As the state’s lead economic development agency, the Kansas Department of Commerce strives to empower individuals, businesses and communities to achieve prosperity in Kansas.
The grant program aims to activate vacant and underused spaces in communities with populations of 15,000 or less through the arts, specifically leveraging these spaces to foster community engagement around the community's art, history, culture, and heritage. It supports creating new murals or public art that reflects the community's unique attributes, such as its history, culture, heritage, tourism, or other community-led art initiatives. This initiative is designed for rural communities ready to initiate their mural projects, having completed essential preparatory steps such as community engagement, location selection, site approvals, and muralist hiring by the application deadline.