Reconstructing a Community, Reclaiming a Playground: A Participatory Action Research Study
Study that examined participant's perceptions of community and of the West End neighborhood in Cincinnati, Ohio, where the study took place. It is argued that oppressive situations have developed strong collective identities and social capital among residents, which can lead to the development of community art as a catalyst for social change and inform community-based art education. An asset-based art education. An asset-based community art curriculum was implemented and two murals were developed. Results from the study indicate that participants conceive of community, in general, as a safe, happy place that is clean and green, and the West End as a place with strong social bonds despite suffering from trash, violence, and drugs. Results also indicate that participants increasingly realized their own ability to affect change in their community to improve the landscape and promote a cleaner, greener place through art. Data reveal that the community art curriculum contributed to social change in the neighborhood by highlighting the role of neighborhood children and reclaiming a playground that had been associated with drugs and violence. Written by Karen Hutzel; published by National Art Education Association in Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 2007. (Available online from Highbeam.com with free trial membership.)

Arts Projects for Asylum Seekers and Refugees
Initiates and manages arts projects for asylum seekers and refugees in Portsmouth, England. Ad hoc diverse group affiliated with Friendship Centre, Pallant House Gallery and Portsmouth City Council. Projects: Identity (film and sculpture, 2005-6), New Explorations (music, 2006).

HomegrownHandmade: Art Roads and Farm Trails of North Carolina
Project fostering alliance between North Carolina arts and agriculture. Series of Agri-Cultural Trails: self-directed driving trails in 72 N.C. counties including art galleries, horse farms, “u-pick” farming operations, locally owned restaurants that feature N.C. food products and B&B inns. Project of North Carolina Arts Council, North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service and HandMade in America, with support from Golden LEAF Foundation.

Teen Arts Puentes Project
Arts-activism and youth-development program for San Antonio, Texas, teenagers ages 13-17. Long-term, year-round program of Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center. Workshops in theater, poetry, video art, and visual art led by professional artists in apprenticeship structure.

Toolkit for Teaching the Arts
Toolkit by New York State Alliance for Arts Education, created in reponse to requests for information from the field. For artists, teachers, parents, school board members, district administrators, and citizen advocates.

(Out)Laws & Justice
Nonprofit organization that offers an eighth-grade interdisciplinary curriculum of history/social studies, language arts and drama. Students to critically reflect on the values that drove U.S. westward expansion and its legacy in their lives. Project culminates in student–written and –performed plays. Based in Los Angeles, Calif.

18th Street Arts Center
Nonprofit Santa Monica, Calif., arts center providing live/work space to artists and arts organizations dedicated to issues of community and diversity.

2000 Lines
Literacy project by Heads Together, 18 schools and 19 artists in East Leeds, England, around themes of community and individual identity,

3 Rivers 2nd Nature
Five-year eco-art project addressing the meaning, form and function of three rivers and 53 streams of Allegheny County in Western Pennsylvania. Directed by artists Tim Collins and Reiko Goto.

360 Degrees: Perspectives on the U.S. Criminal Justice System
Web site by Picture Projects based on interviews with prisoners, victims, prison and parole officers, lawyers, judges, parents. Panoramic movies of environments, audio diaries (with NPR), transcripts, photos, prisons info, quizzes, polls.

365 Days 365 Plays
Suzan-Lori Parks' "nationwide grassroots festival": Park's 365 plays (written one a day for one year) performed across the U.S. 11/13/06 through 11/12/07 by hundreds of theater companies in large and small theaters, schoolrooms, storefronts, nursing homes, alleyways, arts organizations, universities. "A shared commitment to putting art at the very center of life - not as a monument but as a daily necessity." Web site has maps, press, networks, forums, plays, applications to join.

52nd Street Project
New York City organization dedicated to matching the inner-city children of Hell's Kitchen with professional theater artists to create original theater.

7 Stages Theatre
Theater in Little Five Points section of Atlanta, Ga., with mainstage productions and eduction program. High-school theater training, Youth Creates, with five-week summer intensive program; residencies at schools year-round; internships for older high-school students and college students; colloquia series for networking and growth in the field. Founded 1979 by Del Hamilton and Faye Allen.

7000 Oaks
Joseph Beuys' environmental arts project to plant 7,000 oak trees throughout Kassel, Germany, the first stage in a global scheme of tree planting to effect environmental and social change. Being continued after Beuys' death by Dia Center for the Arts.

7th Generation Image Makers
Native youth and art program based at Native Child & Family Services of Toronto, Ont., Canada. Works with at-risk Native youth creating murals and art projects such as regalia making, painting, mixed media and photography.

826
826 National is a family of seven nonprofit organizations dedicated to helping students, ages 6-18, with expository and creative writing. For children, classes and schools with particular interests or particular needs. Free drop-in tutoring, field trips, workshops, in-schools programs, seminars, services and resources for English language learners. College scholarships, student publications, retail stores. Chapters in San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago, Michigan and Boston. Flagship, 826 Valencia, San Francisco, founded 2002 by author Dave Eggers and educator Nínive Calegari.

A Community Audit for Arts Education: Better Schools, Better Skills, Better Communities
Kennedy Center Alliance for the Arts Education Network's tool to assist local education, community and cultural leaders in assessing the status of arts education in their schools and school districts, and to encourage community partnerships to strengthen and expand arts education for all students. "While designed to encourage serious evaluation, it is most valuable as a vehicle for encouraging conversation and community planning in support of arts education." Developed in 2000, updates May 2007; now dowlnoadable from Web.

A Measure of Culture
Study tracking cultural activities in New Zealand to guide cultural policy that would support a thriving culture and a strong cultural identity, particularly of the Maori heritage. Statistical framework divides cultural activities in N.Z. into nine major categories, and organizes data around creators (artists), organizations (producers and distributors), products (cultural goods and services) and consumers (individuals or organizations). Written, published by Cultural Statistics Programme, Statistics New Zealand, 2002.

A New Framework for Building Participation in the Arts
Study commissioned by RAND Corporation; "examines why people become involved in the arts, how arts organizations can influence their participation, and what lessons can be learned from leaders in the field." Contains data from organizations interviewed and a detailed explanation of the framework. Written, published by RAND Corporation, 2001.

A Portrait of the Visual Arts: Meeting the Challenges of a New Era
Study suggesting that the visual arts picture isn't as rosy as it first appears, despite record museum attendance, booming commercial popularity, soaring prices for artists' work and well-publicized museum expansions. Conflates "community involvement" with marketing. Written by Kevin F. McCarthy, et al. Published by RAND Corporation, 2005.

A Triumph of the Spirit
Discussion guide for educating young people about the global AIDS pandemic through art. Produced by Global Peace Tiles Project. See also companion Workshop Design Guide.

A+ Schools Program
Whole-school reform model that views the arts as fundamental to how teachers teach and students learn in all subjects. Arts-integrated instruction that incorporates Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences. National program based at UNC Greensboro, North Carolina.

ACCESS Cultural Arts
Cultural department of Arab-American human-services organization. Exhibits, concerts, classes, street music, film festivals, workshops, lectures, seminars, consultations. First U.S. Arab American National Museum opens 2005.

AIROS Native American Radio Network
Native American music, news, entertainment, interviews and discussions of the current issues in Indian Country and the world. Podcasts, Native stations finder. Distributor of Native American programming through Public Radio Satellite System.

AMD&Art
Uses the arts and community engagement to address abandoned mine drainage in Pennsylvania. Directed by T. Allan Comp.

ARROW
Art: a Resource of Reconciliation over the World (ARROW). Web-centered project to build a creative dialogue between schools in Plymouth, England and their counterparts in Palestine, Kosovo and South Africa. Partnership of The College of St Mark & St John, Plymouth City Council Department for Life-Long Learning, The Barefoot Project, Christian Aid and Burnley Youth Theatre.

