Jacobs Center to Receive National Endowment for the Arts Grant. Award is Among 1,023 Made Nationally.

Through its grant-making to thousands of nonprofits each year, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) promotes opportunities for people in communities across America to experience the arts and exercise their creativity.

In the second major grant announcement of fiscal year 2015, the NEA will make a $30,000 award to the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation to support its Chollas Creek Gateways project. The grant will allow the Jacobs Center to work with artists and design teams to develop design concepts for artistic gateways as a complement to the Chollas Creek Restoration Project. The NEA will make 1,023 awards totaling $74.3 million nationwide in this funding round.

NEA Chairman Jane Chu said, “The NEA is committed to advancing learning, fueling creativity, and celebrating the arts in cities and towns across the United States. Funding these new projects like the one from the Jacobs Center represents an investment in both local communities and our nation’s creative vitality.”

“Projects like the Chollas Creek Gateways help enhance the natural beauty of southeastern San Diego’s Diamond Neighborhoods and provide residents and visitors with attractive places to gather and enjoy the outdoors. We are grateful for the support we have received from the National Endowment for the Arts in the past and for this new opportunity to advance our work to revitalize our community” said Jacobs Center President and CEO Reginald Jones.

Over a two-year period, the Jacobs Center will undertake an open competitive process to commission artists/design teams to develop concepts for Chollas Creek Gateways. The project will result in the design of prominent, art interventions announcing a 2.6 acre linear urban park that follows a newly restored section of Chollas Creek. The project supports City of San Diego and community planning efforts to revitalize the creek, which runs through southeastern San Diego’s Diamond Neighborhoods to the San Diego Bay.

For more information on projects included in the NEA grant announcement, go to arts.gov.

You’re Invited to The Village Arts & Culture Press Conference

On Tuesday, October 30 at 10:00 am, please join Mayor Jerry Sanders, Council President Tony Young, the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture, the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation (JCNI), and residents of southeastern San Diego as they launch a plan to create a cultural arts district in one of San Diego’s most dynamic and diverse neighborhoods.

The plan is the result of nine months of work by hundreds of community members and builds on the history of and commitment to arts and culture that has been the hallmark of southeastern San Diego for decades.

Creation of the plan was funded by a prestigious grant from the National Endowment for the Arts’ first round of the Our Town program, and matched dollar-for-dollar by JCNI and the Jacobs Family Foundation, longtime philanthropic partners in the community.

To read an overview of the Art + Design Plan, download the Executive Summary.

Tuesday October 30, 2012
10:00 a.m.
Market Creek Plaza Amphitheater
310 Euclid Avenue, San Diego, CA 92114

 

Directions

Market Creek Plaza is near the corner of Euclid Avenue and Market Street. The Plaza’s bright and unique architecture is instantly recognizable. From the Martin Luther King Freeway (Hwy. 94) exit at Euclid Avenue south. Take a right on Market Street and then a left at the first light at Market Creek Plaza Driveway.

Event Parking

Parking is available in the lot behind the Joe & Vi Jacobs Center. Use the pedestrian bridge located east of the building to access the amphitheater.