Re/Creative Place Making Event Here in April in The New Urban DTMesa

Creative Placemaking Event:

Arts Economy and Artists as Entrepreneurs

4:00 PM to 6:00 pm  Wed/06 April 2016

Location: 

Mesa Arts Center

One East Main Street

Mesa  Arizona  85201

United States

Artists and Creative Place Making play an important role in the revitalization of a community.

New investments into an area can positively impact the standard of living of all residents.

Hear how supporting artists through cross sector approaches such as housing, asset building and comprehensive community development work toward a regenerating community.

Guest speakers include representatives from 

• Kresge Foundation
• Artspace
• LISC National
• Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

To register >> go to this link >>

 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/arts-economy-and-artists-as-entrepreneurs-registration-21022877994

This event is sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Mesa Arts Center and LISC Phoenix. There is no cost to attend, but advanced registration is required. To learn more about the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco’s community development work in Arizona, contact Joselyn Cousins or visit frbsf.org/community-development/.

Event Contact
Joselyn Cousins, Regional Manager
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
415 974-3281

Have questions about Arts Economy and Artists as Entrepreneurs?

Contact Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco                

                                                      

 

"Creative placemaking?

What is it that you do?"

July 23, 2015

By: Jamie Bennett, Executive Director

. . . it was just five years ago that Ann Markusen and Anne Gadwa (Nicodemus) wrote Creative Placemaking, the white paper that first brought the phrase to American communities via The Mayors’ Institute on City Design.

Shortly thereafter, inspired by both that publication and the National Endowment for the Arts’ subsequent Our Town grantmaking, ArtPlace America was born as a coalition of foundations, federal agencies, and banks came together, united in the belief that artists and arts organizations could literally shape the social, physical, and economic characters of their communities.
Add the image to the right for all the sectors that impact Creative Place Making: civic/social/faith, commercial, government, nonprofits + philanthropies.
All five can intersect with the categories in the left-hand first column - take a look.

The foundation presidents selected Carol Coletta as ArtPlace’s founding director, and Carol set off to talk with anyone who would listen about how the arts could improve the quality of a place through social offerings and aesthetics that positively impacted that place’s people, activities, and values.
Over three years, Carol took this brand new phrase and made it a real enough thing that The Kresge Foundation embraced creative placemaking as a framework for its grantmaking, as did Connecticut’s Department of Economic and Community Development. Universities created classes  on the subject, and ArtPlace received some 4,000 applications for creative placemaking projects proposed by communities of all sizes across the United States.
When Carol got the opportunity to lead community and national initiatives for the Knight Foundation, ArtPlace’s leadership had  a chance to look back over its three years of grantmaking to see what themes and issues were emerging and how the practice was evolving.

They went through a strategic planning process that ultimately reframed ArtPlace as a ten-year fund, dedicated to repositioning art and culture as a core sector of community planning and development by investing in, researching, and connecting those who lead and execute creative placemaking projects.

 

http://www.artplaceamerica.org/blog/creative-placemaking-what-it-you-do