The CAN Report

The State of the Field of Community Cultural Development: Something New Emerges

A Report from the CAN Gathering, May 2004

By Linda Frye Burnham, Steven Durland and Maryo Gard Ewell

Published by Art in the Public Interest July, 2004

Table of Contents Summary The Charge of the Gathering, Its Methodology and Terms Comparing the Field: 2001 to 2004 Emergence of a New Energy What Must Happen for This Field to Develop? Appendices

Appendix V: Bibliography for the Field (A Beginning)

Community Arts Network
Community Cultural Development Bibliography (A Beginning)
Compiled by Art in the Public Interest, July 2004

BOOKS

Adams, Don and Arlene Goldbard, "Community, Culture and Globalization" (Rockefeller Foundation, 2002)

Adams, Don and Arlene Goldbard, "Creative Community" (Rockefeller Foundation, 2001)

Adams, Don and Arlene Goldbard, "Crossroads: Reflections on the Politics of Culture" (DNA Press, 1990)

Adams, Eileen, "Public Art: People, Projects, Process" (Southern Band, 1997)

Americans for the Arts, "Arts and Economic Prosperity: The Economic Impact of Nonprofit Arts Organizations and Their Audiences " (2002)

Americans for the Arts, "Creativity in Community: The Robert Gard Lectures 1999-2003" (2004)

Americans for the Arts Institute for Community Development and the Arts, "Building America’s Communities II: A Compendium of Arts and Community Development Programs" (1997)

Animating Democracy Initiative, "The National Exchange on Art & Civic Dialogue" (Americans for the Arts, 2004)

Aprill, Arnold, and Gail Burnaford, Cynthia Weiss, eds., "Renaissance in the Classroom: Arts Integration and Meaningful Learning," (Lawrence Erlbaum & Assoc. 2001)

Arthurs, Alberta, and Glenn Wallach, eds., "Crossroads: Art and Religion in American Life" (New Press, 2001)

Atlas, Caron, and Loren Renz, "Arts Funding 2000: Funder Perspectives on Current and Future Trends" (Foundation Center, 1999)

Ault, Julie, ed., "Alternative Art New York, 1965-1985" (University of Minnesota Press, 2002)

Bacon, Barbara Schaffer, and Cheryl Yuen, Pam Korza, "Animating Democracy: The Artistic Imagination as a Force in Civic Dialogue" (Americans for the Arts, 1999)

Augaitis, Daina, and Lorne Falk, Sylvie Gilbert, Mary Anne Moser, eds., "Questions of Community: Artists, Audiences, Coalitions" (Banff Centre Press, 1995)

Balfour, Michael, "Theatre in Prison: Theory and Practice" (Intellect Books, 2004)

Becker, Carol, ed., "The Subversive Imagination: Artists, Society and Social Responsibility" (Routledge, 1994)

Bennu, Pierre, "Bullshit or Fertilizer: Tough Love for Artists on the Fence" (exittheapple productions, 2001)

Berger, Arthur Asa, "Popular Culture Genres" (Sage Press, 1992)

Berger, Maurice, ed., "The Crisis of Criticism" (The New Press, 1998)

Blandy, Doug, and Kristin G. Congdon, eds., "Art in a Democracy" (Teachers College Press, 1987)

Blandy, Doug, and Kristin G. Congdon, Paul E. Bolin, eds., "Histories of Community-Based Art Education" (National Art Education Association, 2001)

Boal, Augusto, "Theatre of the Oppressed" (Ediciones de la Flor, 1974; Urizen Books, 1979; Pluto Press, 1979; Continuum International Pub. Group 1984; Theatre Communications Group, 1985; University of Michigan Press, 1993; Pluto Press, 2000)

Boal, Augusto, "Legislative Theatre: Using Performance To Make Politics" (Routledge, 1998)

Booth, Kathy, "Culture Builds Communities: A Guide to Partnership Building and Putting Culture to Work on Social Issues" (Partners for Livable Communities, 1995)

Borstel, John, ed. "Liz Lerman Dance Exchange Basic Toolbox" (Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, 2003)

Bowles, Norma, and Mark E. Rosenthal, eds., "Cootie Shots: Theatrical Inoculations Against Bigotry for Kids, Parents and Teachers" (TCG Books, 2001)

Boyd, Andrew, "The Activist Cookbook: Creative Actions for a Fair Economy" (United for a Fair Economy, 1997)

Brecht, Stefan, "The Bread and Puppet Theatre" (Routledge, 1988)

