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.
Advancing One Water Through Arts and Culture
This field scan shows how water leaders (utility managers, public officials, farmers, river keepers, business leaders, manufacturers, community leaders, philanthropy, etc) have turned to artists and cultural leaders to achieve their goals in creative and potent ways. It provides recommendations, case studies, and potential outcomes for working at this intersection, which can be helpful for convincing municipal leaders to take on a similar project.