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Nov 21, 2017
Wormfarm has just completed its 7th annual Fermentation Fest- A Live Culture Convergence. This project began with support from both NEA Our Town as well as ArtPlace America in their initial year of funding. This was an exciting time for us and it propelled our work from modest offerings by an idiosyncratic founder-led organization that only two years earlier... Read More
Nov 08, 2017
We are excited to join a host of partners to co-produce the 2018 Creative Placemaking Leadership Summits with The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking.The five regional summits are attracting hundreds of artists, planners, and community development practitioners. Do you have insights to share? Want your work to be featured? Send us your session proposal! We have room for more sessions at... Read More
Nov 03, 2017
An exciting new federal publication announced recently has seemingly no connection to creative placemaking, but the tale of this report’s release begins squarely with ArtPlace and the National Endowment for the Arts. The publication —“Harvesting Opportunity: The Power of Regional Food Systems Investments to Transform Communities”—is a joint effort by two federal agencies, the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis and the... Read More
Jun 12, 2017
When a friend visiting from Philadelphia compared Whitesburg, Kentucky, to Stars Hollow, all she got from us was a blank stare. Turns out Stars Hollow is the setting of Gilmore Girls: a small idyllic town, rural and intimate, yet diverse and open-minded. When our friend arrived in Whitesburg—a former coal-mining town in one of the poorest and sickest... Read More
May 30, 2017
One of the most pressing (and polarizing) issues of our time is climate change. But figuring out how to tackle a problem that many feel detached from is another issue altogether. At this year’s ArtPlace Summit, we took some time to talk about how arts and culture can be used as tools to render the unseen visible... Read More
Mar 30, 2017
We are proud to share with you a new paper from our partners at PolicyLink: Creating Change through Arts, Culture, and Equitable Development. This is a policy and practice primer that highlights approaches that can be brought to scale through policy change, addressing communities of color, low-income communities, and immigrant and rural White communities, drawing on their cultural... Read More
Nov 25, 2015
This post is the ninth in a ten-part series continuing those conversations, and it focuses on Agriculture & Food. Below is a summary of a conversation between Donna Neuwirth and Jay Salinas from the Wormfarm Institute; and Emily Raine and Stuart Siegel from the International Sonoran Desert Alliance. What luck that our discussion of the Agriculture & Food... Read More
Aug 18, 2015
We’re excited to kick-off a new series of posts focusing on creative placemaking resources. You’ll notice that our website now sports a Library which will contain a combination of best practices, toolkits, and other interesting material that we come across over time. It will be a mix of foundational resources that long pre-date our work, and new material at... Read More
Jun 08, 2015
The sunny patio of Twelve Pine market in Peterborough, NH is not a bad spot to sit and reflect on this year’s Creative Community Exchange (CCX). Peterborough, after all, was the original inspiration for Our Town – both the Thornton Wilder play and the National Endowment for the Art’s creative placemaking grant program that I had the pleasure of managing in... Read More