Texas Creative Placemaking Initiative

07/12/2023

All are welcome to the upcoming Honoring Aptzāi Pil’ Symposium!

The event will happen Friday, July 21st from 10:30 AM - 4:30 PM at the Austin Community College - San Gabriel campus.
Come and celebrate the rich indigenous history of Central Texas. It’s an opportunity to learn about the 10,000 year old history of the area and to bring healing throughIndigenous perspectives and understandings.

This is a free event but it is encouraged to register. Go to http://tinyurl.com/LEANDERLEGACY to register.
*An ID is required to enter the ACC campus.

07/05/2023

The National Endowment for the Arts and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) invite you to join them for a free webinar to discuss the value of artists in the creative placemaking process nationwide.

Renee Piechocki converses with Molly Rice and Hoka Skenandore about their experiences cultivating relationships with community to advance justice through planning and development.

This event is open to the public. Register today: bit.ly/3CYHDEL

05/26/2023

TXCPI partner Texans for the Arts is asking folks to speak up about federal funding decisions through the Digital Opportunity Surveys.

Broadband access is becoming increasingly important to the arts. The digital divide can be a roadblock to equitable participation in virtual placemaking efforts.

The Texas Broadband Development Office (Texas Comptroller) is developing the Texas Digital Opportunity Plan and seeking public input to understand digital opportunity barriers faced by Texas households. This plan will be tied to billions of dollars in federal funding.

Take the survey here: http://bit.ly/3oEACVM

Want to learn more about the intersection of the arts and digital equity? The articles linked in our bio are a great place to start.

09/06/2022

Join us tomorrow at 4:15 PM for our September Practitioners Gathering. This month we'll be talking with Marci Dallas on the topic of The Arts and Community Data.

In our conversation together, Marci will tell us about City of Edinburgh - home to 11 annual arts festivals. We'll explore the impacts these festivals have on the city, its residents, and its visitors. Marci will walk us through research being done by Festivals Edinburgh (a cross-sector project that supports all of Edinburgh's 11 major festivals) that names the specific impacts that festivals are having in the city. We'll explore how those impacts are helping in future planning efforts, and talk about how we can apply these insights to our work here in Texas.

Join the Conversation: https://bit.ly/TXCPI-09PG

08/25/2022

Join us for our September Practitioners Gathering - The Arts and Community Data.

The City of Edinburgh is the center of festival life in Scotland. Understanding the impacts these festivals have on the city, its residents, and its visitors is an ongoing challenge. In our conversation this month we'll talk with Marci Dallas about research being done by Festivals Edinburgh (a cross-sector project that supports all of Edinburgh's 11 major festivals) that names the specific impacts that festivals are having in the city. We'll explore how those impacts are helping in future planning efforts, and talk about how we can apply these insights to our work here in Texas.

Join the Conversation: https://www.txcpi.org/events/220907

08/01/2022

Join us this month for a conversation with Dr. Lynn Osgood, Adjunct Professor of Community and Regional Planning at UT Austin. We'll be talking about different evaluation approaches in creative placemaking/placekeeping projects. Learn how to talk about the impacts that the arts can have in local communities.

Join us for a discussion on creative placemaking / placekeeping in Texas!

06/10/2022

Opportunity for Artists: Submit your artwork to be featured in National Low Income Housing Coalition's upcoming issue of Tenant Talk by Friday, June 24th! More information below.

Feature Your Artwork in NLIHC’s Upcoming Issue of Tenant Talk!
Send submissions to: https://bit.ly/NLIHCContest
- https://mailchi.mp/nlihc/ttcontest_06082022

05/31/2022

Join us tomorrow at 4:15pm CST for a conversation on creative placemaking / placekeeping in Garland, Texas with Scott Bollinger! Register for our June Gathering here: https://www.txcpi.org/events/220601

05/26/2022

Local government placemakers / placekeepers: this one is for you! Next week, Scott Bollinger from the City of Garland will join our June Practitioner Gathering to speak on how the city has used creative strategies in their neighborhood development work.

Register today! www.txcpi.org/events/220601

05/02/2022

Join us on Wednesday for our May Practitioner Gathering with Tamara Foster from New Hope Housing, Inc.! Register here: https://bit.ly/3xYQkO2

04/28/2022

At TXCPI, we're thinking a lot about the key issues placemakers / placekeepers are seeing on the ground today. We consistently hear about the importance of partnerships, challenges with funding, and opportunities for outreach. What would you add? Comment below or put a post-it note on our digital whiteboard: https://bit.ly/3MweDa0