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.

Realizing Partnerships

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Art Is Work: Policies to Support Creative Workers

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American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2021

Resource Overview

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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CENTERING CREATIVE YOUTH IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

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Partnering with Creative Generation, Arts Place America seeks to answer the question: what impact do creative youth have on communities? Through nine case studies, three findings are articulated. This report is meant to show the power of young persons in generating social change, the responsibility adults have in fostering that power, and the potential in empowering young people.

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Handbook for Artists Working in Community

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A 116-page resource guide serves as a way for artists who would like to start or enhance their work within communities. The resource is broken into five sections: Artist Groundwork, Community Groundwork, Project Formation, Project Implementation, and Group Participation Tools.

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A Pathway to Connect Communities

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This case study highlights how stakeholders used creative placemaking techniques to turn an unused rail corridor into an active, safe, and inclusive space for local residents. The purpose is to show how creative placemaking techniques can be used to extend into diverse communities and enhance public safety and quality of life.

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Creative Placemaking and Community Safety

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Through four case studies, this report analyzes how creative placemaking can affect community safety in concrete and abstract ways.

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Investing in Creativity

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This report examines the financial support and attendant supporting factors needed by artists to succeed. The report explores six identified themes seen as important in fostering artists and, by extension, investing in creativity.

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When Artists Break Ground

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This handbook guide created by Community Partnership for Arts and Culture (CPAC) provides commentary about the unique position arts, creative placemaking, and community development have in rust belt cities. CPAC shares in this handbook 15 themes and practices they developed when working with artists in community development..

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Creative Placemaking and Expansion of Opportunity

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From her perspective as senior advisor to The Kresge Foundation’s Arts & Culture Programs since 2012, Rosario Jackson provides observations and suggestions on creative placemaking for practitioners, leaders, and funders. Her recommendations include developing a greater understanding about how inequality and meaningful change to address it occur, and including art and culture in their widest definitions as a critical component of meaningful community development rather than as an afterthought. She charges practitioners to be nimble and flexible in developing cross-sectoral relationships and partnerships, and to better communicate successful outcomes from creative placemaking work. On that topic, she advocates for unorthodox research and evaluation methods.

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Artists Working In and Within Municipal Governments

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This resource explores some of the ways that artists can be embedded within local government structures and processes through case studies of municipal artists.

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Municipal-Artist Partnerships

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

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Find an Artist: A Practical Toolkit for Calls, RFPs, and Artist Selection

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This toolkit is a practical guide for non-profits, businesses, or municipalities to create formal partnerships with artists. Springboard for the Arts recognizes the importance of cross-sector collaborations and reciprocal relationships with artists in this guide.

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Guide for Business Districts to Work with Local Artists

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This guide provides strategies for partnerships between artists and business districts to address a wide variety of goals. It outlines the typical steps in creative placemaking project planning and implementation but geared specifically to potential ROIs for business districts.

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Field Guide for Creative Placemaking in Parks

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This resource answers the question “How does creative placemaking make for better parks?” through interviews and real-world examples. It provides a loose framework for planning and implementing these types of projects.

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Creating Change though Arts, Culture, and Equitable Development

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This report outlines how two movements – equitable development and community-centered arts and culture – are working to strengthen each other. It is a survey of both fields through interviews, case studies, and policy studies, going sector by sector, and focuses on the policies and funding opportunities that can help expand both fields.

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Bridging Policy and Placemaking to Activate Vacant Properties

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This report outlines the lessons learned from two case studies in St. Paul: Frogtown Green and Urban Flower Field. It goes through a lot of the nuts and bolts of creative placemaking projects in vacant spaces.

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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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Creating Healthy Communities Through Cross-Sector Collaboration

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This field scan focuses on the intersection of creative placemaking and public health. It outlines the direct and indirect benefits that arts and culture can have on public health, which can be helpful for convincing municipal leaders to take on a similar project.