ART on FILE
Large online collection of images on public art and the built environment.

ARTPAD
Initiative of Centre for Applied Theatre Research, University of Manchester, U.K. Training/information resource in theatre-based participatory development techniques. Aimed at NGO workers, focuses on gender and social inclusion, new ways of participation and access to information and decision making. Projects in Brazil and Peru.

AS220
Artspace in Providence, R.I, open to any artist in the state, with access to theater, darkroom, print shop, studios, magazine, cafe, galleries, youth programs, Americorps partnership.

AXIS Dance Company
California performing company internationally known for "integrated dance," with community outreach and education component "Dance Access" about disability, accessibility and collaboration.

Abhivyakti Media for Development
Based in Nashik, India, dedicated to promoting popular control of economic and community development. Assists organizers with low-cost media. Projects focus on youth, women, environment.

About Face Youth Theatre
Chicago theater by/for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered youth and their allies

Above Ground: Information on Artists III: Special Focus New York City Aging Artists
First needs assessment of aging artists in New York City, researching how artists are supported and integrated within their communities and how their network structures change over time. Finds that they rank high in life satisfaction and self-esteem; 91% would choose to be artists again; 77% communicate daily or weekly with other artists; they're resilient and have an ongoing engagement with both their life and art. Written, published by Research Center for Arts and Culture at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Abundance Project
Community arts and performance project by Marty Pottenger, the Working Theatre and Snug Harbor Cultural Center in New York, gathering stories and exploring ways that people of different classes, races and ages negotiate economics in their daily lives.

Academic Atrophy: The Condition of the Liberal Arts
First significant study of how the No Child Left Behind Act is influencing instructional time and professional development in key subject areas. Finds that schools spend more time on reading, math and science, squeezing out social studies, civics, geography, languages and the arts. Report, funded by Carnegie Corporation of N.Y., is based on survey of 1,000+ principals in four representative states (Indiana, Maryland, New Mexico, and New York). Written, published by Council for Basic Education, 2004). The Council of Basic Education closed its doors in June 2004; this .pdf file is now on the site of the Education Commission of the States.

Accessible Arts Inc.
Equal access to the arts for children and youth with physical, emotional, psychological disabilities. Training, arts demos, tech assistance, resource center, educational materials. Based in Kansas City, Kan.

Achein Center for Lifelong Education, Research and Cultural Exchange
Lifelong-education center at Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, N.M., for indigenous peoples of all ages. Priority on "utilizing indigenous ways of learning and knowing in all areas of organization and service delivery." Program areas: art and humanities; culturally based economic development; culture, language and land; education and youth; family, community and world development; health and wellness; law and justice; leadership and tribal governance; technology. Has long-term strategic commitment to tribal economic self-sufficiency, capacity to address community-development needs and self-governance.

Act/Write
Ongoing collaboration in Chicago, Ill., between Free Street Programs and Columbia College's Fiction Writing Department using theater practices to generate writing. Trains both college teachers and middle-school writing students using Story Workshop techniques.

ActALIVE
"Arts for Creative Transformation: Activism, Lifeline, Inspiration, Vision, Education." Coalition of groups and individuals using arts and media to address HIV/AIDS and other human-development challenges. Prevention, education, amelioration activities. 300 members in 25 countries, including Natasha Community Theater, Zambia; Punjab Lok Rahs, Pakistan; Gram Bharati Samiti, India; YONECO, Malawi; FULDEP, Burundi; Adriana Bertini, Brazil.

Action for Neighbourhood Change
Learning initiative of United Way of Canada to develop creative, locally based solutions for sustainable community development and neighborhood revitalization. Has partnered with National Film Board and Headlines Theatre. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Actors Theatre Workshop
Volunteer N.Y. theater organization with programs addressing cultural challenges of childhood poverty and inclusive community building. Founded by Thurman E. Scott.

Acts of Art
Group of artists committed to political activism. Special public projects about the USA Patriot Act and First Amendment.

Adams Avenue
Rich arts site celebrating community revitalization in a San Diego, Calif., neighborhood.

Add Verb Productions
Maine-based touring project using theater to facilitate community response to youth issues (eating disorders, relationship violence, sexual assault). "Play-in-a-Box: Violence Prevention Kit for Youth Action Groups" (2005).

Aesthetic Grounds
Weblog on public art and public space by Glenn Weiss, planner for public art, architecture and urban design in suburban Coral Springs, Fla. Site includes gallery of public art. One of many blogs on artsjournal.com/

Africa Exchange
Program of 651 ARTS in New York City, designed to "preserve, transmit and nurture African culture within U.S. communities and create links between African and U.S.-based artists and explore new artistic forms and mutual influences between cultures."

African American Art & Culture Complex
Community-based cultural organization in the Western Addition neighborhood of San Francisco, Calif. Gallery, theater, rentals, after-school program. Residents: African American Historical & Cultural Society (Archive Library), African American Shakespeare Company, AfroSolo Theatre Company, Cultural Odyssey, Go Productions, Juneteenth Celebration Committee, Raising the Standard Youth Program, SFNoir, Take Wings Foundation, United Projects. City-owned facility.

Africancolours.com
A portal to African visual art, including connections to artists and galleries, public art, magazines, archives, training, artists rights, indexes and products for sale

Africanhiphop.com
A Web site about rappers from the African continent.

AfroReggae
Cultural group (break-dance, capoeira, circus and 11-piece band) established in the favela (shantytown) of Vigário Geral, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1993. They aim "to take young people out of the drug trade through arts-based activities," working in the poorest, most violent communities in Rio. Insight programme: community-based mixed-arts workshops, debates and trainings.

After-School Program Tool Kit
Provides: 1. After-school programs found to be effective; 2. Core elements that contribute to the success of these programs; 3. A body of resources to sustain quality after-school programs. Developed by the National Dropout Prevention Center (NDPC) in collaboration with Communities In Schools.

After-school Arts Enrichment
Resource brief on performing arts program at Community Education Resource Center (CERC) at M.S. 67 Queens, N.Y., as example of effective after-school arts enrichment. Reviews consistent participation, inclusiveness, opportunities for student input, leadership, support within the school community, staff teamwork and curriculum. Written by Policy Studies Associates, Inc.; published by The After-School Corporation (TASC), 2001.

Ag Art Alliance
Organization formed to "promote Art About Agriculture by exploring all the facets of agriculture from workers to water, from machinery to soil and to the food that goes on our plates." Located in Santa Paula, Calif.

Age & Opportunity
Irish national agency working to: "challenge negative attitudes to ageing and older people and promote greater participation by older people in society." Numerous service and information programs. Arts and Culture programs include: Bealtaine, month-long national festival in May celebrating creativity in older age; Arts in Care; reading groups and other programs in public libraries.

Age Exchange
U.K. organization conducting creative-aging programs in "reminiscence work." Visual and performance arts projects, intergenerational projects, exhibitions, publications and documentary film. Based at Reminiscence Center in Blackheath, southeast London, home to national reminiscence training and resource center, reminiscence theatre company, museum of everyday life, cultural and social activities, gallery with changing exhibitions and headquarters of U.K. and European Reminiscence Networks. Founded 1983.

Aid to Artisans
Offers practical assistance to artisan groups in the world’s poorest areas worldwide; collaboration in product development, business skills training, development of new markets. Commercial connections, small grant program. Founded 1976, partially funded by U.S. Agency for International Development.

Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project
Offers classes in arts and humanities to individuals incarcerated in several central Alabama correctional facilities. Also works with 13 prison libraries to develop reading material. Program of the Center for the Arts & Humanities at Pebble Hill in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University. Web site has student work, teacher bios.

