7th Generation Image Makers
Native youth and art program based at Native Child & Family Services of Toronto, Ont., Canada. Works with at-risk Native youth creating murals and art projects such as regalia making, painting, mixed media and photography.

A Portrait of the Visual Arts: Meeting the Challenges of a New Era
Study suggesting that the visual arts picture isn't as rosy as it first appears, despite record museum attendance, booming commercial popularity, soaring prices for artists' work and well-publicized museum expansions. Conflates "community involvement" with marketing. Written by Kevin F. McCarthy, et al. Published by RAND Corporation, 2005.

Africancolours.com
A portal to African visual art, including connections to artists and galleries, public art, magazines, archives, training, artists rights, indexes and products for sale

All-ages Movement Project
Network of community-based organizations that connect young people through independent music and art. Based in San Francisco, Calif.; founded by Shannon Stewart.

American Artist and Water Reclamation
U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation program to present its accomplishments to the public through the medium of art.

Andrija Ilic Photo Gallery
Gallery of photos by Andrija Ilic of Belgrade, who uses photography to document social changes in his environment and daily events in Yugoslavia. He is a photo editor at the FreeSerbia web site and teaches photography at the Open Youth Club in Belgrade.

Antarctic Artists & Writers Program
Provides opportunities for artists and writers to work in Antarctica. By National Science Foundation.

Armory Center for the Arts
Community arts center in Pasadena, Calif., with prodigious gallery, studio, community, education and public art programs. Site includes "Neighborhood Art Projects" map/guide to public art throughout the Pasadena area created by participants in Armory programs. Began as the education department of the legendary Pasadena Art Museum; now located in renovated National Guard Armory and ancillary sites in Old Pasadena.

Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI)
Membership organization founded 1988 to raise public awareness about artists and scientists using science and technology to explore new forms of creative expression, and to increase communication and collaborations between these fields. Public events (incl. bi-annual international ArtSci Symposium), exhibitions, panel discussions, referrals to institutions, organizations, artists, and funders about creating art-sci programming and developing their projects. ASCI ebulletin. Based in New York, N.Y. Founded, directed by Cynthia Pannucci.

Art & Spirituality Network
U.K. interfaith organization using visual arts to "open up the connections between religions." Transcending Images gatherings in conjunction with United Religions Initiative. Exhibitions, lectures, festivals, conferences, newsletter, local networks.

Art Behind Bars
Prison-art program in Key West, Fl., founded by artist Lynne Vantrigilia at Monroe County Detention Center in 1994. Promotes post-incarceration arts careers and cottage industries for inmates. Art for sale on site.

Art Farm Project
Art exhibitions outdoors at Middle Rocombe Farm, an organic farm near Newton Abbot, Devon, England. Artists in South Devon used redundant farm buildings and surrounding landscape to produce large exhibitions and create an artist network.

Art Quilt Gallery of the Atlantic
Laurie Swim's gallery in Blue Rocks, Nova Scotia, featuring Swim's and other artists' fabric art. Web site documents Swim's participatory community art projects in quilting: "Breaking Ground: The Hogg’s Hollow Disaster, 1960," commemorating a watershed event in Canada’s labor movement; and "The Canadian LifeQuilt," commemorating thousands of young workers killed on the job.

Art Share Los Angeles
Community arts incubator whose mission is "to shape lives through art, education and community action." Free art classes, 99-seat dance studio and theater, the Warehouse Art Gallery, a computer lab, art studio, classroom spaces and 30 residential lofts for low-income artists. Programs: BLAST (Building Language and Art Skills Together), Community Beautification Program.

Art and Mental Illness: Myths, Stereotypes and Reality
Document bringing together papers presented at a forum held at Neami Splash Art studio, Melbourne, Australia, June 1, 2007. Forum coincided with exhibition, “For Matthew and Others: Journeys with Schizophrenia, ” at Bundoora Homestead Arts Centre and Neami. Includes historic account of the development of theories linking modernism with art of the so-called insane; analysis of changing attitudes to relationship between art and mental illness; presentations by artists whose work was included in the exhibition.

Art for Healing Foundation
Organization based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, dedicated to bringing the healing power of art and art education to hospitals, hospices and shelters and to improving the welfare of those participating in the healing process as healthcare givers and as patients. Numerous galleries in various Montreal institutions and organizations.

Art for Humanity
Visual-arts organization based in South Africa promoting human-rights awareness. Specializes in print portfolios, exhibitions, billboards and research projects. Newsletter, HIV/AIDS program, "Women Artists and Poets Advocating Children's Rights."

Art for Justice
Pennsylvania-based organization founded by social worker Ann Marie Kirk to support and exhibit the art of incarcerated individuals "to promote dialogue and find effective ways to prevent crime, reduce levels of incarceration improve the criminal-justice system & public safety." Sales of artwork online, Road Map for Life workshops engaging adjudicated youth, annual Art for Justice Exhibit.

