The National Endowment for the Arts Our Town Creative Placemaking Technical Assistance Program invites you to join a special event, “Beautiful Communities: Our Visions for Creative Placemaking,” ...

Creative placemaking uses art and design to foster community and connection on college campuses. This approach helps students feel a sense of belonging by reflecting their identities in the campus ...

Over the course of the last ten years, creative placemaking has grown from a niche activity to the mainstream of arts-based community development. It has influenced every sector of community practice ...

It’s no secret that some of Chicago’s 77 neighborhoods have suffered from a certain level of financial disinvestment, often systemic and spread out over decades. But one Chicagoan’s efforts to inject ...

Last month, I introduced the idea of creative placemaking, explained in Michael Fallon's article "An Arts Funding Revolution" as communities "increasingly using the arts to help shape their social, ...

Mar. 21—The arts have long played a role in Schenectady's development, and organizers of the Northeast & Mid-Atlantic Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit hope to expand that role. The summit is set ...

Creative placemaking (ignore the spell check–that’s how new this compound word is) may simply be the latest term coined to describe the age old activity of people gathering in a place and creating ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Arts investments fuel growth in local economies. In fact ...

Bartram’s Mile, a one-mile stretch of riverfront along the western banks of the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, has been vacant and cut off from public access for decades. But a plan to reimagine ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — The Arts Council of Greater Lansing’s Creative Placemaking Summit is back for its 8th year. This is the first year the summit will be held for five straight days from Oct. 3-7, ...

Seattle’s waterfront is undergoing a major transformation. Now that the Alaskan Way Viaduct removal is complete, the city is hard at work rebuilding Pier 58 and Pier 62, constructing a park promenade ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – It’s been two years since the bombing on Second Avenue that destroyed some of Nashville’s most historic buildings. News 2 has been following the rebuilding projects and the ...