Broyles-Gonzalez, Yolanda, "El Teatro Campesino: Theater in the Chicano Movement" (University of Texas Press, 1994)

Burnham, Linda, and Steven Durland, eds., "The Citizen Artist: 20 Years of Art in the Public Arena" (Critical Press, 1998)

Byam, L. Dale, "Community in Motion: Theater for Development in Africa" (Bergin and Garvey, 1999)

Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens Education & Community Program, "Robert Henry Johnson Dance Company's 'Skinny' (Student Activity Workbook and Instructor's Curriculum Guide)" (1997)

Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens Education & Community Program, "Urban Bush Women's 'Bones and Ash: A Gilda Story' (Student Activity Workbook and Instructor's Curriculum Guide)" (1996)

Centre for Creative Communities, "Common Threads, the Arts for Life" (1998)

Cheng, Meiling, "In Other Los Angeleses: Multicentric Performance Art" (University of California Press, 2002)

Chew, Ron, "Reflections of Seattle's Chinese Americans: the First 100 Years" (Univ. of Washington Press, 1995)

Ciccarelli, Maura and Susan Coppa, "Culture Builds Communities: The Power of the Arts to Strengthen Neighborhoods" (Partners for Livable Communities, 2001)

Cieri, Marie, and Claire Peeps, eds.,"Activists Speak Out" (Palgrave, 2000)

Cleveland, William, "Art in Other Places: Artists at Work in America's Community & Social Institutions" (Praeger, 1992; Arts Extension Service, 2000)

Cocke, Dudley, Donna Porterfield and Edward Wemytewa eds., "Journeys Home: Revealing a Zuni-Appalachian Collaboration," (Zuni A:shiwi Publishing, 2002)

Cocke, Dudley, Harry Newman and Janet Salmons-Rue, eds., "From the Ground Up: Grassroots Theater in Historical and Contemporary Perspective" (Roadside Theater and Cornell University, 1993)

Cohen, Anthony P., "The Symbolic Construction of Community" (Youngstock, 1985)

Cohen-Cruz, Jan, "Local Acts: U.S. Community-based Performance" (Rutgers University Press, forthcoming 2004)

Cohen-Cruz, Jan, ed., "Radical Street Performance: An International Anthology" (Routledge, 1998)

Cohen-Cruz, Jan, and Lorie Novak, eds. "Urban Ensemble: University/Community Collaborations in the Arts" (Tisch School of the Arts/New York University, 1998)

Cohen-Cruz, Jan, and Mady Schutzman, eds., "Playing Boal: Theatre, Therapy, Activism" (Routledge, 1994)

Cooney, Robert, and Helen Michalowski, eds., "The Power of the People" (New Society Press,1987)

Corbett, Ann, "Arts in a Living Downtown: Best Practices" (Partners for Livable Communities, 1998)

Coult, Tony, and Baz Kershaw, "Engineers of the Imagination" (Methuen, 1985)

Cruikshank, Jeffrey L., and Pam Korza, "Going Public: A Field Guide to Developments in Art in Public Places" (Arts Extension Service, 1988)

Dagron, Alfonso Gumucio, "Making Waves: Stories of Participatory Communication for Social Change" (Rockefeller Foundation, 2001)

Dancer, Daniel, "Shards & Circles: Artistic Adventures in Spirit and Ecology" (Trafford, 2001)

de Nobriga Kathie and Valetta Anderson, "Alternate ROOTS: Plays from the Southern Theater" (Heinemann, 1994)

Dent, Tom, and Richard Schechner, Gil Moses, eds., "The Free Southern Theater by the Free Southern Theater" (Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1969)

Dewey, John, "Art as Experience" (Perigee Books, 1934; 1980)

Dickson, Malcolm, ed., "Art with People" (AN Publications, 1995)

Dreeszen, Craig "Intersections: Community Arts and Education Collaborations" (Arts Extension Service, 1992)

Dreeszen, Craig, "The Community Cultural Development Planning Handbook: A Guide for Community Leaders" (Americans for the Arts, 1997)

Dreeszen, Craig, and Pam Korza, eds. "Fundamentals of Local Arts Management" (Arts Extension Service, 1987, 1994)

Eames, Penny, "Creative Solutions and Social Inclusion: Culture and the Community" (Steele Roberts Limited, 2003)

Elam, Harry J., Jr., "Taking It to the Streets: The Social Protest Theater of Luis Valdez and Amiri Baraka" (U. of Michigan Press, 1997)

Emerson, Robert M., and Rachel I. Frets, Linda L. Shaw, "Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes" (University of Chicago Press, 1995)

