Grants
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The 2011 Friedel Klussman Grant winners are:
- Starr King School: will plant trees along the perimeter of the Potrero neighborhood's Starr King School, repair a mural, and add a mosaic.
- POWER will reclaim a 1/2 acre of underutilized SFUSD land, building a community garden with 30 families and local youth at the Malcolm X Academy in the Bayview neighborhood.
- Community Housing Partnership will convert approximately 300 square feet of sidewalk in the Tenderloin into a permeable sidewalk garden.
- Independent Arts and Media hosts a weekly open air market that offers local arts, crafts, literature, music and performance at UN Plaza every Thursday.
- Argonne Garden and Beautification Project Argonne School in the Richmond District in collaboration with SF Botanical Garden, SFDPW, and SF Parks Trust will transform three 16'x5' areas into an outdoor classroom with California natives, an edible garden, and garden mural as a part of the City's Grey2Green program.
- Urban Solutions will host an art walk that showcases local talent in storefronts, businesses, and galleries along 6th Street from Market to Howard on October 14, 2011. This project is a partnership of the Central Market Arts Festival, Intersection for the Arts, SF Arts Commission, Bindlestiff Studios, and Art Span.
- Luggage Store installed a living wall garden City of Green with plant artist Keith Agoada on their Market Street gallery facade.
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