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Sep 23, 2020
How do communities share important health and civic messages during a pandemic? Creatively, with artists. Margy Waller, Art on the Streets, talks about how they created a participatory creative campaign to “Stay Home Save Lives” that people could do from inside their homes, for which they would not need any materials other than what they could provide them... Read More
Oct 06, 2020
ArtPlace America and Welcoming America are thrilled to announce the release of “Bridging Divides, Creating Community: Arts, Culture, and Immigration.” Researched and authored by John Arroyo, PhD, AICP, this report is the eighth in ArtPlace’s series of cross-sector field scans exploring how arts and cultural practitioners have long been and may increasingly be partners in helping to achieve community development... Read More
Nov 11, 2020
Jessica Solomon is a facilitator, cultural strategist, and organization development practitioner working alongside changemakers to create the conditions for emergent solutions, and more impactful teams, organizations and systems. We sat down with Jess to talk about her focus on developing national and regional strategies for social campaigns, convenings and activations that creatively championed social and economic justice.
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Oct 20, 2020
The ArtPlace America Virtual Summit is a celebration and culmination of a decade of work. As part of our blog series focusing on our BIPOC affinity group leaders Carol Zou and Mallory Rukhsana Nezam talk about their affinity group for BIPOC Cultural and Community Workers Who Are Tired AF. Inspired by the work of Audre Lorde and The Nap... Read More
Oct 14, 2020
Registration is open for the ArtPlace America Virtual Summit, a celebration and culmination of a decade of work. This blog post is part of a series focusing on our BIPOC affinity group leaders; peer led, community organized sessions that meet a couple of times before, during, and/or after the summit. Kicking the series off is Theodore (Ted) Jojola of the... Read More
Oct 16, 2020
The ArtPlace America Virtual Summit is a celebration and culmination of a decade of work. This blog post is part of a series focusing on our BIPOC affinity group leaders; peer led, community organized sessions that meet a couple of times before, during, and/or after the summit. This week the AAPI Creative Placekeeping and Placemaking Learning Circle talks... Read More
Nov 04, 2020
Joe Tolbert Jr. is a minister, art critic, and the founder and lead cultural strategist of Art at the Intersections. His work is at the intersections of art, culture, spirituality and social justice and he looks at how spiritual practice is often or outright omitted from the cultural practice conversation.
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Oct 26, 2020
The ArtPlace America Virtual Summit is a celebration and culmination of a decade of work. As part of our blog series focusing on our BIPOC affinity group leaders Scott Oshima (Sustainable Little Tokyo) discusses what it means to value artists and cultural bearers as leaders and organizers within, anti-displacement work, and the field of creative placemaking.
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Oct 22, 2020
As you know this year, ArtPlace America culminates a decade of work. In addition, for the first time ever our ArtPlace Annual Summit will be going virtual the week of October 26-30, 2020. Not only is the summit free to attend, but we will be livestreaming our daily plenaries.
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Oct 29, 2020
Today we are releasing ArtPlace: 10 Years, a publication that tells the story of ArtPlace America. Available now in digital format, it will soon be available as a print-on-demand book. ArtPlace brought together a range of private philanthropy into coordinated partnership, then funded nearly 300 creative placemaking, placekeeping, and placetending initiatives across the country.
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