Art for a Change
Large collection of artworks from social-change movements. Site by Mark Vallen.

Art in General
New York nonprofit organization that assists artists with production/presentation of new work. Education Department has multiyear collaboration with neighboring public schools; collaborative curriculum building, final project designed by students.

Art on Purpose
Community art organization in Baltimore, Md., that provides art workshops, exhibitions, programs in support of education, social justice and community service. "Real City, Dream City" project involving ten Baltimore city neighborhoods. Founded 2005 by artist/educator/curator Peter Bruun.

Art, Activism, and Community: Visual Art and Social Change
Online slide show by Tufts University College Student Programs Manager Mindy Nierenberg for a 2005 course in the Experimental College, showing Tufts undergraduates and Tufts/School of the Museum of Fine Arts dual-degree students ways to use art as a vehicle of social change.

ArtStor
Online digital library offering collections of art images and descriptive information and software tools for their use. Includes approx. 500,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology. Available solely for educational and scholarly uses that are noncommercial in nature.

ArtThrob
Online magazine from South Africa about contemporary visual arts. Covers both national art world and South African artists on the international podium. Monthly, with news about artists and expositions, reviews, items, discussions and photos.

Artists for Peace, Justice & Civil Liberties
Fine art gallery and anthology dedicated to peace and justice issues worldwide. Web site organized by The Arts Paper, a bimonthly arts advocacy journal of the Boulder, Colo., Arts Commission.

Artists of Tuol Sleng Prison
Writing and artwork by artists imprisoned in Cambodia. Part of the Cambodian Artists Assistance Project, organized by Cambodian holocaust survivors in U.S.

Arts Share
Community arts program of the University of Iowa's Division of Performing Arts, School of Art and Art History and Writers' Workshop. Interactive performances, workshops, readings, residencies and master classes statewide by faculty artists and graduate students. School programs, Arts Share Summer Camp, Patient Voice Project offering creative writing classes to chronically ill hospital patients.

Arts in Medicine
Program at Shands Health Care, University of Florida, exploring relationship between the art of creativity and the art of healing. Uses visual art to transform medical environment.

Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design
AICAD: Consortium of 36 U.S. art schools, all BFA- or MFA-granting. Site has databases to help you find a school, a major, info on applying, financial aid, etc. Includes community arts.

Baltimore Clayworks
Nonprofit, artist-run ceramic-art center Baltimore, Md. Neighborhood collaborative public-art-making activities; studios; exhibitions; community-based murals; classes; in-school after-school programs; satellite studios in inner-city neighborhoods. Founded 1980 by nine potters and ceramic sculptors.

Beaded Prayers Project
Three-part worldwide community art project: traveling exhibition (Beaded Blessings, over 4,000 beaded prayers inspired by African amulet traditions; each contributed piece is a sealed beaded packet containing written wishes, hopes, dreams and prayers of international participants), slide lectures (on accumulative community art projects and cultural traditions, amulets, beadwork), hands-on workshops (on making beaded proyaers). Video available. Directed by Sonya Clark.

Booklyn Artists Alliance
Artist-bookmakers organization in Brooklyn, N.Y., promote artist books as an art form and an educational resource; teach in public schools.

Border Crossings
Documentation of a "Traveling Archive of Work on Immigration, Migrant Labor and More" by MIT artist Ute Meta Bauer. Focused on border zones and border life, consisting of two stationary exhibits - in Tijuana, B.C., Mex., and San Diego, Calif. - and a mobile unit that moved between organizations and institutions on both sides of the border. Installations covered labor, environmental issues, migration and human rights, questions of identity, women's rights and youth culture in the border region. Mobile unit facilitated events, discussions, film screenings addressing wide range of issues and audiences. Originally created for inSite_05, now being developed for Austria/Slovakia border.

Break Arts Collective
International arts and learning collaborative. Text/image projects ihat encourage young people to imagine, create and express the stories of their lives. Arts workshops and residencies; training and professional development; consultation; advocacy. Directed by Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein and Rachel McIntire; established 2005.

Bridging Arts
Works with art and photography "to propel issues into the news and trigger debate." Develops and stages exhibitions and events "with a message, so that people without a voice can speak out through the arts." Much work with refugees. Based in London, England.

Brooklyn College Art Lab
Arts and technology after-school site in Brooklyn, N.Y., serving some 700 students a year from some 30 high schools, averaging 80-100 students per day. Central node for The Arts Network at Brooklyn College Community Partnership, a creative learning network linking the college to the communities of Brooklyn; programs in seven Brooklyn high schools.

Building Community, Making History
Elaborate documentation by artist Brett Cook of a collaborative project by the Duke Ellington School of the Arts community and staff of the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in Washington, D.C. Participants explored building community and making history through workshop exercises using portraiture to create four collaborative works. Works were installed in "Portraiture Now: Framing Memory" exhibition at NPG May 25, 2007-January 6, 2008.

