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Jun 17, 2020
Denetrick Powers is the lead art organizer for Redeemer Center for Life's "At Home in Harrison" project (a 2017 ArtPlace funded project). As a curator, poet, and organizer he reflects on the current state of America, American history, and its failures.
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May 20, 2020
The A Sense of Place (Clemmons Family Farm) project uses the power of African-American and African diaspora art and culture to help build a more loving and supportive multicultural community in Vermont, but the pandemic has amplified the inequities that African-Americans live, struggle and die with every day. Learn how the Clemmons Family Farm, one of the handful of Black-led arts... Read More
Feb 05, 2020
#CREATIVITYLIVESHERE is a year-long digital storytelling campaign showcasing the people and places behind creative community development. Welcome to instalment 2 for 2020! Do you have a story about how arts and culture is helping address a challenge or opportunity in your community? Add YOUR VOICE to the growing collection of grassroots stories.
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Jan 08, 2020
Conexion Americas will commission artists to lead a series of community design charrettes to improve pedestrian safety in the Nolensville Pike corridor of Nashville, TN. The corridor is a wide, high-speed road with crumbling sidewalks and an overall design that prioritizes the movement of vehicular traffic over pedestrians and cyclists.
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Nov 18, 2019
Performing Our Future (POF) is a national coalition of rural and urban communities working through culture to build a future where “everyone belongs and we own what we make.” Two POF leaders discuss how the group’s inherently collaborative identity informs its daily work and has fed its many accomplishments.
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Oct 15, 2019
Walnut Cove, NC is adjacent to Duke Energy’s Belews Creek Power Station, which houses 20 million tons of coal ash. Local mixed-media artist Caroline Armijo has partnered with scientists from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University to create a series of sculptures that repurpose this hazardous waste material safely and that will become the centerpiece of... Read More
Oct 10, 2019
Artists keep, make, and transform meaning. It is what they do. Their relationship to place, in addition to inhabiting it, is to see it and listen to it. Whether intentionally or not, every creative act, every moment of imagination and expression in a place, contributes to that place’s shape. What tools do artists and culture makers and designers and... Read More
Oct 08, 2019
Laura Zabel and Jun Li (Springboard for the Arts) talk about how to build the infrastructure that helps communities and neighborhoods tap into their natural Creative People Power. Their work is about building stronger communities, neighborhoods, and economies, and they believe that artists are an important leverage point in that work.
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Sep 26, 2019
Faced with an infrastructure crisis, residents of Austin, Texas, could either let their aging public pool system continue to decline, or rally for more money to keep it afloat. Read how a local dance company worked with the community to broadcast the beauty and importance of its public swimming options—to the tune of millions in new funding.
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Sep 24, 2019
This week Chris Hope, Executive Director of the Loop Lab walks us through their non-profit social enterprise that provides workforce development in audio/video skills for 18-26-year-olds from underrepresented backgrounds in Cambridge. Loop Lab offers media workshop that specialize in digital storytelling through video and audio, with trainees and alumni.
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