Arts and Community Development
Emily Dickinson couldn't have found a more perfect way to describe how so many artists and artist advocates approach the world.1 It is tempting to give ourselves over to the rare work that fires our inspiration, and shut the door on everything else. It is often only in nurturing isolation and fringe communities that new ideas find their full flower. But there is a danger in the isolation.
Read More...March 2003, 126 pages. The Richard Driehaus Foundation, 203 N. Wabash Ave., Suite 1800, Chicago, IL 60601, and John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, 140 S. Dearborn Street, Suite 1100, Chicago, IL, 60603
Download pdf: http://www.macfound.org/atf/cf/%7BB0386CE3-8B29-4162-8098-E466FB856794%7D/SMALL_BUDGET_ARTS_ACTIVITIES.PDF
Read More...2004, 20 pages, with accompanying DVD. La Peña Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94750, 510-849-2568, www.lapena.org
Read More...As Tia Oros Peters so eloquently states in her essay that follows, there is no particular word for art in the thousands of Indigenous languages of the world. While there are hundreds of Native American languages, the same holds true; Native Americans do not and cannot separate the importance of art and culture from everyday life. It is one goal of GIA's Indigenous People's Network to bring this important way of life to the fore of grantmakers' thinking.
Read More...August 2004, 14 pages. The Urban Institute, 2100 M Street NW, Washington, DC, 20037, 202-833-7200, www.urban.org
Download pdf: www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/311043_Arts_Nonarts.pdf
July 2004, 76 pages. The Community Arts Network
Download: The State of the Field of Community Cultural Development: Something New Emerges from the Community Arts Network.
Description and review is here.
Read More...2004. Centre for Creative Communities, 118 Commercial St., London E16NF, UK.
Read More...2004, 45 pages. Published by Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago, 1155 E. 60th Street, Chicago, Il 60637, 773-834-5995
Download pdf: http://culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu/pdfs/grams_producing.pdf
Read More...2004, 72 pages. Published by the Alliance for Artists Communities, 255 South Main Street, Providence, RI, 02903, 401-351-4320, www.artistcommunities.org
Download Report: http://www.artistcommunities.org/resource-library/publications/engaging-communities-lessons-learned
2004, 167 pages. IBSN 0-931201-89-6. Published by the American Association of Museums, 1575 Eye Street NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC, 20005, www.aam-us.org
The final product of the Pew Charitable Trusts' Program for Art Museums and Communities, this book describes the transformation and partnerships developed by the eleven museums participating in the program over seven years.
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