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Aug 26, 2020
With the film "Machuchaleras: Ivelisse Rivera" the Puerto Rican grassroots organization Casa Taft 169 honors powerhouse Ivelisse Rivera (community leader and sister of famed salsa singer Ismael Rivera) for her work in preserving and fighting for the often forgotten or ignored Black communities of Puerto Rico and the legacy of her brother, Ismael Rivera.
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Jul 22, 2020
Hanmin Liu and Jennifer Mei, cofounders of the Wildflowers Institute, spoke with artists in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco, CA, to see how artists are making explicit the needs of their community and what changes need to happen to improve the conditions for all people, but especially the most vulnerable, so they can all grow together.
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Jul 08, 2020
John Kind is a driven, passionate and charismatic artist with a unique approach to his blend of hip-hop, poetry, and existentialism. He has been writing poetry since the age of 9 years old. We were lucky enough to be introduced to John via our funded project the Loop Lab, a Cambridge-based non-profit social enterprise specializing in media arts internships... Read More
Apr 21, 2020
PolicyLink has released a new brief, How Organizations Evolve When They Embrace Arts and Culture, which delves into the ways the six organizations in ArtPlace’s Community Development Investments (CDI) program had to grow and change to integrate arts and culture into their work, help them achieve their missions more effectively, and bring about positive outcomes for their communities.
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Mar 30, 2020
Back in 2014 we partnered with The Coalfield Development Corporation in Huntington, WV. This area functions as a quasi-urban center of opportunity for this rural Appalachian region. The organization started out by repurposing an abandoned factory as a creative hub for community gathering and engagement. In the time of the COVID-19 crisis, they are repurposing it again. Brandon Dennison, Founder... Read More
Mar 18, 2020
The residents of the village of San Ysidro, California, have an 18% higher rate of asthma than the rest of the county; fruit from local trees are covered in a dusty residue on a daily basis. Not many residents knew that the residue came from idling cars at the nearby México-U.S. border. Learn how local residents leveraged the arts to make the... Read More
Oct 28, 2019
As the effects of widening inequality play out at the neighborhood level across our country, unexpected cross-sector collaborations are uniting arts and culture with the work of community development.
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Jul 30, 2019
Power is a broad concept, and its import ranges from who has it and how to get it to what it ultimately means and why it matters. At the ArtPlace America 2019 Annual Summit, we asked three leaders in creative community development from around the country to answer one crucial question: “In your work, how do you... Read More
Jun 26, 2019
ArtPlace partner PolicyLink recently released Working with Artists to Deepen Impact, the first in a series of briefs describing the changes seen and lessons learned when arts and cultural strategies were deployed in the service of community development and planning through our Community Development Investment projects.
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Apr 16, 2019
Who defines what’s authentic? Why is authenticity important to creative placemaking? At the Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit West in Albuquerque, New Mexico, panelists discussed these questions and others through the lenses of national research and regional case studies.
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