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.

FORWARD
FORWARD is a digital publication and conversation series from Forecast, a nonprofit that activates, inspires, and advocates for public art that advances justice, health, and human dignity. FORWARD highlights how artists are partnering with cities, institutions and communities to courageously tackle the vital issues of our time. This edition focuses on public health.

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.

CREATIVE PLACEMAKING: SPARKING DEVELOPMENT WITH ARTS AND CULTURE

BLACKSPACE MANIFESTO
BlackSpace challenges architects, planners, urban designers, artists, and all curators of built spaces to unlearn traditional values and rethink Manifesto-based practice. They create spaces for Black urbanists to use talent, culture and rituals to design Black futures, demanding a present and future where Black people, spaces, and culture matter and thrive. 
 

URBAN REVITALIZATION OF PLANNED EXTINCTION

FREEDOM MAPS
Activating Legacies of Culture, Art and Organizing in the U.S. South, written by Maria Cherry Rangel and Ron Ragin, it offers new data on philanthropic investment in Southern arts and culture, firsthand testimony from practitioners, recommendations for philanthropy and beyond, and a people's history of Southern arts and activism. The report examines the current state of artistic practice in the South, the ways in which artists and culture workers are helping to build progressive infrastructure through social justice efforts, and practitioners’ visions for the future.

A HANDBOOK FOR ARTISTS WORKING IN COMMUNITY
The handbook was developed by Springboard for the Arts and made possible through the generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts through the Our Town Knowledge Building grant. It is a practical manual for individual artists who would like to begin or deepen this kind of artistic practice – work in and work with community. The stories, tools, and wisdom shared here were gathered from creative practitioners who regularly do this work.

BLACK SOIL: OUR BETTER NATURE

HOPE AND HEALING MUTUAL AID FUND
Reuniting of African Descendants (R.O.A.D) is partnering with Black Trans Femmes in the Arts  (BTFA) to support Black queer, trans and non-binary creatives and entrepreneurs that have been disproportionately impacted by the COVD-19 health crisis. Often Black Trans + Queer folks are not foreign to hurt, pain, grief, violence, trauma, and marginalization. Hope and Healing Mutual Aid Fund is gathering and awarding funds and investing in Black Trans & Non-Binary start-up businesses that are artistic, creative, etc.