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Dec 05, 2019
As 2019 comes to a close we take a moment to look back at all the amazing partnerships, reports, announcements, new endeavors, and more released this year!
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Nov 18, 2019
Performing Our Future (POF) is a national coalition of rural and urban communities working through culture to build a future where “everyone belongs and we own what we make.” Two POF leaders discuss how the group’s inherently collaborative identity informs its daily work and has fed its many accomplishments.
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Nov 15, 2019
Today, we’re thrilled to announce that seven colleges and universities across the United States are receiving nearly $2M to support creative placemaking teaching, learning, and research for undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs.
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Oct 24, 2019
CreativePlace is the National Consortium for Creative Placemaking's podcast focusing on people who are making a difference in their communities through the arts and cultural programming. This episode features Julie Decker (Anchorage Museum in Alaska) and Bodil Kjelstrup, who serves as curator of the SEED Lab. Learn how Anchorage partnered with the Northern Norway Art Museum to address some... Read More
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 08, 2019
Laura Zabel and Jun Li (Springboard for the Arts) talk about how to build the infrastructure that helps communities and neighborhoods tap into their natural Creative People Power. Their work is about building stronger communities, neighborhoods, and economies, and they believe that artists are an important leverage point in that work.
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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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Sep 11, 2019
NASAA is partnering with ArtPlace America on a new initiative, Strengthening the State Arts Agency Support System for Creative Placemaking. This initiative is designed to empower state arts agency community development staff in their varied roles as facilitators and bridge builders.
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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 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