We end this mini pilot season with another conversation with Sarah Calderon. Sarah was the Managing Director of ArtPlace America from 2015 to 2020, when ArtPlace sunsetted. This conversation is a more focused look at creative placemaking and its importance in building community engagement. I am looking forward to picking up our conversation in the next season when we can discuss Sarah's new role leading the launch of the Mellon Foundations $125M initiative, Creatives Rebuild New York (CRNY), set to "reactivate the state’s creative economy and provide artists with the critical support they need."

Thank you for listening to the podcast's launch season. It was important for me to complete some iteration of it and combat the worst parts of my perfectionism to launch this. I will now take some time to reorganize and refine aspects of the production so we can produce more episodes with a quicker turnaround for our audience.

I know that the biggest part of this show involves the story of the housing market and how much the pandemic and remote working trends are shaping it. I guess I didn't know how much these markets would shift and so quickly change the story that one thinks they're trying to tell.

I look forward to returning with a new season of A World Elsewhere. Please follow/subscribe to our show wherever you listen to your podcasts. And please write a review!

And if you have a story to share about your own relocation; about an organization doing great work rebuilding communities; about creative placemaking; or about anything related to work from home life, social inequality created by the current housing market, or city/state/country-wide initiatives created to attract remote workers to their part of the world, please share these stories (or DM us) on our social media.

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Links/Show Notes:

Mellon Announces $125 Million "Creatives Rebuild New York" Initiative to Reactivate the State's Creative Economy and Provide Artists with the Critical Support They Need

Creatives Rebuild New York (CRNY)

Click here to see the book that reviews 10 Years of ArtPlace America. 

https://forecastpublicart.org/artplace-10-years/

To explore NEA Our Town grants click here:https://www.arts.gov/grants/new-our-town-guidelines-posting-schedule

To read the new paper on social cohesion, arts and culture and healthy communities click here: https://metrisarts.com/white-papers-reports/#WE-Making

To understand the ArtPlace Community Development Investment work that Sarah mentioned, click here: https://communitydevelopment.art/

To see the original White Paper on Creative Placemaking click here:

https://metrisarts.com/creative-placemaking/