Arts & Culture

The story behind a bold idea to create a subsidized housing community for artists in a New York City neighborhood.

Using artistic expression to de-stigmatize and treat trauma.

A discussion about honoring the history of a place while actively working to encourage its growth and foster positive change.

Creative placemaking means more than merely adding public art into the mix. To be sustainable it needs to build relationships—and power.

However difficult, altering one’s viewpoint of a community is a crucial step, because creative placemaking’s overarching goal is to reach everyone where they are, and you can’t do that if you begin with a well thought-out plan in hand.

I have seen a neighborhood eat itself for dinner

Artists have left their mark on Station North and paved the way for an arts district, but the organically-developed communal live/work spaces that play such a vital role in helping make Baltimore an arts mecca are an endangered species.

Gentrification is not just physical displacement; it’s cultural appropriation across entire neighborhoods. Artists have an obligation not to participate.

The front porch is a space in-between our private family space and our more public spaces where we create our own definition of “community.” In many parts of Chicago, this space is often a battleground.

What’s not to like about colorful art on utility boxes? Well, in some places that drab infrastructure might be performing informal community functions…

Four representatives of New York City organizations discuss their employment of art and artists to empower residents in the face of gentrification.

Some of us, myself included, are susceptible to the inaccurate thinking that when the arts are involved, the complications that can arise with traditional community building are lessened.