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  Community Arts 2008: The Year of the Great Leap
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Do It Yourself: Producing Performance Art on Election Day
Artists organize site-specific performance at polling places in Milwaukee, Nov. 4, 2008. By Pegi Taylor (January 2009)

Community Arts 2008: The Year of the Great Leap
CAN's year-end roundup of trends across the field. By Linda Frye Burnham (December 2008)

The New New Deal 2009: Public Service Jobs for Artists?
A case for publicly supported, socially useful work for artists in schools, communities and social institutions. By Arlene Goldbard (December 2008)

Wholly Dedicated: Baltimore Clayworks' Studio Satellites in Inner-city Neighborhoods
On putting your classrooms where your students are. By Deborah Bedwell (December 2008)

Cultural Organizing: Third World Majority, Raices and M.U.G.A.B.E.E.
Three approaches to placing art and culture at the center of an organizing strategy. By Javiera Benavente (December 2008)

Going Green with Public Art Policy
Critical questions about the relationship between environmental sustainability and the arts. By Elizabeth Bostwick (December 2008)

Revising Confinement: Transformations in a Prison Writing Workshop
Writing as a formidable tool for control, survival and transformation. By Barbara Roswell and Pamela Sheff (December 2008)

Putting Culture to Work: Three N.Y.C. Youth Theaters
Twelve weeks with Find Your Light, viBeStages and Ifetayo Youth Ensemble. By Heather Stickeler (December 2008)

A Decentralized National Conversation: The Curriculum Project Report
Introducing a study on culture and community development in higher education. By Arlene Goldbard (November 2008)

Safe Spaces Community Creations: The Mosaic Wall Project
Working with Baltimore teens to create a 2,000-square-foot glass mosaic on the American Visionary Art Museum. Includes video. By Mari Gardner (November 2008)

Reform or Enrichment: Policy Mandates and Program Goals in Community Youth Arts
More and more attention is being paid to what kids do after school. By Lori Hager (November 2008)

Finding Our Wings: A Community Documentary Program
Cameras in the hands of teenage girls give them the courage to finish high school. By Kirsten D'Andrea Hollander (November 2008)

Insights from Arts and Civic Engagement: 13 Profiles
Pathways to building a participatory culture. By Rebecca Lena Richardson (November 2008)

Community Spectacle: A Place of Magic
The artists, musicians, technicians, lanterneers and visual alchemists of Nana Projects are in it together, and so is their audience. Includes video. By Molly Ross (November 2008)

The Circle Is Already Listening: Littleglobe's Collaborative Creative Process
A means to know one another, to witness one another and remove hierarchical and preconceived notions of the "other." By Molly Sturges (November 2008)

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Recent News

January 7, 2009
New In CANu: Syllabus on Arts in Community
Today CAN has added to its CANUniversity section the syllabus for "Cultural Ecosystem: The Arts in Community," a Goucher College course designed by Maryo Ewell and Randall Vega. [more]

January 6, 2009
Call for Proposals: Kumasi Symposium in Ghana
Are art teaching and learning sustainable in the postcolonial African environment? That's the topic of the Kumasi Symposium in Ghana, July 31-August 14, 2009. [more]

December 30, 2008
MFA Student Wins VSA art Competition
SarahMuehlbauer.jpg Sarah Muehlbauer, first-year MFA student at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art, has won $20,000 and a show at the Smithsonian, thanks to VSA art. [more]

December 30, 2008
Fund for Folk Culture To Close in 2009
The Fund for Folk Culture, founded in Austin, Texas in 1991, will cease operations in 2009. [more]

December 30, 2008
Music National Service Initiative Is Hiring
The Music National Service Initiative is hiring "flexible, adaptable, team-oriented and hard working music lovers" in the San Francisco Bay Area. [more]

December 27, 2008
News from Lily Yeh and Barefoot Artists in Rwanda
Artist Lily Yeh sends news from the Barefoot Artists project in the Rugerero Survivors Village in Rwanda: [more]

December 23, 2008
NEA Spotlights Community Arts Projects
spotlite.jpg Check the December “National Endowment for the Arts Spotlight” Web page for some great community arts stories. [more]

