“Our Town” grant from the National Endowment for the Arts awarded in 2011 to the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture and the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation to engage local residents, cultural leaders, artists, and regional arts leaders to collaborate in the development of an art and design plan for The Village at Market Creek.

$150,000

CIVIC ENGAGEMENTUnder the banner of “Resident Ownership of Neighborhood Change,” the people who live and work in the community create the vision, lead the implementation, and own the change in their community.The Village resident engagement work began in 1997 with an Outreach Team that was formed to survey other residents about what businesses and services they wanted in their neighborhood. Outreach and organzing have been key drivers of our work with focus in the areas of arts and culture and land planning.

Residents involved inSurveys and focus groups 15,000Design and planning teams* 3,800Implementation teams* 3,120

* Some residents served on multiple teams.

OUTREACH & ORGANIZING

residents involved in working teams related to land planning.800

LAND PLANNING

Civic engagement drives the work in The Village at Market Creek. Teams of

community residents unite across neighborhoods, cultures, and generations to strengthen joint action

and expand their ability to break down barriers, engage in the creative exchange of ideas, and get

things done. Diverse people working across unlikely relationships are the foundation of long-term

sustainability of community change.

The Village at Market Creek is primed to grow into one of San Diego’s most lively, multi-cultural arts destinations.

ARTS & CULTURE

Arts & Culture Venues 9Capacity 7,077

457 mini-grants to support community projects since 1999 $1,425,246

Youth & adults trained in outreach 65

Youth interns 200

Residents involved as group leaders 160

CAPACIT Y BUILDING

Annual attendance 1,500

Attendance since 2007 8,000

VILLAGE CENTER MEETINGS

Since 1999, the Writerz Blok program has aimed at steering youth away from vandalism and towards learning the art of graffiti.

WRITERZ BLOK

participants in 60 classes.720Murals created 60Artists 141Youth 496

ACTIVITIES & EVENTS

234,962ATTENDANCE SINCE 2005

In 2009, 18 community groups formed VOCAL (Voices of Community at All Levels) to work on a Village land plan.

VOCAL

Participants at charettes 150Participants at large town hall planning meetings 360

THE VILLAGE AT MARKET CREEK ART+DESIGN PLAN

Community charettes 6Charette participants 150

Community members who participated in the final presentation of the report 300

Public artworks created 10Artists commissioned 26Youth participants 632

ART PROJEC TS

The Center for Community & Cultural Arts (CCCA) learning partnership:

Balboa Park museums 3Members representing cultural communities and artists from southeastern San Diego 50

CCCA

Gallery (square feet) 4,700Exhibitions 6Attendance 10,000

J A C O B S C E N T E R . O R G

Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation

404 Euclid Avenue San Diego, CA 92114

phone (619) 527-6161 fax (619) 527-6162