SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL: CREATIVE PLACEMAKING IN RURAL COMMUNITIES
How does creative placemaking unfold in rural contexts? In this article for GIA Reader, Anne Gadwa Nicodemus explores the topic through the lens of four case studies. In Bakersville, North Carolina, community leaders adopted a regional peer-to-peer learning network to better leverage craft as an industry and physically revitalize their town. In Saint Helena Island, South Carolina, the Penn Center preserves and shares the area’s unique Gullah Geechee heritage, drawing over twenty thousand tourists annually. In New York Mills, Minnesota, a town found new life and relevance as a regional cultural hub and home for artist residencies. In Arnaudville, Louisiana, a cadre of resident volunteers led by an artist reshaped a small town around the arts, its Cajun heritage, and Francophone language preservation.

STATE OF THE ART TRANSPORTATION TRAINING DO-IT-YOURSELF TOOLKIT
This toolkit will walk you through the steps to design and implement a State of the Art (SOTA) Transportation Training to help address a transportation project in your community by utilizing creative placemaking strategies. The purpose of the SOTA Transportation Training is to convene professionals from the transportation and arts sectors to find areas of overlapping mission, explain the benefits of incorporating artists into transportation project planning and design, and improve collaboration between sectors on a local level. This toolkit consists of a checklist of items needed to set up the meeting, a guide to develop the invitation list and the meeting leads, agenda development recommendations and instructions, site visits set up, and brainstorming and project development prompts.

STORYTELLING FOR GOOD
Stories are powerful: Our brains are literally wired to take in and preserve stories. Done well, stories often drive us to take action. So how do you tell stories well? There have never been more ways to reach an audience, but it’s harder than ever to really get their attention. Enter Storytelling for Good.

THIS IS WONDERLAND PODCAST
Wonderland is a “master class” in culture change. Podcast hosts Bridgit Antoinette Evans and Tracy Van Slyke apply their experience and perspective from careers spent at the intersection of social justice, entertainment and media to uncover the truth about the stories we’re telling as a country, on TV, in movies and throughout pop culture mediums.

TRANSFORMING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT THROUGH ARTS & CULTURE
The new edition of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco’s Community Development Innovation Review explores an evolving era in community development that infuses art and cultural practice with that of community development organizations to help residents reclaim community identity, strengthen cultural resilience, and build power to shape neighborhood planning.

TRANSFORMING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT THROUGH ARTS & CULTURE NY EVENT
On Wednesday, January 15, 2020, Transforming Community Development Through Arts & Culture explored an evolving era in community development that infuses art and cultural practice. Attendees learned how artists are working with communities and community development organizations to tackle some of the most pressing and complex issues of our time, and why arts and culture strategies are central to equitable development and racial justice. Hosted by the New York Fed and the San Francisco Fed, in partnership with ArtPlace America and PolicyLink, the event highlighted stories, ideas, and provocations from the latest Community Development Innovation Review journal, Transforming Community Development Through Arts and Culture.