Creative Placemaking in the Madison Region: A Panel Discussion

Published: Nov. 15, 2011, 9 p.m.

Arts Wisconsin hosts a panel discussion featuring National Endowment for the Arts Chair Rocco Landesman and area leaders including Dane County Executive Joe Parisi, Wisconsin Arts Board Chair and former Lt. Governor Barbara Lawton, and Jennifer Alexander, President, Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce. The concept of “Creative Placemaking” describes the ways in which arts, culture and creativity expressed powerfully through place can create vibrant communities, thus increasing the desire and the economic and civic opportunity for people to thrive in place.