Art in Other Places
Artists at Work in America's Community and Social Institutions
Foreword by
Page Smith
Art in Other Places profiles 29 institutional and community arts programs across the Untied States that have pioneered the field of arts-based community development. It describes how creative processes have been used to address some of society's most pressing issues—how writers, performers, media and visual artists help build healthy communities. These histories show the positive effects the arts bring to the elderly, prisoners, people with disabilities, hospital patients, and others.
Details
Title
Art in Other Places
Subtitle
Artists at Work in America's Community and Social Institutions
BISAC Subject Heading
ART000000 ART
PER000000 PERFORMING ARTS
POL000000 POLITICAL SCIENCE
Credit
William Cleveland
Title First Published
01 March 2000
Includes
Index; Appendices
Format
Paperback
Nb of pages
312 p. Index . Appendices .
ISBN-10
0-275-94054-3
ISBN-13
978-0-275-94054-6
GTIN13 (EAN13)
9780275940546
Publication Date
01 March 2000
Nb of pages
312
Dimensions
6.8 x 10.8 in.
Weight
24.3 oz.
List Price
$20.00
Original Publisher
Praeger Publishers
Summary
Illustrations
Foreword by Page Smith
Foreword to the New Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I: THE ELDERLY
1. Inside Other Places: The Nursing Home Setting
2. Madeline Rugh: Conversations With the Elders
3. Liz Lerman: Dancers of the Third Age
4. Susan Perlstein: Elders Share the Arts
PART II: PRISONS
5. Inside Other Places: "Inside"
6. Geese Theater: America's National Prison Theater Company
7. Grady Hillman: Jailin' and Writin' in Texas
8. Arts-In-Corrections: Art From California Prisons
PART III: PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
9. Inside Other Places: Programs for the Developmentally Disabled
10. Victoria Ann-Lewis: Other Voices, Other Solutions
11. CLIMB Theater Company: Theater-In-Reverse
12. The Short Centers: "My Name is Pat and I'm An Artist"
PART IV: PEOPLE WITH MENTAL ILLNESS
13. Inside Other Places: Mental Health Facilities
14. Imagination Workshop: Disciplining the Imagination
15. Edith Kelman: Strange Apples
16. Art Programming in the California Department of Mental Health: The Adventures of a Do-Gooder at DMH
PART V: HOSPITALS
17. Inside Other Places: America's Health Care System
18. Duke University Hospital Cultural Services: A Hospital Art Community
19. Hospital Audiences Incorporated: The Healing Role of the Arts
20. Art That Heals: The Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Care Center
PART VI: YOUTH AT RISK
21. Inside Other Places: Youth in Placement
22. Laurie Meadoff: The CityKids Empire
23. Artsreach Ensemble: Inside Out at the California Youth Authority
24. Young Saints: "Didn't It Rain"
PART VII: COMMUNITY
25. Inside Other Places: In Search of Community
26. Judy Baca: SPARC -- The Social and Public Arts Resource Center
27. Brandywine Workshop: Printmaking and the Streets
28. TheaterWorkers Project: Steelworkers Speak
29. Rebecca Rice: Building Bridges
Directory of Programs
Index
Reviews
Press Reviews
Art in Other Places
Grantmakers in the Arts Reader: Volume 11, No. 2, Fall 2000
Art in Other Places grew out of a 1986 meeting held at the University of California at Los Angeles among artists and community activists from around the United States. At that point, some of them had
been working for twenty or more years as artists in social institutions – senior centers, hospitals, prisons, mental health facilities, youth centers – or in low-income communities. Author William Cleveland writes of that gathering's importance to him (then director of the ArtReach Program in Sacramento, California) in building a "…small network of like-minded artists, whose work has had a major impact on cultural policy and practice in this country." Some of the book's entries are based on the artists and activists' presentations at the UCLA gathering, and some on interviews conducted later. Several of the artists – like choreographer Liz Lerman and muralist Judith Baca – have become famous for this work.
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Frances Phillips, Walter and Elise Haas Fund
Quotations
Art in Other Places is an important addition to the expanding body of work on community arts...Cleveland has collected some heartwarming stories from the deeply committed people who should be our
role models. This book is about people who have found the strength to change their lives through the arts that have escaped the white walls into those others places where we all live.
-Lucy R. Lippard, Writer, Critic
Bill Cleveland made it possible for me to produce Prisoners, a documentary about the lives of men and women behind bars in California. This book and his work in other places show, not only concern for the human condition, but how we can improve it. He is one of our unsung heroes.
-Jonathan Borofsky, Artist
Bill Cleveland has crafted a work of art in this book—not an object that you hang on a wall or place on a shelf, but a piece of process art that you can take into the streets and use to change
the way people live their lives. He makes me feel again my own sense of purpose, a sense I felt myself, working in these same settings. Art in Other Places reminds me of why I am in the arts.
-Robert Lynch, President and CEO, Americans for the Arts
Bill Cleveland's passion for this pursuit, his understanding of this brave territory, and his respect for its heroes frame and direct these inspirational narratives.
-Jessica Davis, Harvard Project Zero
When I was Chairman of the California Arts Council, we entreated artists to contribute their creativity and imaginations to the broadest spectrum of public life. Art in Other Places tells the story of these artists. Bill Cleveland tells it well and truthfully.
-Peter Coyote, Actor, Director
