$250,000 will address the budgets and scales at which communities are creating successful places where we live, work, and play. Many public art projects will be funded through the MICD25 grants including the City of Phoenix’s Gimme Shelter, a project within a larger work, Connected Oasis. Phoenix has an outstanding portfolio of public art projects many of which specifically address environmental issues. The recent 2010 Public Art Network Year in Review awards recognized Habitat by Christy Ten Eyck and Judeen Terrey, a garden habitat nourished by water from the Convention Center’s air conditioning systems.

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Whereas arts education enables students to develop critical thinking and problem solving skills, imagination and creativity, discipline, alternative ways to communicate, and express feelings and ideas, and cross-cultural understanding, which supports academic success across the curriculum as well as personal growth outside the classroom; Whereas the nonprofit arts sector is an economic engine and plays a significant role in the economic health of communities large and small with direct expenditures of wages and benefits as well as goods and services;

Whereas attracting and retaining the best teachers is vital and can be achieved by ensuring that schools embrace the arts, becoming havens for creativity and innovation

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