Sara Daleiden
Context Aligner
[focusing on human + physical landscape]
Sara Daleiden facilitates civic engagement within developing landscapes, exercising arts and cultural exchange strategies based on over two decades of experience. She is a sought-after consultant for organizational development, real estate development, and economic development, as well as strategy, facilitation, and evaluation for numerous organizations and government bodies. She additionally has expertise working with artists and other entrepreneurs for creative placemaking, public art, artist residencies, and small business development. With headquarters in Milwaukee and Los Angeles, her initiative, MKE<->LAX, encourages local cultures to value neighborhoods, public space and social entrepreneurship, plus racial and gender equity. As a multifaceted creative, she received a Bachelor of Art Studio with a Sculpture Concentration from the University of Notre Dame and her Master of Public Art Studies at the University of Southern California (USC). She collaborates with the City of Milwaukee, the Greater Milwaukee Committee and other institutions and leaders to ensure the development of equitable places through the Milwaukee Method of Creative Placemaking. Milwaukee projects include the Beerline Trail Neighborhood Development Project (also known as the ARTery), Night Market on Wisconsin Avenue and HERE! CNI for a Choice Neighborhood Initiative. .
A common thread in Sara’s work is collaboration. Sara has collaboratively produced residencies, programs, developments, and other place-based initiatives emphasizing the artistic regional poetics that exist in different localities. Her ability to analyze real-world issues and offer equitable solutions has fostered a network of professionals, and resources that reinforce community sustainability. \Sara believes that art and other creative practices are social. Thus, those practices can influence, support, and thrive together.
As a co-founder of HomeWorks: Bronzeville, Sara continues to build connections between people and places. She offers support for empathetic development, embracing identity, legacy, and experimentation. She uses her research and resources to help make sense of the environment and all of its socioeconomic layers, aligning the where, the who, and the how.