Stories
May 26, 2016
Our attendees at this year’s ArtPlace Summit in Phoenix, AZ dug into the question, “How will the arts help achieve community change?” Attendees in the “Creating Art in & for Place: Methods for Locale-Minded Curation” breakout session quickly agreed that art and culture are not a band aid for wider community issues – they are tools to be... Read More
Jun 07, 2016
We’re off to the races. This year is going by at the speed of light for us on the NCPF team! In early March, ArtPlace received and began to process the almost 1,400 applications submitted to the National Creative Placemaking Fund this year. Leila and I, along with an amazing network of 48 brilliant peer reviewers from... Read More
Jun 13, 2016
ArtPlace America strives to make investments in projects that achieve real, sustainable change through creative placemaking. But how do we know change is happening? How do we measure it, quantify it and document it? At this year’s ArtPlace Summit in Phoenix, AZ we asked our attendees to focus on examining their experiences with defining progress. In the... Read More
Jul 25, 2016
I have spent the last few weeks – along with my ArtPlace colleagues and many of you – heavy hearted and reflecting on how recent violent and tumultuous events have affected the communities we support across the country. Several responses – many of them by artists – have helped me make sense of these times, reflect, and... Read More
Jul 28, 2016
We are now just over nine months into ArtPlace America’s three year Community Development Investments (CDI) program, which provides funding and technical assistance to community development organizations who haven’t previously had a significant history of working with arts and culture. The first nine months of the program have been focused on learning core concepts of creative placemaking, undertaking cultural asset mapping... Read More
Aug 15, 2016
"Any strategy for cultural equity must come from significant numbers of people who share a common experience that in turn becomes an energy force for change," says Hanmin Liu, the president of the Wildflowers Institute, a nonprofit devoted to "discovering the informal ways that things get done in a community and the leaders and activities that quietly make a... Read More
Aug 25, 2016
I recently had the opportunity to enjoy Jen Kinney’s article reviewing Michael DeFilippo’s photo essay recognizing the alignment of his 60th birthday with that of the 60th birthday of the U.S. interstate highway system. This article, punctuated by Mr. DeFilippo’s striking photos and quotes, were a stark reminder of many of the communities we have visited over the last two years. Many... Read More
Aug 30, 2016
This past June and July, we visited 79 finalists selected for the sixth round of National Creative Placemaking Fund. In this post, we wanted to share some photos from the breathtaking landscapes we got to experience across this country. Stay tuned in the coming weeks to read more about what we learned during their travels!
These images are... Read More
Sep 06, 2016
ArtPlace is looking for a Grants Manager and Administrative Associate. Position duties include: Reporting to the Managing Director, the Grants and Administrative Associate is a full time position who will manage their time efficiently and effectively to support all lines of work at ArtPlace, with a special focus on operations and grantmaking. Database Management and Maintenance (the National Creative... Read More
Sep 21, 2016
Adam joins us as our new Director of Communications, and he will focus on sharing the stories and knowledge we gain through our three lines of work — National Creative Placemaking Fund, Community Development Investments, and Research — with the purpose of growing and strengthening the community of practitioners who are bringing arts and culture into the community planning and development space. From 2013... Read More