Purchase and adapt the historically significant and regionally famous Silvermine Tavern complex as an international, multi-disciplinary, non-profit artist residency program. The 20,000 s.f., four-acre complex will serve 12 artists per... Read More >>
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Community Initiatives
Exemplary creative placemaking initiatives posted by oranizations that leverage local creative assets and cross-sector partnerships for community revitalization and growth.
Share your creative placemaking initiative on NEFA's website and join us at the 2013 Creative Communities Exchange.
Norwalk, CT
Project Dates: Ongoing
Tags: 2013 CCX presenter, Business Planning, Real Estate
Posted Date: January 8, 2013
multiple locations, ME
Project Dates: September 2011 - present
Tags: 2013 CCX presenter, Business Planning, Leadership, Marketing, Networking
Posted Date: January 10, 2013
The Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance (a non profit arts organization serving Wabanaki basketmakers and artists) and Four Directions Development Corporation (a Native American community development organization serving the Native... Read More >>
Greenfield, MA
Project Dates: 2010-Present
Tags: Research
Posted Date: April 10, 2013
Artists and artisans have a crucial role in the sustainability of the creative economy. By utilizing a participatory action research approach seeded by the work of J.K. Gibson-Graham, Jenny Cameron, and Julie Graham’s study of community... Read More >>
Norwalk, CT
Project Dates: January - October 2013
Tags: Civic Engagement, Design, Leadership, Marketing, Policy, Real Estate, Technology, Workforce Development
Posted Date: January 10, 2013
This is the story of how to build a creative economy, economic development, arts organization that exists solely to transform a dying urban area into a cool downtown. Although we are still very much a startup, and operate on a... Read More >>
Keene, NH
Project Dates: Spring, 2013
Tags: Civic Engagement, Event, Marketing, Networking, Real Estate, Workforce
Posted Date: January 14, 2013
Discover Monadnock is a collaboration between Arts Alive! and Monadnock Travel Council, to brand the Monadnock Region as a destination for arts and culture, nature, heritage, and spirit. An interactive website will attract visitors to... Read More >>
Oxford, Franklin & northern Androscoggin Counties, ME
Project Dates: January 1 to December 31, 2013
Tags: Networking
Posted Date: October 22, 2012
The Western Maine Passport to the Arts is the first economic development initiative to launch in Western Maine using the vibrant arts and cultural network of Oxford, northern Androscoggin and Franklin Counties as the backbone of a rich... Read More >>
Gloucester, MA
Project Dates: Lease/Option and project development 2011-2012, acquisition and renovations 2013-2014
Tags: Business Planning, Civic Engagement, Event, Leadership, Marketing, Networking, Real Estate, Workforce Development
Posted Date: January 8, 2013
The Rocky Neck Art Colony, one of the oldest working art colonies in the country, is acquiring the former Christian Science Church on Rocky Neck, Gloucester as a permanent, year-round home. Acquisition of the building, known as The... Read More >>
Hallowell and many others, ME
Project Dates: March 1, 2012 - February 28, 2013
Tags: Civic Engagement, Event, Leadership, Networking
Posted Date: January 4, 2013
CSA: Community Supporting Arts aims to promote both local art and local food by partnering 14 artists with 13 CSA (community supported agriculture) farms in and around central Maine. The artists have been creating art inspired by their... Read More >>
Providence, RI
Project Dates: 2011 - Present
Tags: 2011 CCX presenter, Policy
Posted Date: October 16, 2012
The City of Providence & the RI Public Transit Authority were awarded $910,000 in federal funding through the Dept of Housing and Urban Development’s Sustainable Communities Challenge Planning Grant for Transportation Corridors to... Read More >>
Statewide, ME
Project Dates: Ongoing
Tags: Design, Event, Marketing, Networking, Technology
Posted Date: January 10, 2013
For over thirteen years, Maine Fiberarts has been advancing fiber arts—spinning, knitting, weaving, sculpture, mixed media, felting, quilting, embroidery and so much more—through numerous successful, impacting projects.
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