Across the land use and transportation sectors, our work includes community engagement and education, culture building, and using analysis to demonstrate the benefits of smart growth development.
Help communities of all sizes integrate arts, culture, and creative placemaking into neighborhood revitalization, equitable development, and transportation planning and design.
- Guidance and training on creative placemaking
- Integrating artists and cultural workers into community organizing and making change
- Establishing artists-in-residence in transportation agencies to support work at the intersection of arts and transportation
Marian’s work on the Arts & Culture team focuses on bringing together community members and community-based organizations, artists, arts and culture organizations, advocacy groups, planners, local government, and other partners to nurture and sustain communities that are inclusive, just, and whole.
Currently Running Programs
Providing support to leaders in small and mid-sized communities, both within and outside of government, to effectively address and repair the damage caused by divisive infrastructure projects.