COPIA
The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts. Nonprofit "discovery center" in California's Napa Valley with artists' exhibitions, concerts, films, lectures, performances and special gardens, including Forks in the Road and Edible Gardens (children).

COSACOSA
Philadelphia-based organization engaging children and adults in art workshops around common neighborhood issues. Artist commissions, Healing Art Project, ArtSight e-gallery.

Callington's Mural Trail
Gallery of public works in Callington, East Cornwall, England, a town known nationally for its mural trail.

Cartoonists Across America & the World
Traveling band of artists that has painted more than 1,000 murals worldwide. Literacy projects, books, public events. Works in partnership with the Center for The Book in the Library of Congress. Founding director: Phil Yeh.

Cemeti Art Foundation
Organization producing information about dynamics and development of the visual arts field in Indonesia in relation to society, economics, politics, culture. Weekly radio broadcasts since 1999, research, publications, documentation, library, workshops, international networking. Based in Yogyakarta.

Center for Urban Pedagogy
Based in Brooklyn, N.Y., CUP makes "educational projects about places and how they change." Bringing art and design professionals together with community-based advocates and researchers to create projects ranging from high-school curricula to educational exhibitions.

Chapel of Sacred Mirrors
Nonprofit organization providing "a sanctuary in New York City for contemplation and a center for events encouraging the creative spirit." Provides a public exhibition of the Sacred Mirrors and other works of contemporary sacred art by Alex Grey. The Sacred Mirrors are 21 images, consisting of 19 life-size paintings and two etched mirrors, examining the anatomy of body, mind and spirit in detail. Full Moon and New Moon gatherings, workshops, EntheoCentric Salons, MicroCosm Gallery openings.

Children's Peace Theatre
Helps youth explore notions of peace and conflict through the performing arts. Monthly Stone Soup Community Gatherings, conflict-evolution workshops, Sounds Like Peace (music), Art for Change (visual art), Performers for Peace. Directed by founder Robert Morgan in Toronto, Ont., Canada.

Christo & Jean-Claude
Temporary large-scale environmental works in urban and rural environments with elements of painting, sculpture, architecture and urban planning.

Church of Craft
Groups meeting in New York and San Francisco in "a place that allows people to make things without thinking about either utility or artistic value."

City Stage Co. of Boston
Programs for urban children, youth and families in the performing arts: traveling theater company; arts education; interactive exhibits and programs for museums nationwide.

City Without Walls
Nonprofit art galery in Newark, N.J., for emerging artists. ArtReach mentorship program pairs promising high-school art students with working-artist mentors. Internship program. Founded 1975.

Coleman Center for the Arts and Culture
Community art center in York, Ala., established by citizens' grassroots efforts. Exhibitions, community-arts and public-art residencies, municipalWORKSHOP. Center houses public forum space and town library.

Comic Book Project
Arts-based literacy and learning initiative hosted by Teachers College, Columbia University with materials published by Dark Horse Comics. Goal is to help children forge an alternative pathway to literacy by writing, designing and publishing original comic books. Used naitonally in hundreds of urban, rural schools. Created by director Michael Bitz.

Community Art Corps
Cadre of 13 full-time AmeriCorps member artists working with partner organizations to engage others in meaningful art experiences and promote community-building initiatives in collaboration with community-based organizations, service providers and civic and cultural institutions. Sponsored by Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in conjunction with the College's Community Arts Partnerships Office and the Master of Arts in Community Arts program, which began summer 2005.

Creative Defiance
Web site of Zimbabwean graphic designer Chaz Maviyane-Davies in which he uses advertising startegies and techniques to take on issues of consumerism, health, nutrition, social responsibility, the environment and human rights.

Creative Works Studio
Fully resourced art studio providing skill development, support and vocational opportunities for people living with a mental illness. Provides mentorship and work opportunities. Facilitated by the Inner City Health Program of St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada, in partnership with Good Shepard Non Profit Housing and the Ontario Trillium Foundation.

Creativity Explored
San Francisco galleries showing work by 100 artists with developmental disabilities. Online gallery, store.

Culture for Development (C4D)
Online information portal on the role of culture for development, both as a concept and development tool, with particular focus on museums, theater and cultural heritage in developing countries.

Ecovention: Current Art to Transform Ecologies
Online text of book by Sue Spaid, published in conjunction with 2002 exhibit she and Amy Lipton curated at Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio. Explores artist's role in ecological issues and environmental justice.

Faith Quilts Project
Project by 38 lead quilters working with single-faith communities and multifaith and interfaith groups on 57 faith quilts that hang permanently in churches, mosques, temples, synagogues and community centers in the Greater Boston area. Site includes photos and copious details on each quilt.

Feria Urbana
Urban fair celebrating indie artists and designers in San Francisco, Calif.

Fountainhead: Black International Cinema
International, intercultural organization based in Berlin, Germany, producing annual film festival, weekly television program, publications, cinema distribution, dance theater.

