RESOURCES

Public Space / Environmental

Acid Mine Drainage and Art
http://www.amdandart.org
c/o The Bottleworks
411 Third Avenue
Johnstown, PA 15906
Ph: 814.539.5357
Fx: 814.539.4345

AMD&ART is a new community enhancement initiative that brings broad public participation to the design and construction of AMD treatment systems and the creation of enjoyable, educational, park-like community landscapes.

Barefoot Artists
http://www.barefootartists.org
PO Box 2348
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Ph: 215.735.7968

Barefoot Artists brings the transformative power of art to the most impoverished communities in the world through participatory and multifaceted projects that foster community empowerment, improve the physical environment, promote economic development, and preserve and promote indigenous art and culture.

Chicago Public Art Group
http://www.cpag.net/home
1259 South Wabash
Chicago, IL 60605
Ph: 312.427.2724
Fx: 312.427.3413

The Chicago Public Art Group (CPAG) mission is to unite artists and communities in partnership to produce quality public art and to extend and transform the tradition of collaborative, community involved, public artwork. Our skilled, professional artists specialize in collaborating with community participants to make delightful, meaningful, permanent, and safe public artworks. CPAG partners with community development organizations, neighborhood groups, social service agencies, advocacy groups, and schools' designing projects to realize their social, cultural, educational, and aesthetic goals. CPAG artist consultants participate in planning processes for public spaces with architects, landscape designers, and municipal planners.

City Repair Project
http://www.cityrepair.org
2126 SE Division
Portland, OR 97202
Ph: 503.235.1046

The City Repair Project is group of citizen activists creating public gathering places and helping others to creatively transform the places where they live. City Repair was formed in 1996 by citizen activists who wanted a more community-oriented and ecologically sustainable society. Born out of a successful grassroots neighborhood initiative that converted a residential street intersection into a neighborhood public square, City Repair began its work with the idea that localization (of culture, of economy, of decision-making) is a necessary foundation of sustainability. By reclaiming urban spaces to create community-oriented places, we plant the seeds for greater neighborhood communication, empower our communities and nurture our local culture.

Community Built Association
http://www.communitybuilt.org
Sherri Warner Hunter
3375 Fairfield Pike
Bell Buckle, TN 37020
Fx: 931.389.9649

The CBA is a not-for-profit association of professionals who are involved in all aspects of the community built field. The organization was formed in 1989 to provide network for such professionals and to offer information, education and training to the general public. The Community Built Association’s goal is to further the theory and practice of involving volunteers in the design, organization and creation of community projects that reshape the physical environment.

COSACOSA Art at Large
http://www.cosacosa.org/home.html
4427 Main Street
Philadelphia PA 19127
Ph: 215.385.2554
Fx: 215.487.2354

Founded in 1990, COSACOSA art at large, Inc. creates new art specific to Philadelphia neighborhoods and public spaces. Through collaborative art workshops, artist residencies, and media projects, we enable dialogue among our city's disparate cultures and communities. Our projects assure a sense of equality among people of diverse backgrounds and differing abilities, while building their participation in local communities, as well as in society at large.

Partners for Livable Communities
http://www.livable.com
1429 21st Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20036
Ph: 202.887.5990
Fx: 202.466.4845

Partners for Livable Communities is a national, nonprofit organization working to restore and renew our communities. Partners has over twenty-five years of experience in solving community problems by providing information, leadership and guidance that help communities help themselves.

Project for Public Spaces, Inc.
http://www.pps.org
700 Broadway, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10003
Ph: 212.620.5660
Fx: 212.620.3821

PPS is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating and sustaining public places that build communities. We provide technical assistance, education, and research through programs in parks, plazas and central squares; buildings and civic architecture; transportation; and public markets. Since our founding in 1975, we have worked in over 1,000 communities in the United States and around the world, helping people to grow their public spaces into vital community places.

Project Row Houses
http://www.projectrowhouses.org
P.O. Box 1011
Houston, Texas 77251-1011
Ph: 713.526.7662
Fx: 713.526.1623

Project Row Houses is a neighborhood based art and cultural organization located in Houston's Third Ward. PRH was established in 1993 on a site of 22 abandoned shotgun houses (c. 1930) to connect the work of artists with the revitalization of our community. It was inspired by the work of African-American artist Dr. John Biggers who celebrated the social significance of the shotgun house community in his paintings. After a decade of successfully generating programs that combine arts and cultural education, historic preservation, and community development, the future of the Third Ward is threatened by gentrification. To preserve and protect the irreplaceable historic and cultural legacy of our community, PRH spawned a sister organization, the Row House Community Development Corporation.

republic ART
http://www.republicart.org
644 Prospect St.
New Haven, CT 06511
Ph: 203-641 -7045

Our goal is to expand the nature of art in public places through participatory projects that help build community and public appreciation for the arts as a vehicle for positive social change. Through public participation in and exposure to our traveling exhibits we intend to increase awareness of socially relevant topics. We are primarily interested in issues that involve active citizenship, participatory democracy, enfranchisement of young people and restoration our natural environment. We also support public consent for use of public space to enhance the human experience rather than commercial exposure.

The Village of Arts and Humanities
http://www.villagearts.org
2544 Germantown Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19133
Ph: 215.225.3949

The Village of Arts and Humanities is a community-based arts, education, and neighborhood development organization located in inner city North Philadelphia. Through arts-based programs and activities, we work with residents to reclaim abandoned space and rebuild a sense of hope and possibility in their neighborhoods. Youth and adults work together to turn garbage-strewn vacant lots to into vibrant art parks bursting with beauty and greenery. The Village's mission is to build community through innovative arts-based programs in education, land transformation, construction and economic development. In all of its projects and activities, the Village seeks to do justice to the humanity of people who live in inner-city North Philadelphia and similar urban situations.