Creative placemaking at ASU Herberger Institute gets a boost


The Kresge Foundation
|

The Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University is making strides in the field of creative placemaking, and the Institute received a $610,000 grant from the Kresge Foundation to support those efforts.

The grant was awarded as part of the ArtPlace America initiative, a collaboration of foundations, institutions and federal agencies nationwide working to position arts and culture as a core sector of comprehensive community planning and development. ArtPlace focuses its work on creative placemaking, which describes projects in which art plays an intentional and integrated role in place-based community planning and development, according to the ArtPlace website.

The grant allows the Herberger Institute to explore the feasibility of developing a Creative Placemaking Institute and to continue the national conversation about the role of higher education in creative placemaking. 

More University news

 

Person wearing a black backward cap and grey sweater, seated at a wooden table with a laptop and an open book.

Uber, ASU partnership celebrates 5 years

By Lauren IkennAs Arizona State University continues to push the boundaries of innovation and accessibility in higher education,…

Sign that reads "Barrett, The Honors College" on a campus with students walking around it.

2 ASU honors students awarded Killam Fellowships for study in Canada

The Lorraine W. Frank Office of National Scholarships Advisement has announced that two students from Barrett, the Honors College…

ASU sign surrounded by palo verde blooms.

ASU Professor Joan McGregor named new director of Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics

Arizona State University’s Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics welcomed Joan McGregor, a professor for the School of…