ArtPlace Director Carol Coletta to keynote ABC creative placemaking conference in April
Carol Coletta, Director of ArtPlace, will be the keynote speaker at Create A Place: Arts Build Communities, the second annual creative placemaking conference produced by Rutgers University's Arts Build Communities center. The conference will be April 4, 8 am to 4 pm, at the Paul Robeson Center at Rutgers University's Newark campus.
The conference focuses on building, growing and sustaining creative communities and creative economies. It is the only event in New Jersey that brings together elected and appointed officials, artists and cultural leaders, community and economic development professionals, and urban planners and public affairs professionals to learn and exchange ideas about creative placemaking.
This year, the conference is designed to help municipalities build points toward a Sustainable Jersey certification. Registration is open. It is $75, which includes breakfast, lunch and an after-conference reception. Register now or send me updates by email or Twitter.
Carol Coletta specializes in developing cities and creative communities. She leads ArtPlace, a new national initiative to accelerate creative placemaking across the U.S. ArtPlace is a collaboration of the nation’s top foundations, leading banks, federal agencies and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Prior to joining ArtPlace, Carol was president and CEO of CEOs for Cities, a national
network of urban leaders building and sustaining the next generation of great
American cities.
For ten years, she hosted and produced a nationally syndicated public radio show,
Smart City.
She also served as executive director of the Mayors’ Institute on City Design, a
partnership of the National Endowment for the Arts, U.S. Conference of Mayors and
American Architectural Foundation.
Carol is a passionate advocate for cities, and she has devoted her life to answering
the question: What makes cities succeed?
Carol was a Knight Fellow in Community Building at the University of Miami School of
Architecture and was named one of the world’s 50 most important urban experts by a
leading European think tank. She is a Senior Fellow with the Design Futures Council
and completed graduate work in future studies and design.
ArtPlace is a collaboration of top national foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts and various federal agencies to accelerate creative placemaking across the U.S.
Participating foundations include Bloomberg Philanthropies, The Ford Foundation, The James Irvine Foundation, The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, The Kresge Foundation, The McKnight Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, Rasmuson Foundation, The Robina Foundation and an anonymous donor. In addition to the NEA, federal partners are the departments of Housing and Urban Development, Health and Human Services, Agriculture, Education and Transportation, along with leadership from the White House Office of Management and Budget and the Domestic Policy Council.
Arts Build Communities helps communities and arts-related organizations make better and more cost-effective decisions about community and economic development related to creative industries. To this end, ABC provides continuing education, capacity building services, thought leadership and practical research. ABC is a partnership of Rutgers University's Office of the Associate Vice President for Academic and Public Partnerships in the Arts and Humanities and the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy.
Register for the conference.
Arts Build Communities is made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation.
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