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SPECIAL ISSUE: ARTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND CREATIVE PLACEMAKING 

Creative placemaking is a topic of increasing relevance in the U.S. and around the world. 
However, little attention has yet been paid in the scholarly literature to the role of the arts 
entrepreneur or the entrepreneurial behavior of arts organizations in creative placemaking theory 
or practice, including in the policy domain.  

According to the National Endowment for the Arts (2016), Creative Placemaking projects 
“strategically link communities and local governments with artists, designers, and arts 
organizations to improve quality of life, create a sense of place, and revitalize local economies.” 
ArtPlace America (2016) considers that in Creative Placemaking projects “art plays an 
intentional and integrated role in place-based community planning and development. This brings 
artists, arts organizations, and artistic activity into the suite of placemaking strategies pioneered 
by Jane Jacobs and her colleagues, who believed that community development must be locally 
informed, human-centric, and holistic.” Finally, the Kresge Foundation (2016) defines Creative 
Placemaking as the deliberate integration of arts, culture and community engaged design in 
community development and urban planning practices to expand opportunity for vulnerable 
populations.” 

This first-ever special issue of Artivate: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts asks 
authors to address one or more of the following questions:  

• What is the role of arts entrepreneurship in Creative Placemaking?
• How does/can arts and cultural entrepreneurship specifically support community

revitalization and equitable development?
• What role can arts entrepreneurs play in connecting the nonprofit and for-profit arts and

culture sectors with residents, business interests, and local governments?
• How does public policy (at various scales) promote or obstruct the contributions of arts

entrepreneurs to creative placemaking and community revitalization?
• How should the contributions of arts entrepreneurs to community revitalization best be

captured and assessed?

Submission to the special issue are due April 15, 2017 for review for possible publication
in the Summer 2017 issue. Please refer to the detailed submission guidelines at 
http://artivate.org. Presenters at the Fifth Biennial Pave Symposium on Entrepreneurship and the 
Arts: Arts Entrepreneurship In, With, and For Communities may be invited to submit their 
papers for publication consideration. 

Guest editors of this very special Summer 2017 issue of Artivate: A Journal of 
Entrepreneurship in the Arts are Maria Rosario Jackson and Greg Esser. 

 References 

ArtPlace American (2016). Introduction. Webpage. 
http://www.artplaceamerica.org/about/introduction 

The Kresge Foundation. (2016). Reseources for transitioning economies. Webpage. 
http://diversifyeconomies.org/2015/12/kresge-foundation/ 

National Endowment for the Arts. (2016). Exploring Our Town. Webpage. 
https://www.arts.gov/exploring-our-town 




