Artplace America started out with the goal, “to amplify the power of the arts in building healthy, equitable, and sustainable communities”. As a result of this goal, they funded nearly 300 creative placemaking initiatives across the country, generated landmark research, and brought together a diverse community in 10 years. This book, offered either online or as a made to order physical copy, contains the story of how Artplace America achieved so much within their 10-year time limit.
Art Place 2020 Summit Videos
In October 2020, Artplace America hosted a summit to showcase the decade of work that artists, community developers, government officials, and many more have contributed to the ArtPlace America mission. Within five different hour-long videos, key parts of the summit, including plenaries and workshops, are now viewable on Artplace America’s Youtube channel.
BUILDING COMMUNITY WEALTH THROUGH ARTS, CULTURE, AND EQUITABLE DEVELOPMENT
Through a partnership with Common Future, a community development intermediary, Artsplace America created this invitation to action The research by Danya Sherman examines the intersection of arts and culture and community wealth building. The goal of this research is to show funders how arts and culture in conjunction with community economic development can strengthen a community’s wealth.
Creative Placemaking Work in Local Government
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.
Arts & Culture at the Core: A Look at Creative Placemaking
When Artists Break Ground
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..