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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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Dec 03, 2019
On October 10th, 2019, Mike Scutari sat down with Jamie Bennett of ArtPlace America to discuss the creative placemaking field. Once viewed as a niche and misunderstood field, creative placemaking has evolved dramatically since ArtPlace America, a 10-year collaboration committed to positioning arts and culture as a core sector of community planning, set up shop in 2010.
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Nov 27, 2019
The National Accelerator for Cultural Innovation at Arizona State University’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts welcomed seven Practices for Change fellows from around the country to ASU’s Tempe campus this summer. The fellowship supports individuals with experience using arts, culture and design within other sectors — like housing, transportation, planning, justice and the environment — in... Read More
Nov 25, 2019
Ever since she was a teenager, former Detroit Action Strategist Rhiannon Chester has dedicated much of her energy to working for better public education, immigrant rights, affirmative action, economic justice, and LGBT youth in her native Detroit. After years of supporting others’ projects, Rhiannon led her first ioby campaign this past spring. Read about what she did, how it went,... Read More
Nov 22, 2019
Rural areas tend to lack opportunities that driven and talented young people seek, leading them instead to metro areas that provide more favorable economic and academic circumstances. One Minnesota organization working to buck that trend is Springboard for the Arts.
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Nov 20, 2019
Today, we are releasing a discussion guide designed for creative placemaking initiative partners to surface and develop agreement on a shared understanding of the underlying values in their work.
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Nov 11, 2019
Alternate ROOTS supports the creation and presentation of original art that is rooted in community, place, tradition or spirit. Learn how this group of artists and cultural organizers based in the South are creating a better world together and calling for social and economic justice while working to dismantle all forms of oppression – everywhere.
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Nov 07, 2019
The design of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice is elegant, but it evokes unease. Its vast open rectangular roof is supported by row upon row of somber, weathered steel slabs from which slender poles rise. When you know that this new monument in Montgomery, Alabama, dedicated on April 26, 2018, is offered to the memory... Read More
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 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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