tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87404656592628092672024-03-13T06:03:44.098-04:00The National Consortium for Creative PlacemakingWe build connections, capacity, and community for the field of creative placemaking.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05723502227244791035noreply@blogger.comBlogger140125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8740465659262809267.post-7434389902118902872018-08-30T15:00:00.000-04:002018-09-20T16:04:58.788-04:00National Summit Draws from Wide Area<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>By Andrea Orlando, MSJ</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Clara Pinsky plans to travel across the country to learn how others are wrestling with arts and displacement. She is senior program manager with a non-profit arts organization in San Fransisco that works with formerly homeless people. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Pinsky will be joining more than 300 people from around the country at the</span><a href="https://cplsummit.org/national"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">National Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit</span></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;"><a href="https://cplsummit.org/national"> </a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">October 5-7 at the University of Maryland, School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation in College Park, MD. They'll be discussing, sharing and learning how arts and cultural programming improves places. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> "I'm really excited that one of the themes is displacement and gentrification," Pinsky said. H</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">er organization, ABD Productions, works with low-income residents to create performance and visual art. San Fransisco is famously a high-cost-of-living city and home to some of the world's tech giants. It is also home to desperate poverty, Pinsky said. "We have this really stark wealth disparity happening," she said. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> ABD's signature program, <a href="https://vimeo.com/137892134" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Skywatchers</span></a>, which is in the second year of an Our Town grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, produces art through and by residents. "We work with community organizers. We're the artists in the room as they strategize to fight back against gentrification," Pinsky said. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> The summit is attracting a mix of people from various fields. As one might expect, representatives from at least a dozen arts organizations will bring their creative spirit. Arts funders from the NEA, ArtPlace America and the Levitt Foundation, will also be on hand. Representatives from the Alameda County Sheriff's Office in California will not only attend, but instruct a session on creative placemaking and law enforcement. The National Alliance of Community Economic Development Associations will represent along with people from Grantmakers in Health. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> An employee of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, which champions civil rights by facilitating dialogue in Alabama, will attend the summit along with representatives from the Local Selma Center for Nonviolence, Truth & Reconciliation. The Edgecombe Group, Inc., an architectural, preservation and urban planning firm based in Maryland will also be present. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Americans for the Arts is a partner with co-producers, ArtPlace America and the<span style="color: blue;"> </span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.cpcommunities.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">National Consortium for Creative Placemaking</span></a><span style="color: blue;">.</span></span><span style="color: blue;"> </span>Patricia Walsh, </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Public Art and Civic </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Design Program Manager for Americans for the Arts, said that studies show that 72 percent of Americans understand that the arts have the power to unify across race, age and ethnicity. "</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Communities across the country gain, and in some cases regain, connectivity and attachment to each other and their spaces when the arts are a part of community development," she wrote.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Employees at the following arts organizations will be at the summit: St. Louis ArtWorks, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland, the William King Museum of Art, the Washington County Arts Council, the Zeitgeist Center for Arts and Community, the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, the Coleman Center for the Arts, Public Art Reston, the Caroline County Council of Arts, Inc., the Appalachian Artisan Center, the Cultural Planning Group, GoodSpace Murals and ArtsRevive. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Participants are coming from many states. People from nearby states, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina, will be joined by folks from Arizona, Nevada, New York State, New Jersey, California, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, West Virginia, Michigan, Alabama. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<b style="color: #990000; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17839449503690916595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8740465659262809267.post-34368280698761883602018-08-16T09:23:00.000-04:002018-08-16T09:23:11.955-04:00Certificate in Creative Placemaking Program is Bigger and More Diverse than Ever<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>By Andrea Orlando, MSJ</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> A dancer, a realtor, an architect, a planner and an theater director walk into a room. It's not a joke. People in these professions will gather in a classroom as part of this year's incoming class of the <a href="http://www.nhia.edu/creativeplacemaking" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Certificate in Creative Placemaking program</span></a>. They hail from 11 states and represent most regions of the country. They are recent college graduates, mid-career professionals and seasoned experts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> "There's a palpable energy and excitement," said Chris Archer, who co-produces the program for the New Hampshire Institute of Art in collaboration with The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking. "We again are seeing a wide range of professional sectors being represented. This year's group seems to really understand that creative placemaking is not just a trendy term from Wikipedia. It's a craft and a craft that needs to be learned." </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Archer is Associate Dean of Community Education at NHIA. This is the second year of the partnership between NHIA and NCCP. The certificate program was created by NCCP Executive Director, Leonardo Vazquez, PP, and was offered before by Rutgers University and Ohio State University.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> The program is designed for busy people. Students begin with three days of hands-on workshops in New Hampshire. That portion is followed by online instruction and coaching and culminates in the production of a capstone project by each student, a real-world application of creative placemaking strategies. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Students will arrive at NHIA in September from Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, South Carolina, Wisconsin, West Virginia, California, New Hampshire and the District of Columbia. Their job titles include the following: director of dance at a state university; executive and artistic director of a theater company; a senior planner of a mid-sized city; a destination branding consultant; a project coordinator of a large metropolitan transit authority; and a studio artist. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> The New Hampshire Community Development Finance Authority is providing five scholarships for New Hampshire residents this year. "We have seen first-hand that integrating arts and culture in our communities can be transformational," wrote Executive Director, Katy Easterly Martey. "We are excited to host a new and impressive class of fellows and look forward to seeing how the program enables them to lead inspiring work that will make a difference in New Hampshire." </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> In fact, many of the students are being sponsored by their employers; municipalities and other organizations, said Archer. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"It's impressive to see that these organizations see this as an investment," Archer said.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> This year's class is almost twice as large as last year's class of 14. That cohort included</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> "It was the skills I learned ... that are most directly responsible for me being able to take my tactical urbanism work to the next level!" wrote Sullivan.