(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.

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.

4 Cs Foundation
The "only grant-giving private foundation in Canada that specifically funds community arts projects." Focuses on projects that build creative connections between children and their communities through art projects at a neighborhood and school level. Provides workshops, events, trainings, network for community arts practitioners, Web space for Community ArtsConnect database and an Art Bikers program. Located in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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 Living Library
Environmental/educational project founded by artist Bonnie Ora Sherk in San Francisco, Calif., in 1981 at The Farm. Community-created gardens and Think Parks transform "sunken meadows and brownfields, urban sprawl and desolation, public parks and plazas, concrete and asphalt schoolyards, civic centers or undeveloped wastelands into vibrant and relevant community learning environments and highly visible public magnets offering innovative and practical community and economic development." Branches in Sand Francisco and New York City. Goal is to develop and link Branch Living Libraries in different communities of the world using state-of-the-art communications technologies.

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.

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 Factory Community Arts
Organization in Blackburn, England, that develops, manages and delivers participatory arts workshops and projects in a range of settings, including work in education, with youth and community groups, at festivals and events, voluntary and campaign groups, with health agencies and housing and regeneration initiatives. Programs include V-Train, 10-week part-time course for developing participatory arts work skills; C-Pal, regional professional-development consortium for participatory arts learning; placements for secondary-school students; volunteers. Twenty years old.

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.

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.

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 Institute for Education in the Arts
Nonprofit organization specializing in professional development training in arts integration. Annual summer institute.

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.

Aorta Projects
Grassroots, ongoing public art project. Mission is "to participate in the physical and spiritual re/animation of post-disaster landscapes, beginning with our hometown New Orleans." Blog tracks site-specific art installations in the city, post-Hurricane Katrina.

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 & 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 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 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 Threat
Volunteer-driven blog about politics and the arts. Covers political art of all genres, discusses policy as it pertains to culture, and showcases artists whose work inspires social change. Based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Edited by Rob Maguire. A cross-sector resource.

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 | Global Health Center
UCLA Center for artists and advocates working in the realm of public health. Housed at Department of World Arts and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. Courses: “Make Art/ Stop AIDS,” “AIDS Performance Team” and more. Programs: AMP it up!, Exhibitions, Global Citizenship Initiative and more. Additionally, the global network, Make Art/ Stop AIDS, is based in the Art | Global Health Center. Founded in 2006. Directed by David Gere.

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.

Art: a Resource for Reconciliation Over the World (ARROW)
Program based at University College Plymouth, St Mark & St John, Plymouth, England, developing a global network of artists, educators, young people, organizations and institutions "with a commitment to building bridges across perceived boundaries and barriers, by sharing our stories, challenging prejudice and stereotypes and developing the arts as a resource for reconciliation and the creative transformation of conflict." Inspired by work of Desmond Tutu and the Truth and Reconciliation Committee. Story-exchange workshops, youth conflict-resolution course.

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 Striving To End Poverty (ASTEP)
Nonprofit organization based in New York, N.Y., that partners with local artists and organizations worldwide to provide arts education for populations of children with limited access. Programs; art camps for disadvantaged children in South Africa and Florida; opportunities to serve as teaching volunteers for children in India. Founded 2006 by artist Mary-Mitchell Campbell.

Artists United to End Immigrant Family Detention
Initiative of Grassroots Leadership, a multiracial team of Southern organizers based in Charlotte, N.C., whose goal is "to put an end to abuses of justice and the public trust by working to abolish for-profit private prisons." Web site lists things artists can do to spread the word about immigrant family detention. GL is led by songwriter Si Kahn.

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' 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).

Artmakers Inc.
Artist-run, politically oriented community mural organization in New York City. Makes murals in collaboration with block associations, healthcare and mental-health facilities, public schools, community gardens, LDCs, homeless shelters, daycare centers and arts organizations. No paid staff; funding on project basis. Directed by Janet Braun-Reinitz and Jane Weissman. Established 1983 by Eva Cockcroft.

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 & 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.

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 & Equity Initiative
Participatory arts project for city employees in Portland, Maine. Arts workshops for workers in the city's Public Works, Health & Human Services, Police Department and more. Prints, poems, collages and photographs now hang in a new City Hall gallery, in the mechanics garage, landfill, healthcare facility, general assistance offices and police roll callroom. Products include annual Police Poetry Calendars; "Work," essays, stories and poems by City Writers Group, all city employees; and "home land security," a community performance. Founded 2007. Directed by artist Marty Pottenger.

Arts & Health: An International Journal of Research, Policy and Practice
Official journal of the Society for the Arts in Healthcare, published by Routledge. Edited by Prof Stephen Clift and Paul Camic of Canterbury Christ Church University and Prof Norma Daykin of the University of the West of England. Takes a broad-based approach in examining uses of the arts in public health, health promotion and healthcare. Publishes empirical research, policy analysis, theoretical discourse, systematic reviews and examples of best practice. Founded 2009.

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 Education: A Special Collection of Case Studies
Collection of 67 case studies that "reveals the lessons, benefits, and pitfalls of existing and past projects, providing vital information for program staff at organizations running their own Arts Education projects." Contributors include Americans for the Arts, the Arts Education Partnership, CAPE, Arts for All, Hospital Audiences and many more. Edition of online bimonthly publication CloseUp, published by IssueLab, June/July 2009.

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 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 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).

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 Civic Engagement: Briefing Paper for the Working Group of the Arts & Civic Engagement Impact Initiative
Conceptual framework for Animating Democracy's Arts & Civic Engagement Impact Initiative, a Working Group of arts practitioners, researchers, evaluators and funders with interest in understanding the social and civic impact of arts-based civic engagement work. Common terminology, core questions and interests in areas of social-impact evaluation and case making, priorities for research agenda. Written by by M. Christine Dwyer; published by Americans for the Arts for the Animating Democracy Arts & Civic Engagement Impact Initiative, 2009.

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 NewcastleGateshead, 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 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 and Social Responsibility
Project at Boston College that "seeks to engage and connect students, faculty and community members working to promote activism and positive social change through art, performance and action." Courses, events, online calendar, collaborative community projects. Founded 2009.

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.

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.

Attitudinal Healing Connection
Nontraditional mental-health program in Oakland, Calif., with spiritual and educational programs that incorporate art, health and diversity/ social justice. Diversity trainings and workshops; ArtEsteem programs for teachers, schools, children/youth; support groups, retreats; Healing Store.

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.

Bay Area Native American Indian Network
Public community network (online) for Native American/American Indian/First Nations/Indigenous cultural events, activities, news and networking in San Francisco Bay Area. Hosted by American Indian Contemporary Arts.

Be a Leader for ARTS Education: A Guidebook To Expand Arts Learning in Public Schools
Downloadable guide focusing on information supporting the belief that the arts are essential in our children's education; strategies for moving forward; ways to mobilize districts and engage community; planning tips and guidelines; Web resources; and more. By California County Superintendents Arts Initiative and the California State PTA

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.

Black August Hip Hop Project
International cultural-activist exchange founded by Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Stress Magazine, and Students for Jericho. Develops and implements International Human Rights Campaign using Hip Hop as a tool and common language. International network of hip-hop artists and activists in three countries. Hip Hop Activism workshops, exchanges between international communities, annual events, DVD and mix tape, benefits for political prisoners. Named after organization established in California prison system in early 1970s by men and women of the Black Liberation Movement.

Black Rock Art Foundation
Nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, Calif., promoting and supporting community-based interactive art. Programs: artist grants, community development, exhibitions, educational outreach, career development. Founded 2001 by individuals who direct Burning Man; incorporated in Nevada.

Black Web Portal
Database of black Web sites, black businesses, freelance feeds, black events, black politicians and colleges and more. Has news wire, newsletter, business corner, arts and humanities. Black owned and operated.

Blackout Arts Collective
National grassroots coalition of artists, activists and educators working to empower communities of color through the arts. Seven U.S. chapters. Naitonal initiatives: annual tour -- "Lyrics on Lockdown: Slamming the Prison Industrial Complex"; Free! Eduation workshops supporting development and documentation of successful alternatives to failing public schools nationwide.

Blue Drum
Dublin-based nonprofit specialist support agency working with the community development sector in Ireland, particularly Family Resource Centres and other community groups. information service on all aspects of arts in community development. Advice and support, training, special projects, event, networking, documentation of theory and practice, projects directory, conferences.

Blue Mountain Center
Working community of writers, artists, activists and musicians in the heart of New York 's Adirondack Mountains. Hosts conferences for up to 25 people working on pressing social problems such as civil liberties, environmental health and safety, peace and economic justice. Directed by Harriet Barlow.

Bond St. Theatre
New York physical-theater ensemble that create educational and artistic programs for refugee camps, theaters, universities, schools and centers for women and children. Works in Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Bosnia, Serbia, Kosovo, Bulgaria, Albania, Romania, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, Israel, Indonesia, China, Japan and elsewhere. Founded 1975.

Booklyn Artists Alliance
Artist-bookmakers organization in Brooklyn, N.Y., promote artist books as an art form and an educational resource; teach in public schools.

Border Crossings
Documentation of a "Traveling Archive of Work on Immigration, Migrant Labor and More" by MIT artist Ute Meta Bauer. Focused on border zones and border life, consisting of two stationary exhibits - in Tijuana, B.C., Mex., and San Diego, Calif. - and a mobile unit that moved between organizations and institutions on both sides of the border. Installations covered labor, environmental issues, migration and human rights, questions of identity, women's rights and youth culture in the border region. Mobile unit facilitated events, discussions, film screenings addressing wide range of issues and audiences. Originally created for inSite_05, now being developed for Austria/Slovakia border.

Bread and Puppet Theater
"One of the oldest non-commercial self-supporting theaters in the country. Based since 1970 in rural northern Vermont, the theater continues to create shows around political and social themes, and is committed to community engagement, often involving large groups of volunteers in its productions." Founding Director Peter Schumann.

Bread and Roses Cultural Project
Nonprofit cultural arm of New York's Health and Human Service Union, 1199/SEIU. Latina and African-American women employed in healthcare institutions in N.Y. metropolitan area, New Jersey and Florida. Founded1979 as cultural resource for union members and students in N.Y.C. with little arts access.

Break Arts Collective
International arts and learning collaborative. Text/image projects ihat encourage young people to imagine, create and express the stories of their lives. Arts workshops and residencies; training and professional development; consultation; advocacy. Directed by Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein and Rachel McIntire; established 2005.

Breakthroughs in Shared Measurement and Social Impact
Series of reports on an emerging trend in evaluation: nonprofit organizations measuring their performance on common indicators and shared evaluation platforms using Web-based systems. Breakthroughs include Shared Measurement Platforms (an agreed-upon set of benchmarks developed by funding organizations and their grantees), Comparative Performance Systems (ways to compare results of between different grantee organizations) and Adaptive Learning Systems (leveraging both of those systems to develop strategies and coordinate resources between multiple foundations and grantees. Highlights 20 examples of social enterprises using these systems. Written by Mark Kramer, Marcie Parkhurst, Lalitha Vaidyanathan; published by FSG Social Impact Advisors, 2009.

Bridge Project
Binational, site-specific installation for The Bridge of the Americas spanning Rio Grande/Rio Bravo from El Paso, Tex., to Juarez, Mex.; designed by artists Chrissie Orr and Carlos Callejo.

Bridging Arts
Works with art and photography "to propel issues into the news and trigger debate." Develops and stages exhibitions and events "with a message, so that people without a voice can speak out through the arts." Much work with refugees. Based in London, England.

Bridging to the Arts
Online guide to innovative theme-based programming at New Mexican summer programs for children and families in 17 sites around the state. By New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs.

Bringing Nature to Life
Guide to "The Use of Performance Art for Environmental Restoration" by community performance artist Nanda Currant, who works in home school and charter school education programs.

Brooklyn College Art Lab
Arts and technology after-school site in Brooklyn, N.Y., serving some 700 students a year from some 30 high schools, averaging 80-100 students per day. Central node for The Arts Network at Brooklyn College Community Partnership, a creative learning network linking the college to the communities of Brooklyn; programs in seven Brooklyn high schools.

Brown's Center for Public Service
Brown University's community connection. Community Partnership Database (under Civic Sector Partnerships) with arts and culture programs like SPACE (Space in Prison for the Arts and Creative Expression).

Brown's Mart Community Arts
Association in Darwin, NT, Australia, that focuses on grassroots arts development in the Darwin region. Located in historic colonial-era "reserve" (1885). Performance presenting, community collaborations. Projects: Arts Access Darwin, Sculpture in the Park, Indigenous Performance, Multicultural Arts Services, Darwin Fringe Festival, Fist Full of Films, Bamboo Lounge, Darwin Poetry Cup. News feeds with RSS. Soon to change name to Darwin Community Arts Incorporated.

Buddy Holly Center
Community art center in Lubbock, Texas, that memorializes musician Buddy Holly and other performing artists and musicians of West Texas. Exhibitions, annual music symposium.. Annual Extensive community programs, including education, hospital and high-school training programs.

BuildaBridge International
Nonprofit arts education organization based in Germantown, Pa. Provides "direct arts-integrated intervention (social, spiritual, educational, and therapeutic) and cross-cultural service." Community Arts Program: in transitional homes, after-school and Saturday arts programs. Institute for the Church and Community Arts: training, education and research institute for those who want to integrate the arts in their community service and ministry. Educational Safaris: Overseas arts education and service program. BuildaBridge Consulting: Professional consulting for cross-cultural service, organizational development, community arts, curriculum writing and development, learning assessment and evaluation, arts management for conferences and overseas travel.

Building America's Communities II: A Compendium of Arts and Community Development Programs
(Book) Statistics on the use of arts for social and economic change, this booklet profiles more than 130 diverse arts programs in communities across America.

Building Community, Making History
Elaborate documentation by artist Brett Cook of a collaborative project by the Duke Ellington School of the Arts community and staff of the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in Washington, D.C. Participants explored building community and making history through workshop exercises using portraiture to create four collaborative works. Works were installed in "Portraiture Now: Framing Memory" exhibition at NPG May 25, 2007-January 6, 2008.

Building an Evaluation System
Brief outline of basic tools and procedures that organizations can use in evaluation. Five steps, briefly explained, include: Outcomes; Process; Impact; Essential Knowledge and Skills Needed; Knowledge and Skills Rated. Written by Michael Sykes; published online in Sykes May 2008 Newsletter.

Building the Code
See Crossroads Project for Art, Learning and Community

Burning Man
Annual five-acre alternative-arts festival in the Nevada desert, instant community drawing 25,000 people annually.

Business Committee for the Arts
Founded in 1967 by David Rockefeller,. national nonprofit organization that brings business and arts together. Awards, surveys, research, conferences.

CARTS
Cultural Arts Resources for Teachers and Students, extension of City Lore's programs and its National Network for Folk Arts in Education. Resources, guest artists, staff development, dialogue.

CASES
The Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services, New York City. Works with justice system to offer structured alternatives more substantial than probation, but less costly and intrusive than jail or prison. Projects: Art Therapy; Court Employment Project; Community Service Sentencing Project; Nathaniel Project for offenders with mental illness; Parole Restoration Project for parole violators with special needs; Girls Program; Community Prep High School; more.

CELLspace
Volunteer-staffed collaborative art center fostering community in San Francisco's Mission District through art and education, with classes and communal workspaces.

COMPAS
Community-driven Minneapolis organization offering WAITS (Writers and Artists in the Schools), grants to neighborhood arts projects addressing social issues, cultural arts presentations in the schools, Minnesota Rural Arts Initiative and arts activities for battered women.

COSACOSA
Philadelphia-based organization engaging children and adults in art workshops around common neighborhood issues. Artist commissions, Healing Art Project, ArtSight e-gallery.

CREATE (Ireland)
Dublin-based organization that enables and seeds work "in context." Evolving from community art, "arts in context" encompasses a range of innovative practice and addresses specifics of place, histories and identities.

Caldera
Nonprofit arts-education organization with a mission to foster creativity among underserved youth and adults, "believing that the arts and the out-of-doors are powerful vehicles for fostering creativity and a strong sense of self-worth." Programs take place in schools and community centers throughout Portland and Central Oregon, and at Caldera’s Blue Lake facility in the Oregon Cascades. Programs: arts partnerships, artist school residencies, summer arts retreats, apprenticeships, retreats for professional artists and writers.

California Council for the Humanities
Outstanding state humanities program. Award-winning projects in film, radio, new media, exhibitions, family literacy, community heritage, literary anthologies, live Chautauqua performances, newsletter. Important California Stories Survey in 2001.

California Indian Storytelling Association
Dedicated to preservation, perpetuation, enlivening and promotion of Indian story and storytelling, in both traditional form and contemporary experience. Festival, symposia.

California Public Arts & Mural Society
Assists artists and communities in promoting revitalization of communities through public art. Links to mural towns, map of California mural routes, news, working methods. Based in 29 Palms, California.

California Wash
Environmental artwork by Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison encompassing a city block at an environmentally degraded state beach in Santa Monica, Calif.

Callington's Mural Trail
Gallery of public works in Callington, East Cornwall, England, a town known nationally for its mural trail.

Camino de Paz Labyrinths
Creator of community labyrinths and peace walks. Directed by artist Ariane Burgess.

Campus Compact
National coalition of 1,100 college and university presidents — representing six million students — dedicated to promoting community service, civic engagement and service-learning in higher education. Initiatives: Campus & Community, Civic Engagement, Service Learning, Advocacy, more. Resources, research, publications, news, opportunities. Founded in 1985 by presidents of Brown, Georgetown and Stanford universities, and president of the Education Commission of the States. Based at Brown, Providence, R.I.

Cape Farewell Project
Bring artists, scientists and educators together to collectively address and raise awareness about climate change. Expeditions into the High Arctic, exhibition "Art & Climate Change," book "Burning Ice: Art & Climate Change," film "Art from the Arctic." Founded 2000 by David Buckland.

Cardboard Citizens
"The only professional theatre company in the UK working with homeless and ex-homeless people, including refugees and asylum seekers, as creators, participants and audiences."

Caribbean Cultural Center/Africa Diaspora Institute
New York center founded in 1976 to document and promote cultural history of people of African descent globally, "from Brooklyn to Bahia, from Haiti to Harlem." Works in all media, conferences, workshops, lectures, gallery talks.

Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning
Learning and arts center in a former Carnegie Library in Lexington, Ky. Programming for professional writers. Fosters improved literacy levels in local community. Gallery, performing arts, home to learning and arts organizations and writing/book discussion groups.

Carpetbag Theatre
Community-based theater ensemble from Knoxville, Tenn., one of the few African-American professional Directed by Linda Parris-Bailey. Offers training in community arts techniques.

Cartoonists Across America & the World
Traveling band of artists that has painted more than 1,000 murals worldwide. Literacy projects, books, public events. Works in partnership with the Center for The Book in the Library of Congress. Founding director: Phil Yeh.

Cathedral Choir School of Delaware
Music education program for economically disadvantaged youth 7-18 at the The Cathedral Church of Saint John Episcopal Cathedral in Wilmington, Del. Performed in some of the world’s most renowned cathedrals, serves as a prototype for church choral-education programs.

Celeste Miller and Company
A performance artist/choreographer working in communities all over U.S., in schools, with nurses, with mothers and daughters, with teachers. Has outstanding models for working with movement and math, science, social studies. Offers training in community arts techniques.

Cemeti Art Foundation
Organization producing information about dynamics and development of the visual arts field in Indonesia in relation to society, economics, politics, culture. Weekly radio broadcasts since 1999, research, publications, documentation, library, workshops, international networking. Based in Yogyakarta.

Center Borderland of Arts, Cultures, Nations
Border culture project in Poland.

Center for Art + Environment
Programmatic focal point for the Nevada Museum of Art, working with the development of Museum’s exhibitions, collections, programs facilities and online presence. Established at the Nevada Museum of Art in 2009 following The Art + Environment Conference of 2008. Works to: encourage creation of artworks expressing interaction between people and their environments; convene artists, scholars and communities to document, research and analyze such artworks; increase public knowledge of these creative and scholarly endeavors; acquire, preserve and present related materials including art and environment project archives. Directed by William L. Fox.

Center for Art and Community Partnerships
Massachusetts College of Art’s primary vehicle for engaging the college community's creative energy in the conceptualization and support of collaborative, art-based projects, programs and partnerships with local institutions, organizations and community members.

Center for Art and Public Life
Center at California College of Arts and Crafts with Arts Education Partnerships, a mentoring/teaching program for CCAC students working in Oakland, California's public schools.

Center for Arts Education (N.Y.C.)
Foremost arts-education organization in New York. Administers Annenberg Challenge for Arts Education. Grant program and projects in all five city boroughs. Good source of links and info on all arts-ed activities in New York.

Center for Arts Policy at Columbia College Chicago
Supports understanding of the role of arts in society with applied research, public progrmas, analysis and education.

Center for Arts and Culture
Independent research/policy organization providing analysis and promoting "dialogue on issues affecting our cultural life."

Center for Children’s Theatre Development
Promotes modern theater for children emphasizing its educational and social role. Established December 2002 in Pristina, Kosova, by young Kosovar playwrights and actors. Workshops, productions. Projects: Theatre for Children – Art and Education and Children’s Mobile Theatre.

Center for Civic Participation
Works to increase civic engagement by individuals and organizations in communities historically underrepresented in U.S. democratic process. Based in Minneapolis, Minn. Interested in art-and-democracy projects. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Center for Community Innovation
Coalition of faculty, staff, and students in the U.C. Berkeley Institute of Urban and Regional development working in the San Francisco Bay Area’s low-income commercial corridors. Focuses on housing, community and economic development in four topic areas: revitalizing neighborhoods, developing economic resilience, designing and programming for the public realm, and producing and preserving affordable housing. Collaborates with local officials and national experts to develop scenarios for mixed-income communities. Launched 2006. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Center for Creative Aging-North Carolina
Nonprofit organization dedicated to creative aging: "imaginative self-expression of all forms in the second half of life." Goals: Providing quality training and education, developing and disseminating resource materials and programming; serving as a clearinghouse for exchange of information; encouraging efforts to document the role of creative expression in lives of older people. TimeSlips creative storytelling project; Multicultural Project. Based in Greensboro, N.C.

Center for Creative Community Development
National focal point for research, education and training on the role of the arts in community redevelopment. Joint project of Williams College and MASS MoCA.

Center for Cultural Exchange
Major presenter in Portland, Maine, with ongoing partnerships with Southern Maine's French Canadian, Cambodian, Irish, African-American, African, Greek, Latino, Italian, Jewish, Middle-Eastern and South Asian communities.

Center for Cultural Innovation
Nonprofit organization promoting knowledge sharing, networking and financial independence for individual artists and creative entrepreneurs by providing business training, grants and loans, and incubating innovative projects that create new program knowledge, tools and practices for artists in the field. Workshops, Investing in Artists Grant Program, Benefit Opportunities for Artists, Incubator, blog. Founded 2001 based in California.

Center for Digital Storytelling
Dedicated to the intersection of the storytelling arts and digital media. Trains multimedia producers in developing short stories based in personal image archives. Based at UC Berkeley, directed by Joe Lambert and Nina Mullen.

Center for Documentary Studies
Durham, N.C., center connecting the documentary arts to education and community life. Programs include Community Stories, Literacy Through Photography, Document Durham: The Neighborhoods Project, The Jazz Loft Project, Hine Documentary Fellows Program, Regarding Race, and Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South. Publishes Document magazine. Based at Duke University.

Center for Elders and Youth in the Arts
Program of San Francisco Bay Area's Institute on Aging. Works with high schools, select middle schools, local arts agencies, and group sites for the elderly. Teams youth and elders in collaborative, educational arts programs under the instruction of professional visual and performing artists. Most projects last one year.

Center for Environmental Filmmaking
Based at American University’s School of Communication in Washington, D.C. Trains environmental and wildlife filmmakers; produces and distributes quality films and videos promoting conservation of land, air, water and wildlife; hosts seminars, festivals, conferences; research and writing; convening of students, scholars, broadcasters, executives and filmmakers; grants, scholarships, awards; partnerships with community organizations to develop and implement consumer education and outreach.

Center for Health Design
Nonprofit organization concerned with healthcare environments that enhance well-being for patients, staff and visitors through research, design and architecture.

Center for Political Song
Online collection of political songs; based in Scotland.

Center for Rural Strategies
Communications organization that helps rural communities and nonprofit organizations incorporate media and communications into their work in support of strategic goals. Media campaigns. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Center for Social Media
Showcases and analyzes strategies to use media as creative tools for public knowledge and action. Public events, research projects, convenings, organizational links, Web-published research. Part of the School of Communication at American University, Washington, D.C. Directed by Pat Aufderheide.

Center for Urban Pedagogy
Based in Brooklyn, N.Y., CUP makes "educational projects about places and how they change." Bringing art and design professionals together with community-based advocates and researchers to create projects ranging from high-school curricula to educational exhibitions.

Center for the Arts
New Jersey-based organization focused on youth development through the arts. Drug- and alcohol-abuse prevention programs.

Center for the Study of Art & Community
Association of business, government and arts leaders building arts partnerships in educational, community and social institutions. Founded by Bill Cleveland, author of "Art in Other Places: Artists at Work in America's Community and Social Institutions." Offers training in community arts techniques.

Center in the Park
Offers high-quality community arts programming.for elders grounded in the theory of lifelong learning. Primarily serves African-American elders who live independently in Northwest Philadelphia.

Center on Age & Community
Multidisciplinary, university-wide academic center at University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. Combines university’s expertise with experience of those who work in the field of aging. Research, degree and nondegree programs in gerontology, community partnerships, outreach. Residency in Applied Arts.

Central Falls Voices and Visions
Essays and photos from Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities family-history project with Projecto Latino and two dozen 11-16-year-olds.

Centre for Aboriginal Media
Canadian nonprofit organization training and supporting aboriginal media artists. Projects: annual imagineNATIVE Film & Media Arts Festival, imagineNATIVE Film & Video Tour, CAM Online Media Database. Partnered with V-tape, Canadian independent video distribution center.

Centre for Applied Theatre Research
Based in the Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama at University of Manchester, England. Promotes practice based research, research and evaluation, teaching and publication in the area of applied theater (practice of theater and drama in non-traditional settings). Includes theater in education, prison theater, theater in places of conflict, theater in museums and heritage sites, theater for development and theater with refugee communities and artists. Offers M.A. study, Ph.D., Ph.D. by Practice or AHRC Fellowships in the Creative and Performing Arts Scheme.

Centre for Arts and Humanities in Health and Medicine
New (2001) research center at University of Durham, England, featuring "medical humanities," arts and health activities in community, arts therapies, research into practice and theory linking arts and health.

