Hometown Summit 2017

As Director of Design and Creative Placemaking Programs for the National Endowment for the Arts, Jason Schupbach has been at the forefront of the creative placemaking movement nationally. Schupbach manages a $10 million annual portfolio of design and creative placemaking grants and initiatives, serves as national liaison to and steward for the design and creative placemaking fields for the Federal government, manages a number of design leadership initiatives including the Mayors’ Institute on City Design and Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design, and leads partnership efforts with other Federal agencies to reinvigorate the role of design quality in Federal investments. Come to this session with questions about national trends in creative placemaking, what works and what doesn’t from the creative placemaking projects that have been funded by the NEA and perspectives on where the creative placemaking field (and funding) is headed.