Arts & Culture
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Arts, Culture and Community Outcomes
- Nov 16, 2017
- Report from LISC and Metris Arts Consulting examines impacts of arts- and culture-based community development in four neighborhoods
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The Institute’s Top Stories of 2016
- Dec 19, 2016
- A look at our most popular stories of the year
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Rebuilding, Artfully, in Kentucky
- Feb 17, 2016
- How artists, determined residents and goats – yes, goats – are helping turn Covington, Kentucky’s troubled Westside around.
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Investments in Art Fertilize Growth in Rural Towns
- Oct 19, 2015
- How homegrown creative placemaking initiatives are spurring growth in rural areas
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Report Looks At Creative Financing for Creative Placemaking
- The Kresge Foundation, Jan 31, 2015
- A new report looks at the barriers to financing arts- and culture-based development, as well as some innovative solutions.
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Arts and culture: A superpower to help people and places prosper
- Erik Takeshita, Jun 27, 2014
- From forging connections between people to supercharging a neighborhood economy, arts and culture have a unique role in supporting community development.
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Neighborhoods beckon with summer activities
- Maria Hernandez, Jun 25, 2014
- An array of community programs in Chicago make summer more fun--and make their neighborhood a better place to be.
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A new role for local libraries and museums
- Carl Vogel, Jun 9, 2014
- A new program is promoting how these neighborhood institutions can join—and even lead—comprehensive community development initiatives.
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Creative placemaking 101 for community developers
- Anne Gadwa Nicodemus, May 27, 2014
- Look to the basic elements of creative placemaking to see why it’s an idea with so much momentum.
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Artists live here
- Melissa Jones, May 19, 2014
- By forging new connections with local artists, community developers can get more from planning and build a stronger, more lively community.
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Community-led art: What it takes
- Erik Takeshita, Apr 9, 2014
- To get the best from creative placemaking, we need to build community-level knowledge, leadership and support.
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The people in the place
- Erik Takeshita, Apr 2, 2014
- Creative placemaking works best when the community is at the heart of both the process and the product.
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Creative Placemaking: A Tour
- Feb 20, 2014, make a comment
- A photo essay of programs, projects and people who are changing communities across the country with arts and culture.
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How arts and culture can transform your community
- Erik Takeshita, Feb 20, 2014
- Creative placemaking is a powerful, arts-based approach to community development--with great examples already underway and plenty of room for growth.
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Cultural assets feed a commercial corridor
- Joseph Horiye, Jun 18, 2012
- In San Diego, the City Heights community is using its diversity to create an international destination point on El Cajon Boulevard.
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A portrait of the artist as a young real estate developer
- Gordon Walek, Jun 4, 2012
- On Chicago’s South Side, Theaster Gates—an artist with a background in urban planning—is building a community.
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In Richmond, beautification means business
- Adrienne Bowers and Bonnie Newman Davis, May 14, 2012
- New spring energy is pouring into the Greater Fulton community in Richmond, Virginia, where careful planning is leading to beautification of the commercial corridor and beyond.
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Getting the most from sports, arts and culture
- Eileen Figel, Apr 30, 2012
- Ten tips to engage residents, reclaim community space and develop leadership.
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Inspiring street art and community roots
- Carl Vogel, Mar 5, 2012
- A series of short videos shows the visual impact of street art on a community in Miami.
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Arts energize communities
- Beth Ann Hendrickson, Jan 9, 2012
- Greater Kansas City LISC believes in a multidimensional approach to creating sustainable communities. One way it does this is by investing in projects that revitalize neighborhoods through the arts.
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Art. Changes. Everything.
- By Erik Takeshita, Nov 7, 2011
- Community development has focused on building housing, creating jobs and revitalizing commercial districts. The arts are another way to build healthy, sustainable and vibrant communities.
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Helping kids find their voices--and their futures--through the arts
- By Steve Curtis, Jun 20, 2011
- Involving our youth in the arts is a great way for our youth to interact with their communities—and weave themselves into the fabric of their neighborhoods.
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Using the arts to strengthen neighborhoods
- By Jackie Samuel, Apr 25, 2011
- What if cultural considerations were as much a part of local and regional planning as economic concerns? Could you imagine what South Chicago, let alone the City of Chicago, would be like?
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Building community through art
- A report from LISC/Chicago, prepared in 2009, Apr 18, 2011
- LISC/Chicago's two-year Building Community for the Arts program was focused on how the arts tie into the larger sphere of comprehensive community development.
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Murals: Making a statement, building community
- By Patrick T. Reardon, Apr 4, 2011
- The community-based outdoor mural movement, now international in scope, began more than four decades ago when African-American artists created" The Wall of Respect " on the side of a two-story tavern…
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