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Dec 16, 2020
We are excited to announce the relaunch of communitydevelopment.art, with new briefs, videos, and new resources that examine the intersection of arts, culture, and equitable development!
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Nov 11, 2020
Jessica Solomon is a facilitator, cultural strategist, and organization development practitioner working alongside changemakers to create the conditions for emergent solutions, and more impactful teams, organizations and systems. We sat down with Jess to talk about her focus on developing national and regional strategies for social campaigns, convenings and activations that creatively championed social and economic justice.
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Nov 04, 2020
Joe Tolbert Jr. is a minister, art critic, and the founder and lead cultural strategist of Art at the Intersections. His work is at the intersections of art, culture, spirituality and social justice and he looks at how spiritual practice is often or outright omitted from the cultural practice conversation.
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Oct 16, 2020
The ArtPlace America Virtual Summit is a celebration and culmination of a decade of work. This blog post is part of a series focusing on our BIPOC affinity group leaders; peer led, community organized sessions that meet a couple of times before, during, and/or after the summit. This week the AAPI Creative Placekeeping and Placemaking Learning Circle talks... Read More
Aug 19, 2020
Silky Shoemaker is an artist from central PA who explores queer community in its many despairs and ecstasies, solitudes, strangeness, and epic iterations. She talks to us about how a vandalized life size plywood sculpture of Ahmaud Arbery in her front yard opened up the local community to a conversation about racial justice and encouraged her to think on... Read More
Jul 15, 2020
Letcher County is nestled in the Appalachian Mountains of Eastern Kentucky and is home to a diverse population of 23,123 people. Within the center sits a social enterprise program- Black Sheep Bakery which supports community members by providing job training to people who are recovering from addiction. Dedicated citizen and baker Gwen Johnson talked with us about preconceived notions and Appalachian... Read More
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
Jun 17, 2020
Denetrick Powers is the lead art organizer for Redeemer Center for Life's "At Home in Harrison" project (a 2017 ArtPlace funded project). As a curator, poet, and organizer he reflects on the current state of America, American history, and its failures.
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Jun 10, 2020
Amy Shimshon-Santo’s powerful poem “and still, we are trying — to dream…” documents a few days in revolutionary LA about community, protests, vigils and uprisings. This writer, educator, and urbanist walks the talk in her belief that arts and culture are powerful tools for personal and social transformation. Her interdisciplinary work connects the arts, education, and urban... Read More
May 20, 2020
The A Sense of Place (Clemmons Family Farm) project uses the power of African-American and African diaspora art and culture to help build a more loving and supportive multicultural community in Vermont, but the pandemic has amplified the inequities that African-Americans live, struggle and die with every day. Learn how the Clemmons Family Farm, one of the handful of Black-led arts... Read More