Jamie Hand

Jamie Hand served as ArtPlace America’s Director of Research Strategies from 2014 until its sunset in 2020. In this role, she designed and led cross-sector knowledge and network building efforts. A landscape designer by training, Jamie developed dynamic collaborative relationships with over two dozen strategic partners and consultants – ranging from individual artists, to research and policy shops, to national intermediaries in immigration, environment, health, affordable housing, and more – in order to embed arts and cultural strategies in community development practice. Her work as an editor, facilitator, researcher, and designer reflects a unique combination of rigor and flexibility – with methods that honor both the linear and the nonlinear, the established and the experimental, the known and the unknown, the logic model and the lived experience. Prior to ArtPlace, Jamie worked for the National Endowment for the Arts, Van Alen Institute, and public artist Topher Delaney. She became board chair of ioby.org (“in our back yards”) in 2019 and holds design degrees from Princeton and Harvard.