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BE CREATIVE! ART, PLACEMAKING AND FUNDING

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

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UPCOMING TRAINING FROM APBP

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May 16 – Quick Builds – Tactical Urbanism Toolbox

June 20 – Safety Manuals – The Good Stuff

THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS SPONSORS

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TODAY'S WEBINAR PRESENTERS

Katherine Bray-Simons, National Endowment for the Arts

Katherine is a grants specialist at the National Endowment for the Arts, where she manages Our Town, the agency’s creative placemaking portfolio.

Katherine holds master’s degrees in Urban Planning and Public Art Curatorial Practice from the University of Southern California. She is based in Washington, DC.

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TODAY'S WEBINAR PRESENTERS

Ben Stone, Smart Growth America Ben is Director of Arts & Culture at Smart Growth America and its program Transportation

for America. Ben leads the organization’s broad efforts to help communities across the country better integrate arts, culture, and creative placemaking into neighborhood revitalization, equitable development, and transportation planning efforts.

Ben holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; a bachelor’s degree in American Studies from Tufts University; and a Master in City Planning from MIT, where he focused on land use planning, urban design, and the intersection of the arts and community development.

Prior to joining SGA, Ben served as Executive Director of Station North Arts & Entertainment, Inc., where he employed an arts-based revitalization and placemaking strategy to guide development in the state-designated Arts District in Baltimore. Under Ben’s leadership, Station North became a national model for creative placemaking and equitable development through the arts and innovative collaboration.

Ben has also served as an architectural designer/planner for the Baltimore Development Corporation, working on revitalization projects in Baltimore’s Middle Branch, Central Business District, and Station North. As a frequent conference speaker and guest lecturer and critic, Ben has advised students, practitioners, and artists on creative placemaking and community-engaged art. Ben has been recognized as a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Forum for Young Cultural Innovators (2014), a Baltimore Business Journal 40 under 40 Honoree (2014), and a Next City Vanguard (2012).

Funding Opportunities at the NEA for creative placemaking projects 

Katherine Bray‐Simons, Our Town Specialist 

NEA Mission

NEA is dedicated to strengthening the creative capacity of our communities by providing all Americans with diverse opportunities for arts participation.

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• Only federal government agency dedicated to supporting arts and culture

• Offers grant making programs, including place‐based funding streams ($115 million each year to arts organizations of all sizes across all 50 states and U.S. territories)

• Brokers and forms local and nationwide relationships among arts leaders, cultural workers, non‐arts community leaders, and local and state governments

• Advances policy and research that extends the impact and reach of arts and culture

About the NEA

NEA Budget

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40% of grant funding to states and regional partners

60% of grant funding is administered 

through competitive award programs (to government entities, nonprofit 501c3 organizations and federally‐recognized tribal governments)

Strategic coalitions with federal agencies to leverage arts and culture opportunities 

in other agencies’ grants programs

FY 2018 Total Budget: $150 million

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OUR TOWN Arts/culture‐drivencommunity 

development,  place‐based investments

$25,000‐$200,000

Next Deadline: August 2018

ARTWORKS Creation, Engagement, Learning, Livability 

projects

$10,000‐$100,000

Two Annual Deadlines:

February and July

CHALLENGEAMERICA

Extend reach of arts to underserved communities

$10,000 Next Deadline: April 2018

* Eligible applicants: Nonprofit 501c3 organizations (3 years of history), government entities, federally‐recognized tribes

NEA Competitive Grant Programs

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PHOTO: Courtesy Esther Robinson.

Creative Placemaking + Our Town

Creative placemaking is when artists, arts organizations, and community development practitioners deliberately integrate arts and culture into community revitalization work ‐placing arts at the table with land‐use, transportation, economic development, education, housing, infrastructure, and public safety strategies. 

arts+

Health HousingPublic Safety Transportation Agriculture + FoodEnvironment + Energy Economic Development 

that result in equitable…economic socialphysical 

…change. 

Our Town funds… 

catalytic projects…

Illuminate: Bring new attention to or elevate key community assets and issues, voices of residents, local history, or cultural infrastructure

Energize: Inject new or additional energy, resources, activity, people, or enthusiasm into a place, community issue, or local economy

Imagine: Envision new possibilities for a community or place ‐ a new future, a new way of overcoming a challenge, or approaching problem‐solving

Connect: Bring together communities, people, places, and economic opportunity via physical spaces or new relationships

Why arts? 

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NEA Our Town Grant ProgramOur Town Grant Awards

Our Town Application Requirements 

• Deadline: August, 2018 – for funding that starts July 1, 2019

• Required Partnership: local government + 501c3 nonprofit – one of which has an arts/culture/design mission

• Letters of Support: One from the highest governing official of partnering local government (limit of 2), and one from primary partner

• Matching Funds: All NEA grants require a 1:1 nonfederal match 

• Work Samples: Images, videos, other documentation that helps panelists visualize what you’re proposing 

Guidelines will be posted this spring… keep an eye out! 

