Jamaica Plain's HSTF Awarded $200K ArtPlace America Grant

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The Hyde Square Task Force (HSTF) is among 38 recipients of ArtPlace America’s 2015 National Grants Program. ArtPlace, which is “dedicated to creative peacemaking,” is investing $200,000 into Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood.

As indicated in a press release, the grant will go towards “further integrating arts and culture into the field of community planning and development.”

The HSTF will “will work to partner with businesses and artists in Boston’s Latin Quarter on the Artes Pa’lante project to use the richness of Latin arts and culture to bring together people from different social, economic, racial, and cultural backgrounds, while building the small businesses’ capacity to expand their customer base and adapt to the neighborhood transition.”

ArtPlace chose the HSTF from a group of 1,300 applicants.

On July 16, the HSTF will be holding a celebration at the Blessed Sacrament Church Plaza.