[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 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)

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)

An Accidental Community Artist: The Making of the PhotoBooth Project
Putting whole communities into the picture. By Christopher Irion (August 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)

Art Action for Social Change: Kids on the Hill
A theory of change in three parts: Experiential Education, Art Action, Civic Engagement. By Mark Carter and Rebecca Yenawine (August 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)

Arts, Activism and Humanity – The Prison Creative Arts Project
Investing in the voices of the incarcerated. By Geetha Iyer (August 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)

Best Practices or Principles of Practice? Reflecting upon Language & Roles
The lack of accord around the use of the term “best practice.” By Melanie Ohm (July 2008)

Between Grace and Fear: The Role of the Arts in a Time of Change
Talking with creative thinkers about a major shift in worldview. From Community Arts Perspectives, Vol. 1, No. 1. By William Cleveland and Patricia A. Shifferd (June 2008)

Campus-Community Partnerships: Supporting or Destroying the Field of Community Arts?
While higher education trains students to work in the community, are community partners experiencing funding setbacks and closure? By Sonia BasSheva Ma�jon (July 2008)

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

Community Spectacle: A Place of Magic
The artists, musicians, technicians, lanterneers and visual alchemists of Nana Projects are in it together, and so is their audience. Includes video. By Molly Ross (November 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)

Complexities and Collaborations at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Power dynamics, resources, support and responsibilities in campus-community collaborations. By Celina Aguilar and Kate McLeod (July 2008)

Core Arts: Mississippi Arts Commission and Communities in Schools Greenwood LeFlore
A juvenile-justice program that survived a rocky beginning and can now be found in every region of its state By Grady Hillman (August 2008)

Creating a Model for Institutional and Personal Change with Music Theatre Workshop
Collaborative playwriting helps incarcerated girls in Chicago heal from abuse. From Community Arts Perspectives, Vol. 1, No. 1. By Meade Palidofsky (June 2008)

Dance as Activism: Questions for a Little Black Girl
Is it possible to build a community that takes stock in a Little Black Girl, invested in her value, her honor, her power and her potential? By Carol Marie Webster (August 2008)

Finding Multiple Truths in Challenging Times
Liz Lerman Dance Exchange partners with science in a trans-domain process with many outcomes. From Community Arts Perspectives, Vol. 1, No. 1. By Jane Hirshberg (June 2008)

Finding Our Wings: A Community Documentary Program
Cameras in the hands of teenage girls give them the courage to finish high school. By Kirsten D'Andrea Hollander (November 2008)

Fostering Commitment: The Community Arts Corps
AmeriCorps and MICA take art students into their Baltimore communities. By Kara McDonagh (August 2008)

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)

In the Midst: Cultivating Citizens/Artists
A university course brings college and high-school students together to explore arts-based civic engagement. By Kate Collins (August 2008)

Insights from Arts and Civic Engagement: 13 Profiles
Pathways to building a participatory culture. By Rebecca Lena Richardson (November 2008)

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)

Intersections of Community Arts and Activism with a Liberal Arts Education
Can collaboration between liberal arts and visual arts increase learning outcomes for students and benefits to communities? By Mindy Nierenberg (July 2008)

Making Art in the Outdoors: Community-based Residential Youth Arts Camps
Research at the convergence of art education, environmental education and youth development. By Katie Schumm (August 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)

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)

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)

Reform or Enrichment: Policy Mandates and Program Goals in Community Youth Arts
More and more attention is being paid to what kids do after school. By Lori Hager (November 2008)

Rez CAP
Across a thousand miles, two cultures, two communities come together: MICA and the Dakota Nation. By John Peacock (July 2008)

Safe Spaces Community Creations: The Mosaic Wall Project
Working with Baltimore teens to create a 2,000-square-foot glass mosaic on the American Visionary Art Museum. Includes video. By Mari Gardner (November 2008)

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)

The Circle Is Already Listening: Littleglobe's Collaborative Creative Process
A means to know one another, to witness one another and remove hierarchical and preconceived notions of the “other.” By Molly Sturges (November 2008)

The Collaboration Among Youth, Organizers and Artists
Working together on gang violence in Baltimore. By Whitney Frazier (September 2008)

The Community Artist from the Community
A community arts grad student goes to work in the Native American community where she grew up. By Ashley Minner (August 2008)

The Importance of Self-Reflection for Community-based Educators
Reflection and personal development as inherent components of the art-making process. By Sheila K. Fox (July 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)

The Porch — A Cultural Center in the Seventh Ward of New Orleans
Starting a cultural organization in a neighborhood struggling with survival. By Ron Bechet, Willie Birch and Helen Regis (July 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 Pep�n Osorio (October 2008)

Training and Partnerships in Rutgers’ Transcultural New Jersey Public Service Arts Program
The service-learning and civic-engagement movement in higher education is increasingly challenging conventional academic culture. By Linda Melamed and Isabel Nazario (July 2008)

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)

Warts and All: The Partnership that Built a Community Arts Graduate Program
Sometimes the most difficult partner relationships are the ones inside the institution. By Nicole Garneau and Phyllis Johnson (July 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)

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)