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star-24px 2019 AARP Community Challenge Grantee

Project Category

Public Spaces
This project will revitalize a public space with a mural and a community garden, which will open opportunities to educate residents in art as well as produce food to help those in need.

Project Results

The Anderson Arts Center used AARP grant funds to revitalize a public space by adding a community garden and vegetable-themed mural. Painted in 2019, the mural was the community's first. It has inspired additional murals since then.

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Children in front of vegetable mural.
Showing children vegetables growing.

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