GRACE (Grass Roots Art and Community Effort)
Visual art making for elders and other special populations, also participation by the general public. Works in nursing homes, senior meal sites, mental-health centers, artists’ homes, community centers. Founded 1975 at the St. Johnsbury Convalescent Center located in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom by artist Don Sunseri.

Gene(sis): Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics
2002 traveling exhibition originating at Herny Art Gallery, Seattle, Wash. Curated by Robin Held, "to bridge art and science by elucidating technical advances for a lay audience and examining ethical issues raised by genomic research." Includes public discussions.

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Art and Leadership Program
Santa Fe, N.M.-based art-and-leadership program for local, low-income girls and boys aged 11-13; operates year-round, partnering with public and private schools in the region; annual summer intensive held between June and August. Also Art & Leadership Program for Women series of annual workshops.

Global Art Project
Biennial international exchange resulting in thousands of people sending messages of peace and unity around the globe at one time.

Graphic Witness
Site dedicated to political and social commentary through graphic imagery. By artist Judy Brody.

Groundswell Community Mural Project
Nonprofit based in Brooklyn, N.Y., that brings together professional artists, grassroots organizations and communities to create high-quality murals in under-represented neighborhoods. Since 1996, has worked with over 900 community members — including low-income teens, undocumented immigrants, people living with AIDS and multiracial neighborhood associations — to complete over 50 collaboratively designed and painted murals in their neighborhoods.

Grrrl Zines A-Go-Go
All-women workshop group based in Southern California focusing on empowerment of young women through production of fanzines and self-published works. Workshops in community venues and college campuses in SoCal region. Founded 2002 by Elke Zobl, founder of Grrrl Zine Network.

HandMade in America
Support system for craftspeople and the craft industry, based in mountains of western North Carolina. HandMade Institute for the Creative Economies; Small Town Renewal; publications, research, school programs, workshops, exhibitions, tourism, registry,

Handshouse Studio
Educational organization based in Massachusetts that "initiates adventurous hands-on projects as a way to explore history, understand science and perpetuate the arts." Elaborate projects around re-creating historical objects. Ex.: Bushnell's 1776 submarine; Polish wooden synagogues; ancient Egyptian obelisk. Founded by Rick and Laura Brown.

Here Is New York
Subtitled "A Democracy of Photographs," gallery exhibition and book of photos from 9/11, collected in an open call. Sales proceeds to Children's Aid Society.

Hospital Audiences
Provides arts programs to New Yorkers who "are isolated from the cultural mainstream," including people in hospitals, shelters, prisons, etc. Exhibitions of art by self-taught artists with mental disabilties. Cultural events, workshops, prevention education, youth leadership, advocacy, schools programs. Founded 1969 by Michael Jon Spencer.

Institute for Community Research
Conducts community-based research partnerships to reverse inequities, promote positive changes in public health and education, and foster cultural conservation and development. Public events, conferences, publications, training, research into participatory action and intervention. Arts and culture programs: Connecticut Cultural Heritage Arts, Urban Artists Initiative, ICR Community Gallery. Based in Hartford, Conn.

International Peace Tiles Project
Tiled murals by hundreds of children and youth affected by, or at risk of, HIV/AIDS around the world. Exhibited worldwide on World AIDS Day, December 1.

Ireland's OWN: Murals
Gallery of Republican murals in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

John Michael Kohler Arts Center
A 100,000-square-foot visual and performing-arts complex devoted to innovative explorations in contemporary art; new models for community arts; educational partnering with an emphasis on early-childhood education; presenting performing artists; supporting practicing artists through residencies and fellowships. Complex includes ten galleries, theater, interdisciplinary performance space, studio-classrooms, meeting spaces, gift shop and café. Community Arts Department, a programming department at the Arts Center has five programs: Connecting Communities, The ARTery, the Community Gallery, the Partnership Program and Community Events.

Juan Antonio Corretjer Puerto Rican Cultural Center
Nonprofit, community-based umbrella institution founded 1973 by community activists to serve social/cultural needs of Chicago's Puerto Rican/Latino community. Umbrellas Family Learning Center, Consuelo Lee Corretjer Childcare Center, Vida/SIDA HIV and AIDS education and prevention programs; La Casita de Don Pedro community garden and cultural space; Café Batey Urbano cultural space for the youth. Organizes annual Puerto Rican Peoples Parade,co-sponsors Fiesta Boricua annual Puerto Rican music festival. PRCC is the parent organization and provides a space to the Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos High School.

Kamoinge
Kamoinge ("a group of people acting together") formed in New York in 1963 to address the under-representation of black photographers in the art world. Founded by Louis Draper, Ray Francis, Herbert Randall and Albert Fennar, with Roy DeCarava as its first director. Body of work spans the past 40 years and included numerous images of daily life in black America during the last half of the 20th Century. See "The Sweet Breath of Life: A Poetic Narrative of the African-American Family" by Frank Stewart and Ntozake Shange and Kamoinge (Atria Books, Simon&Schuster, 2004).

