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Baltimore, MD

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025

Project Category: Public art installations

Description: This project will create a large-scale mosaic mural. The project will involve community members in workshops, fostering artistic engagement and beautification in Baltimore's Park Heights neighborhood.

St. Thomas, VI

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2020

Project Category: Public art installations

Description: The Virgin Islands Council on the Arts commissioned local artists -- all of whom were older adults -- to create four murals at a local recreational complex. Intended to extend the Yacht Haven Public Arts Initiative into more neighborhoods, the new murals focus on Virgin Islanders' heritage and history. Subject matter includes an ocean vista with sail boats, a scene from everyday Island life and an homage to local athletes. Project organizers say they hope the new public art instills a sense of neighborhood identity and adds color to walls that would otherwise go unnoticed.

Lakewood, CO

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022

Project Category: Public art installations

Description: To make a popular pathway more visually appealing, volunteers painted pavement murals along the corridor from Eaton Senior Communities to the Belmar downtown district. To make high-traffic pedestrian trail more welcoming people of all ages and abilities, volunteers also installed an ADA-compliant benches at several locations, including near a low-income apartment complex.This gives people traveling the pathway a place to rest.

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Bowling Green, KY

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025

Project Category: Disaster Preparedness

Description: This project will provide disaster preparedness training for low-income residents age 55-plus. Attendees will learn about tornadoes, floods, and fires, and receive emergency preparedness supplies.

Owensboro, KY

AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025

Project Category: Accessibility of amenities

Description: This project will create a greenspace in a new ten-house subdivision. This space will include sod, landscaping, outdoor seating, trash receptacles, signage, and a small playground.

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