Alameda County Alliance for Arts Learning Leadership
Alameda (Calif.) countywide network convened by Alameda County Office of Education to advance arts learning for all children in the county. Includes K-12 arts specialists, community arts service providers, artists, classroom teachers and school district and county education representatives. Quarterly forums, advocacy campaigns, student artwork showcase, two year-round galleries. Countywide resource listings of arts-related programs for youth, student exhibition opportunities, funding & support, professional development for teachers, arts companies available for school assemblies. Grantee of Ford Foundation's "Integrating the Arts And Education Reform" program.

Alan Potter Public Art and Design
British artist with more than 50 public commissions for cities, towns, hospitals, universities, colleges, schools, public parks and nature reserves.

Alaska Native Heritage Center
Cultural center and museum in Anchorage expanding public understanding of Alaska's first people. Designed to "enhance self-esteem among Native people and to encourage cross-cultural exchanges among all people." Exhibition, collections, intertribal gatherings. Extensive educational, teacher resources and in-school programs; Native Art and Master Artist classes; Understanding Culture Workshop Series; graduate-level courses. Youth internships and Alaska Studies Program. Web site has culture map with info on all of Alaska's eleven cultural groups. Located in Anchorage.

Albany Park Theater Project
Ensemble of teenagers creating original theater out of the real-life stories of the Albany Park community in Chicago.

All-ages Movement Project
Network of community-based organizations that connect young people through independent music and art. Based in San Francisco, Calif.; founded by Shannon Stewart.

Alliance for Conflict Transformation (ACT)
Nonprofit organization based in Alexandria, Va., dedicated to building peace through innovative education, training, research and practice worldwide. Established February 1999 by professional swho have conducted conflict transformation and peacebuilding projects in over 30 countries. Programs: civil society development, community building, ethnic conflict, intercultural relations, organizational learning, research. Maintains ACT Forums for information on jobs, scholarships, grants and events in peace and conflict resolution, international development, humanitarian relief, human rights and related fields. Regional specializations in Balkans, Caucasus, Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Latin America, Middle East, United States and Pacific Rim. Summer institutes, publications. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Alliance for Cultural Democracy Archive
Digital repository for the archives of the Alliance for Cultural Democracy, a national activist arts organization that flourished from 1982 to 1994. Posted 1/15/08 by Lincoljn Cushing.

Alliance of Artists' Communities
National service organization that supports artists' communities and residency programs providing artists with time, space, facilities and community working environment; currently made up of 80 leading nonprofit artists' communities.

Alternate ROOTS
Membership organization of artists and arts companies in the Southeast U.S. committed to the developing art with and inside communities. Training in arts for social change.

American Alliance for Theatre and Education
Works to promote theater for youth at all levels across America; includes national Theatre in Our Schools campaign.

American Artist and Water Reclamation
U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation program to present its accomplishments to the public through the medium of art.

American Correctional Association
Membership organization for corrections professionals, students, retired persons, interested citizens, organizations/institutions and corporations. Conferences, conventions, online Corrections Academy, professional certification, training, publications research. Web site has healthcare professional interest section. A Cross-Sector Resource.

American Fact Finder
Created to search census data and statistics by community, by region, by sector and more. Makes it easy to pull data to create a detailed profile of a community, including some arts data. Written, published by U.S. Census Bureau, 1997-.

American Festival Project
Alliance of artists and performing arts companies who work with communities, utilizing culture and the arts as a grounding place and a means for social change. Home base is Appalshop in central Appalachia. Training and mentoring in community-arts techniques.

American Music Conference
Educational association founded in 1947 to promote the importance of music, music-making and music education. Site has history, music & the brain, philanthropy, Best 100 Communities for Music Education.

American Theatre
National community-theater service organization offering festivals, discounts, advocacy, insurance, community-theater database and resource roster.

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

Americans for the Arts
Advocacy organization supporting more money for the arts, arts education for every child and community development through the arts; includes online research and policy database. Includes Animating Democracy initiative and Public Art Network.

Amplifier
Three-year program in Suffolk, England: series of public workshops and events to teach young musicians all aspects of modern music. Includes community music.

An Evaluation of an Arts Program for Incarcerated Juvenile Offenders
Three-year study on recidivism and violent-incident rates in "A Changed World," an intensive art program at a juvenile facility. Found positive outcomes. Written by Mark Ezell and Michelle Levy, published by Journal of Correctional Education, 2003.

An Evaluation of the Arts-in-corrections Program of the California Department of Corrections
Often-cited 1983 cost-benefit report on the AIC program. Finds that society and institutions in the study benefited by significantly reduced rates of behavioral-code violations; prison racist incidents were lowered, rate of recidivism declined sharply, cooperation with staff and family increased. Estimates that the program's $162,790 cost generated benefits worth $228,522 in the four prisons studied. Written by Lawrence Brewster, published by William James Association, 1983 (posted on Web 2007; downloadable as .pdf file).

Andante.com
Educational site dedicated to classical music. Searchable calendar of current performances worldwide; magazine with news, reviews, interviews, commentary; academic journal; reference database; profiles; directories.

Andrija Ilic Photo Gallery
Gallery of photos by Andrija Ilic of Belgrade, who uses photography to document social changes in his environment and daily events in Yugoslavia. He is a photo editor at the FreeSerbia web site and teaches photography at the Open Youth Club in Belgrade.

Animating Democracy Initiative
Fosters artistic activity that encourages civic dialogue. Four-year initiative of Americans for the Arts with support from the Ford Foundation.

Antarctic Artists & Writers Program
Provides opportunities for artists and writers to work in Antarctica. By National Science Foundation.

Apollo Theater Foundation
Nonprofit organization established in 1991, dedicated to preservation and development of Harlem's Apollo Theater. Apollo Theater Academy: career and leadership skill development through seminars, internships, career days, workshops for New York City and tri-state-region young people.

Appalachian Regional Commission
U.S. Government agency with an online resource center for rural development through arts, culture and entrepreneurship.

Appalshop
Whitesburg, Ky., media-arts and cultural center celebrating culture and voicing concerns of people living in the Appalachian Mountains; home of Roadside Theater. Training in community arts techniques.

Applied and Interactive Theater Guide
Lists and links groups working worldwide in drama therapy, psychodrama, sociodrama, playback theater, community-issues theater, Theater of the Oppressed, participatory theater and improvisation.

Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility
National association of design practitioners working for peace, environmental protection, ecological building, social justice and development of healthy communities. Established in 1981. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Arlene Goldbard
Community-arts expert offers writings on culture, politics, spirituality, plus a Web log.

Arlington Arts Incubator
Award-winning county arts program in Arlington, Va., providing what artists and arts organizations need by "reimagining an assortment of untapped government resources such as underused public-and private-sector space."

Armory Center for the Arts
Community arts center in Pasadena, Calif., with prodigious gallery, studio, community, education and public art programs. Site includes "Neighborhood Art Projects" map/guide to public art throughout the Pasadena area created by participants in Armory programs. Began as the education department of the legendary Pasadena Art Museum; now located in renovated National Guard Armory and ancillary sites in Old Pasadena.

Arroyo Arts Collective
Grassroots arts group in Northeast Los Angeles, Calif., offering "Poetry in the Windows" along Figueroa Avenue in Highland Park, "Without Alarm: Public and Private Security" exhibit of installation in the former Los Angeles City Jail, and annual tour of local studios.

Art & Architecture Journal
Quarterly print journal of contemporary art and architecture focusing on art in the public context. Founded in U.K. 1980, relaunched 1995. Comments on public art and design worldwide including: commemorative and memorial public art, environmental and land art, sculpture parks and gardens, urban regeneration, art in health, education and training, critical debate and dialogue, temporary projects, performance and installations, festivals and biennials, political and community issuee, experimental areas of film, digital media and sound, literature, dance and music.

Art & Community Landscapes
Partnership of the National Park Service the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) and NEA supporting residency projects to inspire greater involvement in protecting and enhancing rivers, trails, and greenways in collaboration with local communities.

Art & Democracy Project
National project of Center for Civic Participation working to "integrate arts and culture further and deeper into the democracy-building movement. " Information hub between arts, culture, activist and organizing groups. Documentation of exemplary work in the field, cross-sector resources, panels, conference presentations, briefings, gatherings. Directed by cultural organizer Caron Atlas.

Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI)
Membership organization founded 1988 to raise public awareness about artists and scientists using science and technology to explore new forms of creative expression, and to increase communication and collaborations between these fields. Public events (incl. bi-annual international ArtSci Symposium), exhibitions, panel discussions, referrals to institutions, organizations, artists, and funders about creating art-sci programming and developing their projects. ASCI ebulletin. Based in New York, N.Y. Founded, directed by Cynthia Pannucci.

Art & Spirituality Network
U.K. interfaith organization using visual arts to "open up the connections between religions." Transcending Images gatherings in conjunction with United Religions Initiative. Exhibitions, lectures, festivals, conferences, newsletter, local networks.

Art Behind Bars
Prison-art program in Key West, Fl., founded by artist Lynne Vantrigilia at Monroe County Detention Center in 1994. Promotes post-incarceration arts careers and cottage industries for inmates. Art for sale on site.

Art Center Nabi
Award-winning media-arts center in Seoul, Korea. Interactive projects on the cross-platform of media arts, urban planning, architecture, technology and social sciences. International competitions, education programs, workshops, lectures, participation in international media-arts networks. Site is available in English.

Art Child
France-based association with international mission: "To unite children around the world by organizing contests and collaborative events related to Art and Culture...to improve the sociability and the collaborative qualities of children." Partner in U.N./UNESCO's "2001-2010 international decade for a culture of peace and nonviolence for the children of the world." Partners in 150 countries. Fresco and choral-music contests, traveling exhibitions. Financial support to organizations that benefit street children in seven countries.

Art Culture Nature
Membership organization dedicated to exploration of connections between environmental and artistic practice. Bi-annual conferences, occasional retreats, local watershed meeting groups. Newsletter, listserv.

Art Farm Project
Art exhibitions outdoors at Middle Rocombe Farm, an organic farm near Newton Abbot, Devon, England. Artists in South Devon used redundant farm buildings and surrounding landscape to produce large exhibitions and create an artist network.

Art Is Permitted Everywhere
Protest poetry site, dedicated to "Poetry against the Thought Police"

Art Quilt Gallery of the Atlantic
Laurie Swim's gallery in Blue Rocks, Nova Scotia, featuring Swim's and other artists' fabric art. Web site documents Swim's participatory community art projects in quilting: "Breaking Ground: The Hogg’s Hollow Disaster, 1960," commemorating a watershed event in Canada’s labor movement; and "The Canadian LifeQuilt," commemorating thousands of young workers killed on the job.

Art Sanctuary
Invites established and aspiring black artists to North Philadelphia, Pa., to give lectures, performances and educational programs.

Art Share Los Angeles
Community arts incubator whose mission is "to shape lives through art, education and community action." Free art classes, 99-seat dance studio and theater, the Warehouse Art Gallery, a computer lab, art studio, classroom spaces and 30 residential lofts for low-income artists. Programs: BLAST (Building Language and Art Skills Together), Community Beautification Program.

Art Start
Artist-run programs for New York City for homeless and at-risk kids. Arts in the Shelters, Media Works Project, Hip Hop Project and Mentoring Program.

Art That Works: T. Allan Comp and the Reclamation of a Toxic Legacy
Profile of T. Allan Comp, founder of AMD&Art (Acid Mine Drainage and Art), a project to reclaim toxic former coalmines using science, design, sculpture and history. Discusses community involvement in a reclamation project in Vintondale, Pa. By Eric Reece, author of "Lost Mountain: Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia" (Riverhead, 2006). Published online in DemocraticVistasProfiles: Essays in the Arts and Democracy by the Center for Arts Policy, Columbia College Chicago, 2006. 12 pp.

Art Works in Different Places
Artist-in-residence program at Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Phildelphia. Pa., in cooperation with local social service, educational, and cultural groups.

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.

Art and Wellbeing
Extensive online publication by Australian government: connections between community cultural development and government "wellbeing" initiatives: Health, Ecologically Sustainable Development, Public Housing and Place, Rural Revitalisation, Community Strengthening, Active Citizenship, Social Inclusion and Cultural Diversity.

Art for Change
Based in El Barrio of East Harlem, Art for Change engages individuals and communities in the production of art programs and performances "creating a forum for information exchange while inspiring reflection, discussion and action, resulting in social change."

Art for Healing Foundation
Organization based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, dedicated to bringing the healing power of art and art education to hospitals, hospices and shelters and to improving the welfare of those participating in the healing process as healthcare givers and as patients. Numerous galleries in various Montreal institutions and organizations.

Art for Humanity
Visual-arts organization based in South Africa promoting human-rights awareness. Specializes in print portfolios, exhibitions, billboards and research projects. Newsletter, HIV/AIDS program, "Women Artists and Poets Advocating Children's Rights."

Art for Justice
Pennsylvania-based organization founded by social worker Ann Marie Kirk to support and exhibit the art of incarcerated individuals "to promote dialogue and find effective ways to prevent crime, reduce levels of incarceration improve the criminal-justice system & public safety." Sales of artwork online, Road Map for Life workshops engaging adjudicated youth, annual Art for Justice Exhibit.

Art for Recovery
Program of the University of California San Francisco Comprehensive Cancer Center. Brings artists, writers, poets, musicians and medical students to patients, their caregivers and UCSF medical staff to "encourage expression through words, images, music and quilt-making." Conceived 1988 by Ernest H. Rosenbaum, M.D.; directed by Cynthia D. Perlis.

Art for Social Change
Artists' network of ten European Resource Centers working with young people in areas of social and political turmoil. Supported by the European Cultural Council.

Art for a Change
Large collection of artworks from social-change movements. Site by Mark Vallen.

Art for the Environment
Initiative of the New World Museum and the U.N. Environment Programme. Creation and installation of visual-art exhibits worldwide in conjunction with major events such as World Environment Day (5 June) and UNEP Champions of the Earth awards. Unlearning Intolerance Seminars, performance festivals, international symposiums, competitions.

Art in Action Youth Leadership Program
Small multiracial collective founded 2000 by artists and youth advocates based in Oakland, Calif., working with young artists impacted by violence and poverty "to cultivate leadership through dance, theater, music, spoken word/poetry, painting, storytelling, and media arts." Based in popular and political education. Annual Leadership Training: 5-10 day summer camp open to ages 17-25. Programs: Dig This Story! Digital Storytelling; “Turf Unity” Music Program; Performances and Workshops; participation in the Silence the Violence Collaboration; online artwork.

Art in General
New York nonprofit organization that assists artists with production/presentation of new work. Education Department has multiyear collaboration with neighboring public schools; collaborative curriculum building, final project designed by students.

Art in the Park Community Arts
Community-driven large-scale events, projects and arts partnerships in Lewisburg, W.V. Annual themes (ex., 2005: arts and environmental education; massive sculpture installation on local natural history at Dorie Miller Park).

Art is Education Initiative
Initiative of Cleveland (Ohio) Integrated Arts Collaborative and Cleveland Metropolitan School District working to establish arts as essential component of school district’s standards-based literacy instruction. Aims to serve all third-graders in district - approximately 3,500 in 80 schools. Spearheaded by Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio; grantee of Ford Foundation's "Integrating the Arts And Education Reform" program.

