CMSC Webinar
When public art is supported and implemented thoughtfully and strategically, it adds tremendous cultural, aesthetic, and economic value to a community by facilitating a sense of place and community pride. It encourages civic engagement and builds social capital through raising public awareness of important local issues and connecting residents to their neighbors and their shared history.
In this webinar, our panel from around the country and Connecticut speaks to innovative public art programs that provide economic impact and create more inclusive communities.
The arts provide meaning to our lives:
Source Americans for the Arts
Top 5 types of arts projects people favor for government funding:
Source Americans for the Arts
Quality of life matters:
CT Office of the Arts provides programming to help communities implement meaningful art projects:
For more information contact: Tamara Dimitri – tamara.dimitri@ct.gov or visit ct.gov/arts
RiseUP is a Connecticut-based non-profit that provides localized, end-to-end placemaking and public art management. Services include:
The organization focuses on exclusively using local artists for community projects; 60% of their artists are people of color.
Learn more and get in touch at theriseupgroup.org.
Portland Winter Light Festival is a family-friendly, city-wide temporary light art placemaking event that takes place in February based in Portland, Oregon.
The festival started in 2016 with no city funding and had 30,000 visitors to its latest event in 2022 bringing in 189,000 attendees and generated $3.7m in estimated economic impact. The city now provides some funding, but the majority of funders are from private donors and sponsors.
Of note:
For more information, visit www.pdxwlf.com or reach out to Alisha Sullivan at director@pdxwlf.com
Big Ideas:
Free Resources:
Other Reading:
For more information, visit www.sounddiplomacy.com or reach out to Kate Durio at Kate@SoundDiplomacy.com.
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