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ArtPlace Field Scan: Building Community Wealth

Resource Question(s): HOW TO DO CREATIVE PLACEMAKING?, CROSS-SECTOR COLLABORATION
Sector: Economic Development | Audience: Artists, Arts organizations, Government, Planners

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ARTPLACE FIELD SCAN: BUILDING COMMUNITY WEALTH: THE ROLE OF ARTS AND CULTURE IN EQUITABLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
In partnership with Common Future, ArtPlace's ninth field scan "Building Community Wealth: The Role of Arts and Culture in Equitable Economic Development" describes the 6 ways arts and culture advance community wealth building including: Facilitating collaboration for complex group decision-making; accessing imagination to bring new economic structures into being; building power to strengthen movements that shift local economic conditions; healing individuals and communities from extractive labor and economic practices; making the case for holistic, people-centered financing; creating new and sustaining existing forms of resource generation.