Community Design/Creative PlacemakingMajor Program

2039

Total Hours

Contributed.

2389

Contacts

with Local Stakeholders.

600

Hours

of Multistate Efforts.

279

Total Number

of Volunteers Engaged.

Program Indicators

Number of arts/creative placemaking projects completed

3

Number of artisans participating in Extension program

15

Number of artisans who report an increase in income based on what they learned through Extension programs

12

Number of participants involved in community art projects

29

Number of public art installations formed

1

Number of individuals reporting increased knowledge, opinions, skills, and/or aspirations in creative placemaking in their community

17

Number of volunteer hours spent planning and implementing creative placemaking initiatives

100

Number of individuals assuming leadership positions in creative placemaking efforts

24

Number of new programs developed using sound Creative Placemaking strategies

1

Number of inactive spaces transformed into active arts spaces

1

Stories

Chalk and Talk

There is no better way to learn about a community than to immerse yourself in it, and this weekend CEDIKs Community Design/Downtown Engagement team did just that in Whitesburg, Kentucky. If you were in Whitesburg you may have seen us there with our portable chalkboards and wondered what we were doing. If you werent there you may have seen us on social media and wondered the same thing. How could asking people to write on a chalkboard have any sort of impact on their downtown, especially if its o...

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Chalk and Talk

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