Conceiving Opportunities, Realizing Opportunities
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A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF ARTPLACE’S ...

Culminating from six years of research, Arts Place America developed this infographic in order to discuss how the arts and culture sector can support equitable community development in 13 key ways across 10 distinct sectors. Through collaborative and comprehensive research methods, this interactive infographic delves into each topic; ultimately highlighting how creative placemaking is an interdisciplinary field requiring big-picture thinking.

Realizing Opportunities, Evaluating Progress, Conceiving Opportunities, Learning and Iterating
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Creative Placemaking: Sparking Development with ...

This report explains the benefit creative placemaking confers to developers. It further answers the questions of how developers can plan for and understand the economic incentive for utilizing creative placemaking in their projects.

ArtPlace Field Scans, Creative Cohort Module 2, New Understanding, Identifying Assets
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Farther, Faster, Together: How Arts and Culture ...

This report explores the potential for arts and cultural activity to contribute to community sustainability and resilience, in climate adaptability, energy, water, land, waste, and toxic pollution. The report finds that arts-based activities can help spark public demand by making environmental issues feel personal and real, build community capacity and agency, connected large-scale, abstract issues to personal experience, enrich and activate the built environment, and nurture sustainable economies.

Identifying Assets

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Art Is Work: Policies to Support Creative Workers

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American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2021

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In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the arts sector is recovering from crisis. The pandemic illuminated long standing vulnerabilities career artists face, particularly those in performing arts. This study examines how federal level policy changes can better support artists and creatives now and into the future. Four central recommendations are made: (1) Name and include artists in federal policy; (2) Recognize how creative work happens; (3) Center equity; and (4) Think locally, share nationally. These recommendations are widely applicable to local arts agencies, local government entities, and arts-based organizations.

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Exploring Our Town

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Creative placemaking projects strategically link communities and local governments with artists, designers, and arts organizations to improve quality of life, create a sense of place, and revitalize local economies. This online resource from the NEA of over seventy case studies gives examples from across the nation on how different communities are harnessing the capacity of arts- and culture-based strategies.

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Building Beyond Policing

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This is a case study of a creative placemaking project that worked with local law enforcement officials to turn an underutilized space into a public amenity and allow for positive engagement between community members and law enforcement officials. The project also incubated local businesses and created local jobs.

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Planning & Designing Arts-Based Civic Engagement Projects

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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.

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Creative Placemaking Toolkit for Counties

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As public funding becomes increasingly strained, counties must search for and employ new strategies to improve their communities and local economies. NACo, in partnership with Americans for the Arts launched the Creative Counties Placemaking Initiative to support counties as they work to identify and strengthen ways to integrate arts into solutions to local challenges. The Creative Placemaking Toolkit for Counties is a web resource with recorded webinars and conference sessions as well as links to useful tools for counties, particularly related to the impact of arts and culture on local economies and potential funding opportunities. It is most helpful to county governments and rural governments who know a little bit about creative placemaking already and are looking to expand their local economies through the arts.

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Art Beyond Bars

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This is a case study of a program that combines social services with cathartic arts activities to enhance re-entry conditions in Philadelphia, with the goals of improving quality of life and public safety. It is one example of the link between creative placemaking and public safety. This report shares project successes and lessons learned.

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Arts, Culture and Transportation: A Creative Placemaking Field Scan

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This report identifies seven ways that creative placemaking contributes to equitable transportation development: generating creative solutions for entrenched transportation problems, making streets safer for all users, organizing transportation advocates, engaging multiple stakeholders for an inclusive process, fostering local ownership, alleviating the disruptive effects of construction, and healing wounds and divisions.

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Exploring the Ways Arts and Culture Intersect with Public Safety: Identifying Current Practice and Opportunities for Further Inquiry

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This scan considers the positive impact of place-based creative activity on public safety. They find that arts-based projects can enhance public safety efforts by promoting empathy and understanding, influencing law and policy, providing career opportunities, supporting community well-being, and contributing to quality of life.

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Exploring the Ways Arts and Culture Intersects with Housing: Emerging Practice and Implications for Further Action

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This case study explores how creative placemaking activities contribute to the housing sector of community development. The report finds that arts activity can help articulate invisible housing challenges, nourish those who have experienced housing-related trauma, contribute to organizing housing campaigns, create bridges between residents, stabilize vulnerable communities, and generate economic development opportunities.

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Farther, Faster, Together: How Arts and Culture Can Accelerate Environmental Progress

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This report explores the potential for arts and cultural activity to contribute to community sustainability and resilience, in climate adaptability, energy, water, land, waste, and toxic pollution. The report finds that arts-based activities can help spark public demand by making environmental issues feel personal and real, build community capacity and agency, connected large-scale, abstract issues to personal experience, enrich and activate the built environment, and nurture sustainable economies.

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Cultivating Creativity: Exploring Arts & Culture in Community Food Systems Transformation

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“Cultivating Creativity” examines the potential for the arts to contribute to food systems and agriculture activity and change. The report finds that art can be used in food systems interventions to honor identity and heritage, address and heal community conflict, transform community spaces, drive equitable food development, preserve and reclaim food and farming traditions, and help facilitate community-led processes.

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Advancing One Water Through Arts and Culture

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This field scan shows how water leaders (utility managers, public officials, farmers, river keepers, business leaders, manufacturers, community leaders, philanthropy, etc) have turned to artists and cultural leaders to achieve their goals in creative and potent ways. It provides recommendations, case studies, and potential outcomes for working at this intersection, which can be helpful for convincing municipal leaders to take on a similar project.

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6 Reasons Why Artists Should Collaborate with Government

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This approachable narrative outlines the reasons why artists and government need to work together. It is a great resource to help state the case for these partnerships within any government department.