Fundred Dollar Bill Project
The Fundred Dollar Bill Project is an art project created by American artist Mel Chin. It was designed to raise awareness about lead contamination in the soil of New Orleans and to propose a funding idea to clean it up.
How it worked: people around the world were invited to draw their own 100-dollar bills on a special template. The goal was to collect three million Fundred bills and present them to Congress in exchange for real money to fund remediation of lead in New Orleans’ soil.
Armored truck tour: In 2010, hundreds of schools across the United States created Fundred Bills. An armored truck, powered by vegetable oil, collected the drawings and transported them to destinations.
Cities: In 2014, the ArtPrize competition in Grand Rapids, Michigan helped raise visibility for local lead issues through the Fundred Project. In 2015, the Art Academy of Cincinnati partnered with the Cincinnati Health Department to use art and design to address lead contamination in Cincinnati.
Exhibition and culmination: The Fundred Project was part of Mel Chin’s multi-venue All Over the Place exhibition and was shown at the Queens Museum in 2018. The program wound down in 2019.
External link: Project home page – fundred.org
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