{"id":13812,"date":"2019-10-06T20:56:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T00:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=13812"},"modified":"2019-10-06T23:59:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T03:59:46","slug":"creative-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2019\/10\/06\/creative-county\/","title":{"rendered":"11 Thoughts On Creative Placemaking From The Essex County Arts & Culture Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Essex County Community Foundation held its second annual Essex County Arts & Culture Summit<\/a> in Beverly on Sept. 27. The forum, held at the Cabot theater and Dane Street Church in Beverly, was part of its Creative County Initiative<\/a>, which has funded 12 cultural projects intended to build community on the North Shore since last year\u2019s summit. (NOTE: I was at the summit because I\u2019ve been commissioned by the Essex County Community Foundation to help document\/promote cultural projects from its Creative County Initiative, which is supported by Boston\u2019s Barr Foundation.)<\/p>\n

The news out of the event was Peabody Mayor Tom Bettencourt announcement that \u201cPeabody is going to have a permanent children\u2019s museum in our downtown.\u201d His support was based on the results of Curious City<\/a>, a pop-up children\u2019s museum operated in the city this spring and summer by the Peabody Cultural Collaborative with grant funding from the Essex County Community Foundation.<\/p>\n

The talks throughout the day were focused on ways to use the arts in creative placemaking. Here are some of the takeaways:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Kara Elliott-Ortega, director of arts & culture for the city of Boston: \u201cBoston is a majority-minority city but our narrative is Paul Revere and sports. And people really feel that acutely. They feel alienated by that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 David Howse, executive director of ArtsEmerson: \u201cIt wasn\u2019t enough to talk about diversity and inclusion in front of the curtain if we hadn\u2019t tackled the issues with our own team.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Jason Schupbach, director of Arizona State University\u2019s Design School: \u201cBeauty is a justice issue.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Kara Elliott-Ortega: Smaller arts organizations are \u201cmore likely focused on equity and social justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Schupbach: \u201cYou have to connect out of the arts world to do this work.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Tom Borrup, principal of Creative Community Builders, Minneapolis: Where to seek connections with communities? Places with \u201cfood, music and children.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Nate Robertson, community and economic development planner for the Merrimack Valley Planning Commission: Go out and participate in community events, don\u2019t just invite people to come to your planning forums.<\/p>\n

\u2022 John Andrews, founder of Creative Collective, Salem: \u201cThe only way we\u2019re going to offset gentrification is by supporting local.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Elliott-Ortega: \u201cWe\u2019re fighting a lot of risk aversion in the bureaucracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Elliott-Ortega: On developing live and work spaces for artists: \u201cArtists really want a building full of artists.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Elliott-Ortega: \u201cWhen we started this work, it felt like there was a space crisis. \u2026 And it still feels like there is a space crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n

Previously:<\/strong>
\n\u2022 New Murals On Beverly\u2019s Cabot Theatre Aim To Illuminate All The Creativity Going On Inside<\/a>
\n\u2022 Photos: Opening Night Of Crossing Water Festival In Salem And Beverly<\/a>
\n\u2022 A Century After They Built The Last Known Essex Clamming Skiff, Constructing A New One<\/a>
\n\u2022 A Laser Show To Celebrate Local Immigrants\u2019 Stories \u2026 And Confront Stigma<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

If this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please support Wonderland by contributing to Wonderland on Patreon<\/a>. And sign up for our free, weekly newsletter<\/a> so that you don’t miss any of our reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n

\n
\"Generation<\/a>
Generation Khmer, a Cambodian dance group from Lynn, performs at the Essex County Community Foundation’s second annual Essex County Arts & Culture Summit at the Cabot theater, Beverly, Sept. 27, 2019. (Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Massachusetts<\/a>
Massachusetts Center for Native American Awareness Intertribal Dancers from Danvers lead the crowd at the Essex County Community Foundation’s second annual Essex County Arts & Culture Summit from the Cabot theater to Dane Street Church, Beverly, Sept. 27, 2019. (Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Generation<\/a>
Generation Khmer, a Cambodian dance group from Lynn, performs at the Essex County Community Foundation’s second annual Essex County Arts & Culture Summit at the Cabot theater, Beverly, Sept. 27, 2019. (Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Massachusetts<\/a>
Massachusetts Center for Native American Awareness Intertribal Dancers from Danvers lead the crowd at the Essex County Community Foundation’s second annual Essex County Arts & Culture Summit from the Cabot theater to Dane Street Church, Beverly, Sept. 27, 2019. (Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Generation<\/a>
Generation Khmer, a Cambodian dance group from Lynn, performs at the Essex County Community Foundation’s second annual Essex County Arts & Culture Summit at the Cabot theater, Beverly, Sept. 27, 2019. (Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Massachusetts<\/a>
Massachusetts Center for Native American Awareness Intertribal Dancers from Danvers lead the crowd at the Essex County Community Foundation’s second annual Essex County Arts & Culture Summit from the Cabot theater to Dane Street Church, Beverly, Sept. 27, 2019. (Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\"<\/a>
Massachusetts Center for Native American Awareness Intertribal Dancers from Danvers lead the crowd at the Essex County Community Foundation’s second annual Essex County Arts & Culture Summit from the Cabot theater to Dane Street Church, Beverly, Sept. 27, 2019. (Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Essex County Community Foundation held its second annual Essex County Arts & Culture Summit in Beverly on Sept. 27. The forum, held at the Cabot theater and Dane Street Church in Beverly, was part of its Creative County Initiative, which has funded 12 cultural projects intended to build community on the North Shore since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13851,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[549,605,604],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13812"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13862,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13812\/revisions\/13862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}