Greetings! We’re sharing some great new forums to deepen your creative placemaking knowledge as well as new funding opportunities and announcements from the field. Read on for details!
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Coming Soon - New Webinar Series on How to Do Creative Placemaking
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We are excited to announce the
How to Do Creative Placemaking webinar series
, hosted in partnership with
Local Initiative Support Coalition (LISC)
and supported by the NEA and
The Kresge Foundation
. Beginning in November 2018 and continuing through the spring of 2019, six monthly webinars will offer practical advice to help local practitioners meet the challenges of collaborative creative placemaking work. You’ll hear from experienced project leaders as they share resources, ideas, and tips for planning and implementing a successful and impactful project. Topics and resources featured in the series are informed by an
Our Town technical assistance initiative
that delivered intensive support to select creative placemaking projects across the U.S.
The first webinar in the series,
Setting the Table: Developing Partnerships & Shared Values
, takes place on Wednesday, November 14 at 2:00pm ET and features Julie Garreau, executive director of
Cheyenne River Youth Project
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Mayors’ Institute on City Design: Call for 2019 Regional Hosts
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MICD recently launched the
2019 Regional Session RFQ
, kicking off a competitive application process for universities and nonprofits interested in hosting a session of the program in 2019. Three host institutions will be selected to receive up to $50,000 in funding to host a regional MICD session in 2019, bringing together national experts and small- to mid-sized city mayors to address their most pressing urban design challenges. Universities with accredited architecture or urban planning programs as well as nonprofits with a focus on urban design are encouraged to apply. The RFQ closes on Monday, November 12. Contact MICD Executive Director
Trinity Simons
for information. MICD is an NEA initiative
in partnership with the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
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Citizens’ Institute on Rural De
sign:
Recap and Webinar
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Courtney just returned from Valentine, NE, after attending the first CIRD workshop of the season. The event was fantastic – productive and well attended despite earlier than usual snow on the ground (quite a shock after DC’s unusually warm fall season!). Las Vegas, NM, hosted a CIRD workshop last week, and Greenville, MS, is taking place this week. Tuttle, ND, will wrap things up in early November. Visit
www.rural-design.org
to keep up to date on happenings in these and other rural communities.
And also coming up on Wednesday, November 14 at 1:00pm ET, the Orton Family Foundation, in partnership with CIRD and Daily Yonder, is hosting “
Going Big in Small Places: Millennials Make Their Mark in America’s Towns
.” The webinar will address the role that technology plays in the migration of some millennials to small towns. Ben Winchester, who has spent his career studying trends in rural migration of all age groups, shares his data and sets the stage for an insightful discussion from three millennials who have chosen towns and small cities and are contributing to the vibrancy of the places they live in a big way. CIRD is an NEA initiative in partnership with Project for Public Spaces.
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Save America’s Treasures: Grantees Announced and Call for Applications
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The National Park Service, in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Arts,
recently announced the award of $4.8 million in Save America’s Treasures
grants to help fund 16 projects in 12 states. The funds will support the preservation of nationally significant historic properties and collections throughout the country. NEA participates in the review of the collections grants. Since 1999, there have been almost 4,000 requests for funding totaling $1.54 billion. In response to these requests, $315,152,000 was awarded to 1,287 recipients.
And
applications are now being accepted for the next round of SAT grants
! The National Park Service (NPS) has announced availability of $13 million in Historic Preservation Fund grants for the program. SAT grants provide preservation and/or conservation assistance to nationally significant historic properties and collections.
Applications are due December 3.
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Design + CP Staff Out and About
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Left: Courtney with NEA Deputy Chairman Tony Chauveaux and NTHP's Katherine Malone-France - photo by Neil Landino Photo; Right: Design+CP team with Javier de Jesus from Universidad del Sagrado Coraz
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The Glass House - Jennie C. Jones: RPM
, September 16, New Canaan, CT: Courtney, along with Tony Chauveaux, Deputy Chairman for Programs and Partnerships, attended an afternoon celebration of the installation and exhibition by mixed media artist Jennie C. Jones. The project includes two sounds installations on the property – in the Glass House itself and the Sculpture Gallery – as well as works on paper. Jones’s work is part of a larger Artist in Residence program at Glass House, which was partially supported by a Design Art Works grant awarded to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The exhibition is open through the end of November.
We were also delighted to
welcome a visit from Javier de Jesus
, who was visiting from Puerto Rico. Javier is Director at Neeuko Collaborative Innovation Universidad del Sagrado Corazón and manages the Nuestro Barrio project in the San Juan neighborhood of Santurce. The project has received two Our Town awards – in 2015 and 2018 – to run a participatory creative asset mapping and cultural district planning process and build up support for artists and culture workers. The asset mapping work has proven to be a critical resource since Hurricane Maria, in both tracking artist needs and securing additional funds for rebuilding and economic development. Last month, the
Economic Development Administration (EDA) announced a significant investment in Nuestro Barrio
for programs to support the recovery of Santurce’s creative industries.