Centre for Children's Theatre Development (Kosova)
Children's theater program in arts and education, based in Prishtina.

Centre for Contemporary Arts Afghanistan
Independent artistic and cultural center established in August 2004 by a number of young artists. Includes Female Artistic Center, established 2007 "to improve and support the artistic skills and talents of Afghan women."

Centre for Creative Communities (U.K.)
U.K.-based organization that links arts groups working in cultural development worldwide.

Centre for Landscape & Environmental Arts Research
CLEAR explores and promotes how the arts can contribute to our understanding of landscape and the environment. Cross-sector approach through arts, humanities, sciences. Seminars, publications (Unipress imprint), arts research projects. Based in Cumbria, England.

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.

Champions of Change: The Impact of the Arts on Learning
Publication presenting recent studies that demonstrate the link between involvement in the arts, positive youth development and academic achievement. Research conducted in in-school and out-of-school settings via quantitative/qualitative methods. Figures, statistics, stories, theories. Researchers include James Catterall, Shirley Brice Heath and Steve Seidel. Written, published by Arts Education Partnership and the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, 1999.

Changing Lives Through Literature
Alternative sentencing program requiring offenders to read as a condition of probation. Based at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth English Dept. Founded 1991 in New Bedford, Mass., by Professor Robert Waxler, Judge Robert Kane and Probation Officer Wayne St. Pierre; replicated nationally and internationally. Site offers instructions on how to start a program, studies and results, instructional materials, court forms and methods, bibliographies, newsletter.

Chapel of Sacred Mirrors
Nonprofit organization providing "a sanctuary in New York City for contemplation and a center for events encouraging the creative spirit." Provides a public exhibition of the Sacred Mirrors and other works of contemporary sacred art by Alex Grey. The Sacred Mirrors are 21 images, consisting of 19 life-size paintings and two etched mirrors, examining the anatomy of body, mind and spirit in detail. Full Moon and New Moon gatherings, workshops, EntheoCentric Salons, MicroCosm Gallery openings.

CharretteCenter
Town design and information services for community-based urban design. Develops site plans and 3-D visualizations for new towns, suburban/urban redevelopments and infill districts. Free online compendium of information on "new urbanism" design process. Based in Mineapolis, Minn. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Chesapeake Center for Youth Development
Training center for disadvantaged youth in Baltimore, Md., with strong arts program. Chesapeake Alternative School serving youth referred by Dept. of Juvenile Services and other governmental agencies; after-school programs; job training, internships; social-work services, counseling.

Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE)
Partners Chicago public schools with arts and community organizations to "develop sustainable, coherent, challenging curricula through collaborative planning and teaching of arts integrated instruction." Rich in progressive theory.

Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education: Summary Evaluation
Study using multiple assessment tools including student achievement, measures of community and school support, and teacher and student surveys to examine success of CAPE. Conducted by the Imagination Project, program of UCLA graduate school of education. Found that over six years CAPE had high impact on classroom, teachers and artists, on student performance, and on level of support from community and school-based groups. By James S. Catterall and Lynn Waldorf (In Champions of Change, the Arts Education Partnership and the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, 1999).

Chicago Children's Choir
Educational group with school, neighborhood and concert choirs

Chicago Park District Department of Environment, Culture and Special Events
Creates and implements the District's outdoor and environmental education programs, coordinates programs for the District’s 12 cultural centers, provides leadership in the development of afterschool, youth employment and summer programs and produces special events and activities for families. Includes Arts Partners in Residence, Cultural Center Initiative. Dance Card, Inferno Mobile Recording Studio, TRACE (Teens Reimagining Art, Community and Environment), Words @ Play, more.

Chicago Public Art Group
Has created over 150 murals, mosaics and sculptures in collaboration with landscape designers, architects and engineers.

Chicana and Chicano Space
Presents over 25 Chicana/o and earlier artworks, with instructional units relevant to significant themes, gender balance, geographic breadth, historical range. By Arizona State University's Hispanic Research Center.

Children Helping Children
Musical charity organization based in New York, supporting pediatric wards of area hospitals and national medical organizations through in-hospital concerts and gala fundraising events. Founded by concert violinist Jourdan Urbach when he was seven years old.

Children's Art Carnival
Community-based art school in Harlem providing visual and communication arts education to youth from all five boroughs of New York City. Programs: Arts in Education, After School & Saturday, Communication Arts Program. Founded 1969.

Children's Coalition Inc.
Multimedia arts center for inner-city, at-risk, first-time and repeat offender youth in Palm Beach, Fla.

Children's Dance Foundation
Dance-education organization in Birmingham, Ala., reaching 3,000 children a week. Movement-to-Music program at 30 community sites, reaching 1,500 students ages 2-7 years; more than at-risk or disadvantaged, many with physical, emotional or mental disabilities.

Children's Landscape
Archive of Norwegian architect Frode Svane's findings about participating with children and youth in city planning, landscape and school architecture, school grounds, green schools and "nature" schools. Rich in theory, workshop methods and photos

Children's Music Network
Membership organization for "teachers, performers, songwriters, radio hosts and parents who cared about the quality and content of children's music" in U.S. and Canada. Online music library, biannual publication "Pass It On!", toolkits, annual conferences, regional events, awards. Founded 1987. Based in Evanston, Ill.

Children's Peace Theatre
Helps youth explore notions of peace and conflict through the performing arts. Monthly Stone Soup Community Gatherings, conflict-evolution workshops, Sounds Like Peace (music), Art for Change (visual art), Performers for Peace. Directed by founder Robert Morgan in Toronto, Ont., Canada.

Children's Prison Arts Project
Nonprofit arts-education organization working in visual and educational theater with juveniles in correctional facilities and shelters in Harris County, Texas. Founded by artist Birgit Walker, 1993.

Children's Theatre Company
Minneapolis, Minn., resident theater company; adapts children's classics, commissions new works. New-play development lab; Center for Innovation and Theatre Education; Theatre Arts Training program. Directed by Peter Brosius.

Chinatown Banquet, A
Interdiscipinary art and education project exploring forces that shaped and influence Boston's Chinatown.

Chobi Mela International Festival of Photography
Annual exhibition in Dacca, Bangladesh, with wide public exposure, including open-air exhibitions, billboards on cycle rickshaws, videoconferences.

Choir Works
Free sacred choral music for church choirs. Anthems, hymn arrangements and hymns in .pdfs for download and print. Free MP3 practice accompaniment for most titles.

Choral Earth
Organization that partners choral music and civic engagement for social change and healing. Consultations on "greening your chorus." Choral Earth circle membership program with benefits. Sing Your Part online initiative. Founded in 2000 at Singing Farm in Central Virginia by Rachel Bagby.

Choreographing Community Sustainability: The Importance of Cultural Planning to Community Viability
Research project in which issues, trends, planning infrastructures, partnerships and resources critical to the evolution of community sustainability were reviewed in literature and discussed in a focus group and in interviews with municipal cultural practitioners in British Columbia and Ontario who were members of the Creative City Network of Canada. Summary include key points that emerged in both, plus recommendations. Written by Kat Runnalls; published by Centre of Expertise on Culture and Communities , 2007.

Christo & Jean-Claude
Temporary large-scale environmental works in urban and rural environments with elements of painting, sculpture, architecture and urban planning.

Chto delat/What is to be done?
Self-organizing platform founded in 2003 in Petersburg, Russia, by a group of artists, critics, philosophers and writers from Petersburg, Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod with the goal of merging political theory, art and activism. Site offers events listings, newspapers, art projects, films, a magazine, library and Russian and English blogs.

Church of Craft
Groups meeting in New York and San Francisco in "a place that allows people to make things without thinking about either utility or artistic value."

Cinereach
Nonprofit media organization focused on effecting social change. Supports independent film projects as well as Reach Film Fellowship, Creative Visions, Witness, Film Aid's Participatory Video Project, The Magic Tent, Human Rights International Film Festival, Film Society of Lincoln Center, The New York Film Festival.

Circle Painting
Circle Painting is a nonprofit organization founded in 2007 by interdisciplinary artist Hiep Nguyen. The method brings people together to make art at social or community events, large-scale paintings based on the circle theme. Since 2007, Circle Painting has served 50 communities, traveled to 10 countries, engaged over 10,000 participants. Various videos on YouTube show the group in action all over the world, including Vietnam and Cambodia.

Circle of Stories
Online resources about Native American storytelling. Includes stories, gallery, language and land issues, community, teachers' guide. An Electric Shadows Project by ITVS Interactive.

Citizens at the Center: A New Approach to Civic Engagement
Paper based on interviews with researchers and experts in service/civic-engagement, politics, marketing. Offers specific recommendations for giving citizens the tools they need to identify problems and develop solutions. Warns against top-down solutions that require people to "plug into" existing programs or campaigns. Written by Cynthia Gibson; published by Case Foundation, 2006.

City Lore
Artists, folklorists, historians, anthropologists, and ethnomusicologists fostering New York's cultural heritage. Exhibits, books, magazine, media events.

City Repair Project
Volunteer grassroots organization in Portland, Ore., that helps people "reclaim their urban spaces to create community-oriented places."

City Stage Co. of Boston
Programs for urban children, youth and families in the performing arts: traveling theater company; arts education; interactive exhibits and programs for museums nationwide.

City Studio
Community-education program of San Francisco Art Institute launched 2005 in partnership with neighborhood youth-development organizations, school districts and leading artists. Designed to engage high-school juniors and seniors in a rigorous two-year arts-education experience.

City Without Walls
Nonprofit art galery in Newark, N.J., for emerging artists. ArtReach mentorship program pairs promising high-school art students with working-artist mentors. Internship program. Founded 1975.

City of Albuquerque Public Art Program
Gallery of public art in Albuquerque, N.M.; well-articulated public art and murals plans; grant guidelines.

City of Asylum, Pa.
Pittsburgh, Pa., sanctuary to writers exiled under threat of death, imprisonment or persecution in their native countries. Provides housing, medical benefits, living stipend, help in securing publishers and long-term employment. Educates public on issues relating to freedom of creative expression and multi-cultural collaboration through literary arts and jazz presentations, educational programs with schools and in the community, print and online publications, and text-based public art projects, Web magazine.

City of Imagination
All-volunteer nonprofit organization bringing art, free, directly to the public in Gulfport, Florida, using lobbies, libraries, casinos and parks.

CityArts
Organization based in Dublin, Ireland. Focused on an "Away "model – a program of work created in collaboration with communities. Civic Framework (programing plan for youth work and arts initiatives, shared with City of Dublin), Cultural Contracts (long-term commitment to work with communities in developing a local model of participative and collaborative arts practices), Tower Songs (collaborative voice/sound/song project with regenerating tower-block communities in Dublin). Research supporting urban arts, art & regeneration, migrant communities. Forums, Learnings Labs, seminars. Archive program.

CityKids Foundation
Teaches young people problem-solving and decision-making processes "that include themselves as part of the solution." Includes numerous arts and communications projects.

CityStep
Harvard-Radcliffe student organization in partnership with Cambridge, Mass., public schools; undergraduate teams teach fifth-graders self-esteem through dance and theater. Founded1983 by Sabrina Peck.

Civic Engagement and the Arts: Issues of Conceptualization and Measurement
Essay on improving the quality of knowledge about the social impact of arts-based civic-engagement work at the program, regional and initiative scales. Draws from social sciences, humanities public policy. Discusses three theories of action—didactic, discursive, and ecological. Offers practical considerations for evaluation in areas of methodological issues and data collection strategies based on a set of challenges in moving from theory to actual measurement of change. Written by Mark J. Stern and Susan C. Seifert; published by Americans for the Arts for the Animating Democracy Arts & Civic Engagement Impact Initiative, 2009.

Civil Rights Memorial Center
Southern Poverty Law Center's Memorial in Mongomery, Ala., designed by artist Maya Lin.

Clabber, Coal & Ceilidh
Project at Scottish Mining Museum in Newtongrange, May 2006; 170 primary-school children and support staff from four primary schools attended workshops looking at mining life through dance, poetry and drama, song and percussion. Site includes feedback from students, teachers.

Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army (CIRCA)
Brtish band of clowns doing political street theater.

Class Action
Programs to raise consciousness about issues of class and money and their impact on lives, relationships, organizations, institutions and culture. Workshops, institutes, lectures, seminars, coaching, retreats, dialogue groups, support groups, interventions. Techniques include simulation games, small-group sharing, exercises, writing, cross-class dialogue, drama and art. Based in Northampton, Mass.

Class Acts Arts Inc.
Arts outreach and presenting organization bringing performances, workshops and artist residencies to schools and communities, at-risk youth, seniors and special needs populations in Maryland, the District of Columbia and Virginia. Project Youth ArtReach: visual, literary and performing arts programs and residencies to youth in Washington, D.C., area juvenile correctional settings, alternative schools and a statewide mentoring program for court-involved youth.

Closing the Digital Divide
U.S. Commerce Department's site, a clearinghouse for information about government efforts to provide all Americans with access to Internet.

Cloud Foundation
Boston, Mass., organization providing artistic creation and cross-cultural communication programs for urban youth. Programs: Cloud Place youth arts center in downtown Boston, Teen Curatorial Program, traveling workshops, partnerships and collaborative programming.

Clusters of Creativity: The Role of Arts in North Carolina's Economy
Study documenting how private-sector creative workers contribute to communities across N.C. and how the arts serve as a catalyst for tourism, inspiring unique products and partnerships. Written by Regional Technology Strategies, Inc.; published by N.C. Arts Council, 2007.

Coalitions Toolkit: A Guide for Starting, Growing and Sustaining Effective Arts Education Coalitions
Provides information and resources to begin, develop or sustain an arts-education coalition in a community. Modeled on Florida’s Arts for a Complete Education. Includes successful examples. Written by Bruce Rodgers and team, published in .pdf format by Arts for a Complete Education/Florida Alliance for Arts Education.

Coleman Center for the Arts and Culture
Community art center in York, Ala., established by citizens' grassroots efforts. Exhibitions, community-arts and public-art residencies, municipalWORKSHOP. Center houses public forum space and town library.

Collaborative Playbuilding
Will Weigler's site about building plays "with any group that wants to be able to share their perspectives on local issues and speak out to their community throuh performance."

Collage Network
Online cultural directory that promotes the work of Sudanese refugee artists living in Cairo, Egypt.

ColorLines
Online magazine on race, culture, and organizing from the Center for Third World Organizing.

Columbia College Chicago Office of Community Arts Partnerships
Facilitates reciprocal partnership-building between college and its communities, including collaboration between academic departments and community arts (mainly youth) programs; student placement; mentoring for middle/high schools.

Combining Bibliotherapy and Positive Role Modeling as an Alternative to Incarceration
A study evaluating Changing Lives Through Literature, a "bibliotherapy" program designed as an alternative to jail. Follows-up the first 32 men to complete the program; matched comparison with group of 40 probationers. Indicates a reconviction rate of 18.75% in the study group, compared with 45% in the comparison group. Includes information from interviews with program participants. Written by G. Roger Jarjoura and Susan T. Krumholz; published in Journal of Offender Rehabilitation (Vol. 28 (1/2), 1998, Pp. 127-139) by Hawthorn Press, 1998.

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

Comic Book Project
Arts-based literacy and learning initiative hosted by Teachers College, Columbia University with materials published by Dark Horse Comics. Goal is to help children forge an alternative pathway to literacy by writing, designing and publishing original comic books. Used naitonally in hundreds of urban, rural schools. Created by director Michael Bitz.

Comin' On Over: The Legacies of Urban Bush Women
A "hyperessay" (online, nonlinear essay with Internet hyperlinks) - by Ananya Chatterjea, Ahree Lee and the Walker Art Center -- about the dance-theater company Urban Bush Women.

Coming Home
Canadian artist Devora Neumark's projects about interrelationships between creative energy and activism, human rights, environmental wellbeing and conflict resolution.

Coming Up Taller
Program honors arts and humanities programs for children and youth at risk. Founded by Bill and Hillary Clinton in 1994

Coming to America: Immigrant Sounds/Immigrant Voices
Music and civic-dialogue project of American Composers Orchestra, exploring evolution of American music through work of immigrant composers

Common Ground
Producer and manager of content for print and the Internet, including socially engaged arts. Areas: Common Ground Conferences, Common Ground Publishing, Common Ground Research and Common Ground Software.

Common Weal Community Arts
Nonprofit organization based in Saskatchewan, Canada, that uses art as a tool for social development. Founded in early '90s by artist Rachael Van Fossen using the "community play" format to promote social and cultural understanding among diverse communities. Expanded mandate in 1998 to include other participatory art media and support other organizations through an advisory role.

Communication Initiative
Extensive Web site related to international "communication for development." Methodologies, change theories, publications, forums, newsletters, calendar, jobs, more. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Communication for Social Change Consortium
International nonprofit building local capacity of people living in poor and marginalized communities to use communication to improve their own lives. Huge library, publications, resources, dialogues, consulting. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Communities in Schools
"Largest stay-in-school network in America." Brings resources, services, parents, and volunteers into schoolsPartnership programs (with Verizon, Clear Channel, Morgan Stanley), publications, After-School Program Toolkit, online training course. Founded 1977 by Bill Milliken. Based in Alexandria, Va. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Community Art Corps
Cadre of 13 full-time AmeriCorps member artists working with partner organizations to engage others in meaningful art experiences and promote community-building initiatives in collaboration with community-based organizations, service providers and civic and cultural institutions. Sponsored by Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in conjunction with the College's Community Arts Partnerships Office and the Master of Arts in Community Arts program, which began summer 2005.

Community Arts Council of Vancouver
Community-based public art resource of Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

Community Arts Education Project
Developed by the California State PTA and the California Alliance for Arts Education to help parents, local schools and school districts work together to create districtwide systemic change in arts education. Site includes guidebook, sample arts-education policies and plans.

Community Arts Forum
Umbrella body for community arts in Northern Ireland.

Community Arts L.A. (CARS)
Community arts events producer in Los Angeles, Calif.

Community Arts Leaders Resource Center
Web site offering community arts links, articles and consultants. Partnership of Illinois Arts Alliance Foundation, Wisconsin Assembly for Local Arts, Michigan Association of Community Arts Agencies.

Community Arts Northwest
Artist-led organization in Northern Quarter of Manchester, England. "Our main priority is to create access to cultural production for people that are excluded or on the fringe of mainstream cultural resources." Combined arts performance events, new and original theater, dance, music production (recording, choirs, music theater, bands, writing and major music narrative productions), video and digital arts, festivals, carnival, street theater, exhibitions, screenings, visual arts, environmental projects, installations, training events, refugee partnerships.

Community Arts Ontario
Arts-service organization established in 1991; represents network of over 88 arts agencies, institutions, and municipalities across Ontario, Canada.

Community Arts Partnership Institute
Consortium of six art colleges and university departments working with community-based partner organizations to provide quality arts programming for youth.

Community Building Initiative
Nonprofit organization established in 1997 by government and civic leaders that works to achieve racial and ethnic inclusion and equity in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg community of North Carolina. Includes arts partnerships. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Community Built Association
National association promoting community-building through involving volunteers in the design, organization and creation of community projects reshaping public space, like murals, playgrounds, parks and public gardens. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Community Center for Vital Aging
Located at Fisher Institute for Wellness and Gerontology at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. Offer programs in weaving, creative movement, yoga, ballet and the visual arts. Includes Third Age Theater Troupe. Member of National Center for Creative Aging Network.

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

Community Images
Photography program for Asian college students and adults in San Francisco, Calif. Workshops, photo trips. Web gallery hosted by In Motion magazine.

Community Music
British site devoted to the precept "that everyone should have the chance to make music of one kind or another and that it should be done in an active not passive situation"; founded by Vicky White.

Community Music & Arts Network
Grassroots, community-based arts organization focusing on youth music education, afterschool and summer programming, early childhood music education, therapeautic/intergenerational music and events/performance opportunities. Summer music camp. Located in rural Catskill Mountains in upstate New York.

Community Music School of Springfield
Springfield, Mass., music school with 23,000 sq. ft. of studios, classrooms, offices and performance areas on four floors of renovated downtown bank building. Music library, classes, preschool, private and group lessons, master classes, concerts, recitals, annual Celebrate Women in Music Concert; community partnership division with programs in early-childhood centers, housing complexes, afterschool programs, alternative high schools and secure treatment facilities for juvenile offenders.

Community MusicWorks
Providence, R.I.-based home of the Providence String Quartet with free after-school education and performance programs that "build meaningful long-term relationships between professional musicians, children and families in the West End and South Side neighborhoods of the city. Instrument lessons with free instruments, musical workshops, performance parties, youth salons, family concert trips, "Phase II" teen program, fellowship program and seminars. Concerts feature work by local composers. Founded 1997 by Sebastian Ruth with start-up funding from Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown University.

Community Partners
Community-building partnership providing incubators, initiatives and civic capacity building to "social entrepreneurs" addressing issues facing Southern California region. Numerous arts projects.

Community Partners in Action
Nonprofit organization in Hartford, Conn., providing services that promote accountability, dignity and restoration for people affected by the criminal justice system. Began in January 1875 as the Friends of Prisoners Society. Prison Arts Program: art classes at correctional institutions throughout the state, annual exhibition, Journal of the Prison Arts (published annually).

Community Performance Project
Online resources about community-based performance in Greater Baltimore, the Mid-Atlantic region and around the world. Explores connections between theater and “staging areas”: education, community building, activism, environmental education, civic engagement, international contexts, artistic entrepreneurship, cultural work and other artistic disciplines.

Community Performance, Inc.
Production team creating community-based, site-specific theatrical productions that rebuild and rediscover community through the power of storytelling, led by Richard Owen Geer, founding director of Swamp Gravy. Offers training in community arts techniques.

Community Technology Center's Network (ctcnet)
National, nonprofit membership organization of more than 600 independent community technology centers for training and free or low-cost access to computers, computer-related technology and the Internet.

Community Tool Box
Supports work that promotes community health and development; 6,000+ pages of practical skill-building information on 250+ topics. Step-by-step instruction, examples, check-lists and related resources. A Cross-Sector Resource.

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.

Community Works West
Nonprofit organization based in Berkeley, Calif., concerned with "the effects of soaring incarceration rates on communities, impacting not only the offending individuals but also families, neighbors, and survivors of crime." Education and community building programs, artist residencies in jail and post-release facilities, quarterly magazine The Issue, Project WHAT! (We're Here And Talking) youth-led initiative for youth with incarcerated parents, Works with San Francisco Sheriff's Department's Resolve to Stop the Violence Project (RSVP), Soapstone Theater Company, REST: Read and Educate to Stay Together family literacy program for incarcerated women. Directed by Ruth Morgan.

Community-Based Arts Organizations: A New Center of Gravity
Essay making a case for greater support for small and mid-sized, "value-based" organizations with a "commitment to fundamental values related to cultural responsibility, ethical practices, and respectful relationships." Discusses histories, strategies and support for cultural organizations with a history in specific communities. Places them in the context of changing demographics, a new political climate, technological advances, and globalization. Written by Ron Chew; published by Americans for the Arts, 2009.

Community-Based Youth Organizations Negotiating Educational and Social Equity
Case study of community-based youth development organization in northeastern U.S. advocating for social and educational equity for low-income families by challenging local school-district practice of referring low-income children of color to special education in disproportionate numbers. Shows how the assets CBOs bring to their communities can help them negotiate with schools: challenges & opportunities of school-CBO collaboration outlined, with appreciation of CBOs’ strong, culturally competent relationships with their program participants. Written by Sara Hill; published by Robert Bowne Foundation in Afterchool Matters, 2004. (PDF)

Community-Word Project
New York City-based arts-in-education organization serving children in underserved communities through collaborative arts residencies and teacher training programs. Artists lead creative writing, performance and visual-arts literacy workshops in public-school classrooms. Creative Expression Literacy Workshops culminate in indoor murals that feature the participants' writing and tour the U.S.; on-site literacy workshops at local businesses; online writing exchanges; after-school programs, annual Teaching Artist Information Job Fair Panel.

Community-engaged Scholarship for Health
Free, online mechanism for peer-reviewing, publishing and disseminating products of health-related community-engaged scholarship that are in forms other than journal articles. A component of Community-Campus Partnerships for Health’s Faculty for the Engaged Campus project, which aims to strengthen community-engaged career paths in the academy and is supported by a grant from the US Department of Education’s Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education. Community-Campus Partnerships for Health is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization that promotes health through partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Communiversity
U.K. organization creating new degree and post-graduate programs for those who do not traditionally have access to higher education, with art as part of the holistic process.. Students create community Web sites.

Confluence Project
Series of interpretative artworks by artist Maya Lin at seven sites along Lewis & Clark Trail for L&C Bicentennial. Collaboration with Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla, Nez Perce Tribe, et al.

Congress for New Urbanism
Urban-design movement that aims to reform all aspects of real-estate development. Neighborhood planning, design, policy; regional planning for open space, appropriate architecture, balanced development of jobs and housing. Site has CNU member search. A Cross-Sector Resource.

ConjunctionArts Inc.
Public-art organization by artists Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Terry strengthening citical discourse and practice of civic-based work. Includes documentation of "Witness: Perspectives on Police Violence" and other works. Includes Public Edge Speakers Bureau.

ConnectCP
"International who’s who of cultural policy, planning and research." Online database profiling experts' experience, current interests, etc., relevant to their work in cultural policy. Founded 2006 by International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA) and Boekman Foundation.

Connecting Californians: Finding the Art of Community Change
Study exploring story as a powerful means of building community. Based on a ten-month public conversation at the intersection of the arts, the humanities, grassroots narrative and community organizing. Presents findings of inquiry, case studies, map of the field, monographs, focus-group transcripts, literature review, questions for the future and a potential program design. Written by Dudley Cocke, Craig McGarvey, Erica Kohl, Linda Frye Burnham. Published by James Irvine Foundation and online by community Arts Network, 2000.

Continental Harmony Project
Millennium Project of American Composers Forum. First nationwide music-commissioning program in American history: new compositions in communities in all 50 states.

Continental Harmony: A Study in Community-based Arts
Results of a study using a new method to evaluate a Millennium Project that matched composers with communities in every state. By Patricia Shifferd and William Cleveland (American Composers Forum, 2001; also published on CAN, 2001).

Cooperative Artists Institute
Massachusetts organization offering Tribal Rhythms community-building technique.

Cornerstone Theater Company
L.A.-based company that builds bridges between and within diverse communities; work often includes first-time community collaborators alongside experienced professionals in new adaptations of classic texts. Offers internship training in community arts techniques.

Corporation for National Community Service
Public-private partnership that engages Americans of all ages in service through three national programs: Senior Corps, AmeriCorps and Learn and Serve America. Grants, awards, scholarships, various kinds of support for volunteering.

