Municipal-Artist Partnerships

A Blade of Grass / Animating Democracy, 2020

RESOURCE OVERVIEW

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

KEY SECTIONS

Securing Capital

Funding provides guidance on how to leverage the municipal-artist partnership to broaden the scope of available funding.

Budgeting provides some common challenges and strategies for budgeting a municipal-artist partnership and provides guidelines for making sure the project budget is equitable.

Realizing Partnerships

Laying the Groundwork outlines why artist and municipal partnerships are important, how to structure a strong partnership, and how to navigate inevitable power differentials in partnerships.

Working with Artists

Getting it Done provides guidance for how to identify and choose artists, how to develop projects out of those partnerships, and how to sustain artist-municipal partnerships.

Contracts goes over some legal considerations, including general contracts, payments, copyright and intellectual property, and insurance.

Learning and Iterating

Evaluation provides guidance on how to document and evaluate artist-municipal partnerships.

Communicating

Communications provides guidance for internal and external project communication.