Pomegranate Center Press is proud to announce the publication of Multiple Victories: Pomegranate Center’s Art of Creating Community-Crafted Gathering Places. This new book, by Pomegranate Center founder and Executive Director, Milenko Matanovic, contains lessons learned from 20 years of groundbreaking work on public gathering places designed and built by and for communities. More »
Pomegranate Center and the Seattle Housing Authority invite you to:
at new pocket parks in the West Seattle High Point community.
Workshops will be held on April 14 and 21, from 11 am to 3 pm. More »
Milenko Matanovic will be the keynote speaker for two events associated with “Creating Places: Investigation/Celebration of Creating Cohesive Communities and Proactive People through Collaborative Design and Construction of Public Spaces,” a May 17-18 conference in Chicago sponsored by the Chicago Public Art Group and the University of Chicago Great Cities Institute. More »
Pomegranate Center is launching a Gathering Places Initiative—a new pilot project to help communities in western Washington imagine and create new neighborhood gathering places.
In May, a panel of community leaders will select one neighborhood to receive complete planning and design services from Pomegranate Center to help make the dream of a new gathering place a reality. APPLICATION DEADLINE IS APRIL 20. Read more about this program and how to apply.
This project is made possible through the generous support of Safeco Insurance, The Seattle Foundation, and the Titcomb Foundation.
60 leaders from communities throughout western Washington participated in a February 20 Pomegranate Center workshop about community-crafted gathering places. Led by Milenko Matanovic, Executive Director, and Katya Matanovic, Managing Director, the workshop kicked of our Gathering Places Initiative and covered:
The Seattle Housing Authority is developing community-based ideas to honor the people, history and the uniqueness of the historic Yesler Terrace affordable housing community. Pomegranate Center is leading a series of community conversations at the Terrace to incorporate these concepts and elements into community gathering places and integrate art into public areas during the community’s site redevelopment design process. We will engage residents in identifying their irreplaceable community assets and ensure that they are expressed in the future redeveloped community. For more information on this project, contact Duncan Chalmers, duncan@pomegranate.org.
