Deadline: 31-Jan-2025
The Bloomberg Philanthropies is pleased to announced the Asphalt Art Initiative Grant Program to support arts-driven street redesigns with outsized impacts.
The Asphalt Art Initiative grant program is designed to fund visual art on roadways, pedestrian spaces, and public infrastructure in cities with the following primary goals:
- Improving street and pedestrian safety
- Revitalizing and activating underutilized public space
- Promoting collaboration and civic engagement in local communities
Funding Information
- The program will award 10 cities grants of up to $100,000 each, as well as on-call technical assistance from the tactical urbanism firm Street Plans and impact evaluation support from Sam Schwartz Consulting.
Duration
- If selected, projects must be designed to last a minimum of two years after being installed.
Eligible Projects
- Reflecting the larger grant size in this latest round, proposed projects should be ambitious arts-driven street designs with the goal of catalytic improvements to a key location in the city. Improving road safety, especially for pedestrians and cyclists, must be a component of all proposals. Applicants may demonstrate the intended impact through a variety of approaches:
- Critical Intersections: Enhancing safety, mobility, and access in crossings with concentrated pedestrian, bicycle, and/or vehicular traffic
- Major Corridors: Transforming one or more important streets to enhance the walking or cycling network, including significant reallocation of space for non-motorized transportation
- Signature Destinations: Improving access to culturally, historically, or otherwise significant locations at the neighborhood or civic scale
- Large New Public Spaces: Creating or activating plazas or other pedestrian space with amenities such as seating, greenery or space for cultural programming
- Catalysts for Future Projects: Launching or expanding ongoing programs or policies (g., Vision Zero safety program, plaza program, etc.) in the city or the region
Eligibility Criteria
- This grant program is open to cities in Canada, Mexico, and the United States with populations of 50,000 or more. Each city may only submit one application; multiple applications from one city will not be considered.
- The Project Team must include a Lead City Agency which is the primary government agency with oversight of the project. This agency should be the one with jurisdiction over city streets. If that agency is not the project lead, they must still be a part of the project team.
- Applicant teams are encouraged to include collaborative partners, such as other city agencies, nonprofit community or arts organizations, and/or individual artists or consultants.
For more information, visit Bloomberg Philanthropies.