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Artists for Social Change
"The Laundromat Project [New York City] advances artists and neighbors as change agents in their own communities."
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Boston & Massachusetts
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- a2ru - Ann Arbor MI Boston University is a Partner. Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities
- Amplifier - d.school, Stanford University CA A design lab dedicated to amplifying the voices of social change movements through art and community engagement.
- Artplace. Brooklyn NY "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 (international) - Oakland CA "Creating contemporary art exhibitions around the world to address critical social and environmental issues."
- Creative Exchange (Springboard for the Arts) - St. Paul & Fergus Falls MN "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 - Louisville KY "Project HEAL [Health, Equity, Art, Learning] 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 - University of California, Davis CA "Across the country, there was recognition of an informal “movement” growing among artists, humanists, designers, and other scholars in the cultural disciplines who passionately wanted to claim engagement at the core of their identities as intellectuals and artists."
- The Laundromat Project - New York City NY "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 - Detroit & Grosse Pointe MI "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 - New York NY "Placemaking inspires people to collectively reimagine and reinvent public spaces as the heart of every community. "
- Social Workers & Community Arts Projects - online "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."
- Springboard for the Arts - St. Paul & Fergus Falls MN "We've launched Creative People Power, a new report and framework for combining creativity-centered and people-centered development to build strong, healthy, and resilient communities."
- Supporting A Creative America - Grantmakers in the Arts - Bronx NY ""Grantmakers in the Arts is a national association of public and private arts funders - providing members with resources and leadership to support artists and arts organizations."
