On Friday, September 23, 2016 the Grantmakers Council of Rhode Island, City of Providence Department of Art, Culture, and Tourism, the Rhode Island Foundation, and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts are pleased to sponsor a panel on creative placemaking moderated by Jamie Bennett, Executive Director of ArtPlace America. The panel will focus on how two Providence neighborhoods use arts and culture as an integral strategy for community development. Panelists will discuss how arts organizations and community development organizations collaborate to create positive outcomes in neighborhoods. They will also address how these community-based organizations articulate shared values and vision and talk about what makes their relationships work. An optional tour of the Southside Cultural Center will immediately follow the panel.
CREATIVE PLACEMAKING IN ACTION:
An interactive panel moderated by Jamie Bennett, Executive Director of ArtPlace America
Friday, September 23, 2016
Southside Cultural Center
393 Broad St., Providence, RI
10:00 am - noon
Stephanie Fortunato, Director of Providence Department of Art, Culture + Tourism
Meg Sullivan, Executive Director Manton Ave. Project
Chris Ackley, Stewarship Manager , One Neighborhood Builders
Sebastian Ruth, Founder and Artistic Director- Community Music Works
Carola DeStafano, Board Treasurer, Southside Cultural Center
Carrie Zaslow, Program Officer, - RI Local Initiative Support Corporation
Gina Rodriguez, Cultural Organizer, Southside Cultural Center/Illuminating Trinity
RI Latino Arts - representative to be determined
ArtPlace America (ArtPlace) works to position arts and culture as a core sector of comprehensive community planning and development in order to help strengthen the social, physical, and economic fabric of communities. Its work on creative placemaking, which describes projects in which art plays an intentional and integrated role in place-based community planning and development. This brings artists, arts organizations, and artistic activity into the suite of placemaking strategies pioneered by Jane Jacobs and her colleagues, who believed that community development must be locally informed, human-centric, and holistic.
