The MAP (Municipal-Artist Partnerships) Guide

Municipal-Artist Partnerships are collaborations between local governments and artists that use creative processes to rethink and improve spaces and systems for their communities. To support growing interest in these collaborations, this new practical resource was created by A Blade of Grass and Animating Democracy, a program of Americans for the Arts, to guide city employees, artists, and arts agencies to achieve positive and powerful artistic and civic results. The MAP guide helps users visualize a spectrum of partnership models, with many real world examples of projects with best practices and templates, to demonstrate the diversity of this work, and to develop a unique model for their municipality. The MAP guide is free: https://municipal-artist.org

Photo: CycleNews in Corona, Queens, an Immigrant Movement International project initiated by Public Artist in Residence (PAIR) with the NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs by artist Tania Brugera, in collaboration with Mujeres in Movimiento and Kollektiv Migrantes. Featured in the Municipal-Artist Partnership guide. Photo courtesy of NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.