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Newton, KS
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023
Project Category: Public art installations
Description: This project will convert the back of a billboard into a mixed-media mural depicting figures and images representing Kansas history, adding vibrancy to a park located near a train station.
Lihue, HI
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022
Project Category: Public art installations
Description: This project created thirteen murals around Lihue, installed six Wi-Fi hotspots at bus stops and planted native trees and garden beds along Rice Street.
Baltimore, MD
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2022
Project Category: Public art installations
Description: This project hosted a series of workshops where residents created a glass and ceramic mosaic. Art with a Heart then installed the completed artwork on the University of Maryland Medical Center's Midtown Campus. The mosaic depicts local people, houses and landmarks surrounded by a swirl of colorful flowers and features the words, We hear. We teach. We discover. We care.
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Banner Elk, NC
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2023
Project Category: Innovative home maintenance, repair and support services
Description: The project will work with local social service agencies to identify older adults whose homes are in need of repairs or aging-in-place modifications. Young volunteers who are being trained at home repair camps will perform the improvements.
Abingdon, VA
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2024
Project Category: Public or private transit access
Description: The town will improve accessibility and transportation access to help residents reach a local recreation center. This project will improve parking options at the center and promote public transportation use through transit training opportunities.
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