Introduction
Week 1 – 2/1
§ “Mapping the Field: Arts-Based Community Development” – William Cleveland, Community Arts Network, May 2002, http://www.communityarts.net/readingroom/archivefiles/2002/05/mapping_the_fie.php
§ “Why Businesses Still Give to the Arts” – Bob Diddlebock, Time Magazine, Apr. 30, 2009, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1894971-1,00.html
§ “Lincoln Center: Mixed Reviews” – Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, May 8, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/arts/music/10tomm.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1294174899-3JJaOPU+3DnGBkZihndbYg
§ “Art and community development: the role the arts have in regenerating communities” – Alan Kay, Oxford University Press and Community Development Journal, 2000, http://cdj.oxfordjournals.org/content/35/4/414.abstract
Week 2 – 2/8
§ “Cultural Capital” – Gary Paul Green and Anna Haines, chapter 11 in Asset Building and Community Development, 2007, [hard copy, requesting through library]
§ Arts Participation: Steps to Stronger Cultural and Community Life – Cristopher Walker, Urban Institute, Jul. 21, 2003, http://www.urban.org/publications/310827.html
§ Gifts of the Muse: Reframing the Debate About the Benefits of the Arts – Kevin F. McCarthy, et. al., Rand Corporation, 2004, http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG218.html
o Read appendix
§ Cultural Development and City Neighborhoods – Carole E. Rosenstein, Urban Institute, Aug. 8, 2009, http://www.urban.org/publications/411937.html
Museums and Community
Week 3 – 2/15
§ “AAM Board of Directors: Museums & Community Resolution,” http://www.aam-us.org/sp/m-and-c-board-resol.cfm
§ “Cultivating Community Connections” – Kinshasha Holman Conwill and Alexandra Marmion Roosa, Museum News, May/June 2003, http://www.aam-us.org/pubs/mn/MN_MJ03_CommConnections.cfm
§ Selections from A Companion to Museum Studies, 2008, online book available at http://site.ebrary.com.revproxy.brown.edu/lib/brown/docDetail.action?docID=10249181 (Brown log-in required)
o “Museums and Community” – Elizabeth Crooke
o “Sociology and the Social Aspects of Museums” – Gordon Fyfe
o “The Origins of the Public Museum” – Jeffrey Abt
o “Museum Education” – George E. Hein
§ “The Public” – Andrew McClellen in The Art Museum for Boullee to Bilbao, 2008 [book]
Week 4 – 2/22 (long weekend)
§ “Learning Community: Lessons in Co-Creating the Civic Museum” – David Thelen, Museum News, May/Jun. 2001, http://www.aam-us.org/pubs/mn/MN_MJ01_LearningCommunity.cfm
§ Museums and community involvement: A case study of community collaborative initiatives - National Museums of Kenya – Jacob Mhando Nyangila, http://www.intercom.museum/documents/1-3Mhando.pdf
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§ The Warhol: Museum as Artist: Creative, Dialogic and Civic Practice – Jessica Cogan, Animating Democracy, http://www.artsusa.org/animatingdemocracy/pdf/labs/andy_warhol_museum_case_study.pdf
Week 5 – 3/1
§ “High And Low: Partnerships Among Museums and Community-based Arts Organizations” – Prudence Browne, Community Arts Network, Sep. 2009, http://www.communityarts.net/readingroom/archivefiles/2009/09/high_and_low_pa.php
§ Nine to nineteen: youth in museums and libraries: engaging America’s youth—a leadership initiative of the Institute of Museum and Library Services – IMLS, Apr. 2008, http://permanent.access.gpo.gov/lps122190/YouthGuide.pdf
§ “My Life in Museums: The Importance of Community Outreach and Teen Programs” – Calder Zwicky, Inside/Out: A MoMA/MoMA PS1 Blog, Mar. 15, 2010, http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2010/03/15/my-life-in-museums-the-importance-of-community-outreach-and-teen-programs
§ Moreno, María-José. "Art Museums and Socioeconomic Forces: The Case of a Community Museum." Review of Radical Political Economics 36.4 (Fall 2004): 506-27.
§ James, Portia. “Building a Community-Based Identity at Anacostia Museum.” The Museum Journal, Volume 39, Issue 1, pages 19–44, March 1996. 26 February 2010 <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2151-6952.1996.tb01073.x/abstract>.
