Arts and the Renaissance of Place

If you’re skeptical of the correlation between art making and community building, this session will change your mind. Public art initiatives, business and creative sector partnerships, and arts-inspired economic development are the driving forces behind many newly successful communities. Through creative collaborations across disciplines and departments, towns develop a stronger sense of who they are, what they care about, and the kind of future they want to build. This session will bring together leading voices from arts organizations and innovative place-based projects and partnerships to demonstrate different ways that artists and the arts contribute to sustainable community revitalization.

Elaine Mariner will moderate.