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    • Laying the Groundwork
      • Why Municipalities and Artists Partner
      • Structuring Your Partnership
      • Creating a Strong Partnership
      • Power Dynamics
    • Getting It Done
      • Choosing Artists and Agencies
      • Getting to Know Each Other
      • Developing a Project
      • Sustaining Partnerships
    • The Nitty Gritty
      • Funding
      • Budgeting
      • Contracts
      • Communications
      • Evaluation & Documentation
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    • Profiles
      • The Fargo Project
      • Public Artists in Residence (PAIR)
      • Art At Work
      • intersections
      • Jennie Hahn & the Maine Dept of Agriculture, Conservation, & Forestry
    • Snapshots
    • Evaluation in Action
      • Evaluating Civic Outcomes
      • Evaluating for Casemaking
      • Evaluating for Adaptive Action Toward Systems Change
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    • Nuts and Bolts
    • Profiles and Snapshots
    • Organizations
    • Articles, Reports, and Guides
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A “relationship guide” to forging strong and sustainable creative partnerships between local governments and artists.

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    Get Started

    What is a Municipal/Artist Partnership?

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    Nuts and Bolts

    How to start and sustain a partnership

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    Profiles

    Case studies of M/A projects

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    Tools and Resources

    Sample documents, worksheets, readings, & more

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    About

    Who we are

Image by Anita Hoffarth for The Fargo Project (2016)

Ecological Artist

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City Planner

Public Artist in Residence (PAIR) with NYC Commission on Human Rights Tatyana Fazlalizadeh mural at Daniel O’Connell Park, Queens. Photo courtesy of NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.

Mural Artist

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Commission on Human Rights

Image courtesy of Marty Pottenger

Theatre Artist

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Police Department

Image courtesy of Marty Pottenger

Printmaker

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Health and Human Services

Photo: Jennie Hahn

Storyteller

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Department of Agriculture

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Public Artist

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City Archive

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Social Practice Artist

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Probation Officers

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