We'd welcome adding feedback from Planning Commissioners Journal readers and others. Just add a comment to this page or email your suggestions to us at: pcjoffice@gmail.com
To start off what we hope will be a growing list of resources:
-- communityartsnetwork. A comprehensive web site with a wide range of resources on how the arts can relate to community building. The site is a project of Art in the Public Interest, a nonprofit "providing information and resources in support of art that is culturally engaged and serving communities."
-- Artspace. A nonprofit whose mission "is to create, foster, and preserve affordable space for artists and arts organizations." For Twitter users, Artspace is quite active & can be found at: http://twitter.com/artspaceusa
-- Orton Family Foundation. This nonprofit has integrated art into several community planning efforts. Take a look at the first video below that describes some of their work in Starksboro, Vermont.
-- Public Art can play an important role in cities & towns. Philadelphia has long been a leader in providing support for public art. Planner and urban designer Todd Bressi offers some interesting reflections on the challenges facing Philadlephia today in continuing this role in "Looking hard at our public space during the next half century."
-- Cure for Urban Blight: Plant Lots of Sculpture (New York Times, Oct. 30, 2009) briefly tells how a sculpture park came to be located in downtown Des Moines, Iowa -- and the impact it is having.
-- San Francisco's pilot Art in Storefronts program. See also Mayor Gavin Newsom's op-ed about the progam, Art Brings Life Back to San Francisco Business Districts, on the Huffington Post
Here are several interesting videos on the role the arts can play in our communities:
