OPTIONS FOR COMMUNITY ARTS TRAINING
In recent years, an increasing number of artists and arts organizations have been joining in partnerships with other community sectors to advance the healthy development of their communities. The result is a proliferation of cross-sector collaborations and opportunities. In the fall of 2015, Intermedia Arts joined with Animating Democracy to create a study designed to learn more about where community arts training is currently taking place and where there may be future interest.

CREATIVE TRANSFORMATION: ARTS, CULTURE, AND PUBLIC HOUSING COMMUNITIES
To explore the role of arts and culture in transforming public housing communities, NOCD-NY convened a diverse range of residents for a roundtable in July 2015. Drawing on interviews carried out in the field, Creative Transformation: Arts, Culture and Public Housing Communities was designed to showcase exemplary partnerships that illustrated equitable, long-term approaches, identify barriers and challenges, develop recommendations and discuss how to move them into action, and more. 

CREATIVE PLACEMAKING: MORE THAN MURALS
Learnings from the Enterprise Climate & Cultural Resilience program which explored the evolution of the creative placemaking field. It discusses what creative placemaking is and asks how can it be a more interdisciplinary tool, what is its benefit to community members, to community developers, and to national organizations?

THE NEXT GENERATION DIGITAL EXCHANGE
This series draws on the power of connection to bridge further conversation across the regions, sectors, and place-based philosophies that make the work of creative placemaking so essential to the future of our rural places. Roughly every three weeks, these Digital Exchanges offered an opportunity for folks to come together and engage with leaders working across the dynamic range of fields that compose the foundation of rural creative placemaking.

FIND AN ARTIST TOOLKIT
Artists are everywhere, and have enormous capacity to shape the world around us! This toolkit was created by Springboard for the Arts as a tool to help organizations in finding, commissioning and hiring artists to create work. This toolkit walks through different types of calls, budgeting and timeline processes, and sample templates to inspire your work.

GUIDE FOR BUSINESS DISTRICTS TO WORK WITH LOCAL ARTISTS
A free guide for place managers to work with artists on creative placemaking projects. The guide was created for International Downtown Association by Springboard for the Arts from their experience working with artists and consulting on creative placemaking work across the country, the guide contains tools for partnership building between BIDs and artists, collaboration between community stakeholders, budgeting and project management.

SMART GROWTH AMERICA'S CREATIVE PLACEMAKING RESOURCES
Smart Growth is an approach to development that encourages a mix of building types and uses, diverse housing and transportation options, development within existing neighborhoods, and community engagement. There are multiple resources in their website.

TRANSPORTATION FOR AMERICA'S THE SCENIC ROUTE
Getting started with creative placemaking in transportation? See case studies, different approaches and useful tools.

ARTPLACE FIELD SCAN: FARTHER, FASTER, TOGETHER: HOW ARTS AND CULTURE CAN ACCELERATE ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRESS
Helicon Collaborative was commissioned to lead research to better understand how creative placemaking is advancing sustainability outcomes for communities which included the environmental areas of energy, water, land, waste, toxic pollution, and climate resilience and adaptation. Regardless of the specific issue, Helicon heard repeatedly about five priorities that environmental sector leaders believe will either drive progress or hinder it.

VOICES FROM THE FIELD
A collection of videos of advice, guidance, and tips gathered from our creative placemaking colleagues!