§ Nine to nineteen: youth in museums and libraries: engaging America’s youth—a leadership initiative of the Institute of Museum and Library Services – IMLS, Apr. 2008, http://permanent.access.gpo.gov/lps122190/YouthGuide.pdf
§ “My Life in Museums: The Importance of Community Outreach and Teen Programs” – Calder Zwicky, Inside/Out: A MoMA/MoMA PS1 Blog, Mar. 15, 2010, http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2010/03/15/my-life-in-museums-the-importance-of-community-outreach-and-teen-programs
§ Moreno, María-José. "Art Museums and Socioeconomic Forces: The Case of a Community Museum." Review of Radical Political Economics 36.4 (Fall 2004): 506-27.
§ James, Portia. “Building a Community-Based Identity at Anacostia Museum.” The Museum Journal, Volume 39, Issue 1, pages 19–44, March 1996. 26 February 2010 <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2151-6952.1996.tb01073.x/abstract>.
Week 6 – 3/8 (MASS MoCA Case Study)
§ Mill Town, Factory Town, Cultural Economic Engine: North Adams in Context – Kay Oehler, Stephen Sheppard, Blair Benjamin, Center for Community Development, 2006, http://www.williams.edu/Economics/ArtsEcon/library/pdfs/NA%20History%20and%20Ethnography%2012006.pdf
§ Culture and Revitalization: The Economic Effects of MASS MoCA on its Community – Stephen C. Sheppard, et. al., Center for Community Development, 2006, http://www.williams.edu/Economics/ArtsEcon/library/pdfs/NA%20Economic%20Impacts%2032006.pdf
§ Downside Up – Documentary, 2003 [in the process of finding an available copy]; additional information available at documentary’s website
§ Visit to MASS MoCA (Highlights tour) and to downtown North Adams
Community Art—Art for, by, and in communities
Week 7 – 3/15
§ Making Exact Change: How U.S. arts-based programs have made a significant and sustained impact on their communities, A Report from the Community Arts – William Cleveland, Art in the Public Interest, November 2005, http://www.communityarts.net/readingroom/archive/mec/index.php
§ Art spaces, public space, and the link to community development – Carl Grodach, Community Development Journal, 2009, http://cdj.oxfordjournals.org/content/45/4/474.full.pdf+html
§ Public Art and Urban Regeneration: Advocacy, claims and critical debates – Tim Hall and Iain Robertson, Landscape Research, Jan. 2001, http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a713684694~frm=titlelink
§ Just Art for a Just City: Public Art and Social Inclusion in Urban Regeneration – Joanne Sharp, Venda Pollock and Ronan Paddison, Urban Studies, May 2005, http://courses.be.washington.edu/LARCH/361/extra%20readings/Urban%20Public%20Space/public_art_X_soc_inclusion_in_urban_regen.pdf
§ “Arts Programs for At-Risk Youth: How U.S. Communities are Using the Arts to Rescue Their Youth and Deter Crime” – Americans for the Arts, http://www.americansforthearts.org/NAPD/files/9209/Arts%20Programs%20for%20Youth%20At-Risk_Pamphlet.pdf
Week 8 – 3/22
§ Community-Based Artistic Practice: Perspectives from a Gathering of Exemplar Artist Companies – Hannah Treuhaft, Animating Democracy, Aug. 2008, http://www.artsusa.org/animatingdemocracy/pdf/reading_room/CommunityBased_ArtisticPractice_Evanston_Report.pdf
§ Live from Your Neighborhood: A National Study of Outdoor Arts Festivals – National Endowment for the Arts Research Report #51, http://www.nea.gov/research/Festivals-Report.pdf
§ Feminist aesthetic practice of community development: the case of Myths and Mirrors Community Arts – Darlene Clover, Community Development Journal, Aug. 2007, http://cdj.oxfordjournals.org/content/42/4/512.abstract
Week 9 – 3/29 (Spring Break)
Week 10 – 4/5 (Project Row Houses Case Study)
§ “Activism as Art: Shotgun Shacks Saved Through Art-Based Revitalization” (An interview with Project Row Houses founder Rick Lowe) – Gregory Sholette, Huffington Post, Nov. 22, 2010, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gregory-sholette/activism-as-art-shotgun-s_b_785109.html#s185200&title=undefined
§ “Social Sculptures in Practice” – Video, Current TV, http://current.com/groups/culture/89482495_project-row-houses-social-sculpture-in-practice.htm
§ “Project Row Houses” – Waters Roeck, 1stdibs, http://www.1stdibs.com/introspective/on_location/project_row_houses_2010/
§ “Project Row Houses” – America’s Most Livable Communities, http://www.mostlivable.org/place/project-row-houses.html
