2024–25 · City-wide
Pay local artists for public murals
Pay local artists to create murals and installations that beautify public spaces, citing a well-preserved mural near the North Point pedestrian bridge.
English title and summary written with AI from the resident's text.
The resident's idea, as submitted
The idea
Let’s pay local artists (eg, graffiti artists, installations, murals) to beautify public spaces. There’s a beautiful mural untouched by graffiti in an otherwise unartistic graffiti-saturated area by North Point pedestrian bridge. We need more!
Who it helps and why
This project would help local artists of all backgrounds and making art in all mediums.
Details
- Cycle
- 2024–25
- Submitted
- August 12, 2024
- Neighborhood
- City-wide
- Portal category
- Arts & Culture
- How it was submitted
- Individual submission
- Submission language
- English
- Themes
- Arts & culture
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