WORKING AT THE EDGES
We work at the messy edges where systems begin to integrate and transform into new modes of practice.
Our COMMITMENTS
To support local government staff committed to their communities and looking for new ways to address complex issues.
To ensure arts and culture have place at the table in civic decision making.
To help local governments find locally specific and innovative solutions.
To ensure that equity is at the foundation of all cross-sector work.
To provide the materials and tools needed for local governments, community development organizations, and arts organizations to work in deep partnership with each other.
To share our triumphs and our defeats. The work isn’t easy, and we want others to not only have the tools they need, but also to know where things can get hard, so others can find new edges of practice within their own work.
“Civic Arts was there with us throughout the project in ways we didn’t even imagine at the beginning. We knew as a small arts organization that we needed help figuring out how to work with local government to scale our ideas. But when we started we didn’t realize what we didn’t know. Lynn and Ben helped us communicate with our municipal partners and find opportunities we didn’t know existed.”