Creative Policy was hired by the City of Austin Parks and Recreation Department, and the Friends of Elisabet Ney Museum in partnership with Ten Eyck Landscape Architects to engage the community around an opportunity to help shape the future of the Elisabet Ney Museum.

Creative Policy was hired by Musework, the City of Austin Parks and Recreation Department, and the Friends of Elisabet Ney Museum to engage the community around an opportunity to help shape the future of the Elisabet Ney Museum.

Co-author of an After-Action Analysis of a Collaborative Community Response to Winter Storm Uri.

Resolution No. 20210325-067 created the Winter Storm Review Task Force for the purpose of holding open public listening sessions during which individuals and organizational representatives can share information, experiences, and recommendations related to the winter storm and resulting crises.

Community representatives were invited to review a set of Austin Police Department training videos shown at the police cadet academy as laid out in Austin City Council Resolution 20191205-066. We undertook this review a year after the Austin City Council recognized in 2019, through Resolution 66, the Austin Police Department’s (APD) “history of bigotry and discrimination that has contributed to racially disparate outcomes in policing and policy.”

Assisted in writing drafts of Resolution 20230209-040 directing the City Manager to expand the City's weather sheltering plan.

African American Resource Advisory Commission

Recommendation: Black Arts and Cultural District Recommendation

African American Resource Advisory Commission

Recommendation Number 20200911-04bi

Recommendation Number: 20200410-03di

Creative Policy, in collaboration with Public City, led the Common Waters Demonstration Project. This project was a collaborative art installation that celebrated Lady Bird Lake by blending art, activism, environment, and community as a key component of the Trail Conservancy's Art + Culture Plan. Artists Rejina Thomas, Ruben Esquivel, and Taylor Davis were selected to design, fabricate, and install a 10' x 15' floating wetland on the lake. This installation demonstrated the type of artwork TTC could create in the future, showcasing an equitable process for creating public art.

We worked on everything from jury and artist recruitment and selection protocols for commissioned work to the community engagement process to fabrication, installation, and event planning. The project highlighted the lake's significance and set a precedent for future art and culture initiatives along the trail, ensuring a diverse and inclusive representation in the public art space.

Austin Parks Foundation, in partnership with the City of Austin and the Mueller Foundation, brought the community together to share their stories and imagine spaces along the EastLink trail, a 5.1-mile trail in Central East Austin.

THE PILLARS PROJECT commissioned six artists to create murals on the pillars along Rosewood Avenue, under Pleasant Valley Road in the Boggy Creek Greenbelt. The murals and explorations reflect how the history of a place can inform its future as told by the trail’s East Austin community.

An engagement series intended to kick-start the process of co-creating a community vision for the I-35 corridor.

Austinites have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to transform I-35 through the heart of our city — investing in our community, improving all forms of transportation, and creating community parks, bridges and other amenities where the highway stands now. To take advantage of this opportunity, the Downtown Austin Alliance, in collaboration with a diverse group of Austin leaders, aims to support a community-driven vision for the future of the I-35 corridor in Central Austin.

My Park, My Pool, My City was a three-year artistic residency led by Forklift Danceworks in partnership with the City of Austin Parks & Recreation Department’s Aquatics Division and several East Austin neighborhoods. Using collaborative art making, My Park, My Pool, and My City activated and amplified civic engagement around the future of Austin’s city pools.

Invisible Intersections was a view of the soul of East Austin through the eyes of 14 artists in 3 cultural spaces where new meets old, black meets white, now and then, here and now.