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2011 Bruner Loeb Forum

Putting Creativity to Work: Stronger Communities through Locally Rooted Art & Design
A Great Idea Exchange Event
April 14-16, 2011
Chambers Hotel in Minneapolis, MN

For the past year, Nexus Community Partners has been partnering with Juxtaposition Arts in North Minneapolis to help plan the 2011 Bruner Loeb Forum in Minneapolis. The forum will showcase innovative strategies from across the nation that leverage local engagement in art and design to build more equitable, more economically sustainable, more engaged and connected stakeholders, neighborhoods and cities.

The goal of the Bruner/Loeb Forum is to advance the thinking on a wide variety of challenges facing our cities, and to make the learning and creative thinking inherent in Rudy Bruner Award (RBA) winners and in the work of Loeb Fellows available to practitioners and policy makers across the country. The Bruner Loeb Forum brings together a wide array of RBA winners, Loeb fellows, alumnae and distinguished practitioners from across the country.

The two-day symposium will highlight, investigate and interrogate how ground breaking, locally rooted art and design community development practices are transforming the physical, economic and social landscape in communities across the country.

Through distinguished presenters, local tours, exhibitions and breakout sessions we will explore the questions that shape our efforts to grow locally rooted art and design based community development to a scale necessary to build stronger communities from the ground up.

Who should attend?
If you're an artist or a city planner, a student or a professor, staff at a community based nonprofit or a community resident, a grant maker or a lender at a bank, a for-profit or non-profit developer, you should be there!

Hosted By
Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence and the Loeb Fellowship program with Juxtaposition Arts, 4RM+ULA Architecture, Conway+Schulte Architects, Nexus Community Partners, U of MN College of Design (Departments of Architecture and Landscape Architecture) and the U of MN Center for Urban and Regional Affairs.

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