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WaterFire presents
The Art of Placemaking - Measuring, Evaluating & Communicating Impacts
November 7th and 8th 2013

"ArtPlace America: Updates and Lessons from the Field"
presented by Lyz Crane, Kimberly Driggins, Max MacCarthy, and Lori Lobenstine
November 7, 2013


ArtPlace America was formed three years ago as a collaboration of foundations, federal agencies, and banks to accelerate the creative placemaking movement. This session will explore lessons and ideas captured in that time and also provide an update on ArtPlace America and where we think the movement is headed. Lyz Crane of ArtPlace America will be joined by representatives from two grantee projects sharing their own ideas and experiences with the initiative: Kimberly Driggins from the Office of Planning of the District of Columbia discussing the Arts & Culture Temporiums project; and Lori Lobenstine from the Design Studio for Social Intervention and Max MacCarthy from the Upham's Corner Main Street discussing work in Upham's Corner, Boston.



Lyz Crane is the Director of Partnerships and Special Projects at ArtPlace America, a collaboration of top national and regional foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts and other federal agencies, and leading banks to accelerate creative placemaking. Prior to ArtPlace America, she served as the Communications Director at ArtHome, an organization that helps artists and their communities build assets and equity through financial literacy, and the Director of Program Development and Program Manager of the Shifting Sands Initiative at Partners for Livable Communities, a national nonprofit leadership organization working to improve the livability of communities by promoting quality of life, economic development, and social equity. In 2009, Crane was named a 'Next American Vanguard' by urban affairs magazine Next American City. She received her MPA in policy analysis from the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service at New York University.

Kimberly Driggins joined the Office of Planning in March 2008, as Associate Director for Citywide Planning. In this capacity, she is responsible for managing citywide planning projects across several areas including: housing, economic development, schools, transportation, and capital improvement planning. Prior to joining the Office of Planning, Ms. Driggins worked for the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) and she was responsible for generating new funding alternatives for DCPS's capital improvement plan through public-private partnerships. In addition, she worked in the Office of the City Administrator, where her main duties included: identifying key capital budget priorities, master facility planning, and developing co-location strategies for select District facilities. Ms. Driggins began her career as a consultant working on real estate, affordable housing, and neighborhood revitalization projects in the private and non-profit sectors. She received a Master of Public Policy (MPP) degree from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Hampton University.

Max MacCarthy is the Executive Director of Upham's Corner Main Street (UCMS), an organization working to improve quality of life in Upham's Corner by helping neighborhood businesses thrive. Before arriving at UCMS, Max worked in residential weatherization programs as well as studied and worked abroad in France and West Africa.

Lori Lobenstine grew up in a family of community and union organizers, and decided early on that working with youth was her passion and her route to creating change. She has been a youthworker for the past twenty years, in settings as diverse as classrooms, basketball courts, museums and foreign countries. Most recently she cofounded the Design Studio for Social Intervention, a creativity lab for folks of all ages doing social justice work. Prior to that, she was the Director of Teen Programs for Girls Incorporated of Holyoke, a BEST trainer (teaching youth development concepts to other youthworkers), and a very successful basketball coach. Throughout these experiences, she has struggled with the challenges of creating new designs with youth, in fields that are often top-heavy and funding-driven. As a life-long activist, she is inspired by the vision that new design tools and a greater design awareness will bring new energy and power to our work. Lori is also the impresario of femalesneakerfiend.com, a thriving online and off-line community of female sneaker customizers, collectors, designers and connoisseurs.