Can you teach community art?
TL;DR? No. In the 1980s, when the first generation of community artists had been around for long enough to feel
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A Podcast about “O Tempo (Somos Nós)”
Last week, I sat down with my friend Arlene Goldbard to record the latest episode of our podcast, “A Culture
‘Write this down’
It was the end of a long day. We’d run out of time and the guards needed to get us
Building Capabilities: Rethinking the social value of culture
Today will see the third performance of O Tempo (Somos Nós) , “Time (It’s Us), this time at the Gulbenkian
‘From little things, big things grow’
Between the Traction opera performances in the prison last week, and those that will take place in Lisbon at the
The meaning of risk in community art
Three days ago, anticipating the first performance of the Leiria prison opera, I wrote that I didn’t expect to see
This is not a level playing field
Evaluation has become a dominant preoccupation in participatory art in the past generation. It’s a fascinating field, and I’ve played
The view from East Lawrence
Dave Loewenstein, community murals and living democracy Browsing the artwork in Dave Loewenstein’s online shop, I was delighted by this
Friendship and the community artist
When I talk about community art practice with younger or less experienced artists, I often warn against offering friendship to
‘If not pure, then at least useful.’
Read this book. It is probably the most important book about art that will be published this year. Or about
Parliament of Dreams 