This publication outlines studies of changing cultural identities in the postsocialist transitional countries of Southeastern Europe into the newly defined multicultural context in the cultural circles of Central Europe and the Mediterranean. (from abstract)

This report traces the history, theoretical underpinnings, values, and methods of community cultural development practice, emphasizing its effectiveness as a response to the social and economic forces that weaken cultural ties, and offers recommendations to strengthen and support the field.

This paper critically reviews claims that public art helps develop senses of identity and senses of place, contributes to civic identy, addresses community needs, etc., and provides theoretical critiques of public art's contributions to urban regeneration.

This issue of COPC Central looks at how the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of University Partnerships, Community Outreach Partnership Centers (COPC) are using arts programming for youth to rehabilitate local communities.

All countries are challenged, to varying degrees, with the similar problem of cultural identity and diversity. In this issue, the topics surrounding cultural identity and multiculturalism are analyzed and discussed.

A qualitative sociological study of community-art projects in two Denver neighborhoods.

A volume of essays introduced and edited by the Center for Arts and Culture staff that surveys issues we will face in the next century.

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)

National Endowment for the Arts commissioned Demographic Data Consultants of Nashville to examine the issue of the aging of arts audience in the U.S. with data available from the 1997 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts. This study examines arts participation or attendance rates for a variety of age groupings or cohorts, to determine trends over the 1982 to 1992 decade. A specific focus of the report is baby boomers, those born between 1946 and 1965.