Future of the Field: A Special Cross-Sector Creative Placemaking Series
Grantmakers in the Arts, in partnership with ArtPlace America, presents this series as a living resource exploring the future of arts, culture, and creative placemaking.
Based on a decade of cross-sector research led by ArtPlace America, the organization developed an interactive tool highlighting 13 ways that arts and culture can support equitable community development. In keeping with ArtPlace’s knowledge building approach, this series provides “response-pieces” to this interactive tool. GIA continues to invite artists, community development practitioners, public and private funders, and researchers to consider the future of cross-sector creative placemaking from their vantage point in the field.
FEATURED POST
Rethinking Thinking on Arts and Community Development
by Pamela Bridgeforth
We know, but do we really understand? I was flattered to be asked to contribute some thoughts about ArtPlace America’s collective work in the space of arts and community. I watched and admired from a distance as the boldness of the idea of concentrated support, shared visioning and reflection unfolded to bring forth an unprecedented awareness to and respect for how both fields informed and enriched and emboldened each other’s goals in neighborhoods and tribal communities across the country.
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From Absence to Presence: Arts and Culture Help Us Redefine “Health”
by Tasha Golden, Ph.d.
When giving talks around the U.S., I often ask residents, health care providers, youth, artists, researchers, anyone: “How do you know when a community is thriving?” Without fail, people answer by talking about the presence of music and musicians, varieties of food, religious or cultural celebrations, collective traditions and rituals, people helping one another, beautiful or meaningful places, artists and artisans, a sense of pride and belonging, occasions and places to gather, art galleries and exhibits, a shared understanding of history, a shared positive narrative of the community, etc. Lists go on.
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Get Into It: ArtPlace’s Research Activities
by Roberto Bedoya
In 2014, I wrote about Creative Placekeeping in the context of race and spatial justice as a counter-frame to the discourse in the academy and investment by philanthropy to the field of Creative Placemaking. I was surprised when Placekeeping became a sticky word, especially for cultural activists as the forces of gentrification were revving up — troubling neighborhoods, displacing communities of colors, and changing the nature of cities.
Future of the Field Series
Rethinking Thinking on Arts and Community Development
A Reflection on This Moment
by Pamela Bridgeforth
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Positioning Arts and Culture for this Historic Moment
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A Brighter Future
ArtPlace America & Equitable Development, A Reflection
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I Keep Telling My Son, There Were Geniuses Living Here
Creative Placekeeping as Record and Witness
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Getting it Across
How Art Place’s Field Scans Have Emboldened New Policy Directions
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Finding a Common Cause
The Future of the Field
by the Rev. Dr. Lynn Osgood
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Art, Money, and the Apocalypse
Lots of Questions, A Few Solutions
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Building Collective Power
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Let us take some things with us, and leave other things behind.
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Questions we ask, and what’s revealed
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From Absence to Presence
Arts and Culture Help Us Redefine “Health”
by Tasha Golden, Ph.d.
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Reclaiming Our Streets with Asphalt Art
A look into the Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Asphalt Art Initiative
by David Andersson & Nicholas Mosquera
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Community Powered Creative Placekeeping in Santo Domingo Pueblo
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Resourcing Practitioners, Not Professionals
The Future of the Field
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Special Series Throw Back
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Special Series Throw Back 〰️
Check out our Special Series racial equity podcast edition with Adriana Rios, National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures, and Luisa Martinez, Otros Dreams en Acción!