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Jan 03, 2018
This is part two of a two part interview with the Pao Arts Center. The Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center received funding from ArtPlace in 2016 to create the Pao Arts Center, a communal arts center located inside the One Greenway building in Boston, Massachusetts’s historic Chinatown neighborhood. The building is located on a piece of land known... Read More
Jan 09, 2018
Last month we shared an article from Stacey Barbas, Senior program officer on The Kresge Foundation's Health Program. She introduced us to the Fresh, Local and Equitable (FreshLo) cohort which includes twenty-three urban neighborhoods across the United States with community residents driven to increase access to healthy, affordable food, and create economic opportunities through new food enterprises. The FreshLo... Read More
Jan 11, 2018
Hi there! I’m Justin, the most recent addition to the ArtPlace team. At the ArtPlace Summit in 2017 I had the good fortune to sit in on a session about engaging with individual donors and creating an organizational culture of philanthropy. Dan Hagarty of the Heard Museum was our navigator for the hour-long session on fundraising. During the... Read More
Jan 17, 2018
The Buena Vida neighborhood of Brownsville, Texas is one of the oldest and most culturally vibrant of the southernmost edge of the US/ Mexico border. There is an incredible strength of cultural resources in the community and many people are ready to start turning their creativity into small businesses. Taller de Permiso (Permission Workshop) is an activist and community... Read More
Jan 23, 2018
At our 2017 summit we had an intriguing sounding session called Jedi Mind Tricks of Conflict Resolution. We were hoping it would appeal to Star Wars fans, and those wanting help to resolve conflicts alike. Brad Heckman, CEO of the New York Peace Institute, one of the nation’s largest community peacebuilding services. He is also an Adjunct Professor at NYU. Brad... Read More
Jan 24, 2018
In Philadelphia, PA, The Village of Arts and Humanities will embark on a community-driven design process to transform two vacant row homes into the Civic Power Studio, a site for residents, artists, law enforcement, and neighborhood stakeholders to study and build the neighborhood’s civic power, and to collaborate on new public safety strategies rooted in care rather... Read More
Jan 26, 2018
Conexión Américas, in partnership with Transportation for America (which late last year released an ArtPlace-funded research report on arts, culture, and transportation), 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... Read More
Feb 07, 2018
Last year, we had the privilege of working with Utah Diné Bikéyah as they partnered with five Native tribes on the project ‘Traditional Arts of Bears Ears- Hopi, Zuni, Dine, and Ute.’ The project aims to promote a sustainable economic future in San Juan County, UT through culture, community, and the arts. Their work is in supporting... Read More
Feb 05, 2018
As you may have read, the Surdna Foundation has just announced that F. Javier Torres will be joining them as the next Program Director for their Thriving Cultures program. We are thrilled for everyone: thrilled that Javier will be taking on a new challenge worthy of him; thrilled that the Foundation has recognized all that Javier can... Read More
Feb 14, 2018
Environmental sustainability is at its root about the health, safety, and long-term integrity of the places where we all live, work, and play. We are increasingly realizing that sustainability isn’t the purview of a single sector working in isolation, but a shared responsibility for changing how we live in relation to our natural environment and to each... Read More