Creative Cohort Module 5

Continuum of Impact Guide

Animating Democracy’s Continuum of Impact guide defines six families of social and civic outcomes that arts practitioners and their partners commonly aspire to and achieve through creative work. These outcome families articulate ways the arts contribute to making change happen.

Empowering Young People to Make Their Place

This report is a case study of a project in Brooklyn that works at the intersection of creative placemaking and public safety. In this project, young people from the community-led most of the planning and implementation processes, which ensured that communication with the community would result in something that they were actually interested in.

Planning & Designing Arts-Based Civic Engagement Projects

This toolkit provides a framework for thinking through a plan for arts-based civic engagement and dialogue projects. It guides artists and community organizers through a series of questions and is most helpful for early in the project development phase when going from an idea or a need to a real project.

An Artist’s Way of Seeing: Community Engagement in Creative Placemaking

This highly approachable article from Shelterforce tackles the misconception of the artist as an individualist by sharing stories of community-engaged artists.

Municipal-Artist Partnerships

This online resource is a great guide to the “nuts and bolts” of creating and sustaining partnerships between artists and local government.