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CULTURAL INFRASTRUCTURE RESOURCES: A COMPILATION FROM THE CENTRE ON CULTURE AND COMMUNITIES

Artist Studios & Artist Live-Work Spaces

Artspace Projects Inc & Boston Redevelopment Authority, Keeping Boston's Creative Capital: A Survey of Artist Space Needs, Revised July 2003. This document reviews the survey and work undertaken by Boston to retain and create new spaces for artists.

City of Seattle, Arts Resource Network, Artist Housing and Workspace Issues, Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, 2002, 2003. This website looks at issues surrounding live and work space and attempts to provide resources and solutions.

City of Seattle, Arts Resource Network, Spacefinder, Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, 2002, 2003. This website is designed to help artists locate rehearsal and performance space as well as live and work space.

Jackson, Maria Rosario & Kabwasa-Green, Florence. Artist Space Development: Making the Case, Urban Institute,2007 Leveraging Investments in Creativity

"Live/Work Space: Housing for Artists in Your Community", Jan Plimpton, author, Jennifer Neiman, editor, National Assembly of Local Arts Agencies Monographs, August 1995, Volume 4, Number 7. This paper discusses the important nature of incorporating artists into communities (of all sizes) through these types of developments, and the equally important community that is established between tenants in these spaces. A number of myths are dispelled and that illustrate the benefits of incorporating artists in live/work spaces in neighborhoods, that they are financially found, and that as well as responsible, artists also put down roots and inject vitality and good will into the community. A number of case studies provide context.

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