Weaving Traditional Arts into the Fabric of Community Health
Subtitle: A Briefing from the Alliance for California Traditional Arts Production Date: June 2012 Author: Review by Frances Phillips Download: Weaving Traditional Arts into the Fabric of Community...
View ArticleConversations with Anne: Twenty-four Interviews
Production Date: June 2012 Author: Review by Tommer Peterson Anne Bogart. 2012, 507 pages, Theatre Communications Group, New YorkIt is interesting, given the role of the first line of a play to...
View ArticleCreate Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work
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View ArticleBuilding Communities, Not Audiences
Subtitle: The Future of the Arts in the United States Production Date: September 2012 Author: Review by Barry Hessenius Edited by Doug Borwick. 2012, 372 pages, ArtsEngaged, Winston-Salem, NCDoug...
View ArticlePhilanthropy and the Regeneration of Community Democracy
Production Date: June 2013 Author: Review by Molly Giles Walker Peter H. Pennekamp with Anne Focke. 2013, 34 pages, Kettering Foundation, Dayton, Ohio, Washington, D.C., and New York,...
View ArticleHandmaking America
Subtitle: A Back-to-Basics Pathway to a Revitalized American Democracy Production Date: June 2013 Author: Review by Marc Vogl Bill Ivey. 2012, 192 pages, Counterpoint.In his new book we learn about...
View ArticleCulturally Relevant Arts Education for Social Justice: A Way Out of No Way
Production Date: September 2013 Author: Reviewed by Mayumi Tsutakawa Edited by Mary Stone Hanley, George W. Noblit, Gilda L. Sheppard, and Thomas Barone. 2013, 258 pages, RoutledgeThis book sits at...
View ArticleSustaining Careers: A National Study of the Status of U.S. Craft Artists
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View ArticleArts Integration as Pathway to Unity in the Community
Subtitle: The (Ongoing) Journey of Pillsbury House + Theatre Production Date: September 2014 Author: Reviewed by Vickie Benson Nancy Fushan, June 2014, 52 pages, Pillsbury House + TheatreThe...
View ArticleWho We Be: The Colorization of America
Production Date: March 2015 Author: Reviewed by Lynda Turet Jeff Chang. 2014, 403 pages, St. Martin’s Press, New York, NYWho We Be: The Colorization of America is a journey through the nation’s...
View ArticleThe Art of Empathy: Celebrating Literature in Translation
Production Date: March 2015 Author: Reviewed by Michael Holtmann Edited by Don Ball. 2014, 90 pages, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C.Download: The Art of Empathy (2.4 Mb)What...
View ArticleCommunities, Culture, and Capabilities
Subtitle: Preliminary Results of a Four-City Study Production Date: July 2015 Author: Reviewed by Frances Phillips Report draft authored by Mark J. Stern and Susan C. Seifert. Prepared for the Human...
View ArticleArts & America
Subtitle: Arts, Culture, and the Future of America’s Communities Production Date: October 2015 Author: Edited by Clay Lord. 2015, 175 pages, Americans for the Arts Review by Caron Atlas The...
View ArticlePlaying Scared
Subtitle: The History and Memoir of Stage Fright Production Date: October 2015 Author: Sara Solovitch. 2015, 288 pages, Bloomsbury USA Review by Irene Borger You are busy. So, to get to the point...
View ArticleTo Change the Face and Heart of America
Subtitle: Selected Writings on the Arts and Communities, 1949–1992 Production Date: July 2016 Author: Robert E. Gard, 2016, 128 pages. Review by Dudley Cocke. Robert E. Gard, with additional...
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