Planning documents don't always feel like the best place to start for storytelling - but here's a story of how the art of storytelling and listening helped advance MnDOT’s Statewide Multimodal Transportation Plan (SMTP)

Civic relationships at their best are grounded in imagination and co-creation. Want to Invigorate Community Engagement? Break out the Building Blocks. nextcity.org/features/want-…

Are you someone who primarily works in either planning, transportation, or land use development and leverages arts-based practices to address community goals? The 2022 Jorge and Darlene Pérez Prize in Public Art & Civic Design is now open americansforthearts.org/by-program/pro…

"What does it mean to infiltrate our own communities w/ authentic & radical storytelling?" On the Nat'l Endow f/t Arts podcast NationalBlackTheatre's Sade Lythcott talks abt community-centered theater & working to call people in, not call them out. #BlackHistoryMonth go.usa.gov/xtmmn

Black spaces matter: In Macon, Ga., Tonja Khabir is working with Historic Macon to ensure the historic Bobby Jones Performing Arts Center is saved & serves as a place to reconnect the community. @JonesCafeMacon CFCGA Knight Macon Macon-Bibb County.weedsupply 13WMAZ News #Macon 13wmaz.com/article/news/c…

Read about one woman's mission to make more creative space available for a rural community.

1. Start with the Why: Wellbeing American Planning Association gives a strong framework for community development with an eye towards inclusive cultural practices. It's a nice roadmap, as we wrestle with how to construct our societies in a world that's very different from just a few years ago.

Here's a great piece from Nat'l Endow f/t Arts Director of Design Jen Hughes on why arts and culture should be embedded in every part of community development.

Our grantee partner ⁦Next City⁩ & the High Line have released “The Future of Monumentality,” a curated ebook that shows us what truly #equitable and #inclusive public spaces look like. Download your copy today. nextcity.org/ebooks/the-fut…

Read the latest publication from ⁦⁦Forecast Public Art *account no longer active*⁩ on efforts involving #artists to focus on restoration rather than the penal process. We must refocus criminal justice by prioritizing healing & imagining how to better serve our communities. forecast-public-art.foleon.com/forward/issue-…

"It takes... different stakeholders to make [the right thing] happen, but the exhibit is one piece of a large puzzle of what it takes to make these communities stable and redress the past.” Tonika Lewis Johnson Can Art Bring Justice to Black Homeowners? nextcity.org/urbanist-news/…

What can the arts do in moments of adaptation and rapid change, that no other discipline can? Join the Resilient Nation Partnership Network on March 30 to learn how the arts can be involved in natural hazard resilience, hosted by FEMA. Register 👉🏽 lnkd.in/d6rbKx7d

Join us next week for a conversation with Ann Graham from Texans for the Arts & Ernest Luna from Texas Arts on state and local level funding opportunities in Texas! We'll hear about the Hotel Occupancy Tax toolkit & the TCA Cultural District program. Register: bit.ly/3JzPud3

Cultural Policy Action Lab Learning Series Wednesday, July 6th 1pm CT Session 3: Infrastructure, Placemaking & Placekeeping Public infrastructure can support creative activation and can be central to authentic belonging in place. giarts.org/cultural-polic…

The field of Creative Placemaking/Placekeeping has at its core the capacity to meet our rapidly changing world with both compassion & innovation. Today in the GrantmakersInTheArts reader Lynn Osgood talks about our work with #TXCPI that brings together new partnerships and new possibilities

Have you registered for the Leveraging Partnerships in the Arts to Strengthen Public Health webinar? Learn about how to build partnerships to implement arts and health programming. Join us on Thursday, November 3, 2022, at 3:00 pm Eastern . Register here: bit.ly/3ryJRVF

NEW BLOG: Learn how #CreativeForces Community Engagement grant projects are making a difference in military and veteran populations. creativeforcesnrc.arts.gov/news/community… Photo by James Teichman Nat'l Endow f/t Arts #CreativeArtsTherapy #CommunityArtsPrograms

It's a wonderful time at Civic Arts and our work with partners and in the community is growing. We're looking for folks who would like to join our team - from interns to full-time hires - for communications, digital media, and project management. jobs.gusto.com/boards/civic-a…