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Creative Placemaking 2.0

Nicodemus, principal of Metris Arts Consulting, is a leading voice in arts and community development. Check out her recent thoughts on the state of creative placemaking. (Originally published in the Grantmakers in the Arts Reader, Vol 23. No 2., Summer 2012).
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Fall 2017 Newsletter

Aug 28, 2017
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Artspace 2016 Annual Report

Jan 1, 2017
Artspace continues to experience extraordinary growth both in our new projects in development and projects in operation. We ended the year with 46 projects in operation, representing nearly a $600 million investment in America’s arts infrastructure that spans 30 cities and 19 states. We are pleased to be called “home” to thousands of artists and their families and more than 300 creative enterprises from coast to coast.
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Arab American Museum Gives Platform to Contemporary Saudi Artists

Jul 18, 2017
  Television screens show a disjointed man as he listens to music weaponized for torturing prisoners, a photograph gives viewers a stomach-turning vista from the top of a crane overlooking Mecca, and brightly colored, hand-painted walls fill Dearborn’s Arab American National Museum for the Epicenter X: Saudi Contemporary Art exhibit running from July 8 to Oct. 1. The exhibit is the first of its kind in Michigan to focus on and give a platform to Saudi art, says Museum Director Devon Akmon.
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Ahmad Angawi's artwork.

Artist spaces: Jonathan Thunder makes dark, playful pieces at Washington Studios

Jul 1, 2017
By the time you read this, Jonathan Thunder will have moved out of his fourth-floor apartment in Washington Studios and down to the second floor. This is probably good news for his cat, Benicio (named after Benicio Del Toro), who once took a flying leap from the window — but walked away with some scrapes and a limp and was fully recovered two weeks later. Thunder, a painter, and animator who lives-works-practices yoga within the same square footage is looking forward to the change — not to mention the sunrise.
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Last Thursdays art walk offers chance to discover Downtown artists

Jul 7, 2017
On the last Thursday of every month, something wonderful happens on the streets of Downtown El Paso.   People get out of their cars and stroll through intriguing artist studios, often not knowing what they will find. They meet new and interesting artists with a story to tell or artwork to show. And they become part of a vibrant community.
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Artist spraypainting a giant skull.

Artspace Lofts Construction Moving in Downtown Mesa

Jul 10, 2017
 More artists will be flocking into Mesa’s city limits by next year thanks to the new Artspace Lofts being built at 155 S. Hibbert St. The 50-unit complex is designed to offer artists a live-and-work environment by including 2,900 square feet for creative exploration with spaces for classes, studios, galleries, food pantries and more. Set to be completed in May 2018, these lofts are Artspace’s first venture in Arizona.
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How Dearborn is investing in arts as an economic driver

Jun 8, 2017
 
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Hopkins looks to create artist housing and studio space

Jun 8, 2017
Hopkins put art in the heart of its downtown with the opening of the Hopkins Arts Center 20 years ago.Now the city is looking to boost its creative center even more by building affordable housing and studio space for artists.The Hopkins City Council on Tuesday entered into an agreement with Artspace, a nonprofit developer of "live-work" spaces for artists, to explore the possibility. Artspace would tour potential sites in early August and meet with local artists and community members to determine whether there is enough interest in such a project.
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