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Cultural District grant to promote art project at Pioneer Tower

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Art lovers will have the opportunity to take part in an event to see the premier of works by two internationally recognized artists through a grant to the Arts Council of Fort Worth.

The Texas Commission on the Arts provided a $225,000 Cultural District grant. The funding will be used to promote the premier of works by Quayola of Italy and Refik Anadol from Los Angeles, the City of Fort Worth reported. 

The new media works will be projected on all four sides of the Pioneer Tower at Will Rogers Memorial Center the last weekend of February 2021. It is part of a $1.2 million project supporting creating and presentation of the first of four major iconic public artworks that will be part of the Fort Worth Public Art Collection.

The grant of TCA’s Cultural District program that funds programs and activities that are designed to draw visitors in state-designated cultural districts of which Fort Worth is home to two, south of West Seventh Avenue and west of downtown.

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