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Recent News: Visual Art, Museums
April 26, 2010
New in CAN BlogNet: Ben Volta's Blog
CAN has added artist Ben Volta to CAN's BlogNet, a collection of blogs across the Internet that are of interest to the field of community-based art, appearing automatically on CAN's front page.
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April 16, 2010
High School Students Show at Philadelphia Museum
Students from Conwell Egan Catholic High School in Fairless Hills, Pa., have a collaborative artwork on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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April 6, 2010
Urbano Brings Teen Art to Mass. Statehouse
The Urbano Project's teen artists and performers are bringing young people's art to the Massachusetts Statehouse in response to violence in Boston, in their own lives, their communities and the world.
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March 30, 2010
Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement
New York's Bronx Museum visitors will gather for several community events during two exhibitions dedicated to the Civil Rights Movement in upcoming months.
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March 24, 2010
15th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners
The 15th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners is underway at the University of Michigan, produced by the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP).
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A Bridge Conversation on the Power of Art To Move People:
Ismael Ahmed and Anan Ameri discuss the extraordinary model of the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services.
By Anan Ameri
(March 2008)
A New Beginning: The Evolving Relationship between Artist and Community:
A comic roller-coaster ride through a semester of community arts learning.
By Christina Ralls
(October 2008)
After the Hurricane: Survivors' Words and Pictures:
A traveling photo exhibit carries personal memories of an unforgettable disaster.
By Piper Hanson
(August 2006)
Art Action for Social Change: Kids on the Hill:
A theory of change in three parts: Experiential Education, Art Action, Civic Engagement.
By Mark Carter and Rebecca Yenawine
(August 2008)
Art Club: A Safe Space in Baltimore:
On watching an amazing group of kids struggle, break down and challenge themselves.
By Mari Gardner
(February 2007)
Art Jump Off!: Choice at the Center of a Middle-school Afterschool Arts Program:
Embracing student choice and personal attention as ways to help young people develop artistic skills.
By John Giordano and Kassandra Derby
(October 2008)
Art in the House: Project Row Houses:
Profile of project in Houston's Third Ward. Artist Rick Lowe combines art with community development. Published in High Performance #69/70, Vol. XVIII, No. 1/2, 1995.
By Shaila Dewan
(December 1999)
Arts, Activism and Humanity – The Prison Creative Arts Project:
Investing in the voices of the incarcerated.
By Geetha Iyer
(August 2008)
Book Review: Art and Upheaval: Artists on the World Frontlines:
What are the roles that artists can play in the midst of severe violence?
By Craig Zelizer
(July 2008)
Canoes in New Zealand: Coastal Mappings:
Making art with people near the end of life in a New Zealand hospice.
By Petra Kuppers
(April 2006)
Common Memory: The Community Visual Art Challenge of Gwylène Gallimard:
A South Carolina artist and her community build a river to Alaska. Entire book (.pdf) plus commentary and an interview.
By Linda Frye Burnham
(December 2004)
Community Arts 2007: A Muscular Year:
The field of community-based arts showed its muscle this year.
By Linda Frye Burnham
(December 2007)
Community Conversations through the Arts: Artistic Response After the Virginia Tech Tragedy:
A disparate group of Blacksburg residents decides to seek community healing.
By Shannon Turner
(August 2008)
Community Works: Sambo Mockbee and the Rural Studio:
A eulogy for a citizen architect.
By Bruce Lindsey
(September 2007)
Complexities and Collaborations at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago:
Power dynamics, resources, support and responsibilities in campus-community collaborations.
By Celina Aguilar and Kate McLeod
(July 2008)
Core Arts: Mississippi Arts Commission and Communities in Schools Greenwood LeFlore:
A juvenile-justice program that survived a rocky beginning and can now be found in every region of its state
By Grady Hillman
(August 2008)
Enlightenment Through Collaboration:
A collaborative project in South Central Los Angeles could make you believe in magic.
By Brett Cook
(October 2009)
Everybody Say Hallelujah: the Minneapolis, Minnesota, residency:
"Dancing to the Music of Time," coverage of the Minneapolis, Minnesota, residency in the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange nationwide "Hallelujah" initiative, 1998-2002.
By Linda Frye Burnham
(December 2001)
Exchanging Gifts in Charleston, South Carolina:
A Charleston critic looks at a local/global community arts project: The Future Is on the Table.
By Darryl Lorenzo Wellington
(March 2009)
Eye of the Storm: Reflections on Violence:
Words and images from a domestic-violence project at Savannah's Union Mission.