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Five seats remain in the <a href="http://www.nhia.edu/creativeplacemaking" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">program</span></a> as of this writing. </span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17839449503690916595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8740465659262809267.post-6903280031982643902018-07-06T14:45:00.000-04:002018-07-20T10:22:42.695-04:00Strategy Lab Leads to Mural Art Project in Hackensack<span style="color: #660000;">By Andrea Orlando, MSJ</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;"> </span> What started off as an idea in an NCCP-led Strategy Lab in Hackensack will soon become a reality. <span style="font-family: inherit;">ArtsBergen seeks to transform a blank wall in the downtown into a visual delight for pedestrians as they travel to and from the Hackensack Performing Arts Center (HACPAC). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> ArtsBergen is an initiative of the The Northern New Jersey Community Foundation (NNJCF), which works to build better communities through the arts. The mural project is a collaboration between NNJCF's ArtsBergen, the Hackensack Main Street Alliance, and its Creative Arts Team. The idea for the project was conceived as part of the Hackensack Strategy Lab, a joint initiative of <a href="http://www.artsbuildcommunities.com/" target="_blank">NCCP</a> and ArtsBergen. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"> "</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Strategy Lab was a great way to get local residents and businesses interested in the project," wrote Albert Dib, Director of Redevelopment for the City of Hackensack. "We received tons of great feedback, which we can now incorporate into a final product. NCCP was key to organizing this effort which yielded some very positive results."</span> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> The HMSA's Creative Arts Team received 33 applications and will select a winner by July 23. The mural may be finished as early as late August or early September, according to Danielle De Laurentis, Associate Director of NNJCF. The mural will be painted at the corner of Demarest Place and Main Street on the north wall at 135 Main Street. <span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(106, 114, 125);">Demarest Place is a unique pedestrian walkway, crossing Main Street, between the Atlantic Street bus stop and the HACPAC.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="caret-color: rgb(106, 114, 125);"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17839449503690916595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8740465659262809267.post-38879988872378101002018-06-21T13:47:00.000-04:002018-06-21T13:47:06.177-04:00New Workshops Part of the Certificate in Creative Placemaking<div style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 3.2rem; margin-bottom: 3.2rem; margin-top: 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #990000;">By Leonardo Vazquez, AICP/PP</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.74902);">The Certificate in Creative Placemaking program helps students influence the levers of power in communities. To this end, we are adding two workshops and a webinar to train students in strategic communications. We are also providing one year of free membership to the new membership program to be offered by The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking.</span></div>
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The Certificate in Creative Placemaking is produced by The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking and New Hampshire Institute of Art.</div>
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<span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Reading strategically</span>, a webinar available in September 2018, focuses on how to scan and review scholarly articles, plans, studies and other academic documents efficiently and effectively.</div>
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<span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Writing strategically</span>, a four-hour workshop to be offered in December 2018, focuses on writing creative placemaking studies and plans that the average reader can find convincing and persuasive. The workshop will be held near NCCP’s office in the Newark, NJ area</div>
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<span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Speaking strategically</span>, a four-hour workshop to be held in June 2019, focuses on presenting complex information about creative placemaking to different audiences. The workshop will be held in or around Newark, NJ or Manchester, NH.</div>
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These training sessions are available free, only to current students and graduates of the current or previous versions of the Certificate program. The sessions are optional, but highly recommended.</div>
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Anyone in the Certificate program can benefit from the strategic communications series, whether they are working artists unfamiliar with the communication styles of government officials, or public officials who want to persuade key stakeholders in their communities.</div>
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This summer, NCCP will be unveiling a new membership program. In the first year, members will get curated notices of job and grant opportunities, as well as new or interesting projects and reports. Members will also get special discounts to NCCP programs. First year membership fees will be around $30. </div>
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Certificate students will have free memberships while they are enrolled in the program. </div>
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There are some seats still available. To learn more about the Certificate program, please visit <a href="http://www.nhia.edu/creativeplacemaking" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">http://www.nhia.edu/creativeplacemaking</a> Also, please join us for an upcoming Certificate information session on June 27 at 6 pm eastern or July 19 at 12 pm eastern. For more information or to register, please visit <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/certificate-in-creative-placemaking-information-session-tickets-33556580636" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/certificate-in-creative-placemaking-information-session-tickets-33556580636</a></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17839449503690916595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8740465659262809267.post-7946966690937263932018-06-18T12:17:00.001-04:002018-06-20T13:23:42.953-04:00Our thoughts on the tragic events at Art All Night this weekend<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6bj0j" data-offset-key="4pfid-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05723502227244791035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8740465659262809267.post-1748568581279086902018-06-07T16:17:00.001-04:002018-06-07T16:17:24.053-04:00Learn Grant Writing Skills from an NEA Director<b><span style="color: #b45f06;">By Andrea Orlando, MSJ</span></b><br />
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Learn to craft an outstanding grant proposal from the source. Jen Hughes of the National Endowment for the Arts will offer a workshop on writing an excellent proposal at our upcoming <a href="http://www.cplsummit.org/appalachia" target="_blank">Appalachian Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit</a>.<br />
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Hughes will provide an overview of the NEA Our Town program and analyze the components of an outstanding proposal during a session at the two-day summit, scheduled for June 21 and 22 in Charleston, WV. The deadline for Our Town grant applications is August 9.<br />
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The NEA recently appointed Hughes to the role of Director of Design and Creative Placemaking, which administers the Our Town grant program. Since 2011 the National Endowment for the Arts has made 538 <a href="https://www.arts.gov/grants-organizations/our-town/introduction" target="_blank">Our Town</a> grants, investing more than $41 million in creative placemaking projects in communities of all sizes across the United States and its territories.<br />
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Creative placemakers will have the opportunity to attend Hughs' workshop after purchasing a <a href="http://www.cplsummit.org/appalachia" target="_blank">ticket</a> to the summit. Space in the workshop is limited, and seats will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.<br />
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The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking in partnership with ArtPlace America is organizing the events to build capacity and connections in the nascent field of creative placemaking.<br />
The Appalachian summit is the fourth in a series of five for 2018. The first three summits were held in Denver, Chattanooga, TN, and Madison, NJ. The final national summit for the year will take place in the Washington D.C. area in early October.<br />
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Katherine Bray-Simons, also of the NEA, offered tips in a similar grant-writing workshop at the event in Madison, N.J. Read about her advice <a href="https://creativeplacemaking.blogspot.com/2018/05/getting-nea-our-town-grant-is-hard-some.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17839449503690916595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8740465659262809267.post-22301884624419686242018-06-04T19:02:00.001-04:002018-06-04T19:02:09.404-04:00Wild and Wonderful Workshop at Summit in West Virginia<span style="color: #990000;">By Andrea Orlando, MSJ</span><br />
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Take a walk on the wild and wonderful side of Charleston, WV, at our upcoming <a href="http://cplsummit.org/appalachia" target="_blank">Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit</a> for Appalachia. Two knowledgeable West Virginians will lead a mobile workshop through the city's west side on Thursday, June 21.<br />
