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July 15, 2010
Peninsula Arts Council Recieves Funding for Two Public Art Projects from Redwood City Civic Cultural Commission
Peninsula Arts Council has received notification that it has been awarded $9,481 in funding from the Redwood City Civic Cultural Commission to produce two public art projects in downtown Redwood City. The Commercial Street Mural Project will consist of murals painted on the backside of buildings where approval is attained by property owners and with permission by the Civic Cultural Commission and the City of Redwood City. The second public art project is entitled “Birds on Broadway” and will develop into a bird-themed sculpture walking path along Broadway Avenue. The two projects are anticipated to enhance a visitors experience to downtown and become economic drivers for the City. More details to come in future months.
Belmont, March 18, 2010-
The Peninsula Arts Council has been selected to be a local partner for the San Francisco Bay Area Cultural Asset Map (BACAM), a project sponsored by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
The Hewlett Foundation has contracted Fractured Atlas, a national arts service and infrastructure organization based in New York, to build a San Francisco Bay Area Cultural Asset Map (BACAM) that will help them better understand who is making art, where it’s happening, who is engaging with it, and how it’s being supported. This one-year pilot project seeks to create "a constellation of discrete but tightly integrated, map-based web applications that collectively aggregate, analyze and publicize data on the Bay Area cultural sector. Their short-term vision for BACAM is a tool that will enable their staff to make better funding decisions and track progress against their outcomes. If the proof of concept phase results in a tool with demonstrable public value, then the long-term goal is a public resource that will allow other funders, policy makers, arts organizations (nonprofit and commercial), artists, and the general public to see what’s going on in a new way."
The Peninsula Arts Council is facilitating this process on Thursday, March 18 at 10:30 - ~ 11:45 a.m. at Twin Pines Art Center, 10 Twin Pines Lane. The initial meeting will be with Fractured Atlas’s Research Director and the project director of BACAM, Ian David Moss, Ron Ragin of the Hewlett Foundation and Peninsula Arts Council advisory and board members.
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