This paper addresses what the author considers controversial policy recommendations reported in the American Assemblys 1997 publication, The Arts and the Public Purpose.

This stunning and inspiring book of photography and first-person narratives celebrates the remarkable people who, against staggering odds, are overcoming social, economic, and personal differences to improve their local communities and better people's lives.

The purpose of the Oregon Arts Commissions Arts Build Communities Technical Assistance Program is to assist rural and urban under-served communities in linking arts and cultural resources with local community development efforts. Assistance is provided though consultants skilled in a variety of areas including local arts development, community design, public art, landscape architecture, folklore, education and youth development, community planning, micro-enterprise development, facility development and partnership development.

This report is an update on the second year of the Volunteer Impact Initiative. It outlines specific volunteer mobilization and community impact achieved in the Initiatives second year and describes common strategies used by UPS Foundation grantees to effectively mobilize volunteers.

Project Row Houses is a cutting-edge experiment in public art in the Third Ward area of Houston, Texas.

Livability. It's open space, free-flowing traffic, historic preservation, attractive cultural and civic institutions, good housing, good jobs, good schools, and much more. It's downtowns that work, and regions that work alongside them. More than any other source, The Livable City makes this urban ideal a reality.

In 2000, Terry Semel served as lecturer for the Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy.

This is a collection of essays on the emerging field of cultural policy. The culture wars of the early 1990s obscured broader challenges facing America's cultural life in the next century. Artists, scholars, and policymakers from many disciplines and across the political spectrum have recognized the need to move beyond debates over government funding for the arts and humanities and toward an array of issues regarding culture's role in society. (from abstract)

A re-publishing of Art in Other Places - a national review of community arts programs, and of the use of arts to build community and address social issues.

This article discusses the role artists play in the of neglected, low-income urban neighborhoods. New York area communities are featured as examples.