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Aug 24, 2017
There are two essential truths driving Young Audiences New York’s approach to community development forward: 1. When children and young people create art, they have the exceptional, extraordinary power to bring their families along with them. 2. More children and families together=More Community!
With increased focus on these important, fundamental—and often overlooked--building blocks, Young Audiences New York’s new... Read More
Aug 16, 2017
Based in NY’s Lower East Side, where dramatic change is both a permanent and accelerating condition, the members of the Perfect City working group are developing a new kind of dialogue about belonging and displacement. Aaron Landsman, the founder said ‘The Perfect City working group, comprised of seven to ten members at any given time, many from the neighborhood, most under... Read More
Aug 13, 2017
ArtPlace Funded project Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation deploy Lakota culture by design and architecture to address the negative health effects of unemployment and poverty on the Pine Ridge Reservation in Porcupine, SD through the creation of a community house. This cultural center provides spaces for youth to connect socially, culturally, and artistically to promote overall community... 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
Apr 26, 2017
For the past five years, I’ve had the honor and privilege of serving as Soul Food Cypher’s founding Executive Director. SFC is a community based arts organization that utilizes freestyle rap and lyricism to transform communities and individuals. In the Summer of 2015, Soul Food Cypher was honored to receive a creative placemaking grant from ArtPlace America. ArtPlace invests... Read More
Oct 28, 2016
Recently, three of our team members (Leila Tamari, Program Officer; F. Javier Torres, Director of National Grantmaking; and Adam Erickson, Director of Communications) traveled to the Midwest to check out the work of three ArtPlace funded projects in-person. These site visits give us the chance to contextualize the work our partners do by letting us see them in action... Read More
Dec 14, 2015
Below is a summary of a conversation between Susan Delvalle from the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling, and Lynn Rippy from YouthBuild and IDEAS 40203.
As the great philosopher Whitney Houston said “I believe the children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way.” Which is a cheeky way to start this... 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