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

DAISA Enterprises / ArtPlace America, 2019

RESOURCE OVERVIEW

“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.

KEY SECTIONS

Aligning Assets

Page 12-16 outlines how the arts can amplify food system goals.

Page 19 includes a list of recommendations for how to collaborate on food-systems change.

Page 20-25 shares case studies at the intersection of creative placemaking and food systems and agriculture.