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Recent CAN Essays
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Cultural Exchange vs. Cultural Tourism
There are significant questions about the ethics of cultural tourism, and they extend to the ethics of cultural exchange.
By Bau Graves
(February 2010)
Taking Over and Talking Back: Theater as a Forum on Gentrification
New York's citizens talk about what happens when communities change.
By Caron Atlas
(February 2010)
Children's Choir Bridges Racial Divide in Michigan
Sometimes Martin Luther King's dream doesn't seem so far away after all.
By Larry and Sandy Feldman
(January 2010)
The Curriculum Project Dialogues
Imagining America has three key conversations about higher education -- its teaching of and partnering for community cultural development -- at NYU, the University of Pennsylvania and Macalester College.
By Jan Cohen-Cruz
(January 2010)
A Text as a Bridge — for You, You and You
Reflections and lessons learned during five conversations with Alternate ROOTS about Resources for Social Change.
By Gwylene Gallimard and Hope Clark
(January 2010)
All Over the Map: The Top 20 Stories on the Community Arts Network, 2009
CAN readers' tastes are as diverse as imaginable.
By Linda Frye Burnham
(January 2010)
Teaching Museum Studies Through a Social-justice Lens
A significant statement about the role of the contemporary museum in exploring and defining community values.
By Lila Staples
(December 2009)
What Can You Teach Me? Intergenerational Community Arts in the Baltimore Lumbee Community
An artist helps strengthen her community's culture by bringing together its two “anchor” generations.
By Ashley Minner
(December 2009)
Condom Sense: A Real Life Education with About Face Youth Theatre
Kids still have a lot to learn about sex and HIV/AIDS.
By Paula Gilovich
(December 2009)
LA Commons: Engaging Youth in Community-based Cultural Tourism
Artists, teens and city planners leverage local cultural assets to develop the economic and social capital of L.A.'s ethnic neighborhoods.
By Karen Mack
(December 2009)
Getting It Wrong: How We Fail and What We Learn
In community arts practice, brave and honest conversations about failure are an untapped resource.
By Nicole Garneau and Sanjit Sethi
(December 2009)
Trimming the Sails: Assessing a Program in Midstream
With four graduated classes now working the field, Columbia College engages with the community to see if its AYCD program is delivering value.
By Phyllis Johnson
(December 2009)
Learning Culture and Change: A Place-based Community Arts Training Model
The Institute for Community Cultural Development shares its pedagogy.
By William Cleveland, Wendy Morris and Erik Takeshita
(December 2009)
What’s Good Enough? Excellence and Expertise in Community Arts Training
There is tension between community arts and the academy. Who are the experts?
By Jerri Allyn
(December 2009)
The Liberatory Critique
Step by step, a critical pedagogy that nurtures the artist's unique voice in relationship to a broadly inclusive community of peoples, values, ideas and opinions.
By Ken Krafchek
(December 2009)
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