"Creative Spaces" in the Land of the Long White Cloud
Report on community arts conference in New Zealand. By William Cleveland (October 2003)

30 Years and Counting: A Context for Building a Shared Cross-Cultural Commons
Calling for an alternative economic vision that puts freedom, justice and equity at the core of society. By Jack (John Kuo Wei) Tchen (November 2007)

A Bridge Conversation about Animating a Latin American Idea in the U.S.
Paul Chin and Vanessa Whang talk about crossing lines of culture and politics, race and ethnicity, and the local and global. By Vanessa Whang (April 2008)

A Bridge Conversation on the Power of Art To Move People
Ismael Ahmed and Anan Ameri discuss the extraordinary model of the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services. By Anan Ameri (March 2008)

A Bridge Conversation on the Spiritual Core of Indigenous Social Justice
Tia Oros Peters and Vanessa Whang talk about maintaining your vision and integrity in rooms of power. By Vanessa Whang (March 2008)

A Call for Cultural Development
On the role of the "home-grown" artist in a vital, characteristically Southeastern culture, a "local life aware of itself." By Dudley Cocke and Ruby Lerner (October 2003)

A Jar in Tennessee
CAN reviews "Local Acts: Community-Based Performance in the United States," a new book by Jan Cohen-Cruz. By Richard Owen Geer (May 2005)

A Journey of Discouragement and Hope: An Introduction to Arts and Corrections
With 100 prison arts residencies under his belt, a working poet introduces the field. By Grady Hillman (December 2001)

Acting Like Women: Performance Art of the Woman's Building
History and teaching methods of the Los Angeles center for women's culture. Puvblished in High Performance #11/12, Vol. III, Nos. 3/4, 1980. By Cheri Gaulke (September 2002)

An Introduction to Community Art and Activism
Some history, theory and personal perspective on activist art for community change. By Jan Cohen-Cruz (February 2002)

An Introduction to Training in Community Arts
How and where training is being offered in community arts, from workshops to degree courses in universities. By Linda Frye Burnham (September 2001)

An Introduction to the Arts-for-Health Movement, or How the Arts Sneaked in on the Medical Model
A short history of the field of arts in healthcare, along with highlights, references and theory based on the author's own experience with arts in the U.S. By Janice Palmer (November 2001)

An Introduction to the ROOTS Reader
Introduction to the CAN Special Project about Alternate ROOTS By Linda Frye Burnham (October 2003)

Art Centers for Adults with Disabilities
Theory, history, personal perspective from the founding director of National Institute of Arts and Disabilities. By Elias Katz (February 2002)

Arts and Creative Aging Across America
Overview from the point of view of the director of the National Center for Creative Aging. By Susan Perlstein (October 2002)

Authentic Passion: An introduction to the arts in rural and small communities
Overview from a noted South Dakota arts consultant. By Janet Brown (March 2002)

Changes: An Interview with Liz Lerman at the End of the "Hallelujah" Trail
Interview with the Dance Exchange director following the nationwide "Hallelujah" initiative, 1998-2002. By Linda Frye Burnham (March 2003)

Community Arts and Technology: Confessions of a Quiet Practitioner
Overview from the founding co-director of the Center for Digital Storytelling. By Joe Lambert (May 2002)

Community Conversations through the Arts: Artistic Response After the Virginia Tech Tragedy
A disparate group of Blacksburg residents decide to seek community healing.. By Shannon Turner (August 2008)

Community Works: Sambo Mockbee and the Rural Studio
A eulogy for a citizen architect. By Bruce Lindsey (September 2007)

Converging Streams: The Community Arts and Sustainable Community Movements
Are we truly on the brink of a new paradigm? By Patricia A. Shifferd and Dorothy Lagerroos (November 2006)

Creativity, Faith and a Stronger Community
A sermon at the Congregational Church, Gunnison, Colorado. By Maryo Gard Ewell (August 2006)

Cultural Policy: In the board rooms and on the streets
Overview from a noted consultant to foundations and government agencies. By Caron Atlas (August 2002)

Dancing From the Heart: Urban-based Community Arts
Overview by a Chicago-based director of community theater projects across the U.S. By Richard Owen Geer (May 2002)

