State Voices has posted a White House Briefing Report that summarizes the outcomes of the May 12, 2009, meeting of 60 artists and creative organizers in Washington, D.C. The 60 participants -- individuals engaged in civic participation, community development, education, social-justice activism and philanthropy -- came together for a White House briefing on art, community, social justice and national recovery. The meeting with policy makers was organized by cultural critic Arlene Goldbard, Claudine Brown of the Nathan Cummings Foundation, arts organizer Billy Wimsatt and Caron Atlas working with the Pratt Center for Community Development and State Voices to talk about "how the remarkable mobilizing power of community arts can be used by the Obama administration as a tool and a pathway for national recovery." State Voices is a nonprofit organization that links 16 active state voter and civic-engagement networks in the U.S. The 28-page summary is followed by a link to the entire report. [LINK] Posted by Linda Frye Burnham