by Landry Forrest | Jan 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
For my choose-your-own-adventure post, I was inspired by a conversation I had on the phone with my mom and sister. After our talk with the Northfield Arts and Culture Commission, I began thinking about how much the access to arts and culture differs between Northfield...
by Sarah Witmer | Jan 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Des Moines Art Festival, an annual street party celebrating local art of all kinds. During the festivities, Western Gateway Park is bustling with live music, dancing, and street vendors. The event is a crucial time for local...
by Sonia Wessen | Jan 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
My mom and I drove to downtown (and midtown, on the way there and back) Sacramento on January 15th to survey the bustling area for public art. We knew we’d have to plan around road work and the crazy traffic, including detours and a parking shortage....
by Alicia Henriquez Porras | Jan 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
This photomontage I made is a reflection of the creativity in ways of protesting and creating community in recent years in Nicaragua compared to previous social uprisings in the country before the 2000s. It’s not creative placemaking as we’ve learned it in the sense...
by William Fecko | Jan 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
Hi class! I have been in a bit of a podcast phase recently, so I decided that for my blog post about creative placemaking, I would ditch the reading and writing and head for the audio route instead. My podcast focuses on a story of creative placemaking from my high...
by Abby Johnson | Jan 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
Hello and welcome to the “Engaged Department” video podcast, where we sit down with students from the different departments across St. Olaf’s Campus and ask them questions about their department’s community engagement work or lack thereof. In today’s episode, we will...
