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Sep 04, 2018
Who better to support your creative placemaking project than the community it will impact most?
In the session “Crowdfunding In Your Own Backyard,” ioby Leader Success Strategist Jennifer Allen framed crowdfunding as fundamentally more than a passing craze. In fact, she explained how the contemporary version of the classic “passing the plate” model helps grassroots initiatives (as well as established... Read More
Aug 16, 2018
Ashley Hanson is a theater artist, social practitioner, storyteller, and lover of rural places. This featured essay is adapted and expanded from a Firestarter Talk given by Ashley Hanson at the National Rural Assembly in Durham, NC in May, 2018. "The drive to my mother’s house is one of my favorites. As I turn off the two-lane... Read More
Aug 14, 2018
Three influential affordable housing and community development intermediaries—NeighborWorks America, Enterprise Community Partners, and Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC)—are serious about incorporating arts and culture into their work. As they grapple with the lasting effects of structural racism, rapid gentrification, and resources that vary widely from community to community, they’re learning what works, sharing their findings, and continuing to experiment.
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Aug 04, 2018
How does philanthropy stay accountable to the values we claim to espouse? As the National Creative Placemaking Fund (NCPF) at ArtPlace America came to a close at the end of 2017, we decided to interrogate how effective we had been at aligning our values with our assumptions and philanthropic practice.
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Jul 27, 2018
When people from out of state hear that there is a state-funded, state-government-run arts agency in West Virginia, their reactions are always the same: a mixture of fascination and disbelief. At first, this struck me as odd. Do other states not foster this kind of relationship between the arts and their state government? Do their governments not... Read More
Jul 20, 2018
In my family, instead of gifting Christmas presents, we have what we call “Traditions” - each of us invents a new game or activity. We all play; whoever wins receives a gift given from whomever invented the game. In the summer, my mom hosts elaborate obstacle courses on my great grandmother’s land, where we compete using old... Read More
Jul 11, 2018
Visual artist Amanda Lovelee is a based in Minneapolis, MN and has just finished her tenure as the City Artist for Public Art Saint Paul. She acts as translator between the city’s ideas and its residents with the goal of building the city everyone wants to live in. As City Artist Amanda has focused on engagement through both her... Read More
Nov 08, 2017
Collaborative community practice between artists and community development organizations is a foundational aspect of creative placemaking. But how many of us are actually very good at it? With this question in mind, ArtPlace invited the Center for Performance and Civic Practice to host a breakout session at our 2017 Summit focused on “Effective Partnering: Starting with Values,... Read More