Rural Arts

June 29, 2014 by admin

Even folks entirely unfamiliar with the concept of creative placemaking intuitively grasp the potential for artist spaces to catalyze revitalization, and mural projects to animate vacant walls. The usual mental backdrops, however, are down-and-out urban neighborhoods.

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February 3, 2013 by admin
The following is an expanded version of my essay “Creative Placemaking and the Politics of Belonging and Dis-belonging,” first published on the Arts in a Changing America website. I’ve been asked to prepare it for the GIA Reader audience and to reflect further on the topic of belonging as it relates to my work as a public funder.
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June 21, 2012 by admin
What is a woman’s relationship between the experience of spending time in a natural setting away from everyday chores, and the release of self-expression through writing?
Start with this:
Walking on a salty sandy beach, then sitting down to write.
Eating thoughtfully created organic meals prepared for you in a warm kitchen. Sharing your new writing with the other residents in a comfortable living room after dinner.
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April 30, 2009 by admin

2008, 33 pages. The Atlantic Philanthropies, 125 Park Avenue, 21st Floor, New York, NY, 10017, 212-916-7305, www.atlanticphilanthropies.org

http://www.atlanticphilanthropies.org/content/download/
6739/103341/file/ATLP_farmworkers_report.pdf

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April 30, 2009 by admin

Gourd Girls
Priscilla Wilson
2005, 220 pages
Mt. Yonah Press, Sautee, Georgia

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October 11, 2008 by admin

189 pages, September 2008. WolfBrown, 8A Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02138. (617) 494-9300, www.wolfbrown.com.

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September 30, 2008 by admin

2007, 44 pages. Minnesota Citizens for the Arts, 2233 University Avenue West, Suite 355, St. Paul, Minnesota, 55144, (651) 251-0868, www.mncitizensforthearts.org

http://mncitizensforthearts.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/interioronlyfinal.pdf

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September 30, 2008 by admin

The sense of the world must lie outside the world.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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August 31, 2008 by admin

Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London, 2008, 297 pages, Edited by Diane Grams and Betty Farrell.

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May 31, 2008 by admin

2004, 55 pages. ArtsMarket, 1125 W. Kagy Blvd., Suite 100, Bozeman, MT 59715, (406) 582-4766, www.artsmarket.com

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