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Apr 03, 2019
“Environment” might conjure up images of mountains, rivers, and forests. But place-based practitioners know that the “E” word can encompass “built” (human-made physical) and “unbuilt” (cultural and natural) environments. Guest contributor Judi Jennings describes some of the ways these three intersect in the field of creative placemaking, in rural as well as urban settings.
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Mar 13, 2019
Chicago’s Perry Avenue Commons—a series of aquaponic farms, community gardens, and art spaces—is demonstrating how an “inclusive, art-inspired, and agriculture-fed approach to neighborhood development” can help meet its community’s environmental, social, educational, and economic goals, as well as its need for fresh, nutritious, affordable food.
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Mar 04, 2019
Georgia teacher Lywante Bonner coordinates events for One South, the community development corporation behind the state’s first “agrihood.” She spoke with ArtPlace about why she’s helping to make her South Macon neighborhood “feel whole again.”
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Feb 22, 2019
The 91st annual Academy Awards will take place this weekend: a testament to film’s power to captivate and inspire. At ArtPlace, we celebrate the films and filmmakers of creative placemaking every day. This month, as our blog explores issues of racial justice, we look at three projects that have used the moving image to their advantage.
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Feb 19, 2019
Innovative work supported by ArtPlace recently popped up in the financial news source Barron’s. Read highlights of their coverage, including one government official’s finding that “when artists of color go out into communities, they are more successful than we are.”
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Feb 15, 2019
Socially engaged art collective Las Imaginistas works along the US-Mexico border in Brownsville, Texas. Read a few highlights from our interview with two of their founders at the recent Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and watch the Facebook Live video recording.
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Jan 28, 2019
Recent research commissioned by ArtPlace demonstrates how arts and culture strategies can help provide solutions to public health challenges faced by communities across the United States. This summary provides highlights and offers example projects.
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Jan 10, 2019
Minneapolis’s Mixed Blood Theatre has been a mainstay in one of the city’s most notable immigrant enclaves since the 1970s. Now, they’re using their neighborhood connections to help community members bring their personal health stories to the stage, screen, and each other. Minneapolis’s Mixed Blood Theatre “changes attitudes, behavior, and policy by paying positive attention to difference.” Since... Read More
Dec 18, 2018
With 2018 drawing to a close and 2019 on the horizon, we leave ArtPlace readers with some actionable wisdom about wellness and work, delivered by the artist Leslie Kimiko Ward in the closing plenary of our 2018 Annual Summit in Louisville, Kentucky. Leslie Kimiko Ward, a social practice artist, movement specialist, writer, and shepherd (yes, of sheep), gave... Read More
Dec 11, 2018
As Forecast Public Art wraps up its 40th year, we join the celebration by sharing out some of the useful, valuable resources they produce for artists and creative placemakers—free of charge. As this milestone anniversary year comes to a close—and in the holiday spirit of giving—we at ArtPlace wanted to share out a few of the many top-shelf... Read More