ArtPlace

ARTPLACE AMERICA is a collaboration among a number of foundations, federal agencies, and financial institutions. We envision a future of equitable, healthy, and sustainable communities in which everyone has a voice and agency in creating contextual, adaptive, and responsive solutions. Our mission is to position arts and culture as a core sector of community planning and development.

FOR RESOURCES & AVAILABLE FUNDING pertaining to the COVID-19 pandemic, please visit our latest blog post, and FOR STORIES from artists responding to the Black Lives Matter uprising and COVID-19 start here.

REGISTRATION IS OPEN FOR THE ARTPLACE VIRTUAL SUMMIT!

COULD YOU DESIGN A POSTER? The ArtPlace America Virtual Summit is a celebration and culmination of a decade of work. As part of our blog series focusing on our BIPOC affinity group leaders Scott Oshima (Sustainable Little Tokyo) discusses what it means to value artists and cultural bearers as leaders and organizers within, anti-displacement work, and the field of creative placemaking.

ARTPLACE VIRTUAL SUMMIT PLENARIES: Introducing our ArtPlace Virtual Summit Plenaries!

WE ARE CULTURAL WORKERS WHO ARE TIRED AF: This week we continue our ArtPlace blog series focusing on our BIPOC affinity group leaders! Today Carol Zou and Mallory Rukhsana Nezam talk about their affinity group: "BIPOC Cultural and Community Workers Who Are Tired AF". Inspired by the work of Audre Lorde and The Nap Ministry, they will hold space for people who are burnt out by the rhythms of white supremacist imperialist capitalist patriarchy.

THE PATH FORWARD CENTERS CULTURAL VALUES: Next up in our blog series focusing on our BIPOC affinity group leaders, the AAPI Creative Placekeeping and Placemaking Learning Circle talks about their year and the importance of connecting to culture as a foundation of any work.

CONNECTING THE DOTS—THE PEOPLE ARE BEAUTIFUL ALREADY: Registration is open for the ArtPlace America Virtual Summit, a celebration and culmination of a decade of work. This blog post is part of a series focusing on our BIPOC affinity group leaders; peer led, community organized sessions that meet a couple of times before, during, and/or after the summit. Kicking the series off is Theodore (Ted) Jojola of the University of New Mexico’s Indigenous Design and Planning Institute (iD+Pi) who will host three Affinity Group conversations around Placemaking and Placeknowing.

BRIDGING DIVIDES, CREATING COMMUNITY: ARTS, CULTURE, AND IMMIGRATION. ArtPlace America and Welcoming America are thrilled to announce the release of “Bridging Divides, Creating Community: Arts, Culture, and Immigration.” Researched and authored by John Arroyo, PhD, AICP, this report is the eighth in ArtPlace’s series of cross-sector field scans exploring how arts and cultural practitioners have long been and may increasingly be partners in helping to achieve community development goals.

COLORING OUTSIDE THE LINES: How do communities share important health and civic messages during a pandemic? Creatively, with artists. Margy Waller, Art on the Streets, talks about how they created a participatory creative campaign to “Stay Home Save Lives” that people could do from inside their homes, for which they would not need any materials other than what they could provide them digitally.

One afternoon choreographer Maura García danced to the music of Navajo-fronted band, DDAT in the homelands of the Kaw and Osage nations. The resulting film - a part of the "Natives NOW" project - is a multilayered music video, uniting Indigenous artists across genres and miles and a celebration of the intertribal Native community.