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ARTPLACE AMERICA
(https://www.artplaceamerica.org)
The most highly funded standard bearer in Creative Placemaking was ArtPlace America 2011-2020, a collaboration between foundations, federal agencies, and financial institutions to position arts and culture as a core sector of community planning and development.
Over ten years ArtPlace America invested over $100 million in pilot projects and research towards “a future of equitable, healthy, and sustainable communities in which everyone has a voice and agency in creating contextual, adaptive, and responsive solutions.” ( (https://www.artplaceamerica.org/areas-of-work/introduction)
ArtPlace’s “Community Development Investments” was a 3 year experiential learning Initiative for 6 non- arts, community development organizations to integrate arts- and culture-based strategies to help achieve their socially equitable community development goals.
For this initiative a multi-prong support system included:
• funding (operational and capital)
• technical support and webinars with national experts,
• site visits and ongoing advice and workshops with the national artist team of the
“Center for Performance and Civic Practice: a national resource for artists and communities working together for arts-based, community-led transformation” (https://www.thecpcp.org/)
• convening in-person peer exchanges where the sites learned from each other’s achievements, setbacks, strategies, and recommendations.
Research and documentation for the Initiative was managed by partner PolicyLink (see section below). Who has distilled the primary lessons learned. (https://www.artplaceamerica.org/areas-work/introduc- tion/comprehensive-community-development/community-development-investments-0
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