2020 ARTPLACE VIRTUAL SUMMIT VIDEO ARCHIVE
ArtPlace America's Virtual Summit culminated a decade of work as part of an extraordinary community of artists, community developers, culture bearers, designers, government officials, philanthropists, and researchers who have come together from rural, suburban, Tribal, and urban communities across the United States. You can view a record of the 2020 plenaries here.

FINANCING CREATIVE PLACEMAKING 
The Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation released their latest report, Financing Creative Placemaking: Analyzing Data and Trends for a Field in Transition. The report analyzes the project budgets and narratives from grants made by three creative placemaking funders—ArtPlace America, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Kresge Foundation—between 2010 and 2019 to better understand existing funding streams and patterns in the financing of creative placemaking.

RETHINKING NEIGHBORHOOD CHANGE AND TRACKING PROGRESS
This paper discusses developments in the conception and assessment of Creative Placemaking initiatives and the assessment of comprehensive community development strategies. The observations and insights stem from a small but growing body of research on the roles of arts and culture in communities, as well as from well-established literature on urban poverty and inequality. 

THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN SOCIAL & CIVIC PRACTICE AND WHY I FIND IT USEFUL
In a response to a previous essay, Michael Rohd, discusses how Civic Practice and Social Practice are not the same thing. While the term Civic Practice aims to help establish an area of artistic practice framed by markers having to do with intention and process, Social Practice covers a tremendously varied and large body of work. 

ANGELA GLOVER BLACKWELL- NPC18 CLOSING KEYNOT

JOURNEY TO CREATIVE PLACEMAKING: LESSONS AND INSIGHTS
Reflections, learnings and insights on Creative Placemaking are shared in this series of white papers from The Kresge Foundation’s Arts & Culture team in concert with partners from different fields and sectors. The goal is to help illuminate the foundation’s multi-faceted approach to grantmaking, share lessons learned, identify challenges and opportunities encountered, and encourage conversations in the field. 

PLACEMAKING AND THE POLITICS OF BELONGING AND DIS-BELONGING
An expanded version of Roberto Bedoya's essay “Creative Placemaking and the Politics of Belonging and Dis-belonging,” first published on the Arts in a Changing America website. Bedoya was asked to prepare it for the GIA Reader audience and to reflect further on the topic of belonging as it relates to their work as a public funder. 

A PLACE OF MY OWN, A PLACE OF OUR OWN

CREATIVE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT REPORT & CASE STUDIES

THE RISE OF CREATIVE PLACEMAKING