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Boston & Massachusetts
AFH (Artists for Humanity)
Artists for Humanity (AFH) provides under-resourced teens the keys to self-sufficiency through paid employment in art design.
AIGA: Professional Association for Design
AIGA advances design as a professional craft, strategic advantage and vital cultural force. As the largest community of design advocates, we bring together practitioners, enthusiasts, and patrons to amplify the voice of design and create the vision for a collective future.
AIR (Artists in Residence)
Artists in our residency program partner with City departments. Together, they re-imagine a more creative and equitable Boston.
Arts & Culture - Harvard University, Cambridge MA
Spanning museum exhibitions to live performances and hands-on art-making activities, Harvard regularly brings arts and culture opportunities—from across the country and around the world—to its neighbors in Boston, Cambridge, and across Massachusetts.
ArtSake (Mass Cultural Council)
ArtSake is a place to dig into the creative, innovative work of Massachusetts artists. It’s a service of Mass Cultural Council, a state agency that promotes excellence, inclusion, education, and diversity in the arts, humanities, and sciences to foster a rich cultural life for all Massachusetts residents.
Center for Art & Community Partnerships - Mass Art, Massachusetts College of Art & Design
MassArt’s Center for Art and Community Partnerships (CACP) partners with people and communities within and beyond MassArt to radically expand access to transformative creative experiences.
Community Arts Initiative - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Community Arts Initiative allows the Museum to serve as an art and cultural resource within Boston-area communities. Now working with twelve community organizations, the Community Arts Initiative introduces youth to the Museum's collections and the art-making process, while also helping them understand how art can be an important part of their lives.
Community Engagement & Social Impact Initiatives - College of Fine Arts, Boston University
Community Engagement & Social Impact Initiatives at the BU College of Fine Arts include Arts/Lab, Arts Common Ground, and more.
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a2ru
Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities
Americans for the Arts
Our mission is to build recognition and support for the extraordinary and dynamic value of the arts and to lead, serve, and advance the diverse networks of organizations and individuals who cultivate the arts in America.
Amplifier
A design lab dedicated to amplifying the voices of social change movements through art and community engagement.
Artists for Community Transformation Intl
by developing, empowering, and celebrating these artistic servant-leaders and their creative efforts toward embracing a lifestyle of service to others, their community, their culture and the world."
Artplace
"Creative placemaking happens when artists and arts organizations join their neighbors in shaping their community’s future, working together on place-based community outcomes."
Artworks for Change
"Creating contemporary art exhibitions around the world to address critical social and environmental issues."
Creative Exchange
"On this platform we share stories of artists and their impact in community, and free, practical toolkits for artist-engaged programs, from professional development to creative placemaking to fun projects to bring people together."
Four Ways Artists Can Help Heal Communities
"Project HEAL uses the arts to enable communities to work toward health equity, hand-in-hand with policymakers, health care institutions, nonprofits, and others."
Imagining America: Artists & Scholars in Public Life
"creates democratic spaces to foster and advance publicly engaged scholarship that draws on arts, humanities, and design. We catalyze change in campus practices, structures, and policies that enables artists and scholars to thrive and contribute to community action and revitalization."
The Laundromat Project
"We make sustained investments in growing a community of multiracial, multigenerational, and multidisciplinary artists and neighbors committed to societal change by supporting their artmaking, community building, and leadership development."
Neighborhood Postcard Project
"Residents share personal positive stories about their neighborhood on a postcard and those postcards are delivered to random people in different neighborhoods within that same city to break down stereotypes and build community."
Project for Public Spaces
" placemaking inspires people to collectively reimagine and reinvent public spaces as the heart of every community. Strengthening the connection between people and the places they share, placemaking refers to a collaborative process by which we can shape our public realm in order to maximize shared value. "
Social Workers & Community Arts Projects
"For social workers, being involved in a community art project can be among the most rewarding and dynamic experiences. Primarily focused on engaging a community or a group of people, community arts projects involve a variety of media and often function to facilitate a dialogue within a group. Many of these projects are created and envisioned with the help of professional artists."
Springboard for the Arts
"platform sharing artful ideas for stronger communities, and is the national program of Springboard for the Arts. On this platform we share stories of artists and their impact in community, and free, practical toolkits for artist-engaged programs, from professional development to creative placemaking to fun projects to bring people together."
Supporting Artists in Community Settings - Grantmakers in the Arts
"a national association of public and private arts funders - providing members with resources and leadership to support artists and arts organizations."
