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Cusick, WA
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022
Project Category: Public art installations
Description: To honor the Kalispel Tribe's history and culture, this project installed artwork by community members to ten utility-box covers.
North Hero, VT
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022
Project Category: Public art installations
Description: This project installed a word garden, which features words etched into rocks. The decorative rocks complement raised beds in an existing garden.
Henderson, NV
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2020
Project Category: Public art installations
Description: As part of efforts to revitalize the Army Street corridor, the City of Henderson commissioned murals to decorate concrete benches along a pedestrian thoroughfare. The City hoped the 12 colorful benches would draw visitors to downtown businesses, including the Purple Penguin Snowcone Shack and City Lights Art Gallery. Today, the murals offer pedestrians -- and other visitors to the Downtown Senior Center -- a popular spot to snap a photo or sit down and rest. Project organizers say the art installations also sparked the City to develop its Arts and Culture Master Plan. And in the years since, funding for public art in Henderson has increased, resulting in 10 new mural installations.
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Max, ND
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2020
Project Category: Public space activation
Description: To beautify its downtown, the City of Max added hanging flower baskets, benches and picnic tables, as well as raised garden beds. The undertaking was a community effort for the small town (Max only has 131 residents). A local community club picked out the flowers, with another group of older residents volunteering to plant them and keep them watered. Project organizers say they hope the brightened streetscape encourages residents to get out and stroll through downtown.
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