Civic Arts

To support our mission, Civic Arts provides services in professional policy, evaluation, and engagement both within and outside of our own community. Technical assistance: we work with organizations and their community stakeholders to develop equitable evaluation plans and arts-based project strategies. We work with our partners to first identify what's happening on the ground, and then identify key tools that can help to move the project forward with its own voice. At their core, our approaches ensure that all projects are run with, by, and for the communities they serve. Field building: we help advance arts-based community development through the collaborative creation of action plans and educational materials that find grounded ways in which the Arts can take a larger role in meeting organizational goals. Policy solutions: we craft locally tailored plans that combine quantitative data with robust community dialogues in order to identify strategic insights for how the Arts and culture can further urban and organizational goals. Engagement planning: we meet people where they are by ensuring that the Arts have a seat at the table in creating robust Civic engagement processes that are grounded within larger community conversations.

Local initiatives we believe that one of the greatest ways we can support Arts and culture's growing role within Civic and community conversations is to roll up our sleeves and get to work. Here in austin, tx we proudly lead the Arts in sacred places program, and serve alongside our many community partners in the rundberg r.e.a.d. Alliance.