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Bloomberg Philanthropies Awards New Round of Asphalt Art Initiative Grants to 25 Cities in Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. to Improve Street Safety
25 cities in Canada, Mexico, and the United States will receive Asphalt Art Initiative grants – up to $25,000 each plus technical support – to install projects that use art and design to improve street safety, revitalize public spaces, and engage residents.
Men’s Journal: Can Asphalt Art Improve Cyclist and Pedestrian Safety?
Cyclists and motorists share the road, but time and again cyclists are injured or killed because of motor vehicle accidents. To put the brakes on this alarming trend, Bloomberg Philanthropies is incorporating art into asphalt to improve cyclist and pedestrian safety.
Zag Daily: “The best asphalt art projects bring community engagement into every step of the process”
The Asphalt Art Initiative is Bloomberg Philanthropies’ response to cities eager to use art as an effective, low-cost strategy to transform their streets.
Firenze Today: Philanthropy, the square rebuilt with the “square”: the urban art project
A participatory urban art project to reconnect and visualize piazza Valdelsa, in the Novoli district, through an experience of ‘tactical urban planning’. It is the ‘Parole in piazza’ intervention financed by Bloomberg Philanthropies.
Route Fifty: Cities paint the way to safer streets
Crossing the street has never been more dangerous. While the federal government has slow-walked an overhaul of its guidelines that could steer us to safer streets, local communities have taken up the slack, exploring creative, low-cost ways to save lives—including asphalt art.
Kathimerini: Public Space Returns to Citizens Through… Art
Last Thursday, Friday and Saturday, students from primary schools as well as the elderly from A΄KAPI Kaisarianis became the first in Greece to paint on the asphalt, specifically at the junction of Ethniki Antistaseos and Philadelphia streets and on the street right outside the 4th Primary School Kaisariani School.
Tallahassee Democrat: Three streets have colorful new look in Tallahassee’s Bond Community
The streets in the Bond Community are sporting a colorful new look for summer. Through the Bloomberg Philanthropies Asphalt Art Initiative, the City of Tallahassee, the Council on Culture & Arts and the Greater Bond Neighborhood Association partnered to facilitate the creative painting of nine crosswalks and three intersections on Saxon Street.
Syracuse.com: Tree mural brightens Syracuse City Hall driveway
Syracuse artist Jessica Whitley tinkered with many versions of the design now gracing the driveway in front of City Hall. The project is funded by a $25,000 grant from the Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Asphalt Art Initiative, which sponsors community art projects.
CNN en Español: “Asphalt Art,” the Initiative That Seeks to Revitalize Cities Around the World with Artistic Projects
Bloomberg Philanthropies is expanding to Mexico and Canada with a program that has already benefited 41 cities in the United States and 22 in Europe, with the purpose of revitalizing urban areas and communities through art.
Al Momento: Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Art on the Asphalt Expands Grant Opportunity to Mexico’s Cities
All cities in Canada, Mexico and the U.S. can apply for grants to reconfigure streets through art projects to improve safety, revitalize public spaces and engage local communities.