This week we discuss the importance of storytelling, arts, and culture in rural communities with Susan Duplessis, Director of Community Arts Development at the South Carolina Arts Commission.

About The Art of Community: Rural SC initiative of The South Carolina Arts Commission

Community Arts Development Program

The Art of Community: Rural SC Brochure

Films:

'A Tale of Two Cities'  on Blackville and Estill, SC, featuring Nevada teaching artist, Markus Tracy

'Public Transformation: Denmark, SC' - a film by Ashley Hanson and Nik Nerburn of Minnesota

Artist: 

About Artist Markus Tracy

About CREATE: Rural SC, a program of The Art of Community: Rural SC

Community Arts Development

Film: What is CREATE: Rural SC?

About The SC Promise Zone

https://scpromisezone.org/

President Obama's Promise Zone Initiative

Other Resources and references

SouthArts

NEA Our Town Program

ArtPlace America

National Rural Assembly

Daily Yonder: https://www.dailyyonder.com/topics/rural-assembly/rural-womens-summit/

Creative Placemaking  

Article: 'The Soul of the South'  by Paul Theroux

A conversation with author of The Deep South by Paul Theroux

Partners in this work

National Assembly of State Arts Agencies

Rural LISC: https://www.lisc.org/rural/

USDA Rural Development

The Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation

SC Office of Rural Health 

South Carolina Assoc. for Community Economic Development

National Consortium for Creative Placemaking