Creative Placemaking: Using Art and Artists to Revitalize Your Communities

Cities can kick-start momentum with arts organizations that are often undervalued community resources. Recognize contemporary ways to put arts and culture at the heart of increasing vibrancy and act as the economic driver for people to thrive in “place”. Take a close look at exciting ways artists are creative placemaking throughout the country.
Presiding:
Craig Watson, Director, California Arts Council
Speakers:
Joseph Cortright, Economist, Impresa, Inc./ArtPlace
Jessica Gomula-Kruzic, Director, Building Imagination Center and Associate Professor of Time Based Media, California State University, Stanislaus
John Michael Schert, Executive Director, Trey McIntyre Project