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Americans for the Arts Resources (5) more

• Building America's Communities II: A Compendium of Arts and Community Development Programs
  This compendium presents a diverse collection of 130 arts programs from across the country that address community development issues.
• The Arts Build Communities: A Training Handbook on Arts Programming and Public Housing
  Profiles 17 visual and performing arts programs and describes the positive impact on both the residents and facilities in public housing communities. Written with housing residents, local arts agencies, housing agency staff, and other practitioners in mind, the handbook clearly describes the goals of each program, how the program services are delivered, sources of funding, and characteristics of the program which can be adapted to address the needs of other communities.
• Artists in the Community: Training Artists to Work in Alternative Settings
  This handbook offers simple advice for anyone designing, conducting or hosting an arts program in a community setting.

News Articles (20) more

• In Houston, Art Is Where the Home Is
  Mr. Lowe, a lanky, amiable, remarkably youthful-looking 45-year-old artist from Alabama, moved to Houston 21 years ago and lives here in the Third Ward, where he founded Project Row Houses.
• Social Work project combines art and research
  The community-based research project "Coming Together: Homeless Women and Social Support" uses visual art to present findings on their research.
• Creative Class Dismissed?
  The non-profit group Fractured Atlas hosted a symposium entitled "Keep the Arts in Williamsburg" to discuss how rising rents are forcing out artists from vibrant neighborhoods, in which they helped to create.

Project Profile (22) more

• ArtistLink
  ArtistLink, an initiative that focuses on the advancement of an artist space agenda in Massachusetts, was created in 2003 as a means of addressing the need for space to perform, practice, and create.
• Project HEAL
  Project HEAL (Helping Employ Artists Locally) was created by the Acadiana Arts Council to assist artists and musicians impacted by hurricanes Katrina and Rita through employment opportunities in local communities.
• Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Artist Residencies
  The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) offers several artist residency programs including LMCC/Workspace: 120 Broadway, SwingSpace, and MOVE: 133 Beekman that strive to both reinvigorate the post 9/11 creative community of lower Manhattan and to offer affordable live/work space to artists.

Research Abstract (110) more

• Artists Communities—A Directory of Residencies that Offer Time and Space for Creativity
  This revised and updated edition of this directory lists residency opportunities for creative individuals of all kinds and comprehensive details on residency centers.
• Putting Art at the Heart of Community Building
  This article discusses Creative Communities, a program which partners community schools of the arts with housing authorities to provide free arts instruction by professional artists during non-school hours to youth living in housing projects.
• The Guided Tours at Urban Horizons
  Development Center is part of the author’s on-going series of collaborative projects that explore people in their personal space. For this article, the author interviewed five residents of a housing project called Urban Horizons in Bronx, New York.

Sample Documents (1) more

• KEEPING BOSTON’S CREATIVE CAPITAL: A SURVEY OF ARTIST SPACE NEEDS
  “Keeping Boston’s Creative Capital” quantifies what kind of space artists need, as well as what they can afford to pay for that space. This data will allow the City of Boston, the BRA and developers of real estate better understand and respond to the needs and opportunities present in our vibrant artist community.