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Dec 19, 2019
As we look ahead to 2020, we asked the ArtPlace staff to take a moment to reflect on 2019 and share some of the highlights of their work this year. Here’s our last blog of 2019 ... See you in the new year!
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Dec 17, 2019
In 2019 we shared some amazing stories, and below we take a look at the most popular blogs of the year. From ArtPlace’s next steps, to how to find funding, to how farming and arts go hand-in-hand, these blogs are as varied as the field of creative placemaking.
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Dec 10, 2019
Earlier this year, we asked ourselves, “Who are the people behind creative placemaking?” That question led to other questions, like “What drives them to do what they do?” and “How do they share the story of their community-based work?” From these questions sprung a series of video and blog interviews and our Creativity Lives Here storytelling campaign. Below... Read More
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 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 18, 2019
Performing Our Future (POF) is a national coalition of rural and urban communities working through culture to build a future where “everyone belongs and we own what we make.” Two POF leaders discuss how the group’s inherently collaborative identity informs its daily work and has fed its many accomplishments.
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Oct 24, 2019
CreativePlace is the National Consortium for Creative Placemaking's podcast focusing on people who are making a difference in their communities through the arts and cultural programming. This episode features Julie Decker (Anchorage Museum in Alaska) and Bodil Kjelstrup, who serves as curator of the SEED Lab. Learn how Anchorage partnered with the Northern Norway Art Museum to address some... Read More
Oct 22, 2019
The American Indian College Fund’s Indigenous Visionaries initiative helps develop Native women leaders through education, mentoring, and networking. We asked two of the project’s organizers to elaborate on their session at the 2019 Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit West and describe the ins and outs of their successful collaboration.
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