American Theatre magazine
Monthly magazine published by Theatre Communications Group, with frequent community-arts related articles. Some online features: Forum, Article Archives, subscription info.

Art and Mental Illness: Myths, Stereotypes and Reality
Document bringing together papers presented at a forum held at Neami Splash Art studio, Melbourne, Australia, June 1, 2007. Forum coincided with exhibition, “For Matthew and Others: Journeys with Schizophrenia, ” at Bundoora Homestead Arts Centre and Neami. Includes historic account of the development of theories linking modernism with art of the so-called insane; analysis of changing attitudes to relationship between art and mental illness; presentations by artists whose work was included in the exhibition.

ArtWorks Curriculum
Series of 12 units by Institute for Children and Poverty (four units each for grades K-1, 2-3, 4-5) that integrate language arts, social studies, dance, drama, music and the visual arts for elementary-school students. Academically rigorous units based on national curriculum standards use children's fiction and nonfiction books, CDs, DVDs, and videotapes. Designed to be taught by regular classroom teachers and by educational staff in after-school and literacy programs in shelters and other community facilities. For purchase.

Arts and Culture in Regeneration
International review of literature on the impact of art and culture on the regeneration of neighborhoods and cities, focusing on: iconic buildings and cities of culture; cultural quarters and clusters; and cultural dynamism. Includes "outstanding questions" about the process, sustainability and assessment of such interventions, and a list of resources on the topic. Commissioned for the third World Summit on Arts and Culture, held in NewcatleGateshead, England, in June 2006. Written by Phyllida Shaw and Graeme Evans; published by IFACCA and Arts Research Digest.

Arts, Culture and Community
Issue of Progressive Planning Magazine with some articles online: "Culture and Community Development: Tough Questions, Creative Answers" by Caron Atlas, "Artists as Community Developers" by Ann Markusen; and "Art and the Politics of Public Housing" by Jacqueline Leavitt. Published by Planners Network, Fall 2005.

Arts-Books.com
Online source for books on the arts.

Better Together
Initiative of Saguaro Seminar on Civic Engagement in America at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, measuring social capital (and art's role in it).

Centre of Expertise on Culture and Communities
Cultural research and development center at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Brings together academia, policy and practice in: (1) The state of cultural infrastructure in Canadian cities and communities; (2) Culture as the fourth pillar of community sustainability; (3) Culture in communities: Cultural systems and local planning; and (4) The impacts of cultural infrastructure and activity in cities and communities. Roundtables, salons, conferences. Publications, bibliographies, research directories, listservs.

Comedia
U.K. urban-strategy research organization, offers an inspired line of cultural-development books, including "The Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Innovators."

Community Engaged Theatre in Canada & Beyond
Canada-based Web site exploring connections among theater, performance, community development and civic engagement. Ten downloadable articles.

Community Weaving
Social-change methodology that incorporates the use of Web-based technology to "weave the human and tangible resources of the grassroots with the knowledge and skills of formal systems." Nonprofit organization is Family Support Network, founded by parents and neighbors in Washington pooling resources. Trainings, certification. Web site has extensive applications, theories, publications, memberships. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Creativity in Community: The Robert Gard Lectures 1999-2003
(Book) Collection of annual lectures presented at the Arts Extension Service Summer Institute for Arts management in New England. Named for community-arts pioneer Robert Gard, founder of Wisconsin Idea Theatre.

Critical Art Ensemble
Five artists dedicated to exploring the intersections between art, technology, radical politics and critical theory.

Dramatic Action: Community-Engaged Theatre in Canada & Beyond
Web site exploring connections between theater, performance, community development and civic engagement. Offers overview of the community-engaged theatre “movement” over the past 20 years. Articles by Esther Farmer, Dan Friedman, Dale Hamilton, Ted Little, et al.

Gregory Sholette
Art and writing by artist who co-founded REPOhistory and Political Art Documentation and Distribution (PAD/D). Many useful articles about history, theory of art and community.

Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue
Introduction to three-year institute at Harvard, on "what art and society have to say to one another," led by performance artist Anna Deavere Smith.

Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education
Annual publication of United States Society for Education Through Art. Focuses: cultural foundations of art education, cross-cultural and multicultural research in art education, and cultural aspects of art in education. Includes arts administration, art therapy, community arts organizations and other disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches relevant to art education. Submission welcome: traditional academic essays, photo essays or alternative formats.

National Arts Journalism Project
Based at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism and School of Arts; fellowships, conferences, research studies, publications.

National Exchange on Art & Civic Dialogue, The
(Program binder) Documentation of Animating Democracy Initiative conference Flint, MI, in October 2003. Offers session notes and descriptions, participant biographies, essays and case studies about arts-based civic dialogue work and links.