Felshin, Nina, "But Is It Art: The Spirit of Arts as Activism" (Bay Press, 1994)

Finkelpearl, Tom, "Dialogues in Public Art" (MIT Press, 2000)

Flood, Bill, "Public Art in Private Development" (Americans for the Arts, 1989)

Florida, Richard, "The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life" (Perseus, 2002)

Fraden, Rena, "Imagining Medea: Rhodessa Jones and Theater for Incarcerated Women" (University of North Carolina Press, 2001)

Freire, Paulo, "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" (Continuum, 1968; 1987)

Gablik, Suzy, "Reenchantment of Art" (Norton & Co., 1991; Thames & Hudson, 1992)

Gard, Robert, "Grassroots Theater: A Search for Regional Arts in America" (U. of Wisconsin Press, 1955; 1999)

Gladwell, Malcolm, "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference" (Little, Brown, 2000)

Glassberg, David, "American Historical Pageantry" (University of North Carolina Press, 1990)

Goffman, Erving, "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life" (Doubleday, 1959)

Gordon-Nesbitt, Rebecca, "Girls High: Ten Years of Environmental Art in Glasgow" (Glasgow School of Art, 1996)

Guinier, Lani, and Gerald Torres, "The Miner’s Canary" (Harvard University Press, 2002)

Haedicke, Susan Chandler, and Tobin Nellhaus, eds., "Performing Democracy: International Perspectives on Urban Community-Based Performance" (University of Michigan Press, 2001)

Hall, Stuart, "The Popular Arts," (Pantheon, 1965)

Hamilton-Sperr, Portia, "Museums in the Life of the City" (Philadelphia Initiative for Cultural Pluralism, 1992)

Harding, David, ed. "Decadent. Public Art: Contentious Term and Contested Practice" (Glasgow School of Art, 1997)

Harper, Glenn, "Interventions and Provocations: Conversations on Art, Culture and Resistance" (State University of New York Press, 1998)

Hillman, Grady, "Artists in the Community: Training Artists To Work in Alternative Settings" (Americans for the Arts, 1996)

Hinsdale, Mary Ann, and Helen M. Lewis, S. Maxine Waller, "It Comes from the People: Community Development and Local Theology" (Temple University Press, 1995)

Heath, Shirley Brice, and Laura Smyth, "ArtShow: Youth and Community Development, A Resource Guide" (Partners for Livable Communities, 1999)

Horton, Myles, and Paulo Freire, "We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change" (Temple University Press, 1990)

Hoskins, Janet, "Biographical Objects: How Things Tell the Stories of People's Lives" (Routledge, 1998)

Huerta, Jorge, "Chicano Theater: Themes and Forms" (Bilingual Press, 1982)

Huerta, Jorge, "Chicano Drama" (Cambridge University Press, 2000)

Jackson, Homer, and Jennifer Borders, "Heroes. Sheroes, Villains and Anti-heroes: Ideas & Images from George Read Middle School" (Delaware Center or the Contemporary Arts, 1997)

Jackson, Maria-Rosario, and Joaquin Herranz Jr., "Culture Counts in Community: A Framework for Measurement" (Urban Institute, 2002)

Jordan, Sherrill, ed. "Public Art, Public Controversy: The Tilted Arc on Trial" (American Council for the Arts, 1987)

Kaprow, Allan, "Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life" (University of California Press, 1993)

Kershaw, Baz, "The Politics of Performance: Radical Theatre as Cultural Intervention" (Routledge, 1992)

Kester, Grant H., "Art, Activism and Oppositionality" (Duke University Press, 1998)

Kester, Grant H., "Conversation Pieces: Community + Communication in Modern Art" (University of California Press, 2004)

Korza, Pam, and Dian Magie, "The Arts Festival Work Kit" (Arts Extension Service, 1989)

Kretzman, John P., and John L. McKnight, "Building Communities from the Inside Out" (ACTA Publications, 1993)

Kuftinec, Sonja, "Staging America: Cornerstone and Community-Based Theater" (Southern Illinois University Press, 2003)

Lacy, Suzanne, ed., "Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art" (Bay Press, 1995)

Lane, John, and Betsy Teter, eds. "Hub City Anthology: Spartanburg Writers and Artists" (Holocene, 1996)

Larson, Gary O., "American Canvas: An Arts Legacy for Our Communities" (National Endowment for the Arts, 1997)

Lemon, Ralph, and Tracie Morris, "Geography: Art/Race/Exile" (Wesleyan University Press, 2000)