§ “Project Row Houses endeavor branches into Laundromats” – Lisa Gray, Houston Chronicle, Sep. 24, 2009, http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/arts/theater/6635700.html
§ Dialogues in Public Art – Tom Finkelpearl, 2001, p. 234-236 (Rick Lowe on Designing Public Row Houses and Assata Shakur on Living in Project Row Houses), online book available at http://site.ebrary.com/lib/brown/docDetail.action?docID=10229588 [Brown log-in required]
Policy
Week 11 – 4/12
§ Research into Action: Pathways to New Opportunities – Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance as part of Engage 2020, http://www.philaculture.org/sites/default/files/Research%20into%20Action%20(full%20report).pdf
§ “Sustainable Communities and the Creative Sector” - Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities and National Endowment for the Arts Webinar, Jul. 7, 2010, http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/press/multimedia/videos
§ “Going Green with Public Art Policy” – Elizabeth Bostwick, Community Arts Network, Dec. 2008, http://www.communityarts.net/readingroom/archivefiles/2008/12/going_green_wit.php
§ “Building Creative Economies: The Arts, Entrepreneurship, and Sustainable Development” – Americans for the Arts, Monograph, Mar. 2003, http://www.americansforthearts.org/NAPD/files/11605/Building%20Creative%20Economies%20(March%20'03).pdf
Week 12 – 4/19
§ Culture Builds Community Evaluation – Social Impact of the Arts Project, University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work, Jan. 2002, http://www.sp2.upenn.edu/SIAP/wholerep.pdf
§ From Creative Economy to Creative Society: A social policy paradigm for the creative sector has the potential to address urban poverty as well as urban vitality. – Mark J. Stern and Susan C. Seifert, http://www.trfund.com/resource/downloads/creativity/Economy.pdf
§ Cultivating “Natural” Cultural Districts – Mark J. Stern and Susan C. Seifert, http://www.trfund.com/resource/downloads/creativity/NaturalCulturalDistricts.pdf
§ Migrants, Communities, and Culture: New immigrants have already changed Philadelphia’s cultural scene. Can culture serve as a means of linking new Philadelphians to other social institutions? – Mark J. Stern, Susan C. Seifert, and Domenic Vitiello, http://www.trfund.com/resource/downloads/creativity/Migrant.pdf
Week 13 – 4/26 (Case Study: Cultural Planning Antecedents—19th Century Amenity Planning, the Village Improvement Movement, the Municipal Art Movement, the Outdoor Art Movement, City Beautiful, and the WPA)
§ TBA: sources on the Municipal Art Movement, the Outdoor Art Movement, City Beautiful, and the WPA
§ Cultural Planning: An Urban Renaissance? – Graeme Evans, Chapters 2 (“The Historical Evolution of City Arts and Cultural Planning”) and 4 (“Amenity Planning and the Arts Centre”), 2001
§ “The Village: The History of Village Improvement in the United States” – Warren H. Manning, Chapter 16 in Readings in Rural Sociology by John Phelan, 1920
Conclusion
Week 14 – 5/3
§ The Arts Ripple Effect: A Research-Based Strategy to Build Shared Responsibility for the Arts – The Topos Partnership for the Fine Arts Fund, http://www.sacmetroarts.org/documents/Research_ArtsRippleEffect.2010.pdf
§ ‘Gentrification’ and desire – Jon Caulfield, Canadian Review of Sociology, Aug. 1989, http://content.ebscohost.com/pdf23_24/pdf/1989/CRS/01Aug89/10624960.pdf?T=P&P=AN&K=10624960&S=R&D=sih&EbscoContent=dGJyMNLr40Sepq84xNvgOLCmr0mep7NSsKm4SK%2BWxWXS&ContentCustomer=dGJyMPDl4YO549%2BB7LHjgO3p8gAA [if link doesn’t work, I have a copy saved to my hard drive]
§ Artists and Urban Development – David B. Cole, The Geographical Review, Oct. 1987, http://www.jstor.org/stable/214280
§ From brew town to cool town: Neoliberalism and the creative city development strategy in Milwaukee – Jeffrey Zimmerman, Cities, Aug. 2008, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V9W-4T0FHX9-1&_user=10&_coverDate=08/31/2008&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_origin=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=216d0f9382c4497447d9e1a39a534ef4&searchtype=a
§ Urban development and the politics of a creative class: evidence from a study of artists – Ann Markusen, Environment and Planning A, Sep. 2005, http://www.envplan.com/epa/fulltext/a38/a38179.pdf
§ “Getting It Wrong: How We Fail and What We Learn” – Nicole Garneau and Sanjit Sethi, Community Arts Network, Dec. 2009, http://www.communityarts.net/readingroom/archivefiles/2009/12/getting_it_wron.php
