Work with Artists: Find, Select, and Hire an Artist
A step-by-step guide by Springboard for the Arts to help organizations, agencies, and businesses find, select, and hire an artist.
Publications & Toolkits
Free toolkits, field guides, and workbooks published by Springboard and others!
Invest in Artists: Launch an Emergency Relief Fund
A toolkit for organizations and agencies on launching your own Emergency Relief Fund for Artists.
Work of Art: Business Skills for Artists
A comprehensive workbook designed by artists for artists to develop your creative business.
Handbook for Artists Working in Community
A manual for artists to help begin or deepen work in or with community.
Heartland, Heartwork Field Guide
Empowering rural leaders: A guide for effective place-based projects.
Creative People Power
A step-by-step guide by Springboard for the Arts to help organizations, agencies, and businesses find, select, and hire an artist.
Ready Go Toolkit
A guide for artists and organizations to create mobile tools to engage the public.
Community Supported Art
A guide to connecting artists to buyers by distributing shares of art works, adapted from the Community Supported Agriculture movement.
Impact Report: The Art of Environmental Stewardship
An impact report from Springboard for the Arts on how artists help cultivate sustainable, equitable, and creative futures.
Impact Report: The Art of Economic Justice
An impact report from Springboard for the Arts on how artists help cultivate sustainable, equitable, and creative futures.
Mural Map and Community History Toolkit
A toolkit for artists to make a mural map that illustrates the history of their community.
Toolkit Toolkit
A toolkit to help you create a useful toolkit to share about your project.
Lightning Rod Toolkit
A toolkit for creating “flash theater” – performances created collaboratively and in response to the current moment.
Community Heroes Toolkit
A toolkit to create a public art project celebrating the everyday heroes of your community.
Irrigate Toolkit
A toolkit for mobilizing local artists to solve challenges in your community.
Guide for Business Districts to Work with Local Artists
A guide for place managers and business associations to work with local artists on creative placemaking projects.
Porch Light Toolkit
A toolkit to replicate or adapt Mural Art Philadephia’s public health program.
Trabajo de Arte: Aptitudes de Negocios para Artistas
Un plan de estudios integral para desarrollar tu negocio creativo. (Spanish Language).
Arte Apoyada por la Comunidad
Una guía para crear una CSA, un nuevo modelo de apoyo y distribución de arte que apoya a los artistas en la creación de nuevos trabajos y establece relaciones con coleccionistas y mecenas locales. (Spanish Language).
Open-Air Social Dance Toolkit
A guide to producing an open-air social dance series in your community.
Neighborhood Postcard Project
A toolkit containing tips, resources, and templates to create a unique storytelling exchange in your community.
People’s Creative Toolkit
A toolkit in English and Spanish to develop creative storytelling to amplify your campaign.
Your Idea Here Toolkit
A toolkit to help unlock the potential of vacant storefronts.
HE-HO: A Toolkit for Health and Housing Resources
A guide to host a health and housing resource fair for artists.
Growing up in the Arts Toolkit
A toolkit to provide immersive art programming for youth
Artist Designed Bike Rack Toolkit
A toolkit for designing a bike rack, developed in partnership with Metro Arts.
Artists’ Health Fair
A guide to host a healthcare resource fair for artists.
Write Denver Toolkit
A toolkit for replicating the Write Denver program, a creative writing and story created by Lighthouse Writers Workshop.
Macon Arts Alliance Non-Profit Gallery
Learn how to start your own nonprofit gallery with this toolkit developed in partnership with Macon Arts Alliance.
Road to the Community Plan Toolkit
A guide to engaging community in neighborhood planning.
500 Plates Toolkit
A guide for hosting a participatory community meal.
Beyond the Ladder of Participation: A Trellis of Community Power
This article was created as part of the Senior Policy Fellowship for the Studio for Creativity, Place and Equitable Communities at Arizona State University. This fellowship provides selected seasoned creative placemaking and placekeeping practitioners and scholars with time and resources to harvest their insights and experience for the benefit of the field.