Interviews with Mary Jane Jacob and Blondell Cummings; Elders Share the Arts; essay by Arlene Goldbard; The Selma Project by Bob Leonard; Public Participation in the Public Art Process; the Hiroshima Suite; Project Row Houses; plus profiles, news, departments and more.
Cover: Project Row Houses
Table of Contents
FEATURES
Living with the Doors Open
An interview with choreographer Blondell Cummings, by Veta Goler
We Are All Connected
Elders Share the Arts builds bridges across the generation gap, by Linda Frye Burnham and Susan Perlstein
After the Fall
California Institute of the Arts after the earthquake–a photo-journal, photographs by Steven A. Gunther
What’s Needed Now
A Call for Courage, Intelligence, Art, Judgment and Guile, by Arlene Goldbard
The Selma Project
Case study of an arts project in the historic Civil Rights city, by Bob Leonard
Broken Silence, Visible Wounds
An artist’s verbal and visual reflection on engaged artists in her native Canada, by Caffyn Kelley
Concentric Circles
Interview with independent curator Mary Jane Jacob, by Carole Tormollan
Yes in My Front Yard
Public participation in the public art process, by Marie Gee
The Hiroshima Suite
A painter’s portfolio and text preceding the 50th Anniversary of the bomb, by Clayton Campbell
PROFILES
Project Row Houses
Art in the House, by Shaila Dewan
Katherine Dunham
Choreographing a Way of Life, by Barbara L. Kensey
The Lesbian Avengers
Directed Action, by Carolyn Shapiro
Black Liberation Radio
Struggling for Air, by Laurie Palmer
PERSPECTIVES
The NEA at the Brink
by Sarah S. Lutman
Long Live Performance Art!
an email missive
Art Historian Descending a Staircase
by Sarah Vowell.
The Art of the Benefit Auction
by Marschel Paul
.Keep the Arts–and Kids–In School
by Linda Frye Burnham
CYBERARTS
Finding Art on the Internet
by Beth Kanter
SOUND
American Stories, American Dreams
by Sarah Vowell
PRINTED MATTER
“Year of the Indian” from First Indian on the Moon
by Sherman Alexie
DEPARTMENTS
Guns and Moses
editorial by Steven Durland
Public Broadcasting: Is There No Alternative?
running commentary by Linda Frye Burnham
Products
Review of new books, audio, video
Hot Shorts
News and announcements
The Tacit Observer
a satirical newspaper by Steven Durland