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 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 New Paradigms of Artful Change
Can art be as powerful a vehicle for change as it can be a bastion for maintaining the status quo? By Dudley Cocke, Peter Pennekamp and Craig McGarvey (March 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 Response to the CAN Report
Making progress in community arts: Is the Boomer generation blocking up the hall? By Lee Ann Norman (May 2006)

Art in a Democracy
Recommendations for cultural policy by the director of Roadside Theater. By Dudley Cocke (October 2002)

Bridges, Translations and Change: The Arts as Infrastructure in 21st Century America
Why the arts are, or should be, important in society. First published in High Performance #58/59, Vol. XV, No. 2/3, 1992. By William Cleveland (December 1999)

Chaos, Art and the Age of Uncertainty
Integrating the arts into culture. This speech was originally delivered on November 1, 1997 at the annual conference of the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies. By William Cleveland (December 1999)

Community Arts, Popular Participation and Teatro Comunitario: Buenos Aires’ Programa Cultural en Barrios
Grassroots cultural policy and community-based theater partner to support neighborhood-level activism in Buenos Aires. By Ruth Juliet Wikler-Luker (August 2007)

Community, Culture and Globalization
Chapter One of "Community, Culture and Globalization," anthology published by the Rockefeller Foundation. By Don Adams and Arlene Goldbard (January 2002)

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)

Cultural Policy: In the board rooms and on the streets
Overview from a noted consultant to foundations and government agencies. By Caron Atlas (August 2002)

Dance and Older People: An Interview with Catherine Baumgartner
A member of Minneapolis' intergenerational Kairos Dance Theatre talks about informing the White House on dance and aging. By Renya Larson (October 2005)

Demarginalizing Art
CAN reviews the Centre for Creative Communities' "Creative Community Building through Cross-Sector Collaboration, a European Mapping and Consultation Initiative." By Caron Atlas (July 2005)

End Cultural Isolationism
No wonder America is hated in the world. Our government's policy of cultural isolationism is to blame. By Dudley Cocke (November 2001)

Growing Together: Artists & Farmers Meet in Lancashire
Conference Report: Creative Rural Industries, Lancaster, England, September 2006. By Linda Frye Burnham (October 2006)

Higher Ground: Informal Arts, Cultural Policy and the Evolving Role of Nonprofits
With the rise of the creative class, prosumers, Pro-ams and Net-Geners, are our nonprofit cultural institutions becoming outdated? By Tom Borrup (July 2007)

How Face-to-Face Art Changes Lives: Cornerstone's Bill Rauch testifies before Congress
Cornerstone's Bill Rauch testifies before Congress. By Bill Rauch (September 1999)

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

Policy Research on Community Arts: A Collective Endeavor
An overview of the policies and methods of research in community arts from the director of the Culture, Creativity and Communities Program at the Urban Institute. By Maria-Rosario Jackson (July 2002)

Really Caring: Why a comprehensive healthcare system includes the arts
A commentary on the role the arts can play in healthcare. Published in High Performance #74, Vol. XIX, No. 4, 1996. By Susan Perlstein (December 1999)

States of Shock & Unknowing: On Documenting the Wake of Katrina & Rita in Southern Louisiana
The making of a shocking video on America's environmental disaster. Includes video clips. By John Sullivan (April 2006)

The Arts and Community Strengthening
Script of a talk given at conference of Michigan Association of Community Arts Agencies, November 8, 2000. Short history of community arts, and more. By Maryo Gard Ewell (May 2001)

The Community Cultural Development Field
First chapter of Don Adams and Arlene Goldbard's "Creative Community: The Art of Cultural Development," book commissioned by Rockefeller Foundation in 2001. By Don Adams and Arlene Goldbard (August 2001)

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

The Joy of Producing Some Lovely Thing and Freeing Some Craving for Expression
Lecture to the Biennial State Arts Conference, Des Moines, Iowa. By Dudley Cocke (April 2000)

The Path of Stories: Artists and The Thousand Kites Project
A long, deep look into a multi-arts collaboration that's starting a national conversation about the U.S. prison industrial complex. Includes video. By Arlene Goldbard (May 2008)

Trouble in Oz: Australia's Community Cultural Development Programs Threatened
What to do about the dimming of a shining beacon of possibility for cultural democracy. By Arlene Goldbard (March 2005)

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)