Arts & Culture

To my fellow artists? Just please, PLEASE, stick around on the planet. I know. It’s getting tougher. For me too. You’re not alone.

Art that highlights the effects of long-term sentencing and the need to support and expand services for those who are reentering society.

A Philadelphia park conservancy develops arts-based partnerships within the Strawberry Mansion neighborhood to strengthen the community’s cultural identity.

If artists are going to bring their creative problem-solving selves to projects, they need to get involved when the problem is being identified.

Three transit projects show how artists, transit agencies, and community groups helped communities envision more equitable outcomes.

Preserving and fortifying longstanding culture is key to social cohesion in a community. How can we make sure it’s given equal priority when planning for and funding redevelopment?

Sustained resistance to gentrification and displacement requires more than antagonism. It requires a community organized around an open, positive alternative vision that has both big ambitions and achievable, intermediary steps.

In a year-long program that included bike rides, serenades, and Dragtivist performances, an art collective guided Brownsville, Texas, residents in reimagining how they could influence equity and justice in their city.

With all the news of downward trends in rural America, this rural sociologist says he finally has something to smile about.

With collaboration among Dallas’ arts community, a place-based initiative called CultureBank invests in social impact artists in order to steward community assets to promote the health and well being of residents.

A tribal college program works to preserve crucial Native American cultural elements while training indigenous women to step into leadership roles in their communities.

Techniques from the arts world can help us envision and re-envision relationships and systems to spot stress points and opportunities within communities.