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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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Oct 10, 2019
Artists keep, make, and transform meaning. It is what they do. Their relationship to place, in addition to inhabiting it, is to see it and listen to it. Whether intentionally or not, every creative act, every moment of imagination and expression in a place, contributes to that place’s shape. What tools do artists and culture makers and designers and... Read More
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 28, 2019
As the effects of widening inequality play out at the neighborhood level across our country, unexpected cross-sector collaborations are uniting arts and culture with the work of community development.
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Nov 07, 2019
The design of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice is elegant, but it evokes unease. Its vast open rectangular roof is supported by row upon row of somber, weathered steel slabs from which slender poles rise. When you know that this new monument in Montgomery, Alabama, dedicated on April 26, 2018, is offered to the memory... Read More
Nov 25, 2019
Ever since she was a teenager, former Detroit Action Strategist Rhiannon Chester has dedicated much of her energy to working for better public education, immigrant rights, affirmative action, economic justice, and LGBT youth in her native Detroit. After years of supporting others’ projects, Rhiannon led her first ioby campaign this past spring. Read about what she did, how it went,... Read More
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 22, 2019
Rural areas tend to lack opportunities that driven and talented young people seek, leading them instead to metro areas that provide more favorable economic and academic circumstances. One Minnesota organization working to buck that trend is Springboard for the Arts.
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Nov 11, 2019
Alternate ROOTS supports the creation and presentation of original art that is rooted in community, place, tradition or spirit. Learn how this group of artists and cultural organizers based in the South are creating a better world together and calling for social and economic justice while working to dismantle all forms of oppression – everywhere.
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Jan 08, 2020
Conexion Americas will commission artists to lead a series of community design charrettes to improve pedestrian safety in the Nolensville Pike corridor of Nashville, TN. The corridor is a wide, high-speed road with crumbling sidewalks and an overall design that prioritizes the movement of vehicular traffic over pedestrians and cyclists.
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