News from the Commons
The Commons is our blog, calendar, and online magazine.
Upcoming Events
- Jobs for Artists! A New Deal for the Arts in the 21st Century "with Jeff Chang, Gray Brechin, Arlene Goldbard and Bay Area poets.
Tuesday, July 7 at 6:30pm - 9:00pm
- Bill Cleveland at GALA Choruses Annual Conference
September 4-5, 2009
> Read a book review by Children, Youth and Environments
> Read a book review on the Community Arts Network
Other Books:
- Art and Upheaval
- Art in Other Places
- Arts for Change
- Asphalt to Ecosystems
- Beginner’s Guide to Community-Based Arts
- Building Commons and Community
- Crossroads Comics #1
- Doing Time in the Garden
- Ecological Design and Building Schools
- New Creative Community
- Performing Communities
- Undoing the Silence
- Works of Heart
Works of Heart
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This full-color celebration of communities engaged in creative cultural expression profiles nine exemplary grassroots arts projects depicting an intersection of creativity with love of place. Stories range from children building an African-inspired mud facade on their Oregon middle school to an annual blessing-procession and festival in North Philadelphia that brings to life dozens of the most depressed blocks in urban America. Other regions represented include Minneapolis, Boston, Berkeley, rural Maine, San Francisco, the NY Bronx, and Vancouver, Canada. Community-based arts resources are sited throughout.
Works of Heart offers a compendium of multi-cultural human-interest stories that will inspire and inform both community development professionals and citizen activists! Among those profiled are Lily Yeh and the Village of Arts and Humanities, Clara Wainwright and the Faith Quilts Project, Dolly Hopkins and Public Dreams, and the Beehive Collective.
Contributing authors include:
Heather Beal
Columnist, scriptwriter, poet and freelance journalist specializing in art, architecture, sustainability, business and cultural trends. Minneapolis.
Clare Cooper Marcus
Author and Professor Emerita in Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of California Berkeley.
Kiko Denzer
Author and practitioner of earthen art and building, Oregon.
Annie Lanzillotto
Writer, performer, director, curator and teacher of the art of the Interaction Practitioner. The Bronx, NY.
Kate Madden Yee
Writer and founding member of Temescal Commons Cohousing in Oakland, CA.
Pamela Michael
Executive director and co-founder of River of Words, Berkeley, CA.
Alicia Hokanson
Writing and poetry teacher at the Lakeside Middle School in Seattle, WA.
Community culture specialist, Tom Borrup provides an introduction that reveals truths he has discovered about the generosity of the heart and the innate artistic impulse to improve one's neighborhood starting with the materials at hand. Tom is the author of The Creative Community Builders Handbook.
Contributing author and co-editor Suzanne Young is a San Francisco-based writer, editor, essayist, and independent communications specialist serving Fortune 500 clients. Her work has appeared in national periodicals, including the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine and Brevity. She is also a reviewer for Booklist (American Library Association).
Co-editor Lynne Elizabeth is director of New Village Press, Oakland, and former editor of New Village Journal and Earthword Journal. She is president of Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility and an activist on community development, sustainability, and social justice issues.