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Arts & Culture
Across the United States, communities are reconnecting to rivers through a host of programs utilizing arts, history, technology and storytelling. These programs often make use of local colleges and universities, and are most commonly a partnership among government entities and nonprofits.
Art & Technology
The Mississippi riverfront is uniquely positioned to bring together art, science and technology to build stronger communities. Programs in this area bring together experts from a variety of areas including academics, scientists and business leaders to bridge a greater understanding of how rivers shape communities.
Storytelling
Wherever people settle, they tell stories about who they are, where they come from, and what they hope to achieve while they are here. These stories become ways people connect to a place, and become as much of a "place-making" activity as the more physical practices of architecture and landscape architecture.
Public Art
As cities remake their riverfronts, a wide variety of public art projects add liveliness and visual interest to the redeveloped landscape. Sometimes these art projects are woven into the new urban infrastructure. Other projects are more self-contained, leaving the public to ponder the relations between community and river that are expressed in abstract form, or in poetry inscribed into sculpture.
