A text-only edition of Creative Community: The Art of Cultural Development, originally published in 2001 by the Rockefeller Foundation. A complete guide to community cultural development theory and practice.

Creative Community: The Art of Cultural Development

Education & Teaching

Adams, Don

Goldbard, Arlene

Schools & Teaching

Rockefeller Foundation

This anthology was created to raise the profile of community cultural development around the world by stimulating pluralism, participation and equity in cultural life and as a response to globalization's pull toward the standardization of commercial culture.

Community, Culture and Globalization

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

The Rockefeller Foundation

Glossy paperback 1990 161p. 8.50x5.50x0.50 BOOK WILL HELP YOU DECIPHER THE CULTURAL IMPACT OF US HISTORY, EXPLORE THE SOCIAL MEANINGS OF THE ARTS AND THREAD YOUR WAY THROUGH THE VAST, INTERLOCKING COMPLEX OF MEDIA INDUSTRIES. PRACTICE THE ART OF SOCIAL IMAGINATION.

Crossroads: Reflections on the Politics of Culture

DNA Pr

An inspiring, foundational book that defines the burgeoning field of community cultural development. 
An inspiring, foundational book that defines the burgeoning field of community cultural development. Through personal stories, rousing accounts, detailed observation and histories, Arlene Goldbard describes how communities express and develop themselves via the creative arts. This comprehensive, photographically-illustrated book, which covers community-based arts such as theater grounded in oral history and murals celebrating cultural heritage, will appeal to the curious non-specialist reader as well as the practitioner and student.
Author Arlene Goldbard is one of the best-known authors on community cultural development. Her seminal books and essays are widely read in the US and other English-speaking countries -- among them, Community, Culture and Globalization and this book's antecedent, Creative Community.

New Creative Community: The Art of Cultural Development

Arts & Photography

Study & Teaching

New Village Press

The Wave is speculative fiction. Gloria Steinem has written that "The Wave tells us how to create a future in which creativity, empathy, and social imagination are the primary forces in our daily lives. Everything in it is doable and practical. It is a road map to the future country we want to live in." In 2023, a young journalist, Rebecca Price, writes a series of articles describing an emergent cultural change that has been gathering force over the previous decade (even longer, some of her informants say). She draws on a range of examples unfolding in New York City where she lives. “The Wave,” her name for the Zeitgeist—the rising spirit of the times—catches on, entering common usage. In 2033, she is asked by an editor to revisit her findings and report again. The text includes notes to her editor, excerpts from the 2023 series, and new material she writes in 2033. The Wave offers one answer to this question: If we are on the cusp of a paradigm shift, a radical change in worldview that will thrust art and culture onto center stage, how will the world be different?

The Wave

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Waterlight Press

Van Jones said it well: "If we're going to end this fiscal madness and start rebuilding America, we're going to have to get creative! We need a tsunami of music, film, poetry and art. The Culture of Possibility shows us how creativity can take our story back from Corporation Nation, tilting the culture towards justice, equity, and innovation. I urge you to read this book!" We are in the midst of seismic cultural change. In the old paradigm, priorities are shaped by a mechanistic worldview that privileges whatever can be numbered, measured, and weighed; human beings are pressured to adapt to the terms set by their own creations. How we feel, how we connect, how we spend our time, how we make our way and come to know each other—these are all part of the scenery. In the new paradigm, things are given their true value. People care passionately about how they and the things they value are depicted. They revive themselves after a long workday with music or dance, by making something beautiful for themselves or their loved ones, by expressing their deepest feelings in poetry or watching a film that never fails to comfort. In the new paradigm, it is understood that culture prefigures economics and politics; it molds markets; and it expresses and embodies the creativity and resilience that are the human species’ greatest strengths. The bridge between paradigms is being built by artists and others who have learned to deploy artists’ cognitive, imaginative, empathic, and narrative skills. The bridge is made of the stories that the old paradigm can’t hear, the lives that it doesn’t count, the imagined future it can’t encompass. Using first-person stories, drawing on both history and headlines, embracing new knowledge from education, medicine, cognitive science, spirituality, politics, and other realms, The Culture of Possibility shows why, how, and where we can build a bridge to a sustainable future.

The Culture of Possibility: Art, Artists & The Future

An inspiring, foundational book that defines the burgeoning field of community cultural development. An inspiring, foundational book that defines the burgeoning field of community cultural development. Through personal stories, rousing accounts, detailed observation and histories, Arlene Goldbard describes how communities express and develop themselves via the creative arts. This comprehensive, photographically-illustrated book, which covers community-based arts such as theater grounded in oral history and murals celebrating cultural heritage, will appeal to the curious non-specialist reader as well as the practitioner and student. Author Arlene Goldbard is one of the best-known authors on community cultural development. Her seminal books and essays are widely read in the US and other English-speaking countries -- among them, Community, Culture and Globalization and this book's antecedent, Creative Community.

An autodidact explores issues of education itself through essays and personal portraits of the key minds who influenced her\nWhat does it mean to be educated? Through her evocative paintings and narrative, author Arlene Goldbard has portrayed eleven people whose work most influenced her―what she calls a camp of angels. She sees each as a brave messenger of love and freedom for a society that badly needs “uncolonized minds.” Goldbard describes how the learning from each changed the course of her life in essays that offer generative moments of a life in art and social change. She also reveals ways a dominant society tried to put a first-generation American from a socially marginal family in her place―and failed. Readers will learn about the author’s own self education, issues of formal higher education and its discontents, and the damage done by a society that prizes profits over people. Goldbard asks readers to consider the impact of credentialism on U.S. society and what we can do to set it right.

In the Camp of Angels of Freedom: What Does It Mean to Be Educated?

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Creative Community: The Art of Cultural Development

Community, Culture and Globalization

Crossroads: Reflections on the Politics of Culture

New Creative Community: The Art of Cultural Development

The Wave

The Culture of Possibility: Art, Artists & The Future

New Creative Community: The Art of Cultural Development

In the Camp of Angels of Freedom: What Does It Mean to Be Educated?

In the Camp of Angels of Freedom: What Does It Mean to Be Educated?