This past Wednesday, the National Endowment for the Arts announced 63 Our Town grants totaling $4 million. This announcement and the recommended projects offer insight into the state of creative placemaking. Conceived in a year marked by profound hardship, trauma, and grief, each of the recommended Our Town projects offers hope. These arts-led, engagement-based, inclusive initiatives rise to the multiple challenges of this moment with creative approaches to heal, rebuild community, and work towa