"Creative Spaces" in the Land of the Long White Cloud
Report on community arts conference in New Zealand. By William Cleveland (October 2003)

30 Years and Counting: A Context for Building a Shared Cross-Cultural Commons
Calling for an alternative economic vision that puts freedom, justice and equity at the core of society. By Jack (John Kuo Wei) Tchen (November 2007)

A Bridge Conversation about Animating a Latin American Idea in the U.S.
Paul Chin and Vanessa Whang talk about crossing lines of culture and politics, race and ethnicity, and the local and global. By Vanessa Whang (April 2008)

A Bridge Conversation about Creating Transformative Spaces
Harriet Barlow and Kathy Engel talk about the Commons and crossing borders. By Kathy Engel (April 2008)

A Bridge Conversation on Innovative Approaches to Linking Nonprofit and For-profit Models
Adam Huttler and Ruby Lerner talk about entrepreneurial strategies and changing paradigms for arts-service organizations. By Adam Forest Huttler (April 2008)

A Bridge Conversation on Politics and Humanity
Caron Atlas and Mark Ritchie talk about balancing work and life. By Caron Atlas (March 2008)

A Bridge Conversation on Who Will Carry the Work Forward
An intergenerational conversation at the State of Nation Arts & Performance Festival and a tribute to Nayo Watkins. By Caron Atlas, Rebecca Lena Richardson and Carlton Turner (June 2008)

A Bridge Conversation on the Interweave of Culture and Ecology
Ken Wilson and Caron Atlas talk about cultural context and creative philanthropy. By Caron Atlas (April 2008)

A Bridge Conversation on the Power of Art To Move People
Ismael Ahmed and Anan Ameri discuss the extraordinary model of the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services. By Anan Ameri (March 2008)

A Lack of Guts and Intellectual Vigor Hobbles the Foundation World
Article from The Chronicle for Philanthropy. By Pablo Eisenberg (April 2002)

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)

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 Mañjon (July 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)

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 Monster: Capitalism in the Community Arts Classroom
While grad students are learning the ins & outs of funding for nonprofits, some young innovators are turning away from that model. By Brandi Rose (September 2009)

Creative Organizations: Putting Culture to Work in Community Development
A look at four amazing cross-disciplinary projects across the U.S. that are changing their cities. By Tom Borrup (January 2004)

Cultura para Todos: Colombian Community Arts... and politics
Maybe political participation is what keeps the arts relevant and thriving in our communities. By Susan Appe (January 2007)

Don't Do It! Organizational Suicide Prevention for Progressives
Four classic ways progressive organizations paralyze or destroy themselves, and seven ways to avoid it. By Arlene Goldbard (September 2004)

Five Keys to Growing a Healthy Community-connected Museum
A Seattle director tells colleagues how his community turned a small historical society into a $1-million-year museum. By Ron Chew (February 2005)

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

Help Wanted! Communities Reach Out
Are communities ready to ask for help from artists? We ask around. By Linda Frye Burnham and Steven Durland (February 2007)

High And Low: Partnerships Among Museums and Community-based Arts Organizations
Three partnership models from Chicago. By Prudence Browne (September 2009)

I Was Singing You
A leading poet/organizer on what inspired her at INTERSECTION IV. Part 3 of "Re/Generations: Bridging the Centuries of Art & Activism." By Alice Lovelace (November 2006)

Introducing Community Arts Perspectives, Volume II
Launching the second volume of a journal for the community arts field. By Amalia Mesa-Bains (September 2009)

Making Things and Making Things Better
A poet asks how making art is like making a difference.Originally published in Seattle Journal for Social Justice. By Frances McCue (October 2004)

Minding the Gap: A Cross-Generational Dialogue, Part I
A conversation about leadership transition in community arts. By Arlene Goldbard and Lee Ann Norman (June 2006)

Minding the Gap: A Cross-Generational Dialogue, Part II
A conversation about leadership transition in community arts. (Part II) By Arlene Goldbard and Lee Ann Norman (June 2006)

Neither That Nor That: Trading Stories at the Intersection of Arts and Penal Welfare
The Medea Project and Intersection for the Arts team up to explore the California prison system. By Nina Billone (May 2008)

New Orleans Case Studies: Illustrating Coalition Work of Organizers, Educators and Artists
One of four essays that reflect on the National Convergence of Artists, Educators and Organizers. (February 2004)

Part of a Greater Whole – Reflections on Intersection IV: Re/Generations
A longtime arts activist puts INTERSECTION IV in context. Part 1 of "Re/Generations: Bridging the Centuries of Art & Activism." By Caron Atlas (November 2006)

ROOTS & Race: Walking Our Talk
Some thoughts on the 2003 Alternate ROOTS Annual Meeting and what was decided there. By Lisa Mount (March 2004)

Re/Generations: Bridging the Centuries of Art & Activism
Introducing essays by participants in a recent New WORLD Theater conference. By Linda Frye Burnham (November 2006)

Reflections on Convergence: A Youth Perspective on Intersection IV
Thoughts on the INTERSECTION IV Youth Convergence. Includes a collective poem. Part 2 of "Re/Generations: Bridging the Centuries of Art & Activism." By Jacqueline Johnson and Raul Matta (November 2006)

Revolutionizing the Making of a Museum: Putting Teens in Charge
Teenagers are creating the Chicago Teen Museum, the first museum in the U.S. dedicated entirely to the preservation of teen culture By Carol Ng-He and Erin Dragotto (February 2010)

Riding the Sine Wave of "Hallelujah": An Interview with Joy Gill
A conversation with the executive director of the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange about the effects of its nationwide "Hallelujah" initiative on the organization. By Linda Frye Burnham (March 2003)

Social Imagination: Documenting Engagement in Canada
Canadian artists test digital video as a means to capture the aesthetics of their community arts practice. By Linda Frye Burnham (February 2009)

Support for Art and Social Justice
Remarks by arts director of Nathan Cummings Foundation, made at a 2002 Alternate ROOTS conference in Lexington, Kentucky. By Claudine Brown (February 2003)

The Dynamism of Arts-service Organizations
Introduction to the service organizations providing much of community arts' infrastructure -- by the former director of the National Association of Artists' Organizations. By Roberto Bedoya (January 2002)

The Funder's Tale
An award-winning Canadian storyteller ponders his new job: community-arts grants officer. By Dan Yashinsky (June 2007)

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)

Thinking Outside the Cubicle? Does the 501(c)(3) Box Stifle Creativity in the Dot-com Era?
CAN reviews "There's Nothing Informal About It: Participatory Arts Within the Cultural Ecology of Silicon Valley," a new book by Maribel Alvarez. By Tom Borrup (February 2006)

Turning the Mirror Outward through Funding…Inward through Transformation: Meeting the Challenge
On Alternate ROOTS' paradigm shift in funding priorities. By Carolyn Morris (March 2004)

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)

Where Has All the Grassroots Touring Gone?
A N.Y. symposium talks about radical reduction in touring of new American plays, and its effect on communities nationwide. By Dudley Cocke (June 2006)