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Recent News: Arts in Rural/Small Communities
March 25, 2010
NEA Reports on Informal Arts, Urban & Rural
"Come as You Are: Informal Arts Participation in Urban and Rural Communities," released 3/22/10, is the NEA's first research publication in several years to examine the "informal arts."
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February 23, 2010
Sojourn Puts Summer Institute On the Table
Portland's Sojourn Theatre will offer a summer institute as part of its research for its summer site-specific production, "On the Table."
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February 4, 2010
Launch: Always Expect Miracles, Asheville
"Always Expect Miracles," a new community play written by CAN blogger Jules Corriere, debuts in Asheville, N.C., February 11, 2010, and runs through March 6.
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January 27, 2010
Appalshop Media at MOMA Film Festival, N.Y.
In celebration of its 40th anniversary, Appalshop's work will be showcased in New York at Documentary Fortnight, 2010: the Museum of Modern Art's International Festival of Nonfiction Film.
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January 5, 2010
Call: Residency at Cheng Long Wetlands, Taiwan
Artists from all countries are invited to send a proposal for a site-specific outdoor public art installation that will involve working with local elementary school children in Taiwan.
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A Bridge Conversation on Connecting Action and Academia in California's Central Valley:
Isao Fujimoto and Tim Marema on the power of "edgewalking."
By Tim Marema
(March 2008)
A Bridge Conversation on Traditional and Organic Bridging:
Francisco Guajardo and Edyael Casaperalta on intentionality, consciousness and creating new opportunities.
By Edyael Casaperalta
(April 2008)
A Bridge Conversation on the Creativity of Strategic Communications:
Dee Davis and Michelle Miller talk about the aesthetics and mathematics of social change.
By Michelle Miller
(June 2008)
A More Perfect Union:
Review of 2002 performance in Union, S.C.
By Linda Frye Burnham
(February 2003)
Acting on a Dream:
A small N.C. town uses art to preserve culture and develop community. Published in High Performance #68, Vol. XVII, No. 4, 1994. (First published in the Independent Weekly of No. Carolina, 1994.)
By Linda Frye Burnham
(December 1999)
Authentic Passion: An introduction to the arts in rural and small communities:
Overview from a noted South Dakota arts consultant.
By Janet Brown
(March 2002)
Community Arts 2007: A Muscular Year:
The field of community-based arts showed its muscle this year.
By Linda Frye Burnham
(December 2007)
Community Works: Sambo Mockbee and the Rural Studio:
A eulogy for a citizen architect.
By Bruce Lindsey
(September 2007)
Creativity, Faith and a Stronger Community:
A sermon at the Congregational Church, Gunnison, Colorado.
By Maryo Gard Ewell
(August 2006)
Everybody Say Hallelujah: the Burlington, Vermont, residency:
"Eastside Story," coverage of the Burlington, Vermont, residency in the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange nationwide "Hallelujah" initiative, 1998-2002.
By Linda Frye Burnham
(May 2001)
Growing Together: Artists & Farmers Meet in Lancashire:
Conference Report: Creative Rural Industries, Lancaster, England, September 2006.
By Linda Frye Burnham
(October 2006)
Hallelujah North Carolina: From the Piedmont to the Blue Ridge - the Boone residency:
Coverage of the Boone, N.C., residency in the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange nationwide "Hallelujah" initiative, 1998-2002.
By Linda Frye Burnham
(January 2003)
It's Hard to Watch Your Brother Die: A Story from the Dead Man Walking School Theatre Project:
A rural Colorado town commits to examining the death penalty.
By Shelly Johnson and Jared Williams
(November 2006)
Let Art Begin at Home: The Amery Story:
The story of the Northern Lakes Center for the Arts in tiny Amery, Wisconsin.
By LaMoine MacLaughlin
(March 2005)
Letter from an Artist: Catching Magic in the Los Padillas Water Catchment Project:
Visual artist Chrissie Orr writes about her water-catchment demonstration project in the New Mexico desert, designed by students at Los Padillas Elementary School on the Rio Grande.
By Chrissie Orr
(November 2004)
Letter from an Artist: The Wallpaper Project:
Creating a traveling oral-history performance project in Wisconsin.
