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Recent CAN Essays
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Promoting Self and Community Empowerment Through Critical Pedagogy in a Community Art Program
Learning about the consequences of social injustice in Austin’s Greater Tomorrow Youth Art Program.
By Christopher O. Adejumo
(October 2008)
Young People's Art Works Toward Social Change: Performing Visions of Utopia
An analysis of art works created by young people in struggle.
By Sharon Verner Chappell
(October 2008)
Art Jump Off!: Choice at the Center of a Middle-school Afterschool Arts Program
Embracing student choice and personal attention as ways to help young people develop artistic skills.
By John Giordano and Kassandra Derby
(October 2008)
The Practices and Pedagogy of Pepón Osorio
How risk and trust and hope for a reciprocal practice can bring communities to life and life to communities.
By Amalia Mesa-Bains and Pepón Osorio
(October 2008)
A New Beginning: The Evolving Relationship between Artist and Community
A comic roller-coaster ride through a semester of community arts learning.
By Christina Ralls
(October 2008)
The New Hybridity: HOME, New Orleans and Emerging Forms of Community/ University/Arts Collaboration
The ins and outs of a conflicted and fragile undertaking.
By Ron Bechet and Amy Koritz
(September 2008)
Belongings - A Neighborhood Search: Creative Alliance at The Patterson
We are born into our family, our skin color, our culture and class. Can we really choose a community?
By Luisa Bieri de Rios
(September 2008)
Principles of Working in a Community: Resources for Social Change
The working philosophy of a mobile lab for arts and activism in the American South.
By Gwylene Gallimard and Hope Clark
(September 2008)
The Collaboration Among Youth, Organizers and Artists
Working together on gang violence in Baltimore.
By Whitney Frazier
(September 2008)
What the Moment Requires of Us: Toward Egalitarian Relationships in Community Arts Mentoring
A road map for community arts mentors.
By Cinder Hypki
(September 2008)
Comparative Arts Training in Richmond's Inner City
Nurturing excellent and engaged young performing artists in the Bay Area's Iron Triangle.
By Jordan Simmons
(September 2008)
An Ethic of the End: How Planning and Evaluation Make Art Political
Art for social justice: Is it Art? Only if it has a clear vision of its purpose.
By David Sloan
(September 2008)
Models for Working with Youth in Community Arts
A comparison of the educative model and the youth development model.
By Stephani Etheridge Woodson
(September 2008)
World Savvy: Mapping a Creative Path to Global Education
In New York City, teenagers from all over the world create an arts project with a heartbeat.
By Dana Edell
(August 2008)
Book Review: Community Performance: An Introduction
A new book speaks with many voices.
By Richard Owen Geer
(August 2008)
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