SESSIONS
These sessions cover a wide variety of placemaking (or, if you prefer, placekeeping) topics: community engagement, cultural preservation, local economic development, professional sustainability, social justice, technology, youth engagement and more.
Opening Plenary:
JERSEY CITY STORIES TOLD BY YOUNG ARTISTS
Brooke Hansson
Jersey City Mural Arts Program
Office of Cultural Affairs
City of Jersey City
Over the past seven years, the Jersey City Mural Arts Program has engaged about more than 100 high school age residents to create and paint murals around the city. The program does more than help them learn how to paint murals -- it also allows them to explore key issues affecting young people, their friends and relatives in this dynamic city. Hear from artists and others involved in this program about what they learned from participants, and get a deeper understanding of Jersey City.
Closing Plenary:
CREATIVE PLACEMAKING - STATE OF THE UNION
Sarah Merritt, Director of Pennsylvania Creative Communities & Creative Economy
Mary Eileen Fouratt, Program Officer, Access Coordinator, New Jersey State Council on the Arts
Leeann Wallett, Program Office, Community Engagement, State of Delaware
Ann Dickson, CEO, Creative Placemaking Communities
Join Cultural Program Directors across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic for a lively conversation about creative placemaking initiatives in the region. Hear about their plans, programs, successes, challenges and how they are integrating arts and culture in their respective states.
In-Person Sessions
Nourishing Communities: The Role of Food in Shaping Sense of Place
Making Touchstones: Building Community Through Making Art
Preventing Cultural Gentrification
The Role of Social Entrepreneurship in Creative Placemaking
Art + Information + Conversation = Social Change
Sowing Reciprocity: Emulating Nature’s Approach to Collaboration and Organizational Strategy
Cultural Displacement: When and How to Manage Gentrification
Expanding Your Research Toolkit: A Peer-to-Peer Method Exchange
We Are Storytellers
Virtual Sessions
The Power and Beauty of Community Collaboration in Creating Public Art for Place and Peacemaking
The New Schoolfield: Understanding the Past to Craft a Vibrant Future
Turning Your Public Space Stars Into a Constellation
Theater of Joy: Renaming a Park and Reckoning with a Legacy
Mental Landscapes: How Park and Public Space Design Can Reflect the Experiences of People Living with Depression to Foster Healing and Belonging
Cultural Planning: The Notion, Origin, and Recent Practices and Trends
