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 Really Big Reason: An Interview with Marty Pottenger
Profile of the New York performance artist and carpenter. By Catherine Jo (April 2003)

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 Club: A Safe Space in Baltimore
On watching an amazing group of kids struggle, break down and challenge themselves. By Mari Gardner (February 2007)

Art in the House: Project Row Houses
Profile of project in Houston's Third Ward. Artist Rick Lowe combines art with community development. Published in High Performance #69/70, Vol. XVIII, No. 1/2, 1995. By Shaila Dewan (December 1999)

Between the Edge and the Root: Action Lab in Hunts Point
A scholar-in-residence assesses an experiment in community cultural development in the Bronx. By Jan Cohen-Cruz (July 2006)

Book Review: Works of Heart
An anthology of stories by people in love with their cities. By Jennifer Roche (April 2007)

CWT#3: Making City Water Tunnel #3
A first-person account of doing art with laborers on a major NYC water project. Published in High Performance #75, Vol. XX, No. 1, 1997. By Marty Pottenger (September 2002)

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)

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)

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)

Dancing From the Heart: Urban-based Community Arts
Overview by a Chicago-based director of community theater projects across the U.S. By Richard Owen Geer (May 2002)

Darn It, But Thank You
Review of "The Whole World Gets Well" by Scrap Mettle Soul, Chicago. By Linda Frye Burnham (June 2002)

Drum Sticks: A Story From Scrap Mettle SOUL, Chicago
A homeless performance artist finds a home in a community performance piece. By Eve Tulbert (June 2002)

El Teatro Lucha de Salud del Barrio: Theater and Environmental Health in Texas
How a U.S. government toxicology center uses Theatre of the Oppressed to infuse respect and mutual regard into the process of doing public health work. By John Sullivan (October 2005)

Faces of Fruitvale: Peralta Hacienda Historical Park
Case study of a community story project in the San Francisco Bay Area; part of "Connecting Californians: Finding the Art of Community Change" research project. By Erica Kohl (February 2001)

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)

Going The Other Way with Scrap Mettle SOUL
Review of Chicago community performance ensemble's 10th anniversary show about their neighborhood. By Jennifer Roche (June 2004)

Hands Across Skid Row: John Malpede's Performance Workshop for the homeless of L.A.
The birth of the Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD). By Linda Frye Burnham (December 1999)

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)

LAPD Inspects Raleigh
The Los Angeles Poverty Department, a performance company of homeless and formerly homeless people, creates a residency project with the homeless of Raleigh, N.C., based on their stories. By Linda Frye Burnham (December 1999)

Letter from an Artist: Invisible Lines
About a project in Oakland, Calif., with the artist's whole neighborhood. By Lauren Elder (July 2003)

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)

Nine Eleven, Fear and Hand Me Down Shoes
Review of "Hand Me Down Shoes" by Community Performance Inc. with the Mennonites in Newport News, Va. By Linda Frye Burnham (April 2002)

Organizing and Theater: Bus Riders Union
Case study of an arts-and-organizing project using community story in Los Angeles, Calif.; part of "Connecting Californians: Finding the Art of Community Change" research project. By Erica Kohl (February 2001)

Ripples of the Fourth Wave: New York's viBePoetry
Preparing New York girls to lead the fourth wave of feminism. Includes audio! By Dana Edell (February 2006)

Sharing the Future: Boston: IBA / Arte y Cultura
A profile of the Arte y Cultura project in Boston. Published in High Performance #68, Vol. XVII, No. 4, 1994. By Alan West (December 1999)

Sharing the Future: Philadelphia: The Village of Arts and Humanities
A profile of artist Lily Yeh's North Philadelphia project. Published in High Performance #68, Vol. XVII, No. 4, 1994. By Gil Ott (December 1999)

Sharing the Future: San Antonio: The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
A profile of the Latino community cultural center. Published in High Performance #68, Vol. XVII, No. 4, 1994. By Lynn Gosnell (December 1999)

Sharing the Future: The arts and community development
Introduction to case studies of arts programs in Boston, Philadelphia and San Antonio. Published in High Performance #68, Vol. XVII, No. 4, 1994. By Gil Ott (December 1999)

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 Citizen Artist
A visual artist talks about her involvement in her local neighborhood. Publishedx in High Performance #75, Vol. XX, No. 1, 1997. By Aida Mancillas (September 2002)

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 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)

The YouthARTS Development Project: Urban smARTS
Study of a delinquency-prevention collaboration among federal agencies, national arts organizations and three local arts agencies in Georgia, Oregon and Texas. By NEA and U.S. Dept. of Justice. (Reprinted from Justice site.) By Heather J. Clawson and Kathleen Coolbaugh (July 2001)

Urban Alchemy: In Search of a Formula for the City of Tomorrow
Report on "Transforming Communities through the Arts," meeting of architects, landscape architects, urban planners, designers, journalists, artists, philanthropists and community developers at Chicago Cultural Center, in November 2003 By Tom Borrup (December 2003)

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)