RESOURCES

Community-based Arts

Alternate Roots
http://www.alternateroots.org

Supports the creation of original art that is rooted in a particular community of place, tradition or spirit.

Art in the Public Interest
(Community Arts Network)
http://www.apionline.org
www.communityarts.net

Brings the arts together with community and social concerns, furthering the field of community-based arts.

Arts and Healing Network
http://www.artheals.org

Online resource about the healing potential of art, that includes healing artist pages, community-based projects, books, grants, newsletter, a Forum, links and more.

Barefoot Artists
http://www.barefootartists.org

Multifaceted projects that foster community empowerment and indigenous culture. Founded by Lily Yeh.

Bread and Puppet Theater
http://www.breadandpuppet.org

One of the oldest nonprofit, self-supporting theatrical companies, championing a street-theater brand of performance art with shows that are political and spectacular.

National Performance Network
http://www.npnweb.org

Helps artists make work in their own neighborhoods and to cross geographic and cultural divides to increase the traffic of fresh, challenging artistic work.

Village of Arts and Humanities
http://www.villagearts.org

North Philadelphia neighborhood initiative offering artsinspired programs in education, land transformation, construction and economic development.