Cultivate Smart Growth and Livable Communities through Art and Greening

Lily Yeh is the founder and executive director of Village of the Arts and Humanities.

The Village of the Arts and Humanities is a community based arts, education, and neighborhood development organization located in North Philadelphia. Through arts-based programs and activities, the Village works with residents to reclaim abandoned space and rebuild the sense of hope and possibility in their neighborhood. From its humble beginnings as a summer park building project the Village has grown into an award winning, nationally recognized model for building community through art. This keynote addresses philosophy, methodology, and evaluation techniques used, and shares some of the challenges of working in the inner city and community-based work.