Geared towards local government managers, this resource serves as a guidepost for municipal managers towards generating or creating creative placemaking efforts. It addresses creative placemaking’s main tenets while combatting misconceptions. Through an interactive tag system and case studies, readers are able to engage with this resource to understand creative placemaking’s ability to generate opportunity and provide solutions towards equity and community development.
Handbook for Artists Working in Community
Southeast Houston Arts Intiative
Continuum of Impact Guide
Inside Artist Municipal Partnerships Blog Salon
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.
Social-Practice Residencies Toolkit
This online toolkit connects to a network of resources about social practice artist residency programs. The links to case studies are particularly useful as a way to learn from other projects, and reflections by artists who have participated in social practice residencies are also great learning tools as well as inspiration for why this work matters and can make a difference.
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.