Arts-Driven Street Projects Funded in North American Cities

Arts-Driven Street Projects Funded in North American Cities

Bloomberg Philanthropies: Asphalt Art Initiative

Application deadline: January 31, 2025
Geographic scope: United States, Canada, and Mexico
Grant amount: Up to $100,000, as well as technical assistance and evaluation support
Description: Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Asphalt Art Initiative provides support for arts-driven street redesigns that improve safety, revitalize public spaces, and engage local communities. The Initiative’s current funding round will award ten grants of up to $100,000 each, as well as provide on-call technical assistance and impact evaluation support, to cities in Canada, Mexico, and the United States with populations of 50,000 or more. The focus is on large-scale projects that will make important streets safer and more accessible, create significant new public spaces, or enact other similarly transformative roadway redesigns. Applicants must include a lead city agency which is the primary government agency with oversight of the project. Applicant teams are encouraged to include collaborative partners, such as other city agencies, nonprofit community or arts organizations, or individual artists or consultants.