Create an Artists Work/Live Space in Midtown

Neighborhood Vision 2025

Elevate Black & Asian Creative Voices

Creatives - artists, photographers, musicians, movement artists, poets - play an essential role in driving culture and inspiration. MidTown can celebrate the strength of its local Black and Asian communities, support and draw local artists by providing tailored support and a community uplifting Black and Asian artists through physical and social arts infrastructure. Artistic work by Asian artists or featuring culturally relevant imagery should be featured in and around AsiaTown in particular.

Elevate Black & Asian Creative Voices

Action

Create an Artists Work/Live Space in Midtown

Create an inviting, public-facing home base for Black and Asian creatives in MidTown with opportunities to exhibit work regularly.

Near-Term Actions

Evaluate unused real real estate to serve as a temporary hub for this activity;

Seek future property control for use as live/work space indefinitely.

Type of Action

Planning & Development

Looking For

Partners & Spaces

4F

Related Actions

Elevate Black & Asian Creative Voices

Continue Programs Highlighting BIPOC Artists

Continue existing programming with explicit intent to elevate Black and Asian creative voices as a recommitment to MidTown’s roots and the MidTown Neighborhood Vision Plan.

Elevate Black & Asian Creative Voices

Activate Performance Spaces Around Midtown Featuring Black Artists, Performers, & Stories of Black History

Elevate Black creatives through public art and performance in MidTown. Encourage events, installations, and performances celebrating stories of the African American experience through history.

Elevate Black & Asian Creative Voices

Uplift Chinese and Other Asian Cultures in Asiatown Through the Elevation of Asian & AAPI Artists in Public Art

Promote and preserve Asian culture in AsiaTown; connect the community to public art and promote a sense of belonging and identity through public art.