Q&A
SBS funding for BIDs to hire artists and cultural organizations
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Council Member Rivera inquires about SBS funding sources that allow Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) to hire artists or cultural organizations for performances or artworks in their districts.
- Calvin Brown explains the small BID grant program launched by the Adams Administration
- The program supports smaller BIDs, especially in outer boroughs, for public space activation
- Funding can be used to bring local artists for art installations and public space activation
- Brown also mentions the Building Creative Capacity initiative, which focuses on transforming commercial corridors through art installations in vacant storefronts
Carlina Rivera
0:32:30
Okay.
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Well, you mentioned some of funding sources that you, Alec, Kate directly.
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For example, some of them go to bids.
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Do any SBS funding sources cover a bid hiring artists or cultural organizations to bring performances or artworks to their districts?
Calvin Brown
0:32:46
Yes.
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So we have the small bid grant program that was done or launched by the Adams Administration to support our smallest bids.
0:32:58
We wanted to make sure that some of our smallest bids, most of them being in the out of the borough, would be able to do public space activation and really amplify the work that they were doing along commercial corridors.
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So as part of that funding, they can use that funding to bring public space activation.
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They can bring local artists to their corridors to do art installations.
0:33:21
One of the grants that you did mention that is sort of a DCLA intersection is our building creative capacity, which came from DCLA.
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And with that, kinda similar to the 100 gates that you mentioned is using light intervention to sort of transform these commercial corridors by putting our installations in vacant storefronts so that they're not looking follow and that they, you know, lobby in up a commercial corridor.