By Rachel Barber
(April 2004)
Putting Culture Back into Agriculture:
Looking for project ideas, a University of Wisconsin team went to the grassroots: artists and farmers.
By Maryo Gard Ewell
(December 2006)
RFK in EKY: Maximum Feasible Participation:
John Malpede re-creates Robert Kennedy's 1968 "poverty tour" in Kentucky.
By Jane Hirshberg
(November 2004)
Rez CAP:
Across a thousand miles, two cultures, two communities come together: MICA and the Dakota Nation.
By John Peacock
(July 2008)
Running To Catch Up with the People: A Conversation with Robert Gard, Ralph Kohlhoff and Michael Warlum, 1969:
Historic conversation among three community-arts pioneers at work in Wisconsin on The Arts in the Small Community, the first NEA-funded rural arts project.
By Michael F. Warlum
(September 2004)
Signs of Welcome, Signs of the Possible: Public Practice in Rural California:
Suzanne Lacy's Public Practice students work with residents of a small California town to create Laton Live! REUNION / REUNION.
By Emily Roehl
(June 2009)
Small Town America ReDesigns Itself into Prosperity:
A design workshop by the NEA and the National Trust for Historic Preservation has been quietly promoting small-town economic development and viability.
By Jennifer Roche
(July 2005)
South Dakota Celebrates a Black Pioneer:
A tiny town on the northern plains is going down in African-American film history.
By Susan Stoneback
(July 2006)
Spirit of the Northwest:
"Spirit of the Northwest: Claiming Community Identity," an arts initiative among the states arts councils of Washington, Idaho and Oregon, took place in six widely scattered Northwest rural communities that were all under enormous stress, struggling with economic, racial and spiritual issues as well as severe isolation and natural disasters.
(March 2001)
Swamp Gravy: Northerners tell stories in private and call it therapy. Southerners tell stories in public and call it swapping lies.:
First person account of developing community performance in a small town. Published in High Performance #63, Vol. XVI, No. 3, 1993.
By Richard Owen Geer
(December 1999)
Swappin' Lies in Miller County: The Story of Swamp Gravy:
The making of the landmark community performance piece with, by and for the citizens of Miller County, Georgia, by the artists of Community Performance Inc.
By Linda Frye Burnham
(December 1999)
Telling the Truth in a Small Town: Ukiah Players Theater:
Case study of a community story project in Ukiah, Calif.; part of "Connecting Californians: Finding the Art of Community Change" research project
By Erica Kohl
(February 2001)
The 1000 Kites Summit: A Community Arts Focus Group:
An example of cross-sector thinking that's integrating the arts into real-world change.
By Linda Frye Burnham
(October 2007)
The Arts and The Wisconsin Idea: A Conference Report:
Report on conference, U. of Wisconsin, October 2003.
By Maryo Gard Ewell
(December 2003)
The Crisis in Agriculture Is a Crisis of Culture:
In response to what it sees as a worldwide crisis in agriculture, the U.K. organization Littoral/Projects Environment has created a new Arts and Agriculture Initiative, including projects, a forum and an international conference.
By Ian Hunter and Celia Larner
(January 2001)
The Path of Stories: Artists and The Thousand Kites Project:
A long, deep look into a multi-arts collaboration that's starting a national conversation about the U.S. prison industrial complex. Includes video.
By Arlene Goldbard
(May 2008)
The Story Revolution: How Telling Our Stories Transforms the World:
A speech advocating a new center for local stories at Ukiah Players Theater in California.
By Arlene Goldbard
(January 2005)
When Kennedy Came to Kentucky:
Preview of the September 2004 Robert Kennedy Project in eastern Kentucky. Republished from American Theatre magazine.
By Linda Frye Burnham
(August 2004)
Wide Awake in Lost Hills: Reflections from the Students of the Inaugural Cornerstone Institute:
Summer in the tiny California town of Lost Hills with community arts' premier theater ensemble.
By Kate Collins
(February 2005)
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From the Archive...
" They picked a site called Los Padillas in the south Rio Grande valley — hotter than hell in the summer and swarming with mosquitoes."
—Chrissie Orr in
Letter from an Artist: Catching Magic in the Los Padillas Water Catchment Project
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