2. Grant Program Goals
By making its PABC grant awards, CAH endeavors to:
- Encourage the creation and installation of original high-quality public artworks in DC.
- Develop meaningful opportunities to connect artists to communities.
- Provide exposure to and participation in the public art making process with communities.
- Further learning or discovery opportunities through public art installations.
- Support the creation of public art by DC resident artists.
- Promote robust and diverse artistic expressions that resonate with DC residents.
- Contribute to DC’s public art collection in the built environment.
- Note: Permanent works are added to DC’s public art collection through a transfer of ownership. Temporary works become part of CAH’s e-museum.
3. Highlighting Culture & Community
CAH encourages all applicants to demonstrate their commitment to our community-centered framework of equality, cultural awareness, universal access, and community engagement throughout the application process. This may include highlighting the following:
- Addressing how the project factors in the varying access, engagement, and economic needs of the DC residents expected to interact with the work.
- Including plans that address fiscal, audio, visual, physical, geographical, educational, and language-based barriers.
- Supplying evidence of community benefit like letters from community-centered stakeholders, work samples that highlight the community’s response to the work.
- Providing examples of how the work highlights DC's distinct historical, linguistic, and cultural makeup.
- Describing ways DC’s unique communities will be authentically represented, positively impacted, and thoroughly celebrated through the work, along with other relevant considerations.
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