Metris Arts Consulting

06/27/2025

06/03/2025

So happy to share this highlights video of the Montgomery County Cultural Plan Youth Town Hall created by Action Youth Media. Metris' work on this cultural plan on behalf of Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County has felt so timely and inspiring--a bright spot in these challenging times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0g-WbNC7AE

See the cultural plan progress unfold at https://www.creativemoco.com/cultural-plan/

05/22/2025

For folks in the Lehigh Valley, please join Anne Gadwa Nicodemus at Lehigh Valley Arts + Culture 2025 on May 29th. She's co-leading a breakout session on cultural planning. Register at https://www.lvaca.org/lvac-2025/

03/29/2025

Excited that Metris' work on the Montgomery County Cultural Plan leads with youth. Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County - such an honor to be in partnership with you!

🌟 Calling all middle and high school students! 🌟
Natali Fani-González wants to hear from YOU! Join the Youth Town Hall on March 31 to share your ideas and help shape the future of Montgomery County’s arts and culture community.
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This is your chance to speak up, be heard, and make a difference!
📅 Save the date: March 31
👉 More info: bit.ly/3Ds3DeN

12/11/2024

Friends and colleagues. Anne Gadwa Nicodemus here (Metris muckety-muck). I'm incredibly excited to be a contributing author to the Routledge Handbook of Urban Cultural Planning. Editors Jason Schupbach and Rana Amirtahmasebi faithfully stewarded this book into existence--three years in the making! My chapter "Creative Placemaking's Long Tail" explores creative placemaking's lasting cultural policy implications. It highlights critical resources to help practitioners build upon the lessons-learned and connects readers to leading arts-based work and resources on two of today’s most critical challenges: the climate crisis and repairing democracy.

I am so honored to have been one of the voices that helped shape creative placemaking's emergence and now to have the opportunity to offer first-hand insights into its evolution, growing pains, and continued relevance.

Order the book here: https://lnkd.in/eP-ZHcjP

09/15/2023

So cool to see arts and urban planning in action this week (and in my own backyard)! Thank you to theater artists Mark-n-Sparks and Touchstone Theatre for producing Most Beautiful Lehigh Valley...Mabe "future forum on housing" with a host of cross-sector partners.
Here are some close ups from the creative engagement/visioning techniques we co-created. Spoiler alert: "I come from a place where I feel cicada shells."
http://www.touchstone.org/festival_unbound/most-beautiful-lehigh-valley/

05/23/2023

Have a project idea that integrates arts, culture, and design into local efforts that strengthen communities? National Endowment for the Arts' Our Town Grants are now open. Webinar 6/15 and 1st application deadline 8/3.

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is proud to support the nation’s arts sector with grant opportunities so that together we can help everyone live more artful lives. “Artful lives” is an inclusive concept that holds everything from the creation, presentation, and consumption of profess...

04/26/2023

Fantastic city grant opportunity for arts-driven street redesign projects that improve safety, revitalize public spaces, and engage local communities. Apply by 6/12!

64 projects, 41 U.S. cities, and 22 European cities later…
..our Initiative is expanding into Canada and Mexico! As many as 20 cities in Canada, Mexico and the U.S. will have the opportunity to receive grants for projects that use art and design to improve street safety, revitalize public spaces, and engage community residents.

Learn more about this initiative and apply here: https://asphaltart.bloomberg.org/

04/21/2023

The climate crisis feels so overwhelmingly intractable. Those of us whose calling centers on arts and culture, may feel particularly powerless to make substantive change. For , we invite you to draw hope and inspiration from Heat Response: Creative action for Philly’s rising temperatures. Metris Arts Consulting had the privilege of documenting the project’s story and impact. This 2021-2022 collaboration between Trust for Public Land and acclaimed artist Eve Mosher used arts-based approaches to shine a light on the environmental justice issue of Philadelphia’s urban heat.

Check it out in Metris' spring updates: https://mailchi.mp/b2c04408c8f9/spring-updates-from-metris-arts-consulting

04/17/2023

Honored to have Metris Arts Consulting's WE-Making work profiled in a new e-book: Resilience Matters: Collective Action for Healthier Communities. A FREE compilation e-book of articles, op-eds, and more from Island Press in 2022. View & download: https://lnkd.in/g5ca439h

09/06/2022

Pleased to share the latest edition of Metris' newsletter (Chicago Monuments Project report and cultural asset mapping).
https://lnkd.in/e98yWTkC

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