DEPARTMENT: Department for Culture and Creative Development
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Felix N. Padr?n
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: City Council District 2
SUBJECT:
EastPoint Artist Residencies Our Town Grant, in the amount of $100,000, from the National Endowment for the Arts.
SUMMARY:
This ordinance authorizes the acceptance of a grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts in the amount of $100,000, for the period of October 1, 2015 to September 30, 2017. The City's Department for Culture and Creative Development (DCCD), in accordance with the Office of EastPoint, is partnering with the United Way Eastside Promise Area for City/Bexar County, a non-profit entity, to provide artist residencies in the EastPoint Promise Zone that will include community engagement and public art activities that utilize creative placemaking techniques that build communities and restore civic pride through the arts.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
The City of San Antonio's eastside was a recipient of a federal Choice Neighborhood grant in 2012 awarded to the San Antonio Housing Authority, and in January 2014 it was designated as a Promise Zone by President Barack Obama. The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent federal agency that funds, promotes, and strengthens the creative capacity of our communities by providing all Americans with diverse opportunities for arts participation. The NEA offers the Our Town Creative Placemaking grant program to support projects that help to transform communities into lively, beautiful, and resilient places with the arts at their core. In 2014, DCCD partnered with the Office of EastPoint and the United Way Eastside Promise Area for City/Bexar County for consideration of the Eastside Promise Zone Artists Residencies project, which include arts engagement, cultural planning, and design projects. The NEA has recommended funding the amount of $100,000 from the Our Town grant program.
The Our Town G...
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