(Image: San Diego Museum of Art at Balboa Park, by GualdimG, Wikimedia Commons)
SAN DIEGO – Today the City of San Diego announced the 10 artists and organizations that will receive funding through the Impact pilot, a funding opportunity for arts-based heritage, sustainability and justice projects within San Diego Communities of Concern and the San Diego Promise Zone.
Following an application submission process, the recipients were selected based on their potential to make a lasting impact on challenges within the local arts and cultural ecosystems. The recipients are:
•All for Logan in collaboration with Barrio Logan Association.
•Asian Story Theater in collaboration with William Virchis.
•Kim Phillips-Pea in collaboration with San Diego Sister Cities.
•Little Saigon San Diego in collaboration with the Indochinese Association of San Diego.
•South Bay Alliance Association, Inc. in collaboration with John Roy Sound.
•The Aja Project in collaboration with Fatuma Fadhil.
•The Urban Collaborative Project with Maxx Moses.
•TuYo Theatre in collaboration with Veronica Marquez.
•WorldBeat Cultural Center in collaboration with Centro Cultural de la Raza.
The 2024-25 awardees are making strides in critical areas such as preserving and innovating a neighborhood’s unique cultural identity amid rapid gentrification, creating new models to address the lack of arts and culture spaces within neighborhoods, and reversing cultural erosion by fostering living traditional and folk-art practices and stories.
