Regina Smith to lead Kresge’s Arts & Culture Program
Regina R. Smith has been named managing director of The Kresge Foundation’s Arts & Culture Program following a national search. Smith has been with the The Kresge Foundation since 2008 as a program officer and senior program officer, working to advance the deliberate integration of arts and culture into community development through creative placemaking. She has been interim managing director of the Arts & Culture Program since July 2015.
Kresge’s Arts & Culture Program focuses on creative placemaking, a comprehensive community development approach that embeds arts and culture in stabilizing disinvested communities. It recognizes that arts and culture are an integral part of life and, when embedded in cross-sector revitalization activity, contribute to positive and enduring economic, physical, social and cultural change in communities.