News & Views Wayne State grad learns importance of Creative Placemaking practice July 18, 2017 While Corissa Green is in Midtown Detroit for classes at Wayne State University, she notices the changes around the city. How community members, like artists, have played a part in creating new opportunities and development. Now, Green has a bird’s-eye view of how those projects come to fruition as an…
News & Views Kresge’s Arts and Culture team will integrate its grantmaking framework under the concept of ‘creative placemaking’ May 22, 2012 The Kresge Foundation’s Arts and Culture team plans to roll out a new program that unifies the elements of the three-part framework that has guided its grantmaking since 2010. The aim – helping communities use arts and culture to create healthy, vibrant places – is unchanged. But where recent grantmaking…
Resource Creative Placemaking and Expansion of Opportunity July 18, 2018 This paper examines critical needs or opportunities to help the Creative Placemaking field continue taking root in community planning, and to better contribute to expanded opportunity and equity in low-income communities. Several years into the advancement of Creative Placemaking, the language and general premise are taking hold. The term is now…
News & Views Kresge unveils BASED, a new $8 million Creative Placemaking initiative to advance community development November 13, 2019 The Kresge Foundation announced today the creation of a new $8 million initiative, Building and Supporting Equitable Development (BASED), which seeks to advance community development through arts and culture. This national initiative is led by Kresge’s Arts & Culture Program as part of its ongoing effort to position culture and…
Resource Creative Placemaking Case Study: North Collinwood May 22, 2017 This case study on the North Collinwood neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, illustrates how Creative Placemaking, the deliberate integration of arts and culture into comprehensive community development, can serve as a critical catalyst in forming equitable living and working solutions for all the social, economic, and racial constituencies of a neighborhood. In this…
Resource Breaking Down Creative Placemaking April 19, 2016 This report looks at two examples of creative placemaking, both supported by The Kresge Foundation: the North Collinwood Waterloo Arts District in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Westside neighborhood in Covington, Kentucky.
Resource Creative Placemaking introduction booklet April 19, 2016 This booklet explains the basic concepts of Creative Placemaking and offers examples of such work supported by Kresge.
Resource Creative Placemaking Case Study Summary: Brookland-Edgewood May 22, 2017 This is a one-page summary of a Creative Placemaking case study on the Brookland-Edgewood neighborhood of Washington DC. It was authored by Point Forward and commissioned by The Kresge Foundation.
Resource Creative Placemaking Case Study Summary: North Collinwood May 22, 2017 This is a one-page summary of a Creative Placemaking case study on the North Collinwood neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio. It was authored by Point Forward and commissioned by The Kresge Foundation.
Resource Creative Placemaking Case Study: Brookland-Edgewood May 22, 2017 This case study on the Brookland-Edgewood neighborhood of Washington DC, illustrates how Creative Placemaking, the deliberate integration of arts and culture into comprehensive community development, can serve as a critical catalyst in forming equitable living and working solutions for all the social, economic, and racial constituencies of a neighborhood. When…