For example… Dance ExchangeTakoma Park, MD

Our Town Grantee, 2013

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Exploring Our Townwww.arts.gov/exploring‐our‐town/

• Artist‐facilitated community planning

• Main street revitalization

• Cultural districts

• Job creation

• Public art

• Infrastructure projects

Creative Placemaking Bookhttps://www.arts.gov/publications/how‐do‐creative‐placemaking

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Our Town Knowledge Building

Thank You! 

Katherine Bray‐Simons, Our Town Specialistbraysimonsk@arts.gov

Send questions about Our Town to: OT@arts.gov

Association for Pedestrian & Bicycle Professionals

Ben StoneDirector of Arts & Culture

Smart Growth America/Transportation for America

February 21, 2018

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Smart Growth America works with elected officials, real estate 

developers, chambers of commerce, transportation and urban 

planning professionals, governors, and leaders in Washington to 

improve everyday life for people across the country through better 

development.

Transportation for America is the alliance of elected, business, and 

civic leaders from communities across the country, united to ensure 

that states and the federal government invest in smart, locally‐driven 

transportation solutions – because these are the investments that hold 

they key to our future economic prosperity.

T4A is committed to helping your community create the 

transportation investments necessary for your prosperous future

With generous funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, and in partnership with Americans for the Arts (AFTA), our Transportation for America program will be providing hands‐on technical assistance workshops to three communities in 2018 to help them build their capacity for artistic and cultural practices.

Application deadline: 5:00 p.m. EDT, February 23, 2018. 

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• Literature review

• Interviewed 30 experts in art, culture, and/or transportation

• Reviewed 100s of projects to select case studies

• Developed 7 typologies from case studies and interviews

• Developed recommendations for the fields

• Convened working group to test ideas 

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• Geoff Anderson, President and CEO, Smart Growth America

• Chris Appleton, Executive Director, Wonderroot• Emiko Atherton, Director, National Complete 

Streets Coalition• Scott Bogren, Executive Director, Community 

Transportation Association of America• Rochelle Carpenter, Senior Policy Analyst, 

Nashville Metropolitan Planning Organization• Stephanie Gidigbi, Policy, Capacity, and 

Systems Change Director ‐ SPARCC Initiative, Natural Resource Defense Council

• Tedd Grain, Deputy Director, Local Initiatives Support Corporation Indianapolis

• Neil Greenberg, Manager of Service Development and Scheduling, Detroit Department of Transportation

• Susie Hagie, Landscape Architect, Region 1, Colorado Department of Transportation

• Sabina Haque, Artist• Scott Hercik, Transportation Planner, 

Appalachian Regional Commission

• Joseph Kunkel, Executive Director, Sustainable Native Communities Collaborative

• Joung Lee, Director of Policy, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials

• Dana Lucero, Senior planner, Creative Community Building, Oregon Metro

• Alan Nakagawa, Creative Catalyst Artist in Residence, Los Angeles Department of Transportation

• Amanda Newman, Fellow, Health for America• Peter Svarzbein, Artist• Anthony Taylor, Founder, Major Taylor Bicycling 

Club of Minnesota• Shin‐Pei Tsay, Executive Director, Gehl Institute• Sarita Turner, Associate Director, PolicyLink• Jim Walker, CEO, Co‐founder, & Lead Artist, Big 

Car• Patricia Walsh, Manager of Public Art Programs, 

Americans for the Arts• Orson Watson, Consultant• Sara Zimmerman, Technical Assistance Director, 

Safe Routes to School

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Pre‐enactment Theater (Indianapolis, IN)

Freshwater Railway (Detroit, MI)

El Paso Transnational Trolley (El Paso, TX)

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Islands of Milwaukee(Milwaukee, WI)

LADOT Creative Catalyst Artist in Residence(Los Angeles, CA)

New Hampshire Ave: This is a Place to…(Takoma Park, MD)

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Bikemore(Baltimore, MD)

Transit Talks(Tucson, AZ)

Boogie Down Rides(The Bronx, NY)

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Envision Nolensville Pike(Nashville, TN)

GoBoston 2030(Boston, MA)

Jade‐Midway Placemaking Projects(Portland, OR)

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Transit(Baltimore, 

MD)

En Route(Atlanta, GA)

Moving Stories(Indianapolis, IN)

Santo Domingo Heritage Trail

(Kewa Pueblo, NM)

Red Line Construction Song & Cookbook

(Baltimore, MD)

Irrigate(St Paul, MN)

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Sunset680  (San Jose, CA) Over.Under.Pass (Greensboro, NC)Diamondback Bridge  (Tucson, AZ)

Chicano Park  (San Diego, CA)Gateway to Heritage  (Nashville, TN)

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QUESTION & ANSWER

Ben StoneKatherine Bray-Simons

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