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Essays for Visual Art and Museums

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)

After the Hurricane: Survivors' Words and Pictures
A traveling photo exhibit carries personal memories of an unforgettable disaster. By Piper Hanson (August 2006)

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)

Canoes in New Zealand: Coastal Mappings
Making art with people near the end of life in a New Zealand hospice. By Petra Kuppers (April 2006)

Common Memory: The Community Visual Art Challenge of Gwylène Gallimard
A South Carolina artist and her community build a river to Alaska. Entire book (.pdf) plus commentary and an interview. By Linda Frye Burnham (December 2004)

Community Arts 2007: A Muscular Year
The field of community-based arts showed its muscle this year. By Linda Frye Burnham (December 2007)

Community Works: Sambo Mockbee and the Rural Studio
A eulogy for a citizen architect. By Bruce Lindsey (September 2007)

Everybody Say Hallelujah: the Minneapolis, Minnesota, residency
"Dancing to the Music of Time," coverage of the Minneapolis, Minnesota, residency in the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange nationwide "Hallelujah" initiative, 1998-2002. By Linda Frye Burnham (December 2001)

Eye of the Storm: Reflections on Violence
Words and images from a domestic-violence project at Savannah's Union Mission. By David Jeffreys (May 2007)

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)

For What It's Worth: Uncovering the Hidden Value in Work
Monuments in a Massachusetts park to a waitress, a professor, a trash collector, a librarian and a grocer. By Lara Lepionka (April 2007)

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)

Letter from an Artist: Jules Corriere
Jules Corriere, playwright with Community Performance Inc., writes to us from a residency in progress in Union, S.C. By Jules Corriere (September 2001)

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

Living Like a Refugee: Peggy Diggs Takes a Design Problem to Prison
Straight out of maximum security: make your own portable desk. By Linda Frye Burnham (March 2007)

Lynne Hull
Profile of this Wyoming environmental artist. Published in High Performance #62. Vol. XVI, No. 2, 1993. By Sue Thornton (December 1999)

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)

Mary Giehl: Shadows of Children
Arts project with at-risk youth in Delaware. First published in High Performance #75, Vol. XX, No. 1, 1997. (December 1999)

Norma Bradley: Community Quilt Project
Community quilt project in North Carolina. First published in High Performance #75, Vol. XX, No. 1, 1997. (December 1999)

O.J. Simpson Coloring & Activity Book
A community-engaged project on the racial aftermath of the Trial of the Century. Includes online CAN forum. By Colin Quashie (January 2005)

On the Yard: Prison art connects with the outside
A visual artist working with inmate populations talks about the experience. Published in High Performance #58/59, Vol. XV, No. 2/3, 1992. By Tom Skelly (December 1999)

Paradigms on the Move: The Groundworks Monongahela Conference
Leading eco-artists come together to share their community experiments in solving environmental problems and planting seeds of change in Pennsylvania and around the world. By Cynthia Robinson (December 2005)

Power and Mastery — Negotiations in Community-based Visual Art
Overview of the intersection of visual art and communities from an experienced practitioner. By Neill Bogan (October 2003)

Resonant Spaces/Dynamic Flow
Connecting the culture, values and elements of Hip-Hop to ways of designing and experiencing urban spaces and structures. By James Garrett Jr. (March 2004)

Richard Kamler
A profile of this artist whose work focuses on prison issues. Published in High Performance #63, Vol. XVI, No. 3, 1993. By Laura Jamison (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)

Shooting the Klan: An Interview with Andres Serrano
The artist, an unwilling soldier in the Culture Wars of the early '90s, talks about making "Piss Christ," photographing the Ku Klux Klan, and how things have changed for him as a result of all the hoopla. Published in High Performance #55, Vol. XIV, No. 3, 1991. By Coco Fusco (September 2002)

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)

Surviving Genocide: The Rwanda Healing Project
News from Lily Yeh and Barefoot Artists working in the survivor villages of Rwanda. By Lily Yeh (December 2005)

Taking Back the Power: An Interview with Robbie Conal
The artist talks about wallpapering cities with his satirical portraits of figures in power, including Caspar Weinberger, Nancy Reagan, Oliver North and Margaret Thatcher. Published in High Performance #39, Vol. X, No. 3, 1987. By Claire Peeps (September 2002)

The Artmaker as Active Agent: Six Portraits
Artist Susan Monagan explores the work of six individual community artists for her Cornell Masters thesis. By Susan Monagan (February 2006)

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)

Trans-Siberia and Back Again: Capturing the Moving Mind
Gwylene Gallimard and Jean-Marie Mauclet take their latest project to a conference on the Trans-Siberian Railway. By Darryl Lorenzo Wellington (March 2006)

 
 


New Essays: Visual Art
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)
Community Arts 2007: A Muscular Year
The field of community-based arts showed its muscle this year. By Linda Frye Burnham (December 2007)
Community Works: Sambo Mockbee and the Rural Studio
A eulogy for a citizen architect. By Bruce Lindsey (September 2007)

 

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