Creative Placemaking for a Stronger Community - Business Skills for Creatives 2.0

This is an invitation to you to participate in the upcoming program; Business Skills for Creatives 2.0 series presented by the Broward Cultural Division. This summer, we have scheduled a new series of free online (Stream Yard link) seminar sessions for artists. See: https://www.broward.org/Arts/Events/Pages/default.aspx

Program: Creative Placemaking for a Stronger Community - Moving Placemaking into a New Epoch (a presentation of the themes of the recent publication: The Routledge Handbook of Placemaking).

Saturday, JULY 24, 2021 - 10:30AM - 12:00noon

RSVP: https://bit.ly/2S5k6Oy

The seminar considers the future of creative placemaking, as a practice and as a sector, with reflections on climate emergency, COVID-19, and intersectional racial, social, and economic justice. The talk will delve into how the world emerging after the pandemic could encourage us to rewrite our relationships with our local neighborhoods to shape more responsive streets and public spaces.

Dr. Jackson and Mr. Schupbach will present the themes of the recent publication: The Routledge Handbook of Placemaking (https://bit.ly/2TAIJD4). Creative placemaking can and should flourish in the future by supporting communities to: 1.) image the future and remember the past; 2.) advance equity; 3.) help people build stronger relationships; and 4.) support cross-sector collaboration and impact.

About Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson:

Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson is an expert in comprehensive community revitalization, urban poverty, systems change, dynamics of race and ethnicity and roles and culture in communities. She is an Institute Professor in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts and the Watts College of Public Service and Community solutions at Arizona State University where she leads the Studio for Creativity, Place and Equitable Communities. She is the Senior Advisor for Arts and Culture at the Kresge Foundation and consults with national and regional foundations and government agencies on strategic planning and research. In 2012, she was appointed by President Obama to the National Council on the Arts. She is on the advisory board of the Lambent Foundation and on the boards of directors of the Alliance for California Traditional Arts and LA Commons. Previously, she was a senior research associate at the Urban Institute in the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center and founding director of UI’s Culture, Creativity and Communities Program.

About Jason Schupbach:

Jason Schupbach is the Dean of the Westphal College of Media Arts and Design at Drexel University and a nationally recognized expert in the role that arts and design play in improving communities. He was the federal liaison to the design community in his role as Director of Design and Creative Placemaking Programs for the National Endowment for the Arts.

Anyone may register. The sessions are free, online. Please do RSVP in advance.

TO REGISTER go to: https://bit.ly/2S5k6Oy

Designed to help artists operate in the marketplace more successfully, the curriculum over the summer will cover a number of different aspects to support the development of an artistic business.