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WHAT DO COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS NEED TO KNOW? ArtPlace America is a ten-year collaboration among a number of foundations, federal agencies, and financial institutions that works to position arts and culture as a core sector of comprehensive community planning and development. ArtPlace focuses its work on creative <strong>placemaking</strong>, which describes projects in which art plays an intentional and integrated role in place-based community planning and development. To address this question of just what community planning and development organizations need to know, ArtPlace America created the Community Development Investments (CDI) program. CDI recognizes that many organizations could benefit from some guided thinking in getting started, so it provides three million dollars of flexible funding along with technical assistance to participating community planning and development organizations. Those organizations are then able to consider how the arts can add value through both creative processes and arts-based projects. This journey of organizational change and new project development is being documented to help other similar organizations learn step-by-step how to approach relationship-building around common goals with the arts sector and demystify common challenges that arise in the process. In launching this process, the organizations have been asking three driving questions: • What are the big questions in our community that reach across many needs and lines of work? • What is it that artists and the arts sector can do? • How can they do it and add value within the context of community development? WHAT ARE THE BIG QUESTIONS IN OUR COMMUNITIES? The CDI participants range from community development corporations to a housing authority to a parks conservancy to a medical facility to a tribal youth development organization, and are all over the country in communities of all sizes—from Anchorage, Alaska, to Jackson, Mississippi, to rural Minnesota. They are each a core part of their community’s planning and development infrastructure, having to respond to the macro- and micro-economic, social, and political forces at work in their communities, develop 196 • NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS
lines of work and projects that address some of the most pressing needs and challenges their communities face, and advance a vision for the future. Some of the specific questions these organizations have decided to tackle as critical to their communities’ futures include how the arts can help them to: • Better reflect the values, cultures, and identities of increasingly diverse populations in new housing and commercial development; • Be more inclusive of many identities and voices in community planning and visioning processes; • Build community strength and power to exert community control over a rapidly changing neighborhood; • Better welcome, serve, and integrate new immigrant populations; • Improve health outcomes through active lifestyles and the active use of public space; and • Create public spaces that serve to enhance social cohesion and economic development. These questions are not unique to these organizations or these communities, but they are each opportunities for the arts to knit together social, economic, and physical investments that can drive a positive vision for a community. WHAT IS IT THAT THE ARTS CAN DO? An oft-repeated statement by ArtPlace America is to remind practitioners that every community has artists, culture bearers, and creative people who have something to contribute. Much of the initial learning each participating organization is doing is around understanding the infrastructure of the arts sector (everything from local arts councils to anchor arts institutions to college art departments), how to find artists (both by networking through local organizations and using census and other datasets), and how to understand various kinds of artistic practice. There is also a growing field of social and civic practice artists who focus on producing work in collaboration with communities and other individuals. For those outside of the arts sector, this latter topic can be eye-opening. Often they know about the familiar idea of an artist working in a studio, producing art products that may be shared or sold or even presented in public spaces and places. However, there is also a growing field of social and civic practice artists who focus on producing work in collaboration with communities and other individuals, so that their artistic process is informed by and informs planning, people, and public spaces in a broader sense. These collaborative artists can be particularly valuable HOW TO DO CREATIVE PLACEMAKING • 197
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How This Book Is Organized THE BOOK
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WHERE DID CREATIVE PLACEMAKING COME
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How Creativity and Culture Can Cont
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community. For the most part, citie
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have accepted the role and responsi
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Centering cultural practices in the
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Understanding Arts and Culture in E
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that describes what is and what cou
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Stitching It Together: Community Pl
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creative problem-solving across rac
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In downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota,
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etween audiences and place. As such
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5. While performances are oftentime
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Bringing Back Main Street: How Comm
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CASE STUDY Our Town Project Using E
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DACT has approached the project met
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The Human-Scale Spark BY ESTHER ROB
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Economic growth is part of the pict
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Strategic Planning for Arts, Cultur
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For those interested in building an
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For more information on art, cultur
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CASE STUDY Our Town Project Creatin
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(-^) Opening night dance performanc
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Can Arts Drive Rural Economic Devel
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So, given a combination of extraord
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And here are a few examples of rura
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Eastport, Maine. Dealing with a dec
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CASE STUDY Our Town Project Reimagi
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design options helped to unify the
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Building Economy and Community with
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growers, chefs, tech companies, hea
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Ethics of Development: A Shared Sen
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As the dialogue of creative placema
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CASE STUDY Our Town Project Underst
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interviews with community members a
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How Artists Share (in) Place: A Jou
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NEW WAYS OF CREATIVITY & RESILIENCY
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Their collective vision was to crea
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How Can a Planning Authority Work w
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WHAT THE ARTIST DID Brookner led a
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ADOPT AN “OPT-IN” APPROACH Many
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AIM HIGH Our pilot for Boston AIR w
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Recognizing the tension between the
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Recognizing the police department
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Much to my delight, the police chie
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Cultural Roots, Regrowth, and Resil
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Outreach offers both logistical and
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As a true public/private partnershi
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titled Confluence of Time and Place
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4. Public art can act as an economi
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and how arts and culture play a cen
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Chapter 5 arts + physical infrastru
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In conclusion, cultural building pr
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Page 184 and 185: Building through the Arts: With, fo
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