An older white man sitting at a table listening to those around him.
20.03.19
Arts funding doesn’t have to come from arts funders. Experts at our 2018 Summit shared their best tips and case studies to help creative placemakers find financial support from a variety of unlikely sources.
A older black man helping a young black child plant some vegetables.
13.03.19
Chicago’s Perry Avenue Commons—a series of aquaponic farms, community gardens, and art spaces—is demonstrating how an “inclusive, art-inspired, and agriculture-fed approach to neighborhood development” can help meet its community’s environmental, social, educational, and economic goals, as well as its need for fresh, nutritious, affordable food.
ArtCrop founder, Oskar, and HAFA staff, Yao, interview Soua Thao, Hmong Farmer on her farm lot, to learn about her story over a summer-long residency held at the Hmong American Farmers Association (HAFA) farm. (2017)
06.03.19
Hmong French American artist Oskar Ly founded ArtCrop, an art and food CSA in Minnesota. By continuing and innovating on the traditions of her farmer-artist forebears—and contemporaries—Ly is inviting local farm share subscribers to enjoy “a more rooted cultural experience.”
Lywante Bonner, Georgia teacher and event coordinator for One South.
04.03.19
Georgia teacher Lywante Bonner coordinates events for One South, the community development corporation behind the state’s first “agrihood.” She spoke with ArtPlace about why she’s helping to make her South Macon neighborhood “feel whole again.”
A young black boy dancing in a crowd of three.
22.02.19
The 91st annual Academy Awards will take place this weekend: a testament to film’s power to captivate and inspire. At ArtPlace, we celebrate the films and filmmakers of creative placemaking every day. This month, as our blog explores issues of racial justice, we look at three projects that have used the moving image to their advantage.
Creative CityMaking Artist Wing Young Huie photographs Community Member
19.02.19
Innovative work supported by ArtPlace recently popped up in the financial news source Barron’s. Read highlights of their coverage, including one government official’s finding that “when artists of color go out into communities, they are more successful than we are.”
Three women sit by a laptop computer.
15.02.19
Socially engaged art collective Las Imaginistas works along the US-Mexico border in Brownsville, Texas. Read a few highlights from our interview with two of their founders at the recent Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and watch the Facebook Live video recording.
A house painted black with the words "You gotta love us or leave us alone" on it
13.02.19
Since the 1980s, Houston’s Project Row Houses has been using arts and culture strategies to keep artists and residents living and working in its historic Third Ward neighborhood.
07.02.19
The Grand Terrace Photo League was an ArtPlace-funded eight-week photo ethnography of an apartment complex in Worthington, Minnesota. The project’s lead documentary storyteller, Nik Nerburn, wrote for ArtPlace about the inspiration for the project, the many forms “community involvement” can take, and how collaborative photography can offer dignity as well as documentation.
Artist Collective, Las Imaginistas, standing in front of local street art by Josue Ramirez (RAW) in Downtown Brownsville, Texas.
05.02.19
Even if you can’t make it to the CPL Summit West—taking place in Albuquerque on February 7, 8, and 9—there are several great ways to connect from afar. Read more about why we love CPL Summits, and how you can get in on the action, whether you’ll be in “Burque” or not.
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