WHAT ARE THE PARADIGM SHIFTS NECESSARY FOR THE ARTS SECTOR TO NURTURE THRIVING INSTITUTIONS OF COLOR?
Yancey Consulting asked the question whether sustainability is the true intent. Is the desire for organizations to “maintain [their] own viability” or be “able to be supported with the basic necessities or sufficient funds”? We found that sustainability is the start but not the end. Findings are intended as critical steps in creating a more equitable environment for historically disinvested arts and culture organizations to thrive.
CREATIVITY AND NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES FOR COMMUNITY INVESTMENT
In collaboration with the Social Impact of the Arts Project of the University of Pennsylvania (SIAP), this report has been examining the ways creative activity, specifically community-based arts and culture, can play a role in neighborhood revitalization and lays out steps for building an integrative vision of creativity and neighborhood revitalization.
NATIVE AMERICAN CREATIVE PLACEMAKING
That "Placemaking was always known to Native Americans" undergirds a new "Native American Creative Placemaking" report from HAC which examines some Native American creative placemaking efforts while offering a first of its kind interactive map. The paper also notes funding sources and emphasizes that placemaking “offers Native people on opportunity to reconnect with their traditional ways of life” as an antidote to injustices including forced assimilation, trauma in boarding schools, and extreme poverty.
NARRATIVE PROCESSES IN URBAN PLANNING
A case study on a town suffering from the effects of jobs losses and outmigration that occurred when labor intensive farming transitioned to the machine. A theater project has led to purported claims of community revitalization, new relationships, personal empowerment; the coproduction of an emerging and diverse community identity; and institutional and economic development.
RURAL ARTS, DESIGN, AND INNOVATION IN AMERICA
This report stemmed from a research collaboration with the Economic Research Service at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It analyzes data from the Rural Establishment Innovation Survey to quantify relationships among arts organizations, design-integrated firms, and business innovators in rural settings.
MAKING UP CREATIVE PLACEMAKING
Creative placemaking is an increasingly prevalent form of planning practice that invokes arts and culture as tools for revitalization. Using frameworks developed by Foucault and Hacking, this report analyzes the emergence and ongoing contestation of this term, contrasting the way creative placemaking is understood and enacted by actors in Philadelphia with definitions employed by national funders.
CREATIVE PLACEMAKING AND EXPANSION OF OPPORTUNITY
This paper examines critical needs or opportunities to help the Creative Placemaking field continue to take root in community planning, and to better contribute to expanded opportunity and equity in low-income communities.
CREATIVE PLACEMAKING IN COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
An introduction to ArtPlace's vision of Creative Placemaking by ArtPlace Director Jamie Bennett as part of the Investment Review from the San Francisco Fed.
LISC CREATIVE PLACEMAKING RESOURCES
Multiple resources from LISC in areas such as Affordable Housing, Education, Economic Development Financial Stability, Health, Safe Neighborhoods Community Leadership, Policy & Research
CULTURAL MAPPING: A HANDBOOK FOR DEVELOPING A CREATIVE PLACEMAKING TOOL
This handbook outlines the process of creating GEOLOOM, a tool to foster creative placemaking through capturing the broad range of arts and culture in Baltimore, Maryland. The process can be adapted for a community of any size, city or town, urban or rural and hopes to assist in the decision-making necessary for making communities vibrant and sustainable.
