By Jamie Bennett. "Creative Placemaking" describe projects in which artists and arts organizations are explicitly working as part of a larger strategy to help shape their communities' social, physical, and economic characters. In other words, these projects are doing art to change a place. This work is not new"in ancient Greece, the theater was the literal, spiritual, and civic center of the community"but putting a n…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:46PM on February 28, 2014