Neighborhood Arts - Call for Community Art 2027

Creative Greensboro’s Neighborhood Arts connects communities with creativity by bringing arts experiences and beautification projects close to home in neighborhoods across Greensboro. This call seeks new neighborhood partners to co-lead the next wave of community-informed 2-D visual art with Creative Greensboro.

We will provide the funding; you provide the local, neighborhood-based decision-making from start to finish. This expansion of Neighborhood Arts continues our creative place-keeping and place-making efforts to create art with residents and to invite neighborhoods to work with local creatives to tell their own stories through public art.

Eligibility

* Neighborhood associations who are registered non-profit organizations OR groups of 5-7 residents from the same neighborhood who have a 501(c)3 fiscal sponsor; and:

are within City of Greensboro redevelopment/reinvestment areas, including: South Greensboro, South Elm, Ole Asheboro, Arlington Park, Eastside Park, Cottage Grove, Willow Oaks, and Phillips-Lombardy; or documented at 50-81 percent of AMI (Area Median Income).
have not been previously funded for Neighborhood Arts projects or artist residencies.

Program Overview

Up to three neighborhood associations or fiscally-sponsored groups of neighbors will each have access to $20,000 in funding for the creation of new, original, visual 2-D public art to be completed by no later than June 30, 2027.

The new artwork should be accessible to the general public and on publicly-owned property. and could include, but is not limited to, murals on publicly owned buildings, sidewalks/pathways, low-traffic volume streets; public park benches/tables, basketball courts/backboards, and bus shelters.

Partnership Model: Your Neighborhood, Your Vision, Your Art.

You pick the site(s). You pick the artist(s). You help your selected artist(s) get input from your neighbors. You review and approve the design(s) proposal. Creative Greensboro will support you at every step of the process and will put who you choose on contract and manage the installation process.

As a partner, your stakeholder group members will be paid an honorarium to do the following:

1. Attend an orientation session with Creative Greensboro and set a regular meetings schedule for the duration of the project.

2. Identify a location or locations within your neighborhood for new public art.

3. Select your artist(s) from a pool of local talent. Creative Greensboro will help the stakeholder group write and promote an open artist call that will require the selected artist to do community engagment.

4. Help your selected artist(s) connect with your neighbors for input, collaboration and feedback for the new art.

5. Plan and host a neighborhood-based public celebration of the new art after its completion.

Project Budget Guidelines

You'll have $20,000 that can be spent accordingly:

$1,000 Project Management Fee paid to the neighborhood association or fiscal sponsor.
$1,500 total for all stakeholder group honorariums
$17,000 for the artist: This amount will conver all artist fees/labor, equipment rentals, materials, marketing/outreach by the artist (e.g. flyers, etc) to complete the artwork. Creative Greensboro will contract with the selected artists and pay them directly.
$500 for the neighborhood-based celebration of completed artwork.

Application Materials

Stakeholder Committee - List of names and addresses of your proposed community stakeholder group.
Neighborhood Narrative- Tell us about the people, places, and events that give your neighborhood its unique qualities, character and history.
Statement of interest - tell why you want art in your community and what positive impact the art could have for your neighoborhood and Greensboro.
List of Potential Sites (Optional) - What are the special places in your neighborhood you would like your stakeholder group to conisder as possible sites for public art?
501 (c) 3 documentation - Original IRS Determination Letter and Letter of Good Standing for the neighborhood association or fiscal sponsor.

*Please do not submit any proposed artwork or artist names in this application.*

Questions? Contact Karen Archia, Coordinator of Community Partnerships at Creative Greensboro – email: karen.archia@greensboro-nc.gov or 336-433-7362

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Neighborhood Name

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Neighborhood Association or Fiscal Sponsor Mailing Address

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Please list the full names and addresses of your proposed Community Stakeholder group of 5-7 neighborhood residents.

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Neighborhood Narrative: Please describe the unique attributes, people (past or present), places, traditions and history of your neighborhood.

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Statement of Interest - Please tell us why are you interested in a new, outdoor community-informed visual arts project in your neighborhood. How could this new art positively impact or benefit your neighborhood and Greensboro? Could it enhance how residents interact with your neighborhood's physical environment and each other? Could it enhance public safety in the community? Please list and describe any benefits a public art project might bring to your neighborhood.

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List of publicly-owned sites - parks, streets, bus shelters, sidewalks, etc - that you would like to have considered as potential sites for art. List up to three sites (optional)

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Upload PDFs of the IRS Letter of Determination and the Letter of Good Standing for your Neighborhood Association or Fiscal Sponsor

I certify that the information in this application is true and accurate to the best of my knowledge.