2017-458-E Arts - Carter Hubbard - 2017-18 Arts Grant Agreement

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DocuSign Envelope ID:A0B1 EB25-DA83-4024-9927-D69B64746F70 FloraffitiTM: Bringing Words to Life and Life to Words Carter Hubbard 15815 Springbrook Ct Lake Oswego, OR 97034 Proposed Project Floraffiti is a placemaking and community engagement project. Using red clover,words are planted mulched areas such as: medians, under trees, along the sidewalk and streets, and in and around municipal parking lots and businesses that are willing participants. The words are derived from community input, cultural surroundings, and from spoken word poetry workshops held in the community. In the workshop, group and solo poetry pieces are created and the participants learn to perform their piece for a public audience. From each piece created, one specific word is chosen by each participant to be planted. The workshop participants and artist, Carter Hubbard, plant the words throughout the community. When the words are in full growth,the workshop participants perform their pieces around each word that they planted in a public event. The performances by the youth and adults will give the words another facet of exploration that will entertain, inspire, inform, and enliven the spaces where the words are planted in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. With the help of Stephanie Trueblood, Hillsborough's Public Space Manager, Floraffiti is planning to expand into Hillsborough in 2018 as a placemaking tool with hopes of "cross-pollinating", collaborating to support the upcoming Bee Hotel project. The Town of Hillsborough has received the "Bee City USA" designation to foster the health and growth of the bee population and to educate the public about the bees' greater purpose as a vital member of the ecosystem, integral to environmental well-being for all. Examples of possible words planted for this project, such as 'Pollinate', 'Bzzzz...', 'Grow', and visual images planted in the shape of flower, a bee, the honeycomb hexagon pattern and more will tie in with the Bee Hotel project in the Spring. In the years following 2018, Floraffiti will develop in ways to support the economic and cultural diversity in the community specific to Hillsborough's objectives, as noted below. There are many other words planted by the artist and Floragardeners throughout the community to fulfill the larger scale placemaking initiative. For the community at large, the words will be in both prominent areas, aimed at visitors' commonplaces, and as well is in surprising places, more obvious to the local community. The words' growth period, typically beginning in March, lasts for 4 months. As summer nears,the words will diminish and the remains will naturally disappear into the mulch/dirt. In 2017, Floraffiti saw its fifth year as a placemaking project in Chapel Hill and a year of firsts; Carrboro was included and the series of community spoken word poetry workshops were implemented throughout. The community workshops with teens and adults were followed up with a series of very successful performances throughout Chapel Hill and Carrboro during the 2nd Friday Art Walk in April.