February 2015 Blog Salon
February 2015 Blog Salon
NEA weighs in on Cultural Districts and the new Cultural Districts Exchange
There are two questions that I frequently hear when asked about arts and cultural districts: what exactly does it mean to be a cultural district, and how does my community go about designating one?
February 2015 Blog Salon
In Rhode Island, Size Often Matters… Even When It Comes to Cultural Districts
February 2015 Blog Salon
Search and You Shall Find… a Cultural Destination
February 2015 Blog Salon
The Cultural District: The Key to a City’s Heart
February 2015 Blog Salon
Arts Strategies from Cleveland and Dayton
February 2015 Blog Salon
Inspiration Lives Here.
February 2015 Blog Salon
Mayor Jim Brainard on Carmel, Indiana’s Arts and Culture District
February 2015 Blog Salon
Neighbors and Strangers
“We fought poverty, violence and blight, and we made the Southside a better place to live. We are now strangers in our own neighborhood, and it’s painful.”
February 2015 Blog Salon
Cultural Districts as Community Connectors
February 2015 Blog Salon
Branding and Marketing a Cultural District
February 2015 Blog Salon
Seven Key Principles for Curating a Cultural District
February 2015 Blog Salon
Rejection to Re-imagination: A nontraditional cultural district story
Failure. Unanimous rejection. Back to square one. That was the reaction nearly 15 years ago when I first proposed the idea that the entire town of Lanesboro, Minnesota (pop. 754) could be transformed into an arts campus.
February 2015 Blog Salon
Cultural Districts and Communities: Catalysts for Change
Welcome to our newest blog salon on Cultural Districts and Communities: Catalysts for Change - our first blog salon of 2015!
Theresa Cameron
Cultural Districts and Communities: Catalysts for Change
Posted by Feb 06, 2015
Theresa Cameron
This week’s blog salon on Cultural Districts and Communities: Catalysts for Change explored how cultural districts are improving, engaging, and sometimes changing their communities. Kicking off the salon, I introduced our new tool - the National Cultural Districts Exchange, which is a suite of online tools and resources to provide research and information about cultural districts. This new resource is meant to be an exchange of ideas, information, and resources - and this blog salon supplemented this new tool with great viewpoints and unique perspectives on cultural districts.
Read MoreMr. Tom C. Borrup
Hôtel du Nord: You Can Check Out, But It Will Never Leave You
Posted by Feb 06, 2015
Mr. Tom C. Borrup
I’ve had many great opportunities to witness how different communities organize themselves through, around, or into arts and cultural districts. In September, 2014, I had the pleasure of visiting a community in Marseille (800,000 population) in the south of France, a cluster of 8 small neighborhoods that formed a fascinating and alluring heritage and creative district with an approach I hadn’t seen in the United States.
Marseille was motivated by the opportunity to serve as European Capital of Culture for 2013, an effort that brought together players across government, creative, and business sectors to build working relationships like they never had before. The now 30-year-old Capital of Culture program rotates through the nations of the EU selecting cities to show off their distinctive creative and cultural assets. A total of 75 municipal entities in the Provence region (1.8 million population) – an area with no history of regional planning and little cooperation – demonstrated unprecedented unity and cultural vitality for their year in the European spotlight. It was branded Marseille-Provence 2013 or MP2013.
Read MoreMichael Killoren
NEA weighs in on Cultural Districts and the new Cultural Districts Exchange
Posted by Feb 06, 2015
Michael Killoren
There are two questions that I frequently hear when asked about arts and cultural districts: what exactly does it mean to be a cultural district, and how does my community go about designating one?
These are big, complicated questions because there are so many variables! Finding meaningful and helpful answers, analysis, and insight to these questions just got easier, thanks to the National Cultural Districts Exchange, a free online resource. Now, you can find comprehensive information on the formation of cultural districts -- including DIY templates, with sample legislation, and guidelines covering all aspects of district designation - all in one place.
Read MoreMr. Randall Rosenbaum
In Rhode Island, Size Often Matters… Even When It Comes to Cultural Districts
Posted by Feb 06, 2015
Mr. Randall Rosenbaum
Size drives a lot of policy discussions in Rhode Island. We are, after all, a unit of measure. “That iceberg off the coast of Nova Scotia is about the size of Rhode Island.” But for Rhode Islanders we take pride in how our small state is an intimate place, and we discuss ways we can use that intimacy to our advantage.
Twenty-plus years ago we were one of the first states in the nation to establish cultural districts in select communities. These districts had two distinct but complimentary goals: the first was to attract an art-buying (and money-spending) public, and the second was to encourage artists to live and work in areas that would benefit greatly from their presence.
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