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Recent CAN Essays
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Book Review: Community Performance: An Introduction
A new book speaks with many voices.
By Richard Owen Geer
(August 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)
Community Conversations through the Arts: Artistic Response After the Virginia Tech Tragedy
A disparate group of Blacksburg residents decides to seek community healing.
By Shannon Turner
(August 2008)
Dance as Activism: Questions for a Little Black Girl
Is it possible to build a community that takes stock in a Little Black Girl, invested in her value, her honor, her power and her potential?
By Carol Marie Webster
(August 2008)
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)
The Community Artist from the Community
A community arts grad student goes to work in the Native American community where she grew up.
By Ashley Minner
(August 2008)
Fostering Commitment: The Community Arts Corps
AmeriCorps and MICA take art students into their Baltimore communities.
By Kara McDonagh
(August 2008)
Arts, Activism and Humanity – The Prison Creative Arts Project
Investing in the voices of the incarcerated
By Geetha Iyer
(August 2008)
An Accidental Community Artist: The Making of the PhotoBooth Project
Putting whole communities into the picture.
By Christopher Irion
(August 2008)
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)
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)
Art Action for Social Change: Kids on the Hill
A theory of change in three parts: Experiential Education, Art Action, Civic Engagement.
By Mark Carter and Rebecca Yenawine
(August 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)
Complexities and Collaborations at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Power dynamics, resources, support and responsibilities in campus-community collaborations.
By Celina Aguilar and Kate McLeod
(July 2008)
The Porch — A Cultural Center in the Seventh Ward of New Orleans
Starting a cultural organization in a neighborhood struggling with survival.
By Ron Bechet, Willie Birch and Helen Regis
(July 2008)
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