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The workshop will help attendees flex their creative placemaking muscles and brainstorm ideas to improve the area through arts and cultural programming. "The West Side, A Wild and Wonderful Tour by Design," will take participants through the onetime site of a turn-of-the-20th-Century amusement park, a soon-to-be-built bourbon distillary, and a niche T-shirt retail store that hosts live indie music. The title of the workshop is a play on the state's slogan, "Wild and Wonderful." Todd Dorcas, Community Economic Development Program Officer for <a href="http://www.tgkvf.org/" target="_blank">The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation</a>, and Mitchell Riggleman, who has a master's degree in architecture with a focus on history and theory, will lead workshop participants through a residential neighborhood that was once home of Luna Park, an amusement park that opened in 1912 and burned to the ground in 1923. The park was part of the first-ever chain of amusement parks collectively called, "Luna Parks." <br />
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The park featured a roller coaster, dance pavilion, swimming pool, roller rink and live entertainment. Admission to the park was 15 cents, and a ride on the roller coaster, called the Royal Giant Dips Coaster, cost a dime, according to mywvhome.com<br />
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Dorcas expects the tour will highlight issues of infill development, abandoned structures, vacant lots, affordable housing, historic preservation and gentrification.<br />
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Over the course of the two-day summit, attendees will chose from more than 20 sessions organized along the following themes: local economic development and community wellness; building local arts communities, building arts ecologies in isolated areas; invigorating arts in smaller communities; placekeeping and protecting the ethos of a community; building effective partnerships with elected officials; creative placemaking in post-industrial communities; and mapping creative assets.<br />
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The summit will serve the 11 states that share the Appalachian Mountain Chain from Alabama to western New York. More than 200 people from 19 states are expected to attend. Only 60 seats are still available for the summit, and space in the mobile workshop is limited 20.<br />
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The summit is the fourth in a series of five summits this year.<a href="http://www.artsbuildommunities.com/" target="_blank"> The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking</a> in partnership with <a href="https://www.artplaceamerica.org/" target="_blank">ArtPlace America</a>. The <a href="http://www.cplsummit.org/national" target="_blank">last</a> of the series for 2018 will take place in the Washington, D.C. area in early October.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17839449503690916595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8740465659262809267.post-9544621777475522482018-05-31T12:02:00.000-04:002018-05-31T17:29:07.040-04:00Economic Development a Theme of Appalachian Summit<span style="color: #b45f06;">By Andrea Orlando, MSJ</span><br />
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The Appalachian region is rich in culture and art. How the region can transform that richness into economic wealth is a central theme of our upcoming <a href="http://www.cplsummit.org/appalachia" target="_blank">Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit</a> in Charleston, WV on June 21 and 22.<br />
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It's no secret the region struggles to keep economic pace with the rest of the country. Average household income in the area is 80 percent of average household income in the rest of the nation, according to a study published by the <a href="https://www.arc.gov/noindex/research/ACS-infographics2012-2016/DataSnapshot-IncomeAndPovertyInAppalachia.pdf" target="_blank">Appalachian Regional Commission</a>. Poverty rates are higher than the national average as well, and the disparity is more stark when one looks at the rates for children. </div>
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Creative placemaking recognizes the unique contribution artists and arts and cultural organizations make to local economies, and it provides tools and techniques for supporting artists, arts activity and community identity in places. More than 20 sessions in our summit are related to local economic development and community wellness. People looking for practical advice will find it in a few of our workshops. Beth Flowers, Director of the AIR Institute of Berea College, will provide hands-on training for growing your local Appalachian creative economy and expanding partners and a network of support. Three presenters from east Kentucky will also workshop ways to discover cultural assets and turn them into community wealth. </div>
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The summit will also feature panel discussions that will shed light on leveraging philanthropic investments to strengthen mountain communities. The panel discussion is entitled, "Appalachia Funders Network: Leveraging New Investments and Creative Economies." Folks who enjoy looking at case studies and concrete examples will enjoy "Using the Arts to Strengthen and Sustain Small Communities" led by John Davis of Lanesboro Arts. He will present two case studies of small towns in Minnesota. One of the towns, New York Mills, MN, was twice named one of the 100 Best Small Art Towns in America and is cited as a national model for rural arts and economic development work. </div>
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Want to learn about workforce development through arts and cultural strategies? We have a knowledge exchange for that, entitled, "ArtPlace Deep Dive: Creative Workforce Development." Knowledge exchanges are conversations with small groups of people from diverse organizations who share their experiences and ideas to generate rich discussion. </div>
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Our summit program is designed to enable attendees to quickly identify themes so they can attend the sessions most relevant to them. In addition to economic development, themes include the following: building local arts communities; building effective partnerships with elected officials; creative placemaking in post-industrial communities; mapping creative assets; placekeeping and protecting the ethos of a community; building arts ecologies in isolated areas; and invigorating arts in smaller communities.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17839449503690916595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8740465659262809267.post-39224302022088658242018-05-30T11:32:00.001-04:002018-05-30T15:25:27.836-04:00Creative Placemaking that Old House<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">Leonardo Vazquez, AICP/PP, Executive Director of the <a href="http://www.artsbuildcommunities.org/" target="_blank">National Consortium for Creative Placemaking</a>, will address a gathering on old houses in Central Pennsylvania next week. Anne Gadwa Nicodemus, Principal and CEO of </span><a href="https://metrisarts.com/creative-placemaking/" style="text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(5, 99, 193);">Metris Arts Consulting</span></a><span style="text-align: center;"> is also scheduled to speak. Both Vazquez and Gadwa Nicodemus have written foundational white papers on the emerging field. Metris Arts Consulting sponsored the Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit for the Northeast Corridor earlier in the month. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">"What we're talking about is not just old houses. It's about communities," said Joseph Griffin, Vice President of the Bellefonte Historical and Cultural Association. The BHCA in partnership with the American Philatelic Society and the Centre County Historical Society is hosting its third annual <a href="https://www.centrehistory.org/ohf/" target="_blank">Old House Fair</a> on Friday and Saturday, June 8 and 9, <span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(95, 95, 95);">in Bellefonte, PA. </span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Also attending are local creative placemakers, including </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Micah Gursky, Executive Director of the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.tacp.info/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Tamaqua Area Community Partnership</a>, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In addition, Mary Vollero, the proprietor of <a href="http://maryspinkchurch.com/" target="_blank">Mary's Pink Church</a> and Elaine Meder-Wilgus, the owner of <a href="https://www.webstersbooksandcafe.com/" target="_blank">Webster's Books and Cafe</a>. Also joining the conversation will be Pat House, Director of the Bellefonte Art Museum and Jim Dunne, Secretary of the Bellefonte Historic Society. The</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> historic organizations in central Pennsylvania created the event for people who love old houses or professionals who need specialized knowledge of historic buildings. This year, the coalition made creative placemaking the focus of its professional agenda. </span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Griffin said he looks forward to learning more about how the community can leverage arts and cultural programing to develop Bellefonte, the seat of Centre County. He describes the town as a "sleepy" place, a shadow of its former self during its heyday in the 1870's, when the municipality supported three newspapers. He said he believes that creative placemaking can, "change the quality and texture of people's lives." <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Griffin said he has witnessed some impressive transformations brought about by creative placemakers. The town of Millheim, for example, was a sleepy place until a local proprietor opened up a cafe and began featuring musical performances and an art gallery, Griffin said. "T</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">he town has a little bit of life now because it’s kind of a cool place to be," Griffin said. </span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Millheim had an estimated population of fewer than 1,000 residents, according to U.S. Census estimates for 2016. It is part of the State College, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area and </span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">also has a historic district listed with the Centre County Historical Society. