Conceiving Opportunities, Realizing Opportunities
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A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF ARTPLACE’S ...

Culminating from six years of research, Arts Place America developed this infographic in order to discuss how the arts and culture sector can support equitable community development in 13 key ways across 10 distinct sectors. Through collaborative and comprehensive research methods, this interactive infographic delves into each topic; ultimately highlighting how creative placemaking is an interdisciplinary field requiring big-picture thinking.

Realizing Opportunities, Evaluating Progress, Conceiving Opportunities, Learning and Iterating
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Creative Placemaking: Sparking Development with ...

This report explains the benefit creative placemaking confers to developers. It further answers the questions of how developers can plan for and understand the economic incentive for utilizing creative placemaking in their projects.

ArtPlace Field Scans, Creative Cohort Module 2, New Understanding, Identifying Assets
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Farther, Faster, Together: How Arts and Culture ...

This report explores the potential for arts and cultural activity to contribute to community sustainability and resilience, in climate adaptability, energy, water, land, waste, and toxic pollution. The report finds that arts-based activities can help spark public demand by making environmental issues feel personal and real, build community capacity and agency, connected large-scale, abstract issues to personal experience, enrich and activate the built environment, and nurture sustainable economies.

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Art Is Work: Policies to Support Creative Workers

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American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2021

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In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the arts sector is recovering from crisis. The pandemic illuminated long standing vulnerabilities career artists face, particularly those in performing arts. This study examines how federal level policy changes can better support artists and creatives now and into the future. Four central recommendations are made: (1) Name and include artists in federal policy; (2) Recognize how creative work happens; (3) Center equity; and (4) Think locally, share nationally. These recommendations are widely applicable to local arts agencies, local government entities, and arts-based organizations.

RESIDENCIES IN MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT

Artist Communities Alliance

Resource Overview

The several case studies in this toolkit explore the increasing number of artist residency programs run by or run in partnership with city governments. Artist residency programs introduce an artist to a level of city government or specific department and ask them to use their creative problem solving skills to address civic processes and challenges.

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Handbook for Artists Working in Community

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A 116-page resource guide serves as a way for artists who would like to start or enhance their work within communities. The resource is broken into five sections: Artist Groundwork, Community Groundwork, Project Formation, Project Implementation, and Group Participation Tools.

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Overlooked Anchors: Advancing a New Standard of Practice

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This report serves as a call to action to the arts sector to propagate equitable local economic growth through the “anchor framework” and describes how the arts sector through creative placemaking can foster community development and local economic growth. Through case studies of arts and culture organizations, it discusses the challenges and potential solutions for engagement with and within anchor institutions.

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Investing in Creativity

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This report examines the financial support and attendant supporting factors needed by artists to succeed. The report explores six identified themes seen as important in fostering artists and, by extension, investing in creativity.

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Southeast Houston Arts Intiative

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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.

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Inside Artist Municipal Partnerships Blog Salon

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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.

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Planning & Designing Arts-Based Civic Engagement Projects

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This toolkit provides a framework for thinking through a plan for arts-based civic engagement and dialogue projects. It guides artists and community organizers through a series of questions and is most helpful for early in the project development phase when going from an idea or a need to a real project.

Mapping the Landscape of Socially Engaged Artistic Practice

This report gives an overview and some examples of the role of a socially-engaged and community-based artist, differentiating them from a studio artist, for example. A social practice artist uses art, activism, and community engagement to work towards community and/or local government goals.

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Artists Working In and Within Municipal Governments

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This resource explores some of the ways that artists can be embedded within local government structures and processes through case studies of municipal artists.

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An Artist’s Way of Seeing: Community Engagement in Creative Placemaking

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This highly approachable article from Shelterforce tackles the misconception of the artist as an individualist by sharing stories of community-engaged artists.