Blog
Apr 09, 2018
Kara Elliott-Ortega is the Director of Planning & Policy at the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture for the City of Boston. We caught up with her to find about the groundbreaking intersection of arts and culture with the built environment and community development in Boston. "The Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture used to be part of... Read More
Apr 05, 2018
The Firefly Trail was one of ioby’s largest-budget projects to date. Learn how its leaders leveraged their ioby campaign to bring even more good change to their community.
In the spring of 2017, ioby Leader Ivette Lopez Bledsoe led her fellow Firefly Trail board members in raising over $62,000 on ioby for the trail’s Model Miles Project. An effort to build... Read More
Apr 03, 2018
Across New England, there are creative people working to make their communities better for everyone. Creative Community Fellows links artists, community organizers, urban planners, arts administrators and cultural entrepreneurs across New England, creating a community of practice that holds Fellows accountable and helps them take their work to the next level. All are united by their integration of arts... Read More
Mar 27, 2018
Places are defined not only by geography, but by the stories we tell about them. The design of physical spaces reflect and re-inscribe narratives of power, belonging, and access. For this reason, creative placemaking and place-keeping activities that seek to transform relationships of power and expand collective imagination of what kind of world is possible, must integrate... Read More
Mar 26, 2018
Each year, a handful of themes arise out of our ArtPlace Summit–usually they’re the topics around which our dinner conversations revolve, the discussions that seem to find their way into every plenary conversation and breakout session. Last year, we spent a lot of time talking about the importance of storytelling as a mechanism for social change. But it... Read More
Mar 22, 2018
Lydia Hooper of Fountain Visual Communications will be running a session at the Southwestern Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit (April 6 & 7, Denver, CO) we caught up with her to get the low down on why you should come along, and how creative ways of describing events can add another dimension. My session and what participants will get out of it.... Read More
Mar 20, 2018
As a documentary filmmaker, I’ve often tackled social justice issues, and used storytelling to advocate for equitable solutions to community problems. Creative placemaking — working to make a place better for all people who inhabit and use it — has been an exciting evolution of that practice. I’m a co-founder of Citizen Film, a non-profit documentary media organization... Read More
Mar 15, 2018
There was a time not long ago when our houses (Fale's) were built with no walls on purpose. Shared knowledge was an integral part of our daily life. An isolated communal society were the men cooked the family dinner in earth ovens daily. On our island paradise, the injured or sick were healed by elder women (Fofo's)... Read More
Mar 12, 2018
This week we will be joining ArtPlace Executive Director Jamie Bennett at SXSW for a panel talk, “Beyond Bars: Art and Incarceration,” at the SXSW Social Impact track. This panel was picked from thousands of ideas in a competitve process and will focus in part on our documentary about Damien Duncan, “Little Boy Lost,” which premiered in May 2017 at the National... Read More
Mar 08, 2018
International Women's Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. To celebrate we asked some of the amazing women of ArtPlace America to talk to us about the women integral to their project and history, and those leading the charge for change in the world. Gayle Isa (Asian Arts Initiative): Our... Read More