We end this mini pilot season with another conversation with Sarah Calderon. Sarah was the Managing Director of ArtPlace America from 2015 to 2020, when ArtPlace sunsetted. This conversation is a more focused look at creative placemaking and its importance in building community engagement. I am looking forward to picking up our conversation in the next season when we can discuss Sarah's new role leading the launch of the Mellon Foundations $125M initiative, Creatives Rebuild New York (CRNY), set to "reactivate the state’s creative economy and provide artists with the critical support they need."

Thank you for listening to the podcast's launch season. It was important for me to complete some iteration of it and combat the worst parts of my perfectionism to launch this. I will now take some time to reorganize and refine aspects of the production so we can produce more episodes with a quicker turnaround for our audience.

I know that the biggest part of this show involves the story of the housing market and how much the pandemic and remote working trends are shaping it. I guess I didn't know how much these markets would shift and so quickly change the story that one thinks they're trying to tell.

I look forward to returning with a new season of A World Elsewhere. Please follow/subscribe to our show wherever you listen to your podcasts. And please write a review!

And if you have a story to share about your own relocation; about an organization doing great work rebuilding communities; about creative placemaking; or about anything related to work from home life, social inequality created by the current housing market, or city/state/country-wide initiatives created to attract remote workers to their part of the world, please share these stories (or DM us) on our social media.

Thank you!

Links/Show Notes:

Mellon Announces $125 Million "Creatives Rebuild New York" Initiative to Reactivate the State's Creative Economy and Provide Artists with the Critical Support They Need

Creatives Rebuild New York (CRNY)

Click here to see the book that reviews 10 Years of ArtPlace America. 

https://forecastpublicart.org/artplace-10-years/

To explore NEA Our Town grants click here:https://www.arts.gov/grants/new-our-town-guidelines-posting-schedule

To read the new paper on social cohesion, arts and culture and healthy communities click here: https://metrisarts.com/white-papers-reports/#WE-Making

To understand the ArtPlace Community Development Investment work that Sarah mentioned, click here: https://communitydevelopment.art/

To see the original White Paper on Creative Placemaking click here:

https://metrisarts.com/creative-placemaking/

Ed Carey, Founder & CEO

Before founding Audience Town, Ed spent 20 years working for leading media, advertising technology, data, and mobile companies including Quest Magazine, The New York Times, Undertone, The Rubicon Project, Dun & Bradstreet, and Kargo.

Audience Town is the real estate platform for real estate, moving & home.

www.audiencetown.com 

Watch Audience Town's Intro Video

Mackenzie Cottles is a Marketing and Communications Specialist at the Shoals Economic Development Authority, where one of her roles is managing and coordinating the Remote Shoals program. After working with Remote Shoals participants to ensure their time in The Shoals and the program is everything they hope for, Mackenzie knows that relationships are an important part of achieving their goal of bringing life-long citizens to the Shoals community. Mackenzie is the recipient of the Public Relations Council of Alabama’s 2019 Student of the Year Award. Mackenzie holds a Bachelor of Science in Mass Communications with a focus in Public Relations and a minor in Marketing from the University of North Alabama.

To learn more about Mackenzie, connect with her on your favorite social media platform.

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My guest today is Sarah Calderon. Sarah was the Managing Director of ArtPlace America from 2015 to 2020. In this role, Sarah led strategy, finance and operations, management, and grantmaking strategies for higher education. Previously, she was the Executive Director of Casita Maria Center for Arts & Education (Bronx, NY) from 2008 to 2015. During her tenure at Casita, she oversaw the opening of a new, 90,000-square-foot facility for the Center's arts and education programming and developed partnerships with organizations ranging from Lincoln Center to the NYC Housing Authority.

Before joining Casita, she founded and ran Stickball Printmedia Arts in East Harlem, a printmaking and digital arts organization for youth. Prior to that, Sarah was with the NYC Department of Education creating the Annual Arts in Schools Report – a data collection, analysis, and reporting effort for arts education in NYC's public schools. She also consulted at MPR Associates, managing education research and evaluation projects from design through publication. She has worked as a teaching artist in Chicago, Oakland, and New York City. Sarah holds a BFA in printmaking and a BA in psychology from the University of Michigan; and an M.Ed. in art education from Harvard University.

Visit Sarah’s LinkedIn profile.

This is not a real estate podcast. This is a cultural podcast that will examine moving and working trends that have exploded since the advent of the historic events of 2020.

This is a guide to your new lifestyle. We will serve all people looking to move to a new city that is more aligned with their values and quality of life.

We will showcase services that make these transitions easier; new work methods and systems that will allow people to capitalize on Work From Home trends; and city and state initiatives and campaigns that are being, or have been, launched to attract people to their part of the world.