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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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Mar 06, 2019
Hmong French American artist Oskar Ly founded ArtCrop, an art and food CSA in Minnesota. By continuing and innovating on the traditions of her farmer-artist forebears—and contemporaries—Ly is inviting local farm share subscribers to enjoy “a more rooted cultural experience.”
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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 15, 2019
Socially engaged art collective Las Imaginistas works along the US-Mexico border in Brownsville, Texas. Read a few highlights from our interview with two of their founders at the recent Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and watch the Facebook Live video recording.
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Feb 13, 2019
Since the 1980s, Houston’s Project Row Houses has been using arts and culture strategies to keep artists and residents living and working in its historic Third Ward neighborhood.
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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 30, 2019
Sahra Noor, former chief executive officer of People’s Center Clinics & Services, and Laura Zabel, executive director of Springboard for the Arts, discuss in this Shelterforce article how their collaboration to offer art-making events at a Minnesota health clinic helped create a community hub for connection and creativity.
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Jan 28, 2019
Recent research commissioned by ArtPlace demonstrates how arts and culture strategies can help provide solutions to public health challenges faced by communities across the United States. This summary provides highlights and offers example projects.
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Jan 25, 2019
From April 2017 to November 2018, Carolyn Lewenberg served as the Metropolitan Area Planning Council of Massachusetts’ first artist-in-residence. She spoke with ArtPlace about how artists can best work with municipal agencies, the challenges both parties face, and why artists are worth investing in. “We did a little art walk through the offices, and people said, ‘Wow, I... Read More