Dancing in Community: Its Roots in Art
A short history of the field of community dance, along with highlights, references and theory based on the author's own experience with her company, the Dance Exchange. By Liz Lerman (September 2002)

Declaration of Cultural Human Rights
Reissue of 1984 document. By Alliance for Cultural Democracy (August 2004)

Deeper than Skin or Gender: Community Arts and Cultural Diversity
Overview of the intersection of art and cultural diversity from the director of Atlanta Partnership for Arts in Learning and former director of Alternate ROOTS. By Alice Lovelace (July 2002)

Finding the Thread of an Interrupted Conversation: the Arts, Education, and Community
Overview of arts and education from the director of Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE). By Arnold Aprill (February 2002)

First We Make Music: An Introduction to Music and Community Arts
Overview of community music from the director of the Contintental Harmonies Program of American Composers Forum. By Patricia A. Shifferd (March 2002)

Grass ROOTS Vanguard
1982 article from Art in America, where the authors say "The neighborhood artist is the new vanguard." By Don Adams and Arlene Goldbard (August 2002)

Grassroots, Community-based Theater: A View of the Field and Its Context
History, theory and examples of community-based theater from a CAN co-director and founding director of the Road Company. By Robert H. Leonard (December 2003)

Hands Across Skid Row: John Malpede's Performance Workshop for the homeless of L.A.
The birth of the Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD). By Linda Frye Burnham (December 1999)

INROADS: The Intersection of Art & Civic Dialogue
Introduction to the use of civic dialogue in community development from the staff of the Animating Democracy Initiative. By Andrea Assaf, Pam Korza and Barbara Schaffer-Bacon (August 2002)

Introduction to The Citizen Artist: 20 Years of Art in the Public Arena
Anthology of articles from High Performance magazine (Gardiner, N.Y.: Critical Press, 1998). By Steven Durland (September 2002)

It Was a Time of Hope – A Time of Challenge
About some of the roots of community arts in the Southeast: vigorous action initiated by artists of color in Atlanta. Published in High Performance #64, Vol. XVI, No. 4, 1993. By Alice Lovelace (October 2003)

Latitude 32° – Navigating Home
On Lacy's performance/installation community arts work at 2003 Spoleto Festival USA. By Suzanne Lacy (October 2003)

Lyrical Expression, Critical Engagement, Transformative Action: An Introduction to Art and the Environment
History and theory of the visual arts as they engage our natural and built environment -- from a noted eco-artist/scholar. By Tim Collins (June 2003)

Mapping the Field: Arts-Based Community Development
Overview from the director of the Center for the Study of Art and Community. By William Cleveland (May 2002)

Overlaps, Intersections and Conflicts: An Introduction to Arts and Culture
Ideas about the state of cultural democracy by a noted arts consultant and author. By Arlene Goldbard (March 2002)

Policy Research on Community Arts: A Collective Endeavor
An overview of the policies and methods of research in community arts from the director of the Culture, Creativity and Communities Program at the Urban Institute. By Maria-Rosario Jackson (July 2002)

Postscript to the Past: Notes Toward a History of Community Arts
A history of community-based arts in the United States. First published in High Performance #64 Vol. XVI, No. 4, 1993. By Arlene Goldbard (December 1999)

Power and Mastery — Negotiations in Community-based Visual Art
Overview of the intersection of visual art and communities from an experienced practitioner. By Neill Bogan (October 2003)

Practicing in Public
On the "Evoking History" project at Spoleto Festival USA. By Mary Jane Jacob (October 2003)

Public Art's Cultural Evolution
Overview of the field of public art from the artistic director of Public Art Review. By Jack Becker (February 2002)

ROOTS Goes to Spoleto: A Report
Report on "Making Art/Making Home," Alternate ROOTS Workshop at 2003 Spoleto Festival USA. By Frank Martin (October 2003)

Running Commentary: Alternate ROOTS
On a first encounter with Alternate ROOTS at the 10th Anniversary ROOTS Performance Festival in Atlanta. Published in High Performance #39, Vol. X, No. 3, 1987. By Linda Frye Burnham (October 2003)