By David Jeffreys
(May 2007)
Five Keys to Growing a Healthy Community-connected Museum:
A Seattle director tells colleagues how his community turned a small historical society into a $1-million-year museum.
By Ron Chew
(February 2005)
For What It's Worth: Uncovering the Hidden Value in Work:
Monuments in a Massachusetts park to a waitress, a professor, a trash collector, a librarian and a grocer.
By Lara Lepionka
(April 2007)
Fostering Commitment: The Community Arts Corps:
AmeriCorps and MICA take art students into their Baltimore communities.
By Kara McDonagh
(August 2008)
Framework for Understanding Ruby Payne:
Teaching art students to apply a theory about poverty to their internships in Baltimore's public schools. From Community Arts Perspectives, Vol. 1, No. 1.
By E. Blaise DePaolo
(June 2008)
Interposing on the Collective Culture through the Arts: A Case Study of One University Course:
What if artists merged discussions about formal aesthetics and the elements and principles of art/design with discussions about moral growth and public good? From Community Arts Perspectives, Vol. 1, No. 1.
By Rachel Marie-Crane Williams
(June 2008)
Lessons from the Art of Solidarity: A Teaching Experience in Nicaragua:
U.S. artists talk deeply about their intensive collaboration with activist groups, artisans, families and high-school students in Nicaragua.
By Cinder Hypki
(November 2009)
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: Jules Corriere:
Jules Corriere, playwright with Community Performance Inc., writes to us from a residency in progress in Union, S.C.
By Jules Corriere
(September 2001)
Listening for the Lexicon of Cultural Shift:
New language from old wisdom about community art as lived experience.
By Linda Frye Burnham
(May 2007)
Living Like a Refugee: Peggy Diggs Takes a Design Problem to Prison:
Straight out of maximum security: make your own portable desk.
By Linda Frye Burnham
(March 2007)
Lynne Hull:
Profile of this Wyoming environmental artist. Published in High Performance #62. Vol. XVI, No. 2, 1993.
By Sue Thornton
(December 1999)
Making Art in Booklyn: Each One Teach One:
A New York artists' book-making co-op puts media in the hands of the people.
By Jamie Munkatchy
(March 2005)
Mapping Within: The Making of a University-community Arts Partnership:
Community artists at Harvard explore the intersection of theory and practice in collaboration with a children's writing group.
By Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein and Rachel McIntire
(December 2005)
Mary Giehl: Shadows of Children:
Arts project with at-risk youth in Delaware. First published in High Performance #75, Vol. XX, No. 1, 1997.
(December 1999)
Mildred Howard and Amalia Mesa-Bains: A Conversation on Community and Public Art:
Reflections on the role of the artist in culturally diverse communities.
By Amalia Mesa-Bains
(October 2009)
Norma Bradley: Community Quilt Project:
Community quilt project in North Carolina. First published in High Performance #75, Vol. XX, No. 1, 1997.
(December 1999)
O.J. Simpson Coloring & Activity Book:
A community-engaged project on the racial aftermath of the Trial of the Century. Includes online CAN forum.
By Colin Quashie
(January 2005)
On the Yard: Prison art connects with the outside:
A visual artist working with inmate populations talks about the experience. Published in High Performance #58/59, Vol. XV, No. 2/3, 1992.
By Tom Skelly
(December 1999)
Paradigms on the Move: The Groundworks Monongahela Conference:
Leading eco-artists come together to share their community experiments in solving environmental problems and planting seeds of change in Pennsylvania and around the world.
By Cynthia Robinson
(December 2005)
Power and Mastery — Negotiations in Community-based Visual Art:
Overview of the intersection of visual art and communities from an experienced practitioner.
By Neill Bogan
(October 2003)
Promoting Self and Community Empowerment Through Critical Pedagogy in a Community Art Program:
Learning about the consequences of social injustice in Austin's Greater Tomorrow Youth Art Program.
By Christopher O. Adejumo
(October 2008)
Resonant Spaces/Dynamic Flow:
Connecting the culture, values and elements of Hip-Hop to ways of designing and experiencing urban spaces and structures.
By James Garrett Jr.
(March 2004)
Revolutionizing the Making of a Museum: Putting Teens in Charge:
Teenagers are creating the Chicago Teen Museum, the first museum in the U.S. dedicated entirely to the preservation of teen culture
By Carol Ng-He and Erin Dragotto
(February 2010)
Richard Kamler:
A profile of this artist whose work focuses on prison issues. Published in High Performance #63, Vol. XVI, No. 3, 1993.
