City of Richmond - Arts and Culture Division
Neighborhood Public Art Empathy Program

The Richmond - Arts and Culture Division, has a yearly program called the Neighborhood Public Art  (NPA) program. They have a $75k budget for the year to do public art projects in the city. Michele Seville, the manager of this program, liked our Stories of Empathy grant proposal so much that she is committing the bulk of this years NPA program to the theme of empathy. We will be working in collaboration with this project which runs from April 2009 - December 2009.

Public Art Project Manager Position

The project will have the following components:

     Theme: Empathy
     Budget: $75,000
     Duration of project: April through December 2009
     Staff
             A Project Manager
             A community-based public artist
             Several local artist apprentices who will receive training
                in the oversight of community art projects
     Collaboration with Edwin Rutsch’s Empathy Stories project
     Access to Empathy videos of interviews and artwork from his workshops
     Access to community outreach resources
     Collaborative partners: Richmond Art Center, Arts & Culture Commission,
        City of Richmond, ArtsChange, CCA, RYSE Youth Center
     Some sort of a community event in Octorber.

Edwin's thoughts about the Program


Stay tuned here for more.