ArtPlace America is a collaboration among 14 foundations, 8 federal agencies, and 6 financial institutions dedicated to strengthening the field of creative placemaking. Toward this end, ArtPlace has invested in projects in which artists and arts organizations play an explicit and central role in strategies to help shape their communities’ social, physical, and economic futures. Current employment opportunities include:
- Director of Research Strategies to develop and implement a research agenda that involves commissioning original research around creative placemaking; funding work that bridges extant bodies of research that do not currently speak to one another; creating convenings and developing other dissemination strategies around new and existing research; and connecting community leaders and practitioners with research that will help them to understand and refine their projects.
- Director of Communications who will be charged with developing and implementing a communications strategy on behalf of the emerging field of creative placemaking in this country, with a special emphasis on ArtPlace’s grantees and other partners.
- Director of National Grantmaking to oversee all aspects of its national grants program. Over three years, ArtPlace has invested $42.1 million in 138 creative placemaking projects in 80 communities of all sizes across the United States.
- Operations Manager and Program Associate to provide operations, administrative, and program support.
Closing date for applications is 8 April 2014. For further information, see the external link below.