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Building wealth and equity through homeownership for low to moderate-income artists

12/10/2026

📣 Our next workshops are coming up on Oct 14 and 28! Join us, or tell your local artist friends about this opportunity.

This one-hour virtual workshop is a great way to learn about our Homes for Artists program and ask questions about the process.

Over the next year, we'll have at least six new homes available for purchase. If your household earns $43K+ per year, you could be an especially great candidate, but anyone with income that fits the guidelines should attend.

At the workshop, you’ll:
✨ Learn how the program works
🏠 Find out if you may qualify
💬 Get your questions answered

RSVP at the link in bio.

08/09/2026

We’re excited to partner with , David Godbout, Novation Church, and The Melvin Theater Community Center to create a mural on the side of the theater this fall. We invite Gravois Park residents to share your inspiration by September 10 and come to the Block Party on September 12, 1- 3 pm! Link in bio.

🙏🏽Thank you to The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts , Helen Frankenthaler Foundation , City of St. Louis - Community Development Administration , and an anonymous donor for providing crucial support for the mural. We initially had been selected to receive funding through the now suspended NEA Challenge America grant initiative.

🎨 ART CO (Arts-Based Regeneration Through Community Ownership) is a project led by us and done in partnership with Dutchtown South Community Corporation. Go to our bio for more about the project and to sign up for updates.

01/09/2026

Each artist’s household is unique, with different financial and personal characteristics that factor into when you are ready to purchase a home. We want you to know you are not alone, and our support starts from the very beginning.

👀 Browse the five steps to make your homeowner dreams a reality and don't forget to sign up to join the workshop on September 2nd to get started: https://iljqnhpo4t7.typeform.com/to/ZlVgiS1E?typeform-source=www.google.com

18/08/2026

📣 Calling all St. Louis artists: your chance to become a homeowner is here!

Over the next year, six homes will become available through API’s Homes for Artist program. If your household earns $43K+ per year, you could be a great candidate!

Ready to see if homeownership could be your next chapter? Have questions about the process? Come to our next workshop on September 2 and get all the info you need to take the next step.

At the workshop, you’ll:
✨ Learn how the program works
🏠 Find out if you may qualify
💬 Get your questions answered

Space is limited. RSVP to save your spot: https://iljqnhpo4t7.typeform.com/to/ZlVgiS1E?typeform-source=www.google.com

14/08/2026

Be part of what’s taking shape in the neighborhood!

You’re invited to a community update + ideas meeting on August 26 to help shape what’s next for the cultural assets we’re developing in Gravois Park.

We’ll be talking about:
🫟 A new community mural: Share your ideas and help shape the vision.
🎨 The cultural land trust: Learn more about our work to create a trust that will support cultural spaces in the area.
🌳 Pocket parks: Share your ideas for the pocket park quick-builds that will be built over the next year.
🏡 Next artist homes: Ask questions about the next six homes for artist households making $43k or more in annual income.

Come share your ideas, ask questions, and connect with your neighbors. We’d love to see you there!

RSVP to join: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSegYqTcowABZUXCw0mG0R1_2mY1Foba4wvr3MXNnopFYseOtQ/viewform

22/06/2026

🎉 Meet Jessie Donovan, API's new Community Engagement Consultant!

🎨 As a fellow artist, neighbor, and community advocate, Jessie will be helping artists navigate the homebuying journey through our Homes for Artists Program, fundraising, and more.

💙 Welcome, Jessie!

12/04/2026

🎉 So exciting! Our third home just sold to Caitlin Isgriggs! Caitlin is a ceramicist who loves making functional pieces, while on a journey to a sculptural niche too. Congratulations!

It was so fun supporting Cailtin on her homebuyer journey, but it was a team effort! It would not have been possible without our collaboration with our partners , Smith NMTC Associates, and ’s Home STL program. Many, many, thanks to all! 🙏🏾

Pictured left to right: Sharon Webb-Steele Home STL Program Coordinator (SLDC), Kimberly McKinney, Executive Director (Habitat for Humanity St. Louis), Caitlin Isgriggs, and Jennifer Allen Executive Director (St. Louis Art Place Initiative).

24/03/2026

We’re thrilled to share that St. Louis Art Place Initiative has been named one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies of 2026! Our biggest source of pride are all of our staff and partners, whose steadfast efforts and belief in the mission over the years made this honor possible.

"Arts-based community development is one of the best tools in St. Louis' toolbox to strengthen neighborhoods, our artists, and our regional economy. In a time where so many are working to fix systemic issues, St. Louis Art Place Initiative is doing so on the ground, at the neighborhood scale."
-Jennifer Allen, Executive Director

Full story: stlartplace.org/fast-company

25/02/2026

📣 Introducing our latest project: ART CO!

We’re thrilled to partner with Dutchtown South Community Corporation (DSCC) over the next year to continue implementation of the Gravois-Jefferson Historic Neighborhoods Plan, adopted in 2018.

Through ART CO (Arts-based Regeneration Through Community Ownership), each organization will lead a series of projects that expand community ownership and cultural assets in Gravois Park and Dutchtown, while exemplifying what it looks for St. Louis to be an arts town at the neighborhood scale. Swipe to see the six project components of ART CO in 2026.

🎨 Learn more and sign up for updates: stlartplace.org/artco

29/01/2026

A long time in the making, we're going into the next phase of creating a Cultural Land Trust to steward the cultural assets we create with communities.😍

🔍We're looking for a person, firm, or organization with the expertise to assist in designing and creating a cultural land trust that will steward and maintain the cultural assets we develop with residents in the Gravois Park neighborhood of St. Louis, MO.

If you know of anyone who should submit a quote, please share this post with them. ⏰Deadline: Feb 25, 2026 at 11:59pm CST. RFQ here: tinyurl.com/RFQCLT.

🤩 We're so excited to join so many other groups like The Guild Kensington Corridor Trust and Community Arts Stabilization Trust who are building systems of community ownership.

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💡Did you know the first cultural land trust was created in 1969 by the Black community in Albany, Georgia? It was called New Communities, Inc. Learn all about it on the Next City podcast episode "Alternative Models for Funding and Supporting Cultural Spaces and Workers.

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