Arts and cultural development

This CIRD-created document tracks potential funding opportunities and resources for various rural-related community design challenges. It will be updated periodically as new resources are identified.

Source: National Governor's Association and National Endowment for the Arts. By leveraging the creative industries, states can deploy proven strategies that help all rural communities to thrive. This action guide is part of a collaborative project between NGA, the National Endowment for the Arts and National Assembly of State Arts Agencies.

Source: Placemaking Chicago Authors: Project for Public Spaces, Metropolitan Planning Council Chicago Summary: This guidebook is written for anyone who has a stake in the improvement of neighborhoods.

This resource article focuses on how creativity and culture can drive economic development in rural communities. The article focuses on Prince Edward County, a rural municipality of 25,000 located south of Belleville, approximately midway between Toronto and Montreal, Canada.

Tourism provides communities with numerous benefits including, new jobs, an expanded tax base, improved facilities, and a new market for local products. However, tourism can also exacerbate crowding, traffic congestion, and haphazard development if not planned for correctly. This resource article provides tactics needed to maximize the benefits of tourism, while minimizing the burdens.

This resource is intended to help those who want to re-invigorate and strengthen neighborhood centers of economy, culture, and history through a smart growth approach to development.

This guide by Jackson Hole Public Art outlines the nine steps required to set up a successful public art project.

This toolkit highlights successful examples of how arts and culture were utilized in multiple sectors in equity initiatives. Examples from communities both far and near provide a resource for how Dubuque could engage the community through arts and culture to make a more welcoming, inclusive community.

That "Placemaking was always known to Native Americans" undergirds a new "Native American Creative Placemaking" report from HAC. The report examines a handful of established Native American creative placemaking efforts while offering a first of its kind interactive map of Native American creative placemaking projects.

Build community and share a love for learning by starting a local Little Free Library in your neighborhood. Learn more about the Little Free Libraries / Los Libres program and how to get started with this guidebook by bcWORKSHOP.

Case studies are a great source of placemaking knowledge! Springboard for the Arts learned from the programs of arts and arts organizations to compile a collection of how-to's for creative projects.

New guide for resources for creative placemaking practitioners published by the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies. Your state arts agency offers grant funding for arts-based work including community design as well as support and resources.