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Aug 01, 2017
It is with a heavy heart that we share the news that our friend and colleague Ebony McKinney passed away Saturday. Many of you knew Ebony as a tireless advocate for the arts, or from her ArtPlace interview series where she took a deep look at work done by our funded projects, or perhaps you had the... Read More
Aug 03, 2017
Last month, a group of twenty four transportation officials, engineers, planners, artists, policymakers, and advocates from around the country gathered together in Indianapolis to sweat and scheme about how to use arts and culture to build support for equitable transportation infrastructure. Transportation for America (T4A, a program of Smart Growth America) and ArtPlace America co-hosted this working group,... Read More
Aug 08, 2017
What critical roles might artists and other culture bearers play in efforts to imagine and create equitable and resilient futures for water and other life-sustaining systems?
This is a question my collaborators and I have been asking in different ways and places since launching the Water Bar project in 2014. While facilitating temporary Water Bar pop-ups at art... Read More
Aug 13, 2017
ArtPlace Funded project Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation deploy Lakota culture by design and architecture to address the negative health effects of unemployment and poverty on the Pine Ridge Reservation in Porcupine, SD through the creation of a community house. This cultural center provides spaces for youth to connect socially, culturally, and artistically to promote overall community... Read More
Aug 16, 2017
Based in NY’s Lower East Side, where dramatic change is both a permanent and accelerating condition, the members of the Perfect City working group are developing a new kind of dialogue about belonging and displacement. Aaron Landsman, the founder said ‘The Perfect City working group, comprised of seven to ten members at any given time, many from the neighborhood, most under... Read More
Aug 25, 2017
RedCan is a ‘graffiti jam’ spearheaded by the Cheyenne River Youth Project (CRYP) a local, grassroots nonprofit with a mission to provide indigenous youth “access to a vibrant and secure future”. RedCan is also the proving ground for the latest experiment in creative placemaking, a burgeoning discipline examining how arts and culture can help achieve community outcomes,... Read More
Aug 22, 2017
We at ArtPlace are saddened and angry about the tragic recent events in Charlottesville. It’s hard to know what to say or do in moments like these, but as always, we find hope, strength, purpose, and action by turning to the thousands of individuals and organizations we’re fortunate enough to call colleagues, partners, and friends who are... Read More
Aug 26, 2017
We are excited to share a new resource for creative placemaking with you: The Hub for Creative Placemaking in Higher Ed! What is The Hub? The Hub is a new online resource for creative placemaking, with a focus on how higher education institutions can learn from and engage with current creative practitioners and funders. The Hub hopes to foster conversation and... Read More
Aug 24, 2017
There are two essential truths driving Young Audiences New York’s approach to community development forward: 1. When children and young people create art, they have the exceptional, extraordinary power to bring their families along with them. 2. More children and families together=More Community!
With increased focus on these important, fundamental—and often overlooked--building blocks, Young Audiences New York’s new... Read More
Sep 06, 2017
Our partners T4A have chosen 3 communities out of 130 applications who propose to apply artistic and cultural practice to shape transportation investments — positively transforming these places, building social capital, supporting local businesses, and celebrating communities’ unique characteristics. Look out for the transportation field scan – done in conjunction with T4A coming soon. Ben Stone, T4America’s director... Read More