Stories
Apr 21, 2016
This week we are lucky to have Pilar McKay, one half of Rural Arts Weekly, joining us for a guest blog post about her thoughts, findings, and questions that came up from our ArtPlace Summit. Without further ado, take it away, Pilar! What is the magic of creative placemaking? During ArtPlace Summit 2016, I was determined to find... Read More
Apr 19, 2016
The Huddle recaps conversations where our ArtPlace funded projects and organizations came together to talk through topics, get advice, and perhaps even gossip a little. After each one, we will use these blogs to recap the insights, questions, and provocations from these conversations. This round featured a conversation with Victoria Frey of the Portland Institute for Contemporary... Read More
Apr 14, 2016
This year's ArtPlace Summit was a whirlwind of excitement, energetic conversations, inspiring presentations, and new friendships. Have you had a chance to catch your breath yet? For those of you who weren't able to join us this year, we thought we'd put together an overview of our time together in Phoenix. If you were able to be there, well,... Read More
Apr 12, 2016
We are pleased to announce that the Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation has joined as our newest partner foundation. Alongside grant partners in Detroit, Israel, Zambia and other communities, the Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation has demonstrated impact in the worldwide Jewish community, education (with particular emphasis on early childhood education) and health... Read More
Apr 08, 2016
Having just wrapped up our ArtPlace Summit 2016 we wanted to put together a quick visual recap of our time in Phoenix, AZ. But don't worry! A more in depth discussion of our learnings and thoughts on the Summit will be coming next week, but we wanted to share a few photos we loved during the conference.
Tune in... Read More
Apr 05, 2016
As a core part of ArtPlace’s research agenda, we are taking each of the discrete sectors of community development, one at a time, and exploring how arts and cultural practitioners have and might be partners in helping to achieve their goals. Today marks the release of the first two “field scans” that ArtPlace America has commissioned to begin... Read More
Apr 01, 2016
ArtPlace America is looking to hire a director of communications as part of our executive team.
We are a ten-year fund that will sunset in 2020; and we are a collaboration of 16 foundations, 8 federal agencies, and 6 banks that is looking to position arts and culture as a core sector of community planning and development in order... Read More
Mar 30, 2016
The Huddle recaps conversations where our ArtPlace funded projects and organizations came together to talk through topics, get advice, and perhaps even gossip a little. After each one we will use these blogs to recap the insights, questions, and provocations from these conversations.
This round featured a conversation with Nia Umoja of Cooperative Community of New West Jackson,... Read More
Mar 28, 2016
We are revving up for our annual ArtPlace Summit taking place in Phoenix, AZ! Because we value you and want to hear from you, the ArtPlace family and future supporters, leaders, advocates for creative placemaking, we’ve thought of a few ways we can incorporate your thoughts, questions, and pictures into our Summit!
LIVE STREAMING!
Remember what I said about from the comfort... Read More
Mar 10, 2016
The Huddle recaps conversations where our ArtPlace funded projects and organizations came together to talk through topics, get advice, and perhaps even gossip a little. After each one we will use these blogs to recap the insights, questions, and provocations from these conversations.
This round featured a conversation with Lynn Osgood of Drawing Lines, Henry Reese of the City... Read More