Council of Literary Magazines and Presses
Membership organization offering small publisher resources: newsletter, help with circulation and marketing,, e-mail lists, online chat, job book, directory, venue database, publications.

Craft Emergency Relief Fund
Direct financial and educational assistance to craft artists, including emergency relief assistance, business development support and resources/referrals on health, safety, insurance.

Crear vale la pena
NGO developing programs on social inclusion in Argentina since 1993. Their Art + Social Organization program promotes social transformation and democratic participation devoted to education, artistic production, and promotion of Cultural Community Centers.

Create: Arts for Youth Work (Scotland)
Web site supporting development of high-quality youth arts projects in Scotland: searchable directory, case studies, advice on how to set up projects, information, links, news.

Creative Activity for Everyone
Resource organization for support, advice and information on community arts in Ireland. Grants, events, awards, directories, training, seminars, group finance schemes, public-art placement.

Creative Alliance at the Patterson
Multi-arts center in working-class Highlandtown neighborhood of Baltimore, Md., participating in community reviatlization. Membership organization of artists, arts supporters, writers, scholars and businesses. Arts and humanities productions; year-round children's art-education programs in teen centers, schools, libraries and on-site. Signature "community-driven art spectacles": Fluid Movement’s water ballet, the Great Halloween Lantern Parade.

Creative Center: Arts for People with Cancer
Community of artists, cancer patients and survivors, trustees, donors, and friends bringing creative arts to people living with cancer; hospital bedside programs, gallery, workshops, residencies, training.

Creative City Network of Canada
Network of people employed by municipalities across Canada working on arts, culture and heritage policy, planning, development and support. Annual conference, Web resources, free e-newsletter, listservs, city profiles. In English and French.

Creative Clusters
Company based in Sheffield, England, set up in 2001 to help founders of creative industries showcase work, learn from each other, identify and articulate policy issues and connecto development resources. Consulting, regular convenings.

Creative Communities (U.S.)
20 U.S. sites partnering community schools of the arts with housing authorities in after-school/weekend arts classes for youth. By National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts, NEA and HUD.

Creative Communities Initiative Summary Report
Report summarizes strategies for successful arts education partnerships with public housing communities. Findings gleaned from 2001-4, $4.65 million partnership among NEA, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts. Initiative provided arts funding to 20 community schools to support high-quality, sequential arts instruction to 7,000 children and youth living in public housing communities. This report outlines the program, its sustainability, strategies, and special considerations. Many ofindings relevant to a wide range of cross-sector arts education partnerships. Downloadable free on Web. (National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts, 2006).

Creative Connections Project
Links K-12 classrooms with partner classes from the Amazon Rain Forest, Africa, the Galapagos Islands, the Arctic and China through e-mail, the Internet, art exchanges, music exchanges, online field trips and study partnerships. Sponsored by NYFA.

Creative Construct: Building for Culture and Creativity
Copoous transcripts, notes and power-points from an international symposium in Ottawa, Ont., Canada, April 28-May 1, 2008, intended to "help transform the way our community planners, educators and elected leaders think about our cultural future." Speakers included representatives of new cultural facilities around the worldinitiatives, including Dave Peebles of Birmingham’s Custard Factory, how a 19th-Century custard factory that became a micro-environment for creative entrepreneurs; Sir Ken Robinson, who contends that we are educating children out of their creativity; and representatives of the Cultural District of Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi, now becoming an international cultural destination. Sponsored by the Centre of Expertise on Culture and Communities at Simon Fraser University and the City of Ottawa.

Creative Defiance
Web site of Zimbabwean graphic designer Chaz Maviyane-Davies in which he uses advertising startegies and techniques to take on issues of consumerism, health, nutrition, social responsibility, the environment and human rights.

Creative Economy Resource Center
Research tool offering summaries of state arts-agency initiatives, policy rationales and roles; tips from arts agency staff; links to impacts of arts research; scholarship, critical discourse and advocacy materials; key statistics about the arts and the economy; Quotable Quotes. By National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (formerly for members only).

Creative Exchange
Alliance of organizations and individuals using culture and creativity in development and empowerment internationally; claims to be "the only NGO worldwide expressly dedicated to this field."

Creative Industries 2005: The Congressional Report
Tracks and maps the presence of these arts-related entities in six creative industries. Find arts-centric businesses represent 4.4 percent of all businesses and 2.2 percent of all U.S.jobs and are present in all 435 Congressional districts. Written, published by Americans for the Arts, 2005.

Creative Industries: Business & Employment in the Arts
Annual study using a research-based approach to understanding the scope and importance of the arts to the U.S. economy. First national study that encompasses both nonprofit and for-profit arts industry. Uses Dun & Bradstreet data about employment and the number of arts-centric businesses, focusing solely on businesses involved in production or distribution of the arts; excludes computer programming and scientific research and other industries not focused on the arts. Web site features mechanisms to search data by state, Congressional district and city. Written, published by Americans for the Arts, established 2008.

Creative Longevity and Wisdom Initiative
Supports research and professional practice in creative aging. Launched in 2004 at Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, Calif.

Creative Time
New York City-based nonprofit organization that commissions and presents adventurous public arts projects of all disciplines.

Creative Visions Foundation
Supports "creative activists -- social entrepreneurs working in media, the arts, and technology to inform, inspire and empower others to create positive action throughout the world." Mentoring, skill building, networking, seed funding, grants, fiscal sponsorship, outreach materials to raise social awareness and catalyze action of social, humantarian and environmental issues. Creative Activists Sponsorship Program, Creative Activists Network for Change, Creative Activists Network Education Program, Dan Eldon Traveling Exhibition "Images of War, Celebrations of Peace." Founded 1998 by Kathy and Amy Eldon in honor of late artist/activist Dan Eldon.

Creative Works Studio
Fully resourced art studio providing skill development, support and vocational opportunities for people living with a mental illness. Provides mentorship and work opportunities. Facilitated by the Inner City Health Program of St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada, in partnership with Good Shepard Non Profit Housing and the Ontario Trillium Foundation.

CreativeChange WorldWide
Publication focusing on arts, culture and development issues. Defines "creative social entrepreneurs and enterprises"; touches on challenges, advancements and trends relating to creative-development sector. Reports outcomes of international online survey/study conducted by Art4Development.Net. Lists online and offline collaborative programs aligned with objectives of the CreativeChange project. Available for sale online as .pdf. Written, published by Art For Global Development, 2006.

Creativity Discovery Corps
Program of Center on Aging, Health & Humanities at George Washington University Medical Center. Identifies and provides visibility for elders doing creative work; identifies and disseminates best practices in creative aging; organizes exhibitions, sponsors events. Founded 1997 by Gene Cohen and Barbara Soniat.

Creativity Explored
San Francisco galleries showing work by 100 artists with developmental disabilities. Online gallery, store.

Creativity Matters: The Arts and Aging Toolkit
Detailed advice on design, implementation and evaluation of professionally led, participatory arts programs for older adults. Written by Johanna Misey Boyer; published by National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts, National Center for Creative Aging and New Jersey Performing Arts Center, 2007. (Available free online.)

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.

Critical Breakdown
Hip-hop activist program committed to engaging young people in social change. Based in Boston, Mass., and supported by American Friends Service Committee. Monthly open mics, conferences, participation in rallies, protests and marches

Critical Evidence: How the Arts Benefit Student Achievement
Study pointing to strong relationships between learning in the arts and fundamental cognitive skills and capacities used in mastering other school subjects, including reading, writing and mathematics. Written by Sandra S. Ruppert; published by National Assembly of State Arts Agencies in collaboration with Arts Education Partnership, 2006.

Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development
Compendium of research studies about learning in the arts. Examines cognitive practices, motivation, academic development and more provide multiple kinds of evidence and support for the importance and unique position of arts in children's learning. Written, published by Arts Education Partnership, 2002.

Cross Cultural Collaborative
Educational nonprofit that invites people to Ghana to promote cultural exchange and understanding through the arts. Multigenerational and multicultural collaborations ranging from mosaic walls to documentary films. ABA House research center and meeting place for exhibits, community-based art workshops, performances, conferences, classes about cultural awareness and appreciation. Based in suburb of Accra.

CrossConnections
Project engaging the Iranian and Iranian-American Diasopra community in intergenerational, creative dialogue about cultural identity, preservation and representation. Led artist Taraneh Hemami and scholar Persis Karim; based at Center for Art and Public Life, California College of the Arts (2005-6).

Crossing Sector Boundaries
Annotated list of books, speeches, essays, interviews, case studies and reports on how "traditional sectors are changing to facilitate an interdependent world." Part of the Creative Communities Web site. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Crossover: How Artists Build Careers across Commercial, Non-profit and Community Work
Study showing fine artists are increasingly contributing their talents to for-profit projects, such as advertising and graphic design. Based on interviews with artists in Los Angeles and San Francisco, Calif. Offers recommendations on how the arts sector can emulate the coalitions being built in the high-tech and healthcare industries. Written by Ann Markusen, published by University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute, 2006.

Crossover: How Artists Build Careers across Commercial, Nonprofit and Community Work
Defines "artist"; gives statistics of time artists spend in various sectors; measures income by share vs. time spent; calculates likelihood of artist crossover if money were not an issue; ranks value of artistic development across sectors; makes recommendations for removal of barriers to crossover for artists, educaitonal and training institutions, artists' service organizations, employers and trade associations, nonprofit and community organizations, funders, media, government agencies, arts advocacy groups, sector leaders and managers. Written by Ann Markusen, Sam Gilmore, Amanda Johnson, Titus Levi and Andrea Martinez; published 2006 by Regional and Industrial Economics, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota.

Crossroads Project for Art, Learning and Community
Helps students, artists, educators and community groups plan, implement and evaluate effective community-based arts projects. Uses the interdisciplinary framework CRAFT (Contact, Research, Action, Feedback, Teaching). Based in New Orleans, La. Project director is Mat Schwarzman.

Cry of the Rooster Theater
Seattle-based performing arts collective using puppets, music in provocative presentations of world folklore; organized high-school students for the 1999 Seattle demonstration against the World Trade Organization.

CubaNow.net
Cuban digital magazine of arts and culture.

Cuentos Foundation
Chicago neighborhood-based arts organization and "think-tank," interdisciplinary and cross-cultural. International Youth Exchange Program, community-organized art & culture celebrations; heritage traditional dance series; La Seguridad/survivors of domestic violence collective art project; public art: murals, performances; pen-pal relationships; youth video; video documentary; international exhibitions; artist workshops/residencies; teacher training programs; publications; international summer intern program.

Cultural Agents Initiative
Network of academics, artists and administrators promoting creativity as a foundation of democracy. Scholarly conferences, graduate student workshops, publications, antidiscrimination theater, courses, development of sites for cultural internships, and creation of a global network of practitioners. Based at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Cultural Arts Coalition
Networking group based in Phoenix, Ariz., with the mission of "identifying, supporting, promoting, celebrating, and documenting those community arts practices that stimulate social awareness and honor diverse cultural values, and develop the critical thinking skills necessary to be creative and solve problems." Provides space and opportunities, regular meetings, forums, connections, documentation, publications and Guiding Arts Practices developed in a public participation process involving artists, educators and community activists during 2005-2006 in Arizona.

Cultural Equity Group
Coalition of cultural arts organizations and artists working for equitable distribution of funds and resources to under-resourced and underserved emerging and mid-sized organizations grounded in the culture and arts of their communities. Objective: to stabilize the field, providing necessary technical assistance and program management resources to assure continued growth of the cultural arts field.

Cultural Heritage Tourism
Electronic clearinghouse for cultural-heritage tourism practitioners. Managed by National Trust for Historic Preservation. Guiding principles, how-to steps, success stories, key state contacts, national resources for funding and technical assistance.

Cultural Information and Research Centers Liaison in Europe
CIRCLE: Network dedicated to developing cultural policy models for Europe. Includes RECAP (Resources for Cultural Policy in Europe, network of documentation centers) and CIPRO (Cultural Policy Research Online, database of studies.

Cultural Odyssey
Arts organization run by artists Idris Ackamoor, producer of San Francisco's African American Performance Festival, and Rhodessa Jones, director of the Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women. Offers training in community arts techniques.

Cultural Participation Survey 1998
Evaluation of Wallace Foundation Community Partnerships for Cultural Participation (CPCP) initiative. Measures cultural participation of individuals in Kansas City and northern California counties. By Urban Institute, 1998.

Cultural Policy and the Arts National Data Archive (CPANDA)
Database collaboration between Princeton University's Firestone Library and its Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies. "An interactive digital archive of data on the arts and cultural policy in the U.S., available for research and statistical analysis, with data on artists, arts and cultural organizations, audiences, and funding for arts and culture." Raw data, research resources, "quick facts" on artists, arts organizations, audiences and support for arts. By Firestone Library and Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, Princeton University (Princeton University, 2002-present).

Cultural Policy of Non-Western Countries
Series of profiles (by country) on increasing number of governments that recognize the importance of culture in itself and in connection to social and economic development. Profiles on Cuba, Jamaica, Vietnam, Thailand, Bangladesh, Senegal, African Union, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique, Namibia, Angola, Nigeria, more. By the Power of Culture, Netherlands.

Cultural Re-Use Research Collaborative
Organization doing practical interdisciplinary work on study and practice of "cultural re-use and re-generation." Based at Columbia College Chicago. Focused on ways objects, traditions, histories, neighborhoods and actions are creatively utilized in novel ways (recycled, reinterpreted, reincorporated, re-purposed, reinvented, repaired). Workshops, colloquia, curriculum development. Projects: Re-Cyclone (Columbia students with FreeStreet Programs) on recycling theater materials; CASCADE 2004/5 (English students with London East Research Institute and Lee Valley Authority) on environmental impact of a London 2012 Olympics.

Cultural Vitality in Communities: Interpretation and Indicators
Monograph in Urban Institute’s Arts and Culture Indicators Project. Introduces a widened definition of "cultural vitality" as "evidence of creating, disseminating, validating, and supporting arts and culture as a dimension of everyday life in communities." Broadens "participation" to encompass festival making, amateur arts practice and public validation and discussion of cultural practices in many forms, including print, the Web and arts education (in-school and after-school). Engages "a more diverse and powerful set of stakeholders," including people who are not arts "experts" or professionals. The authors believe this wider view compels policymakers, funder and administrators to change the way they think about culture. Written by Maria-Rosario Jackson, Florence Kabwasa-Green and Joaquin Herranz; published by Urban Institute, 2006.

Culture Builds Community
Project evaluation of Culture Builds Communities in Philadelphia, a Pennsylvania grant program that funded small arts organizations and artists involved in neighborhood revitalization. Study used financial indicators, class registration statistics, population changes and long-term maintenance of relationships to evaluate success of the program. Findings: 1) strengthening cultural sector has net positive results in community; (2) sustaining a cultural sector depends on recognizing and supporting networks of key actors, including community-based artists, for-profit cultural firms, informal cultural organizations, and related nonarts organizations. By Susan Seifert and Mark Stern (Social Impact of the Arts Project, School of Social Work, University of Pennsylvania, 2002).

Culture Shapes Communities
Umbrella theme for exploring impact and potential of cultural-based organizations in underserved neighborhoods and communities nationwide. Includes "Shifting Sands Communities - Art, Culture & Neighborhood Change" granting initiative. By Partners for Livable Communities & Ford Foundation.

Culture and Commerce: The Traditional Arts and Economic Development
Study examines and measures impact of pilot partnership project between regional economic-development organizations and traditional artists and arts organizations. Shows proven effect of these partnerships on sustainability and economic impact, particularly if supported long-term. Lists potential sources of funding. By Chris Walker, Maria Jackson, Carole Rosenstein (The Urban Institute, 2003).

Culture for Development (C4D)
Online information portal on the role of culture for development, both as a concept and development tool, with particular focus on museums, theater and cultural heritage in developing countries.

Culture pour tous
Culture for All, independent nonprofit organization whose mission is to "contribute to the democratization of culture in Quebec," Canada. Projects: annual event, Journées de la culture; the Cultural Logbook, a learning tool for schools; Intercultural Encounters, an initiative to enhance the profile of professional artists from immigrant communities); conferences known as La Rencontre; and community art projects such as The Convertibles and Art at work.

Culture, Arts and Refugees
Web site hosting materials about the role of arts and culture in the inclusion and integration of refugees and asylum seekers. Executive Summary, Case Studies, Video Clips and contacts from "A Sense of Belonging," research project 2005. Project of U.K.-based Creative Exchange: Network for Culture and Development.

Culture.mondo
Informal network that encourages and facilitates communication among experts responsible for creating, developing and maintaining "cultural portals"{ worldwide. Gateway to cultural portals; repository of resources and research. Based in Canada.

Culture.mondo Surveys on Cultural Portals
Results from annual surveys elicting information on structure, management, geography, budget, demographics, audiences, services, content and performance measurements portals worldwide. Written by Decima Research,;published by Culture.mondo beginning 2005.

CultureLink Network
The Network of Networks for Research and Cooperation in Cultural Development, established by UNESCO and the Council of Europe in 1989. Culturelink Database on cultural development institutions/networks worldwide: objectives, publications, activities, international cooperation. Also Cultural Policy Database.

CultureWork
Periodic Broadside for Arts and Culture Workers from the Institute for Community Arts Studies in the Arts Administration Program at University of Oregon.

CultureWorks Collective
Large coalition of artists, activists and organizations that advocates for the arts among progressive organizations, provides training to utilize art in any campaign. Street theater, agitprop art, zipper songs, movement songs, songs about specific issues, murals, films. Web site has case studies.

Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy
"The first university-based policy program to fully engage the American cultural policy system." At Vanderbilt University.

Cuyahoga Valley Environmental Education Center
Environmental Center at Cuyahoga Vallery National Park with model artist residency program to promote environmental literacy.

Cycle Circus
Touring group of puppeteers, circus performers, bicycle builders and educators traveling by bicycle to create community events for social change. Festivals, street performances, college residencies. Collaborations with community gardens, Mexican workers associations, refugee camps.

DAH Theatre Research Center
Arts center in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro. "A place that can empower people in facing the difficulties of society in transition." Home of DAH Teatar.

DC Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative
Grassroots community-based organization in Washington, D.C., founded in 1998 by representatives from DC Public Schools, arts organizations and charitable enterprises to connect arts activities to school curriculum, especially schools in low-income neighborhoods. Programs; Arts for Every Student, Professional Development Initiatives, Artss Education Initiative. Grantee of Ford Foundation's "Integrating the Arts And Education Reform" program.

Dana Foundation
Private philanthropic organization with interests in brain science, immunology and arts education. Grants program, publications, newsletter (Arts Education in the News). A Cross-Sector Resource.

Dance Mission Theater
San Francisco-based organization including Dance Brigade, a six-member professional women's socio-political, dance-theater and drumming company; annual events showcasing emerging and established Bay Area choreographers; instructional dance program serving adults and youth; 140-seat Dance Mission Theater; rentals. Includes GRRRL Brigade, a dance, theater and taiko drumming company for girls ages 13 and up; and Junior GRRRL Brigade for ages 9-12; both perform regularly in Bay Area for school assemblies, demonstrations, conferences. Also GRRRLs Dance Camp, summers.

Dance4Life
International collaborative youth project against HIV/AIDS. Culminates in young people dancing nonstop for five hours worldwide on Saturday preceding World AIDS Day (December 1). Part of World AIDS Campaign supported by UNAIDS.

DanceArts Vancouver
Performing arts organization with projects for social change called Earth, Fire and Ice. Special focus on teens, environment. Directed by Judith Marcuse.

Danville Project
Artist-led redesign of Hwy. 2 by citizens of Danville, Vt.

De-ba-jeh-mu-jig Theatre Group
Professional, community based, theater in Northern Ontario, Canada, dedicated to the vitalization of the Anishnaabeg culture, language and heritage. National Aboriginal Arts Animator Program offers theater training, with special program to help those who wish to return to their own communities to work.

Dead Man Walking School Theatre Project
Offers stage rights to Tim Robbins' play "Dead Man Walking" to high schools and colleges who agree to incorporate the issue of the death penalty into their curriculum in two academic departments. Web site offers dozens of tools for play production and discourse on the subject, including a blog, on-campus initiatives, local outreach and national and regional links. An initiative of the Death Penalty Discourse Network.

Deep Dish TV
Activist, progressive TV network that assembles material from independent producers and transmits it to community TV stations and home dish owners. Includes Webcasts and arts shows.

Defining the Creative Economy: Industry and Occupational Approaches
Reviews conceptual and operational issues in defining the creative sector and its arts and cultural core. Using three pioneering cultural economy studies, each driven by distinctive policy agendas and constituencies, shows how the use of employment data by industry, firm and occupation affects the resulting size and content of the cultural economy. Shows that the Boston metro’s creative economy varies in size from less than 1% of its workforce to 49%, the latter using Richard Florida’s creative class, although most cultural definitions range from 1% to 4%. Explores how policymakers can use a combination of methods to produce a richer characterization of the regional cultural economy. Written by Ann Markusen, Gregory Wassall, Doug DeNatale and Randy Cohen; published in 2008 in Economic Development Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 1: 24-45. [268]

Dell'Arte Players
Home of Dell'Arte Players, Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre, Mad River Festival and Education Through Art. Located in Blue Lake, Calif., and devoted to development of "Theatre of Place." Offers training in community arts techniques.

Democracy Onstage
Ford Foundation report on the work of Augusto Boal and Theatre of the Oppressed in Brazil. By NYTimes writer Christopher Reardon, 2001.

Design & Society
Program of the RSA (the U.K.'s Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce). Urges designers to demonstrate how the insights and processes of design can increase the resourcefulness of people and communities. Blog by Emily Campbell, RSA's director of design.

Design Corps
Design nonprofit whose mission is "to create positive change in communities by providing architecture and planning services." Recent architecture and planning graduates provide design and technical assistance to small rural communities composed of low-income families, allowing communities to shape their physical environment. Co-hosts annual conference addressing design for the underserved, Structures for Inclusion. Based in Raleigh, N.C.

Designing the Arts Learning Community: a Handbook for K-12 Professional Development Planners
Guide to designing arts education professional development for K-12 classroom teachers. Includes searchable database of 50 arts learning communities across U.S. Handbook is downloadable. Project of Los Angeles County Arts Commission, San Francisco Arts Commission and Santa Clara County Office of Education

Development Training Institute
Real-estate and neighborhood economic-development training and leadership development; consulting, grants, Knowledgeplex. Based in Maryland. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Digital Clubhouse Network
Public learning centers in Silicon Valley and New York City developing new ways of using information technology to enrich K-12 education and lifelong learning.

Digital Storytelling Association
International membership organization dedicated to evolving the practice of digital storytelling by providing services, advocacy, resources and information

Disability in the Arts, Disadvantage in the Arts Australia
National membership network for disability arts in Australia. Newsletter, publications, accessibility issues.

Discovering Your Community through Oral History
"E-Seminar 1, How to Create a Community Oral-History Project." An online seminar from Columbia Interactive. Taught by Mary Marshall Clark, director of Columbia University Oral History Office, "the world's first official oral-history archive." How to do an oral-history interview and organize/operate a project. Includes audio and text examples. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Documentary Gallery of Student Action with Farmworkers
Project of Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies and Student Action with Farmworks (SAF). whose mission is to bring students and farmworkers together to learn about each other's lives, share resources and skills, improve conditions for farmworkers, and build diverse coalitions working for social change. Gallery exhibits online.

Documenting the Arts: A Practical Handbook for Cultural Organizations
To help small and medium-sized organizations develop written and audiovisual documentation of their work. Downloadable from New England Foundation for the Arts.

Downside UP
Documentary film about the changes in North Adams, Mass., resulting from the opening of MASS MoCA. By Nancy Kelly, No. Adams native.

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.

DreamYard
Arts-in-education organization that integrates the arts into the curricula of elementary, middle and high school students. Largest arts-education provider in the Bronx, N.Y. In-school, after-school, weekend and summer programs, family projects. Site has lesson plans and Lesson Plan Planning Guide. Gallery exhibitions, poetry slams & festivals, ACTION (Arts Community Teams In Our Neighborhood) Projects.

Drik
Bangladesh-based organization supporting photographers, journalists and media artists "who challenge the hegemony of Western media."

E-race
Qualitative and quantitative examination of the goals and objectives of "e-race," a performance and dialigue project by MISCELLANEOUS Productions of Richmond, B.C., Canada. Charts the project's exploration of youth's obsession with "speed," investigating growth and integration of cast members and audiences' reaction to the live performance and attitudinal changes over time. Written by Tristin Wayte and George Tien; published by MISCELLANEOUS Productions, 2005.

EGG the arts show
PBS TV arts series, with "eggsite," companion Web site with interactive pieces about artists/work in the series; See and Do USA database clearinghouse for U.S. arts happenings; "Egg on the Arts" discussion forum.

Early Childhood Interventions: Proven Results, Future Promise
Study reviewing findings of rigorous evaluations of 20 early-childhood intervention programs, including home visiting, parent education and early childhood education. Benefits to society, they say, can be measured not just in terms of educational attainment but also in earnings and crime reduction. Study puts $$ value on social benefits. Written by Lynn A. Karoly, M. Rebecca Kilburn, Jill S. Cannon, James H. Bigelow, and Rachel Christina; published by RAND Corporation, 2005.

Earth Celebrations
Preserving the gardens of New York through art and community action.

Earth Matters on Stage
Program of Department of Theatre Arts, University of Oregon. Mission: "to nurture connection and collaboration among artists who share an ecological sensibility." Produces Ecodrama Playwrights Festival and Symposium on Ecology and Performance 9with lay competition). Web site defines ecodrama, features curriculum suggestions,

East Cumbria Countryside Project
rural management agency in northwest England. Works to create a diverse and thriving rural area, high quality landscape and wildlife, recreational access, regeneration based on sustainable management of natural resources. Includes Andy Goldworthy's Sheepfolds Sculture Trail and a Poetry Path by local poet Meg Peacocke and stone lettering artist Pip Hall.

Ecoart Network
Listerv for network of professionals dedicated to the practices of ecological art. Founded 1998 by Lynne Hull, Don Krug, Baile Oaks, Aviva Rahmani, and Susan Steinman. Members in U.S., Canada, Europe, India, Africa and the Middle East. Resource list, news of member activities.

Ecotopia
Annual gathering of activists from all over Europe involved or interested in environmental and social-justice issues. Every summer since 1989, each year in a different country. Organized by EYFA (European Youth For Action) and by a local grassroots environmental organisation as host organisation. Meetings are "horizontally and self-organized." A Cross-Sector Resource.

Ecovention: Current Art to Transform Ecologies
Online text of book by Sue Spaid, published in conjunction with 2002 exhibit she and Amy Lipton curated at Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio. Explores artist's role in ecological issues and environmental justice.

Edible Estates
Artist Fritz Haeg's "attack on the American front lawn and everything it has come to represent." Three-year project to replace front lawns with vegetabel gardens in nine location across the U.S., starting in Salina, Kansas, in 2005.

Education Through Music
Promote integration of music into curricula of disadvantaged schools to enhance academic performance and general development. Forms long-term partnerships with New York City elementary schools that lack the resources to develop school-wide music programs; ensures high-quality instruction by hiring qualified teaching artists, providing ongoing training, and performing regular program assessments.

Education Through Music -- Los Angeles
Promotes and supports music instruction in disadvantaged schools to enhance academic performance and general development. Founded in 2006, first affiliate music education program based on the ETM® model in New York City.

Educational Video Center
Nonprofit youth media organization teaching documentary video as means to develop artisitic, critical literacy and career skills. Core programs: Documentary Workshop, YO-TV (Youth Organizers TV), Teacher Development Program, Community Engagement. EVC youth-produced documentaries have been broadcast on the NBC, ABC and PBS TV networks and have won more than 100 awards, including an Emmy. Founded 1984 as video class for teenagers in a Lower East Side (N.Y.C.) alternative high school.

El Arte Alliance
Coalition of teachers, artists, schools and community organizations in southwest Detroit, Mich., using arts to teach core curriculum, K-12. Parents Program, in- and after-school programs. Lessons online.

El Museo del Barrio
Founded 30 years ago by Puerto Rican educators, artists, social and political activists leaders of East Harlem's El Barrio in New York to preserve and reflect their cultural heritage. Exhibitions, collections, education programs, shop.

El Puente
Community human-rights institution in north Brooklyn. N.Y., that promotes "leadership for peace and justice through the engagement of members (youth and adult) in the arts, education, scientific research, wellness and environmental action." ,Programs: Center for Arts and Culture, Community Health and Environment Institute, three neighborhood Leadership Centers, El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice (high school).

El Taller Latino Americano
The Latin American Workshop, a nonprofit arts-and-education organization founded in New York City in 1979 to "bridge the distance between Latin Americans and North Americans through the language of art and the art of language." Conversation-focused Spanish classes, cross-cultural music program, Artist Bureau offering services, translation and interpretation services, cultural consulting. Founder/director: Bernardo Palombo.

El Teatro Campesino
Chicano Farmworkers Theater, organized in 1965 to support Cesar Chavez's farmworkers movement in California. Newsletter, store, history.

Eldergivers
Nonprofit that hires professional artists to conduct regular classes for the isolated elderly at nursing homes and care facilities in the San Francisco Bay Area, then exhibits the art at museums, galleries and other public locations.

Elderhostel
Offers art history tours and hands-on instruction for seniors in a variety of mediums.

Elders Share the Arts
Intergenerational N.Y.-based organization with community-based programs. Living History Arts Festival, Legacy Art Works. Founded by Susan Perlstein. Offers training in community atrs techniques.

Electronic Cafe International
"The planet's oldest multiple-media cyber-venue, artist-run cyber-cafe network producing realtime networked collaborative multimedia environments with 40 global affiliates."

Eloquent Evidence: The Arts at the Core of Learning
Summarizes evidence from research studies demonstrating impact and importance of learning in the arts, including Garner's multiple intelligences and research demonstrating that students of art routinely outperform other students on the SAT. Written, published by National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, 1995.

Embody Peace
Web site connecting organizations and individuals who engage in peace making through "the Embodied Arts, Movement and Body Awareness." Founded by Martha Eddy, Bennington College.

Emergence Community Arts Collective
Nonprofit organization fostering a spirit of community in the Pleasant Plains neighborhood of Washington, D.C., through social activities, traditional arts classes, support groups and educational seminars. Walking club, mentoring program, field trips, family night, food co-op, garden club, neighborhood cleanup.

Emergency Exit Arts
U.K.-based team of artists producing celebratory events: spectacular performances, fireworks, arts-in-education and community-arts events, processions, character walks, street bands, floats.

Empowered Women International
Nonprofit organization in Alexandria, Va., that uses the arts and world cultures to give voice to immigrant and refugee women and families living in America. Targets skilled and talented immigrant women who use the arts and creative processes to build careers and leadership skills. Founded 2002 by Romanian immigrant Marga C. Fripp. Entrepreneurial training, monthly presentations, galleries, store, newsletter.

Empowerment Project
Community-based video resource service and documentary filmmaking organization based in Chapel Hill, N.C.; Oscar-winner for "The Panama Deception."

Encounters
Participatory-arts organization based in Sheffield, England. Takes up residence in disused shops working with local people and visitors to create multi-authored artworks exploring the themes of people, place and community. Also delivers mobile shop projects that tour to different locations within a neighbourhood. Interactive performances, creative solutions to community engagement and involvement. Founded April 2003 by Ruth Ben-Tovim and Trish O’Shea, Sheffield-based interdisciplinary artists.

Engaged Art Network
Online social network for sharing ideas, information and resources on "engaged art" practices. Originated with the 2007 Art of Engagement Conference by Canada's Islands Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies.

English National Youth Arts Network (ENYAN)
Membership organization creating connections in the English youth arts sector at national, regional and grassroots levels. News and events information, job vacancies listings, blogs, youth arts campaigns, training courses & publication, e-bulletin, research, advice and guidance, publications.

Environmental Art Society
A new environmental art site in the Netherlands. Text is only in Danish. Plenty of photos.

Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital
Annual showcase for environmental films. Presented annually in Washington, D.C, in collaboration with 101 local, national and global organizations. Films are screened at 52 venues throughout D.C., including museums, embassies, libraries, universities, local theaters. Web site features Green Film Forum where media artists can submit short environmental films or learn about environmental filmmaking. Short films are online.

Erica Felder
Eco-artist working on ecosystem knowledge and interface on a personal and community scale.

Escape Artists
U.K. arts-and-education charity established 1996. Company works in prisons, young offender institutions, schools, hospices and mental-healthcare centers. Provides artist training in arts and social inclusion. Matches artists and their unique skills with the right client group, facilitates and supports continued work opportunities in the sector.

Esperanza Center
Progressive San Antonio-based grassroots cultural organization, advocating for people of color, women, lesbians and gay men, working class and poor; founded in 1987 by Latina women. Offers training in community arts techniques.

Euclid International
Research organization based in U.K.; numerous free tools for cultural research, including ACRONIM, a database of thousands of books, reports, journal, articles, conference papers, post-graduate theses.

Even Exchange Dance Theater
Modern dance company based in Raleigh, N.C. Wide variety of community residencies and projects.

Evoking History: Listening Across Cultures and Communities
Community projects by visual and performing artists in exploration of Charleston, S.C., past and present. Curated by Mary Jane Jacob and Tumelo Mosaka for Spoleta USA 2001.

Exiled Writers Ink
Based in London, England. Facilitates dissemination of work by writers in exile and refugees, and act as a pressure group against racism and the abuse of human rights worldwide. Monthly Poetry Café, readings, seminars, workshops, conferences, interactive performances, festivals, publications, translations, collaborations, school programs. Exiled Ink magazine.

FADO Performance
Canadian artist-run "centre without walls," producing public art and performances exploring regional geography and identity, like performances with community choirs in Toronto's subways, and in slum apartments in gentrifying neighborhoods.

FLUX Art Space
Presents and exhibits digital art works and interdisciplinary projects by established and emerging artists, "providing an artistic forum for underprivileged and underexposed sections of multicultural communities in New York City."

Facing History and Ourselves
International educational and professional-development organization helping teachers lead students in a critical examination of history, with particular focus on genocide and mass violence. Founded 1976 by teacher Margot Stern Strom. Publications and Resources; Pedagogy Research and Development (new scholarship, partnerships and pilot projects); Community Engagement (opportunities for discussion/reflection on civic engagement, individual/collective responsibility and tolerance); Special Initiatives include the arts. Seminars, workshops, community events, lending library. Interactive student Web site :“Be the Change: Upstanders for Human Rights.” Organization has an online campus and a new public high school in NYC.

Fair Use Tool Kit
Compendium of information about "fair use": "The right, in some circumstances, to quote copyrighted material without asking permission or paying for it. It is a crucial feature of copyright law and what keeps copyright from being censorship. You can invoke fair use when the value to the public of what you are saying outweighs the cost to the private owner of the copyright." By Center for Social Media at American University.

Fairmount Park Art Association
"First private, nonprofit organization dedicated to integrating public art and urban planning" in U.S.; based in Philadelphia. Pa.

Faith Quilts Project
Project by 38 lead quilters working with single-faith communities and multifaith and interfaith groups on 57 faith quilts that hang permanently in churches, mosques, temples, synagogues and community centers in the Greater Boston area. Site includes photos and copious details on each quilt. ADDENDUM: This link takes you to a research report on the project. Faith Quilts Web site appears inactive.

Fallen Leaves Community Theatre
Grassroots community-based theater made by recovering drug users and people living with HIV/AIDS. Founded 2004, the first of its kind in Malaysia, through the collaboration of Cloudbreak Studio and a drug rehabilitation center initiated by Alex Arokiam to run drama therapy sessions for residents. Work ranges from from drama/art therapy to devised work and Augusto Boal’s Forum Theatre. Touring schools, social centers, prisons and factories to create dialogues on social issues since 2008. Based in Batu Arang.

Fanlight Productions
Distributor of innovative film and video works on the social issues, including disability and the arts. Search catalog for "Changing Identities: A Story of Traumatic Injury and Art," "The Healing Arts: A New Pathway to Health," "Key Changes," "Outsider," "Multiple," "Mister Spazzman," "Phoenix Dance," "When Billy Broke his Head," "White Cane and Wheels." Sales and rentals.

Federal Resource Guide Series for Arts Organizations
List of guides produced by the federal government (with links). Includes guides to the arts and: national service, rural development, National Endowment for the Humanities, arts education, military base closings, the Transportation Enhancement Program, the Community Development Block Grant Program, the Arts Exchanges on International Issues Program, earmarks for cultural agencies and institutions and more. Published by Americans for the Arts.

Feral Arts
Based in Brisbane, Australia, using new media for community cultural development. "Placeworks" project enables communities to share histories online. Online "globosaurus.net" project for community cultural workers responding to impacts of global development.

Feria Urbana
Urban fair celebrating indie artists and designers in San Francisco, Calif.

Fighting Poverty: Utilizing Community Media in a Digital Age
Downloadable publication with articles, audio and video documents by practitioners, decision makers and scholars on concrete examples of the role of community media in development. Published by World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Division for Communication Development of UNESCO and Communication for Social Change Consortium, 2008.

Film Aid International
Nonprofit organization that screens films for inspiration and information to refugees and displaced people and their host communities in Kenya, Tanzania, Macedonia, Afghanistan and Louisiana. Feature films and information on conflict prevention, human rights, HIV/AIDS and gender-based violence. Screenings held in community centers, schools, hospitals and infant feeding centers on teenage pregnancy, reproductive health and education for girls. Participatory Video Project helps youth tell their own stories. Founded during 1999 Kosovar refugee crisis by filmmaker Caroline Baron after learning the most prevalent problem among refugees was psychological trauma and hopelessness.

Final Report: Satisfaction and Outcomes Assessment, Hospital Artist-in-Residence Program
Evaluation demonstrates hospital artist-in-residence program is highly successful in relieving patient anxiety, reducing job burdens on caregivers and potentially increasing patient willingness to talk about their condition and treatment options. Written, published by The Creative Center: Arts for People with Cancer, 2002.

Finding Our Folk
National partnership of artists and organizations seeking to raise voices of 2005 Hurricane Katrina's survivors. "Finding Our Folk" tour (2006 ) by high-school and college students to survivor's locations. Workshops related to Katrina: Documentation (for people displaced); Education (about circumstances before, during and after); Healing (confronting trauma); Organizing (what is actionable), especially among young people. Projects: People's Hurricane Relief Fund, Katrina Quilt, Database and GIS Maps of displaced individuals, performances and celebrations of Gulf Coast region.

First Exposures: Youth Opportunities through Photography (FX)
S.F. Camerawork mentoring program for students ages 11 - 18 are recruited from local agencies serving young people with backgrounds of foster care, homelessness or low-income living situations. Online gallery, public billboard project, Photo Safari field trips, cultural exchange with youth in Ghana. Initiated at Eye Gallery in 1993, developed by S.F. Camerawork 1996.

First People's Fund
Provides "support and voice to the creative Indigenous artists who share their inspiration, wisdom, knowledge and gifts with their communities." Annual Community Spirit Awards, Artists in Business Leadership Program, Cultural Capital Grant Fellowship. Based in Rapid City, South Dakota.

Flint Youth Theatre
Program of Flint, Mich., Community School District and resident company of Bower Theater in Flint Cultural Center. Community-created new works on social issues, intergenerational programming, drama school, Learning Through Theater for school audiences.

Florida Center for Creative Aging
Center within the Florida Policy Exchange Center on Aging at the School of Aging Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, University of South Florida, Lakeland. Advocates for quality arts programs as essential to well being; recommends programs; promotes best practices and affordability, availability and accessibility of arts and humanities services and products for older adults through professional development; serves as clearinghouse for information exchange and resources on arts, humanities and aging; supports research and policy development. Member of National Center for Creative Aging Network.

Florida Film Institute
Organization based in North Miami, teaching filmmaking to children in schools and community centers. Mentored over 4,200 middle and high-school students in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties since 1992.

Fluid Movement
Community performance group in Baltimore, Md.

Focus on Coexistence and the Arts
Focus paper discussing the ways artistic & cultural work and "coexistence" theory & practices are complementary and mutually enhancing. Presents examples of effective and innovative arts-and-culture- based peacebuilding efforts, ranging from grassroots artist-peacebuilder collaborations to official efforts that have effectively integrated creative approaches. Raises questions for practitioners, offers recommendations to policymakers, and points to resources for further exploration. Written by Lesley Yalen and Cynthia Cohen. Published by Coexistence International, a program based at Brandeis University’s International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life, July 2007 (online).

Folk Alliance International
Membership organization that fosters and promotes traditional, contemporary and multicultural folk music and dance and related performing arts. Education, networking, advocacy, professional and field development. Annual conference, listserv, business directory, newsletter. Based in Memphis, Tenn.; six regional affiliates.

Fostering Dialogue Across Divides: A Nuts and Bolts Guide from the Public Conversations Project
Describes the Public Conversation Project's core principles and practices, offers advice about working with conveners and planning committees and provides step-by-step suggestions for multisession and single-session dialogues. Includes sample formats, sample invitations and suggested questions on topics including abortion, Arab-Jewish and interfaith relations, sexual orientation and church scripture, and the red-blue divide in the U.S. By Maggie Herzig and Laura Chasin.

Foundation Center
"Your gateway to philanthropy on the WWW." Information about raising funds through foundations. Foundation finder, online librarian, newsletters, learning lab.

Foundation for Community Dance
National development agency for community dance in U.K. Projects, conferences, seminars, advice service, two regular journals.

Fountainhead: Black International Cinema
International, intercultural organization based in Berlin, Germany, producing annual film festival, weekly television program, publications, cinema distribution, dance theater.

Fractured Atlas Open Arts Network
Nonprofit membership organization that provides services and support to artists and arts organizations. Health insurance, news, community arts events bulletin, member profiles.

Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center
Founded in Harlem, N.Y., 1971, Schulberg and Fred Hudson. Writing classes, after-school program in creative writing and computer literacy for elementary and middle-school students. Produces the annual Black Roots Festival of Poetry, Prose, Drama, and Music.

Free Conference
Free conference alls for businesses, organizations and individuals. All digital, worldwide. Three different modes, one with no computer necessary.

Free Culture
International student movement of creative artists and writers, media activists and civil libertarians with roots in the free software/open source community.

FreeStreet
Focuses on Chicago's marginalized young people, using the performing arts. TeenStreet Theater employs teens to create boundary-breaking theater; Arts Connect trains medical students to provide arts relief for chronically ill children.

Freechild Project
Online clearinghouse of information on youth-led social activism, including the arts.

Freedom Archives
8,000 hours of audio and video recordings documenting social-justice movements in the San Francisco Bay Area, nationally and internationally from the 1960s to the present. Features speeches of movement leaders and community activists, protests and demonstrations, cultural currents of rebellion and resistance. This oral history is in a searchable database. You can download programs and clips. Internships and training programs available.

Freedom Writers Foundation
Nonprofit organization founded in 1997 by Erin Gruwell, dedicated to positively impacting communities by decreasing high-school drop-out rates through replication and enhancement of the Freedom Writers Method. Teacher training through Freedom Writers Institute; scholarship program. Book: "The Freedom Writers Diary" by Gruwell and the Freedom Writers (basis for 2006 Paramount/MTV film).

Freedom of Expression at the NEA
Interdisciplinary curriculum project on art, law and philosophy at Cal State Long Beach with details on funding controversies at the National Endowment for the Arts.

Friends of the Los Angeles River
Organization working to restore L.A.'s urban river to natural state, cofounded by poet Lewis MacAdams.

Friends of the Pleistocene
Project of the nonprofit design studio and art collaborative smudge (smudge studio inc.), based in Red Hook, Brooklyn, N.Y. Projects "respond to conjunctures of landscape and human activity shaped by the geologic epoch of the Pleistocene. ... We study, document, and creatively respond to how the geologic epoch of the Pleistocene continues to shape our daily lives and how humans use Pleistoscene-shaped landforms and environments." Field expeditions and remote residencies; photographic image-sensations; "take away" speculative tools for exploration and cognitive recalibration within the geologic timescale; printed works such as posters, newsprints, booklets, field guides and diary-maps; and informal public education events. Memberships available.

Fringe Benefits
Educational theater group doing diversity work in communities and schools. Alliance of artists, educators, parents, social justice activists and youth. Based in Los Angeles, Calif.

From Reggae to Rachmaninoff: How and Why People Participate in Arts and Culture
Cultural-participation survey in five U.S. communities. Survey data and statistics from all five communities, various participation types and venues. Draws on evidence from the Urban Institute�s evaluation of the Wallace Foundation's Community Partnerships for Cultural Participation initiative. By Chris Walker, Stephanie Scott-Melnyk with Kay Sherwood (Urban Institute and Wallace Foundation, 2002).

Front Porch Institute
Dedicated to exploring role of arts and culture in community-making process rural and small communities. Assists organizations and individuals in understanding their own sense of community and culture. Created by Patrick Overton in 1996.

Full Radius Dance
Atlanta-based modern-dance company including dancers with disabilities. Positive Motion program for children with disabilities.

Fund for Folk Culture
Based in Austin, Texas; supports work of folk and traditional artists and strengthens local, regional and national organizations in the field through grantmaking, convening, research and publications

Futurefarmers
Artist collective working together since 1995. Design studio serves as a platform to support art projects, aritist in residency program and research interests. "We are teachers, researchers, designers, gardeners, scientists, engineers, illustrators, people who know how to sew, cooks and bus drivers with a common interest in creating work that challenges current social, political and economic systems." Based in San Francisco, Calif.

Fête de la Musique
World Music Day, began in France, 1982. Takes place worldwide on June 21, usually the summer solstice. Amateur and professional musicians encouraged to perform in the streets. conceived by French Music and Dance director Maurice Fleuret for Minister of Culture Jack Lang.

GALA Choruses
Membership organization serving the GLBT choral movement through workshops, festivals and ongoing networking and administrative support services. Annual festival, grants, concert calendar, residencies, job bank, publications. Based in Pittsburgh, Pa.

GRACE
Grass Roots Art & Community Effort: nonprofit organization in Vermont dedicated to the discovery, development and promotion of self-taught art since 1975.

GRACE (Grass Roots Art and Community Effort)
Visual art making for elders and other special populations, also participation by the general public. Works in nursing homes, senior meal sites, mental-health centers, artists’ homes, community centers. Founded 1975 at the St. Johnsbury Convalescent Center located in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom by artist Don Sunseri.

GTC Dramatic Dialogues
Chicago-based Intervention theater, using interactive, issue-oriented theater programs to address sexual communication, date rape, racism, sexism, homophobia and substance abuse. (Formerly Gestic Theatre Company.)

Galeria de la Raza
San Francisco, Calif., interdisciplinary Chicano/Latino �space for Art, Thought and Activism."

Galleries of Justice
Museum of the National Centre for Citizenship & the Law (private charity) in Nottingham, England. Key objective: to "Keep Kids Away from Crime and Out of Prison" through experiential leanring in history and citizenship. In historic Lace Market; in use as courts and prisons from 1780s-1980s; court on site since 1375, prison since 1449. Crime & Punishment Tour, HM Prison Service Collection, Narrow Marsh Familiy Activities, school programs.

Gallery 37
Chicago's job-training program for young people, hiring more than 2,600 kids each year as apprentice artists in parks, community centers and schools.

Gas & Electric Arts
Philadelphia-based theater company that offers Boal-technique "Surge" workshops for negotiating conflict and building community, and "Generating: Real Stories Real People" storytelling and wine-tasting events at local restaurant. Founded by Lisa Jo Epstein and David Brown.

Gateless Gate Zen Center
Gainesville, Florida, organization with volunteer programs in 11 state and federal prisons throughout North Central Florida, ranging from local jails to Death Row, where they share their Zen practice. Programs: retreats, book distribution, Spanish/English translations, inmate writings posted on Web (including writing by an executed prisoner), Mind Body Stress Reduction, links to prison activism and the Prison Dharma Network. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Gateway Performance Productions
Innovative Atlanta-based mask theater company directed by Sandra Hughes, with a commitment to theater for youth, arts-in-education and family audiences.

Geese Theater Company (U.S.)
"Drama therapy in criminal justice." Historic company providing training in drama therapy with violent and sex offenders; drama and art work as restorative justice mediators. Projects in seven countries, including Roumania. Founded1980 by John Bergman.

Geese Theatre Company (U.K.)
Prestigious company working within Criminal Justice System. Performances, workshops, groupwork in prisons, special hospitals and probation encouraging self-awareness and exploring change. Founded 1987, based on Geese Theater U.S.A.

George Moses Horton Project
A multidisciplinary project celebrating memory of George Moses Horton, slave who became Poet Laureate of Chatham County, N.C.

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Art and Leadership Program
Santa Fe, N.M.-based art-and-leadership program for local, low-income girls and boys aged 11-13; operates year-round, partnering with public and private schools in the region; annual summer intensive held between June and August. Also Art & Leadership Program for Women series of annual workshops.

Getty
J. Paul Getty Trust high-end site offering a wealth of arts-education tools and information. 200+ video clips related to the Getty's deep online resources. 54,000 pages related to works of art and reports in conservation and art history.

Ghost Nets and Cities and Oceans of If
Artist Aviva Rahmani's project about the interdependence of coastal cities, oceans and wildlands.

Gifts of the Muse: Reframing the Debate About the Benefits of the Arts
Study proposing that advocates become less fixated on what the arts can do for business growth and kids' math and reading scores, and stress intangibles such as enchantment, enlightenment and community building. Written, published by RAND corporation, 2004.

Global Action Project
Media-arts and leadership training for young people living in underserved communities to create media on local and international issues as a catalyst for dialogue and social change.

Global Art Project
Biennial international exchange resulting in thousands of people sending messages of peace and unity around the globe at one time.

Global Cultural Initiative
U.S. State Department partnership program with public and private cultural entities "to coordinate, enhance and expand America’s cultural diplomacy efforts worldwide." Projects designed to: "connect foreign audiences with American artists and art forms; share American expertise in arts management and performance; and educate young people and adults in the United States and abroad about the arts and cultures of other countries." Partners: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (arts management training programs, collaborative children’s theater series, arts festivals); American Film Institute (film festivals, filmmaker dialogues); NEA (literary exchanges, translation projects, publications); NEH (Landmarks Summer Institutes for K-12 teachers. Launched 2006.

Global Lives Project
Collaborative online video encyclopedia of human life experiences. International collective of filmmakers, designers, architects, activists and institutions from around the globe, including U.S., Japan, Brazil and Malawi. Goal is to record 24 hours in the lives of 10 people that roughly represent the diversity of our planet's population, creating an innovative video installation with the materials.

Global Media Research Center
Research and creative exchange around global media and its links to global economy: foreign news reporting, television programs, recorded music, advertising and public relations industries, world cinema, business telecommunications, applications of the internet. Podcasts, international conferences. Projects: The Nollywood Project , Young People's Videogame Uses in East Asia, The Billboard and Skin Shade Project, The Alternative Media and Social Movements Encyclopedia Project, The OurMedia/NuestrosMedios Project, The TeleVisions Project: TV Entertainment and "Race." Based at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Global Mural Arts & Cultural Tourism Association
Mission: "To market and publicize the abundant wealth of artists, towns and cultural events around the Globe... making this world a better place for all to live in." founded in Chemainus, B.C., Canada by Karl Schutz, who helped that town become a major tourist attraction through its murals programs.

Global Site Performance
Site-specific community choreographer Marylee Hardenbergh's organization, based in Minneapolis, Minn. Large performances with community members, including cancer patients and their caregivers, seniors, homeless men, mothers & daughters. Sites include Mississippi River, rivers, lakes, bridges, boats, large machines. Includes One River Mississippi, performed by hundreds along the river in 2006.

Global Youth Media and Arts Program
World Savvy's arts education program for youth ages 12-18 in New York and San Francisco. "Platform to examine global themes such as Peace and Conflict, Immigration and Identity, and Power in Global Society using visual arts, performance and media." Annual Global Youth Media and Arts Festival; professional-development workshops for teachers; artist-led field trips.

GloballyAware
HIV/AIDS education and advocacy initiative established in Bali in 1997 by Australian psychologist and visual artist Kim Davis. Has partnered with every HIV/AIDS Harm Reduction NGO in Bali, and others from Jakarta to Africa.

Glocal Forum
International nongovernmental organization devoted to "city-to-city diplomacy." Network of over 100 cities from five continents and public- and private-sector partners that gather annually to promote "glocalization." Art programs in youth-development centers(Ethiopia, the Palestinian Territories, Rwanda, Sierra Leone). Art photo projects to raise awareness of urgent situations. Research on art in peacebuilding activities.

GoggleWorks Center for the Arts
Community arts and cultural resource center in downtown Reading, Pa., in former safety-goggles factory buuilding;130,000 square feet of arts/crafts studios, classrooms, shops, labs, darkroom, film theater, gallery, glass-blowing facility, café, offices for 26 local organizations, community meeting spaces.

Google Shakespeare
Google site that allows users to browse through the full texts of William Shakespeare's 37 plays. Allows key word search. Links to related scholarly research, Internet groups, videos of theater performances of plays (including amateur videos and BBC's "60 Second Shakespeare" submissions by the general public). Part of Google Book Search.

Gotham Center for New York History
Organization boosting NYC's historical assets. Launched 2000, based at CUNY's Graduate Center. History Festival, forums, Teaching NYC History K-12, Neighborhood Stories, Q&A, community history groups directory, walking tours, archives. Founded by Mike Wallace.

Graffitti Art Programming (GAP)
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, community youth art center, using art as a tool for community, social, economic and individual growth. For artists 8-28.

Graphic Witness
Site dedicated to political and social commentary through graphic imagery. By artist Judy Brody.

Grassroots Theatre Company
Zimbabwe performing arts organization from Bulawayo, South West Zimbabwe, specializing in theater for development using dance, drama and music as a process for informing and empowering local communities in Zimbabwe and overseas.

Great Leap
Performing-arts organization dedicated to principles of deepening race relations and promoting harmony between diverse cultural groups. School, youth programs. Rooted in Asian-American community of Los Angeles, Calif. Directed by Nobuko Miyamoto.

Green Museum
Online museum of environmental art.

Green Street Arts Center
Project of Wesleyan University with the City of Middletown, Conn., and the North End Action Team. Located in former schoolhouse with sound-recording, dance and visual-art studios, a black-box theater and computer/media labs. Classes, workshops for children, adults, families; after-school program; early child-development and home-school classes.

Greene Dragon
Political artist/activist group based in New York City

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.

Groundswell Community Mural Project
Nonprofit based in Brooklyn, N.Y., that brings together professional artists, grassroots organizations and communities to create high-quality murals in under-represented neighborhoods. Since 1996, has worked with over 900 community members — including low-income teens, undocumented immigrants, people living with AIDS and multiracial neighborhood associations — to complete over 50 collaboratively designed and painted murals in their neighborhoods.

Groundswell: Constructing the Contemporary Landscape
Documentation of a 2005 exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art protraying "the surge of creativity in the contemporary created landscape," presenting new plazas, parks and urban sectors around the world. Three broad themes: Designing the Urban Landscape, Simulations of Nature and New Topographies, The Bad and the Beautiful (reclamation). The show included a symposium (not shown).

Grrrl Zines A-Go-Go
All-women workshop group based in Southern California focusing on empowerment of young women through production of fanzines and self-published works. Workshops in community venues and college campuses in SoCal region. Founded 2002 by Elke Zobl, founder of Grrrl Zine Network.

Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
San Antonio, Tex.,-based organization promoting arts and culture of Chicano/Latino/Native American peoples, "the largest institution of its kind in the U.S." Dance, literature, media arts, theater arts, visual arts and Xicano music programs.

Guerrilla Performance Locator
Map of iconoclastic works by artist and activists and the political issues and ideas they are bringing attention to.

GuluWalk
Project drawing attention to plight of children of rural northern Uganda, who, to avoid abduction by the rebel army, walk every night towards the safety of larger cities, like Gulu, from as far as 12km away. Involves PeaceVox and other artists.

HASTAC
Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory ("Haystack"), a consortium of humanists, artists, scientists, social scientists and engineers from universities and other civic institutions (U.S. and international) committed to new forms of collaboration across communities and disciplines fostered by creative uses of technology. Develops tools for multimedia archiving and social interaction, gaming environments for teaching, innovative educational programs in information science and information studies, virtual museums. Links to dozens of member universities and centers. A Cross Sector Resource.

HOT Schools
Connecticut's approach to "Higher Order Thinking" (HOT) through a combination of arts, arts integration and democratic practice with an underpinning of Multiple Intelligence theory. Established 1994; working in 41 urban, suburban, rural public schools.

Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds Public Art Gallery
Record of the Native American artist's public art collaborations with communities and their inherent histories. Site includes teaching principles and curriculum.

Haja Center
A.k.a. the Seoul Youth Factory for Alternative Culture; South Korean organization partnered with Yonsei University; five "factories" for youth work on film and video, the web, pop music, design in life and civil culture. Founded by Cho Haejoang.

HandMade in America
Support system for craftspeople and the craft industry, based in mountains of western North Carolina. HandMade Institute for the Creative Economies; Small Town Renewal; publications, research, school programs, workshops, exhibitions, tourism, registry,

Handshouse Studio
Educational organization based in Massachusetts that "initiates adventurous hands-on projects as a way to explore history, understand science and perpetuate the arts." Elaborate projects around re-creating historical objects. Ex.: Bushnell's 1776 submarine; Polish wooden synagogues; ancient Egyptian obelisk. Founded by Rick and Laura Brown.

Hardwired To Connect: The New Scientific Case for Authoritative Communities
New scientific findings, based in brain research, suggesting "authoritative" communities" -- not punitive or authoritarian -- combine nurture and structure to help children and young people form important attachments and find a safe place to explore big questions about morality, spirituality, human existence. Written, published by The Commission on Children at Risk, 2003.

Harlem Children's Zone
Nonprofit, community-based organization working to enhance quality of life for children and families in New York City's most devastated neighborhoods; includes TRUCE (The Renaissance University for Community Education) youth development through media arts program. 15 HCZ centers serve 13,000 children and adults, including 10,000 at-risk children. Founded 1970; formerly known as Rheedlen Centers for Children and Families. President: Geoffrey Canada. Harlem Children's Zone Project, founded 1997, focuses on social-service/educaiton programs in 60-black area of Central Harlem. Includes Community Pride organizing program, Baby College, Employment & Technology Center, Harlem Gems/Head Start/Harlem Peacemakers, Single Stop, Asthma Initiative.

Harlem Stage
New York organization that supports creation and development of new works by performing artists of color. Forum for culturally diverse artists, community-based performing arts organizations and regionally significant arts groups. Performances for Harlem residents at affordable prices. Education programs: family workshops, performance study guides, Harlem Stage in the Schools.

Harlem Textile Works
Design studio and training facility in Hamilton Heights, Harlem, Manhattan, N.Y. Trains African American and Latino youth in screen printing techniques, art and textile design and entrepreneurial spirit. Takes commissions from individuals, corporate clients, architects, interior decorators, arts organizations, major museums and licensing agreements with clothing retailers.

HartBeat Ensemble
"Theater for active change" in Hartford, Conn., founded by former members of San Francisco Mime Troupe. Mainstage plays, street theater, plays in Hartford city parks, educational workshops for children and aduts in using theater for social change with Boal techniques. Partnerships with Two Way Youth Employment Program in Hartford’s North End and the Amistad Youth Project in Hartford's South End.

Harward Center for Community Partnerships
Links key academic endeavors at Bates College (Lewiston, Maine) with community collaboration, research and service. Directed by David Scobey.

HeArt Project, The
Founded by Cynthia Campoy Brophy, 1992, to address the lack of arts education programs for Los Angeles, Calif., teenagers. Works with teenagers who have dropped out, been expelled, incarcerated and/or are teen parents. Offers advancement through three levels of programming – Arts Workshops and Public Presentations, After-School Residencies and Leadership Training, and Summer Scholarships. Serves 23 schools in three school districts.

Headlines Theatre Company
Canadian issue-oriented company whose Theatre for Living is based on August Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed. Boal-technique training programs. Directed by David Diamond.

Heads Together Productions
Organization based in Leeds, England, that designs projects and manages creative teams in neighborhoods, schools, colleges and youth projects; partners range from socially excluded young people to senior managers in business.

Healing Story Alliance
Network that explores and promotes the use of storytelling in healing. Site has Treasure Chest of stories with teller notes, Stories for Children in Crisis, Peace Tales, Stories of Self and Community, newsletter, articles, book reviews, bibliography. Special interest group of National Storytelling Network.

Health and Arts Research Centre
Multidisciplinary research center linking arts, culture and wellbeing. Based in Australia. Research, publications, training, employment creation for local artists and cultural workers. Links to Gunungan Asia Pacific Network for Culture and Wellbeing.

Hearts&Minds
Scottish charity that aims to promote the quality of life for children and elders in hospital and hospice care through the performing arts.

Heidelberg Project
Outdoor urban art environment in Detroit, Mich. Neighborhood residents and stakeholders come together through art-based activities and programs to rebuild structure and fabric of their under-resourced community, creating a way of living that is economically viable and inclusive. Founded 1986 by artist/activist Tyree Guyton.

Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics
Consortium of institutions, artists, scholars and activists dedicated to exploring the relationship between performance and social and political life in the Americas and provide "a better understanding of the many shared histories and practices in the Americas that defy national borders." Hemispheric annual course, annual Encuentros/Seminars, digital archive, Web Cuadernos, forums and newletter. Based at New York University.

Here Is New York
Subtitled "A Democracy of Photographs," gallery exhibition and book of photos from 9/11, collected in an open call. Sales proceeds to Children's Aid Society.

Here and Now: Recommendations to Social Service Agencies in the Lower Mainland
Community Action Report on Headline's Theatre's "Here and Now" performance project about gang violence. Headlines' Community Scribe, Kashmir Besla, attended every performance, gathered audiences' interventions and mapped them out different general themes. Offer recommendations as a grassroots point of reference to any social-service agencies or community organizations that want to advance programs tackling issues attached to gang violence. downloadable as a .pdf from healines Web site. Produced November 16 – December 11, 2005, and published January 3, 2006, by Headlines Theatre. A Cross-Sector Resource.

High Line District
1.5-mile-long (22 blocks) historic elevated rail structure on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City being converted to public open space linking South Hell's Kitchen/Hudson Yards, West Chelsea and the Gansevoort Market Historic District.

Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs
HECUA: independent, nonprofit organization founded and governed by 17 liberal-arts colleges, universities and associations dedicated to experiential education for social justice. Study-abroad and off-campus study programs, seminars, field research, internships, fellowships. Instructors are teams of local teachers including Ph.D. faculty members who serve as mentors, advisers, co-learners and connections to the community. Programs include City Arts and Writing for Social Change. Syllabi posted online. Instituted as Crisis Colony in 1971. Based in St. Paul, Minn.

Highlander Research and Education Center
Educational programs and research into community problems; residential Workshop Center for grassroots social-change organizations. Based in New Market, Tenn., with a strong history in Southern labor movements, Civil Rights Movement and Appalachian people's movements. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Hip-Hop Caucus Institute
Nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that "strengthens social movements with independent research, visionary thinking, and links to the grassroots, the hip-hop community, scholars and elected officials." Programs promote social and political equality in the areas of economics, education, healthcare, housing, and justice: Gulf Coast Renewal Campaign, Hip Hop Helping the Homeless, Southern Progressive Leadership Conference, Shirley Chisolm/Ossie Davis Leadership Institute, Cities For Progress. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Home land security
Community arts performance project created by Marty Pottenger, commissioned by Center for Cultural Exchange, Portland, Me. Civic-dialogue project in response to post-9/11 immigrant and refugee sweeps in Maine. Attempt to foster connections between radical left and right elements of the area. Site has performance excerpts, videos, reviews, plus related history and politics info.

HomeBase
Annual site-specific project devoted to exploration of "Home," marking a temporary base, a raw urban architectural site in a neighborhood undergoing change, and inviting international artists to engage in a three-week workshop that includes study, dialogue and communal dinners, followed by a three-week happening and a publication. A project of LABA (National Laboratory for New Jewish Culture at the 14th St. Y) and the Educational Alliance. Founded/directed by artist Anat Litwin.

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.

Honest Truths: Documentary Filmmakers on Ethical Challenges in Their Work
Report quoting dozens of documentarians discussing workplace challenges to ethical standards, conflicting ethical values and a lack of open and shared standards and practices. Written by Patricia Aufderheide, Peter Jaszi and Mridu Chandra. Published by Center for Social Media, September 2009.

Hospice Arts Forum
Online forum for community artists/arts therapists working with people at the end of life. Separate forums "Arts in Health/Community Arts" and for several therapies: art, music, drama, dance/movement. Sponsored by St. Christopher's Hospice, London, England.

Hospital Audiences
Provides arts programs to New Yorkers who "are isolated from the cultural mainstream," including people in hospitals, shelters, prisons, etc. Exhibitions of art by self-taught artists with mental disabilties. Cultural events, workshops, prevention education, youth leadership, advocacy, schools programs. Founded 1969 by Michael Jon Spencer.

How States Are Using Arts and Culture to Strengthen Their Global Trade Development
Study on cultural exchanges with foreign countries; "sister state" relationships; cultural leaders included on trade missions, etc. Case studies, examples of successful programs, research citations, useful quotes. Written, published by NASAA, National Governors Association and NEA, 2003.

Humanities Exposed (HEX)
Connects graduate students and Madison community in collaborative humanities projects. Based at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Programs: after-school groups, workshops for writers, digital resources, curriculum enrichment and more. Community sites: public schools, community nonprofits, prisons, farms and more. Hosts annual conference on public humanities. Founded in 2004.

Hybrid Vigor Institute
Dedicated to stimulating more and better collaboration between experts on a shared topic or problem, as a way to catalyze unconventional thinking, unexpective discoveries and innovative solutions. A Cross-Sector Resource.

I-10 Witness Project
Community-based story collective Louisiana artists, educators and community organizers documenting stories from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina through sound and video. Interviews online with displaced citizens in shelters, relief workers, community organizers, neighborhood leaders, artists, medical staff, city planners, government officials. Partners include Mondo Bizarro, ArtSpot Productions, Xavier University Department of Communication, Nunez Community College Audio-Visual Archive, Center for Digital Storytelling. Plans to make interviews available through partnerships with public broadcast networks and credible local, state and national oral-history archives.

IN:SITE
Resource for temporary public art in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, city and county. Locates public and private spaces and resources, links spaces and resources with artists, sponsor sevents to bring people to experience and discuss temporary public art, help with insurance and maintenance of temporary public art.

INNER VOICES: Social Issues Theatre
Addresses social/health issues pertinent to college experience through performances on and off campus, with facilitated discussions. Sponsored by McKinley Health Center, Counseling Center and Theatre Department at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.

IllumiNation
Two-year Ford Foundation initiative launched 2007 intended to support Native American artists and performers, encourage entrepreneurship and help build networks between individuals and organizations. Funds provided for regranting to seven U.S. organizations.

ImaginOn
Collaborative venture of the Public Library the Children's Theatre of Charlotte, N.C., occupying entire city block. Library, museum, theater, Story Lab, Tech Central, Teen Loft, classes.

Imagination Workshop
California theater artists working with at-risk children in schools, psychiatric patients and homeless individuals.

Imaginative Actuality: Learning in the Arts During the Nonschool Hours
Ten-year longitudinal study of young-people's self-selected effective learning sites in the out-of-school hours. Findings: Arts organizations provided some of the most fertile ground for young people's cognitive and linguistic development -- leading to highly developed communication, leadership, collaborative skills. By Shirley Brice Heath and Adelma Roach (In Champions of Change, the Arts Education Partnership and the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, 1999).

Imagine/RENDER
Global/local projects based in Burnsville, N.C. Mission "based on the understanding that creativity involves both the imagination and the ability to make the imagined come to life." Projects: Empty Bowls (far-reaching hunger/pottery project); Garden Projects; seminars/workshops like "extended season gardening" and "social justice through the arts." Founded by Lisa Blackburn and John Hartom.

Imagining America
Connects universities and communities through the arts, humanities and design. Has tool kit for "rebuilding campus-community networks," newsletter, grants and conferences on artists and scholars in public life.

Immigrant Participatory Arts: An Insight into Community-building in Silicon Valley
Study finding that the dominant reason for existence of amateur arts groups in immigrant communities derives from strong desire of parents to maintain structure, values, language and traditions of their families. Ninety Santa Clara County (Calif.) participatory arts groups were sources for the six-month study. By Pia Moriarty (Cultural Initiatives Silicon Valley, 2004).

Impact database
Bibliographical resource relating to research on social and economic effects of arts, culture and major events. Research theme: arts and culture; arts, culture and education; arts, culture and inclusion; arts and health; arts, culture and audience development; arts, culture and the economy; cultural tourism; major cultural events; and major sporting events, with an emphasis on research published since 2000. Developed, maintained by Centre for Cultural Policy Research, University of Glasgow, Scotland; commissioned by the Scottish Executive, 2008.

Impacts 08 – The Liverpool Model
Joint research initiative of the University of Liverpool (England) and Liverpool John Moores University, which evaluates the social, cultural, economic and environmental effects of Liverpool’s hosting the European Capital of Culture title in 2008. Research model for evaluating the multiple impacts of culture-led regeneration programs. Includes report "Retelling the City," personal narratives by local residents involved in the service sector. Commissioned by Liverpool City Council, 2007.

Importance of Partnerships
Essay by Cristina Losita arguing for improved cross-sectoral action to achieve a long lasting social impact. From Interchanges no. 21, Centre for Creative Communities, 2000. A Cross-Sector Resource.

In Motion Magazine
Multicultural, English / Spanish, online magazine that promotes grassroots organizing and art for social change among communities of color and working people; has arts department, Art Changes.

In Place of War
Research project exploring the relationship between performance and war. Concerned with theater in refugee camps, in war-affected villages, in towns under curfew. Founding director: James Thompson. Supported by Arts and Humanities Research Council, which funds research and postgraduate study inU.K.'s higher education institutions.

In The Sun Foundation
Established by musician Michael Stipe to aid Hurricane Katrina survivors.

Increasing Arts Demand Through Better Arts Learning
Study that summarizes research on new city efforts to lift arts education in ways that could also boost arts participation. Describes coordinated efforts in six sites and summarizes the policy implications those efforts have begun to yield. Written, published by Wallace Foundation, June 2009.

Independent Arts & Media
San Francisco-based "producer's co-op and media/culture incubator" with a mission to "expand civic dialogue by increasing access to independent voices." Provide free or affordable resources and support for media, arts and cultural programs and producers. Annjual CounterCorp Anti-Corporate Film Festival: is an films and discussion to raise awareness about issues related to corporate power, influence, crime and abuse. Also: Expo for Independent Arts; Innovations in Journalism Expo; fiscal sponsorship; events calendar & opportunities listings; democracy blog; reading list; DIY workshops.

Independent Street Arts Network
Independent group of presenters and promoters of street arts throughout the U.K. Networking, information sharing, collaboration, lobbying, training and advocacy.

Individual Participation and Community Arts Groups: A Quantitative Analysis of Philadelphia
Study finding correlation between individual participation in arts and the number of arts organizations located in an individual's immediate community. Relationship is a more important indicator of participation than age, socioeconomic or ethnic status. Makes strong case for clustering arts organizations in neighborhoods and communities. By Susan Seifert and Mark Stern (Social Impact of the Arts Project, School of Social Work, University of Pennsylvania, 1994).

Indivisible
National documentary project exploring community life in the U.S. through photographs and recordings of stories of struggle and change in 12 communities.

InfoUSA: Arts and Culture
U.S. State Department site: "Guide to the historic and current state of the arts in the U.S.; gateway to traditional and popular culture experienced in America today." Includes statistics.

Ink People Center for the Arts
Community arts center in Eureka, Calif.; home to arts/cultural groups like the NEA's Open Studio, Institute of Native Knowledge, Hmong Community of the Northcoast, Redwood Coast Writers Center and Rural Burl Mural Center.

InkTank
Service organization for writing and literacy initiatives in Cincinnati, Ohio, offering range of programs from basic literacy training to advanced creative writing workshops. Provides area writers with venues for readings, publication and conversation. Supports writing initiatives within agencies serving the homeless, those in recovery and those suffering the effects of poverty. Located in Over-the-Rhine neighborhood.

Inner-City Arts
Visual and performing arts program on downtown Los Angeles, California's Skid Row for children from 32 local elementary schools and two middle schools. Hands-on activities in visual arts, dance, drama, animation, music and ceramics. Annenberg Professional Development program includes Creativity in the Classroom Series, Visiting Scholar and Artist Series and year-long Teachers Institute. Founded 1989 by Bob Bates in response to funding cuts that eliminated arts instruction from L.A. public schools.

Inside Out Community Arts
Award-winning youth arts organization in Venice, Calif. After-school theater program, Neighborhood Arts Project for middle-schoolers from rival gang areas, The School Project , programs at Metropolitan State Hospital for youth hospitalized with severe mental and emotional problems, artist & teacher training, festivals.

Inside Out Community Arts
Los Angeles, California-based arts organization that uses the visual and performing arts to promote healthy interaction among diverse at-risk and underserved Los Angeles middle-school youth. Led by trained teams of professional artists and high-school age mentors. After-school arts programs: The School Project, Neighborhood Arts Project, Allen Young School at Metropolitan State Hospital, L.A. Bridges, program at Dubnoff Center for Child Development. Also The Youth & Family Court at The Abbot Kinney Street Festival, Rhythms (music, poetry, dance), visual art production, teacher training. Founded 1996 by Camille Ameen and Jonathan Zeichner.

Inside Stories
Writer Paul VanDeCarr's blog and podcast about forms of storytelling -- journalism, genealogy, psychology, film, literature, walking tours and more. Regularly updated blog features commentary, short interviews, links to current articles on storytelling, and occasional videos. A thrice-monthly podcast of 10-15 minutes features interviews, stories and more.

InsideOut Literary Arts Project
Places professional creative writers as teachers and mentors in Detroitschools to engage K-12 students in the pleasure and power of poetry and literary self-expression.

Insider’s Guide to Arts Education
Online guidebook and a technical-assistance process to enable school districts to assess current arts learning programs and funding allocations, identify gaps in delivery and create long-range plans. Written by Margaret Burt and Elizabeth Lindsley; published by California Alliance for Arts Education, 2007.

Insider’s Guide to Arts Education Planning
Online guidebook and a hands-on technical assistance tool that enables districts to assess current arts learning programs and funding allocations, identify gaps in delivery, and create long-range plans that will ensure equitable access for all students in each of the four arts disciplines. Written by Margaret Burt and Elizabeth Lindsley; published by California Alliance for Arts Education, 2007.

Insight Arts
Chicago-based contemporary arts organization "dedicated to increasing access to cultural work that supports progressive social change." Engaged in community-based, regional and national work. Free arts-education classes for youth and adults; regular performances, exhibitions and special events; rehearsal space and administrative support for performance collectives and artist projects; blog. Resident ensembles: Circa, Edges, End Of The Ladder, Morganville, Pintig, Segundas, Tamboula, Visibility Counts.

Institute Without Boundaries
Canadian institute educating designers for global development. Includes Massive Change Project. By Bruce Mau Design studio.

Institute for Applied Autonomy
Team of artists, engineers, designers and activists who "provide technologies which extend the autonomy of human activists," including TXTmob, I-See, Graffitiwriter and Streetwriter.

Institute for Art & Civic Engagement
Resource for students, faculty and community members interested in art and its potential to impact contemporary issues in public life. Based in the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston) Artist's Resource Center and founded in partnership with Tufts University College of Citizenship and Public Service. Includes Art Studio program at Mission Hill, Change This Picture: Exploration & Innovation in Art and Healthcare, Public Art/Public Action studio course, Youth Art-in-Action, Visions of Active Citizenship, Art, Activism, and Community: Visual Art and Social Change, Art and Science Intersections, Facing History and Ourselves, The Boston Arts Academy.

Institute for Arts-Infused Education
At Marygrove College, Detroit, Mich. Provides research and services for using the arts to teach the core curriculum. Training for teachers and artists, curriculum creation, assessment tools. Summer training intensive. Campus-community partnerships with Learning via Arts (Detroit Repertory Theater), El Arte Alliance, and ACE-Detroit.

Institute for Community Arts Studies
Center at University of Oregon; aims to sustain and strengthen arts, culture and heritage in American West through research, policy, education and community engagement. Aiming to re-launch as the Center for Community Arts and Cultural Policy (CCACP) during the 2005-06 academic year.

Institute for Community Cultural Development
Leadership development program for people who work at the intersection of the arts and community development. Professional-level training and support for community-engaged artists and community developers. Intensive five-month leadership-training curriculum (weekends). Based at Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn. Led by Bill Cleveland, Wendy Morris, Erik Takeshita and Jun-Li Wang

Institute for Community Research
Conducts community-based research partnerships to reverse inequities, promote positive changes in public health and education, and foster cultural conservation and development. Public events, conferences, publications, training, research into participatory action and intervention. Arts and culture programs: Connecticut Cultural Heritage Arts, Urban Artists Initiative, ICR Community Gallery. Based in Hartford, Conn.

Institute for Cultural Partnerships
Pennsylvania-based nonprofit working for intercultural understanding and community building. Local, statewide and regional programs; publications. Arts & Heritage Program: traditional arts; folks arts; community traditions grants; consultation/training services in ral history and cultural documentation, cultural diversity, intergroup relations, continuing professional education programs. Other programs in Education, Community, Workplace. Special attention to immigrants.

Institute for People's Education and Action
Grassroots association of North American Folk Schools fostering Folk - or People's - Education: inclusive learning among peers, based in culture and experience, that builds democratic communities through dialogue and action. Formerly Fold Education Association of America.

Institute for Sustainable Communities
Independent, nonprofit "sustainable development" organization that provides training, technical assistance and financial support to communities. Mission: "to help communities around the world address environmental, economic, and social challenges to build a better future shaped and shared by all." Works in partnerships. Assumed management of Leadership for a CHanging world program in 2006. Founded 1991 by former Vermont Governor Madeleine M. Kunin. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Institute for Transformation Through the Arts
Washington, D.C., based organization supporting health and wellbeing. Partner in ArtistCares, formed in wake of 9/11.

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.

InteractiveTheatre.org
Resource for educational Interactive Theatre, where performers interact with audiences as core part of performance. Special focus on using drama to educate about sexual assault.

Interchange
Community-wide collaboration of arts and cultural institutions providing expanded arts-integrated curriculum to St. Louis (Mo.) Public Schools to improve student academic achievement. Partners teachers with teaching artists. Goals include strengthening neighborhood schools as centers of neighborhood revitalization. Grantee of Ford Foundation's "Integrating the Arts And Education Reform" program.

Intergenerational Orchestras
Conductor Lorraine Marks has founded two intergenerational orchestras, the New Jersey Intergenerational Orchestra (njio.org) and the Florida Intergenerational Orchestra of America (flioa.org). They include musicians ages 5 to 93 and they perform throughout their respective states in schools, senior-citizen centers, nursing homes and on concert stages.

Intermedia Arts
Advanced contemporary arts organization with deep community investment in Minneapolis, Minn. Partnership-building workshops, intergenerational programs, outstanding neighborhood and city projects.

International Center for Environmental Arts
"Experiment in citizen education" based at The Ark in Berea, Ohio. Three working divisions: Arts, Environment and Humanitarian. Library, traveling exhibits, conferences. Founded by David and Renate Jakupca.

International Centre of Art for Social Change
Global center for networking, training, professional development, research and community outreach in the field of art for social change. Diploma program at graduate level, professional development events and workshops, symposia, Web-based dialogues, inter-sectoral workshops. Based in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Project of Judith Marcuse Projects and Simon Fraser University.

International Child Art Foundation
Foundation promoting children's creativity with exhibitions, awards and special programs.

International Directory of Sculpture Parks and Gardens
Information on sculpture parks, sculpture gardens, outdoor university collections, sculpture trails and earthworks around the globe. Searchable by location or name search.

International Expressive Art Therapy Association
Professional guild and network for the expressive arts field. Artists, educators, therapists, students, psychologists, counselors, philosophers, musicians, poets, authors, designers. Mainly individuals interested in combining the arts to support well-being and growth. 100% member-supported.

International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA)
Global network of national arts funding bodies. Research links, arts-agency profiles, descriptions of cultural policies around the world. Headquartered in Australia.

International Journal of Community Music
Peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes research articles, practical discussions, timely reviews, readers’ notes and special issues concerning all aspects of community music. Defines community music as "music teaching-learning interactions and transactions that occur ‘outside’ traditional music institutions (e.g., university music departments, public schools, conservatories) and/or music teaching-learning interactions and transactions that operate in relation to traditional institutions."

International Peace Tiles Project
Tiled murals by hundreds of children and youth affected by, or at risk of, HIV/AIDS around the world. Exhibited worldwide on World AIDS Day, December 1.

International Playback Theatre Network
Association of Playback supporters, practitioners and groups. Everything you need to know about Playback. Journal, newsletter, calendar.

International Society for Music Educators
Membership organization for music and music-performance educators and students, researchers, community musicians, music therapists and music medicine practioners around the world. Facilitates publications, conferences and seminars, networks, special commissions. Formed at a conference convened by UNESCO in 1953 "to stimulate music education as an integral part of general education." Based in Australia; members in 70 countries.

International Sonoran Desert Alliance
Regional nonprofit organization designing and implementing environmental, cultural, real estate and business development projects intended to preserve and enrich the environment, culture and economy of the Sonoran Desert. Located in southwestern Arizona and northern Sonora, Mexico, 10,000 square miles of "the hottest, most fragile desert ecosystem in North America." Cultural project include Curley School Artisan Housing, Native American arts, organpipe cactus fruit harvest tour, visiting artists program, festivals & events, afterschool arts initiative, public art installations. Founded 1993; governed by board of directors representing indigenous and nonindigenous populations of U.S. and Mexico.

Involvement in the Arts and Human Development: General Involvement and Intensive Involvement in Music and Theater Arts
Study analyzes relationship between arts involvement and youth development, using National Educational Longitudinal Survey as a tool. Followed 25,000+ American secondary-school students for 10 years. Found: correlation between general involvement in arts and positive academic achievement; correlation between high levels of participation in music and high achievement in math; correlation between sustained participation in theater arts and number of positive youth development traits. By James S. Catterall, Richard Chapleau, John Iwanaga (In Champions of Change, the Arts Education Partnership and the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, 1999).

Involver
Artists' movement to convince young people to get involved in politics, offering ways to take action. National political arts calendar.

Involving Youth in Nonprofit Arts Organizations
Report that is an urgent call to nonprofit arts organizations to concentrate on "attracting the best new talent to administer their affairs, to serve as artists and audiences, and to act as advocates, boosters and financial supporters." Includes survey of youth programs in California NAOs, case studies of 12 successful programs, and comparative analysis of youth programs in the , with an in-depth look at two leading organizations. Identifies barriers, proven approaches, best practices, lessons learned and organizational benefits of youth programs. Written by Barry Hessenius, published by William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, 2007.

Iowa Public Art Network
Peer group of Iowa Arts Council’s Public Art & Design Program that seeks to advance the value of public art in Iowa and the professional standards and practices in the field of public art. IPAN represents artists, public art administrators and public art enthusiasts.

Iowa Roots
Music, stories and talk with Iowa traditional artists. By Iowa Arts Council and Iowa State University Radio Group.

Ireland's OWN: Murals
Gallery of Republican murals in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Irondale Center for Theater, Education, and Outreach
Community arts center in former church in Brooklyn, N.Y., operated by Irondale Ensemble Project, a theater ensemble with the goal to "discover how theater can be utilized as an important or central aspect of daily life." Theater productions, education programs, classes, community-based theater programs, professional development workshops for teachers, teaching artist intensives.

Irondale Ensemble Project
New York company dedicated to theater as educational tool for fostering social change.

Islands Institute
Online "community of interdisciplinary thinkers concerned with art and survival." Diploma in Interdisciplinary Studies, user-editable wiki, online exhibits/gallery, online conferences, book publishing.

Islands of L.A.
Art-and-curatorial project using traffic islands as public space and venues that can be used by artists to create community and stimulate inquisitive interchanges about topics including public land-use. Conceived by artist Ari Kletzky, 2007.

Ixia
Think tank for public art practice. Forum events, field report, publications, research, public art directory, case studies, e-mail network. Based in Birmingham, England.

Jackson County Children's Services Coalition Core Arts Program Evaluation
Profile of two program evaluations conducted by Cleveland in Jackson County, Miss., with statistical results of performance improvement in staff and youth participants. Also includes reduction in referral rates for youth involved in juvenile justice system.By William Cleveland, Center for the Study of Art and the Community, 2002.

Jana Sanskriti
Cultural organization based in Calcutta, India. Supports 32 community theater groups in West Bengal that are using Theatre of the Oppressed techniques to write and present plays about alcoholism, dowry deaths and the accountability of panchayats, or village councils. Directed by Sanjoy Ganguly. Subject of a French TV documentary by Julian Boal.

Jeroen van Westen
Dutch eco-artist working on aesthetic problems of urban landscape.

John C. Campbell Folk School
Folk school in the N.C. mountains, center for adult learning modeled on Danish "folkehojskole," offering traditional music, arts, crafts, "inner growth as creative, thoughtful individuals, and social development as tolerant, caring members of a community."

John Michael Kohler Arts Center
A 100,000-square-foot visual and performing-arts complex devoted to innovative explorations in contemporary art; new models for community arts; educational partnering with an emphasis on early-childhood education; presenting performing artists; supporting practicing artists through residencies and fellowships. Complex includes ten galleries, theater, interdisciplinary performance space, studio-classrooms, meeting spaces, gift shop and café. Community Arts Department, a programming department at the Arts Center has five programs: Connecting Communities, The ARTery, the Community Gallery, the Partnership Program and Community Events.

Journal for Learning through the Arts
"A Research Journal on Arts Integration in Schools and Communities." Online publication available through the UC Library System's eScholarship Repository. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Journal of Arts & Communities
Peer-reviewed journal edited by Hamish Fyfe, University of Glamorgan, Wales, focused on "a critical examination of the practices known as community or participatory arts, encompassing a field of work defined for this purpose as incorporating active creative collaboration between artists and people in a range of 'communities'." Founded 2008.

Journal of Ordinary Thought
Journal of Neighborhood Writing Alliance, publishing writing from workshops with people from low- and no-income neighborhoods in Chicago, Ill.

Juan Antonio Corretjer Puerto Rican Cultural Center
Nonprofit, community-based umbrella institution founded 1973 by community activists to serve social/cultural needs of Chicago's Puerto Rican/Latino community. Umbrellas Family Learning Center, Consuelo Lee Corretjer Childcare Center, Vida/SIDA HIV and AIDS education and prevention programs; La Casita de Don Pedro community garden and cultural space; Café Batey Urbano cultural space for the youth. Organizes annual Puerto Rican Peoples Parade,co-sponsors Fiesta Boricua annual Puerto Rican music festival. PRCC is the parent organization and provides a space to the Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos High School.

Judith Tannenbaum
Writer with extensive experience in arts-in-corrections and teaching in all kinds of schools. Training coordinator of San Francisco Writerscorps. Author of "Disguised as a Poem: My Years Teaching Poetry at San Quentin." Site is excellent link to prison poets, journalists, teaching in prison and prison issues.

Jumblies Theatre
Canadian theater company that sets up multi-year residencies in urban neighborhoods and creates art with and about that community. Includes workshops, performances, installations, festivals, more. Founded by Ruth Howard in 2001; based in the Community Play Movement introduced in Canada in 1980 by Dale Hamilton. Site has links to articles about community-engaged theater.

Jump-Start Performance Company
Theater company and presenter in San Antonio, Tex., focusing on issues of race, class and gender preference. Offers training in community art techniques.

Junebug Productions
New Orleans-based performance organization that develops artistic work focusing on African Americans in the Black Belt South; formerly Free Southern Theater. Directed by John O'Neal. Offers training in community art techniques.

Juneteenth Legacy Theatre
African-American theater company for social change, based in Louisville, Kentucky. Founded by Lorna Littleway.

KHOJ
International Artists' Association is an artist led, alternative forum for experimentation and international exchange based in India. Includes community-based art pograms in and around Delhi's Khirkee village where the studios are situated and beyond.

Kairos Dance Theatre
Intergenerational modern-dance company based in Minneapolis, Minn. Programs include The Dancing Hearts: Vital Elders Moving in Community; Dancing Heart Caregiver Training Program; residencies, classes, playshops. Founded by Artistic Director Maria DuBois Genné.

Kamoinge
Kamoinge ("a group of people acting together") formed in New York in 1963 to address the under-representation of black photographers in the art world. Founded by Louis Draper, Ray Francis, Herbert Randall and Albert Fennar, with Roy DeCarava as its first director. Body of work spans the past 40 years and included numerous images of daily life in black America during the last half of the 20th Century. See "The Sweet Breath of Life: A Poetic Narrative of the African-American Family" by Frank Stewart and Ntozake Shange and Kamoinge (Atria Books, Simon&Schuster, 2004).

Kansas Watercolor Society
Membership organization of painters in Kansas and seven other Midwest states. Nice Web site showing annual competition winners.

Katha
Nonprofit media organization in India working� in story, storytelling and story in culturelinking and education. Started in 1988 by Geeta Dharmarajan. Includes the Center for Sustainable Learning and the Story Research and Resource Centre.

Katikati, Mural Town
A town full of art in New Zealand.

Katrina: An Unnatural Disaster
Multimedia Web site documenting the social and economic toll of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Photos, articles, radio clips, videos. Calls attention to issues of race, poverty and government connected to the storms, and to what is preventing residents from recovering from the disaster and returning home. Site features work of award-winning print and radio journalists, photographers, filmmakers and youth media organizations, all Open Society Institute Katrina Media Fellows.

Keep Arts in Schools
Web site serving "those seeking to make the arts top priority in public schools and communities at-large." Tools and resources designed "to equip individuals with what they need to make compelling cases for arts education." News, video clips, research, models, case studies. Project funded by Ford Foundation's "Integrating the Arts And Education Reform" program; site created by Doulgas Gould and Co., communications consultants, New Rochelle, N.Y.

Keepers of the Waters
Eco-artist Betsy Damon's international communications network for people actively engaged in projects that transform human relationship to water.

Keys To The Studio
Music program in Toronto, Ont., Canada, designed specifically for people with developmental and intellectual disabilities. Gives emerging musicians the opportunity to collaborate with professional musicians in one-to-one sessions, rehearsals with bands made up of peers, workshops, recordings, public jam sessions and concert performances.

Kid Serve Youth Murals
San Francisco-based arts education program guiding students age 6-18 through the design and creation of permanent, large-scale outdoor murals in their communities. Works with school teachers and existing curriculum, and cultivates support from neighborhood associations. Founding director: artist Josef Morris.

Kids on the Hill
"Art Action for Neighborhood Change." Community-based program in the Reservoir Hill neighborhood of Baltimore, Md., with programs in arts, academics, entrepreneurship and mentoring. Projects: murals, sculpture garden, photos on city buses, video projects, Kids on the Hill Shop, newsletter. Founded by artist Rebecca Yenawine.

Kids'own
Northern Ireland organization publishing works by children. Came out of Pathways to Peace and Reconciliation in South Tyrone. Children with different religious and social backgrounds are brought together to share stories, art, music and drama.

Kultivator
Experimental cooperative of organic farming (Dyestad Organic Farm) and visual art practice (Art Initiative 16:2) situated in rural village of Dyestad, Öland Island, southeast coast of Sweden. Agri-Culture Shop; Guest Atelier/Project Room; In/Site and Out/Site spaces for meetings, seminars, screenings, installations; Whie cube Made Out of Cow Dung for exhibitions, gatherings. Maria Lindmark, Henric Stigeborn, Malin Lindmark Vrijman, Mathieu Vrijman.

Kuona Trust
Public art program in Nairobi, Kenya, in banks, buses and billboards; workshops, residencies, community programs with artists from African and other countries. Part of Africa CAN (Culture Africa Network), a seven-country partnership amassing a database to preserve African cultural history.

Kuratorisk Aktion
Platform for curators engaged in a critical practice along the lines of race, class, gender and sexuality. Founded by Danish-born curators Frederikke Hansen and Tone Olaf Nielsen in 2005. "Merging feminist, queer, and activist informed approaches, Kuratorisk Aktion pledges itself to raise consciousness on the politics of representation and translate this consciousness into practice. We attempt to achieve this through a 65/35 percent representation of minoritarian and majoritarian subjectivities respectively in all our productions, at the same time as we open this procedure up to critique as part of the curatorial methodology."

L.A. Arts Education Resource Directory
Directory of vetted Los Angeles County arts-education providers for school-day programs. Searchable by arts discipline, subject area, program type, grade level and cultural origin.

L.A. Commons
Based in Los Angeles, Calif. Facilitates public art projects that tell neighborhood stories. Validates importance of local narratives. Partners with local organizations including businesses, nonprofits and schools; hires local artists to facilitate the projects; hosts art workshops involving community members in all aspects of artistic process; closes each program cycle with community celebration and public programs. Project of Community Partners.

LINC (Leveraging Investments in Creativity)
Ten-year national campaign to improve conditions for artists so they can more readily do their creative work and contribute to community life.

LIPA Community Arts Route
Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, U.K., offers a degree in community arts: history, skills and practice in the community. Cofounded by Paul McCartney.

La Pena Cultural Center
Community arts and cultural education center in Berkeley, Calif., founded 1975 by Latinos and North Americans to instill political consciousness through culture and the arts. Events, classes, school programs, restaurant.

Labor Art
Examines the "cultural and artistic history of working people" with photography and drawings of America's union workers' lives. Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives looks at 100 years of labor in New York City and the culture of solidarity.

Labor Heritage/Rockin' Solidarity Chorus
Chorus of union workers, students, others dedicated to "building more democracy and representation within our unions" and celebration of workers' culture. Based in San Francisco Bay Area, directed by labor organizer Pat Wynne.

LaborFest
Annual labor cultural, film and arts festival established San Francisco, Calif., 1994, "to institutionalize the history and culture of working people." Begins every July 5, anniversary of 1934 “Bloody Thursday” attack on S.F. strikers and supporters, touching off general strike and shutdown of city. Led to hundreds of thousands of workers joining the trade-union movement. Site is excellent link to international labor sites on the Web.

Labyrinth Project
Projects at USC's Annenberg Center combining the language of narrative cinema with the interactive potential and database structures of new media.

Lake Street USA
600 photographs of people who live along a six-mile stretch of Lake Street in Minneapolis, Minn., taken by Wing Young Huie, and exhibited along Lake Street in store fronts, bus stops, other public places.

Land
Education and arts project of the East Lancashire Regional Park regeneration initiative led by the Lancashire Economic Partnership in the North of England. Involves local people in making a positive difference to their own surroundings through creative activity led by professional artists. Woodland walks, landscape features, exhibitions, documentation, recordings, teacher training, parades, storytelling.

Land Arts of the American West
Interdisciplinary field program expanding the definition of land art through direct experience with the full range of human interventions in the landscape, from the inscriptions of pictographs and petrogylphs to the construction of roads, dwellings and monuments, as well as traces of those actions. Based at Texas Tech; founded by Bill Gilbert in 2000; a collaboration between Gilbert and Chris Taylor since 2002. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Landscape & Art Network
U.K.-based international network of visual and performing artists, craftspeople, academics, landscape architects, architects, journalists, ecologists and environmentalists, with holistic approach to environment and arts.

Latta House
Cultural center on the site of Latta University, founded by a former slave in the freedman's Oberlin Community of Raleigh, N.C. , to educate underprivileged and orphaned black children. Projects: historic preservation; gardening programs for kids; the Jambalaya project to connect neighborhood youth with their elders through documentary and journalistic projects; summer Picnic on the Lawn Arts and Performance Series to unite the diverse community.

Laundromat Project
Two laundromat arts centers in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Harlem, N.Y. City; functioning neighborhood coin-operated laundromats where art classes are taught and visual art displayed "to provide communities of color living on modest incomes with broad access to visual art as a tool of personal and social transformation." Programs: Create Change public art residency; Coin-Op Collective Professional Development for Artists and Social Entrepreneurs; Works in Progress arts-education. Staffed by volunteers, graduate students, and undergraduate interns. Founded by Risë Wilson.

Lauren Elder & Co.
Arts company working in all media in public housing, public structures, teens & technology, community parks and school gardens. Based in San Francisco Bay Area.

Laurier Centre for Music in the Community
Research center launched 2008 at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ont., Canada. Campus-community partnerships, service-learning projects, symposia, publishing, concerts.

Leadership for a Changing World
Recognizes, strengthens and supports leaders and highlights importance of community leadership in improving people’s lives. Includes leaders in "art and social action."

League of Young Voters
Uses arts-based organizing, alliance building and nonpartisan voter engagement to build youth civic-engagement and leadership-development organizations in six states: Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Maine, California, Ohio and Wisconsin. Each local affiliate conducts a comprehensive year-round program. Site features nonpartisan voter guides.

Learning in and Through the Arts: Curriculum Implications
Study of 2,000+ public-school students in grades 4-8, conducted by team of researchers from Teacher's College, Columbia University. Found that students involved in high-arts-intensive settings performed better than students in low-arts settings in creativity, fluency, originality, elaboration and resistance to closure. Skills extend into nonarts subject areas like math and science. By Judith Burton, Robert Horowitz, and Hal Abeles (In Champions of Change, the Arts Education Partnership and the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, 1999).

Learning, Arts, and the Brain, The Dana Consortium Report on Arts and Cognition
Cognitive neuroscientists from seven U.S. universities grapple with the question: Are smart people drawn to the arts or does arts training make people smarter? Studies the effects of music, dance and drama education on other types of learning. Finds, for ex., that children motivated in the arts develop attention skills and strategies for memory retrieval that also apply to other subject areas. Research led by Michael S. Gazzaniga. Published by Dana Foundation, 2008.

Leeway Foundation
Supports women artists, arts programs and arts organization, focusing on Greater Philadelphia, Pa.

Leisure Activities and the Risk of Dementia in the Elderly
Study of 469 subjects older than 75 years of age who resided in the community and did not have dementia at base line. Found that of physical leisure activities evaluated [swimming, bicycling, dancing, participating in group exercises, team games such as bowling, walking, climbing stairs, doing housework, and babysitting], “dance was the only physical activity associated with a lower risk of dementia.” Written by Joe Verghese, M.D., et al.; published in New England Journal of Medicine, 2003.

Leonardo On-Line: Art, Science and Technology
International nonprofit organization that promotes and documents work at the intersection of the arts, sciences and technology, and by encouraging and stimulating collaboration between artists, scientists, and technologists. Part of the Leonardo Network. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Life Home Project
Program for HIV+/AIDS women and their children in Thailand, including Art Programme and Hands Project.

Light Box/Out of the Box
Community based educational outreach activities by Florida presenter Miami LIght. Masters classes, residencies in Miami-Dade County Public High Schools.

Lisa's Links: Artists and the Environment
Links to artists who address environmental issues in their work. By Web designer in Georgia.

Little City Foundation
Chicago's LCF has a Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center Web site showing works by artists with developmental challenges from around the world.

Littleglobe Inc.
Artist-run nonprofit based in Santa Fe, N.M., dedicated to "collaborative creative projects in new contexts." Integrates expermental creative approaches with projects that foster civic dialogue and individual empowerment toward social and environmental health and healing. Projects with women at Creative Center for women with Cancer; with residents of a sheltered housing project in Ireland for European Union Festival of Culture; with intergenerational group bridign cultural, geographic, generational and eocnomic boundaries with Santa Fe Opera. Founded by Chris Jonas and Molly Sturges, artist in residence for Santa Fe Opera Outreach projects.

Littoral
U.K. nonprofit arts trust with projects in Art & Agriculture, Rural Arts & Culture, Craft & Environment, Ireland/Arts & Trade unions, Deep Practice/Art & Sustainability.

Living Newspaper Project
Program to reinvigorate civic education in Austin, Texas-area high schools through the dramatization of current human rights issues. Combines research on current events, critical and creative writing, and public performance. Provides high-school teachers with tools to guide students through a Living Newspaper unit in an English, social studies or theater arts classroom. Modeled on WPA Federal Theatre Project documentary theater. Summer teacher workshops, Living Newspaper Resource Guide. Created by UT Austin Humanities Institute with the Law School's Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, UT Performance as Pubic Practice Program and local high-school teachers.

Liz Lerman Dance Exchange
National performance company and "school for movement arts and art movements, meshing people across generations, disciplines and styles," based in Takoma Park, Md. Offers training in community art techniques. Moving Dialogues: discussions on the intersections of the arts with other disciplines. Teen Exchange: artistic immersion program for Washington, D.C. area youth between the ages of 13 and 17 (includes The Rick Project).

Locus+
Visual-arts organization in Newcastle, England, that presents challenging contemporary art in nontraditional community settings.

Lokkala's Sabrang
Folk-art music and dance group based in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. Lokkala's Sabrang ("wanderer") is "a musical caravan throughout the Thar Desert." Cultural events, seminars, workshops, conferences, cultural tourism. Directed by Karun Goyal.

Los Angeles Bus Riders Union
"One of the largest mass-transit, anti-racist organizations it the U.S." fighting for a "first-class, clean-fuel, bus-centered public transportation system in Los Angeles." Uses "teatro" (theater) for organizing.

Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD)
First performance ensemble in U.S. made up principally of homeless people. Artwork "connects lived experience to the social forces that shape the lives and communities of people living in poverty. LAPD is dedicated to building community on Skid Row, Los Angeles." Directed by John Malpede.

Los Angeles Urban Rangers
A "mobile and site-specific interpretive force" of artists, geographers, environmental and art historians, curators, architects facilitating "creative, critical, head-on, oblique, and crisscrossed investigations into our sprawling metropolis and its various ecologies." Web site has We Are Here Maps Archive and Experimental Geography exhibition. Based in Los Angeles, Calif.

Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center
Cultural organization in San Pablo, Calif. (San Francisco East Bay Area) training youth in traditional arts. School for the Arts, community events, cultural exchange, mentorship, touring group, community recording studio.

Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine
Music Therapy Department at Beth Israel Medical Center providing services at Music & Health Clinic, in many hospital departments, other clinics and community schools. Programs: Music for AIR (Advances in Respiration); Music for CAIR (Cardiac Advances in Rehabilitation); Asthma Initiative Program; Heather on Earth Multi-site NICU Study on music-therapy interventions for premature infants. Publications, training, education, events and symposia.

Louisiana Voices
Detailed online teacher's guide to exploring Louisiana's communities and traditions, with Internet connections to folklife videos, music, stories, bibliographies and Web sites. Created by Louisiana Division of the Arts and NEA.

Louisiana: Where Culture Means Business
Economic development plan for State of Louisiana, focusing on new jobs and enterprises and quality of life for Louisiana’s self-employed artists, art and cultural components of educational institutions and businesses that produce goods and services involving the arts. Unveiled days before Hurricane Katrina and used in continuing discussions with the state to ensure that the cultural economy is central to Louisiana’s recovery. Written, published by Mt. Auburn Associates, 2005.

Lovewell Institute for the Creative Arts
Based at Nova Southeastern U. in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., develops new musicals with teens during summer workshops, in partnership with local youth organizations. Has community-based interdisciplinary arts degree program. Directed by David Spangler.

Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Restored National Historic Site in New York City, home to est. 7,000 people from over 20 nations1863-1935. Tours, programs, stories, newsletter.

Lynne Hull
Environmental artist "creating Trans-species art and Sculpture for wildlife." Based in Colorado.

M.I.K.E.
Traveling recording studio/performance stage created in 2006 by artists Richard Saxton of the municipalWORKSHOP and Stuart Hyatt of TEAM Records with 100 community participants in Sheboygan, Wisc. Created from a grain bin and salvaged camper and truck parts; available for travel on flatbed semitruck trailer to communities throughout the U.S. Focal point of a 2006 Connecting Communities residency at John Michael Kohler Arts Center.

MERA
McDonalds Corners-Elphin Recreation & Arts: volunteer-run community arts organization in rural eastern Ontario, Canada. Library; programs in children's activities, fibre arts, labyrinth, exhibitions, music, pottery, Tai Chi/Qigong, weaving, writing. Located in historic one-room schoolhouse renovated by the community.

Macnas
Physical theater in Ireland doing community plays and parade work. Toured with U2.

Magic Me
Organization with 16 years experience running intergenerational arts projects that link older people 55+ with young people aged 9 to 25 years in the East End of London.

Mailout
National magazine for people developing participation in the arts in the British Isles. Rob Howell & Sue Robinson, editors.

Main Street Project
Rural, grassroots public-policy and cultural-organizing initiative that works to "document the economic challenges facing people in rural communities, give voice to their hopes and aspirations, and the tools to create change." Education, training, cultural organizing, civic-engagement strategies to build and sustain community-based leadership. Projects: Latino Leadership Project, Raíces, Rural Civic Engagement, Rural Latino Enterprise Initiative, Rural Media Project. Based in Minneapolis, Minn.

Maine's Creative Economy
Program of Maine Arts Commission (MAC) and Gov. John Balducci's permanent Creative Economy Council to promote Creative Economy approach, document it in Maine, adapt current urban Creative Economy model findings to rural states. Other MAC programs: Community Arts Development, Discovery Research, Artists in Maine Communities grants.

Make Art Not War
Features modern-day peace posters by international artists.

Make the Road by Walking
Community organizing group in Brooklyn, N.Y., primarily low-income Latino and African-American residents of Bushwick and surrounding neighborhoods. Collaborates with artists.

Making Books Sing
Children's theater and arts-education organization. Productions based on outstanding contemporary children's books that honor children - their struggles growing up, their cultural diversity and their intellect. School-based artist residencies, professional-development programs for teachers, teacher's resource curriculum packets, parent-child workshops. Based in New York, N.Y.

Making Exact Change
Study on how U.S. arts-based programs have made a significant and sustained impact on their communities, with case studies of ten exemplary organizations. Written by Willam Cleveland. Published by Community Arts Network, 2005.

Making The Journey: Arts and Disability in Australia
Case studies of arts access organizations, activities and resources in every state and territory in Australia over 25 years. Available online in .pdf, .html and hardcopy. Written by Mary Hutchison, published by Arts Access Australia, 2006.

Manchester Craftsmen's Guild
Center for arts and learning in Pittsburgh, Pa. that employs visual/ performing arts to educate and inspire urban youth and offer mentored training in life skills. Outstanding example of how a minority-directed arts-based curriculum can contribute in empowering young people. Founder Bill Strickland.

Mandala Center for Change
Multidisciplinary education organization dedicated to community dialogue, social justice and personal transformation and for training and grassroots practice of Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed. Based in Port Townsend, Wash.

Mandorla Creative
Performance company using principles of Gestalt practice, group process, Playback Theater and western theater in working with communities. Professional training and development; personal-development workshops; commissioned creative projects. Directed by Dawn Miller, drama therapist. Based in Bristol, England.

Mano a Mano: Mexican Culture Without Borders
New York-based nonprofit dedicated to celebrating Mexican culture in the U.S. and promoting the understanding of Mexican traditions among immigrants, artists, educators and the general public. Founded 2000 as a project of the Center for Traditional Music and Dance.

Manosegawa River Art Project
"Water Ekiden," created by four communities along the Manosegawa River in Kyshu, Japan, directed by artist Ichi Ikeda. Four water stations constructed to represent the different water situations of each district: to transfer rain water to desert communities; to capture and store spring water; to irrigate rice field with river water; and a canal to carry purified water along a former river bed.

Many Versions of Masculine: An Exploration of Boys’Identity Formation through Digital Storytelling in an Afterschool Program
Qualitative research that features case studies of nine urban boys of color, aged nine to 11, who participated in an after-school program where they learned to create digital multimedia texts. Argues for recognition of and support for the different functions such programs can serve when structured as alternative spaces for learning and identity formation. Written by Glynda A. Hull, Nora L. Kenney, Stacy Marple, & Ali Forsman-Schneider; published by Robert Bowne Foundation in Afterschool Matters, 2006. (PDF)

Map of Creativity
Interactive database of innovative education projects around the world. By Next Generation Foundation.

Mapping Public Media
Initiative by American University's Center for Social Media. Goal: "to reveal the resources and connections that sustain this active, productive, but rarely visible world devoted to helping audiences recognize themselves as publics and act from that knowledge." Part of the Center's Future of Public Media project, conducts and publishes research on new directions in public media, convenes leaders throughout the field, and showcases innovative and productive work in public media.

MarketPlace: Handwork of India
Nonprofit fair-trade organization based in India marketing handwork of local women artisans. Artisans control the design process, management practices, profit sharing and social programs created by the group. Part of Women Artisan Co-op Network.

Martha Bowers Dance Theater Etcetera
New York based performance company bringing community members and professional artists together as performers in site-specific works that deal with issues relevant to the surrounding community. Offers training in community art techniques.

Marwen
Visual arts courses, public on-site and traveling exhibitions, college and career workshops and individual counseling sessions, and work experiences for 2,200 inner-city youth in grades 6-12 annually. Based in Chicago, Ill.

Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
Media arts center with a "comprehensive exhibition program which acknowledges the moving image as the principal art form of this century." Serving the University of Nebraska, its Lincoln community, the state and the region. Home of UNL Film and New Media Program., under auspices of the Dept. of Theatre. Two screens, state-of-the-art technology, a research library and film storage archive, offices, classroom laboratories, equipment storage space and editing suites,

Masks: The Journal of Law and Theatre
Multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed online journal based at University of British Columbia Faculty of Law. Focus is on intersections of law and theater: courtroom as theater; historical connections between theater and Inns of Court; lawyer playwrights; images of lawyers in popular culture; law in literature studies of plays; and legislative theater. Submissions accepted from scholars, students and practitioners.

Mass Transit Street Theater & Video
Based in Bronx, New York. Documentary video on Northwest Bronx Neighborhood Coalition: "Passin' It On: 25 Years of Oraganizing the Northwest Bronx." Theater explores loss of community, home and homelessness, value of diversity.

Materials Exchange Center for Community Arts (MECCA)
Center based in Eugene, Ore., that diverts usable materials from landfills into hands of artists and community members. Recycled art supply store; workshops and children's art activities; Open Studio time; classes in charter schools.

Matrix Theatre Company
Detroit, Mich., company specializing in large puppets and bilingual community programs for children, teens and adults in playwriting, performance, radio and community-based theater.

Maxine Greene Foundation for Social Imagination, the Arts and Education
Supports "intersections among various modes of social action and engagements with the arts." Greene Grants to artists and educators, Sunday Salons, online community. Founded 2003 by Maxine Greene, William F. Russell Professor in the Foundations of Education (emerita) at Teachers College, Columbia University and Philosopher-in-Residence of the Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education.

Mayor's Institute for City Design
Symposia on integrated design policy for economic revitalization, with city mayors and a resource team of urban-design and development professionals. Initiative administered by American Architectural Foundation, NEA and U.S. Conference of Mayors. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Meaningful Media
Nonprofit network providing resources "to inspire and empower those committed to changing our world through media." Membership Program, Professional Networks, Students for Meaningful Media Chapters, reports, newsletters, fact sheets, Meaningful Media Database, classes, seminars, workshops, forums, professional services. Based in Culver City, Calif.

Media That Matters
Online showcase of new media works for social change co-presented by Human Rights Watch International Film Festival and powered by Free Speech TV.

Medicine Wheel
Michael Dowling's Boston-based community service project involving hundreds of participants and collaborations with artists, neighborhood groups and community and arts organizations. Includes Medicine Wheel Youth Group, an arts employment program for teens; annual Medicine Wheel installation and vigil; No Man's Land, a reclamation, through gardens, sculpture and pathways, of an abandoned weed lot behind South Boston High School.

Medina Collective
Hip-hop/urban culture/journalism/mentorship program for young women of colour ages 16-24. Magazine with contributions from program participants. Founded by Tonika Morgan, based in Tornto, Ont., Canada.

Memories in the Making
Arts program of Alzheimer's Association in 65 assisted-living homes, nursing homes and community centers throughout Colorado.

Meshed Histories: The Influence of Screen Printing on Social Movements
Essay on artists' "discovery" of serigraphy -- screenprinting suited to very short runs of large format posters -- during times of social crisis in the 1930s and 1960s. by Lincoln Cushing. Published in Voice: AIGA Journal of Design, May 26, 2009.

MetLife Foundation Creative Aging Program
Support establishment and development of arts education programs for older adults.

Mexican Fine Arts Museum
In Chicago's Pilsen/Little Village community, "the largest Mexican community in the Midwest," dedicated to Mexican culture as manifested inside and outside Mexico. Exhibitions, collections, radio station and youth museum.

Mexican Museum
San Francisco Museum of Mexican and Mexican-American culture.

Miami-Dade Art in Public Places
One of first U.S. public-art programs in the , with 500 art installations in airports, transit lines, libraries, fire stations, and government buildings. Overseen by 15-member Citizens' Trust appointed by Dade Board of County Commissioners.

Michigan Ice Carving Team
Student group founded in 2001 at the University of Michigan, started out of Alice Lloyd Residence Hall's "Arts on the Hill" program. Represents the University at national and international carving competitions and festivals, and services "the ice carving needs in our community on campus." Founded by student Sultan Sharrief. Site includes gallery, order form.

Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
Regional arts foundation with a landmark Artists & Communities grants program.

Mierle Laderman Ukeles
Artist in residence at the New York City Department of Sanitation since 1977 and Percent-for-Art artist for the Fresh Kills lifescape on Staten Island.

Milagro Foundation
Supports artistic and culturally enriching programs by grassroots organization serving at-risk underrepresented and disadvantaged youth. Founded by Carlos and Deborah Santana.

Milk Crate Theatre
Theater company based in Kings Cross, NSW Australia. A collaboration between professional actors and artists and participants who are, or have been, homeless or disadvantaged.Programs: Open Workshops, Home-Delivered Workshops, Women's Workshops, The Michael Project, Woolloomooloo Initiative, ForumTheatre/Playback Performances, community building, social networking, human-rights consulting.

Mind the...gap
Innovative performance company based in Bradford, England. Includes work with people with physical, sensory or learning disabilites, low literacy and mental-health histories. Programs include Drama Club, Summer School, Musical Arc and Youth Theatre.

Miscellaneous Productions
Vancouver nonprofit interested in merging "the new frontiers of performance and new media"with community development and popular culture.

Mission Voices
Media literacy program in San Francisco's low-income Mission District by Worldstudio Foundation, Southern Exposure and Horizons Unlimited. Participants studied how media portrays local minority community and propagates stereotypes. Includes poster project.

Mississippi Action for Community Education (MACE)
Nonprofit, minority rural-development organization created by community leaders in 1967 to stimulate physical, social and economic development in rural Mississippi Delta. Cultural Arts Program with annual Delta Blues Festival, writing competition, Blues in Schools, film festival, international tour, internships. Also housing program and Women's Business Center. Based in Greenville, Miss.

Mississippi Arts Commission Core Arts Program
Programs in detention centers, adolescent offender programs, alternative schools, holding facilities, and community-based after-school and summer programs using the arts to decrease violence and recidivism, and increase school attendance and positive experiences with adult mentors.

Mississippi Cultural Crossroads
After-school program since 1976 that trains young people to document life in Claiborne County, Miss. Has Peanut Butter and Jelly Theater, troupe of seven high-school students who do stage productions promoting literacy. Also Young Person's Cultural Exchange program.

Missoula Children's Theatre
America's largest touring children's theater, using participation in the performing arts to develop creativity, social skills, goal achievement, communications skills and self-esteem; in Missoula, Montana.

Mizna
Organization based in Minneapolis, Minn., offering "prose, poetry and art exploring Arab America." Journal, annual film festival, gallery, classes, store.

Mobilizing Arts and Cultural Resources for Community Development
Workbook and resource guide on asset-based approach to integrating arts and culture into a community. Step-by-step strategy for examining local resources and starting partnerships in economic development; youth services/family support; social capital/community empowerment; training and leadership development; community design and planning; finance/regional strategies. Written and published in hard copy and download by Partners for Livable Communities.

Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue
Specialized conference and dialogue-study center at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Undergraduate courses, graduate internships, professional development, Dialogue Institute, forums and research programs. Annual dialogue showcase. Includes art gallery and arts-and-community dialogue specialists. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Mortal Coil Performance Society
All-female stilt company offering "larger than life images" for community celebrations, festivals and parades; based in Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

Mosaic Model for Youth Development through the Arts
Three-year study on Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit and its methods, The study identifies and assesses the internationally acclaimed, professional performing arts training program’s goals, practice methods, and expected outcome. Conducted by University of Michigan Department of Psychology, The Detroit Initiative and Detroit-area community-based organizations; published by Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit, 2008. Downloadable.

Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit
Performing-arts training program designed to achieve "youth development through the arts." Theatrical and musical performances by National Touring Company; Next Stage Company creates and performs original pieces through local commissions; Mosaic Acting Company; Mosaic Singers. Education Department, classes (English and Spanish), school and summer programs. Many local and national partners.

Mosaic the City
Artist-led public art project to enhance Victoria, B.C., Canada, with community-created mosaics, starting with Market Square. By Fusion Foundation, Rock Solid Foundations and Out of Hand Gallery.

Mountain Community Radio
Independent community radio station based at Appalshop in Whitesburg, Ky., broadcasting music, news and community-affairs programming, staffed mostly by Appalachian volunteers; also Web-broadcast on Yahoo.

Mountain Institute for Social Change
Series of meetings at Mountain Retreat & Learning Center, Highlands, N.C., structured around a keynote speaker. Includes institutes in art and social change.

Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA)
Contemporary arts space in William/Reed Corridor of San Jose, California, founded in 1989 by community activists to change representation of multicultural artists within the city's art allocations. Exhibitions, performance, youth arts education.

Moving Lives
Digital storytelling project with young separated refugees in East London by PhotoVoice. Workshops to help them settle in the U.K., prepare for school/college and explore ideas around integration. Mentoring project in photography

Moving Space Productions
A process using art & the outdoors with groups and individuals for health, wellbeing and therapy; clinical drama and movement therapy; professional development in art therapy, youth development, arts education and outdoor learning. Outcome-led using games, tasks, discussions, arts and drama activities to facilitate personal and group process. Outcomes always expressed in concrete, actionable, measurable forms. Developed/directed by drama therapist Chris Reed; based in Lancashire, England.

Moving Stories
Stories about rail travel and journeys through the ages: fiction, non-fiction, anecdotes and poems from around the world. Submitted online to U.K.'s National Railway Museum's Railfest 2004 celebration commemorating 200 years of the railway.

Moving in the Spirit
Dance and training programs for Atlanta, Ga., young people in inner-city shelters, schools, public housing. Apprenticeship Corporation teaching problems-solving, critical thinking, Kinetechs tech training program in theater production and stage management.

Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation
Supports music education donation and repair of musical instruments to under-served schools, community music programs and individual students nationwide.

MuST (Music in Schools Today)
San Francisco Bay area organizations that supports, develops and promotes music education for youth in schools and in the community. Programs: Achieveing Through Music (music intervention for at-risk youth); Understanding Cultures (classes that improve literacy and social studies through understanding world music); Music Mentors (in person and online); Professional Development (credit through S.F. state U.); Adopt an Instrument; advocacy and free consulting; school and fiscal sponsorship ("start-ups" in music and arts education); special events. Founded 1983.

MunicipalWORKSHOP
Contemporary public art laboratory that works in collaboration with municipalities and community members in hopes of creating more creative and dynamic cities and townships.

Mural Arts Program
Painted more than 2,300 murals throughout Philadelphia, Pa., since 1984. Workshops for young people teach mural and leadership skills. Program of the City of Philadelphia, Pa.

MuralArt.com
Mural expert Robin Dunitz's site offering information on murals in Los Angeles, California, and elsewhere, plus a schedule of mural tours, Mural of the Month, books and links.

Murmur
[murmur] is an audio storytelling project that uses mobile phones to share first-person narratives and location-specific stories. Green [murmur] signs (with telephone number and unique code for that location) indicate the availability of stories. By mobile phone, pedestrians hear short stories about the place they are standing, in the storyteller's own voice. Launched in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal, Canada; Ediburgh, Scotlan; San Jose, California; Dublin, Ireland.

Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts
MoCADA, Brooklyn, N.Y.'s first museum devoted to the visual arts as a medium to address, discuss, debate and resolve contemporary political, social and economic issues affecting people of the African Diaspora. Exhibition, public programs, communtiy-outreach initiatives, educational interactive tours. Founded 1999 by Laurie Cumbo.

Museum of the African Diaspora
San Francisco-based museum without a collection; a "collector of stories—a repository of information to be shared with all who wish to know about the African Diaspora." Exhibition, literacy and schools programs, lectures, films, teen art talks. MoAD Stories project: "I've Known Rivers."

Music Kitchen
Nonprofit organization bringing professional classical musicians together to share music with New York City’s disenfranchised homeless shelter population. Founded and directed by violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins.

Music National Service Initiative
Volunteer-driven social-enterprise, initiative based in San Francisco Bay Area to strengthen and expand the field of music-based volunteerism. Includes MusicianCorp (launch August 2009), a “musical Peace Corps” enabling musicians to serve in: underserved schools and communities, healthcare and therapeutic settings and public domain. Training Institute. National database and network of Musician Mentors. Founded 2008 by Kiff Gallagher.

Music for All Seasons
Facilitates the performance of live musical events for confined audiences in children's hospitals, retirement facilities, juvenile detention centers, nursing homes, medical centers, halfway houses and prisons to help aid physical, mental and spiritual healing process. Programs in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and California. Founded 1991 by Rena Fruchter and Brian Dallow.

Music for Change
British organization interested in the intrinsic value of music and how it can play a vital role in community development, social inclusion and antiracist work through education, cooperation and building self-esteem.

My History is America's History
Millennium project at the National Endowment for the Humanities Web site, a family-history project on the endowment's "virtual front porch."

My Mississippi Eyes
Project at Lanier High School in Jackson, Miss., training students (through poetry, short stories, drama and music) to conduct workshops for their peers on historic migration of blacks from Mississippi to Chicago. By Mississippi Algebra Project, Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education, Mississippi Arts Commission, and M.U.G.A.B.E.E.

My North Philly
Community-based project involving 20 community organizations, churches, libraries, recreation centers and neighborhood groups in mural and puppet making, dance, jazz music, ceramics, playwriting and painting to increase cultural programming and participation in neighborhoods in North Philadelphia, Pa., and Camden, N.J. By Mural Arts Program.

Myths and Mirrors Community Arts
Community arts organization in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, a northern mining town. Based in two of the city’s oldest neighbourhoods, the Flour Mill and the Donovan. "Under the shadow of the world’s highest smoke stack, we are committed to planting seeds of creativity and hope in slagheaps of burnt rock, and to joining with others in the creation of our common future." Theater, performance art, murals, mosaics, music and drumming, gardens, celebrations, rituals, stilting, face painting, costuming, visual arts, installations, video, film, games and popular education. Founded by Laurie McGauley

NAEP Arts Report Card 1997
Assessment of skills and knowledge in music, theater and visual arts, administered to over 6,000 eighth graders in 268 schools. Shows wide gap between benefits of arts and their availability to students on a regular basis. Written, published by National Assessment of Educational Progress, 1997.

NC Women's Prison Writing and Performance Project
Weekly workshops in writing and performance. Public performances by Women�s Prison Repertory Company. Based at Jordan Institute for Families at School of Social Work of UNC-Chapel Hill.

NEA Jazz in the Schools
Web-based curriculum and DVD toolkit that explores jazz as an indigenous American art form and means to understand American history. By National Endowment for the Arts.

NIEHS Public Forum & Toxics Assistance and Translational Theatre Outreach & Education at UMTB Galveston
Community environmental forum theater addressing 21st Century environmental challenges to families and their communities. Program of National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Center in Environmental Toxicology at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston; focuses on the needs of Gulf Coast Texas communities.

NMAI Conexus
Web site devoted to Native cultures, presenting public programs, special events, visiting Native artists and museum exhibitions from the George Gustav Heye Center of the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City.

NYC Expressive Arts Studio
community-based arts organization that specializes in the practice of expressive arts. Community workshops, individual sessions and training programs in expressive arts facilitation. Draws on the arts, philosophy, anthropology and psychology; from the European Graduate School in theory, methodology and practice. directed by Rebekah Windmiller, dancer and choreographer.

NYFA Current
National communications online publication for the arts community, by New York Foundation for the Arts. (formerly Arts Wire.) Edited by Judy Malloy.

NYFA Source
National database of awards, services, and publications for artists of all disciplines. By New York Foundation for the Arts

Nana Projects
Company of lanterneers and "visual alchemists" creating public spectacles. Best known for an annual Baltimore community event, The Great Halloween Lantern Parade. Offers Parade School training program for artists, community organizers and college students interested in the artistry of community-based parades. Directed by Molly Ross; originally founded in Minneapolis as Theater Nana in 1992.

Nancy B. Jefferson Literacy and Creative Media Program
Program at Nancy B. Jefferson Alternative School providing print- and media-literacy skills-enhancement programs to young people detained in Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center in Chicago, Ill. Programs in tutoring, creative writing, publishing, digital image manipulation, sound editing and sequencing, web design, maintenance of personal computers from the inside out, including building them from scratch. Library, volunteer coordination, school-wide events, seminars. Excellent links to activism in "prison industrial complex" issues.

National Art Education Association
Founded 1947, merger of regional art associations and art department of National Education Association. Newsletter, publications, convention, special programs.

National Arts Education Public Awareness Campaign Survey
Monograph on results of Americans for the Arts' 2001 arts-education public-awareness survey. Finds 95 percent of parents believe arts are important in preparing children for the future, and 91 percent believe arts are an important part of a well-rounded education. Written, published by Americans for the Arts, 2001.

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

National Arts Policy Database
Information about documentation and publications related to arts and culture since 1960. Approx. 7,000 items, searchable by topic (examples: arts and public funding, cultural policy, community development and the arts). Each item has an abstract and lists publication and contact information. Written, published by Americans for the Arts, 2003.

National Arts Strategies
Nonprofit organization providing leadership training for arts-organization executives, boards and staff. Seminars, customized programs, peer learning, coaching, consulting services. Intensive two-week leadership retreat with Stanford. Faculty from leading U.S. business schools. Founded by Ford, Rockefeller, Mellon foundations.

National Arts and Disabilities Center
Information, resource and training center affiliated with UCLA. National information dissemination, technical assistance, training, referral center dedicated to inclusion of people with disabilities into arts communities; home of Association for Theatre and Accessibility. Project of UCLA.

National Arts and Disability Center
Promote full inclusion of audiences and artists with disabilities into all facets of arts community. consulting, education, directories, bibliographies, careers, networking, funding. Assistive devices, services and products; marketing & publicity; film festivals listing; How to Design an Accessible Web Site. Project of the UCLA Tarjan Center.

National Arts and Disability Network
Creates opportunities for artists with disabilities. Convenings, listerv, directory. Based in California.

National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA)
Membership/service organization of U.S. state and jurisdictional arts agencies. Newsletter, publications, state spotlight, directories, info on global arts, cultural tourism and millennium projects.

National Association for Music Education (MENC)
Promoting music education in U.S. schools.

National Association of Artists' Organizations (NAAO)
Membership organization representing artist-run organizations throughout the U.S.

National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC)
Active national organization with a mentorship program, a leadership initiative, an online magazine and other publications and a network of Latino arts gift shops.

National Association of Media Arts Centers (NAMAC)
Membership organization of film, video and online/media artists and organizations. Web site offers searchable members directory, media-arts newsletter.

National Association of Poetry Therapy
International membership organization of poets, writers, journalkeepers, helping professionals, health care professionals, and educators who work in mental health, medical, geriatric, therapeutic, educational and community settings. Encompasses bibliotherapy (interactive use of literature) and journal therapy (the use of life-based reflective writing) as well as therapeutic storytelling, the use of film in therapy, and other language-based healing modalities. Publications, annual conference, newsletter, events, info on training and certification. A Cross-Sector Resource.

National Business Incubation Association
Provides training for, information clearinghouse on incubator management and development issues and tools for assisting start-up and fledgling organizations. A Cross-Sector Resource.

National Call to Artists
Web repository for images, songs, scripts and ideas that can assist activists in mobilizing and participating in social action. By Judy Baca and Arlene Goldbard.

National Center for Creative Aging
National network of organizations providing quality arts programs for elders. Based in Washington, D.C.

National Coalition Against Censorship
Alliance of 50 national nonprofit literary, artistic, religious, educational, professional, labor and civil liberties groups. Founded 1974 to educate members and the public about dangers of censorship and how to oppose them.

National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation
Network of dialogue practitioners exchanging values, goals, terminology, techniques and resources. Conferences, projects, glossary, d&d resources. A Cross-Sector Resource.

National Dance Institute
Nonprofit arts education organization founded in 1976 by Jacques d'Amboise. Uses dance "as a catalyst to engage children and motivate them towards excellence." In-school partnerships, workshops, public performances.

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
The federal arts agency's site, featuring news, publications, case studies, onine application forms and searchable data base on the arts.

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.

National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts
Representative association for nonprofit, non-degree-granting community schools of the arts in the U.S. and Canada.

National Institute for Arts and Disabilities
NIAD (National Institute of Art and Disabilities) is an innovative visual arts center assisting adults with developmental and other physical disabilities located in Richmond, CA.

National Museum of Mexican Art
Largest Latino arts institution in U.S. and only Latino museum accredited by American Association of Museums. Serves as cultural focus for more than a million Mexicans in Chicago area. Yollocalli Youth Arts Reach Program: arts-education and career-training program for youth 13-21. Museum partners with Fine Arts and Museum Academy in the Chicago Public Schools, CPS Office of Language and Cultural Education, CPS Bilingual Parent Resource Center, Chicago Park District, Art Institute of Chicago, After School Matters of Chicago, Rauner Family YMCA, Chicago Children's Humanities Festival, Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

National Museum of the American Indian
Smithsonian Institution museum, opened September 21, 2004, in Washington D.C.

National Network for the Arts in Health
Membership organization with directories and information about arts in healthcare in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. Online conferences, newsletter, bibliography, interactive games.

National Park Service Residency Programs
Offers opportunities for two-dimensional visual artists, photographers, sculptors, performers, writers, composers and craft artists to live and work in the national parks. As of 2007, 29 parks are participating in the Artist-In-Residence program.

National Performance Network
Supports touring by established and emerging performing artists, with emphasis on community-based residencies.

National Resource Center for Youth Services
Provides technical assistance, training, research and publications to the youth-services community. Good resource on youth and child development, learning, education, legislation and services in the U.S. Extensive publications, links, online library. Based at U. of Oklahoma, College of Continuing Education. A Cross-Sector Resource.

National Service-learning Clearinghouse
Information system on all dimensions of service-learning (youth in community service), covering kindergarten through higher education school-based and community-based initiatives.

National Steinbeck Center
Community arts center in Salinas, Calif., in tribute to writer John Steinbeck and his "belief that the arts should be enriching to the community and relevant to everyday life." Archive displays, art and history exhibitions, lectures, repertory film series, schools programs, community artist residency, community collaborations, 10,000 Poems Project.

National Storytelling Network
Member organization with direct services, publications and educational opportunities to individuals, local storytelling guilds and associations. National Storytelling Conference, National Storytelling Awards, Storytelling Magazine, National Storytelling Directory, Annual "Tellabration." Web site with calendar, Cyber Cafe resources. Annual Brimstone Award for Applied Storytelling.

National Theater Workshop for the Handicapped
Academic and practical arts programs for people with physical and developmental handicaps; in Belfast, Maine, and N.Y. City.

National Trust Main Street Center
Resources to revitalize traditional commercial areas through historic preservation and grassroots-based economic development. Network of more than 1,200 active Main Street programs in U.S. Information clearinghouse, technical assistance, research, advocacy; consulting services, conferences, publications, membership, newsletter, trainings. Program of National Trust for Historic Preservation. A Cross-Sector Resource.

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
Museum and research center authorized by Congress in the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Act of 2000 "to focus on the triumph of freedom over slavery." Opens 2004 in Cincinnati, Ohio.

National Writing Project
Teachers teaching teachers about writing. Network of 166 sites in the U.S., Canada and Europe, with links to sites and homepages. Magazine, newsletter and books.

Native American Public Telecommunications
Support the creation, promotion and distribution of Native public media. Creative, training, leadership, policy initiatives. Based in Lincoln, Neb.

Natural Capital Institute
Founded 2002 by Paul Hawken. Team of researchers, teachers, students, activists, scholars, writers, social entrepreneurs, artists, and volunteers committed to "the restoration of the earth and the healing of human culture." Books, research reports, tools for people and organizations working towards ecological sustainability, economic justice, human rights and political accountability. Includes WISER (World Index for Social and Environmental Responsibility) -- dynamic, open-source, community-based platforms for working collaboratively: WiserEarth, WiserBusiness, WiserCommons, Wiser Government. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Natural World Museum
“Museum without walls” international organization presenting art through innovative programs to inspire and engage the public in environmental awareness and action. Partnering with the United Nations Environment Programme through the Art for the Environment initiative. Traveling exhibition series, site-specific programs, symposia, interactive multimedia experiences, workshops, cultural performances, programs for children and youth and special community events.

Nature Consortium
Grassroots organization teaching environmental lessons through the creative arts and hands-on conservation projects. Youth Art Program, Urban Forest Restoration Project, Arts-in-Nature Festival. Based in Seattle, Wash.

NeighborWorks America
National nonprofit organization created by Congress to provide financial support, technical assistance, and training for community-based revitalization efforts. National programs, community strategies, training & certification, publications, best practices. Locator for community bases nationwide. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Neighborhood Story Project
Works with high-school students and their families to write about their lives and neighborhoods. Based at John McDonogh Senior High in New Orleans, La. Co-sponsored by Literacy Alliance of Greater New Orleans, University of New Orleans and New Orleans Saints' player Steve Gleason's One Sweet World Foundation.

Neighborhood Writing Alliance
Creates opportunities for adults in low-income Chicago neighborhoods to write, publish and perform works about their lives. Works are published in the Journal of Ordinary Thought (JOT). Founded 1996 by Hal Adams, Deborah Epstein and Sunny Fischer, and grew out of JOT, founded by Hal Adams in 1991. From 1991 to 1995, JOT was sponsored by the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Netart Initiative
Franklin Furnace's "loosely knit, open-source-based, hub-styled, forum-oriented, action-enable consortium" on art on the Net, with live Webcasts and archived video.

New Americans Minnesota Community Campaign
Joint effort of eight nonprofit organizations. in collaboration with Active Voice to engage communities in civic dialogue about immigration.

New Belfast Community Arts
Consortium of key Belfast umbrella groups, with programs in poetry, murals, training and media.

New Deal Stage
Online Library of Congress presentation of 13,000+ images from Federal Theatre Project Collection., part of Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1930s.

New England Biolabs Foundation
Private foundation started in 1982 by the founder of New England Biolabs,Inc. to support grassroots organizations working with the environment, social change, the arts, elementary education and science. International grant programs to NGOS to support creative ways to spread their work to more listeners and to make a lasting impact by incorporating the arts and local culture. Special project: Artcorps.

New England's Creative Economy: The Non-profit Sector, 2002
Study finding that cultural nonprofits in New England have an economic impact of $6.654 billion. Includes estimates of spending, income, net assets, admissions, employment, volunteers and taxes. Based on a regionwide direct 2004 survey and IRS data for 1996-2002. By New England Foundation for the Arts (2005).

New Land Marks
Sixteen Philadelphia projects that incorporate artwork into community revitalization, urban greening, neighborhood history and streetscape enhancement. Initiative of Fairmount Park Art Association, oldest U.S. arts group.

New Lens
Youth-driven social-justice organization that makes art and media "about issues where a youth perspective can inspire change. The work is used to address systemic problems, facilitate dialogue, shift perspectives and stimulate action." Serves 200 public school youth each year through classes and workshops. Website has videos. Directed by Rebecca Yenawine, formerly Kids on the Hill arts-based afterschool program. Based in Baltimore, Md.

New Urban Arts
Providence, R.I., arts mentoring organization with programs for high-school students and emerging artists. After-school studio, community partnerships, college/career prep, Youth Council, in-school residencies, adult workshops led by high-school students, professional development programs. Founded 1997.

New Village
Journal of community building, sustainable cultures, elightened community planning, development and revitalization.

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.

New WORLD Theater
Visionary presenter and producer of works by playwrights of color, "purposely blurring the lines between professional and community, art and politics, scholarship and activism;" in residence at UMass. Offers training in community arts techniques.

New York Community Writers Coalition
Community writing organization in New York City. Provides free creative writing workshops "for people from groups that have been historically deprived of voice in our society, including at-risk youth, adult residents of supportive housing, seniors and others." Publications and public readings.

New York Latino Journal
Online "Latino people’s magazine of thought, news, opinion and information," based in New York City. "The People's History of the World, as told through the Latino experience." Includes arts.

New York State Arts In Correctional Education Network
Network of educators and artists concerned with education in correctional institutions in New York State. Aims to develop a support community and a network of resources; facilitate dialogue and collaboration among arts organizations, artists and correctional education programs; support artists and arts organizations with knowledge and training needed to better serve correctional education. Administered by Dale Davis, executive director, New York State Literary Center. Reading resource list, listserv, links, questions for discussion.

New York State Literary Center
Founded 1979 by Dale Davis and A. Poulin Jr. One of the first upstate New York arts organizations to send writers into public schools on a regular basis: 250 writers and artists worked with 30,000 children in 500 rural, urban and alternative schools. Projects: High School Literary Magazine; AIDS ‘N US, a peer-directed high-school AIDS-education project; The High School Research Paper A New Approach: Books, Photography, and Video; programs for teachers on children and divorce, race, war; Arts, Literacy and The Classroom Community, serving incarcerated adolescents; The Communications Project, writing program for at-risk youth and publisher of books, CDs, theater pieces.

Nine Mile Run Greenway Project
Community dialogue on public space, art and ecology with artists, scientists, historians and planners in context of controversial Nine Mile Run development in slag-filled hills of Pittsburgh's East End.

NiteStar Program
Drama, music and peer-education for pre-adolescents, adolescents and young adults living with HIV/AIDS. Includes direct service, training and technical assistance. Productions created by members of the company, with followup workshops, heighten awareness, provide accurate information and help to reduce risky behaviors. Founded by Dr. Cydelle Berlin in 1987. Located at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York City, N.Y.

North American Alliance for Popular and Adult Education
Useful links to North American popular and adult-education organizations, networks and educators, and to global adult-learning and democratic social movements.

North Carolina Arts for Health Network
Network for patients, practivtioners, advocate of arts for health in N.C. Annual training institute, Web site with resource materials, links, conference listings.

North Carolina Center for Creative Retirement
Promotes lifelong learning, leadership and community-service opportunities for retirement-aged people. Includes College for Seniors nad Creative Retirement Exploraiton Weekends. At UNC Asheville.

Northwest Institute for Social Change
Nonprofit organization in Portland, Ore., offering Media Making Change, summer institute in media arts for undergraduate fellows. Students learn how media tools can positively affect public policy. Can earn a full term's worth of credit from the University of Oregon School of Communication. Each student attends media-studies courses, then works with NPR producers and Academy-award-nominated filmmakers, producing both an audio and a video documentary about a local solution to a global issue.

Nuestras Raíces
Grassroots organization that promotes economic, human and community development in Holyoke, Mass., through projects relating to food, agriculture and the environment. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Nuyorican Poets Cafe
Venue serving New York City's Lower East Side slam poetry, hip-hop, music and film communities. Founded 1973 by Miguel Algarin.

Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
Nonprofit organizing and education center and organic farm in Northern California’s Sonoma County. Founded in 1994 by artists, biologists, horticulturists, educators and activists. Research, demonstration, education and organizing to develop collaborative, community-based strategies for positive social change and effective environmental stewardship. Programs: Permaculture, Intentional Communities, Arts, Mother Garden Biodiversity, Wildlands Biodiversity, Ecological Agriculture and Sustainable Food Systems, WATER Institute and School Gardens.

Old Town School of Folk Music
Teaches and celebrates music and cultural expressions rooted in traditions of diverse American and global communities. Based in Chicago, Ill.; founded 1957 by Win Stracke, Frank Hamilton and Dawn Greening. Classes, concerts, field trips, festivals, music store, resource center, gallery.

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.

OnRamp Arts
Digital-arts organization in central Los Angeles, Calif., that does collaborative new-media projects with community members and artists.

Open Book
Minneapolis, Minn., center for reading, writing and book arts, founded by charter tenants The Loft, Milkweed Editions and Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

Open Door Theatre
Theater based in Everett, Wash., that "frees children from violence and abuse by teaching safety skills through dramatic live performances." Has in-school programs and teachers' handbooks.

Open Space Institute
Technology, founded by Harrison Owen in 1992, for running meetings and conferences that empower all participants to create and manage their own agenda.

OpenEducation.net
Site dedicated to tracking changes occurring in education. Categories of informaiton include: Books & Library, Copyright Law & IP, Distance Learning, Equal Opportunity, Multimedia Content, Open Source Software, Public Policy, Search & Information Access, Teaching and Learning, Technology. Editor is Thomas J. Hanson, former school superintendent. A service of GoCollege.com. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Opera House Arts
Community arts space at Stonington Opera House in historic building in Deer Isle, Maine. Performances, new works based in local oral histories, community playreading series, documentaries on local culture and practices, family theater-arts series, local site-specific projects. Carol Estey, Judith Jerome, co-artistic directors. Founded by Linda Pattie.

Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
NEA writing program for U.S. military personnel and their families. Workshops, online tutorials, publications. Supported by Dept. of Defense, Southern Arts Federation and Boeing Co.

Oral History Association
Serves the field of oral history, encouraging standards of excellence in collection, preservation, dissemination and uses of oral testimony. Based at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa.

Orange County Arts Education Center
Orange County, Fla., organizations that builds connectivity, collaboration and support among county leaders, citizens, nonprofit organizations, educational institutions and businesses "to make high-quality arts education accessible and a source of pride to all. " Initiatives: Through the Arts-Arts Integration Program; Arts Education Job Fair; Arts Summer Camp Fair.

Orange Show Center for Visionary Art
Houston, Tex., "visionary art" organization. Workshops, music, storytelling, performance, Eyeopener Tour program, Art Car Parade & Festival, the Orange Show Monument and the Beer Can House.

Otis Community Connections
Programs at Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, Calif., to cultivate partnerships between campus and community. Includes Artists, Community and Teaching (ACT: Otis fine-arts students teaching in public schools); OTEAM (after-school/summer academy for underserved high-school students); Integrated Learning (site-based curriculum for Otis students); CE (educational/professional development for all ages).

Our Stories, In Focus - A Community Art and History Project
2008 project of Chapel Hill, N.C., Public Arts Commission. Includes workshops in oral history, genealogy, journal writing and story circles. Includes a community tapestry by artists Leah Sobsey and Lynn Bregman-Blass.

PBS Teachers
Public Broadcasting Service resource for preK-12 teachers. Classroom materials, lesson plans, teaching activities, on-demand video assets, interactive games, simulations video products. Correlated to state and national educational standards and tied to PBS' on-air and online programming like NOVA, Nature, Cyberchase, Between the Lions and more. Gateway for local resources and services offered by local PBS stations. Online professional development through PBS TeacherLine.

PCTV Evaluation Report
Intensive qualitative assessment of a Minneapolis youth media organization, Phillips Community TeleVision. Good evaluation model. Written by Janet Madzey-Akale, Full Circle Youth Development Program Planning & Evaluation Services. Published by PCTV, 2005.

PEN Prison Writing Program
Annual writing awards for prisoners. Open to anyone incarcerated in a federal, state or county prison. Sponsored by PEN American Center.

PSE Consultancy
New Zealand community and cultural organization providing support to community organizations, local authorities and enterprise boards in the field of cultural wellbeing and community planning. Workshops, seminars, research, publications, feasibility studies, resource management, community resource auditing, cultural mapping, strategic planning, budgeting, development of creative clusters and precincts. Programs in New Zealand, england and South Africa. directed by Penny Eames, founder of Arts Access Aotearoa.

Pale Girl in the African Sun
Theater artist Maureen Towey's documentation of her year in South Africa as a Fulbright Scholar researching how performance can help re-imagine community identity. Includes slide shows and journal.

Pangea World Theater
Minneapolis, Minnesota-based theater company employing a cross-ethnic vision of tolerance and humanrights through excellence in the arts.

Pangeiart
Transnational nonprofit association producing cultural-exchange projects focused on creative processes in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Panopticons
Arts and regeneration project of East Lancashire Regional Park initiative led by the Lancashire Economic Partnership in the North of England to erect 21st century landmarks (Panopticons) across East Lancashire 2003-2007, as symbols of the renaissance of the area.

PapaInk
International archive of children�s visual art supported by volunteer network of academicians, artists, teachers, parents and children.

Paper Tiger TV
Nonprofit, volunteer video collective working to "challenge and expose the corporate control of mainstream media." Production and distribution of our public access series, media literacy/video production workshops, community screenings, grassroots advocacy.

Paperhand Puppet Intervention
Uses cardboard, papier-mache, trash and a variety of puppetry styles to help promote "social change, peace and hope for a better world." Community collaborations. Based in Saxapahaw, N.C.; directed by artists Donovan Zimmerman and Jan Burger.

Paprika Theare Festival
Annual juried festival in Toronto, Ont., Canada, presenting new theater works written, directed, acted, designed and stage managed by young artists under the age of 21. Founded by Anthony Furey in 2002; runs for two weeks every March.

Participation in Arts and Culture: The Importance of Community Venues
Study finding that more people participate in arts and cultural events in open-air spaces, schools, places of worship and other nontraditional venues than in conventional arts venues. 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 Christopher Walker (Urban Institute and Wallace Foundation, 2003).

Partners for Livable Communities
Project and publications based in theory that creativity is essential to livable communities. Culture Builds Communities, Creative City, America's Most Livable Communities. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Partners in Excellence: A Guide to Community School of the Arts/Public School Partnerships from Inspiration to Implementation
Handbook outlining best practices in structuring, managing and sustaining partnerships. Topics: planning and budgeting, fundraising and advocacy, content creation, professional development, evaluation and assessment. Includes workshop plans, annotated bibliography. Publication is a component of the Metlife Foundation Partners in Arts Education Project, a national initiative to improve teaching and learning in the arts. Downloadable free from Web. Written by Jacqueline Sideman Guttman; published by National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts, 2005.

Partnerships Affirming Community Transformation (PACT)
Rockefeller Foundation program supporting cultural development projects.

Partnerships Between Large and Small Cultural Organizations: A Strategy for Building Arts Participation
Study of ten large-small partnerships supported by The Wallace Foundation's Community Partnerships for Cultural Participation initiative. By Francie Ostrower (Urban Institute, 2004).

Passion Works
Athens, Ohio, organization that creates arts opportunities for people with developmental challenges.

Pat Graney Company
Dance/theater company based in Seattle, Wash. Includes dance in prisons.

Patrick Dougherty
North Carolina Public artist who makes monumental works using tree saplings.

Paving the way
Study mapping the youth-and-participatory-theater sector with baseline assessment of activity across England. Summarizes findings of an extensive mapping study, regional mapping reports and case-study research. Commissioned to inform development of the Young People's Participatory Theatre project a three-year initiative (2005/06 - 20008/09), funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). By Arts Council England in partnership with National Association of Youth Theatres, 2007.

Peace Child Israel
Nonprofit group based in Tel Aviv that has used theater to teach tolerance and mutual respect to Arab and Jewish teenagers.

Peace Media Clearinghouse
Collection of audio and visual resources and best practices related to conflict management. Multimedia materials that support conflict analysis and prevention, conflict resolution and post-conflict reconstruction and reconciliation. Online videos, feature-length radio programs and films, computer games, poster campaigns, theater, teaching guides. Searchable by media type, subject area and country. Joint project of U.S. Institute of Peace and Georgetown University's Conflict Resolution Program. A Cross-Sector Resource.

PeaceVox
The artist as a voice for peace: "Global meeting place for peacebuilders of all kinds to express themselves through the arts, outside of the boundaries and restrictions of their work." Based in Canada.

Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed
Focuses on ideology and methods of Paulo Freire, Augusto Boal, liberatory educators, activists and community organizers. Based in Omaha, Neb.; has annual national conference.

Peninsula Europe
Ecological project by artists Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrision. Study of the effects of restoring biodiversity of highlands of Europe so rivers can become primary European source of pure water.

People's Music School
Professionally staffed free community music school in a Chicago neighborhood.

People's Palace Projects
NGO with arts/human rights projects. In Brazil: "Changing the Scene" in/outside juvenile justice system in Rio and "Staging Human Rights" in prisons across five states. In U.K.: "Lives Online" year-long performance, visual-art and Web-design program with teenagers excluded from school.

Percent for Art Collaborative
Interdisciplinary consulting group based in Chapel Hill, N.C., including artists, government representatives, public art administrators, architects, writers, historians, landscape designers and urban planners. Creates design teams to help communities initiate and refine public art policies, programs, and projects.

Performance Lab
Minnesota-based organization that enables communities to access arts coaches in virtual space.

Performing Arts Research Coalition (PARC)
Three-year audience-research project on culture-going habits of citizens in ten U.S. cities, confirming that people attend performing arts-related events more than sporting events and place a high value on presence of performing arts near where they live, work, and seek cultural outlets. By Urban Institute (Opera America et al, 2004).

Performing Arts Workshop
San Francisco-based nonprofit organization dedicated to "helping young people develop critical thinking, creative expression, and basic learning skills through the arts." Artist-in-schools and Artist-in community programs in public schools, transitional housing facilities, after-school programs, community centers and juvenile halls. Professional development opportunities and artist internships. Established in 1965 to provide a creative outlet for inner-city teenagers by Gloria Unti.

Performing Arts in a New Era
RAND Corp. study from 9/01 predicting dim future for mid-sized arts organizations. By Kevin McCarthy, Arthur Brooks, Julia Lowell, Laura Zakaras (Rand, 2001).

Performing Communities: The Grassroots Ensemble Theater Research Project
Study of ensemble theater deeply rooted in eight U.S. communities for 10 to 35 years. Lays down a base of 86 interviews with these diverse artist ensembles and their communities, then layers it with comments by the site visitors and critical writing by experts in the field of community-based arts. Also included are theater profiles, photo galleries, play excerpts and documentary resource inventories. By Robert H. Leonard, Ann Kilkelly, Jan Cohen-Cruz, Linda Frye Burnham, et. al., Published online by Community Arts Network, 2002. (Published in paperback by New village Press, 2006.)

Performing the World
International community of people who recognize performance as a powerful developmental activity for social-cultural transformation. International conferences.

Perseverance Theatre
Artist-driven organization dedicated to developing Alaskan artists from all backgrounds and cultivating Alaskan audiences for a broad range of work. Founded in 1979 by Molly Smith.

Phakama
Southern Africa educational project using community arts projects to train young people about human rights issues through leadership and facilitation. Part of the Communication Initiative.

Philadelphia Public Art
Artist Chris Purdom's collection of pictures of 458 sculptures, fountains, mosaics and memorials in Philadelphia, Pa., with some information about each piece. Browsable by titles, artists, years, people and descriptions.

Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA)
70+ artist-teachers dedicated to "artistically excellent theater aesthetics and pedagogy towards the empowerment of people and society." Includes Mekong Partnership Project, School of People's Theater, projects with women, children, teens.

Phillips Community TeleVision
Youth media organization with training programs, TV magazine, video diaries, Web gallery and more. Based in Minneapolis, Minn.

PhotoVoice
Grassroots training in photography for social action. Enables people to record community strengths and problems; promotes dialogue about important issues through group discussion and photographs; engages policymakers. Based in London, England.

Place Matters
Project of City Lore and Municipal Art society to foster the conservation of New York City's historically and culturally significant places. Research, cultural resource surveys, public programs, archive, exhibits, publications. Provides testimony, consultation, and referrals in connection to endangered sites.

Places
Online publication "committed to design as a catalyst of change." Peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal of contemporary architecture, landscape and urbanism, with particular emphasis on the public realm as physical place and social ideal. Published by the Design History Foundation, supported by a consortium of U.S. universities and organizational and individual sponsors.

Planners Network
Association of professionals, activists, academics and students involved in physical, social, economic and environmental planning in urban and rural areas, who promote fundamental change in political and economic systems. Established in 1975.

Planning for Grassroots Arts Development: A Research Study of Nine Communities in Transition
Three-year 1973 study of first rural arts award made by National Endowment for the Arts, which identified five small Wisconsin towns and undertook a stepwise arts development program there. Compared attitudes of people to the arts in these towns with four "control communities" - towns demographically similar, with no arts infrastructure. During 2004-5, the Wisconsin Arts Board and others will revisit these communities and two others to see what has happened since. By Maryo Ewell and Peter Ewell (Arts in Society, 1975).

Platform
British artist/activists Dan Gretton, James Marriot and Jane Trowell working to help achieve an ecological and democratic society, with a primary focus on London, the Tidal Thames Valley and the oil industry.

Playmaking for Girls
Program of Synchronicity Performance Group in Atlanta, Ga. Detention Center workshops, public performances, after-school program, satellite workshops min middle and high schools, extensive community partnerships.

Playwrights Project
Enlightened playwriting program for kids and older people, based in San Diego, Calif.

Plaza de la Raza Cultural Center for the Arts and Education
"The only multidisciplinary cultural arts center for Latinos in L.A." Classes, shops, fiestas and collections.

Plugged In
Community computing center that brings technological resources to low-income youth, uses art as catalyst to learning; based in Palo Alto, Calif.; includes national list of community computing centers.

Poetry & Writing by the People of Dignity Village
Writing, poems and songs by residents of a mobile tent city in Portland, Oregon.

Poetry Daily
Anthology of contemporary poetry books, magazines and journals currently in print. New poem posted daily, with e-mail delivery option including poetry news.

Poetry Workshop Planning Guide
Manual to help high-schoolers teach poetry to junior-high students, including writing activities they can use when creating their own six-month curricula. From New Urban Arts in Providence R.I., an interdisciplinary art studio and gallery for high-school students.

Poets & Writers
Primary source of information, support, and guidance for creative writers. Founded 1970. Magazine, online directory, publishing seminars by e-mail, readings, workshops, forum.

Poets Against the War
Online anthology of works by poets across the globe in response to possible U.S. war in Iraq. Founded 2003 by poet Sam Hamill upon being invited to a White House poetry symposium, which was subsequently canceled.

Points of Entry: Crosscurrents in Storytelling
Publication that encourages "narrative journalism" by crossing storytelling with reporting, fiction and oral tradition.

PolicyLink
National nonprofit research, communications, capacity-building, advocacy organization. Collaborates on equitable development, equitable public investment, fair distribution of affordable housing, community strategies to improve health. Based in Oakland, Calif. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Pomegranate Center
Nonprofit organization devoted to community-generated design and development. Combines design and art with community planning, public participation, environmental methods, hands-on learning and mentoring. Programs: Gathering Places; Community-Based Planning; Educational Outreach, Research and Training. Based in Issaquah, Wash.; founded 1986 by artist/community organizer Milenko Matanovic.

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

Popular Education News
Connects popular and community-based educators and activists to resources for improving educational work in social movements against oppression and for democracy, sustainability, social justice and peace. Building an information database.

Populist Arts Movement
"The Populist Art Movement Altering the Face of America," speech by Janet Brown, executive director of South Dakotans for the Arts.

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.

Positive Futures Network
Supports "people's active engagement in creating a just, sustainable, and compassionate world." Includes YES! magazine with archive of political, social, cultural and environmental articles. Education section with curricular material. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Power of Hope: Youth Empowerment through the Arts
Arts-centered intergenerational and multicultural learning programs for youth and young adults in leadership, community building, social change. Week-long summer gatherings, weekend leadership gatherings, in-school and after-school programs. Nonprofit based in Washington and British Columbia.

Pratt Institute Center for Community Environmental Development
Leverages professional skills - planning, architecture, public policy - to support New York community-based organizations in improving neighborhood quality of life, attacking causes of poverty and inequality, and advancing sustainable development. First university-based advocacy planning and design center in U.S. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Pratt Saturday Art School
Art classes for community children, adolescents, preschoolers and adults at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. N.Y. Founded 1897. Teaching laboratory; all classes are taught by education students, supervised by Pratt faculty.

Precita Eyes Mural Arts Center
Inner-city San Francisco mural-arts organization, creating murals and education about process and history of community-based mural art; classes, mural tours and online mural and arts supply store.

Pregones Theater/Teatro Pregones
Grassroots ensemble committed to new theater in popular traditions of Latino/Puerto Rican American community. Based in New York's South Bronx.

Prestoungrange Arts Festival
Community arts organization in historic Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland, that "seeks in as many ways as possible to share the history and create the future of the town through the Arts." Large public art program, festivals, murals, cultural tourism education program. Very extensive Web site.

Prime Time Family Reading Time
Reading, discussion and storytelling program at public libraries across Louisiana (and going national). Weekly sessions for whole low-literacy, low-income families based on award-winning children's books. Sponsored by Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.

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.

Prison Arts Foundation
Northern Ireland organization working with offenders in prison and the burgeoning population of ex-offenders released under 1998's Good Friday Agreement. Projects in all media in self-expression and work training.

Prison Arts Network
Network of artists working to provide access to arts for all prisoners. Web site is excellent resource for news, articles, photos and links to the field of arts and corrections worldwide.

Prison Creative Arts Project
Committed to original work in the arts in Michigan correctional facilities and juvenile detention centers, presenting prison artists in theate and dance performances and visual art; exhibits are online. Directed by Buzz Alexander.

Prison Performing Arts
Missouri multidiscipline, literacy and performing-arts program serving incarcerated adults and children at St. Louis City Juvenile Detention Center, Hogan Street Regional Youth Center, Northeastern Correctional Center in Bowling Green and Women's Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Vandalia. Founded 1999 by Agnes Wilcox in St. Louis.

Prison Poster Project
Collective of artists & activists working in collaboration with U.S. prisoners. Creating a portable mural to be used by prison activists, educators, the incarcerated and community leaders. Mission: "To create a public education tool to expose how the prison industrial complex affects our diverse communities and to challenge current reliance on prisons as a solution to social problems."

PrisonArts.info
Resources on arts programs in prisons, jails and juvenile detention centers across U.S. Searchable directory; bibliography of articles, books, films, radio documentaries, Web sites; a history of arts in prisons. Developed by Krista Brune with Victoria Sammartino and VoicesUnBroken.

Prisons Foundation
Nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., that promotes the arts and education in prison and alternatives to incarceration. Prison Art Gallery showcases prisoners' artworks (1600 K Street NW, Suite 501, open daily). Cosponsor of Annual Victims’ Forum organized by the National Organization for Victim Assistance. Web site has publications, music, newsletter, links to prison art resources.

Procession of the Species
Annual artistic wildlife pageant in Olympia, Wash.; model for dozens of other Processions worldwide.

Processional Arts Workshop
Creates original works for established public ev