The Power

The project, Inspiring Community Healing After Gun Violence: The Power of Art is a curated series of five large-scale temporary public art installations, designed to be created with community members. Each of the five installations provides a variety of opportunities for people of all ages and backgrounds to participate in to provide healing and co... mmunity building. We will have five installations presented over two years. The Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge encourages cities to partner with artists, elevating the value of including the creative sector when developing solutions to significant urban issues. The program supports temporary public art projects that celebrate creativity, enhance urban identity, encourage public-private collaborations, and strengthen local economies. In the weeks following the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the Cities of Coral Springs and Parkland in partnership with the Coral Springs Museum of Art, applied to Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge an initiative that provides U.S. mayors the opportunity to apply for funding for temporary public art projects that address a civic issue impacting their communities. Our cities worked together, with the hope that public art could aid in the communitys healing in the wake of this tragedy. The projects will all draw from and build upon the Coral Springs Museum of Arts Healing with Art program an art therapy program begun by the museum in the immediate aftermath of the shooting, which has proven to be vitally needed in our community. Carl Juste, award winning photojournalist for the Miami Herald and founder of Iris Collective, a coalition of photographers, writers and cultural activists. Based on his ongoing, iterative project, The Big Picture, Carl Juste, along with his collaborators, developed a multi-faceted photo-documentary project for The Power of Art. Carl Juste is a award-winning photojournalist for theRead More