Arts & Culture
Comprehensive Community Development follows in the footsteps of asset-based community development and the "community-building" movement of the 1990s. Practitioners found that community arts and cultural assets were central to both, and they remain so within comprehensive community development.
Across the country, community builders have enlisted the help of arts and cultural organizations, artists, creative residents, arts businesses, and others to foster cultural expression, advance economic development, create visually attractive communities, strengthen education, and increase social ties among residents.
News Articles
Read our coverage of Arts & Culture in the In The News section of this website.
Practitioner Resources
The Arts & Culture resources are organized into these categories:
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More Than Storefronts
- Sep 14, 2017
- New publication from LISC explores the intersection of creative placemaking and community economic development
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From Pop-Ups to Park Benches
- Susan Fitter Harris, Jul 30, 2017
- 5 ways to activate empty spaces in your community
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Creative Placemaking Resources to Get You Started or Grow Your Practice
- Susan Fitter Harris, May 31, 2017
- Where to find the tips, tools and resources you need for arts and culture revitalization strategies
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Working With Lots: A Field Guide
- Detroit Future City, Nov 23, 2015
- Vacant lots never looked so good.
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Museums, Libraries and Comprehensive Initiatives: A First Look At Emerging Experience
- Nov 11, 2015
- A new national report examines how museums and libraries influence revitalization efforts in their neighborhoods
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Creative Placemaking for Every Community
- Susan Fitter Harris, May 29, 2015
- Development centered on local heritage and culture resonates in rural communities.
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Delve Deeper into Arts Activation for your Downtown
- International Downtown Association, Oct 8, 2014
- Webinar on how artists and art strengthen the social, physical, and economic fabric of communities, and how cities incorporating art into their community and economic development programs.
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Exploring Our Town
- National Endowment for the Arts, Sep 23, 2014
- This website from the National Endowment for the Arts gives guidance and inspiration for arts-based community development work, based on more than 65 case studies from the NEA Our Town program.
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ArtPlace America is Accepting Applications for its National Grants Program
- ArtPlace America, Sep 22, 2014
- The application process for ArtPlace America's National Grants Program is now open until November 3, 2014.
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"How a Virginia City Came Together to Build a New Library"
- Candice Streett, Sep 1, 2014
- How the new library in P etersburg, Va. helped meet the needs of a struggling community.
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Parks and Arts, A Natural Pair: Roanoke, VA
- National Endowment for the Arts, Aug 25, 2014
- How can a small city increase access to the arts and create opportunities for its local artists outside of traditional venues?
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Temporary Public Art Installations to Animate Vacant Spaces: Phoenix, AZ
- National Endowment for the Arts, Jul 22, 2014
- Exploring Our Town Profile: How can temporary public art projects help change perceptions about a city’s vacant lots and bolster a developing cultural district?
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"Building Communities, One Art Project at a Time"
- Eileen Cunniffe, Jul 14, 2014
- An article, published by Nonprofit Quarterly, on the Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art and Storytelling in West Harlem, NY, a partnership between the nonprofit social service Broadway Housing…
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Arts and Economic Development on Main Street: Stone Mountain, GA
- National Endowment for the Arts, Jun 30, 2014
- Exploring Our Town Profile: How did a small town take advantage of abandoned buildings in its downtown area to grow arts opportunities and its local economy?
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Webinar on Museum / Library Community Engagement
- LISC, Jun 19, 2014
- A webinar that explores the relatively new idea of musuems and libraries becoming a main player in local community development efforts, including case studies in Pittsburgh and Hartford.
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Revitalizing Station North with Art and Design: Baltimore, MD
- National Endowment for the Arts, Jun 17, 2014
- Exploring Our Town Profile: How can a distressed urban area capitalize on its creative artists, organization and institutions to create a vibrant destination for residents and visitors alike?
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ArtsWave supports Place Matters
- May 15, 2014
- From cooking programs to Shakepearean plays, five communities in Greater Cincinatti and Northern Kentucky are using arts activities for neighborhood revitalization.
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Creative Placemaking: Thinking Out Loud
- Apr 9, 2014
- A series of blog posts from LISC's Erik Takeshita and others that explore what creative placemaking offers to community development and how to get the most from this approach to arts and culture in…
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Irrigate: Year One
- Springboard for the Arts, Feb 27, 2014
- A video and the website for an artist-led creative placemaking initiative in St. Paul that has done more than 100 different local installations across a dozen neighborhoods.
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Art Works Blog
- National Endowment for the Arts, Feb 19, 2014
- The blog of the federal National Endowment for the Arts, Art Works aims to "enrich public understanding of what art is and how art works in our communities."
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Artscape DIY
- Feb 19, 2014
- An online resource that goes deep and wide in providing hands-on resources, ideas, templates, videos, advice and more for creative placemaking.
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Animating Democracy
- Feb 12, 2014
- The Arts & Social Change Mapping Initiative maps and highlights the spectrum of ways the arts are being activated to engage people and make change.
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Arts and Democracy Project
- Feb 12, 2014
- The Arts and Democracy Project works to link arts and culture, participatory democracy, and social justice through cultural organizing and cross-sector collaborations.
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Artspace
- Feb 12, 2014
- The nation's largest developer of artist live-work space, Artspace has been involved with nearly 2,000 live-work units across the country.
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The Center for the Study of Arts and Community
- Feb 12, 2014
- A resource for community groups and their allies, specializing in the development and assessment of arts-based community partnerships and in training for artists and their community partners.
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