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Working Guide Trend Papers are a growing collection of new and extant papers by leaders in and chroniclers of the field. Papers offer snapshot descriptions of various types of arts for change work within the arts, community development, civic engagement, and social justice fields, as well as work focused on particular issues.
Arts-based Civic Engagement
by Pam Korza and Barbara Schaffer Bacon
Cultural Organizing: Experiences at the Intersection of Art and Activism
by Javiera Benavente with Rebecca Lena Richardson
Folk and Traditional Arts and Social Change
by Betsy Peterson
Building Worlds Together: The Many Functions and Forms of Arts and Community Development
by Lyz Crane
Arts-based Community Development: Mapping the Terrain
by William Cleveland
Community Arts at Work Across the U.S.
by Linda Frye Burnham
Socially Engaged Contemporary Art
by Nato Thompson
Environmental Art
by Sam Bower
Immigration: Arts, Culture and Media 2010 / A Creative Change Report
by The Opportunity Agenda
Arts in Corrections
by Grady Hillman
Arts in Healthcare: 2009 State of the Field Report
by The Society for the Arts in Healthcare
History Organizations and Engagement
by Pam Korza and Barbara Schaffer Bacon with the Heritage Philadelphia Program
Popular Musicians as Allies in Social Change
by Erin Potts
Media for Creative Change: The Role of Popular Media in Advancing Social Change
by Sarah Ingersoll
Open Space Documentary
by Helen De Michiel
A Youth Media Agenda for Social Justice
by Diana Coryat
Media for Creative Change: The Role of Popular Media in Advancing Social Change
by Sarah Ingersoll
The All-Ages Music Movement: How It Impacts Culture, Civic Engagement, and Leadership
by Shannon Stewart
A Youth Media Agenda for Social Justice
by Diana Coryat
For other papers, case studies, books, and resources on arts and civic engagement
and dialogue, click here.
For case studies on assessing the social impact of the arts for change work, click here.
