BFMC was created after Massachusetts instituted lucrative tax credits that brought major feature films to the state beginning in 2006. All of these productions (and the dollars they bring into local economies) has been focused in and... 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.
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Boston, MA
Project Dates: 2006 - Present
Tags: 2011 CCX presenter, Policy, Workforce Development
Posted Date: October 16, 2012
Berkshire County, MA
Project Dates: 2010 - Present
Tags: 2011 CCX presenter, Marketing
Posted Date: October 16, 2012
The Berkshires Audience Initiative came out of a need addressed by Jennifer Dowley at the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation in the Spring of 2010. There was a desire among arts and cultural organizations to better understand their... Read More >>
Portsmouth, NH
Project Dates: 2002 - Present
Tags: 2011 CCX presenter, Civic Engagement, Workforce Development
Posted Date: October 15, 2012
According to Dun & Bradstreet, Portsmouth, New Hampshire is home to over 185 arts-related businesses that employ over 935 people. These businesses play an important role in building and sustaining a vibrant economy. They employ... Read More >>
New Bedford & Lowell, MA
Project Dates: 1999 - Present
Tags: 2011 CCX presenter, Business Planning, Civic Engagement, Event, Networking
Posted Date: October 15, 2012
In 1997, the Standard-Times convened a planning process using the Regional Community Congress model to identify the SouthCoast as a regional hub. Calling the sectors of health care, education, religion, business, and arts and culture,... Read More >>
Hartford, CT
Project Dates: 1990 - Present
Tags: 2011 CCX presenter, Civic Engagement, Design, Networking
Posted Date: October 9, 2012
In July of 1989, recently evicted and teetering on the edge of extinction, Real Art Ways relocated from downtown Hartford into an old industrial building in the Parkville neighborhood, and began to put down roots, and open its doors to... Read More >>
Burlington, VT
Project Dates: 1996 - Present
Tags: Business Planning, Networking, Workforce
Posted Date: October 21, 2012
Big Heavy World emerged during the first public days of the internet, the product of a graphic designer and engineer working together to publish an encyclopedia of local music to the new World Wide Web in 1996. They lived in a "band... Read More >>
Portland, ME
Project Dates: April & June 2012
Tags: Civic Engagement, Event, Leadership, Networking
Posted Date: December 13, 2012
In June 2012 Tetra Projects collaborated with the Hellenic Society of Maine to bring a show of works on paper by fifty Portland-area artists to Portland’s Sister City of Mytilene, Greece for an exhibition at the Halim Bey Municipal Art... Read More >>
Ashburnham, Clinton and Fitchburg, MA
Project Dates: 2012
Tags: Civic Engagement, Policy, Research
Posted Date: January 4, 2013
MRPC facilitated a Cultural District assessment for the towns of Ashburnham and Clinton as well as the City of Fitchburg in 2012. The assessment began with developing an understanding of the Cultural District requirements of this... Read More >>
North Adams, MA
Project Dates: May - September 2012
Tags: Civic Engagement, Design, Event, Leadership, Networking, Research
Posted Date: December 27, 2012
Students, educators and professional artists worked collaboratively to create a public mural that documents and celebrates the role of the arts in the economic history of the city of North Adams, Massachusetts and its relationship to... Read More >>
Hartford, CT
Project Dates: 2009 - Present
Tags: Marketing
Posted Date: October 21, 2012
In preparing for the anniversary of the landmark Amistad Case in the 1990's, a committee was formed to research and document the authentic sites where this history happened. It became clear that African American history sites throughout... Read More >>
