Resources for Placemakers

“ART AND CULTURE ARE UNDERUTILIZED assets in community planning and development. Working with artists can help improve stakeholder engagement in planning in a number of ways and contribute to plans and developments that represent and serve the people who live in a community” (from How to do Creative Placemaking (NEA, 2017)).

• Tools for Neighborhood leaders
  
  • Neighborhood Input Survey
  • Neighborhood Creativity Survey

• Understanding Our Community
  • ARCHES Neighborhood Input Survey
  • Harrison Museum of African American Culture
  • Historical Society of Western Virginia
  • Plan Roanoke (2040 Comprehensive Plan Proces)
  • Roanoke Arts and Cultural Plan
  • Roanoke Public Art Collection
  • Virginia Room of the Roanoke Public Library

• Connecting Arts and Place – Creative Placemaking
  • Creative Placemaking Powerpoint from July 10 Arches meeting
  • Best Practices ARCHES
  • ArtPlace America
  • Local Initiatives Support Organization (LISC)
  • National Endowment for the Arts
  • Springboard for the Arts
  • Art Making Change: Mapping the Landscape of Socially Engaged Artistic Practice

• A Neighborhood Creativity Inventory: Imagine a community in which we align the talents and creative energy of all willing residents. Who’s creative in your neighborhood?
  • We’re starting a list. You and your neighbors can fill out the quick mini-survey. For talented youth, please put down a parent’s name and contact information.
  • We’ll provide the list to the neighborhood leaders for this and for other projects they might be undertaking.
  • We’ll also send out calls for participation in small community projects, art selection panels and more.

Here are some under-bridge examples from around the country: