“To Be American” — Teaching the Role of the Artist in Animating Democracy
Arizona State University theater faculty member's story about teaching a new course in collaborative documentary theater, using interviews collected from citizens in the Greater Phoenix area about what it means to be American. By Kate Collins (July 2004)

[classified]: stories that catalyze dialogue about diversity
Four Virginia Tech students bridge the gap between university policy and individual experience. From Community Arts Perspectives, Vol. 1, No. 1. By Laura Agnich, Kimberly Baker, Megan Carney and Shannon Turner (June 2008)

A Bridge Conversation on Connecting Action and Academia in California's Central Valley
Isao Fujimoto and Tim Marema on the power of "edgewalking." By Tim Marema (March 2008)

A Bridge Conversation on Creating with a Sense of Strategic Practice
Maribel Alvarez and Jason Bulluck on paying attention to the “little stuff,” engaging in critical discourse and understanding how power can be shaken up. By Jason Bulluck (April 2008)

A Landmark Year: Community Arts and U.S. Higher Education 2006
Introduction to a CANuniversity series about what's new in community-arts education. By Linda Frye Burnham (September 2006)

A New Day in the Academy
What happens when discussions about privilege, power and difference butt up against the entrenched conservatism of the academy and establishment art? From Community Arts Perspectives, Vol. 1, No. 1. By Ken Krafchek (June 2008)

A Response to the CAN Report
Making progress in community arts: Is the Boomer generation blocking up the hall? By Lee Ann Norman (May 2006)

Activate the Learning, Support the Field: The Community-based Practicum in Youth Arts
Catching up with the community-arts training program at Columbia College Chicago, including an academic plan and an assessment model. By Nicole Garneau (December 2005)

Activism with Heart: The Voices Against Violence Project
An educational psychology class at UT Austin uses Boal theater technique to examine sexual violence on campus. By Claire Canavan (January 2005)

Art Work, Social Work: An Interview with Kara McDonagh
Does it take more than arts know-how to help students partner with communities under enormous stress? Part 3 of "A Landmark Year." By Linda Frye Burnham (September 2006)

Art in Rebuilding Community: The Transforma Project in New Orleans
Can cultural activity produce meaningful and sustainable activity in a devastated community? By Jan Cohen-Cruz (June 2007)

Bridging Art and Research: An Interview with Susan Monagan
A community arts scholar talks about her foray into the theories and practices of social science. By Linda Frye Burnham (February 2006)

Canoes in New Zealand: Coastal Mappings
Making art with people near the end of life in a New Zealand hospice. By Petra Kuppers (April 2006)

Challenging Our Students' Place through Collaborative Art: A Service-Learning Approach
Learning to develop a sense of place in the world. By Karen Hutzel (March 2008)

Community Arts 2007: A Muscular Year
The field of community-based arts showed its muscle this year. By Linda Frye Burnham (December 2007)

Community Arts Perspectives: An Editorial
Introducing the online publication of the Community Arts Convening and Research Project. By Amalia Mesa-Bains (June 2008)

Community Works: Sambo Mockbee and the Rural Studio
A eulogy for a citizen architect. By Bruce Lindsey (September 2007)

Conference Report: Engaging Through Place at Imagining America
The Imagining America 2006 conference explores the artist residency as a campus-community collaboration. By Nicole Garneau (March 2007)

Creative Economy Practitioner's Toolkit: Taking Advantage of Campus and Community Resources (Part 1)
Nine strategies for arts-engaged economic-development planning. By Susan Monagan, Susan Christopherson and Suzanne Loker (August 2007)

Creative Economy Practitioner's Toolkit: Taking Advantage of Campus and Community Resources (Part 2)
By Susan Monagan, Susan Christopherson and Suzanne Loker (August 2007)

Crisscrossing the University-Community Borderline: The 31st Annual Social Theory, Politics and the Arts Conference
CAN reports on the "Community Arts and Higher Education" panel at the 2005 STPA. By Nicole Garneau (December 2005)

Dance Camp for Grown-ups
A dancer remembers the Senior Institute at the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange. First published in the Winter/Spring 1999/2000 issue of Contact Quarterly. By Maggie Kast (January 2000)

Exploring Religious Tolerance through Community-Based Theater
At a small, liberal-arts college affiliated with the Presbyterian Church in North Carolina, students use the ideas of Paulo Freire and Augusto Boal to examine campus attitudes toward religious difference. By Sharon Green (June 2005)

Framework for Understanding Ruby Payne
Teaching art students to apply a theory about poverty to their internships in Baltimore's public schools. From Community Arts Perspectives, Vol. 1, No. 1. By E. Blaise DePaolo (June 2008)

Getting Outside the Bubble: Tisch School of the Arts' Campus-Community Connection
A tour of the community-arts learning opportunities at New York University's arts school. By Linda Frye Burnham (May 2005)

Grassroots Arts Education on the Cutting Edge: An Interview with Sonia BasSheva Mañjon
Talking with the Director of the Center for Art & Public Life at California College of the Arts. Part 4 of "A Landmark Year." By Linda Frye Burnham (September 2006)