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mary Vollero, one of the presenters at the Friday program, purchased an old church in Fleming, PA, painted it pink and began hosting yoga classes and art and music events. Elaine Meder-Wilgus did something similar with Webster's Books and Cafe in State College. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> The coalition of historic associations revived the tradition of the Old House Fair three years ago after a decades-long hiatus, Griffin said. The professional program grew out of a need and desire to provide information to professionals who deal with old structures in the course of their work; lawyers, commissioners and architects. In prior years, the professional portion focused on financing historic renovation projects or the intricacies of tax and historic preservation codes. </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Saturday itinerary is intended more for homeowners looking to troubleshoot issues with their old homes. </span><br />
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Here are some tips from an NEA senior staff member and some ideas on how <a href="http://artsbuildcommunities.com/" target="_blank">The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking </a>can help you. NCCP's work has been supported five times through the Our Town program.<br />
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A successful grant proposal is as much about recognizing the unique assets of a place as it is about creating something entirely new, said the NEA's Katherine Bray-Simons at the <a href="http://cplsummit.org/northeast" target="_blank">Northeast Corridor Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit </a>in May.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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<span class="s1">The NEA distributes the funds to rural and remote areas as well as urban centers. Notable examples of Our Town grant recipient locations are Wilson, North Carolina, which received funding to restore whirligigs, vernacular art created by WWII veteran Vollis Simpson. The whirligigs are kinetic sculptures made from mechanical spare parts. A public-private partnership employed conservators to restore the aging structures and installed them in a local park. Bray-Simons said the most “poetic” aspect of the project was that locals who had once worked in a now-closed machine shop received training in conservation and are now conservators themselves.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Our town grants can range from $25,000 to $200,000. Bray-Simons encouraged the group to look for cross-sector partnerships and be “imaginative” about who those partners may be. The program requires at least one of the partners to be a 501 c3 nonprofit. The program also requires a letter of endorsement from a local official, either from the municipality or the county where the proposed project is located, or from a federally recognized Native American tribe.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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While we can't promise to get you a grant (and we will NOT lobby the NEA on anyone's behalf), we can help you think about better ways to connect arts and culture to community and economic development issues. If you put NCCP in your proposal ($5,000 minimum from the grant), we'll help you free. If not, we'll ask you for a modest amount to cover our costs. For more information, please contact <a href="mailto:leo@artsbuildcommunities.com">NCCP Executive Director Leonardo Vazquez </a>by email or at 973-763-6352, x1<br />
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A small city in Colorado may get solar panel murals for their planned live/work spaces for artists. Prison inmates in Georgia may have their art displayed throughout the community. A small-town art center in Alabama will reach out to the local young people to ask what would entice them to remain in the area after college graduation.<span style="font-kerning: none;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"> These are just a few of the ripple effects of regional creative placemaking leadership summits produced by the National Consortium for Creative Placemaking. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"> “The summit has changed not only my life and my outlook, but it’s going to make huge changes in our community for a very long time,” said Elizabeth Welch, Executive Director of the <a href="http://okefenokeeheritagecenter.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Okefenokee Heritage Center</a> in Waycross, GA. Welch attended the Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit in Chattanooga, TN in March, the first in a series of five regional summits planned for 2018. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"> For Marilyn Leuszler, chairperson of a creative district in a Colorado town, the CPL Summit in Denver last month affirmed and inspired. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"> “There were so many passionate leaders who presented, and it was easy to see why their various programs and projects are successful, Leuzler wrote. Leuszler’s creative district, called <a href="https://www.corazondetrinidad.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Corazón de Trinidad</a>, is part of a Colorado municipality with a population of fewer than 10,000 people. “The resonating theme was that the best and most successful ideas are based on each individual community. There were no cookie-cutter plans for making your community better.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"> More than 500 artists, arts administrators, planners, architects and designers have attended regional creative placemaking leadership summits hosted by the <a href="https://www.cplsummit.org/attendnortheast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">National Consortium for Creative Placemaking</a> in partnership with ArtPlace America. And those events are inspiring just the right people, the achievers who were already making their communities better through arts and cultural programming. More than 90 percent of summit attendees who took a post-summit survey either agreed or strongly agreed that what they learned at the convening was useful to their work. </span></div>
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summit in Denver in April. The workshop on combining solar energy and art impressed her so much she is now gathering information on incorporating solar power into plans to develop affordable live/work spaces for the creative community. “I would not have known of this combination of art and solar had I not attended the Creative Placemaking Summit in Denver,” she wrote. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"> Leuszler is hoping to solve another community challenge with an idea from the summit. Her organization had been planning to plant grass seed to keep the wind from blowing dirt from the site of three buildings slated for demolition. After a workshop led by a presenter from Pheonix, she decided to plant native wildflowers and install benches and sources of shade as well as a maze of pathways to run through a colorful garden. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"> Sulynn Creswell, Executive Director of<a href="http://www.blackbelttreasures.com/store/pg/58-Staff-Board-of-Directors.aspx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Black Belt Treasures Cultural Arts Center</a> in Camden, AL, said she had been grappling with the question of how to inject youthful energy and creativity into her paper mill town of approximately 2,500, a town she described as being in one of the poorest regions of Alabama. She had her aha moment at the Chattanooga summit in a workshop on asset mapping. She realized that high school-aged children needed to be consulted in the town’s quest for improvement. “We really want our young people to stay, and how do we engage them in envisioning our future,” Creswell said. “Youth bring so much vitality, energy and new ideas. We want to make this a place that is going to hold on to all of that.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"> Creswell added that the only people under represented at the summit were elected officials. “I think it would have been helpful if there had been someone from city government there. They need these kinds of summits to really recognize what would happen if the arts were incorporated into the life of the community,” she said. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"> Rusty Sox, who does work for <a href="https://www.southarts.