News & Views Creative Placemaking gains a foothold nationally, must address critical needs to earn widespread adoption August 1, 2018 The deliberate infusion of arts and culture as an integral part of community development has gained significant inroads nationally, but can still feel like swimming upstream for community leaders and practitioners aiming to make it a commonplace practice according to “Creative Placemaking and Expansion of Opportunity: Observations and Reflections” –…
News & Views Kresge announces 6 new organizations to join BASED, a Creative Placemaking initiative to advance community development July 29, 2020 Building and Supporting Equitable Development (BASED) cohort now includes 17 community partners to promote Creative Placemaking The Kresge Foundation announced today six new organizations are joining the Building and Supporting Equitable Development (BASED) initiative, a program that to seeks to advance community development through arts and culture. This national initiative…
News & Views “For Whom, By Whom” series explores how Creative Placemaking is playing an integral role in equitable, community-engaged development across the country October 17, 2018 A bike trail, transformed into a community asset. An arts-based program putting citizens returning from prison on a productive path. A blighted freeway underpass reimagined as a hub of culture and commerce. Each is a tale in a powerful package of stories on Creative Placemaking’s role in urban communities, authored…
News & Views ArtPlace America culminates a decade of Creative Placemaking work, launches new book “ArtPlace: 10 Years” November 4, 2020 After 10 years of collaborating with a range of foundations, federal agencies and financial institutions to support and strengthen the field of Creative Placemaking, ArtPlace America announced it is officially sunsetting in December 2020. The announcement came during the final ArtPlace Summit held Oct. 26-30, where ArtPlace and its funding…
News & Views New e-book chronicles how creative placemaking can expand opportunities in disinvested communities April 30, 2020 “What if all community development started with local arts and culture?” This is the first headline in a new e-book published by Next City, a grantee partner of the Arts & Culture Program. Titled “For Whom, By Whom: Vol: 1”, the e-book is a compilation of articles chronicling how creative placemaking can expand opportunities for…
News & Views ArtPlace selects finalists for grants from Creative Placemaking Fund June 14, 2017 ArtPlace America has announced the 70 projects that will be considered for the 2017 National Creative Placemaking Fund. Each of the finalists have proposed an opportunity for arts and culture to help address a community development challenge or opportunity related to agriculture and food, economic development, education and youth, environment and…
News & Views New Arts & Culture program officer brings years of experience in Creative Placemaking April 27, 2017 Seth Beattie has joined The Kresge Foundation as a program officer with the foundation’s Arts & Culture Program, where he will help advance the program’s goal of using Creative Placemaking to integrate arts, culture and community-engaged design into development and urban planning. Beattie was born in metro Detroit and spent…
News & Views Seth Beattie encourages funders to build collective power in Creative Placemaking January 10, 2022 Editor’s note: This blog was originally published by Grantmakers in the Arts as part of the Future of the Field: Cross-Sector Creative Placemaking Series, created in partnership with ArtPlace America. Seth Beattie is a former senior program officer for Kresge’s Arts & Culture Program. His last day with Kresge was December…
News & Views Building safer communities with Creative Placemaking: Report highlights four innovative programs from across the nation November 14, 2018 Kids and cops play beach volleyball together as a community festival with local crafts, foods and activities swirl around them. Milwaukee neighborhoods reconnect to one another with a trail corridor of safe, culturally significant public gathering places. Returning citizens in Philadelphia shred prison records to make raw material for new…
News & Views Kresge Arts & Culture grantees gather to share, learn and help move Creative Placemaking forward on a national scale October 3, 2017 Kresge Foundation Arts & Culture Program partners gathered last week to explore strategies for effectively blending arts, culture and design into local development plans and projects across the nation. The foundation hosted representatives of nine grantee organizations and other partners from its Arts & Culture Program National Networks focus area…