Art of Elysium
Nonprofit provider of free arts opportunities to critically and chronically ill youth. Girl Talk (for girls ages 10 - 16) and Yo Lo Tengo (for boys ages 11 - 17) teach young people with physical differences to use expressive arts skills as a means of managing stress, increasing self-esteem and building social skills. Acting, art, comedy, fashion, music, radio, songwriting and creative writing workshops led by volunteer professional artists. Founded by Jennifer Howell, 1997. Based in Universal City, Calif.

Art on Purpose
Community art organization in Baltimore, Md., that provides art workshops, exhibitions, programs in support of education, social justice and community service. "Real City, Dream City" project involving ten Baltimore city neighborhoods. Founded 2005 by artist/educator/curator Peter Bruun.

Art, Activism, and Community: Visual Art and Social Change
Online slide show by Tufts University College Student Programs Manager Mindy Nierenberg for a 2005 course in the Experimental College, showing Tufts undergraduates and Tufts/School of the Museum of Fine Arts dual-degree students ways to use art as a vehicle of social change.

Art-public.com
Paris-based online magazine about European public art; access by subscription.

Art/Vision/Voice: Conversations in Community
Subtitled "A Book of Cases from Community Arts Partnerships." Published online. Case studies from six Community Arts Partnerships (cap) programs created in 1999 with Wallace Foundation funds. Partners were six colleges, universities and institutes who participated in the CAP Institute. Includes extensive introduction to the field of community cultural development by Arlene Goldbard. Several higher-education degree programs in community arts were created as a result of this project. Published online by Columbia College Chicago and Maryland Institute of Contemporary Art, 2005.

ArtCorps
Pairs volunteer professional artists with Central American organizations (NGOs) for 12-month residencies to "creatively communicate their messages through art. " Uses theater, mime, puppetry, mural painting, sculpture and poetry to "bring the organizations' environmental and social messages to life and engage the local community in its activities." Project of New England Biolabs Foundation in Massachusetts.

ArtFBI
ArtFBI = Art For a Better Image, project by artist Jeff Gates, including "In Our Path" about building of L.A.'s Century Freeway and impact on people who lived in its path.

ArtHeart Community Art Centre
Art center in Canada's largest housing project Regent Park, Toronto. Focuses on creative-skills development with hands-on visual arts programs for children, youth and adults year-round and free-of-charge. Studio space, instruction, art supplies and ties with other supportive organizations. Uses art as a vehicle to address child poverty, homelessness, lack of employment and mental-health issues. Founded by Seanna Connell in 1991 as A Home for Creative Opportunity.

ArtSpan
ArtSpan produces San Francisco Open Studios and Inner City Public Art Projects for Youth, publishes A Free Guide to San Francisco Open Studios, and organizes workshops to help artists with professional development.

ArtSpot Productions
Multidisciplinary performance company based in New Orleans, La. projects include LCIW Drama Club, a theatre company of inmates at Louisiana Correctional Institute for Woman, founded by Kathy Randels in 1996, co-directed by Ausettua Amor Amenkum.

ArtSpring
Founded by Leslie Neal in 1992, provides specifically designed arts-based programming to women in correctional facilities and girls in the juvenile justice system and foster care. ArtSpring offers "Inside Out," the longest ongoing arts in corrections program for incarcerated women in the state of Florida.

ArtStor
Online digital library offering collections of art images and descriptive information and software tools for their use. Includes approx. 500,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology. Available solely for educational and scholarly uses that are noncommercial in nature.

ArtThrob
Online magazine from South Africa about contemporary visual arts. Covers both national art world and South African artists on the international podium. Monthly, with news about artists and expositions, reviews, items, discussions and photos.

ArtWORKS!
Year-round after-school, summer programs for high-school teens from neighborhoods with high drop-out rates. Arts retail job training in design, manufacture and marketing of painted furniture and tiles. program of Tucson/Pima Arts Council, Tucson, Ariz.

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.

Artangel
British arts group creating massive, site-specific public art in all media.

Artery: The AIDS-Arts Forum
Online magazine examining history of the AIDS crisis as reflected in the arts. Includes forum, interactive calendar and AIDS-art timeline. Edited by historian Robert Atkins. Part of The Estate Project.

Artfull
National initiative to develop, promote and map the arts and the role they play in improving mental health and wellbeing of people living in Scotland; developing and building partnerships between arts providers and public-sector agencies. Artfull Peer Learning Network: capacity-building program for artists and arts organizations. Reading Room, calendar. Joint initiative developed by Scottish Government’s National Programme for Improving Mental Health and Wellbeing and Scottish Arts Council.

Arthur+martha Community Interest Company
Arts-and-health organization that runs art/poetry workshops with older people in hospitals and the community in North West England using experimental techniques. Exhibitions, publications. Kindess project with older Jewish people in Manchester. Working with Manchester Metropolitan University on research to help formulate future national arts-and-health policy.

Artist Help Network
Free information service designed to help visual artists take control of their careers.

ArtistCares
Coalition of artists and mental-health professionals developing model for serving community needs in times of crisis, promoting healing through creative expression. Formed in wake of 9/11

ArtistFacts
Compendium of statistical information gathered from research conducted on artists over past couple of decades. Statistics include employment, financial, healthcare, and education backgrounds for individual artists. Written, published by Research Center for Arts and Culture, 2003.

Artistic Logistics
Cooperative of independent consultants who provide a variety of services to arts organizations in urban and rural areas throughout the U.S. Led by Lisa Mount and based in Sautee Nacoochee, Georgia (one of the "100 Best Small Art Towns in America"). Partners include Caron Atlas, Rodger French, Kathie deNobriga and MK Wegmann. Services: strategic planning, transition and leadership succession consulting, community cultural assessment and planning, project evaluation, board training & development, festival & major event planning & implementation, project management, organizational development coaching, meeting facilitation, conflict mediation, workshops & seminars. Clients include Cornerstone Theater Company, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Alternate ROOTS and more.

Artists Call for Cultural Policy
Petition addressed to all 2004 presidential campaigns, calling for democratic cultural policies and adequate support for community cultural development, cultural diversity, creative expression and independent media, as well as restoration of arts curricula to public schools and restoration of the key U.S. role in international cultural exchange.

Artists Helping Children
New Jersey-based organization in hospitals clinics and shelters, dedicated to "comforting children with donated artwork, donated murals, donated art supplies, donated toys and a lot of love." Many online resources for creating and locating similar programs.

Artists Network of Refuse & Resist
Artists' wing of Refuse & Resist, dedicated to a "culture of resistance against the politics of cruelty." Includes manifesto, newsletter and updates on artists' contributions to various actions of resistance.

Artists and Communities: American Creates for the Millennium
Project placing a Millennium artist residency in all U.S. states and territories. Sponsored by MidAtlantic Arts Foundation and NEA.

Artists for Alzheimer's
Initiative of the Healthstone Alzheimer's Foundation. Maintains roster of volunteer artists who want to enhance the cultural life of people with Alzheimer's disease. Artist residencies, performances, gallery exhibitions.

Artists for Human Rights Trust (S. Africa)
Durban-based association that promotes the international cooperation of artists and human-rights organizations; special focus on HIV/AIDS.

Artists for Humanity
Boston, Mass.-based organization using art and creative process to link young people with business; job training and school-to-work programs; commercial services and exhibitions for student work; graphics, photography, silkscreen, sculpture and painting studios.

Artists for Peace, Justice & Civil Liberties
Fine art gallery and anthology dedicated to peace and justice issues worldwide. Web site organized by The Arts Paper, a bimonthly arts advocacy journal of the Boulder, Colo., Arts Commission.

