Lyz Crane

Lyz Crane was the Deputy Director of ArtPlace America from 2012 to 2020. Within this role, Crane has led grantmaking, capacity-building and knowledge-building strategies focused on organizational change in the community development sector and with local government staff to incorporate arts and cultural practices. She has also worked to transfer lessons from this work and that of the institution to influence the broader enabling environment for creative placemaking. Previously, she served as the Communications Director at ArtHome, an organization that helps artists and their communities build assets and equity through financial literacy; and the Director of Program Development and Program Manager of the Shifting Sands Initiative at Partners for Livable Communities, a national nonprofit leadership organization working to improve the livability of communities by promoting quality of life, economic development, and social equity. In 2009, Crane was named a ‘Next City Vanguard’ by urban affairs magazine Next City. She received her MPA in policy analysis from the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service at New York University and her BA in Urban Studies and Sociology from Barnard College, Columbia University.