Lemon, Ralph, "Tree: Belief/Culture/Balance" (Wesleyan University Press, 2004)

Lerman, Liz, "Are Miracles Enough? Selected Writings on Art and Community 1983-1994" (Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, 1995)

Lerman, Liz, "Teaching Dance to Senior Adults" (Thomas Pub., 1984)

Lerman, Liz, and John Borstel, "Critical Response Process: A Method for Getting Useful Feedback on Anything You Make, from Dance to Dessert" (Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, 2003)

Lippard, Lucy R. "Get the Message? A Decade of Art for Social Change" (Dutton, 1984)

Lippard, Lucy R., "Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America" (New Press, 2000)

Lippard, Lucy R., "Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society" (New Press, 1998)

MacKaye, Percy, "The Civic Theater in Relation to the Redemption of Leisure" (M. Kennerley, 1912)

Mackin, Anne, "Community Design: Six Cases of Cultural Revitalization" (North Carolina Arts Council, 1991)

Marcuse, Deborah, ed., "NAAO's Leadership Development Initiative: The Co-Generate Project Field Guide, 1999-2000" (National Association of Artists' Organizations, 2000)

Matarasso, Francois, "Use or Ornament: The Social Impact of Participation in the Arts" (Comedia, 1997)

McConachie Bruce, and Daniel Friedman, eds., "Theatre for Working-Class Audiences in the United States, 1830-1980" (Greenwood Press, 1985)

McDaniel, Nello, and George Thorn, "The Quiet Crisis in the Arts" (Arts Action Issues, 1991)

McDaniel, Nello, and George Thorn, "Toward a New Arts Order: Power, Process, Change" (Arts Action Issues, 1993)

McDaniel, Nello, and George Thorn, "The Workpapers 1: Rethinking and Restructuring the Arts Organization" (FEDAPT, 1990)

McGarvey, Craig, and Dudley Cocke, et al., "Connecting Californians: An Inquiry into the Role of Story in Strengthening Communities " (James Irvine Foundation, 2000)

McLaughlin, Milbrey W., "Community Counts: How Youth Organizations Matter for Youth Development" (Public Education Network, 2000)

McNulty, Robert, and Patricia Jones, Laura Green, "Culture and Communities: The Arts in the Life of American Cities" (Partners for Livable Communities, 1992"

Miller, Celeste, "Dancing from the Heart. Life Stories: A Workbook for the Creative Exploration of the Storyline of Our Lives Through Dance, Movement, Writing and Storytelling" (Celeste Miller & Co., 1994)

Miller, Tim, "Body Blows: Six Performances" (University of Wisconsin Press, 2002)

O'Brien, Mark, and Craig Little, eds., "Reimaging America: The Arts of Social Change" (New Society Press, 1989)

Ontario Arts Council, "Community Arts Workbook" (1998)

Orenstein, Claudia, "Festive Revolutions: The Politics of Popular Theater and the San Francisco Mime Troupe" (U. Press of Mississippi, 1999)

Overton, Patrick, ed., "Grassroots and Mountain Wings: The Arts in Rural and Small Communities" (Columbia College, 1992)

Overton, Patrick, "Rebuilding the Front Porch of America: Essays on the Art of Community Making" (Columbia College, 1997)

Partners for Livable Communities, "The Creative City Anthology" (2003)

Partners for Livable Communities, "The Livable City: Revitalizing Urban Communities" (McGraw Hill, 2000)

Perks, Robert, and Alistair Thomson, eds., "The Oral History Reader" (Routledge, 1998)

Perlstein, Susan, and Jeff Bliss, "Generating Community: Intergenerational Partnerships Through the Expressive Arts" (Elders Share the Arts, 1994)

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Remer, Jane, "Beyond Enrichment: Building Effective Arts Partnerships with Schools and Your Communities" (American Council for the Arts, 1996)

Roadside Theater, "You and Your Community's Story" (1995)

Rohd, Michael, "Theatre for Community, Conflict & Dialogue: The Hope Is Vital Training Manual" (Heinemann, 1998)

Rollins, Judy, and Carmel Mahan, "From Artist to Artist-in-Residence: Preparing to Work in Pediatric Healthcare Settings" (Rollins and Associates, 1996)

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Schechner, Richard, "Between Theater & Anthropology" (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985)

Schaffer Bacon, Barbara, and Cheryl Yuen, Pam Korza, "Animating Democracy: The Artistic Imagination as a Force in Civic Dialogue" (Americans for the Arts, 1999)

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