RESOURCES

HOW TO DO CREATIVE PLACEMAKING?

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MUSIC IN PLACE PODCAST
Music in Place is a show from the Harrison Center that focuses on place-based music. Many genres of music emphasize place, rooting the song and the musician in a particular style, tradition, or the culture specific to a region or city. Much of our work at the Harrison Center emphasizes and explores place-- in our case, our city and home of Indianapolis, Indiana. The songs you’ll hear on Music in Place have been specifically written to celebrate Indy, its culture, people, and history by resident musicians at the Harrison Center.



PEOPLE, LAND, ARTS, CULTURE AND ENGAGEMENT
This report serves as a point of entry into creative placemaking as defined and supported by the Tucson Pima Arts Council’s PLACE Initiative. To assess how and to what degree the PLACE projects were helping to transform communities, TPAC was asked by the Kresge Foundation to undertake a comprehensive evaluation. This involved discussion with stakeholders about support mechanisms, professional development, investment, and impact of the PLACE Initiative in Tucson, Arizona, and the Southwest regionally and the gathering of qualitative and quantitative data to develop indicators and method for evaluating the social impact of the arts .



PERSPECTIVES OF ARTISTS AND DEVELOPERS WEBINAR SERIES
Creative Placemaking brings artists and community developers together, but how do these two worlds collide to improve low-income communities? This webinar series discusses the experiences of two community developers who joined forces with a theater Artist and writer to elevate their community engagement approach. It dives into the common points of tension, pitfalls, and possibilities these two groups experience to help you understand how these innovative partnerships can energize your work.



PLACES IN MAKING
The current diversity and breadth of placemaking projects and processes is both a vindication for placemaking and a challenge for advocates and thought leaders as they seek to hone the placemaking message and develop a collective case for relevancy. How will the placemaking movement channel its tremendous momentum into positive results for communities and places? This research with in-depth case studies begins to answer this question.



POLICYLINK'S CREATING CHANGE THROUGH ARTS
Arts and culture are essential for building community, supporting development, nurturing health and well-being, and contributing to economic opportunity. This report highlights both promising and proven practices that demonstrate equity-focused arts and culture policies, strategies, and tools. The report describes the role of arts and culture across the nine sectors. Within each policy chart there are goals, policies, and implementation strategies that can help achieve communities of opportunity. 



PROBLEM SOLVING THROUGH ARTS AND CULTURE STRATEGIES: CREATIVE PLACEMAKING GUIDANCE FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
This comprehensive resource is for local government managers and their staff considering, launching, or continuing a creative placemaking journey. It explores how outside-the-box processes can offer new ways for government staff and community stakeholders to communicate, build trust, and collaborate. It illustrates roles artists can play across a wide range of contexts, and provides guidance on navigating these processes from defining the opportunity to building the team to structuring and sustaining partnerships. The document is also full of case studies, testimonials, links to tools and additional resources, and prompts to help managers consider how these approaches might benefit their own communities.