Creative Placemaking Foundations
Wednesday, February 15, 2023
2-3:45PM
Creative Placemaking Foundations reviews the fundamental elements of Our Town, offers tools to reflect on and influence local change through arts and culture, and provides key takeaways on partnerships, community engagement, and connecting artists with communities. Featured presenters in this workshop include Maya Hering from the National Endowment for the Arts and Our Town Technical Assistance Resource Team members Scott Oshima, Jamie Horter, Michaele Pride, Renee Piechocki, and Margy Waller.
More information is available here.
Partnerships Workshop
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
2-3:45PM ET
Partnerships are a vital program element for successful and sustainable change in Our Town projects. Resource Team member Jamie Horter shares lessons and models for successful partnerships, including some preventative care tips for navigating conflict. Plus, Our Town grantee Forklift Danceworks’ leaders Allison Orr and Lisa Byrd offer their story of leveraging dance to build strong relationships with the parks department, city residents, and the East Austin neighborhood.
More information is available here.
Community Engagement Workshop
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
2-3:30PM ET
Community engagement is a critical component of creative placemaking projects. It is an opportunity to foster greater community connections, build coalitions, and strengthen community ownership over the project. In this workshop, Resource Team member Theresa Hyuna Hwang leads a session on designing community engagement that centers community voices and people. Our Town FY20 grantee Cornerstone Theater Company shares their approach to collaborating with communities, including learnings from their current production Wicoun, created with and for the interconnected, but widely dispersed residents of the Sicangu Lakota Nation (Rosebud), Oglala Lakota Nation (Pine Ridge), Ihanktonwan Dakota Oyate (Yankton), and other reservations, as well as Indigenous communities in Rapid City, South Dakota.
More information is available here.
August Creative Placemaking Foundations (for FY2023 Grantees)
Wednesday, August 9, 2023
2-4:00PM ET
Creative Placemaking Foundations reviews the fundamental elements of Our Town, offers tools to reflect on and influence local change through arts and culture, and provides key takeaways on systems change, partnerships, community engagement, and the creative placemaking process. Featured presenters in this workshop include Ben Stone and Maya Hering from the National Endowment for the Arts and Our Town Creative Placemaking Technical Assistance Resource Team members Jamie Horter, Scott Oshima, Michaele Pride, Margy Waller, and Melissa Kim.