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">South Arts</a>, an arts organization and co-organizer of the Chattanooga summit, said grant applications from summit attendees have been flowing in. South Arts works in partnership with the state arts agencies of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Sox said the summit empowered people to talk to their elected officials about new ideas. “We’re getting new energy and excitement about creative placemaking,” he said. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"> The next summit will take place much closer to home for NCCP, which is based in Union, NJ and its co-producer, <a href="http://www.artplaceamerica.org/our-work/national-creative-placemaking-fund/introduction" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ArtPlace America</a>, which is based in Brooklyn, NY. The <a href="https://www.cplsummit.org/attendnortheast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit for the Northeast Corridor</a> is scheduled for May 3 and 4 in Madison, NJ at Drew University. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"> “I think it’s going to be the best one,” said Executive Director of the NCCP, Leonardo Vazquez, AICP/PP. Vazquez said the upcoming summit in New Jersey will have fascinating workshops and impressive sponsors. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"> The upcoming event is made possible by <a href="http://myemail.constantcontact.com/NEA-Design---Creative-Placemaking-Newsletter--April-2018.html?soid=1103211031308&aid=z6_bIlEsmNs" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NEA</a>, <a href="http://nj.gov/state/njsca/index.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">New Jersey State Council on the Arts</a>, and the <a href="http://www.grdodge.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation</a>. Sponsors include <a href="https://www.njhi.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">New Jersey Health Initiatives</a>, <a href="https://metrisarts.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Metris Arts Consulting</a>, the <a href="https://www.nnjcf.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Northern New Jersey Community Foundation</a>, <a href="https://www.newjerseycommunitycapital.org/about-us" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">New Jersey Community Capital</a>, <a href="https://www.corecreativeplacemaking.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CORE Creative Placemaking</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"> Mitchell J. Silver, FAICP, Parks Commissioner of NYC will lead a brainstorming session on making improvements to Oval Park in East Orange. Oval Park was the site of a baseball stadium and the sometime home of the New York Cubans. Most members of this unique team were from Latin America. Today the park is a small neighborhood open space in a challenged area of the Newark suburb. There is nothing to remind visitors of the history of the team, which won the 1943 Negro Leagues World Series. The workshop, one of three mobile workshops that will take place on site, will resurface that history through creative placemaking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"> Attendees may also sign up for a mobile workshop at the <a href="https://myfactorystores.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ART Factory</a> in Paterson, a complex of more than 20 factory buildings dating back to 1840. The buildings are now a burgeoning art studio center that is expanding to include an artists’ and makers’ market. Another field trip will take summit-goers to an abandoned baseball field in Paterson, Hinchliffe Stadium. The stadium also has a place in Negro League baseball history from the era of segregated baseball, which ended soon after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier on April 15, 1947. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"> Vazquez said the summits welcome everyone from people who are just starting to learn how to make communities better through arts and local cultural activities to those who have been doing the work since, “before placemaking was cool.” </span></div>
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By Leonardo Vazquez, AICP/PP</div>
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<a href="http://www.cplsummit.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Creative Placemaking Leadership Summits,</a> produced by ArtPlace America and The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking attract leaders and key influencers who work to make communities better through arts and local culture. Here are some of the organizations whose leaders will be at the Summit at Drew University, May 3-4 in Madison NJ. <a href="http://www.cplsummit.org/northeast" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Register before April 26 to get the best ticket prices.</a></div>
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<span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Age of The Creative</span> New York NY | <span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Alameda County Sheriff's Office </span>San Leandro CA | <span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Americans for the Arts</span> Washington DC | <span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ArtPlace America</span> Brooklyn NY | <span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bunker Hill Community College </span>Boston MA | <span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Catamount Film & Arts</span> Saint Johnsbury VT | <span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chestnut Hill Advisory Partners LLC</span> New York NY | <span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">City of Bloomington</span> Bloomington IN | <span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Community Solutions / Brownsville Partnership</span> Brooklyn NY | <span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Conexion Americas</span>Nashville TN | <span style="background-position: 0px 0px; 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border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Drew University</span> Madison NJ | <span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Drexel University</span> Philadelphia PA | <span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Enterprise Community Partners</span> Boston MA | <span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Spaceworks NYC </span>New York NY | <span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fairleigh Dickinson University </span>Madison NJ | <span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">FEMA</span> Riverside NJ | <span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Flemington Community Partnership</span> Flemington NJ | <span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">GARNER Arts Center</span> Garnerville NY | <span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Greater Jamaica Development Corporation</span> Jamaica, NY | <span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Greater Nashville Regional Council</span> Nashville TN | <span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">HACE CDC</span> Philadelphia PA | <span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Heurista Co</span> Asheville NC | <span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jersey Community Acupuncture</span> Flemington NJ | <span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Just Act</span> Philadelphia PA | <span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Larisa Ortiz Associates</span> <span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LLC</span> Jackson Heights NY | <span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">League of American Orchestras </span>New York NY | <span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Local Initiatives Support Corporation </span>Newark NJ | <span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Little Tokyo Service Center</span> Los Angeles CA | <span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC)</span> NYC New York NY | <span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Looney Ricks Kiss</span> Princeton NJ | <span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Los Angeles County Arts Commission</span> Los Angeles CA | <span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lupoart</span> Morristown NJ | <span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts</span> North Adams MA | <span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mayo Performing Arts Center </span>Morristown NJ | <span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MEC Placemaking</span> Des Moines IA | <span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Meta Local Collaborative</span> New York NY | <span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Metris Arts Consulting </span>Easton PA | <span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Metro Arts </span>Nashville TN | <span style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Modern Vintage Ink</span>, LLC Brooklyn NY | <span style="background-position: 0px 0px; 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The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking will become
a membership organization later this year. A membership program will help
support our mission of growing the creative placemaking field around the United
States. But we also know that membership
should have benefits. We’d like to know what you would like as an NCCP member. Please take our short survey by March 31 at <a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/nccpmember18">https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/nccpmember18</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05723502227244791035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8740465659262809267.post-24588146259820979462018-01-12T09:30:00.000-05:002018-01-12T09:30:06.473-05:00Welcoming new partners and sponsors<i><a href="mailto:leo@artsbuildcommunities.com">By Leonardo Vazquez, AICP/PP</a></i><br />
