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Creative Placemaking Summit Gets a Boost
ARTS COUNCIL GREATER LANSING RECEIVES $10,000

ARTS PROJECTS AWARD

reative to breathe some new
Placemaking has life into the event at
Cbeen at the heart the hands of their new
of the Arts Council of program assistant and
Greater Lansing’s work Creative Placemaking
for many years. The Summit coordinator,
council’s first Creative Tabor Vits, who joined the
Placemaking Summit organization late last year.
took place in 2015. It
has been attended by “Returning to a live
hundreds of local artists, venue after two years
arts organizations, of virtual summits is a
municipal leaders, natural opportunity to
developers, fellow creative placemaking experts and transform the event,” said Vits. “Creative place keeping and
more over the years. Garnering funding through grants placemaking, plus our experiences of place in general, look
and sponsorships is a key component of the event’s drastically different than they did pre-pandemic. I plan to
success. Therefore, it is with great excitement that the respond to these changes through this year's event.”
Arts Council of Greater Lansing announced they have
been approved for a $10,000 grant from the National Visit lansingplacemakers.org and follow
Endowment for the Arts (NEA). #lansingplacemakers on social media to learn more
about the Creative Placemaking Summit. l
This grant is part of the NEA’s Arts Projects Grant
Program and will support overall funding for the eighth
annual Creative Placemaking Summit in fall 2022. The
Arts Council’s Summit is among 1,125 projects across
America, totaling more than $26.6 million, selected
during this second round of Arts Projects Grants.

“The National Endowment for the Arts is proud to
support arts and cultural organizations throughout the
nation with these grants, providing opportunities for
all of us to live artful lives,” said Maria Rosario Jackson,
Ph.D., chair of NEA. “The arts contribute to our well-
being, the well-being of our communities and our local
economies. The arts are also crucial to helping us make
sense of our circumstances from different perspectives
as we emerge from the pandemic and plan for a shared
new normal informed by our examined experience.”

“We are so proud to be among those chosen to
receive an NEA Arts Projects Grant,” said Meghan
Martin, executive director of the Arts Council. “This
funding will help us present a spectacular Creative
Placemaking Summit for 2022, which we are planning
to hold as a live event again this year,” Martin said. “We
are extremely grateful for NEA’s recognition of our
work and support of this project, which reflects our
community’s spirit.”

The annual Creative Placemaking Summit 8 will take
place in October 2022, with the exact date and details
to be announced. This year the Arts Council is planning

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