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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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Oct 22, 2019
The American Indian College Fund’s Indigenous Visionaries initiative helps develop Native women leaders through education, mentoring, and networking. We asked two of the project’s organizers to elaborate on their session at the 2019 Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit West and describe the ins and outs of their successful collaboration.
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Oct 17, 2019
When culture is scientifically connected to hope, trust, belonging, and health-related quality of life, people’s performance improves and can drive new innovation and inclusive growth. Now is a culturally-relevant moment with inclusion as the linchpin. There is transformative potential for business innovation through Cultural Wellbeing.
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Oct 10, 2019
Artists keep, make, and transform meaning. It is what they do. Their relationship to place, in addition to inhabiting it, is to see it and listen to it. Whether intentionally or not, every creative act, every moment of imagination and expression in a place, contributes to that place’s shape. What tools do artists and culture makers and designers and... Read More
Sep 26, 2019
Faced with an infrastructure crisis, residents of Austin, Texas, could either let their aging public pool system continue to decline, or rally for more money to keep it afloat. Read how a local dance company worked with the community to broadcast the beauty and importance of its public swimming options—to the tune of millions in new funding.
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Aug 27, 2019
The Citizen University Youth Collaboratory empowers and connects a rising generation of civic leaders and doers. Students from around the country travel to cities around the nation, meeting leading civic innovators, sharpening their literacy in citizen power and producing their own independent projects in their communities for one year. Clara Nevins, from the very first cohort shares her story.
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Aug 22, 2019
The RedCan Invitational Graffiti Jam, held annually in Eagle Butte, South Dakota, gives youth from across the region a chance to meld contemporary street art practices with their heritage, identities, and stories. The event builds young people’s creative skills, self-confidence, and cultural pride.
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Aug 20, 2019
“One thing about it is you can never trust the coal company. … They call it Bloody Harlan for a reason. We don’t intend no harm. We’re just here trying to get what’s rightfully owed to us.” That’s what Shane Smith, a former Blackjewel and Revelation Energy miner, told alumni of our Appalachian Media Institute when they interviewed him last week on... Read More
Aug 15, 2019
While the work of creative placemaking involves plenty of “grown-up” tasks like applying for permits and analyzing data, young people can play pivotal roles in shaping projects by bringing high energy, fresh thinking, and honest questions.
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Aug 13, 2019
When employees don’t feel they can bring their “whole selves” to work, creativity, productivity, and ultimately a business’s success can also suffer. In the third of a series of guest posts, Theo Edmonds explains how diversity, inclusion, innovation, and production interrelate, and how a new framework could help all sides measure and manage “cultural wellbeing” in the... Read More