RESOURCES
San Pedro Today Magazine Articles
- Creating Public Art and Community
- What Makes a There, Here?
- What’s the SP Waterfront Arts District All About?
Art and Community Development
Recent studies have shown that the arts greatly influence economic and community development and civic engagement. To learn more about the value of art in the community, see the following reports.
- The Artistic Dividend, Urban Studies Journal
- Artist Space Development: Making the Case, Urban Institute
- Artist Space Development: Financing, Urban Institute
- The Arts and Civic Engagement, NEA Study
- Arts and Economic Prosperity, Americans for the Arts
- Arts and the Economy, NGA Center for Best Practices
- Creating Artist Space: Resources for Artists, City Officials and Developers, LINC
- Creative Communities, Urban Institute
- Developing Affordable Space for Artists, LINC
- Gift of the Muse, Rand Corp. and Wallace Foundation
- How Artist Space Matters, Metris Arts Consulting
- Investing in Creativity, Urban Institute
- Rise of the Creative Class, Richard Florida
Additional Artists Resources
- Americans for the Arts – The nation’s leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in America
- LINC (Leveraging Investments in Creativity) – Supporting organizations that serve artists’ needs: a 10-year initiative to improve conditions for artists