New Village Press
Publisher of books about communtiy building, including community-based arts. Project of Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility; dir4ected by Lynne Elizabeth.

On the Edge
Team of artists and researchers conducting an inquiry into the value of art as action between individuals in the everyday" in rural Scotland. Affiliated with Gray's College of Art. Arts projects, publications.

Popular Culture Genres: Theories and Texts
(Book) Study of genres and genre criticism Discusses conventions of different genres, creation and production of texts, audiences, significant social and political implications. Views five classic popular texts in context

Portland Public Art
Enormous Portland Public Art photo archive and critical blog by the anonymous "C." Extensive list of Portland art links. Tagged as "Measuring the supply and demand of Portland, Oregon's art community" since 2005.

Printed Matter
The New York artists' bookstore, online: 20,000 titles by 5,000 artists worldwide. In-print and out-of-print artists' books, publications, multiples. Inventory searchable six ways.

Prodigy Cultural Arts Program
A.k.a Tampa Arts & Youth Demonstration Project. Youth arts program focused on evidence-based practice. Integrates artistic instruction, case management, program management and research into a coherent, replicable model. Based in Tampa, Fla., a project of University Area Community Development Corporation in collaboration with University of South Florida School of Social Work, Bay Area Youth Services, community and faith-based organizations. Funded by Florida Department of Juvenile Justice.

Public Art Review
The national journal Public Art Review is published twice annually by the non-profit FORECAST Public Artworks. Established in 1989, PAR covers the multifaceted field of public art, including practical information, critical analysis, surveys, and listings of recent projects. Edited by Jack Becker.

Reporting the Arts I: News Coverage of Arts and Culture in America
Finds media coverage of television, movies and music dominate arts news at the expense of dance, architecture and the visual arts, and newspapers have come to rely on listings-heavy weekend sections as they struggle to keep pace with America's thriving arts scene. Describes battles being waged in many editorial offices as editors and journalists "try to define the very nature of arts journalism."

Reporting the Arts II: News Coverage of Arts and Culture in America
Follow-up to 1999 study examines the dramatic transformation of the media landscape in the wake of newspaper mergers, 9/11 and U.S. economic decline. Analyzes how the and national press balance between high and popular arts and critical and celebrity journalism. First-time look at foreign arts reporting, non-English and alternative press and coverage on radio and Web. By Andras Szanto, Daniel S. Levy, Andrew Tyndall (National Arts Journalism Program/ Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, 2004).

Shifting Ground: Art in Rural Contexts
Partnership project combining academic and practice-based research. Includes papers, conference presentations and a full account of the Ground Up program of temporary public art in rural county Clare in Ireland. Partners: Arts Office of Clare County Council and School of Humanities, Galway/Mayo Institute of Technology.

Social Theory, Politics and the Arts (STPA)
Annual or periodic internaional conference iof researchers, policymakers,and practitioners that highlights current and conceptual issues in the development of cultural policy, theory and arts administration practices in the U.S. and abroad. Typically draws participation from broad range of disciplines, including sociology, political science, management, economics, law, arts education, history and art history, and museum studies. Perpetuated by a loose ad hoc confederation, not an organization.

Subversive Imagination: Artists, Society and Social Responsibility
(Book) Contributors from South Africa, the Czech Republic, Iran, Poland, Mexico and the U.S. discuss the role of artists in their own societies and analyze their activist identities as a basis for their own work. Writers include Fusco, Ehrenberg, Ndebele, Dyson and Sadri.

The Crisis of Criticism
(Book) Essays including and in response to Arlene Croce's landmark 1994/5 New Yorker articles, "Discussing the Undiscussable," attacking contemporary issues-based art. Articles by Berger, Brenson, Hoberman, hooks, Oates and others look at critics as activists, consumer advocates, sycophants and artists.

The Drama Review (TDR)
Theater journal edited by Richard Schechner at New York University. Often covers community-based theater.

Theatre Topics
Theater journal edited by Harley Erdman at Johns Hopkins University.

USC Annenberg Getty Arts Journalism Fellowship Program
Enrichment and training program for mid-career print, broadcast and online arts reporters and editors. Based at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif.

Voices from the Cultural Battlefront: Organizing for Equity
An ongoing 20-year international conversation about the role of art and culture in the struggle for human rights, including social justice, cultural equity, and a healthy natural environment. Includes a four-day convening model.

Webster's World of Cultural Democracy
Virtual think-tank to encourage activist study and exchange of ideas about cultural policy and development; operated by cultural-policy consultants Don Adams and Arlene Goldbard.

Who's Behind the Culture War?
Essay on "contremporary assaults on the freedom of expression" from The Public Eye by Mark Schapiro.

YES! magazine
"The journal of positive futures" often features community-arts stories. Visit their Arts/Media section.