Monday, June 29, 2015
Bloomberg Philanthropies Announces Public Arts Challenge Winners
Selected from more than two hundred and thirty applications, the winning cities are Gary, Indiana, which will transform a vacant downtown building into a cultural hub that showcases visual and culinary arts; Los Angeles, which will commission multidisciplinary artworks and public programs focused on the city’s environmental concerns; Spartanburg, South Carolina, which is planning art installations on public spaces in five targeted neighborhoods with the aim of building on an annual event that promotes crime prevention efforts, police-community partnership, and neighborhood camaraderie; and Albany, Schenectady, and Troy, New York, which proposed a collaborative project to illuminate up to three hundred vacant homes over several months and hold a regional summit on vacant homes and abandoned buildings to engage local residents, prospective buyers and investors, and policy makers....