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[Createquity Reruns] Public Art and the Challenge of Evaluation

(Createquity’s summer rerun programming continues this week with a focus on arts research! This instant classic by Createquity Writing Fellow Katherine Gressel spread like wildfire when it was first published in January 2012, and remains our third-most popular post ever. It even brought us a bunch of new readers from Australia! [Long story.] While notRead More

[Createquity Reruns] On Stories vs. Data

(Createquity’s summer rerun programming continues this week with a focus on arts research! Over the next few months, we’re reaching into the archives to pull out some of the best articles and most underrated gems we’ve published since 2007. This post was originally written by me for the Fractured Atlas blog in March 2011, andRead More

[Createquity Reruns] Our View of Creative Placemaking, Two Years In

The NEA opens up about its process for defining and evaluating creative placemaking projects and initiatives, positing that almost any successful creative placemaking project would make a difference to its community in at least one of four ways: strengthening the infrastructure that supports artists and arts organizations; increasing community attachment; improving quality of life; and/or driving local economies.

Diane Ragsdale’s Wonderful Words and Nina Simon’s Participatory Museum

We’re feeling the love from two new arts luminaries today: Diane Ragsdale, provocateur and fellow blogger at Jumper, and Nina Simon, Executive Director at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, have thrown their support behind our Indiegogo campaign. Diane offers some inspiring words of support in the video below, and Nina has givenRead More

[Createquity Reruns] Fuzzy Concepts, Proxy Data: Why Indicators Won’t Track Creative Placemaking Success

(Creative Placemaking Week at Createquity continues with a look back at Ann Markusen’s massive essay raising pointed questions about the research approach adopted by the National Endowment for the Arts and ArtPlace to understand creative placemaking back in 2012. As professor and director of the Project on Regional and Industrial Economics at the University ofRead More

[Createquity Reruns] Creative Placemaking Has an Outcomes Problem

(Welcome to Createquity’s summer rerun programming! Over the next few months, we’re reaching into the archives to pull out some of the best articles and most underrated gems we’ve published since 2007. This week, we’re focusing on creative placemaking! The article below was the opening shot in a debate about the emerging practice of usingRead More

[Createquity Reruns] Thoughts on “Thoughts on Effective Philanthropy”: Lessons from my Summer Internship

(Over the next few months, we’re reaching into the archives to pull out some of the best articles and most underrated gems we’ve published since 2007. This week, we’re wrapping up the “Thoughts on Effective Philanthropy” series, which was my first extended think piece for Createquity back in 2007-08. Following my broadsides from the peanutRead More

[Createquity Reruns] Thoughts on Effective Philanthropy: Part VI – The Philanthropist as Speculator, Not Gatekeeper

(Over the next few months, we’re reaching into the archives to pull out some of the best articles and most underrated gems we’ve published since 2007. This week, we’re continuing the “Thoughts on Effective Philanthropy” series, which was my first extended think piece for Createquity back in 2007-08. For the sixth and final post inRead More

Createquity’s Cott Respect

We just received yet another wonderful endorsement from a man many of you probably hear from daily. Thomas Cott, industry expert and valued purveyor of arts knowledge through You’ve Cott Mail, has generously provided the below video to help support Createquity’s Indiegogo campaign. He joins Andrew Taylor in asking you to invest in Createquity’s excitingRead More

[Createquity Reruns] Thoughts on Effective Philanthropy: Part V – Meeting the Artists Where They Are

(Welcome to Createquity’s summer rerun programming! Over the next few months, we’re reaching into the archives to pull out some of the best articles and most underrated gems we’ve published since 2007. This week, we’re continuing the “Thoughts on Effective Philanthropy” series, which was my first extended think piece for Createquity back in 2007-08. InRead More

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