Fill To Capacity (Where Heart, Grit and Irreverent Humor Collide)
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Fill To Capacity (Where Heart, Grit and Irreverent Humor Collide)
Powerful Lessons of Urban Placemaking, Art + Healing: A Circle with Joan Vorderbruggen
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In this episode Joan Vorderbruggen candidly speaks about her work creating platforms, strategies and collaborations utilizing the power of art for authentic community building.
Joan Vorderbruggen is a nationally recognized leader in the field of public art and creative placemaking. She is a “one-woman powerhouse” behind the award-winning artists and storefront projects in downtown Minneapolis.
Joan Vorderbruggen YouTube, Videos and Articles
- YouTube: Joan Vorderbruggen Activates Vacant Spaces
- YouTube: The Minneapolis Good Chair Project
- TPT: Minnesota Original/ Joan Vorderbruggen and Made Here
- Project For Public Spaces
- ROOM FOR EVERYONE: A new public art administrator’s path to reaching underrepresented artists. by Joan Vorderbruggen
- Planning For The Future of the Hennepin Theatre District
- Joan Vorderbruggen: reawakening empty storefronts to their community potential
- servicespace.org: Powerful Lessons of Urban Placemaking, Art + Healing: A Circle with Joan Vorderbruggen
- https://www.startribune.com/joan-the-connector-muse-makes-storefronts-bloom/266267241/
- http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=8992
- Joan Vorderbruggen is the one-woman powerhouse behind Minneapolis’s Made Here
- Joan Vorderbruggen on Unlikely Collaborations
- It’s the People 2021
- CALL FOR ART: MADE HERE
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Podcast Quotes
VORDERBRUGGEN: “And I think can be difficult for me is that I feel a very deep sense of accountability to the community. And I.... believe that what I'm able to do, I need to do.”
VORDERBRUGGEN: “Not everybody understands the power of arts and its role in a comprehensive public safety strategy. So let's talk about it. You know, here's... the data. And soon our placemaking work was being supported by violence prevention funds at the city level. So it was literally seen as a part of a comprehensive public safety strategy that was preventing violence.”
VORDERBRUGGEN: “...Yes, I am an artist and I utilize the built environment as my canvas with the resources and the creativity and the skills and abilities of the people who are there...”
BENINCASA: “... healers are sometimes described as those who seek to heal the body and the soul. And you spent 17 years as a nurse and you did one-on-one patient care. But as an arts administrator, you work with many patients; you give collaborative multi-layered care to place, space, people and buildings- resuscitating the physical heart of a community, and you do it with art!
So what you do, packaged in who you are, is so needed, and maybe that's why they call you Joan of Art.”
