Milenko Matanović

Milenko is a community builder and a visual artist with a professional career and international reputation spanning 40 years. As founding director of Pomegranate Center, he has created an arena in which art, public participation and community betterment converge. **Gathering Places**\\ Milenko facilitates the conception and construction of open-air gathering places. He involves community members in all phases of these projects, from generation of initial concept, through construction and stewardship. He has also collaborated with artist James Hubbell in leading architecture students from four countries in creating parks in China, Russia, Mexico and the United States. **Community-Based Planning**\\ Milenko is a skilled facilitator helping people of divergent views solve common problems. He has designed and facilitated strategic planning sessions, leadership summits, and design workshops for dozens of communities regionally, nationally and internationally. His work at Pomegranate Cente