Category: Arts & Culture

Creative Communities Check-In Poll

We’re at the halfway point for ELGL’s “Creative Community” partnership with CivicArts and ArtPlace America and we want to know more about what YOU’RE wanting to learn in the next six months. Take this quick survey and tell us (and you can win a book of Allie Breyer’s choosing if you want to share your … Continued

Creative Communities Check-In Poll

We’re at the halfway point for ELGL’s “Creative Community” partnership with CivicArts and ArtPlace America and we want to know more about what YOU’RE wanting to learn in the next six months. Take this quick survey and tell us (and you can win a book of Allie Breyer’s choosing if you want to share your … Continued

Rewind: Health, Arts, Parks, & Equity

This webinar originally aired on May 27, 2020. About the webinar: The Trust for Public Land is a national nonprofit organization that creates parks and protects land for people, ensuring healthy, livable communities for generations to come. Across the country, TPL uses place-based arts and cultural strategies to create parks that are more healthy, community-center, … Continued

The Power of Arts and Culture to Transform our Water Future, Part Two

The following blog is a two-part series that explores how the arts and culture are contributing to the organization’s larger vision.  In this second blog we hear from Radhika Fox, CEO and Katy Lackey, Senior Program Manager at the US Water Alliance about how arts and cultural strategies specifically came to inform both the professional … Continued

The Power of Arts and Culture to Transform our Water Future

Kids draw the sea level rise line in Eve Mosher’s HighWaterLine, Miami. The following blog is a two-part series that explores how the arts and culture are contributing to the organization’s larger vision.  In this first blog we hear from Radhika Fox, CEO and Katy Lackey, Senior Program Manager at the US Water Alliance about … Continued

Rewind: Incorporating the Arts in Local Government Processes

This webinar aired on April 22, 2020.  Artists and local government leaders can work together to bring innovative and creative capacities to achieve civic goals, improve the workings of government, and benefit community residents.  But how can these same arts-based skills and strategies help city staff deal with times of crisis? Nicole Crutchfield, Director of … Continued

Creating Healthy Communities: Arts + Public Health in America

This local government advisory brief was created by a team at University of Florida, Center for Arts in Medicine. We are sharing as part of our Creative Community series, which is a partnership with ArtPlace America and CivicArts to write, explore, share, and learn about creative placemaking and how we use arts and culture to shape our communities!  COVID-19 Arts Local … Continued

Rewind: Art-Based Strategies & COVID-19

This webinar occurred on April 1, 2020. Learn how partnerships with local/regional artists can improve public health messaging, while also supporting coping and connection. In this session we learned from Dr. Tasha Golden, artist and public health researcher, how arts strategies can contribute to social connection (“Distance not Isolation”), help build ritual or structure into … Continued

The Fargo Project

This post is brought to you by Nicole Crutchfield as part of ELGL’s “Creative Community” learning series about the role of arts and culture in local government. Sign up to guest blog about your local government experiences with creative placemaking here – tell your story so we can learn from you! Planning and design have … Continued

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