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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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May 22, 2019
ArtPlace and DAISA Enterprises are thrilled to announce the release of “Cultivating Creativity: Exploring Arts & Culture in Community Food Systems Transformation.” The fifth in ArtPlace’s series of Creative Placemaking Field Scans, this new report explores how arts and cultural practices can be better leveraged to create equitable and place-based food systems change across the country.
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Apr 24, 2019
This month on the ArtPlace blog, we're exploring the environment: from the built to the unbuilt; from natural vistas to the horizons of the civic commons. We published this insightful guest post by urban planner Lynn Osgood one year ago this week, and believe it deserves a first anniversary encore.
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Mar 26, 2019
In what types of community-based efforts is artistic and cultural expression contributing to food and agricultural outcomes? Our recent working group delved into a draft report that had examined the databases of ten federal agencies and foundations and identifying 180 projects integrating arts and culture with food and agriculture. We looked at projects dealing with tourism, culinary... Read More
Nov 08, 2018
After a year of doing projects around the country, I am in Summit Lake (Akron) celebrating the League of Creative Interventionists year of work with the community. As the sun sets over the lake, it creates a picturesque view of a 200 person dinner filled with residents, leaders and, Knight Foundation and Reimagining Civic Commons Directors. I wonder, “Why... Read More
Nov 06, 2018
The words “artist” and “bureaucrat” can seem as opposite as the north and south poles. But poets, actors, musicians, dancers, and art-makers of all other stripes have been infiltrating our government’s ranks for years—and many are making great strides. In this story series, we’re visiting with accomplished artists who hold leadership roles in their cities about their... Read More
Sep 25, 2018
ArtPlace America and Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) are pleased to announce the publication of “Creative Placemaking & Community Safety,” a new report by Urban Institute that tells the stories of four creative placemaking initiatives that seek to improve community safety in their respective communities. This collaborative effort integrates arts, criminal justice, and social change research methods, and... Read More
Jul 18, 2017
Albert Einstein once said, “If I had an hour to solve a problem, I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about it and 5 minutes solving it.” Those of us working in the creative placemaking field are familiar with this philosophy–the idea that the challenge of understanding a problem should take precedence over the action of executing a solution.... Read More
May 30, 2017
Each year, the ArtPlace Summit offers attendees the opportunity to gather for a three-day conference designed to refresh our perspectives on place-based work. This time, more than 300 of us met in Seattle, Washington to enjoy a series of eye-opening panel discussions, tool-building break-out sessions and moving cultural experiences together. The summit kicked off on Monday, May 15... Read More
Apr 20, 2017
As Danya Sherman pointed out in her field scan on housing for ArtPlace Exploring the Ways that Arts and Culture Intersects with Housing, “One’s housing may be an opportunity to accumulate wealth, have short commutes, and live in well-resourced school districts, while others’ makes them particularly vulnerable to health hazards, economic and environmental shocks, and can prevent them from... Read More