Creative Placemaking and Careers in Arts Management

“In creative placemaking… community sectors partner to strategically shape the physical and social character of a neighborhood, town, tribe, city, or region around arts and cultural activities.”

-Ann Markusen and Anne Gadwa Nicodemus authors of Creative Placemaking, a white paper commissioned by the Mayors' Institute on City Design

In this lecture, artist and curator Jessica Wimbley will explore the connections between the public, private, not-for-profit, and community sectors regarding the arts and career opportunities in arts management. Issues in visual arts that intersect with finance, economics, law, education, business, and management will be discussed.

Jessia Wimbley is an artist and curator living and working in Claremont, California. She received her BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design, her MFA in visual arts from the University of California, Davis, and her MA in arts management from Claremont Graduate University.

Wimbley’s work in arts management includes having conceived, launched, and managed the program Art After Hours at the Pomona College Museum of Art, serving as Board member of the nonprofit Museum Educators of Southern California, panelist for the Department of Cultural Affairs in Los Angeles, Public Art Division, as well as developing curatorial and community projects at various institutions including Claremont Graduate University, Eastside International, Los Angeles, and Western Project to name a few. She is represented by Western Project in Los Angeles.