Building capacity, confidence, and a community of practice in creative placemaking.
Drawing on the deep knowledge and unique skill sets of the CPTA Resource Team and Partner roster, this offering is designed to build knowledge, hone skills, and add to your Creative Placemaking Toolkit–all in an hour and a half of focused instruction. Centered on a different skill each session, Workshops give Our Town teams the tactical tools they need to execute their projects and work toward systems change.
Easy and Useful Evaluation Tools
In this 90-minute video, Resource Team members Dr. Tasha Golden and Dr. Susannah Laramee Kidd walk you through how to document, evaluate, and tell the story of your project. Our Town grantee partners from “Praise House Project” (Emory University) Dr. Candy Tate and Charmaine Minniefield share insights from their evaluation planning process. Presented November 9, 2022.
Shared Resources:
- Design Your Evaluation Plan Worksheet
- Dr. Golden’s blog post Communicate with Creative Constraints with link to workbook
Telling Your Story
In this interactive workshop, communications experts Flannel & Blade share the fundamentals of storytelling and guide you through a series of short exercises for crafting an “elevator pitch.” By the end of this recording, you’ll have practical tools for shaping how you speak about your creative placemaking project and your own draft pitch. Presented July 20, 2022.
This 90-minute workshop covers:
- Fundamentals of storytelling
- Creating an elevator pitch
- Exploring how to leverage your pitch when communicating with press, collaborators, audiences and potential donors
- And more!
Presenters include Sarah Westlake and Thomas Young of Flannel & Blade. Sarah is a storyteller, editor, cultural producer and network weaver with twenty years of communications experience. Thomas is a freelance designer for content curation, graphic design, and website design. He has helped to design and execute over 20 regional and national events around the field of creative placemaking.
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Accessing Federal Funding from Your Local Government—Some Strategies
The amount of federal funding available through local governments at this time is unprecedented, presenting enormous opportunity for creative community initiatives at the local level. Want to know more about accessing relief, recovery, infrastructure, and other funding for your cross-sector creative community work? View this workshop to learn how one local leader leveraged these funds for the benefit of his community. Presented March 2, 2022.
This one hour workshop covers:
- Approaching local decision-makers
- Framing your request
- Identifying partners
- And more!
Presenters include Margy Waller (who provides training on these issues to other national initiatives like Art-Train, Kresge Foundation, and Americans for the Arts) and Marc Folk of The Arts Commission who successfully asked for and received a multi-million dollar award of American Rescue Plan local funds from the Toledo City Council.
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