A New Beginning: The Evolving Relationship between Artist and Community
A comic roller-coaster ride through a semester of community arts learning. By Christina Ralls (October 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 Jump Off!: Choice at the Center of a Middle-school Afterschool Arts Program
Embracing student choice and personal attention as ways to help young people develop artistic skills. By John Giordano and Kassandra Derby (October 2008)

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)

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

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 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)

Finding Our Wings: A Community Documentary Program
Cameras in the hands of teenage girls give them the courage to finish high school. By Kirsten D'Andrea Hollander (November 2008)

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)

In the Midst: Cultivating Citizens/Artists
A university course brings college and high-school students together to explore arts-based civic engagement. By Kate Collins (August 2008)

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)

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)

Making Art in the Outdoors: Community-based Residential Youth Arts Camps
Research at the convergence of art education, environmental education and youth development. By Katie Schumm (August 2008)

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)

May I Borrow?
About the National Teen Institute at the finale of the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange nationwide "Hallelujah" initiative, 1998-2002. By Elizabeth Johnson (March 2003)

Models for Working with Youth in Community Arts
A comparison of the educative model and the youth development model. By Stephani Etheridge Woodson (September 2008)

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

Not Your Father's Art Center: The Center for Contemporary Art's Teen Project in Santa Fe
One institution integrates its art center into the local youth population. Published in High Performance #67, Vol. XVII, No. 3, 1994. By Steven Durland (December 1999)

Opus B
A profile of this youth theater project. Published in High Performance #61, Vol. XVI, No. 1, 1993. By Chris Westberg (December 1999)

Promoting Self and Community Empowerment Through Critical Pedagogy in a Community Art Program
Learning about the consequences of social injustice in Austin’s Greater Tomorrow Youth Art Program. By Christopher O. Adejumo (October 2008)

Reform or Enrichment: Policy Mandates and Program Goals in Community Youth Arts
More and more attention is being paid to what kids do after school. By Lori Hager (November 2008)

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)

Safe Spaces Community Creations: The Mosaic Wall Project
Working with Baltimore teens to create a 2,000-square-foot glass mosaic on the American Visionary Art Museum. Includes video. By Mari Gardner (November 2008)

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)

TeenStreet
Profile of this Chicago-based youth theater project. Published in High Performance #63, Vol. XVI, No. 3, 1993. By David Krasnow (December 1999)

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 Collaboration Among Youth, Organizers and Artists
Working together on gang violence in Baltimore. By Whitney Frazier (September 2008)

The Dandelion School Transformation Project in China
Barefoot Artists help Chinese students "find angels in hell." By Lily Yeh and Kelly Tannen (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 YouthARTS Development Project
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)

The YouthARTS Development Project: Art-at-Work
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)

The YouthARTS Development Project: Conclusion
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)

The YouthARTS Development Project: Lessons Learned
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)

The YouthARTS Development Project: National Evaluation of the YouthARTS Development Project
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)

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)

The YouthARTS Development Project: Youth Arts Public Art
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)

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)

This Is for Anthony Beard
Director of Artsreach vividly describes the arts program in the California Youth Authority, the government agency responsible for imprisoning and educating juvenile felons. By Susan Hill (March 2003)

Transcending Words: Dance For Tolerance
Teens from violent neighborhoods in Brazil and Colombia visit Brooklyn to prove dance is a medium for social change. By Dana Edell (July 2007)

Truth UP: 23 Insights, admonitions and ideas about youth arts from the great masters
Insights gathered from young people about successful creative collaborations and partnerships. By William Cleveland (August 2003)

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)

We Are All Connected: Elders Share the Arts
ESTA's artist founder talks about its models for planning and sustaining meaningful connections among generations and between cultures living in the same communities. Published in High Performance #69/70, Vol. XVIII, No. 1/2, 1995. By Linda Frye Burnham and Susan Perlstein (September 2002)

We Are All Connected: Elders Share the Arts building bridges across the generation gap
A look at ESTA's unique intergenerational program. First published in High Performance #69/70, Vol. XVIII, No. 1/2, 1995. (December 1999)

Why Not Football? The Politics of Youth Arts Programs in America
Overview of community arts with young people: history, theory and personal perspective from the author of "Building the Code: Understanding Community-based Arts in America." By Mat Schwarzman (May 2002)

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)

World Savvy: Mapping a Creative Path to Global Education
In New York City, teenagers from all over the world create an arts project with a heartbeat. By Dana Edell (August 2008)

Young People's Art Works Toward Social Change: Performing Visions of Utopia
An analysis of art works created by young people in struggle. By Sharon Verner Chappell (October 2008)