The "Artist Selection Process Resource Guide: contains information about best practices that will help you navigate the call for artists process.

This report serves as a point of entry into creative placemaking as defined and supported by the Tucson Pima Arts Council’s PLACE Initiative. To assess how and to what degree the PLACE projects were helping to transform communities, TPAC was asked by the Kresge Foundation to undertake a comprehensive evaluation. This involved discussion with stakeholders about support mechanisms, professional development, investment, and impact of the PLACE Initiative in Tucson, Arizona, and the Southwest regionally and the gathering of qualitative and quantitative data to develop indicators and method

The nonprofits in the sector provide an array of services that improve the quality of life for all of the county's citizens, either directly or indirectly. Organizations that help the needy, improve education and nurture a vibrant arts community create lasting benefits that make Alachua County a more desirable place to live, work and raise families.

The 2011 convening, Innovating for Impact—Arts Based Solutions for a Stronger America comes amidst widespread calls for collaborative action and innovative solutions in order to address challenging issues including economic opportunity, at-risk youth, and the impact of the current recession on daily lives. This attention is coming not just from government or the not-for-profit community alone, but from artists as well as social, corporate and philanthropic sector leaders.

Access to Minnesota arts programs is near universal (99%) for all schools. 92% of elementary, 77% of middle, and 49% of high-school students participate in at least one arts area in one year, with music and visual arts having the highest enrollments. 92% of schools use licensed arts teachers as the primary provider of music and visual arts instruction, and 87% of schools have aligned their curriculum with the state arts standards. Additionally, 93% of schools reported providing students field trips to museums, theatres, music performances, and exhibitions. Although Minnesota has some of the

The Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy will collaborate with Boston’s creative community to present public art that enhances the city’s imaginative capacity, enlivens neighborhoods, contributes to economic vitality, and sparks civic exchange.

The Regional Arts & Culture Council in Portland, Oregon, invites artists producing work in visual, performing, literary and/or media arts to submit qualifications for an artist-in-residence project at Bud Clark Commons (650 NW Irving) which provides living quarters and services to individuals experiencing homelessness. The selected artist/team will create work in any media that engages and/or is a result of collaborating with the tenants and staff at the facility. The budget for the project is $25,000. The deadline for submissions is 5:00 p.m. Friday, November 18, 2011. The expected

This report and its predecessor, How Artist Space Matters (2010), explore how and why art spaces benefit in-house artists, arts organizations, and surrounding neighborhoods and regions. Artspace Projects developed the two case studies detailed in this report, the Riverside Artist Lofts (Reno, NV) and Tashiro Kaplan Artist Lofts and Tashiro Arts Building (Seattle, WA), as well as the three Twin Cities projects explored in our first report. The report provides both an in-depth exploration of how the Riverside and

This summary provides the key findings of How Art Spaces Matter: II, the second in a series of studies commissioned by Artspace and conducted by Metris Arts Consulting which explores how and why art spaces benefit in-house artists, arts organizations, and surrounding neighborhoods and regions.