Santa Monica, California's 18th Street Arts Center has among its current resident artists some leading lights in community arts: John Malpede and Suzanne Lacy. Malpede founded the Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD), a performance company of homeless and formerly homeless people. He shares his studio with his wife, artist Henriette Brouwers, LAPD's associate director. Lacy is widely recognized as an artist who works in community settings and has written seminal texts for the field. She shares her studio with artist Leslie Labowitz, with whom she created early works in L.A.'s feminist art community. Otis College of Art and Design, where Lacy is chair of fine arts, has an 18th St. space for its MFA program in Public Practices. 18th St. was once the publisher of High Performance magazine, the precursor to CAN. [LINK] Posted by Linda Frye Burnham