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.
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.
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.
Bloomberg Associates, 2021
For public sector arts agencies / departments who want to use data to improve their service provision, this guide offers practices from around the country that leverage data to better serve grantees, promote equity in service delivery, and demonstrate the impact of arts and culture.
American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2021
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.
Artist Communities Alliance
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.
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.
As public funding becomes increasingly strained, counties must search for and employ new strategies to improve their communities and local economies. NACo, in partnership with Americans for the Arts launched the Creative Counties Placemaking Initiative to support counties as they work to identify and strengthen ways to integrate arts into solutions to local challenges. The Creative Placemaking Toolkit for Counties is a web resource with recorded webinars and conference sessions as well as links to useful tools for counties, particularly related to the impact of arts and culture on local economies and potential funding opportunities. It is most helpful to county governments and rural governments who know a little bit about creative placemaking already and are looking to expand their local economies through the arts.
This tool demonstrates the equity components that can be applied to the development of a Cultural Equity Plan. Cultural equity explicitly values the unique and collective cultures of diverse communities and supports their existence in physical spaces, in public policies and investment, and in expression in civic and spiritual life.