents findings on the “multiple ways that LAAs are catalysts for art vibrancy in their communities. The more grant dollars they have to invest in artists and arts organizations, and the more programs and services they provide, the more their communities pulse with arts-driven creative and economic life, vigor, and activity.”
FEMA
National Resilience Guidance
Listening Sessions Series continue through June
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“Communities today face an increasingly complex set of challenges. Disruptions from a range of acute shocks, such as natural disasters, pandemics, cyberattacks, infrastructure failure and loss of key industries are becoming more frequent and intense. FEMA is spearheading an effort to create guidance and resources for the whole community to help everyone understand and fulfil their critical roles related to increasing national resilience. FEMA wants input from across the whole community—across disciplines, sectors, levels of government, communities, and individuals—on a range of topics…and is hosting a series of 60-minute listening sessions to gather input from across the whole community to inform the development of actionable resilience guidance and resources. Please join the discussion and share this invitation with others.”
Kentucky Arts Council
Emergencies, Disasters and The Arts
Monthly Series continues in May and June
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A series of webinars presented by the Kentucky Arts Council. The May event, Craft Emergency Relief Fund: A Support System for Artists, will feature Ruby Lopez Harper, executive director and Cameron Baxter Lewis, director of grants and programs, to “share resources available for American artists to safeguard their livelihood.” The June event, The 4-1-1: Making a Case for Disaster Funding in the Arts, will feature Leah Hamilton (University of Kentucky) and Lauren Hainley (Houston Arts Alliance), to “provide information on the importance of case studies and data collection to fully value arts in the future.” |
