This section contains templates, worksheets, videos, reports, and more from projects that are featured elsewhere in this guide; plus a wealth of information from other sources. Resources are mainly organized by MAP Guide section; with general resources at the bottom of the page.
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Includes documentation of projects in South LA neighborhoods.
ABOG provides Fellowships for socially-engaged artists; and produces short documentary videos and publishes a magazine about socially engaged art.
Alliance of Artist Communities: Municipal Residencies Toolkit
A toolkit for artist residencies in museums, parks, and within municipal government.
The Briefing Papers on Arts & Planning explore how planners use arts and culture to achieve their goals. The Arts and Planning Interest Group is a collaborative space for planners and artists.
This program of Americans for the Arts brings national visibility to arts for change work, builds knowledge about quality practice, and creates guides and other resources. These include: Artists Working in and within Municipal Governments (Case studies) Impact evaluation resources
A 10-year public/private funder coalition that supports creative placemaking initiatives until 2020.
The Center for Performance and Civic Practice
CPCP works to integrate arts-based strategies into municipalities and organizations, builds capacity for artists and M/A partnerships, and makes grants to M/A partnerships.
A non-profit consultancy and intermediary organization that works with public artists and communities. They offer trainings and workshops, and also publish Public Art Review.
League of Creative Interventionists
LOCI funds and supports artist-fellows to work in communities and with municipalities.
LISC – Creative Placemaking Program
The Local Initiatives Support Corporation supports local partners in integrating creative placemaking projects into community development initiatives. In 2019 LISC and the NEA convened an intensive workshop on creative placemaking.
Metropolitan Area Planning Council
MAPC helps cities and towns in the 101-community Boston metropolitan region with policies, programs, and staffing that support arts and cultural assets to grow and thrive.
MAPC’s resource for planners and other government staff who are interested in projects and partnerships that engage the arts.
National Association of Counties (NACo), Arts & Culture Commission
Works to demonstrate how the arts can be used by county officials to promote economic development and provide solutions to many of the challenges that they face.
National Endowment for the Arts
NEA Our Town grants support Creative Placemaking projects nationally.
PolicyLink- Arts, Culture, and Equitable Development
PolicyLink works to advance, research, and support this growing national community of practice.
Transportation for America: The Scenic Route
A guide to integrating creative placemaking into transportation initiatives.
Towards Creative Government: Models for Municipal-Artist Partnerships. Common Field 2020, with Amanda Lovelee (Minneapolis, MN), Annis Whitlow Sengupta (Boston, MA), Nicole Crutchfield (Fargo, ND), and A Blade of Grass’ Prerana Reddy (New York, NY)
City as Partner: Three Artists on Collaborating with Government Agencies: Rachel Barnard, Rad Pereira, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles. Jan Cohen-Cruz, A Blade of Grass Magazine, 2019
Inside Artist-Municipal Partnerships. Americans for the Arts, ArtsBlog, 2018
Playing for the Public Good: The Arts in Planning and Government. Jon Catherwood-Ginn and Bob Leonard, Animating Democracy/Americans for the Arts, 2012
Six Reasons Government Should Collaborate with Artists. Mallory Nezam, Medium, 2019
Why Artists Make Good Civic Leaders. Blog Series, ArtPlace America
Working with Artists to Deepen Impact. Alexis Stevens, PolicyLink, 2019.
Artist Residencies in the Public Realm: A Resource Guide for Fostering Residencies and Creating Successful Collaborations, Office of Public Art, City of Pittsburgh, PA, 2014
Mapping the Landscape of Socially Engaged Artistic Practice (Report). Alexis Frasz and Holly Sidford, Helicon Collaborative, 2017.
Resource Library/Art for Social Change, Simon Fraser University
Creating Change through Arts, Culture, and Equitable Development: A Policy and Practice Primer. Kalima Rose, Milly Hawk Daniel, Jeremy Liu, PolicyLink, 2017.
How Artists and City Officials Imagine a Bordertown’s Future. Interview by Emma Colon with Hilda Ledezma, A Blade of Grass, 2019.
Planning and Public Art: An Interview with Jack Becker of Forecast Public Art (video)
Arts, Culture, and Transportation: A Creative Placemaking Field Scan, Transportation for America/ArtPlace, 2017
Irrigate: A Toolkit for Mobilizing Local Artists to Solve Challenges in Your Community. Springboard for the Arts, 2014
Allen County Common Threads Theatre Project Case Study: Arts Council of Greater Lima. Sue Wood, Animating Democracy/Americans for the Arts.
Building Home: Dramaturgy for Theater as Civic Practice. Robert H. Leonard. Public, a journal of Imagining America.
Catalyst Initiative Project Portraits
Evaluating Impact/Appreciating Evaluation. Pam Korza, Barbara Schaffer Bacon, Animating Democracy/Americans for the Arts, 2012.
Shifting Expectations: An Urban Planner’s Reflections on Evaluating Community-Based Arts. Maria Rosario Jackson, 2009.
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