Digest: Studies, Books, Web Sites, and Other Publications

http://www.communityarts.net/

The Community Arts Network promotes information exchange, research and critical dialogue within the field of community-based arts, that is, art made as a voice and a force within a specific community of place, spirit, or tradition. This site offers an arts news summary, a discussion board, and a "reading room" section containing a large number of reports, essays, and links to online material related to community arts.

2003, 72 pages. Published by Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, 10027, 212-854-1912, najp@columbia.edu

Download pdf: http://www.najp.org/publications/conferencereports/artsandminds.html

2004, 25 pages. Published by Day, Berry & Howard Foundation, CityPlace I, Hartford, CT, 06103-3499, www.dbhfoundation.org

Download pdf: http://www.independentsector.org/PDFs/counterterrorism.pdf

2004, 77 pages. Published by Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees, PO Box 1100, Sebastopol, CA, 95473-1100, 707-824-4374, info@gcir.org, www.gcir.org

http://www.cpanda.org/

February 2003, 48 pages. Published by Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, Box 1985, Providence, RI, 02912, www.annenberginstitute.org, www.annenberginstitute.org/challenge/

Download .pdf: http://www.annenberginstitute.org/challenge/pubs/Arts_Challenge.pdf

October 2003, 142 pages, ISSN 1083-9836. Published by Symphony Orchestra Institute, PO Box 8619, Northfield, IL, 60093, 847-441-5037, information@soi.org, www.soi.org

Download pdf: http://www.soi.org/harmony/archive/16/index.shtml

July 2004, 60 pages. Published by the National Endowment for the Arts, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington DC, 20506, 202-682-5400, www.arts.endow.gov

Download pdf: http://www.nea.gov.pub/ReadingAtRisk.pdf

http://www.najp.org/publications/index.html

NAJP's site offers a variety of conference and research reports on arts journalism and a number of related current cultural topics, as well as archives of their journal, ARTicles.

June 2002, 57 pages. Published by Western States Arts Federation, 1543 Champa Street, Suite 220, Denver, CO, 80202, 303-629-1166, www.westaf.org

This study on the effectiveness and impact of support provided by the Hawai'i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts comes at the end of a ten-year decline in funding by the agency, and documents the challenges this trend presents to artists and nonprofit cultural organizations in the state.