Leveraging Investments in Creativity

LEVERAGING INVESTMENTS IN CREATIVITY
This ten year initiative to reinvent arts funding in the United States came to a close in 2013. A series of short documentaries chronicling four of the grantees around the country were commissioned: Urban Bush Women in Brooklyn, NY; The Nickelodeon Theater in Columbia, SC; the Montana Arts Council; and Los Cenzontles in San Pablo, CA. The first and last videos in this six-part series explore the vision and premises of this groundbreaking project in cultural philanthropy.

Webinar Series: Creating Healthy Communities: Arts + Public Health in America

WEBINAR SERIES FOR CREATING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES: ARTS + PUBLIC HEALTH IN AMERICA
This webinar series will present arts in public health program examples that address five critical public health issues - collective trauma, racism, social isolation and exclusion, mental health, and chronic disease - as well as new resources for cross-sector collaboration and program building. ​

Local Government Artist-in-Residence Programs Must Include Opportunities for Public Sector Innovation

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAMS MUST INCLUDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR PUBLIC SECTOR INNOVATION
An article discussing how current versions of local government artist-in-residence programs typically stop short of figuring out how to induce social change by focusing too much on the artists’ narrowly defined art projects.

This Is Wonderland

THIS IS WONDERLAND PODCAST
Wonderland is a “master class” in culture change. Podcast hosts Bridgit Antoinette Evans and Tracy Van Slyke apply their experience and perspective from careers spent at the intersection of social justice, entertainment and media to uncover the truth about the stories we’re telling as a country, on TV, in movies and throughout pop culture mediums.

Asphalt Art Guide

ASPHALT ART GUIDE
The Bloomberg Associates Asphalt Art Guide features successful plaza and roadway art activations around the world, as well as key steps and tips for developing such projects. By sharing lessons learned from Asheville to Athens, Bogota to Boston, we hope to help city agencies, community organizations and artists be most efficient in championing projects that deliver safer, more beautiful streetscapes.

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