Telling the Story

ArtPlace America Commemorative 10-year Book

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

This publication from 2012 by the NEA highlights creative placemaking efforts from around the country and offers an initial interview as an introduction to 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..

Southeast Houston Arts Intiative

This report evaluates the impact of Southeast Houston’s Arts Initiative through four main questions. From 22 interviews and four focus groups, the report examines the challenges the initiative faces and generates lessons for creative placemaking practitioners.

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.

Creative Exchange

A collection of creative placemaking toolkits and case studies to learn from others on the ground. Some toolkits focus on specific creative placemaking toolkits, while others are more general. This is great resource for seeing the wide variety of ways to document projects and learn from each other.

Inside Artist Municipal Partnerships Blog Salon

This online resource contains blog posts written by both artists and local government workers who have been involved in municipal artist in residence programs across the US. It contains lessons learned directly from the people involved in the programs.

Irrigate

Irrigate is a practical guide for how to create community-driven development, specifically with community artists. It outlines the steps and tools necessary, and also why community-driven processes are meaningful.

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.