New Funding and Resources for NEA's Our Town Grant Program


  • July 22, 2015

New Funding and Resources for Creative Placemaking

Grant Awards, Knowledge Building, & Partnerships Included in NEA Our Town Program Announcement

 

Washington, DC—The community development practice of creative placemaking continues to evolve as artists, designers, arts organizations, and local leaders collaborate on innovative projects that help build stronger communities and improve the quality of life for residents. To further assist the creative placemaking field, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announces the 2015 Our Town awards; 69 awards totaling almost $5 million will support projects in 35 states plus Puerto Rico.

“The Our Town program represents important tenets of the NEA’s work,” said NEA Chairman Jane Chu. “Our Town supports an impressive level of creativity in the field and helps spark vitality within a community through the arts.”

New among this year’s Our Town awards are knowledge building projects, intended to deepen and extend understanding of creative placemaking practices. The teams leading this inaugural group of five projects are arts and non-arts organizations that together demonstrate the kind of “silo-busting” needed to grow the creative placemaking field.

As an additional resource to help creative placemaking practitioners, the NEA's Office of Research & Analysis has developed a new web product, NEA Arts & Livability Indicators: Assessing Outcomes of Interest to Creative Placemaking Projects. This latest installment in the NEA's online Arts Data Profile series includes a discussion of metrics that have been field-tested by the NEA in partnership with the Urban Institute.

For more information, visit: http://arts.gov/news/2015/new-funding-and-resources-creative-placemaking

About the National Endowment for the Arts
Established by Congress in 1965, the NEA is the independent federal agency whose funding and support gives Americans the opportunity to participate in the arts, exercise their imaginations, and develop their creative capacities. Through partnerships with state arts agencies, local leaders, other federal agencies, and the philanthropic sector, the NEA supports arts learning, affirms and celebrates America’s rich and diverse cultural heritage, and extends its work to promote equal access to the arts in every community across America. 

 

 

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