NEA Grant Advances M.O.V.E. CDC's Africatown Blueprint Initiative
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has announced that it will award a $25,000 Design Grant M.O.V.E. Gulf Coast CDC during its 2024 granting cycle.
The grant will support the continuing efforts of its Africatown Blueprint Initiative. Specifically, it will be used to host a Design Summit this fall in Mobile to advance community-building strategies — first introduced through The Africatown International Design Idea Competition — to be shared with other under-served communities across the country, even around the world.
The winning designs will be a central component of the proposed design summit this fall that will convene preservationists, artists, designers, planners and community activists across the country who are embattled in their own struggles to preserve their historic communities, towns and districts.
“We are thrilled to have the NEA’s support as we seek to share best design practices from the Africatown Competition and forge new relationships, to learn from each other and arm ourselves with knowledge in the fight for spatial justice and sustainable futures for our under-served communities,” M.O.V.E. CDC President/CEO Vickii Howell said in a press release (READ HERE).
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Dates to be announced for Fall 2024
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