CANO included in NEA New Orleans Our Town Grant!
The NEA announced that New Orleans was a recipient of the Our Town Grant. The Creative Alliance was one of the non-profits included in this grant. Through Our Town, the National Endowment for the Arts will provide grants for creative placemaking projects that contribute toward the livability of communities and help transform them into lively, beautiful, and sustainable places with the arts at their core. Our Town will invest in creative and innovative projects in which communities, together with their arts and design organizations and artists, are looking to increase their livability, and specifically are seeking to:
- Improve their quality of life.
- Encourage creative activity.
- Create community identity and a sense of place.
- Revitalize local economies.
With support from its Our Town grant, the City of New Orleans will create the Claiborne Corridor Cultural Collaborative Plan (C4 Plan). The C4 Plan will be developed as a cohesive cultural plan that integrates arts and culture into the ongoing revitalization of New Orleans’s historic and major thoroughfare, Claiborne Boulevard. The C4 Plan will serve as a model for creative place-based planning by guiding the strategic integration of arts and culture into the corridor’s infrastructure, streetscapes, transportation, housing, and community facilities planning. The City of New Orleans and Arts Council of New Orleans will lead the development of the C4 Plan in collaboration with Creative Alliance of New Orleans, Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard Merchants and Business Association, Sankofu Community Development Corporation, Xavier University, and Artspace Projects, Inc. The C4 Plan will benefit 70,000 residents that live in underserved New Orleans neighborhoods with higher than average poverty, blight, and vacancy rates.
Visit the New Orleans page on the NEA website here.