December 23, 2008
20 Emergency Funding Sources for Nonprofits
Tom Triplett and Alexis Cress, consulting staff at Fieldstone Alliance, have posted "20 Emergency Funding Sources for Nonprofits" online. [more]

December 23, 2008
Democratic Culture: Open the Arts to Everyone
Culture should be something that we all own and make, not something given, offered or delivered by one section of "us" to another, says British educator John Holden. [more]

December 19, 2008
Arts-policy Thoughts Sent to Obama
Americans for the Arts joined other national arts advocacy organizations in submitting a policy brief to the Obama Transition Office. [more]

December 17, 2008
Underway: Teaching Artist Research Project Survey
The Teaching Artist Research Project (TARP) is undertaking the first national study of the work and universe of teaching artists. [more]

December 17, 2008
Radiator 4: Exploits in the Wireless City
radiator.jpg "Exploits in the Wireless City" is the theme of the fourth biennial Radiator Festival and Symposium, January 13-24, 2009, in Nottingham, England. [more]

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Recent CANblog Posts
LAPD's Kaprow Happening...
posted 12-29-2008
Blow off steam at Pratt for New Year's...
posted 12-23-2008
Chapel of Sacred Mirrors closing, moving...
posted 12-23-2008
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Recent Guest Blog Posts
Sammy Unblocks the Well
by Jules Corriere on CPI, 12-01-2008
Looking For An Honest Voice
by Jules Corriere on CPI, 12-01-2008
Game Days
by Jules Corriere on CPI, 11-10-2008
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Recent Blognet Posts
Artist offers tea and cake
from Arts & Ecology blog (Jan 8, 2009)
Off to Arts Presenters
from The Artful Manager (Jan 8, 2009)
"... an artist is also a citizen."
from Arts & Ecology blog (Jan 8, 2009)
1000 Kites
Listen to Appalshop's 24-hour Internet radio project on arts & criminal justice.
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Recent Forums Posts
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Recent Links
Music National Service Initiative
Volunteer-driven social-enterprise, initiative based in San Francisco Bay Area to strengthen and expand the field...
Mano a Mano: Mexican Culture Without Borders
New York-based nonprofit dedicated to celebrating Mexican culture in the U.S. and promoting the understanding...
Earth Matters on Stage
Program of Department of Theatre Arts, University of Oregon. Mission: "to nurture connection and collaboration...
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Upcoming Conferences, Workshops and Special Events
"Art, Ethnicity and Globalization," first annual Harlem Symposium, by Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, Harlem, New York City, N.Y., January 6-9, 2009.
"Body Burden and Developmental Disabilities," roundtable accompanying "Art & Healing: Body Burden" exhibition, by Intermedia Arts, Learning Disability Association of Minnesota and Arc Greater Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minn., January 7, 2009.
"Blogs & Bullets: The Power of Online Media in Preventing or Igniting Violent Conflict," panel during "Passing the Baton: Foreign Policy Challenges and Opportunities Facing the New Administration," by U.S. Institute of Peace Center of Innovation for Media, Conflict and Peacebuilding; and Center of Innovation for Science, Technology and Peacebuilding; Washington, D.C., January 8, 2009.
"DEVOTED AND DISGRUNTLED 4: What are we doing about theatre?," Open space event by Improbable, London, England, January 10-12, 2009.
"The Radiator Festival: Exploits in the Wireless City," digital arts festival and symposium by Trampoline, Nottingham, England, January 13-24, 2009.
"Motherhood and Revolution," 4th annual Arts in the One World Conference by Interdisciplinary Genocide Study Center (Rwanda) and CalArts School of Theater, Valencia, Calif., January 15-18, 2008.
"Arts for All: Differentiated Instruction and The Arts," workshop for teaching artists and educators, by New York State Alliance for Arts Education, NYSCA and Kennedy Center, East Greenbush, N.Y., January 5, 2009; Rochester, N.Y., January 8; New York City, N.Y., January 16.
"25th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering," by Western Folklife Center, Elko, Nev., January 24-31, 2009.
"Public Art and the Planning Process Workshop," by ixia, Birmingham, England, January 27, 2008.

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