Housed in the University of Michigan, PCAP works with community members both inside and outside prisons to engage in writing, visual, and performing arts workshops. It hosts a prisoner art exhibition and publishes a literary journal of writing by
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Write a House aims to rebuild communities in Detroit, support the arts, redevelop housing, and provide jobs. It renovates empty homes and awards them to emerging writers chosen through a competitive judging process.
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Mosaic empowers young people by helping them develop patterns of cooperation, disciplined work habits, and effective problem-solving skills through the creation of high-quality, professional-level performances of theater and music.
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CAST is a cross-school initiative that is a catalyst for artist residencies and collaborative projects involving art, science, and technology, including performing and visual arts programs, research projects for artists working with science and
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Featured in a E*TRADE commercial during the 2018 Super Bowl, Y@H is a community group that formed in 1982. Since then, the chorus has performed in Europe, Australia, and Canada. The group often works with other community groups in their Massachusetts town
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Department of Play creates temporary play zones in public spaces. Participants envision alternative futures, share experiences, and collaboratively create artifacts. It seeks to frame the city as a malleable, ongoing construction that any resident can
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YRI offers mentoring, training, and development services to create civically engaged, cross-generational teams of community-based advocates who work toward forming stronger communities in Baltimore. One goals is to build the foundation for activism
Read MoreAs a city employee, artist Marty Pottenger noticed that public meetings were either poorly attended or did not reflect the diversity of residents. Thus, Meeting Place was born. It partners with neighborhood associations and artists to connect with
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Ashé, a project of Efforts of Grace, Inc., is a community cultural arts center deeply rooted in Central City New Orleans that serves as a hub for people of African descent who live there.
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Youth Solutions is a collaborative youth development initiative that addresses youth trauma and disconnect, neighborhood blight, and under-investment. It uses local artists as change agents to implement neighborhood projects.
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