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Recognizing Engagement: Doing the HOMEwork

The Creative Placemaking Convocation
October 6-15, 2020

Recognizing Engagement: Doing the HOMEwork

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Strong community engagement is integral to good placemaking. What happens when a community was not involved or organizational partners were not the right fit with each other or for community-based work? What can we learn from projects gone off track? When adjudicating grants, how can we tell whether applicants have done their homework?

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Resources​

East 9th Street Placekeepers, Lawrence, KS

Rebuilding East 9th Street Together, Lawrence, KS

Whittier Neighborhood Mural Project, Sioux Falls, SD – Project Profile

Lowenstein's Presentation

Our Town Grant Program Guidelines

Partnership Requirement

Our Town Grant Program Theory of Change

Our Town Technical Assistance Program Webinars (by LISC), including one focused on Community Engagement Methods and Techniques

Hughes' Presentation

Speakers

Dave Lowenstein

Artist
Lawrence, KS
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Dave Lowenstein

Artist
Lawrence, KS
Dave Loewenstein is a muralist, printmaker and community organizer based in Lawrence, Kansas. His murals can be found across the United States, Northern Ireland, South Korea and Brazil. Loewenstein’s prints, which focus on social justice issues, are exhibited internationally and are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Yale University, and the Center for the Study of Political Graphics. He is the co-author of Kansas Murals: A Traveler’s Guide; and is the subject of “Called to Walls,” a feature length documentary that premiered in 2016. In 2014, he was named one of the founding Cultural Agents for the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture.

Jen Hughes

Director of Design & Creative Placemaking
National Endowment for the Arts
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Jen Hughes

Director of Design & Creative Placemaking
National Endowment for the Arts
Jen Hughes was appointed director of Design and Creative Placemaking for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in April 2018, having served as acting director since June 2017. In this position, she oversees grant portfolios that support the design and creative placemaking fields, as well as leadership initiatives that include the Mayors’ Institute on City Design and the Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design.
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