Hometown Summit 2017

This follow on conversation to the morning plenary is an opportunity to discuss placemaking in greater depth with Juanita Hardy, the Urban Land Institute Senior Visiting Fellow for Creative Placemaking, who is helping to enhance creative placemaking in its content and program areas as part of its Building Healthy Places initiative. Hardy will discuss best practices in creative placemaking, gleaned from research on lessons learned from many projects spanning the US.  Hardy has a passion for art and business, having retired from IBM after 31 years of business management experience in 2005.  She is a collector of fine art, trustee for ArtTable, a national non-profit supporting women professionals in the arts, and former Executive Director of CulturalDC, a nonprofit committed to making space for artists and art organizations and fostering cultural and economic vibrancy in communities through its creative placemaking services.