Community Building
An Undiscovered Arts Mainstream
Linda Frye Burnham is a writer and consultant with special emphasis on artists working in community, education, and activism. In this paper, Burnham writes: "This paper is about artists who were called 'the new vangaurd' in Art in America in 1982 and are now the mainstream: artists who have been building community in the places where they live for fifteen to thirty-five years. Yet, as colleagues working in a discrete arts discipline with a history, theory, and clearly dicernable principles and methods, they are relatively discovered." The paper demonstrates the diverse ways that community is being built by eight artist ensembles chosen for their diversity of location, style, ethnic makeup, and community profiles.
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