Springboard for the Arts / International Downtown Association / National Endowment for the Arts, 2017
Resource Overview
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.
Key Sections
Realizing Partnerships
Page 8 outlines nine best practices business districts who want to work with artists.
Pages 12-14 provide questions and suggestions to think about when identifying project stakeholders and their roles.
Pages 30-43 give narratives of six different creative placemaking projects involving partnerships between artists and business districts.
Securing Capital
Pages 15-16 give an overview of funding and budgeting strategies, including a sample budget.
Working with Artists
Pages 18-22 provide questions and suggestions to think about when writing and disseminating a call for artists, and then selecting an artist.
Pages 24-25 provide suggestions for artist management tasks such as contract development, artist insurance and copyright, press releases and social media, and project documentation.
Page 48 is a sample artist partnership agreement.
Page 49-50 is a sample artist project application.
Page 51-52 is a sample artist contract.
Page 53 is a sample transfer of title agreement.
Learning and Iterating
Pages 26-28 provide questions and suggestions to think about when creating an evaluation plan.
Page 54 is a sample artist final report template.
Page 55 is a sample project collaborator survey.