Creative Placemaking:

Strengthening Communities with Arts at the Core

RedCan Invitational Graffiti Jam in Eagle Butte, South Dakota. Courtesy of the Cheyenne River Youth Project.

The RiffRaff Arts Collective, Princeton, WV. Photo by Rebecca Kiger.

Lunar New Year, The Rail Park, Philadelphia, PA. Photo by Chris Narisi.

American Street Feast, South Kensington Community Partners, Philadelphia, PA. Photo by Annie O'Neill. Courtesy of LISC.

Searching for the Ghosts of the Gulf, A Studio in the Woods, New Orleans, LA. Photo by Fernando Lopez.

Create to Connect, The Industrial Commons, Morganton, NC. Courtesy of The Industrial Commons.

Praise House Project, Emory College of Arts and Sciences, Atlanta, GA. Photo by Julie Yarbrough Photography LLC.

Creative placemaking integrates arts, culture, and design activities into efforts that strengthen communities. Sometimes also called creative place-keeping or place-knowing, this work is rooted in the understanding that all communities have intrinsic value, unique assets, cultural significance, and that projects in the community must be informed by and relevant to the members of that community.

Since 2016, the Creative Placemaking Technical Assistance Program (CPTA) has offered resources to support community groups, artists, government agencies, and other stakeholders in their creative placemaking efforts. The CPTA program is a partnership program between National Endowment for the Arts’ Design & Creative Placemaking team and Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC).

Creative Placemaking in Communities of All Sizes

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