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Recent CAN Essays
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Cannons and Muses: Art in Real-time Crisis
You're invited to participate in an international collaboration that began in Israel when two art students organized an "urgent conference" during the 2009 Gaza war.
By Moran Been-noon
(June 2009)
Giving “Birth” in Little Rock
"Birth: The Play" opens in Little Rock, Arkansas, a city where some say attitudes toward birthing are influenced by a “subculture of fear.”
By April Gentry-Sutterfield
(June 2009)
Signs of Welcome, Signs of the Possible: Public Practice in Rural California
Suzanne Lacy's Public Practice students work with residents of a small California town to create Laton Live! REUNION / REUNION.
By Emily Roehl
(June 2009)
Restorative Justice and Visual Restoration in Philadelphia
A criminal-justice specialist talks about the mural arts program she directs in the inner city.
By Robyn Buseman
(May 2009)
Promoting Social Justice with San Francisco's Most Creative Capital
A Public Health official argues for social justice through the arts in the City by the Bay.
By Maria X. Martinez
(April 2009)
Book Review - Arts for Change: Teaching Outside the Frame
Review of a new book by Beverly Naidus, the latest from New Village Press.
By Anusha Venkataraman
(April 2009)
Exchanging Gifts in Charleston, South Carolina
A Charleston critic looks at a local/global community arts project: The Future Is on the Table.
By Darryl Lorenzo Wellington
(March 2009)
A Proposed Job Swap To Save American Capitalism
If Wall Street executives swapped jobs with artists, what would we gain?
By Liz Lerman
(March 2009)
Social Imagination: Documenting Engagement in Canada
Canadian artists test digital video as a means to capture the aesthetics of their community arts practice.
By Linda Frye Burnham
(February 2009)
Silk Road Theatre Project's Alternative Cultural Education
Starting a conversation with U.S. students about the cultures of the Silk Road, an ancient network of trade routes connecting China, Asia and the Mediterranean world.
By Carol Ng-He
(February 2009)
The New New Deal, Part 2 - A New WPA for Artists: How and Why
Details on what a new WPA for artists might look like. And what it could cost.
By Arlene Goldbard
(January 2009)
The Creative Economy: Views from Abroad
A report from the Creative Clusters international conference in Glasgow, and thoughts on what community-based art can bring to the table.
By Tom Borrup
(January 2009)
Looking Back, Looking Ahead: An Address to the Wisconsin Regional Writers Conference
Why ordinary people writing about their own lives is important to the future of democracy.
By Maryo Gard Ewell
(January 2009)
Do It Yourself: Producing Performance Art on Election Day
Artists organize site-specific performance at polling places in Milwaukee, Nov. 4, 2008.
By Pegi Taylor
(January 2009)
Community Arts 2008: The Year of the Great Leap
CAN's year-end roundup of trends across the field.
By Linda Frye Burnham
(December 2008)
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