The arts in community planning and development | Jamie Bennett | TEDxHudson
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. From Sandy Duncan to Serena Williams, this engaging speaker helps us examine where and how we identify artists in our communities and how we can foster community development that drives our creativity as well as our local economies.
Jamie Bennett is Executive Director of ArtPlace America, the first major public-private partnership to position art and culture as the core components of community planning and development, a practice called “creative place making.” ArtPlace cultivates programs that engage the arts in an effort to shape the social, physical, and economic future of given communities. To date, they have invested $56.8 million through 189 grants in communities of all sizes across the United States. Prior to ArtPlace, Jamie was Chief of Staff and Director of Public Affairs at the National Endowment for the Arts, Chief of Staff at the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs during Mayor Bloomberg’s administration, and has held leadership positions at the Agnes Gund Foundation, the Museum of Modern Art, Art21, HERE Arts Center, Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, and Studio in a School. | @sarmoti
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I just wrote my undergraduate thesis on the arts as a tool for development and integration. The arts are powerful and important and deserve proper attention and funding as such.
Jamie is a leader, an inspiring speaker and he nails it. The arts count. Our lives would be bereft without them. We are all better off with them and with Jamie as an advocate.
I'm not sure the bigwigs can lead that kind of conversation, but it's important! The democratising equalitarian and visionary vision of art and artists being everywhere is important; artists everywhere, at all "quality" levels in all sorts of fields! But perhaps de-emphasis on the suppressive and ecosystem aspects is important too. But there's a tension because of the ecosystem and less egalitarian aspects of society, there's also a safety-based subculture element that operates too. Politics and collective cultural wrestling. Not just arbitrary choices and specialism but something meaningful and organically vernacular. And there can be a melee between different existing arts structures and routes interacting with individual taste, snobbery, self-doubt and and the hierarchical ranking and all the high art trappings. Meanwhile those often attracted to and to some degree shunted into arts performer roles are charismatic outsiders but that role can be a two edged sword defined from outside. And there can be legitimate fears around identity, legitimacy, agency and self definition. But it's still important. Of course art is. Defining art by study numbers doesnt really capture the value: he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in eternity's sunrise!
important!
Good artists know this but are historically thwarted
im sorry but i cant deal with his accent :/