Kansas Watercolor Society
Membership organization of painters in Kansas and seven other Midwest states. Nice Web site showing annual competition winners.

Kultivator
Experimental cooperative of organic farming (Dyestad Organic Farm) and visual art practice (Art Initiative 16:2) situated in rural village of Dyestad, Öland Island, southeast coast of Sweden. Agri-Culture Shop; Guest Atelier/Project Room; In/Site and Out/Site spaces for meetings, seminars, screenings, installations; Whie cube Made Out of Cow Dung for exhibitions, gatherings. Maria Lindmark, Henric Stigeborn, Malin Lindmark Vrijman, Mathieu Vrijman.

Kuratorisk Aktion
Platform for curators engaged in a critical practice along the lines of race, class, gender and sexuality. Founded by Danish-born curators Frederikke Hansen and Tone Olaf Nielsen in 2005. "Merging feminist, queer, and activist informed approaches, Kuratorisk Aktion pledges itself to raise consciousness on the politics of representation and translate this consciousness into practice. We attempt to achieve this through a 65/35 percent representation of minoritarian and majoritarian subjectivities respectively in all our productions, at the same time as we open this procedure up to critique as part of the curatorial methodology."

Labor Art
Examines the "cultural and artistic history of working people" with photography and drawings of America's union workers' lives. Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives looks at 100 years of labor in New York City and the culture of solidarity.

Laundromat Project
Two laundromat arts centers in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Harlem, N.Y. City; functioning neighborhood coin-operated laundromats where art classes are taught and visual art displayed "to provide communities of color living on modest incomes with broad access to visual art as a tool of personal and social transformation." Programs: Create Change public art residency; Coin-Op Collective Professional Development for Artists and Social Entrepreneurs; Works in Progress arts-education. Staffed by volunteers, graduate students, and undergraduate interns. Founded by Risë Wilson.

Lauren Elder & Co.
Arts company working in all media in public housing, public structures, teens & technology, community parks and school gardens. Based in San Francisco Bay Area.

Life Home Project
Program for HIV+/AIDS women and their children in Thailand, including Art Programme and Hands Project.

Locus+
Visual-arts organization in Newcastle, England, that presents challenging contemporary art in nontraditional community settings.

Make Art Not War
Features modern-day peace posters by international artists.

Marwen
Visual arts courses, public on-site and traveling exhibitions, college and career workshops and individual counseling sessions, and work experiences for 2,200 inner-city youth in grades 6-12 annually. Based in Chicago, Ill.

Memories in the Making
Arts program of Alzheimer's Association in 65 assisted-living homes, nursing homes and community centers throughout Colorado.

Mexican Fine Arts Museum
In Chicago's Pilsen/Little Village community, "the largest Mexican community in the Midwest," dedicated to Mexican culture as manifested inside and outside Mexico. Exhibitions, collections, radio station and youth museum.

Mexican Museum
San Francisco Museum of Mexican and Mexican-American culture.

Michigan Ice Carving Team
Student group founded in 2001 at the University of Michigan, started out of Alice Lloyd Residence Hall's "Arts on the Hill" program. Represents the University at national and international carving competitions and festivals, and services "the ice carving needs in our community on campus." Founded by student Sultan Sharrief. Site includes gallery, order form.

Mural Arts Program
Painted more than 2,300 murals throughout Philadelphia, Pa., since 1984. Workshops for young people teach mural and leadership skills. Program of the City of Philadelphia, Pa.

MuralArt.com
Mural expert Robin Dunitz's site offering information on murals in Los Angeles, California, and elsewhere, plus a schedule of mural tours, Mural of the Month, books and links.

Museum of the African Diaspora
San Francisco-based museum without a collection; a "collector of stories—a repository of information to be shared with all who wish to know about the African Diaspora." Exhibition, literacy and schools programs, lectures, films, teen art talks. MoAD Stories project: "I've Known Rivers."

NMAI Conexus
Web site devoted to Native cultures, presenting public programs, special events, visiting Native artists and museum exhibitions from the George Gustav Heye Center of the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City.

Nana Projects
Company of lanterneers and "visual alchemists" creating public spectacles. Best known for an annual Baltimore community event, The Great Halloween Lantern Parade. Offers Parade School training program for artists, community organizers and college students interested in the artistry of community-based parades. Directed by Molly Ross; originally founded in Minneapolis as Theater Nana in 1992.

National Association of Artists' Organizations (NAAO)
Membership organization representing artist-run organizations throughout the U.S.

National Institute for Arts and Disabilities
NIAD (National Institute of Art and Disabilities) is an innovative visual arts center assisting adults with developmental and other physical disabilities located in Richmond, CA.

