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Recent CAN Essays
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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)
The Importance of Self-Reflection for Community-based Educators
Reflection and personal development as inherent components of the art-making process.
By Sheila K. Fox
(July 2008)
Warts and All: The Partnership that Built a Community Arts Graduate Program
Sometimes the most difficult partner relationships are the ones inside the institution.
By Nicole Garneau and Phyllis Johnson
(July 2008)
Campus-Community Partnerships: Supporting or Destroying the Field of Community Arts?
While higher education trains students to work in the community, are community partners experiencing funding setbacks and closure?
By Sonia BasSheva Mańjon
(July 2008)
Training and Partnerships in Rutgers’ Transcultural New Jersey Public Service Arts Program
The service-learning and civic-engagement movement in higher education is increasingly challenging conventional academic culture.
By Linda Melamed and Isabel Nazario
(July 2008)
Intersections of Community Arts and Activism with a Liberal Arts Education
Can collaboration between liberal arts and visual arts increase learning outcomes for students and benefits to communities?
By Mindy Nierenberg
(July 2008)
Best Practices or Principles of Practice? Reflecting upon Language & Roles
The lack of accord around the use of the term “best practice.”
By Melanie Ohm
(July 2008)
Rez CAP
Across a thousand miles, two cultures, two communities come together: MICA and the Dakota Nation.
By John Peacock
(July 2008)
A Bridge Conversation on Direct and Indirect Approaches to Community Change
Littleglobe and South West Organizing Project talk about finding a relationship between community-engaged arts and organizing.
By Valerie Martinez, Robby Rodriguez, Molly Sturges and Rosina Roibal
(June 2008)
A Bridge Conversation on Who Will Carry the Work Forward
An intergenerational conversation at the State of Nation Arts & Performance Festival and a tribute to Nayo Watkins.
By Caron Atlas, R. Lena Richardson and Carlton Turner
(June 2008)
A Bridge Conversation on the Tensions and Synergies of Being Strategic and Creative
Brad Lander and Esther Robinson talk about organizing and art, anthropological listening, and whether being holistic is important.
By Esther Robinson
(June 2008)
A Bridge Conversation on Planning the Revolution over Collards
Tufara Waller Muhammad and Javiera Benavente talk about the long tradition of arts and culture in Southern organizing and the danger of putting the spotlight on individuals.
By Javiera Benavente
(June 2008)
A Bridge Conversation on the Creativity of Strategic Communications
Dee Davis and Michelle Miller talk about the aesthetics and mathematics of social change.
By Michelle Miller
(June 2008)
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