Resource Creative placemaking: Rethinking the role of arts and culture in strengthening communities July 18, 2013 The Kresge Foundation’s particular conception of creative placemaking is fueled by our belief that a powerful synergy emerges when you marry it to a focus on urban opportunity – that arts and cultural activities belong front and center in efforts to revitalize and re-imagine some of America’s most disinvested places.…
News & Views Kresge, NEA fund assistance program for creative placemaking October 3, 2016 The Kresge Foundation and The National Endowment for the Arts are partnering to expand support of creative placemaking through the launch of a pilot technical assistance program. In collaboration with Local Initiatives Support Corporation’s national creative placemaking program and PolicyLink, the pilot program will provide the creative placemaking field a…
News & Views Mission, Money & Markets: Transforming communities through Creative Placemaking in diverse New Jersey cities January 30, 2019 In recent years, Kresge’s Social Investment Practice and Arts & Culture team made a commitment to engage in a mutual learning journey around investing in Creative Placemaking. See what the greatest takeaways have been so far.
News & Views White papers compile lessons learned from Arts & Culture team’s Creative Placemaking work January 17, 2018 Lessons, successes and challenges of Creative Placemaking – the intentional integration of arts, culture and community-engaged design into neighborhood planning – are highlighted through a series of white papers launched by The Kresge Foundation. Kresge’s Arts & Culture Program, entering its seventh year of funding Creative Placemaking work, has partnered…
News & Views Partner Spotlight: AEDA advances equitable creative placemaking March 3, 2020 When the Green Line started construction through St. Paul, Minnesota’s central corridor in 2012, small businesses on University Avenue faced an uncertain future. Looking to not only preserve but promote the assets of their community, the Asian Economic Development Association (AEDA) deployed a still-new concept: creative placemaking. Nearly a decade later, AEDA…
Resource Creative placemaking: The next phase for ArtPlace March 4, 2014 When you’re dealing with the wickedly difficult problems of our time, the potential of arts and culture to drive economic development, sensitive placemaking and the kind of long-term visioning that a community needs in order to remain vital must be at the center of the conversation. (Address to the ArtPlace…
News & Views Kresge releases Creative Placemaking analysis, “Rethinking Neighborhood Change and Tracking Progress” January 15, 2019 Strengthening America’s low-income communities through arts and culture requires more nuanced, holistic and creative approaches along with better ways to measure progress, according to a new Creative Placemaking analysis from The Kresge Foundation. “Rethinking Neighborhood Change and Tracking Progress” is the third in a series of Kresge white papers aimed…
News & Views Program officer’s compilation of resources helps answer the question, “What the heck is Creative Placemaking?” December 17, 2018 What the heck is Creative Placemaking and how can it help strengthen equitable community development in cities across America? Kresge Arts & Culture Program Officer Michelle D. Johnson helped answer those questions during a learning session revisited earlier this month by ArtPlace America. The organization shared its top takeaways from…
News & Views Kresge Arts and Culture Program will be guided by creative placemaking strategy July 17, 2013 The Kresge Foundation’s Arts and Culture Program has completed work on a creative placemaking strategy that will guide its grantmaking and investing. The new direction focuses on the role arts and culture play in revitalizing communities. “We believe that arts and culture are important to human development and can also…
News & Views Kresge partners to explore role of Creative Placemaking in transportation March 29, 2017 Two Kresge partners will lead a rigorous national examination of the role of Creative Placemaking in transportation. ArtPlace America announced last week that it selected Transportation for America (T4A) to conduct a field scan to better understand how and where artists, designers and cultural workers and institutions are collaborating with…