National Museum of Mexican Art
Largest Latino arts institution in U.S. and only Latino museum accredited by American Association of Museums. Serves as cultural focus for more than a million Mexicans in Chicago area. Yollocalli Youth Arts Reach Program: arts-education and career-training program for youth 13-21. Museum partners with Fine Arts and Museum Academy in the Chicago Public Schools, CPS Office of Language and Cultural Education, CPS Bilingual Parent Resource Center, Chicago Park District, Art Institute of Chicago, After School Matters of Chicago, Rauner Family YMCA, Chicago Children's Humanities Festival, Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Natural World Museum
“Museum without walls” international organization presenting art through innovative programs to inspire and engage the public in environmental awareness and action. Partnering with the United Nations Environment Programme through the Art for the Environment initiative. Traveling exhibition series, site-specific programs, symposia, interactive multimedia experiences, workshops, cultural performances, programs for children and youth and special community events.

O.J. Simpson Coloring and Activity Book
A community-engaged project on the racial aftermath of the Trial of the Century. Includes online CAN forum.

Orange Show Center for Visionary Art
Houston, Tex., "visionary art" organization. Workshops, music, storytelling, performance, Eyeopener Tour program, Art Car Parade & Festival, the Orange Show Monument and the Beer Can House.

PapaInk
International archive of children�s visual art supported by volunteer network of academicians, artists, teachers, parents and children.

Paperhand Puppet Intervention
Uses cardboard, papier-m�ch�, trash and a variety of puppetry styles to help promote "social change, peace and hope for a better world." Community collaborations. Based in Saxapahaw, N.C.; directed by artists Donovan Zimmerman and Jan Burger.

PeaceVox
The artist as a voice for peace: "Global meeting place for peacebuilders of all kinds to express themselves through the arts, outside of the boundaries and restrictions of their work." Based in Canada.

Precita Eyes Mural Arts Center
Inner-city San Francisco mural-arts organization, creating murals and education about process and history of community-based mural art; classes, mural tours and online mural and arts supply store.

Prison Creative Arts Project
Committed to original work in the arts in Michigan correctional facilities and juvenile detention centers, presenting prison artists in theate and dance performances and visual art; exhibits are online. Directed by Buzz Alexander.

Prisons Foundation
Nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., that promotes the arts and education in prison and alternatives to incarceration. Prison Art Gallery showcases prisoners' artworks (1600 K Street NW, Suite 501, open daily). Cosponsor of Annual Victims’ Forum organized by the National Organization for Victim Assistance. Web site has publications, music, newsletter, links to prison art resources.

Project Row Houses
22 renovated shotgun-style houses in Houston's historic African-American Third Ward dedicated to revolving art, photography and literary projects, plus transitional housing and services for young mothers and their children. Directed by Rick Lowe. Offers training in community arts techniques.

Raw Vision
Magazine about Outsider Art.

Rebuilding through Art Project (RAP)
Community-based public art project in the West Baltimore neighborhood of Midtown Edmondson, founded by Baltimore artist Jay Wolf Schlossberg-Cohen to fuel revitalization efforts. Arts and leadership workshops.

Renegade Craft Fair
Prototypical DIY (Do It Yourself) community fair in Brooklyn, N.Y., and Chicago, Ill., celebrating indie artists and designers.

Rini Templeton's Art for the Struggle
Memorial to the late artist Rini Templeton, whose unsigned, black-and-white images promoted unity among people involved in grassroots struggles.

River of Words
International environmental poetry and art contest for children on the theme of "watersheds," encouraging children to learn their "ecological address" and to describe through art their own "place in space."

Rock Solid Foundation
Formed by police officers in Victoria, British Columbia, to provide kids with positive solutions to violence, threats, intimidation and aggressive behavior. Includes Trackside Gallery

Rock and Shop Market
Independent community market supporting and celebrating indie professional designers, artists and musicians in North Carolina. Annual traveling event founded by artist Michelle Smith.

Self Help Graphics and Art
Visual-arts center located in the Chicano community of East Los Angeles since 1974; printmaking atelier, exhibition print program, Galeria Otra Vez, annual Day of the Dead celebration, Barrio Mobil Art Studio, youth programs, store.

Senior Artist Project
Grant program supporting educational, mentoring and therapeutic community projects conducted by literary, visual or performing artists 55 and older in northern San Diego or southern Orange counties in California. Provides stipends and expenses. Project of the Kenneth A. Picerne Foundation,

Sharon Siskin
Web site of artist Sharon Siskin, showcasing her visual art and tracking her experience in community-based public art projects in the San Francisco Bay Area AIDS support-service community; in the City of Berkeley homeless women and children services community; with San Francisco Recycling & Disposal, Inc; and as founder of Postive Art. She is currently an assistant professor of visual art at University of San Francisco and co-director, with Richard Kamler of Arts Outreach: The Artist as Citizen, which seeks to embed student art practioners into communities to collaboratively engage in community-based art.

ShedSpace
Summer visual-art installations in garages, shed and outdoor buildings in neighborhoods of Atlanta, Ga. Directed by Joey Orr.

