Deadline: 30-Sep-22
The City of Orlando is inviting applications for its Traffic Box Art Project Grant Program.
This program allows neighborhood associations to use a Mayor’s Matching Grant to paint or wrap a traffic signal box in their neighborhood. Art boxes provide a sense of ownership and pride in their neighborhood, and can be a small but important way of creating a sense of neighborhood identity. Neighborhoods can brand themselves with a cohesive theme, honor those who have served their neighborhoods or brighten their landscape.
Funding Information
It is the responsibility of the neighborhood association to maintain the traffic art boxes. Within three years of the grant award, the neighborhood association can apply for a fast track grant of up to $1,000 to cover maintenance or replacement of artwork due to damage.
Eligible Projects
- Creating neighborhood gardens, food forests or pollination pathways
- Restoring local ecosystems
- Reducing waste production and source reduction or increase recycling and composting
- Water and energy efficiency and conservation
- Water quality protection
- Reducing potable water use through efficiency measures, native landscaping or rainwater harvesting
- Installing rain sensors to prevent watering during rainy weather
- Events where community members can learn about energy efficiency, pollution reduction and sustainable practices
Criteria
Once City Council has approved the grant, the neighborhood association must provide the following before implementation:
Complete artwork renderings for each traffic art box
- Provide proof of general liability insurance in the amount of at least $1,000,000 with the City of Orlando included as additionally insured.
- The artist/vendor responsible for the installation of artwork must sign the Visual Artist Rights Act (VARA) waiver. In addition, a Mayor’s Matching Grant funding agreement and a traffic art box agreement must be signed by the neighborhood association and the City of Orlando.
For more information, visit City of Orlando.
For more information, visit https://www.orlando.gov/Our-Government/Get-Involved/Non-Profits-and-Community-Organizations/Mayor%E2%80%99s-Matching-Grant-Program
