Creative Civics: Artists, Artmaking, and Cross-sector Collaboration

Artists have long worked outside of formal arts spaces, making the process of collaboration within health, transportation, government, and other sectors central to artmaking. While opportunities for cross-sector collaboration that embeds artists in non-arts spaces are increasing and practitioners identify the value of collaboration in their work, there is a gap in understanding its impact on civic systems and communities. In response, this project collects the experiences in developing civic art projects from artists and core collaborators with the goal of defining the objectives of the artists and their civic counterparts and identifying the impact factors that their projects generate.