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Oct 16, 2017
With our focus this month on public safety, the ArtPlace team thought October would be the perfect time to re-introduce one of our most comprehensive deep-dives into the topic: the 2016 field scan titled “Exploring the Ways Arts and Culture Intersect with Public Safety: Identifying Current Practice and Opportunities for Further Inquiry.” The field scan, which was written... Read More
Oct 10, 2017
In May 2017, the Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center finally achieved its goal of creating a communal arts center in the heart of Boston’s historic Chinatown neighborhood. The Pao Arts Center (one of ArtPlace’s 2016 funded projects) officially opened to the public on May 6, with plans to incorporate a wide range of programming and educational initiatives in partnership with other... Read More
Oct 04, 2017
Much has been written about the value of creative placemaking and the absolute necessity to work collectively with the whole community including residents, artists and arts organizations, businesses, elected officials, and, of course, funders. An essential step in realizing your creative placemaking vision is having accurate data that lets you know who and what already exists in... Read More
Aug 22, 2017
We at ArtPlace are saddened and angry about the tragic recent events in Charlottesville. It’s hard to know what to say or do in moments like these, but as always, we find hope, strength, purpose, and action by turning to the thousands of individuals and organizations we’re fortunate enough to call colleagues, partners, and friends who are... Read More
May 03, 2017
Inclusive Dubuque is a local network of leaders from faith, labor, education, business, nonprofit, and government dedicated to advancing justice and social equity in our communities and they have kindly made this resource available for all. The network has formed sector groups to understand and tackle equity-related challenges in education, economic wellbeing, transportation, safe neighborhoods, health, housing and arts and... Read More
Jul 25, 2016
I have spent the last few weeks – along with my ArtPlace colleagues and many of you – heavy hearted and reflecting on how recent violent and tumultuous events have affected the communities we support across the country. Several responses – many of them by artists – have helped me make sense of these times, reflect, and... Read More
Apr 28, 2016
As we re-cap this year’s ArtPlace Summit in Phoenix, AZ, we’d be remiss if we didn’t highlight the two most talked about plenary sessions: “Creative Placemaking: When Artists are at the Planning Table” and “Artists Engaged in Public Safety, Housing and Public Health.” In his opening remarks, Jamie Bennett, executive director of ArtPlace America, called the lineup... Read More
Apr 05, 2016
As a core part of ArtPlace’s research agenda, we are taking each of the discrete sectors of community development, one at a time, and exploring how arts and cultural practitioners have and might be partners in helping to achieve their goals. Today marks the release of the first two “field scans” that ArtPlace America has commissioned to begin... Read More
Feb 09, 2016
2016 has started off with a sprint as we move forward in assembling ArtPlace’s first two research working groups. In December our field scan researchers delivered working drafts of their findings, and I began collaborating with a team at the Monitor Institute, Deloitte Consulting’s social impact practice, to think through the goals and design of the working groups. Monitor’s track record... Read More
Nov 24, 2015
As ArtPlace's research director I find myself in countless cross sector conversations across the country. Whether I’m on a panel myself or in the audience at someone else’s presentation, my job is to listen for alignments and to look for opportunities to connect the arts to other community development efforts and agendas. Two things have jumped out... Read More