Shifting Ground: Art in Rural Contexts
Partnership project combining academic and practice-based research. Includes papers, conference presentations and a full account of the Ground Up program of temporary public art in rural county Clare in Ireland. Partners: Arts Office of Clare County Council and School of Humanities, Galway/Mayo Institute of Technology.

Stitching Truth: Women’s Protest Art in Pinochet’s Chile
Study guide on the arpilleristas, women who used their art and tapestries to attract international attention to the human rights abuses occurring during Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile, 1973-1990. Includes historical narrative, primary sources, poetry, discussion questions and images of the arpilleras (tapestries). Downloadable from the Web site of Facing History and Ourselves.

Stories from Egypt
Australian artist James Winter's community project in Cairo, Egypt.

Suitcases and Sanctuary
Exhibition by local London children with actors, poets and artists exploring history of waves of immigration that shaped Spitalfields neighborhood. Installed at 19 Princelet Street, home to waves of French Huguenot, Irish, Jewish, Bengali and Somali newcomers. Exhibition and house preserved by The Spitalfields Centre charity.

Survivors Art Foundation
Nonprofit organization committed to empowering trauma survivors with effective expressive outlets via Internet art gallery, outreach programs, national exhibitions, publications and development of employment skills. Participants from 20 countries and 48 states. Based in Westhampton, N.Y.

The Art Connection
Art donation and placement program in Boston, Mass. "How to" feature.

The Art of Democracy - Democracy as Art: Creative Learning in Afterschool Comic Book Clubs
Analysis and synthesis of national launch of The Comic Book Project, an arts-based literacy and learning initiative hosted by Teachers College, Columbia University with materials published by Dark Horse Comics. Paper examines the children's processes and products through the lens of John Dewey's "Democracy and Education." Written by Michael Bitz (project founder); published by Robert Bowne Foundation in Afterschool Matters, 2006. (PDF)

The Artist Inside Program
Nonprofit art program in a juvenile facility in New Mexico. Taught and facilitated by an all volunteer multidisciplinary team including photographer, multimedia artist and videographer—all educators in the Las Cruces, N.M., community working as college instructor, physician and university professor respectively. Site includes newsletter and gallery.

The Change You Want To See
Gallery and convergence space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, N.Y., that showcases visual art pieces representing the culture of resistance.

The Drawing Center
New York small museum established to demonstrate significance and diversity of drawings throughout history and stimulate public dialogue on issues of art and culture. Museum's free education program, the Michael Iovenko School Programs, have served 75,000 local public-school students through drawing activities and discussions inspired by approaches of the exhibiting artists.

The PhotoBooth Project
Ongoing photographic project to document communities across the U.S. and create public installations of the collected portraits in those communities. Lightweight portable studio can be shipped to any community gathering place or cross roads. Irion creates installations of resulting portraits: images, each usually 16x24”, digitally printed on rolls of paper, hung like wallpaper as one contiguous surface.

The Puppeteers Cooperative
Artists and puppeteers working in U.S. cities "to create giant puppet parades, pageants, and ceremonies of celebration and complaint, using simple materials and movements to build community cardboard extravaganzas." Founded 1976 by (the late) George Konnoff. Site includes diagrams and patternbooks for making puppets of all kinds; scripts of puppet plays; thoughts on organizing parades and pageants; links to free puppet-lending libraries and other puppetry Web sites. Organization offers videos, DVDs, workshops, services, consulting.

The Snow Show
2004 exhibition in Lapland featuring public artworks in snow and ice.

The Steel Yard
In Providence, R.I., offering arts and technical training programs, career-oriented training and small-business incubation at the historic Providence Steel and Iron site; 5,612-square-foot industrial shop with foundry, ceramics studio, blacksmithing & welding shops, studio space, outdoor work and exhibition space. Caters to working artists, students and community members, tradespeople, arts educators and entrepreneurs. Partners: Urban Agriculture Unit with mobile greenhouse for local education projects; Industrial Evolution promoting creative re-use of industrial discards; PUENTE, redeveloping environmentally, economically and socially sustainable community assets for communities facing gentrification; NOD (New Object Design) Studio, innovative re-purposers of old factory materials.

Time & Space Limited
Hudson Valley, N.Y. arts organization with programs in all disciplines dedicated to community and activism. Youth projects and Time To Talk discussion series on local political, social and environmental topics that reflect regional and national concerns. Founded 1991 by N.Y. theater artists Linda Mussmann and Claudia Bruce.

Tohono O'odham Community Action
Independent grassroots organization in Tohono O'odham (formerly known as Papago) Nation, Sonoran Desert, 60 miles west of Tucson, Arizona, creating culturally based responses to problems of severe poverty, health, juvenile violence, lack of education, loss of language, traditions and ceremonies. Includes Community Arts Program to revitalize tribal cultural traditions. Online gallery. Founded by artist Terrol Dew Johnson and organizer Tristan Reader, recipients of Ford Foundation's Leadership for a Changing World Award.

