Issue Two of Community Arts Perspectives: A Publication of the Community Arts Convening and Research Project is now available on CAN. The issue includes essays by Celina Aquilar and Kate McLeod on power dynamics in community collaborations at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Ron Bechet, Willie Birch and Helen Regis on the history of the Porch Cultural Center in the Seventh Ward of New Orleans; Sheila Fox on reflection and personal development as inherent components of the art-making process; Nicole Garneau and Phyllis Johnson on the difficult partner relationship that built Columbia College Chicago's community arts graduate program; Sonia BasSheva Mañjon on whether campus-community partnerships are "supporting or destroying" the field of community arts; Linda Melamed and Isabel Nazario on the challenges to conventional academic culture presented by Rutgers' Transcultural New Jersey Public Service Arts Program; Mindy Nierenberg on how collaboration between liberal arts and visual arts can make opportunities for student learning and community benefit; Melanie Ohm on refining the term "best practices"; and John Peacock on the trials and tribulations of building a 2,000-mile bridge between MICA and the Dakota Nation. [LINK]