GISCorps Volunteer Helps Arts Midwest with their GIS Needs

Arts Midwest is one of six nonprofit United States Regional Arts organizations who aim to strengthen local arts and culture efforts in the Midwest. Working in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and the Native Nations that share this geography, their mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the Midwest by advancing creativity. As part of this mission, Arts Midwest provides grants to organizations throughout the Midwest. So far in their 40 years of service, they have awarded over 7,000 grants totaling over $62 million to midwestern artists and organizations. 

Having recently started to explore GIS with ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online (AGO), they are now looking to leverage its power further with the goal of exploring and analyzing the spatial impact and gaps of grantee organizations. GISCorps will be assisting Arts Midwest in their GIS mission by:

• Converting tabular data into a spatial format (geocoding) showing grantee organizations location;
• Building a Dashboard, or other AGO web product, to visualize grantee organization location in conjunction with geostatistics and other relevant data;
• Leveraging Living Atlas, including Census data, to enhance Dashboard visualization and grantee organization location analysis;
• Enhancing the knowledge base and GIS literacy for the organization to support the continued use of GIS.

Neha Chudiwale, GISCorps volunteer from Virginia, has been selected for this project. 

Recruitment complete, project in process.