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Alternate ROOTS is a coalition of artists and cultural workers in the Southeastern USA; addressing racism and other oppressions has been integral to our mission for a long time. At our 2004 Annual Meeting this past August a panel of ROOTS' founding members discussed the function of ROOTS as a cultural continuation of the civil rights movement - beginning with our founding at the legendary Highlander Center in New Market, Tennessee.

The Chicago Dance Mapping Project (CDMP) was conducted by Dance/USA over a period of eighteen months through 2002 "to capture a census of dance activity" in the six counties of the greater Chicago metropolitan area. Although the research coincided with the San Francisco and Washington, D.C. needs assessments described in the winter 2004 (Vol. 15, No. 1) Reader, the Chicago research was even more broadly inclusive of diverse dance entities and was originally intended to be reported and used as a database.

2004, 34 pages. Published by Arts Education Partnership, One Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC, 20001-1431, http://www.aep-arts.org

Download pdf: http://aep-arts.org/files/publications/OpportunitiesResearch.pdf

July 2004, 76 pages. Published by Art in the Public Interest, P.O. Box 68, Saxapahaw, NC, 27340, 336-376-8404, info@communityarts.net, www.communityarts.net

Download Report: www.communityarts.net/readingroom/archivefiles/2004/08/can_report_the.php

2003, 15 pages. Americans for the Arts, 1000 Vermont Avenue NW, 6th floor, Washington, DC 20005, 202-371-2830, info@artsusa.org, www.americansforthearts.org

March 2004, 27 pages. Project on Regional and Industrial Economics, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, 301 19th Avenue, Room 231, Minneapolis, MN 55455, (612) 625-8092, amarkusen@hhh.umn.edu or gshrock@hhh.umn.edu or mcameron@hhh.umn.edu, www.hhh.umn.edu

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What roles will arts and cultural organizations and funders play in the November 2004 election?

Through the ages artists with disabilities have been important to our history and culture. Beethoven was deaf, Van Gogh was mentally ill, El Greco was visually impaired. For the most part we do not associate them with their disability. We celebrate their lives for the gifts of music and art that they left in our midst.

2003, 15 pages. The Urban Institute/Wallace Foundation, www.wallacefoundation.org or www.urban.org

Many grantmakers express a heightened interest in learning more about cultural participation. Research about who participates, what motivates people to participate and the barriers to participation provides valuable data to cultural organizations and funders seeking to broaden, deepen, and diversify audiences for these offerings.