One city that Art Works has been looking at is Paducah, Kentucky because of their success with drawing artists to the city and making folks from far and wide look to the city for the arts. Here’s a description of the Artist Relocation Program:
“At a time when funding for the arts is constantly being cut, [...]
The keynote speaker at the March 13-14 Art Works Summit is Elizabeth Currid, the author of The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Music & Art Drive New York City.
Here are a few links to learn more about her:
Currid teaches at the University of Southern California’s School of Policy, Planning and Development. Here is her university page.
Her [...]
The Art Works Conferernce is fast approaching.
If you haven’t already registered for the March 13-14 event, take a look at the Art Works Conference Site here.
The Duluth News Tribune had a big story on the conference and the possibility of arts as an economic magnet today.
If you just want to know the [...]
Take a look at the great site set up by the KCCI Duluth-Superior Art Works team. Just go to www.artworkstwinports.org. And plan on attending the Art Works Summit March 13-14 at the University of Wisconsin Superior and Lake Superior College.
If you’d like to be an exhibitor, take a look at the Art Works press release [...]
A new report from the Knight Foundation, sponsors of the Knight Creative Communities Initiative, discusses the importance of social diversity to cultural engagement. In other words, places where people get involved in arts are far more likely to be diverse places than not.
According to the report by Mark Stern and Susan Seifert:
“Diverse communities are the [...]
In order to thrive, Downtown areas need to find just the right mixture of people, things to do, interesting buildings. And most experts on downtown say you need to make sure the streetscape is friendly to people.
But what to do in a climate that so far north that it gets pretty cold for a few [...]
The Duluth News Tribune this morning ran an update on all of our projects on their front page. Read the story here.
The only other thing we’d add is that part of the excitement is the sheer number of people getting involved in all aspects of the projects: as volunteers on the teams, in brown [...]
ART WORKS ASKS FOR COMMUNITY INPUT ON BRINGING ARTISTS AND BUSINESS PEOPLE TOGETHER TO BENEFIT THE TWIN PORTS ECONOMY
How can businesses and the arts community work together to benefit the Twin Ports culturally and economically? And what can local leaders do to help in these efforts? These are just two of the issues Art Works [...]
If you pay attention to the ideas behind the Knight Creative Communities Initiative, you’ll soon understand the importance of the arts to the economy. The most important thing to remember is that art and artists have many kinds of impact on the economy.
Recently, Minnesota Citizens for the Arts completed a study about many of the [...]
Tacoma Washington is town a lot like Duluth, a port town whose economy has gone through a lot of change. It’s also a pilot project for Richard Florida’s Creative Communities Leadership Project, a forerunner of the Knight Creative Communities Project.
There are now lots of things going on worth taking a look at.
The Creative Tacoma website [...]