Tucson Arts Brigade
Tucson, Ariz., nonprofit organization dedicated to "the participatory arts" with emphasis on mural production and professional arts education for youth and adults.

UHC Collective
Political artists' collective in Manchester, England. Postcards, posters, T-shirts, 'zines, exhibitions, campaigns, education.

Umbrage Editions' Traveling Exhibition Program
Museum-quality exhibitions of photographs complementing Umbrage Editions' publications on subjects including global human rights, AIDS, the Tibetan struggle, Cuba, innocent prisoners and more.

Union Mission
Mission in Savannah, Ga., providing shelter and services for men, women and children impacted by homelessness; founded 1936. Includes Growing Hope Initiative: arts & crafts program, Artists Cooperative, entrepreneurial training and sales. Showcases at Starfish Café and at Parent & Child of Union Mission. Planned for 2007: Growing Hope Gallery, featuring expressive arts workshop space and retail store for Coopertive Artisans and Friends of the Cooperative.

VALUES Project
Network of schools and educators learning to engage all students in deep learning and understanding through the teaching and integration of the visual arts in public schools. Collaboration of Center for Art and Public Life at California College of the Arts, Alameda County Office of Education and Project Zero at Harvard Graduate School of Education. Investigates creative cognitive processes and supports best practices developed from this research in K–12 education.

Veith Street Gallery Studio Association
Organization based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, that supports artists with disabilities and related challenges. Programs: Creative Spirit East artist collective, exhibited through Veith Street Gallery and Pedway Picture Gallery in Dartmouth; Artist in Residence Program; The Visual Connections Project, educational programs for persons with disabilities and community-service providers.

Village of Arts and Humanities
Arts-based neighborhood development project in North Philadelphia, Pa., founded by artist Lily Yeh. Works with residents in communities to reclaim abandoned space, build parks, produce theater, exhibits, publications, festivals.

Virtual Museum of Holocaust and Genocide Art
Online annotated/illustrated directory of art materials related to the Nazi Holocaust and many other genocides: museum exhibitions & catalogues, artist responses, public Holocaust memorials, Web links, histories, narratives, photos, documents, educational resources, bibliography. Project of Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, U. of Minnesota.

Visual AIDS
Increase public awareness of AIDS through visual arts with exhibitions, events and publications. Raises money to provide direct services to artists living with HIV/AIDS.

WondeRoot
Atlanta-based nonprofit arts organization committed to uniting artists and community to inspire positive social change. WonderRoot Community Arts Center provides production facilities, facilitates arts-based service programs, encourages artists to be proactive in engaging their local communities through service work.

Wormfarm Institute
Programs "reintegrating culture and agriculture" at New Erth WormFarm CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) in rural Wisconsin, supporting the idea that "sustainability" includes a vibrant creative community. Artist residencies, Wormworks Youth Outreach Program and Renewal Gardens, Artward Bound, Meyer Oak Grove project, Wormcastings Foundry, community murals, exhibitions, concerts.

YA/YA
Young Artists/Young Aspirations, a New-Orleans, La.-based school, community center, gallery and working studio employing commercial-art students�primarily African Americans�from nearby L. E. Rabouin Career Magnet High School. This is a link to a book about the organization.

Yolocalli Youth Museum
Youth initiative of Chicago's Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, established 1997 as an arts-education and career-training program. Year-round free classes (ages 13-21), exhibitions, visiting artists and artist-in-residence programs, time arts events, performances, video screenings, workshops. Partners: Goodman Theatre, Gallery 37, Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Young Artist Explorers
Documentation of community-based project between California artist Jamie Treacy and 12 young artists in Tlacolula, Oaxaca, Mexico, July-October 2006. Three-month free art curriculum and materials, inlcuding exhibition and Web site. With Oaxaca artist Gerardo de la Barerra, Casa de la Cultura of Tlacolula and a student grant from California College of Arts Center for Art and Public Life in Oakland.

artSPACE@16
Community gallery in Malden, Mass., founded by artist Sand T. Collaborates with the City to create studio and gallery space.

ear say
Organization producing documentary/expressive projects that "uncover and portray the uncelebrated" in books, cds, electronic media, performances and workshops crossing cultures, generations, gender and class. Projects include "Crossing the Boulevard," about the ethnically diverse New York neighborhood of Queens. Warren Lehrer and Judith Sloan, directors

myvillages.org
Initiates discussion and practice-based projects addressing notion of the village within contemporary cultural discourse and development. By artists Kathrin Böhm (Germany, U.K.), Wapke Feenstra (Netherlands) and Antje Schiffers (Germany). Projects in artist's home villages: farmers' videos and artists' exhibited and bartered; with village women, establishment of line of goods for market stall at village fete. 2003 Village convention: contextual Art in Rural Environments (England).

super-flux
Berlin-based information bureau dedicated to worldwide distribution of information for contemporary visual-arts initiatives and institutions via the Web.