City of Olympia to Receive Our Town Grant from National Endowment for the Arts
The City of Olympia has been selected to receive a $75,000 Our Town award from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to support the Armory Creative Campus – Arts Interventions and Facility Design. This is one of 51 grants nationwide in this category to support projects that integrate arts, culture, and design activities into efforts that strengthen communities by advancing local economic, physical, and/or social outcomes; ultimately laying the groundwork for systems change and centering equity.
“The National Endowment for the Arts is proud to support arts and cultural organizations throughout the nation with these grants, including the City of Olympia, in providing opportunities for all of us to live artful lives,” said NEA Chair Maria Rosario Jackson, PhD. “The arts contribute to our individual well-being, the well-being of our communities, and to our local economies. The arts are also crucial to helping us make sense of our circumstances from different perspectives as we emerge from the pandemic and plan for a shared new normal informed by our examined experience.”
The proposed project is to support arts interventions and facility design of the Armory Creative Campus, creating capacity to work with artists and non-profits to temporarily activate the Armory and take it for a test run. This project will bridge the conceptual visioning process that is underway now and the next phase of technical design.
For more information on the projects included in the Arts Endowment grant announcement, visit arts.gov/news.
Original source can be found here.