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Grantee Feature: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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In 2017 the Design Art Works program awarded a grant to UMBC for
A Designed Life: Contemporary American Textile, Wallpapers, and Containers & Packaging, 1951 – 1954
. Curated by associate professor Margaret Re and hosted by the
Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture
, the show is based on three historically significant traveling exhibitions of contemporary mass-produced, American-designed consumer goods that were commissioned by the U.S. Department of State in the early 1950s. It recreates and interprets those early Cold War exhibitions — including American textiles designed by Florence Knoll, wallpapers designed by Tom Lee, and containers and packaging designed by Will Burtin. The original exhibitions were created to highlight modern American design and manufacturing, and were displayed in post-WWII Europe to promote the growth of democratic governments there. The exhibition is open at the CADVC until December 8.
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Updates on Creative Placemaking
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Call for Abstracts – Association of American Geographers’ Conference
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USDA’s Economic Research Service and the NEA’ Office of Research and Analysis propose bringing an arts and entrepreneurship theme to the
American Association of Geographers’ (AAG) annual meeting
on April 3-7, 2019, in Washington, D.C. One or more sessions will examine how linkages among the arts and general creativity, cultural capital, entrepreneurship, and innovation can contribute directly or indirectly to economic development. The session organizers are especially interested in analyses that address phenomena across a wide range of disciplinary approaches and research methods. Contact
Tim Wojan
at USDA for more information.
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New Report on Creative Placemaking and Safety
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ArtPlace America and Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) are pleased to announce the publication of “Creative Placemaking & Community Safety,” a
new report by Urban Institute that tells the stories of four creative placemaking initiatives
that seek to improve community safety in their respective communities. The report features an in-depth, mixed-method case study on each of the following projects, as well as a synthesis of learnings that emerged across all four cases:
- The Beerline Trail and ARTery extension, which bridges two economically and socially disparate communities in Milwaukee, Wisconsin;
- Eden Night Live, a community festival and pop-up marketplace sponsored by the Sheriff’s Department in Alameda County, California;
- The Marcus Garvey Youth Clubhouse, a collaboratively designed and programmed space for young people in Brownsville, Brooklyn; and
- The People’s Paper Co-op, an effort to use art-making as a vehicle for reform for formerly incarcerated individuals in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Note: These links lead to websites other than arts.gov.
SXSW
is inviting NEA grantees to apply for
Place by Design
.This public space design competition celebrates transformative work at the intersection of art, technology, and design that rethinks how we use and interact with the places around us. Projects include but are not limited to urban interventions, public art, architecture, and other ideas grounded in placemaking. Contact
[email protected]
and mention the NEA Design+CP newsletter to waive the $50 application fee.
Application is due November 8
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JPMorgan Chase
launched
Advancing
Cities
, a new five-year, $500 million investment initiative to drive inclusive growth and create greater economic opportunity in cities across the world. The
Advancing
Cities Challenge wil
l make investments in up to 30 cities to support collaborative and sustainable solutions that address cross-cutting challenges and help more people benefit from a growing economy.
Proposal are due November 30
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Americans for the Arts
recently introduced the
Arts+Social Impact Explorer
, an interactive, new, online primer that draws together top-line research, example projects, core research papers, and service/partner organizations from 26 different sectors, all in an effort to make more visible the incredible, wide-reaching impact of the arts.
The
Graham Foundation
announced the award of over $600,000 in 53 new grants
to organizations that support projects worldwide. Selected from nearly 200 proposals, the funded projects include exhibitions, publications, films, new media works, and site-specific installations that promote rigorous scholarship, stimulate experimentation, and foster critical discourse in architecture.
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Nerdy Design Thing We Are Following
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Renowned architect Robert Venturi, 93, died in his Philadelphia-area home on September 19. Venturi was lauded for his “stunningly unorthodox buildings… and his groundbreaking books on architectural history.” He is often considered the father of Post-Modernism, though he resisted the title or association.
Many great obituaries and stories have been published in the weeks since his passing, from
Inga Saffron
’s Philadelphia-inflected piece, to a
meditation on his influence on urban planning
, to two interesting perspectives from Common Edge (
here
on his historical legacy, and
here
on how he viewed himself). Much of the commentary also has addressed Venturi’s complex public life as it relates to Denise Scott Brown, his wife and business partner for more than 50 years. For decades Scott Brown has fought for recognition as an equal partner in their practice and writings, sometimes quite directly in essays such as “
Room at the top? Sexism and the Star System in Architecture
,” which she wrote in 1975 but did not publish until 1989. Despite a shared architectural vision and tightly interwoven partnership, her legacy will be breaking a very different kind of ground than Venturi.
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Director, Design & Creative Placemaking
Specialist - Art Works Design
Specialist - Our Town
Assistant Grants Management Specialist
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