At the end of January, SFAC Director Roger Schmidt attended ArtPlace's "Creative Placemaking Summit." The term 'creative placemaking' may not make its way into your dinner conversation, but it is becoming a new force in community building. I asked Roger what exactly creative placemaking means. He said, "It is having arts be part of the solution toward a healthy community." For so many years, we as a nation have articulated city building as an economic problem. But communities are demonstrating the importance of also developing arts and cultural resources to add value to cities of all sizes. This strengthens the economy in ways that an agenda of job creation alone cannot... [Continues here]