Interposing on the Collective Culture through the Arts: A Case Study of One University Course
What if artists merged discussions about formal aesthetics and the elements and principles of art/design with discussions about moral growth and public good? From Community Arts Perspectives, Vol. 1, No. 1. By Rachel Marie-Crane Williams (June 2008)

It's About Building Relationships: Duke Performance Students Engage Community in Durham
An artist and collaboration expert writes about teaching a 2003 course at Duke University, in Durham, N.C., "Community-Based Performance: Where Art and Activism Intersect." By Sheila Kerrigan (November 2004)

It's Hard to Watch Your Brother Die: A Story from the Dead Man Walking School Theatre Project
A rural Colorado town commits to examining the death penalty. By Shelly Johnson and Jared Williams (November 2006)

Jumping In with Courage: An Interview with Ken Krafchek
The director of a new MA in Community Arts in Maryland talks about the new frontier. Part 1 of "A Landmark Year." By Linda Frye Burnham (September 2006)

Learning at Street Level: Columbia College Chicago's New Youth-Arts Master's Degree
A week in Chicago at the new graduate program's orientation. By Linda Frye Burnham (February 2004)

Learning from My Life: Why I Chose Youth Arts
By a graduate student in a new Columbia College Chicago degree program. By Erin Patinkin (February 2004)

Learning to Translate Art into the Language of Community
A graduating student writes about her classmates' new perspectives. Part 2 of "A Landmark Year." By Christy Zuccarini (September 2006)

Listening for the Lexicon of Cultural Shift
New language from old wisdom about community art as lived experience. By Linda Frye Burnham (May 2007)

Mapping Within: The Making of a University-community Arts Partnership
Community artists at Harvard explore the intersection of theory and practice in collaboration with a children's writing group. By Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein and Rachel McIntire (December 2005)

Putting Culture Back into Agriculture
Looking for project ideas, a University of Wisconsin team went to the grassroots: artists and farmers. By Maryo Gard Ewell (December 2006)

Relationship, Reciprocity, Reclamation: The Arts at Cal State Monterey Bay
There's plenty for everybody in the campus-community partnership model at CSUMB. By Jan Freya (April 2007)

Stepping In and Out: Performance Art in the Community College ESL Curriculum
An immigrant artist tries an art strategy with 27 students who speak ten different languages. By Carol Ng (October 2006)

Structuring a Catalytic Arts Education Program: The Saturday Program at Cooper Union
Student teachers run a powerful community program for teens in New York, founded by undergraduates in the 1960s. From Community Arts Perspectives, Vol. 1, No. 1. By Karma Mayet Johnson (June 2008)

Taking Action: Teaching Participatory Community-based Theater
Seven college and university educators answer questions about their work. By Linda Frye Burnham and Mark Weinberg (September 2001)

Teaching Topics for Community-based Arts for Social Change
A list of topics that should go into any curriculum for learning how to do community-based arts work. By Alternate ROOTS (November 1999)

The "Place: Vision and Voice" Program – Power, Authenticity and Ethics
An ASU professor on her community art project in the Gila River Community of Arizona. By Stephani Etheridge Woodson (May 2004)

The Artmaker as Active Agent: Six Portraits
Artist Susan Monagan explores the work of six individual community artists for her Cornell Masters thesis. By Susan Monagan (February 2006)

The Arts and The Wisconsin Idea: A Conference Report
Report on conference, U. of Wisconsin, October 2003. By Maryo Gard Ewell (December 2003)

The Athena Project: Refining the Practice of Mentorship in Community Art
Challenging definitions in a studio class at California College of the Arts. Part 5 of "A Landmark Year." By Minette Lee Mangahas (September 2006)

Third Space: Youth, Arts and Community Development
A white paper on the new opportunities for training teaching artists by a community-arts faculty member at the University of Oregon. Part 7 of "A Landmark Year." By Lori Hager (October 2006)

Valuing Public Scholarship: An Interview with Doug Blandy
A conversation with the director of the Center for Community Arts and Cultural Policy at the University of Oregon. Part 6 of "A Landmark Year." By Linda Frye Burnham (October 2006)

Viewpoint: Community Collaborative Arts
Community art is an edgy collective experience with aesthetic qualities of its own. From Community Arts Perspectives, Vol. 1, No. 1. By Johanna Poethig (June 2008)

What Does Democracy Look Like?
Students in SUNY's alternative adult college create The Museum of Democracy's Hall of Curiosities. By Lucy Winner and Katt Lissard (April 2005)

Wide Awake in Lost Hills: Reflections from the Students of the Inaugural Cornerstone Institute
Summer in the tiny California town of Lost Hills with community arts' premier theater ensemble. By Kate Collins (February 2005)

Witnessing a Drama of Soul: NYU's Tisch School of the Arts Takes Americorps to the Theater
Developing a theater program with inner-city youth. First published in High Performance #75, Vol. XX, No. 1, 1997. By Jan Cohen-Cruz (December 1999)

[How] Does Activist Performance Work?
Might theater, and the relationships it produces, be the site of social change? By Sonja Arsham Kuftinec (February 2008)