“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)

23 Questions From Teachers that Artists Can Help Answer
Ideas about artist-teacher collaboration, based on needs of teachers in educational-reform movements. Published in High Performance #71, Vol. XIX, No. 1, 1996. By Linda Frye Burnham (December 1999)

[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 Bridge Conversation on Traditional and Organic Bridging
Francisco Guajardo and Edyael Casaperalta on intentionality, consciousness and creating new opportunities. By Edyael Casaperalta (April 2008)

A Daring Adventure: Artists and teachers partner for school reform
An in-depth look at an innovative artist-in-the-school program in a Massachusetts middle school. Includes sidebars: Educational Reform: A Quick Glance. The Coalition of Essential Schools; Residency Story: They Won't Dance, Don't Ask Them; 23 Questions from Teachers That Artists Can Help Answer; and A Student Assessment Questionnaire. First published in High Performance #71, Vol. XIX, No. 1, 1996. By Linda Frye Burnham (December 1999)

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)

An Introduction to Training in Community Arts
How and where training is being offered in community arts, from workshops to degree courses in universities. By Linda Frye Burnham (September 2001)

Art Grades Don't Count
Coverage of a report from the National Art Education Association on college/university admissions policies. By Thomas Hatfield (September 1999)

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 Context: Industrial Pittsburgh catching up with Bill Strickland
A profile on the founder of the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild in Pittsburgh. Published in High Performance #67, Vol. XVII, No. 3, 1994. By Gil Ott (December 1999)

Book Review: Art and Upheaval: Artists on the World Frontlines
What are the roles that artists can play in the midst of severe violence? By Craig Zelizer (July 2008)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Doing Time in the Garden: Life Lessons Through Prison Horticulture
An excerpt from a new book with some great ideas for teaching in prisons. By James Jiler (June 2007)

Educational Reform — A Quick Glance
Originally published as a sidebar to "Artists and Teachers Partner for School Reform" in High Performance #71, Spring 1996. (December 1999)

Expanding the Frame of Educational Thinking
CAN reviews "Putting the Arts in the Picture: Reframing Education in the 21st Century," a new book from the Center for Arts Policy at Columbia College Chicago. By Arnold Aprill (May 2005)

Finding the Thread of an Interrupted Conversation: the Arts, Education, and Community
Overview of arts and education from the director of Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE). By Arnold Aprill (February 2002)

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)

Holding the Door Open: An Interview with Homer Jackson
Gill Ott interviews Philadelphia performance artist Homer Jackson about his performance work and work in prisons and schools. Published in High Performance #73, Vol. XIX, No. 3, 1996. By Gil Ott (December 1999)

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)

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)

Letter from an Artist: Catching Magic in the Los Padillas Water Catchment Project
Visual artist Chrissie Orr writes about her water-catchment demonstration project in the New Mexico desert, designed by students at Los Padillas Elementary School on the Rio Grande. By Chrissie Orr (November 2004)

Making Art in Booklyn: Each One Teach One
A New York artists' book-making co-op puts media in the hands of the people. By Jamie Munkatchy (March 2005)

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)

Mother Africa Laughs: The Rwandan Folk Tale Project
A light-hearted look at best-laid plans gone awry. By Judd Hardy (December 2006)

Music Crosses Over at the House of Blues
International House of Blues Foundation and its community programs Blues SchoolHouse and Make an Impression. By Jennifer Roche (May 2004)

Places To Study: Opportunities in Community Arts
Opportunities to study community arts: college and university courses in degree and nondegree programs; special summer institutes, for credit or not. Updated frequently. By Linda Frye Burnham (March 2001)

Power in Practice: Notes on a New Kind of Arts Conference
An early article on Open Space Technology at a Philadelphia arts conference. Published in High Performance #72, Vol. XIX, No. 2, 1996. By Linda Frye Burnham (October 2003)

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)

Residency Story: They Won't Dance, Don't Ask Them
Originally published as a sidebar to "Artists and Teachers Partner for School Reform" in High Performance #71, Spring 1996. (December 1999)

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

River Voice
Essay on the Haw River Festival, an arts-and-education project to revive a North Carolina river. By Linda Frye Burnham (May 2000)

Speaking in Poems
On writing and teaching poetry while doing life in prison. By Spoon Jackson (May 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)

Street Cred: Two Community Arts Exhibitions in Baltimore
Sloan and Lehrer's "Crossing the BLVD" and "Two-Way Street" by grad students in community art at MICA. By Linda Frye Burnham (April 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)

Student Assessment Questionnaire
Originally published as a sidebar to "Artists and Teachers Partner for School Reform" in High Performance #71, Spring 1996. (December 1999)

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)

Taking Action: Teaching Participatory Community-based Theater – Amy Sarno
Seven college and university educators answer questions about their work. (September 2001)

Taking Action: Teaching Participatory Community-based Theater – Ann Elizabeth Armstrong
Seven college and university educators answer questions about their work. (September 2001)

Taking Action: Teaching Participatory Community-based Theater – Kate Mendeloff
Seven college and university educators answer questions about their work. (September 2001)

Taking Action: Teaching Participatory Community-based Theater – Leslie Delmenico
Seven college and university educators answer questions about their work. (September 2001)

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

Taking Action: Teaching Participatory Community-based Theater – Sharon Green
Seven college and university educators answer questions about their work. (September 2001)

Taking Action: Teaching Participatory Community-based Theater – Sonja Kuftinec
Seven college and university educators answer questions about their work. (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 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)

The Benefits of Community Art on the Fringe
Four short stories by people who do diversity work in schools using the arts strategies of the California-based Fringe Benefits educational-theater company. By Maria Beach, Natalya Brusilovsky, Michael Mendoza and Cynthia Ruffin (January 2004)

The Coalition of Essential Schools
A national network of schools established to encourage the thoughtful redesign of the practices and structures of the secondary school. By Linda Frye Burnham (December 1999)

The Common Principles of the Coalition of Essential Schools
The nine principles of the Coalition of Essential Schools. Originally published as a sidebar to "Artists and Teachers Partner for School Reform" in High Performance #71, Spring 1996. (December 1999)

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 Pedagogy of Intangible Heritage: Los Cenzontles and Mexican Folk Music
Cenzontles is more than an "arts services provider." It's a hub for cultural critique. By Maribel Alvarez (May 2006)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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 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)