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The Graduates use their personal experiences with the criminal justice system to create performances that reach out to young at-risk women; give a window into incarceration's effects on individual lives; and encourage those who have the power to shift
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The Community Scholars Program trains community members to document, interpret, and disseminate their cultural resources and traditional art forms. Project examples include a blog about bluegrass/rockabilly music and a traveling photography exhibit about
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Working at the intersection of artist housing and community development, this unique program offers empty or uninhabited property to artists for $1. Artist residents, through a special financing arrangement, have invested more than $30 million in
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GO TO 2040 is a regional transportation plan that was created with creative public engagement. Nearly 20,000 participants were engaged though public workshops, online tools, kiosks, and fairs and festivals.
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Tamms Year Ten—a coalition of current and former inmates, families, artists, and others—was created to protest the policies at Tamms C-MAX prison and to call for an end to psychological torture. It initiated cultural, educational, and political events
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Steppenwolf Education creates productions and programs that are specifically geared to teachers, young adults, and families. The City Connection model brings Steppenwolf programing outside the theater wall and into the communities providing no-cost
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The Quilt was conceived of by Cleve Jones after attending a march following the assassinations of San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone. Placards bearing the names of AIDS victims were taped to the San Francisco Federal Building
Read MoreOLCDC works with the residents of the distressed areas of Opa-locka and North Dade County to improve access to housing, health, education, employment, safety, and culture, often utilizing art-based strategies.
Read MoreSing for Life works with Parkinson's patients and their caregivers on increasing vocal strength and stamina and enhancing well-being through exercises for relaxation, posture, breathing, and resonance.
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ESA provides creative workforce development for persons with disabilities and local artists and makers. It includes diverse populations in arts programming by hiring and training local artists to hold workshops with persons of all abilities and develop a
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