Articles

Nov 21, 2018
By Ann Markusen, MinnPost
Feb 1, 2018
By Teresa Wiltz  NEW ORLEANS — At 75, Deacon John Moore considers himself one of the lucky ones: The scion of three generations of music-making Creoles, he’s been able to sustain himself with his guitar, raise a family, buy a house. Most other musicians here, he says, aren’t so fortunate. He’s tooling around the streets of Tremé — one of the nation’s oldest black neighborhoods and the birthplace of jazz — in his ancient Volvo, pointing out all the gentrified houses, the ones with the jacked up rents. Everybody wants to live here now, he said.
Mar 16, 2018
BY KATY RECKDAHL | Special to The Advocate In daily life, David Peters Montana is a socially conscious thinker and a dapper dresser, usually topped with a hat, clad in leather shoes. Fans of New Orleans culture know Montana, 65, as a Mardi Gras Indian big chief who started masking at age 9 with his sister, Toki, and now leads his own tribe, Washitaw Nation.
Apr 30, 2018
By Kelly Parker Contributing Writer ‘‘If these walls could talk,” joked Artspace local project manager Joe Butler, as he addressed the crowd of Treme neighbors and culture bearers, along with philanthropic, financial and community partners at the new Bell Artspace Campus.
Nov 29, 2018
By Elizabeth Clark, Metromode / secondwavemedia.com   After its first years of providing artists and their families with affordable housing and studio space, the next phase of City Hall ArtSpace Lofts in Dearborn is about to take shape. The three-building campus was designed as a mixed-use arts center that showcases the region’s reputation as a center of innovation and creativity.
Nov 28, 2018
By Insight Online Contributor, Insight News The Minneapolis City Council approved $10.6 million in direct investment and $1.6 million in 10-year federal tax credits to create or preserve 764 units of affordable multifamily rental housing in 10 projects located throughout the city. These investments are the result of awards from the city’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund and federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credit programs for 2018. Together, these investments will leverage more than $188 million in additional private and public resources.
Nov 19, 2018
By Missy Wilkinson, Curbed New Orleans A former Treme middle school campus, converted into artist housing and studios, won Affordable Housing Finance Magazine’s 2018 Readers’ Choice Award for best historic rehab project. The Andrew J. Bell school was derelict and graffiti-covered prior to its renovation.
Apr 20, 2018
By Michelle Wirth Marie Schaefer was walking on the trail by the river in Hastings she thought, "Wow, I am so lucky." Schaefer said the beauty of the nature in Hastings stood out to her and she saw everything was moving. There was a lot of beauty in it. Schaefer's walk that day inspired her to write the poem "Junction of Motion." She is one of the new residents at Hastings Artspace Lofts in downtown Hastings.