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The Center for Emerging Visual Artists

Date Awarded
04/02/12
Amount
$25,000
Grant Period
04/02/12 to 04/01/13
Focus Area
Fostering the Arts
Community
Philadelphia
Initiative
Knight Arts Challenge

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Grantee Contact

  • Philadelphia, PA

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photo: Stella Gassaway
photo: Stella Gassaway

To bring visual art to a wider audience by placing locally produced art in public advertising spaces in the same neighborhood where the piece was produced

Summary: To bring visual art to a wider audience, the Center for Emerging Visual Artists will place locally produced art in public advertising spaces in the same neighborhood where the piece was produced. The hyper-local visual art initiative will populate neighborhood public spaces like bus shelters, vacant storefronts and rail and subway platforms with images and public art exhibitions that are “created 100 feet from here.” For over a decade, the center’s Philadelphia Open Studio Tours have brought people to artists’ studios. This project will bring studio artwork directly to the people in their own communities.

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Project Team

Lori Dillard Rech

President and Chief Executive Officer

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