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The Consortium in <a href="http://www.artsbuildcommunities.com/">NCCP</a>'s name is intentional. We never wanted to be just a center or institute -- with all the ivory tower connations that conveys. Like creative placemaking itself, we are about meaningful and productive partnerships.<br />
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We are fortunate now to have more than 55 partners and a growing number of supporters. These include 15 state arts agencies; several universities and colleges; and associations in community development, real estate development and urban planning.<br />
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Among the newest supporters of NCCP's programs are:<br />
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<li>Lyndhurst Foundation</li>
<li>Tennessee Arts Commission</li>
<li>McClure Engineering</li>
<li>Cultural Planning Group</li>
<li>Colorado Creative Industries</li>
<li>Wyoming Arts Council</li>
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<li>Maryland State Arts Council</li>
<li>New Mexico Arts</li>
<li>Oklahoma Arts Council</li>
<li>Montana Arts Council</li>
<li>Urban Land Institute - Northern New Jersey chapter</li>
<li>American Planning Association - North Carolina and Louisiana chapters</li>
<li>Arizona State University - Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts</li>
<li>College Park Partnership</li>
<li>Public Art Reston</li>
<li>Prince George's Arts and Humanities Council</li>
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Supporters and event sponsors get free tickets, and partners get discounts, for NCCP events. They are encouraged to share them with their networks. If you would like to become a supporter, sponsor or partner of an event or of NCCP in general, please <a href="mailto:leo@artsbuildcommunities.com">contact Leonardo Vazquez by email </a>or at 973-763-6352, x1</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05723502227244791035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8740465659262809267.post-28776368673531177512018-01-12T09:07:00.002-05:002018-01-12T09:07:21.512-05:00NCCP offers more workshops in more places<i><a href="mailto:leo@artsbuildcommunities.com">By Leonardo Vazquez, AICP/PP</a></i><br />
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Through NCCP's creative placemaking workshops, you can build your skills in developing public art, crowdmapping, sustaining initiatives for the long term and more.<br />
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The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking offers a growing array of half day workshops, starting in February 2018. And they will be in more locations: Burlington, NJ; Orange County, NY; and locations in North Jersey to be announced.<br />
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Each three-hour workshop is limited to 30 participants, so please register soon. AICP planners may get Certification Maintenance credits for many of the workshops. NCCP is applying to become a provider of CM credits.<br />
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<li><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/creative-placemaking-workshops-burlington-nj-tickets-42017285833">Register for workshops in the Philadelphia/South Jersey area</a></li>
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<span style="padding-top: 0px;">To influence the people who affect quality of life in communities, it helps to understand them and speak their language. This workshop will help you make more persuasive arguments to elected officials, leaders of community organizations, and others who can make things go – or stop – in a community. Specifically, you can explore:</span></div>
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<span style="padding-top: 0px;">*The levers of influence in communities – from individuals to institutions. In other words – how things change – or don’t – in communities</span></div>
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<span style="padding-top: 0px;">*The sources of funding for community-oriented projects</span></div>
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<span style="padding-top: 0px;">We know that the value of art is priceless. Unfortunately, a lot of businesspeople, elected officials, investors and their advisors don’t see it that way. If you want to influence these people, it helps to talk about the arts in ways they can understand. This workshop will help you make more persuasive arguments. Specifically, you can explore:</span></div>
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<span style="padding-top: 0px;">*How those involved in local economic development think about issues affecting standards of living in communities, and how they measure success</span></div>
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<span style="padding-top: 0px;">*The levers of influence in communities – from individuals to institutions. In other words – how things change – or don’t – in communities</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700; padding-top: 0px;">Building Teams for Creative Placemaking</span></div>
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<em style="padding-top: 0px;">Instructor: Leonardo Vazquez, AICP</em></div>
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<span style="padding-top: 0px;">As Geraldine R. Dodge President Chris Daggett has said, “The hardest part of collaboration is collaborating.” This workshop focuses on building sustainable and high-performing teams for creative placemaking. Participants will learn how teams go from starting off as a group of people with different agendas to a team with a shared mission and views on how to move forward. Participants will also learn the methods of Community Coaching, a team-building and planning tool that has been used in 15 communities in New Jersey and Louisiana.</span></div>
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<em style="padding-top: 0px;">Instructor: Leonardo Vazquez, AICP</em></div>
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<span style="padding-top: 0px;">Tired of traditional community meetings? A lot of people in the community are too. This workshop explores artistic and fun ways to engage community members. Participants will learn about easy ways to create community models, photo-voice, visual notetaking, role-playing and other methods of engaging audiences. Participants will learn how to use these methods to get critical knowledge about communities, build consensus, or generate enthusiasm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700; padding-top: 0px;">Creating Community Murals</span></div>
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<em style="padding-top: 0px;">Instructors: Kadie Dempsey and Dan Fenelon</em></div>
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<span style="padding-top: 0px;">(note: no arts training is required) </span>Murals can be important tools for bringing people together and building civic pride. Or they could just be paintings that come people like and others hate. The difference is how they’re done.</div>
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<span style="padding-top: 0px;">You will learn how to plan and manage a marling project that engages community members and works to support planning and creative placemaking efforts. You will get hands-on training by working on an actual mural in class.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700; padding-top: 0px;">Creating Public Art</span></div>
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<span style="padding-top: 0px;">A piece of public art can be a creative beacon that connects an entire community. Or it could be just another object on the sidewalk that some people, some people hate, and too many ignore. The difference often is about how it's designed, who's involved, and who's making what decisions.</span></div>
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<span style="padding-top: 0px;">This workshop will help you design and develop true community-guided public art initiatives. You will learn all steps of the process, from idea creation through site selection to installation.</span></div>
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<span style="padding-top: 0px;">Taking stock of your existing assets and opportunities can help you do more cost-effective creative placemaking. You will learn how to read a community for ‘hidden’ creative assets and opportunity sites. You will also learn how to engage stakeholders in crowd mapping and how to build better creative placemaking strategies from your maps.</span></div>
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<span style="padding-top: 0px;">What you should do as a creative placemaker depends a lot on what is available in your community. Creative assets inventories help you get a better sense of resources and opportunities to achieve lasting benefits. Specifically, you will learn:</span></div>
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<span style="padding-top: 0px;">*To develop more effective surveys for creative placemaking</span></div>
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<span style="padding-top: 0px;">*Tools for measuring local and regional creative economies</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700; padding-top: 0px;">Financing Creative Placemaking</span></div>
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<span style="padding-top: 0px;">There are many ways to sustain your creative placemaking efforts — grants, tax credits, donations, sponsorships, and more. Which are right for you? What funders are giving what types of projects? Learn about financing opportunities and get a funding resource packet.</span></div>
