HANNIBAL, MO — The Provenance Project, a community arts development project in northeast Missouri, recently received the Joint Center for Sustainable Communities Award, a national award recognizing organizations that are creating communities that are economically prosperous, environmentally safe and socially equitable.

The Provenance Project is a national small business recruitment program based upon the tenet that art and art-related activities can be an economic catalyst for the revitalization of downtown areas in the three northeastern Missouri communities of Hannibal, Louisiana and Clarksville. The program combines the efforts of local artists, art councils, development authorities, Main Street programs and tourism organizations into a single project for the national recruitment of cultural business. The project was one of seven recipients of the Sustainable Communities Award.