Resources
Links:
- ActALIVE is a coalition of groups and individuals from 30 countries who use or advocate the use of arts to address HIV/AIDS and related issues like poverty, human-rights, and sustainable development.
- Animating Democracy Project fosters arts and cultural activities that encourage and enhance civic engagement and dialogue. They provide publications, resources, case studies, research, technical support and professional development to individuals and organizations.
- Arts and Democracy Project builds the momentum of a cultural movement that links arts and culture, participatory democracy, and social justice by supporting cross-pollination between sectors, cultures, and generations.
- Arts and Healing Network hosts a stunning web site that serves as an international resource for anyone interested in the healing potential of art. See also the monthly news.
- Arts for Global Development provides a virtual place to exchange ideas and resources for artists around the world working for community development and social justice.
- Arts Matters Foundation assists artists breaking ground aesthetically and socially.
- Community Arts Network offers an extremely extensive collection of articles and resources on community based art.
- Women Arts offers online resources to assist women in theatre, film, and video.
- Grantmakers in the Arts is a network of grantmakers supporting the arts. It meets annually and publishes a wonderful journal.
- Green Arts Web is a web-based clearinghouse linking arts and creativity to the environment.
- Pioneers of Change is a global learning network supporting practitioners in their mid-20s to mid-30s using online and interactive learning tools, as well as hosting a series of international learning journeys.
- Provisions Library is a resource center for activism and arts based in Washington, DC.
- Transforming Violence is a clearinghouse of ways for people to participate in innovative strategies for preventing, stopping and healing violence, including through the arts.
Selection of Publications and Articles
Brown, Janet. Grantmakers in the Arts. "Building Infrastructure for Artists and Arts Organizations"
Burnham, Linda Frye and Durland, Steven. The Citizen Artist: 20 Years of Art in the Public Arena. Critical Press, 1998.
Cleveland, William. Art and Upheaval: Artists on the World's Frontlines. New Village Press, 2008.
Cleveland, William and Shifferd, Patricia. Between Grace and Fear: The Role of Arts in a Time of Change. The University Press, 2010.
Cohen, Cynthia; Varea, Roberto; and Walker, Polly (Editors). Acting Together Vol.1 and Vol.2: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict. New Village Press, 2011
Goldbarg, Arlene. New Creative Community: The Art of Cultural Development. New Village Press, 2006.
Korza, Pam and Schaffer Bacon, Barbara. Americans for the Arts, Animating Democracy Project. 2005.
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Art, Dialogue, Action, Activism.
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Civic Dialogue Arts & Culture.
* Dialogue in Artistic Practice
Naidus, Beverly. Arts for Change. New Village Press, 2009.