Running To Catch Up with the People: A Conversation with Robert Gard, Ralph Kohlhoff and Michael Warlum, 1969
Historic conversation among three community-arts pioneers at work in Wisconsin on The Arts in the Small Community, the first NEA-funded rural arts project. By Michael F. Warlum (September 2004)

Singing on the Mountain: A View of Alternate ROOTS
An intimate memoir of the Southern arts organization. Published in High Performance #64, Vol. XVI, No. 4, 1993. By Kenneth C. Raphael (October 2003)

Some Historical Threads of the Community Arts Story (and why they are important).
A history of community arts by the former associate director of the Colorado Council on the Arts. By Maryo Gard Ewell (July 2002)

The Alternate ROOTS Dilemma: From Little Black Sambo to Son of White Man
Working toward ending racism, sexism and homophobia -- the hard way. By Pat Arnow (October 2003)

The Art/Life Experiment
Introduction to Part I of "The Citizen Artist: 20 Years of Art in the Public Arena," anthology of articles from High Performance magazine. By Linda Frye Burnham (September 2002)

The Artist as Activist
Introduction to Part II of "The Citizen Artist: 20 Years of Art in the Public Arena," anthology of articles from High Performance magazine. By Linda Frye Burnham (September 2002)

The Artist as Citizen
Introduction to Part III of "The Citizen Artist: 20 Years of Art in the Public Arena," anthology of articles from High Performance magazine. By Linda Frye Burnham (September 2002)

The Arts and Community Strengthening
Script of a talk given at conference of Michigan Association of Community Arts Agencies, November 8, 2000. Short history of community arts, and more. By Maryo Gard Ewell (May 2001)

The Arts and The Wisconsin Idea: A Conference Report
Report on conference, U. of Wisconsin, October 2003. By Maryo Gard Ewell (December 2003)

The Citizen Artist: 20 Years of Art in the Public Arena
Anthology of articles from High Performance magazine (Gardiner, N.Y.: Critical Press, 1998). By Linda Frye Burnham and Steven Durland (September 2002)

The Community Cultural Development Field
First chapter of Don Adams and Arlene Goldbard's "Creative Community: The Art of Cultural Development," book commissioned by Rockefeller Foundation in 2001. By Don Adams and Arlene Goldbard (August 2001)

The Dynamism of Arts-service Organizations
Introduction to the service organizations providing much of community arts' infrastructure -- by the former director of the National Association of Artists' Organizations. By Roberto Bedoya (January 2002)

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)

The Saints Go Marching In
On the 7th Open Dialogue of The Association of American Cultures (TAAC), including a funeral for the NEA Expansion Arts Program (1971-1996). Published in High Performance #72, Vol. XIX, No. 2, 1996. By Kathie deNobriga (December 1999)

The Selma Project: "Understanding, the Struggle for Community"
Reflection on a significant community-arts work in Selma, Alabama. Published in High Performance #69/70, Vol. XVIII, No. 1/2, 1995. By Robert H. Leonard (September 2002)

Town Artist: An Interview with David Harding
The artist talk about his stint as the town artist of Glenrothes, Scotland, 1968-1978. Published in High Performance #34, Vol. IX, No. 2, 1986. By Moira Roth (September 2002)

Urban Alchemy: In Search of a Formula for the City of Tomorrow
Report on "Transforming Communities through the Arts," meeting of architects, landscape architects, urban planners, designers, journalists, artists, philanthropists and community developers at Chicago Cultural Center, in November 2003 By Tom Borrup (December 2003)

When Kennedy Came to Kentucky
Preview of the September 2004 Robert Kennedy Project in eastern Kentucky. Republished from American Theatre magazine. By Linda Frye Burnham (August 2004)

Whose Agenda Is It, Anyway? Documentary Burdens, Community Benefits
History and theory of the documentary arts from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. By Lynn McKnight (August 2003)

Why Not Football? The Politics of Youth Arts Programs in America
Overview of community arts with young people: history, theory and personal perspective from the author of "Building the Code: Understanding Community-based Arts in America." By Mat Schwarzman (May 2002)