Artists for Places
Invitational English "scheme" among Arts & Business, the Arts Council England and the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment to "engage artists, the private sector and public agencies in a range of projects that will have a positive impact on the places in which we live." Supports and initiates collaborations between the private sector, artists, designers, planners, construction professionals and public agencies on projects in the built environment.

Artists in Exile
Multicultural movement of professional artists, refugees from around the world collaborating in celebration of cultural diversity. Based at the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, West London, England. Launched during Refugee Week in 2001.

Artists of Tuol Sleng Prison
Writing and artwork by artists imprisoned in Cambodia. Part of the Cambodian Artists Assistance Project, organized by Cambodian holocaust survivors in U.S.

Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective
Online artists' community and international network with over 2700 members in 69 countries worldwide. Galleries, blog, forums, arts classifieds, free lodging network, guides to arts scenes for major cities worldwide. Centers in Amsterdam and Los Angeles.

Artists, Musicians and the Internet
Study showing artists and musicians are enthusiastic Internet users and they believe the Internet helps them make and sell their work, gain inspiration, build community with fans and fellow artists, and pursue new commercial activity. By Mary Madden (Pew Internet & American Life Project, Pew Charitable Trusts, 2004).

Artography
"Grantmaking, documentation and field learning" pilot program around changing demographics in the U.S., administered by Leveraging Investment in Creativity (LINC) and supported by the Ford Foundation.

Arts & Business
U.K. arts and business professional networking service. Programs: New Partners (investment in partnerships); professional-development programs promoting exchange and development of skills between business and arts communities; advice, training, networking, consultancy for members; advocacy and lobbying; dissemination of information about value of arts/business partnerships through research and evaluation.

Arts & Ecology
Program supporting work of the arts in examining and addressing environmental concerns in an international arena. Conferences, publications, competitions and projects that look at arts efforts to challenge and propose solutions to pollution, waste and loss of natural habitats. Exchanges between artists and politicians, scientists, journalists. Commissions. Blog. Based in U.K.

Arts & Economic Prosperity III: The Economic Impact of Nonprofit Arts and Culture Organizations and Their Audiences
Describes itself as "the most comprehensive study of the nonprofit arts and culture industry ever conducted." Documents the economic impact of the nonprofit arts and culture industry in 156 communities and regions (116 cities and counties, 35 multi-county regions, and five states), and represents all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Available: print brochure, print summary report, print full report and package. Web features: PowerPoint presentation, sample opinion-editorial about the study, toolkit. Written and published by Americans for the Arts, 2007

Arts & Spirituality Center
Nonsectarian organization in Philadelphia, Pa., founded by a group of artists and spiritual leaders to focus on social and personal healing through interplay of artistic and spiritual expression. Arts After School program, MasterPeace program, Interfaith Youth Poetry Project, Drums for Peace music program and Teens United Performing Arts Project. Has worked with private, charter and public schools, after-school programs, serving primarily low-income, “at-risk” youth. Founded 2000.

Arts Access Aotearoa
Organization in New Zealand specializing in arts access for people with disabilities.

Arts Catalyst
"The science art agency," a U.K. arts organization that actively makes connections between art and science through commissions and strategic projects. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Arts Computation Engineering (ACE)
Transdisciplinary graduate program in Arts, Computation and Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. Addresses emerging practices and career paths that combine skills and sensibilities of technical and scientific disciplines with arts and humanities. Program is "oriented towards informed production. ACE students make things that work, and they understand the technical, historical and socio-cultural locations of their work." A Cross-Sector Resource.

Arts Education Improves Workforce Development and Student Success
Study showing how arts shape 21st-century working skills. Documents positive outcomes of integrating arts into K-12 education and youth intervention programs. Case studies, examples of successful programs, research citations, useful quotes. Written, published by NASAA, National Governors Association and NEA, 2002.

Arts Education Partnership
National coalition of arts, education, business, philanthropic and government organizations promoting essential role of arts in child learning and development and improvement of America's schools.

Arts Education Policy Review
Bimonthly journal discussing difficult and often controversial policy issues regarding K-12 education in the arts worldwide. Online and in print.

Arts Extension Service
Program of Continuing Education Division at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, specializing in connecting arts with communities through education; books, national training programs, distance education, online courses.

Arts Integration and Aesthetics
Project of the Research Triangle Schools Partnership of UNC Chapel Hill that enhances integration of arts and aesthetic education into curriculum and investigates the impact on teacher practices, student cognition, and affective learning across four N.C. school districts.

Arts International
New York-based organization facilitating international exchange and collaboration in the arts. Publications and projects.

Arts Journal
"Daily Digest of Arts & Cultural Journalism," edited by Douglas McLennan, including "The U.S. Elections/Politics/Culture Wars page."

Arts Participation New Zealand
Charitable Trust made up of members of the Arts Assembly, the Federation of Community Arts Councils, Community Art Workers Network. Purpose: to encourage, promote, and support participation in the arts in New Zealand by all New Zealanders through information, education and advice, research, advocacy, publications. Principles include recognition of cultural diversity of NZ, role of the Maori, art of the Pacific Islanders.

Arts Programs for Juvenile Offenders in Detention and Corrections
1999-2000 partnership of NEA and Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Program/U.S. Department of Justice supporting arts projects for youth during and after incarceration.

Arts Providers Alliance of San Francisco
Membership organization of professional artists and arts organizations dedicated to the advancement of arts education in San Francisco, Calif. Bimonthly meetings; quarterly evening forums; information,materials, and updates on arts education policy and practices; networking, marketing and funding opportunities; collaborative projects; workshops; special events. Administers (with S.F. Arts Commission) Arts Education Funders Collaborative, a public-private partnership among grantmakers, the S.F. Unified School District, local arts providers and the PTA.

Arts Share
Community arts program of the University of Iowa's Division of Performing Arts, School of Art and Art History and Writers' Workshop. Interactive performances, workshops, readings, residencies and master classes statewide by faculty artists and graduate students. School programs, Arts Share Summer Camp, Patient Voice Project offering creative writing classes to chronically ill hospital patients.

Arts and Culture Indicators in Community Building Project
Arts and culture indicators for use in local planning, policy making and community building. Part of the Urban Institute's National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership.

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 and Culture in the Metropolis: Strategies for Sustainability
Monograph recommending that arts sectors in big cities create a strong local agency to coordinate cultural activities and help make arts an integral part of each community. Recommends that civic leaders make cultural institutions a vital component of community economic development and neighborhood revitalization strategies. Based on study of 11 big U.S. cities. Written by Kevin F. McCarthy, Elizabeth Heneghan Ondaatje, Jennifer L. Novak; published by RAND Corporation, 2007.

Arts and Culture: Community Connections - Contributions from New Survey Research
Brief focuses on strong connection between cultural and civic participation. Exidence on how commonplace community connections (social, family, religious) create new opportunities for cultural organizations to build participation. One of several Urban Institute policy briefs that spotlight themes in "Reggae to Rachmaninoff: How and Why People Participate in Arts and Culture" (a study that draws on evidence from the Urban Institute's evaluation of the Wallace Foundation's Community Partnerships for Cultural Participation initiative). By Chris Walker (Urban Institute and Wallace Foundation, 2002).

Arts and Economic Prosperity
Report giving numbers on how America's nonprofit arts industry generates $134 billion in economic activity every year, including $80 billion+ in audience spending, $53 billion+ in spending by arts organizations, and $24 billion+ in tax revenue. Sites number of different ways to review report, highlights and statistics. Has arts-and-economic-prosperity calculator for users to assess their own communities. Written, published by Americans for the Arts, 2002

Arts and Healing Network
International resource about healing potential of art. Profiles and links to community, educational, environmental and hospital projects.

