CREATIVE PLACEMAKING

Every community has a story to tell! BRCF’s Pride in Place program, a creative placemaking effort, aims to inspire our community members to celebrate and share the successes of our county among themselves as well as with visitors and potential future residents through public art and placemaking installations.  

Creative placemaking is a wonderful way to provide positive physical changes to a community. Reimagining our current public spaces has the potential to provide positive social change by providing community identity, community attachment, and community collaboration. The efforts can also encourage positive economic changes within a community.

BRCF has recently formed a Creative Committee to help guide our team to choose pieces of artwork that incorporates Shelby County history, values, and helps to tell the story of our community. Projects will include a new alley activation, additional traffic cabinet art installations, murals, and sculptures similar to those we have supported over the years and are illustrated in this arts & culture section.

Interested in supporting more projects like this? Any new donations will go a long way in making Shelby County even more beautiful and vibrant, and right now, every donation will be matched 1:1. Let's continue to enhance our community together.

Thank you to the following donors who are supporting placemaking projects in Shelby County during this match campaign.

To see all of the locations of the following, scroll to the bottom of the page and you will find an interactive map.