By Laura Jamison
(December 1999)
Sharing the Future: Philadelphia: The Village of Arts and Humanities:
A profile of artist Lily Yeh's North Philadelphia project. Published in High Performance #68, Vol. XVII, No. 4, 1994.
By Gil Ott
(December 1999)
Shooting the Klan: An Interview with Andres Serrano:
The artist, an unwilling soldier in the Culture Wars of the early '90s, talks about making "Piss Christ," photographing the Ku Klux Klan, and how things have changed for him as a result of all the hoopla. Published in High Performance #55, Vol. XIV, No. 3, 1991.
By Coco Fusco
(September 2002)
Signals of Exchange:
What are the qualities of community in this new era of globalism?
By Johanna Poethig
(October 2009)
Silk Road Theatre Project's Alternative Cultural Education:
Starting a conversation with U.S. students about the cultures of the Silk Road, an ancient network of trade routes connecting China, Asia and the Mediterranean world.
By Carol Ng-He
(February 2009)
Street Cred: Two Community Arts Exhibitions in Baltimore:
Sloan and Lehrer's "Crossing the BLVD" and "Two-Way Street" by grad students in community art at MICA.
By Linda Frye Burnham
(April 2006)
Structuring a Catalytic Arts Education Program: The Saturday Program at Cooper Union:
Student teachers run a powerful community program for teens in New York, founded by undergraduates in the 1960s. From Community Arts Perspectives, Vol. 1, No. 1.
By Karma Mayet Johnson
(June 2008)
Surviving Genocide: The Rwanda Healing Project:
News from Lily Yeh and Barefoot Artists working in the survivor villages of Rwanda.
By Lily Yeh
(December 2005)
Taking Back the Power: An Interview with Robbie Conal:
The artist talks about wallpapering cities with his satirical portraits of figures in power, including Caspar Weinberger, Nancy Reagan, Oliver North and Margaret Thatcher. Published in High Performance #39, Vol. X, No. 3, 1987.
By Claire Peeps
(September 2002)
Teaching Museum Studies Through a Social-justice Lens:
A significant statement about the role of the contemporary museum in exploring and defining community values.
By Lila Staples
(December 2009)
The Artmaker as Active Agent: Six Portraits:
Artist Susan Monagan explores the work of six individual community artists for her Cornell Masters thesis.
By Susan Monagan
(February 2006)
The Citizen Artist:
A visual artist talks about her involvement in her local neighborhood. Publishedx in High Performance #75, Vol. XX, No. 1, 1997.
By Aida Mancillas
(September 2002)
The Community Artist from the Community:
A community arts grad student goes to work in the Native American community where she grew up.
By Ashley Minner
(August 2008)
The Dandelion School Transformation Project in China:
Barefoot Artists help Chinese students "find angels in hell."
By Lily Yeh and Kelly Tannen
(August 2008)
The Liberatory Critique:
Step by step, a critical pedagogy that nurtures the artist's unique voice in relationship to a broadly inclusive community of peoples, values, ideas and opinions.
By Ken Krafchek
(December 2009)
The Practices and Pedagogy of Pepón Osorio:
How risk and trust and hope for a reciprocal practice can bring communities to life and life to communities.
By Amalia Mesa-Bains and Pepón Osorio
(October 2008)
Trans-Siberia and Back Again: Capturing the Moving Mind:
Gwylene Gallimard and Jean-Marie Mauclet take their latest project to a conference on the Trans-Siberian Railway.
By Darryl Lorenzo Wellington
(March 2006)
Viewpoint: Community Collaborative Arts:
Community art is an edgy collective experience with aesthetic qualities of its own. From Community Arts Perspectives, Vol. 1, No. 1.
By Johanna Poethig
(June 2008)
Wholly Dedicated: Baltimore Clayworks' Studio Satellites in Inner-city Neighborhoods:
On putting your classrooms where your students are.
By Deborah Bedwell
(December 2008)
Young People's Art Works Toward Social Change: Performing Visions of Utopia:
An analysis of art works created by young people in struggle.
By Sharon Verner Chappell
(October 2008)
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From the Archive...
" We put the show on a bus and made it a moving exhibition because there was no space in the city [Medellin, Colombia] where everybody could safely go."
—Pilar Riaño-Alcalá quoted by Linda Frye Burnham in
Conference Notes, Toronto – Community Arts: What's in a Name?
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