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The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking will again offer free webinars in creative placemaking in 2018. The webinars explore a wide range of topics, including community development, place history and resiliency.<br />
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AICP members may also get Certification Maintenance credits. NCCP is applying to become a CM provider, and we expect to apply for CM credits for all eligible activities (such as the webinars.)<br />
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Webinars are limited to 100 people, so please register at your earliest convenience. <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/strategic-conversations-in-creative-placemaking-tickets-41971032488">Register here</a><br />
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Creative placemaking: integrating community, cultural and economic development</div>
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What makes creative placemaking a new way to make communities better through arts and culture? How can creative placemaking promote social equity, sustainability, and prosperity? Learn about a model developed by The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking that integrates community, cultural and economic development in ways that are sustainable and asset-based. Also learn how our model fits in with the guidelines of the AICP Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.</div>
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The growing creative economy in New Jersey: impacts on urban design, community planning and local economic development</div>
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A recent report from The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking shows that the number of artistic jobs and freelance artists, writers and performers in New Jersey is growing faster than jobs in New Jersey overall. What implications does this have for community planning, urban design and economic development. Though the focus of this conversation is on New Jersey’s creative economy, there will be a lot of takeaways for anyone outside of the state.</div>
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The term ‘creative placemaking’ was coined only six years ago, but it has been happening in various forms in the US since at least the late 19th century. This webinar will explore the earliest work in creative placemaking in America. Participants will learn about the pioneering work of Charles Mulford Robinson, Edgar Lee Hewett and others, and discover how placemaking through arts and culture has evolved over more than a century.</div>
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Creative placemaking and human needs placemaking</div>
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The arts aren’t a diversion or a luxury. They are important for the well-being of individuals and communities. Many people already know about the power of the arts to enhance economic development. This webinar will discuss how the arts can help people develop and keep intellectual skills, build social connections, and more. We will explore how creative placemaking can support the elements of human needs placemaking.</div>
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Community coaching: a new way to speak truth to power</div>
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Community coaching helps stakeholders build sustainable plans – and the shared leadership to implement them. This model helps build relationships between planner and client that makes it possible to address the big, difficult issues that keep a community from moving forward. It is a different approach to current models of planning practice, and it may challenge you to think about how you work with communities.</div>
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Tuesday May 8, 2 - 3 pm eastern</div>
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Incorporating arts in urban and site design</div>
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This Strategic Conversation explores how to design communities and sites to encourage more creative and cultural activities. Participants will also learn how the arts can help improve navigation, safety and other issues in urban and site design.</div>
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Tuesday June 5, 2 - 3 pm eastern</div>
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The rise of freelance artists: implications for urban planning and design</div>
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One of the fastest growing segments of the creative sector is freelance artists, writers and performers. To attract and retain these professionals, communities may have to rethink their approaches to urban design, community development, and economic development</div>
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Wednesday June 27, 2 - 3 pm eastern</div>
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Cultural districts and cultural institutions: suns or black holes?</div>
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One of the first things that many people think about in creative placemaking is creating a cultural district or building a large cultural institution. While districts and institutions can become catalysts for community-wide creativity and revitalization, they can also absorb a lot of time, energy and resources that could be used effectively elsewhere in the community. Learn how creative placemaking can make it more likely that districts and institutions have a broader impact on their communities.</div>
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How creative placemaking can help build more resilient communities</div>
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With the damage caused from hurricanes, tornadoes and floods around the United States, more communities are looking to be more ‘resilient.’ Resiliency is not just about creative physical improvements to withstand storms; it is also connects to a community’s ability to revitalize quickly after disaster. Arts and culture can play a big role in helping communities recover. We will explore examples from Louisiana, New Jersey and Missouri, and discuss how to connect creative placemaking with resiliency in community dialogues.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05723502227244791035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8740465659262809267.post-16682424075697712342017-12-14T09:59:00.002-05:002017-12-14T10:33:05.667-05:00The New York Times encourages you to consider living in Perth Amboy, NJ<i><a href="mailto:leo@artsbuildcommunities.com">By Leonardo Vazquez, AICP/PP</a></i><br />
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Congratulations to the City of Perth Amboy, which was featured in the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/15/realestate/living-in-perth-amboy-nj.html">Living In column of <i>The New York </i><i>Times </i>in November<i>.</i></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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This plan, the Arts Council and several projects, came through Community Coaching, an NCCP program to help communities build creative placemaking strategies and the capacity to see them implemented. To learn more about Community Coaching, please <a href="mailto:leo@artsbuildcommunities.com">contact NCCP Executive Director Leonardo Vazquez by email </a>or at 973-763-6352</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05723502227244791035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8740465659262809267.post-90225022398640327772017-12-14T09:46:00.002-05:002017-12-14T09:46:55.296-05:00Planning 2018 New Jersey Creative Placemakers events<i><a href="mailto:leo@artsbulidcommunities.com">By Leonardo Vazquez, AICP/PP</a></i><br />
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New Jersey Creative Placemakers had a great first year in 2017. We helped influence<a href="http://fourthplan.org/"> the Fourth Regional Plan for the New York metropolitan area</a> (Check out the section on arts), <a href="http://creativeplacemaking.blogspot.com/2017/07/learning-tour-brings-new-jersey.html">explored Morristown </a>and the <a href="http://creativeplacemaking.blogspot.com/2017/10/cp-learning-tour-fun-way-to-learn-about.html">Valley Arts/Seven Oaks districts</a>, and worked on strategies to activate a quiet corridor in Hackensack. <o:p></o:p></div>
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If you would like to be involved in these efforts, or help plan others, please join us at the next New Jersey Creative Placemakers quarterly meeting. It will be held January 10, at the Art Factory in Paterson. Please contact NCCP Program Coordinator Thomas Young at <a href="mailto:tyoung@artsbuildcommunities.com">tyoung@artsbuildcommunities.com</a> or 973-763-6352, x2, to get involved.<o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05723502227244791035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8740465659262809267.post-39290969814216333792017-12-07T12:28:00.004-05:002017-12-07T12:28:38.859-05:00NCCP welcomes two new board members<i><a href="mailto:leo@artsbuildcommunities.com">By Leonardo Vazquez, AICP/PP</a></i><br />
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Chuck Biczak and Anne LaBate have joined the Board of the Directors of <a href="http://www.artsbuildcommunities.com/">The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking.</a> The appointments were made effective November 21, 2017<br />