Arts and Humanities in Rural America
From the National Agricultural Library at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Voluminous U.S. government resource about arts and humanities projects and trends in rural areas, including funding trends and resources, community benefits, economic impact, planning resources, case studies, best practices and model programs.

Arts and Non-Arts Partnerships: Opportunities, Challenges and Strategies
Study (surveys and interviews) of partnerships supported by Community Partnerships for Cultural Participation Initiative, funded by Wallace Foundation 1998-2002. Included non-arts partners from educational, religious, youth development, human services and community development sectors. Findings: arts groups benefits were greater public credit for community involvement, connections to new communities of potential participants, and wider opportunities to carry out creative work; non-arts groups benefits were better programs and a reputation for being more effective in their community work. By Christopher Walker (Urban Institute, 2004).

Arts at University Settlement
Programs for immigrants and low-income people at America's first social settlement, founded in 1886 on New York's Lower East Side.

Arts at the Core: Every School, Every Student
The "Illinois Creates" survey. Finds broad disparities in levels of arts education offered in Illinois schools, and discrepancy between desire of superintendents and principals to offer quality arts education and their ability or determination to do so. Written by Metro Chicago Information Center; published by Illinois Arts Alliance/Foundation.

Arts for Change
Organizations supporting art for healing and social change. Workshops in activist art and teaching. Archive of site-specific works, interactive storyboard, articles, bibliography, links.

Arts for Life
"Restoration and Renewal for People in Crisis Through Creativity, Culture, Community." Consortium of artists approaching healing through art and spirituality. Global antiviolence Communitas Project; The Field Narrative Project supporting humanitarian aid workers; creative aging, mentoring and rites of passage. Based in New York City, founded by Juliet Burger (formerly Institution for Transformation through the Arts).

Arts for the Aging
Membership organization providing artistic outreach services to psychologically and physically impaired seniors in senior day-care centers and nonprofit nursing homes in Washington, D.C., area. Provides 85 programs monthly in more than 50 senior centers. Emphasis is on those suffering from age-related dementia, including Alzheimer's. Anecdotal observation of physical and psychological benefits of arts activity on aging.

Arts in Corrections Resource List
Listing of resources concerning arts programming in correctional settings compiled by the Office for Accessibility at the National Endowment for the Arts.

Arts in Criminal Justice Settings: Research and Evaluation
15-case study evaluations of arts programs working with offenders in U.K. Shows correlation with reduction of neighborhood crime, and lower recidivism rates among participants. Written, published by The Unit for Arts and Offenders, 2003.

Arts in Education Policy
Policy site by Education Commission of the States. Includes What States Are Doing, Selected Research & Readings, Programs & Practices, Evaluation and Web links. Issue Breakouts: Availability, Economic Development, Standards & Assessment. Has an Artscan Policy Database on policies that support arts in education in all 50 states. Plenty of research profiles.

Arts in Focus
Los Angeles, Calif., countywide arts-education survey.

Arts in Medicine
Program at Shands Health Care, University of Florida, exploring relationship between the art of creativity and the art of healing. Uses visual art to transform medical environment.

Arts in Prison, Inc.
Volunteer-run, Kansas-based prison arts program that began with East Hill Singers, a joint inmate-volunteer choir, in 1996. Now offers prison arts classes including African-American History, visual arts, drama, creative writing, plus yoga, horticulture therapy, public speaking, more. Founded by Elvera Voth "and her dream to teach inmates to sing."

Arts of Life
Chicago workspace for artists with developmental disabilities.

Arts on Earth
Universitywide initative at University of Michigan that "stimulates, explores, and celebrates the dynamic relationship between people and their arts worldwide." Screenings, exhibitions, performances, commissions; learning events to explore effects in different cultures of involvement with the arts, and different economic and cultural models for shaping access to involvement. Draws attention toUM’s Arts of Citizenship and Prison Creative Arts Programs, ArtServe Michigan, University Musical Society, UM Museum of Art and other community art entities.

Arts+medicine
Bi-monthly magazine distributed to doctors. Devoted to impact of arts on health and well-being. Published by iMedia Asia Pacific in Australia.

Arts, Cultural, and Humanities Organizations in the Rhode Island Economy, Report Summary
Shows $241.2-million impact of arts on the state. Proves the arts a win-win investment for the state when combined with intensive community investment (millions of performance and volunteer hours), impact on tourist industry, and increase in indirect audience spending in places like downtown Providence. By Gregory Wassall (New England Foundation for the Arts, 1996).

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.

Arts4All People
Wallace-Foundation site to promote "service to people" as integral to health of arts institutions and life of their communities. Success stories, research and resources, "open space" discussion boards.

ArtsBridge America
Research-based school/university partnership in arts education. Network of 22 universities in 13 states and Northern Ireland, and their surrounding schools that "confronts the problem of the elimination of the arts from K-12 schools." Provides: arts curriculum to k-12 schools in urban and low-income areas, through projects in dramatic and visual arts and digital technology; professional support for teachers; school-based service-learning opportunities and career pathways for top university students; partnership research. Publications, newsletters, project case studies. Headquartered at Lawrence University of Wisconsin. Research faculty in arts and education through the Center for Learning through the Arts at UC Irvine's Department of Education in California. Founded at UC Irvine in 1996.

ArtsEdNet
The Getty Center for Education in the Arts' special approach to arts education.

ArtsEdge
Site by The Kennedy Center and NEA with information, resources and ideas that support arts as core subject area in K-12 curriculum.

ArtsLink
Program of CEC International partners promoting open access, creative exchange and ongoing dialogue between American artists and those of Eastern and Central Europe.

ArtsLiteracy Project
"ArtsLit," developing youth literacy through performing and visual arts. Based in Brown University Education Department. International teaching lab school for teachers and artists; workshops; international publications and presentations; undergraduate and graduate course work. Site has handbook of ideas and activities.

ArtsOnline.com
The Arts Council of England's Web site for and about the arts.

Artsgenesis
Arts-in-education organization creating and conducting arts program that fuses multiple-intelligences theory with arts-integrated curricula. Founded 1992 by Roger Shea and Kathleen Gaffney.

Artspace Projects Inc.
Nonprofit real-estate developer for the arts, with more than a dozen completed projects across U.S. Asset management, property management, resource development, consulting. Based in Minneapolis, Minn. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Artwomen.org
Focusing on news and resources in feminist art.

Ashé Cultural Arts Center
Organization combining community development, economic development, community, culture and art to revive and reclaim a historically significant corridor of New Orleans' Central City community, Oretha Castle-Haley Boulevard, formerly known as Dryades Street. Performances, exhibitions, literacy projects.

Asian Arts Initiative
Asian-American community arts center in Philadelphia, Pa. Performances, exhibitions, workshops, films, installations and "training for artists and everyday people who share our mission of community-based arts."

Asian Community Development Corporation
20-year old nonprofit that serves the Asian-American community of Greater Boston by developing affordable housing, promoting economic development, fostering new leadership and building capacity within the community through education, advocacy and action. Numerous arts and cultural projects. Directed by artist Jeremy Liu. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Ask 4 More Arts
School-community-arts collaborative in Jackson, Miss., designed to provide elementary students in Jackson Public Schools the opportunity of learning through the arts. Emphasized arts integration into elementary curriculum. Teacher training, collaboration with artists and arts organizations. Grantee of Ford Foundation's "Integrating the Arts And Education Reform" program.

Asset-Based Community Development Institute (ABCD)
Resources and tools for community builders to identify, nurture, and mobilize neighborhood assets. Co-directed by John L. McKnight and John P. Kretzmann at Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Associated Writing Programs
National service organization supporting more than 18,000 writers at over 320 member colleges and universities and 80 writers' conferences and festivals. Publisher of journal The Writer's Chronicle.

