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Fighting Blight With Art

Posted by: Tim Halbur

20 September 2009 - 5:00am

Palm Springs officials are working to fill the windows of empty storefronts with art and movie posters in order to keep the streetscape feeling lively.

"Nedra Young, chief executive of Social Mosaics, which teaches schoolchildren about mosaic art, contacted the city a few months ago about the idea after reading that Philadelphia was doing the same thing.

"Right now a vacant storefront is nothing but a piece of glass. It has no character, no interest, no nothing, so people walking down the street say, 'Why do I want to be here? There is nothing to look at,' " she said."

Full Story: Palm Springs wants to fill vacant storefronts with art
Source: The Los Angeles Times, September 17, 2009
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