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Jun 06, 2019
Everyone can picture how a bright mural or whimsical statue can elevate our enjoyment of a public park. But artists can figure in to the success of park projects in even more central, powerful, guiding ways. A case study on New Mexico’s Zuni Youth Enrichment Project detailed how artist involvement from the start led to a more... Read More
Jun 04, 2019
It’s one thing to say we want to work with artists, and another to do so effectively. How can organizations and project leaders make the most of artists’ strengths while dodging common cross-sector traps?
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May 28, 2019
ArtPlace’s Senior Program Officer introduces our next (and last) initiative: Local Control, Local Fields. This people-powered investment in locally controlled resources aims to strengthen six fields of practice in six distinct geographies around the U.S. Learn how our approach was developed, what makes it different, and what to watch for as it rolls out this spring.
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May 24, 2019
At the ArtPlace 2019 Annual Summit, hundreds of grantees, funders, staff, and friends met for three days in Jackson, Mississippi, as one community. We explored themes of healing through music, spoken word, food, visual and performing arts, and—most compelling—listening.
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Mar 20, 2019
Arts funding doesn’t have to come from arts funders. Experts at our 2018 Summit shared their best tips and case studies to help creative placemakers find financial support from a variety of unlikely sources.
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Feb 19, 2019
Innovative work supported by ArtPlace recently popped up in the financial news source Barron’s. Read highlights of their coverage, including one government official’s finding that “when artists of color go out into communities, they are more successful than we are.”
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Feb 07, 2019
The Grand Terrace Photo League was an ArtPlace-funded eight-week photo ethnography of an apartment complex in Worthington, Minnesota. The project’s lead documentary storyteller, Nik Nerburn, wrote for ArtPlace about the inspiration for the project, the many forms “community involvement” can take, and how collaborative photography can offer dignity as well as documentation.
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Feb 05, 2019
Even if you can’t make it to the CPL Summit West—taking place in Albuquerque on February 7, 8, and 9—there are several great ways to connect from afar. Read more about why we love CPL Summits, and how you can get in on the action, whether you’ll be in “Burque” or not.
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Jan 07, 2019
Thomas Young, creative director of The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking (NCCP), gets theatrical about his love for Creative Placemaking Leadership Summits and why you should join ArtPlace and NCCP at our events across the country this year. I can’t watch theater anymore. After about eight years of directing musicals, plays, and devised theater, all I do when... Read More
Dec 11, 2018
As Forecast Public Art wraps up its 40th year, we join the celebration by sharing out some of the useful, valuable resources they produce for artists and creative placemakers—free of charge. As this milestone anniversary year comes to a close—and in the holiday spirit of giving—we at ArtPlace wanted to share out a few of the many top-shelf... Read More