With the Public Space Permit unanimously approved by the DDOT Public Space Committee, Dance Place announces the Groundbreaking of the 8th St Arts Park on Thursday, March 31 at 4pm.
ERIK HOWARD WAS IN A PANIC. The founder of The Alley Project (TAP)—a community center and gallery for youth creating street art and garage murals in Southwest Detroit—was working on an ArtPlace America Grant for Creative Placemaking. But his application had gone all wrong. “We found out late in the process that somehow we’d applied in the wrong category,” Howard recalls, “so we were improperly prepared for what we had to submit.”
The Hollywood CRA in collaboration with Artspace Projects is conducting a major online survey of artists, arts organizations, and creative businesses in South Florida to determine the size and nature of the market for an Artspace affordable live/work/create project planned for Downtown Hollywood.
Seeking fundraising help, advocates for an affordable artist housing project believe their work could help revitalize the North Trail. Will they succeed this time around?
The former Andrew J. Bell Middle School campus in Treme, abandoned since Hurricane Katrina, will be converted into a space with affordable housing and artist studios. Plans were announced in 2013, and now groundbreaking on the project will happen April 14.
Jane Chu, chairwoman for the National Endowment for the Arts, sees how Artspace is beneficial to the economy of Loveland.
Chu made a visit to Loveland's Artspace and the Loveland Feed and Grain on Thursday. The NEA awarded a $50,000 grant to the program in 2013 to provide funding for the Feed and Grain renovation. She toured the facility with Artspace personnel as well as Margaret Hunt, director of Creative Industries Division & Space to Create, and Tom Schultz, president of The Boettcher Foundation.
Spoiled by decades of affordable housing and studio options in a major city that was still pretty sleepy, local artists are already feeling the pinch of rising rents after former mayor Julian Castro’s “Decade of Downtown” battle cry and subsequent initiatives shot the city to the top of trend listicles.