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Charles "Chuck" Biczak is a strategy and marketing professional dedicated focused on designing and implementing strategies, marketing campaigns, and business development programs that work in the real world. Chuck has worked in Corporate Planning at Canon USA, Inc. since 1998, where he is currently the Director of Strategic Change Management. Chuck led the marketing strategy for the successful design and launch of a brand new corporate logo and tagline: Canon See Impossible. In addition, Chuck has helped to establish strategic partnerships, develop new business, and establish the social media strategy for Canon. <br />
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Chuck graduated from Drew University with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and earned his MBA in Marketing from Drexel University. While at Drexel, Chuck was a Teaching Assistant in the Marketing Department and won awards for both his teaching and research. He is currently pursuing a Master Certificate in Music Business through the Berklee College of Music. The diverse education means that Chuck is comfortable with both quantitative and qualitative approaches, encourages analysis and intuition, understands the big picture as well as the smallest details, and balances passion with strong project management.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The NCCP Board of Director oversees the work and sustainability of The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking. For more information, please contact NCCP Executive Director Leonardo Vazquez <a href="mailto:leo@artsbuildcommunities.com">by email</a> or by phone at 973-763-6352, x1</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05723502227244791035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8740465659262809267.post-17878706726591532882017-11-16T14:50:00.002-05:002017-11-16T14:50:42.003-05:00NCCP building a community of creative placemakers in New York City<i>By<a href="mailto:leo@artsbuildcommunities.com"> Leonardo Vazquez, AICP/PP</a></i><br />
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Where do creative placemakers in New York City gather to share ideas and support one another? We don't know either. So we have started working with colleagues from some nonprofit organizations in the city to help build a community of practice for creative placemaking. <br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After three years in Newark, the <a href="http://www.cplsummit.org/">Northeast Corridor Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit </a>will be in Madison, New Jersey on May 3 and 4, 2018. NCCP is in talks with Drew University to hold the two-day event at the school's campus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It shouldn't be surprising that a regional conference focused on arts and community improvement would happen in a small, suburban community. "There are a lot of communities in Jersey with a strong presence of arts," said NCCP Executive Director Leonardo Vazquez. "Anyone coming in for the Leadership Summit should check out the different types of arts in towns along the train line: Dover, Boonton, Morristown, Millburn, Maplewood, South Orange, Orange and Newark."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">At Creative Placemaking Leadership Summits, artists, policymakers, developers, urban planners, teachers and more participate in interactive workshop and share ideas through peer exchanges. There will also be workshops in various communities in New Jersey and at least one social/networking event. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Major themes of the Northeast Corridor Leadership Summit are gentrification, making space for creativity (physical design), and sports and arts. Subtopics including introducing creative placemaking to communities and funding </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri Light",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Now entering its fourth year, the annual Creative Placemaking Leadership Summits bring together people from across the country who strengthen the social, physical, and economic fabric of their communities through arts and local cultural activities. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri Light",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Thanks to a $50,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts Our Town program, the convening is expanding to five regional Leadership Summits in 2018. The newest collaborator with The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking (NCCP) is ArtPlace America (ArtPlace), one of the nation’s leading organizations in creative placemaking. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“The certificate has been a very fun and engaging way to explore the field,” said Ximena Bejarano, of Oakland, CA “and has really jumpstarted my own creativity in regard to how we might help shape the communities we live in. As someone without a background in planning, I feel that everyone's input is valued and I can draw on others in my cohort for their knowledge and experience.” <span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05723502227244791035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8740465659262809267.post-12985066567154659642017-10-16T12:04:00.000-04:002017-10-16T12:04:00.020-04:00Want more hands-on experience with creative placemaking? Join an NCCP Strategy Lab<i><a href="mailto:leo@artsbuildcommunities.com">By Leonardo Vazquez, AICP/PP</a></i><br />
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Conferences, webinars and walking tours are great for learning about creative placemaking. But sometimes you want to roll up your sleeves and just get to it. <br />
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That's why The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking now offers Strategy Labs. In a Strategy Lab, you work on a real creative placemaking project for a real client. They run from 90 minutes to two days.<br />
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The first Strategy Lab will be Thursday, October 19, from 4:30 to 7 in Hackensack. We'll explore ways to activate Demarest Street, an underused pedestrian path that runs from the local bus station, across Main Street, and to the parking garage near the city's new performing arts center. We'll work in partnership with the client -- the Hackensack Creative Arts Team -- and ArtsBergen's Connect the Dots program. ArtsBergen is an initiative of the Northern New Jersey Community Foundation.<br />
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The next Strategy Lab will be November 10 and 11 at the Paterson Art Factory. There we will help a unique maker space and filming center better connect with the surrounding community. We will explore ways to organize open space at the facility for arts and cultural programming. In addition, we'll explore how to make Spruce Street (which runs from the Great Falls National Park past the Art Factory and leads to Rte 19 and I-80) into a great corridor. Finally, we'll also strategize ways to build the capacity of the Paterson Arts Council to lead and sustain these efforts. The event is free, but a $20 donation to the Paterson Arts Council would be appreciated.<br />
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For more information, or to become a client for a Strategy Lab, please contact NCCP Executive Director Leonardo Vazquez <a href="mailto:leo@artsbuildcommunities.com">by email </a>or at 973-763-6352, x1Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05723502227244791035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8740465659262809267.post-50043992055777970992017-10-16T11:27:00.003-04:002017-10-16T11:27:51.279-04:00Explore a growing cultural center in South Jersey in the next Creative Placemaking Learning Tour<i>By Leonardo Vazquez, AICP/PP</i><br />
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Learn more about Hammonton, this small town that is becoming a center of arts and creative placemaking in South Jersey. </div>
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Explore Stockton University's Kramer Hall (home to several arts and cultural organizations), Hammonton Arts Center, Noyes Art Museum, Eagle Theater, and the future Arts Alley. Brainstorm with other creative placemakers on an opportunity site in downtown Hammonton. Then join your colleagues for lunch and a drink at the town's new craft brewery.</div>
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Ticket includes lunch. Rain date is November 5. <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/creative-placemaking-learning-tour-hammonton-nj-tickets-38821142081"> Register</a></div>
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This Creative Placemaking Learning Tour is produced by New Jersey Creative Placemakers, an initiative of <a href="http://www.artsbuildcommunities.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" style="padding-top: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking</a>, in partnership with the <a href="http://noyesmuseum.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Noyes Art Museum</a> and the <a href="http://www.sjca.net/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">South Jersey Cultural Alliance. </a></div>
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Creative Placemaking Learning Tours are a different kind of walking or bus tour. We do more than explore the what of a place; we learn about how the work happened -- often from the people who were most involved. We also take time to brainstorm ideas for an opportunity site on the tour. Finally, we have some kind of social activity. </div>
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Creative Placemaking Learning Tours are made possible through the support of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and New Jersey State Council on the Arts.</div>
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