Association for Community Design
Network of individuals, organizations, and institutions committed to increasing the capacity of planning and design professions to better serve communities. ACD serves and supports practitioners, educators, and organizations engaged in community-based design and planning. Established in 1977. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design
AICAD: Consortium of 36 U.S. art schools, all BFA- or MFA-granting. Site has databases to help you find a school, a major, info on applying, financial aid, etc. Includes community arts.

Association of Teaching Artists
Nonprofit professional organization serving teaching artists from all disciplines in New York State. Resource lists, discussion board, foundation documents, Reflections, listerv. Blogs from major arts conferences.

Atlatl
National service organization for Native American artists and arts organizations, based in Phoenix, Ariz. Newsletter, biennial conference, traveling exhibitions, leadership training.

Attic Theatre Company
London-based company with contemporary/classic repertoire and outreach programs: Project R, workshops for refugees and asylum seekers (with Company of Angels); plays for senior citizens on Crime Reduction and Home Safety (with Metropolitan Police and Fire Brigade); Young People's Company, 11-14 year-olds in devised-drama workshops.

Audio Description Associates
Enables arts access for people who are blind or have low vision. Descriptions for live and recorded arts events; recorded tours for exhibits; training for professional describers, docents, guides and children's librarians.

Aune Head Arts
Rurally based contemporary arts organization working closely with artists and communities in and around Dartmoor National Park, Somerset, England, since 1996. Commissions, residencies, workshops, training, professional development, building relationships with rural communities through artist-led creative projects. MA in Arts & Cultural Management at Dartington College of Arts. Projects: Focus on Farming, Women in Farming, Big Dance on Dartmoor.

Axis of Justice
Nonprofit organization formed by artists Tom Morello of Audioslave and Serj Tankian of System of a Down. Its purpose is to bring together musicians, fans of music,and grassroots political organizations to fight for social justice.

B.C. Artists in Healthcare Society
Promotes establishment of "ArtCare" artist-in-residence programs in hospices, palliative care and healthcare communities in British Columbia, Canada.

BAYCAT (Bayview Hunters Point Center for Arts and Technology)
San Francisco Bay Area-based learning environment for youth and adults in arts, culture and enterprise. Community partnerships. Studio BAYCAT, the social enterprise arm, offers marketing packages, Web sites, video documenting. Modeled after Manchester Craftsmen's Guild/ Bidwell Training Institute in Pennsylvania.

BEZERK PRODUCTIONS
Joshua Tree, Calif., nonprofit organization dedicated to mainstreaming the work of mentally disabled artists and offering arts opportunities to people with mental disabilities. Directed by Linda Carmella Sibio.

Babel Fish
Free, automatic translation service that removes language barriers across Web. Can translate short passages (40 sentences) between English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese and Russian.

Baltimore Clayworks
Nonprofit, artist-run ceramic-art center Baltimore, Md. Neighborhood collaborative public-art-making activities; studios; exhibitions; community-based murals; classes; in-school after-school programs; satellite studios in inner-city neighborhoods. Founded 1980 by nine potters and ceramic sculptors.

Baltimore Partners for Enhanced Learning
Maryland nonprofit organization providing arts integration in the Baltimore City public Schools. Lead communitywide collaborative effort using Baltimore’s arts, cultural, educational and leadership resources to "transform Baltimore’s middle grade schools into powerful learning communities." Grantee of Ford Foundation's "Integrating the Arts And Education Reform" program.

Banksy
Activist U.K. graffiti artist and "art terrorist" who mocks arts institutions and (lately) the wall between Israel and Palestine (see "News").

Banned Books
The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books, sorted by initiator, institution, type, year. Compiled by American Library Association.

Banner Theatre Company
Socialist theater company based in Birmingham, England. Documentary theater works based on recordings of dialogue with people in their communities. Roots in radical political theater, popular theater, theater of resistance. Performs to community and trade union audiences in pubs, clubs and community centres and at rallies, festivals and conferences. Founded 1973/4.

Barefoot Artists
Public art team that "brings the transformative power of art to the most impoverished communities in the world." Includes Rwanda Healing Project. Founded by Lily Yeh.

Barn Again!
Initiative by National Trust for Historic Preservation. Founded with Successful Farming magazine in 1987 to preserve historic farm buildings; has nationally touring arts exhibitions.

Battery Dance
Community dance company in New York city that tours outside the country with the U.S. State Department.

Bauen Camp
Nonprofit residential summer camp and community outreach network teaching youth ages 13-18 how the arts can be used to build social creativity and responsibility; founded by artist Jessica Holt on her Parkman, Wyo., ranch

Bay Area Center for Independent Culture (BACIC)
Nonprofit organization in San Francisco, Calif., dedicated to promoting human development through the use of an innovative performance and development based model. Creating outside-of-school educational and performing-arts activities for young people living in the Bay Area's poorest communities. Community and experimental theater, leadership training, volunteer initiatives that build and strengthen communities. Programs: All Stars Talent Show Network and Developing Community Theatre. Founded 2002.

Beaded Prayers Project
Three-part worldwide community art project: traveling exhibition (Beaded Blessings, over 4,000 beaded prayers inspired by African amulet traditions; each contributed piece is a sealed beaded packet containing written wishes, hopes, dreams and prayers of international participants), slide lectures (on accumulative community art projects and cultural traditions, amulets, beadwork), hands-on workshops (on making beaded proyaers). Video available. Directed by Sonya Clark.

Beehive Collective
Grassroots design collective for social change based in Maine, specializing in educational graphics campaigns, stone mosaic murals, apprenticeship programs. Posters, picture-lectures, tours. Focus on politics of globalization.

Belfast's Cathedral Quarter
Neighborhood Web site of historic district in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Site created by artists, businesses and residents concerned about area's future and "to gain support for our vision of what the cathedral quarter can become."

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).

Beyondmedia Education
Collaborates with under-served and under-represented women, youth and communities to tell their stories, connect their stories to the world around them, and organize for social justice through the creation and distribution of alternative media and arts. Catalogue of available videos and DVDs. Since 1996, has partnered with over 100 community-based organizations and schools to produce media arts on subjects ranging from girls' activism to women's incarceration. Based in Chicago, Ill.

Bielenberg Institute at the Edge of the Earth
Graphic-design institute in Belfast and Seaport, Maine, inspired by Samuel Mockbee's Rural Studio. Purpose: "To inspire young graphic designers, writers, photographers and filmmakers by proving that their work can have a positive and significant impact on the world." The Institute's Project M has done a communications project in a Costa Rica conservation area; delivered donated equipment and supplies to Gulf Coast designers displaced by Hurricane Katrina; and assignments for Womens Trust, AIGA and Family LifeCenter. Founded by John Bielenberg.

Big Thought
Learning partnership of more than 70 community agencies in Dallas, Texas, working through education, arts and culture to support community partnerships, cultural integration for academic achievement, youth development and family learning. "The big thought is that a community, working together, can lift children up and better their lives using arts and culture as tools and catalysts." Programs: Young Audiences of North Texas, Dallas ArtsPartners, North Texas Wolf Trap: Early Learning Through the Arts, Creative Solutions, Make A Connection Thru Art, 21st Century Community Learning Center, Kennedy Center Imagination Celebration at Dallas, Library Live! Grantee of Ford Foundation's "Integrating the Arts And Education Reform" program.

Billboard Liberation Front
Culture jammers who "improve outdoor advertising." Founded 1977 in San Francisco, Calif.

Bird Brain
"Navigational project" by Jennifer Monson and dance company: five-year investigation of migratory pathways of whales and birds across northern and southern hemispheres.