Mobilize the MAGIC City Project

About Mobilize the MAGIC City

Mobilize the MAGIC City worked with artist-in-residence, Terri Porta, for a year to develop a formal process to involve art and artists in everyday civic life.

Nationwide, artists are contributing to community planning and design to improve economic development, road safety, health outcomes, and more.

Ms. Porta implemented two creative placemaking hubs (think public art informed with community engagement!) along Billings' first neighborhood bikeway, with artist Mariah Gladstone adding a third placemaking hub. The team also documented the process in a Placemaking Playbook, and conducted a public arts committee feasibility study and began discussions about a formal public art process for Billings. 

Placemaking Playbook and Public Arts Committee Feasibility Study

The Mobilize project developed a Placemaking Playbook and Public Arts Committee Feasibility Study. Read the documents here. 

Placemaking Playbook

Public Arts Committee Feasibility Study

Placemaking Hubs

Traveling east to west along the neighborhood bikeway, artists created and installed the following placemaking hubs! 

Eternal Presence (Mariah Gladstone)

Funky Frames (Terri Porta and local students)

Kids' Fridge (Terri Porta and local students)

Sponsors

Thank you to our sponsors who made this project happen! We couldn't have done it without you! 

Thank you to our in-kind donors who are helping make this project happen with critical donations of supplies, labor, and expertise! 

$1-$999 donors

Granite Peak Systems, LLC

Pamela Jones and Ed Hahn

$1,000-$2,499 donors

Anne Cole and Mayor Bill Cole

Dr. Rachel Schaffer and Dr. Deorah Schaffer 

Visit Billings

Billings Industrial Revitalization District (BIRD)

$2,500-$4,999 donors

$5,000 and above donors

Social Media

Visit the project Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/MobilizeTheMAGICCity.

Check out more about the project in our flyer below! 

To download a screenreader-compatible version of the flyer, click here: Mobilize the MAGIC City Flyer