The Future of Creative Placemaking

A Blade of Grass: Creative placemaking is the intentional and integrated role of art in place-based community planning and development. In 2011, ArtPlace America was created to help grow the creative placemaking field, and in 2020, as always intended, it will culminate. The term creative placemaking has been critiqued by some as: 1) suggesting that the people and cultures rooted in a place had not already made it; 2) initially lacking a clear statement of values regarding who was meant to benefit from the community development of which the arts and culture were a part.